Re: Problems with www.freebsd.org

2007-10-04 Thread cpghost
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:25:52 -0400 "Philip M. Gollucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Fazio wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Fernando ApesteguĂ­a wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm having some problems with the FreeBSD site. Basically, when I > >> type www.freebsd.org in the address bar in Firefo

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread cpghost
ability for their standard library as well as over 99% 3rd party modules. Once you've accumulated enough experience there, you can always catch up on C++. Whatever you opt to do, happy hacking and enjoy the ride! :) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread cpghost
're too lazy do do the wrapping against Python, Ruby, Perl... APIs yourself, just use something like SWIG. It works like a charm. :) Anyway, having a working knowledge of C and C++ is always a very good idea! Go for it! It'll pay off, whatever your main programming language. -cpghost.

Re: Installing textproc/py-libxml2 port for python 2.5 while keeping 2.4?

2007-10-11 Thread cpghost
it manually (at least for the py24-*... the py25-* will update themselves automatically). > Naoyuki "Tai" Tai, ntai a t smartfruit d o t com Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [OT] proper editor

2007-10-17 Thread cpghost
erm, or, sometimes from within an Emacs shell buffer. If you're on Windows though, it's probably easier to simply use the editor that comes with IDLE. It's good enough for most cases and does syntax coloring too. :) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
st remember that FreeBSD doesn't run the Linux kernel, doesn't use glibc etc...: it's a completely different code base. But for 95% of all third-party software, its APIs are POSIX-ish enough. Last but not least: don't forget to ask on freebsd-questions@ and other mailing li

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 Harald Schmalzbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first one was for example the attached code: Why does it segfault? Mailman ate the attachment... Can't see it here. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. ht

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
uot; with "int nnote", OR change "%d" to the appropriate format string identifier for short int "%hd" (look up "man scanf" for a list of those identifiers), both in scanf and printf calls. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:36:40 +0100 Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > > There's a mismatch here: scanf("%d", ...) expects a pointer to int, > > while &nnote is a pointer to a short. Normally, an int occupies more > > b

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread cpghost
n for this is that the number of arguments after printf's format string MUST match the number of %-place holders (unless you're using exotic stuff like %n, of course). If printf misses some arguments, it will fetch them from a place that is implementation dependant (and that almost always

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-25 Thread cpghost
cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/ ) Yes, that's the *definitive* book! Add to it "The C Answer Book" by Tondo/Gimpel (title in german: "Das C Loesungsbuch"), with goes along with K&R 2nd Ed. and you have everything you need. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordu

Re: OEM and Trademark license for Java on FreeBSD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] no longer valid?

2007-10-25 Thread cpghost
y were essentially one-time only and though annoying, still bearable. The problem, or opportunity, is that there's so much legacy code in Java, just waiting to be ported, and though SWIG has its uses in the transition process, ultimately java2python (not jython, that's the other wa

Re: Core dump

2007-10-31 Thread cpghost
ing CPU, bad PSU etc... Check your RAM with the ports sysutils/memtest86 and sysutils/memtest if you have doubts. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Determining the number of files in a directory

2007-11-03 Thread cpghost
pth 1 | wc -l > > should do the trick. See also man find and man wc, of course. That's better than ls(1), which is terribly slow at displaying (actually: at sorting) large directories. In this case, better turn off sorting with 'ls -f': $ time ls -f /usr/local/news/News | w

Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread cpghost
into some bitmap format, and run some kind of OCR software on that. It's a slow, unreliable, error-prone and painful process though. Good luck! -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread cpghost
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:54:53 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:39:14AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:38:55 -0800 > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > A couple weeks ago I skimmed th

Re: DNS and IP

2007-11-04 Thread cpghost
xample.com This header, alongside other HTTP headers is received on port 80 of your web server, and it's up to your web server to route that to the right virtual domain by serving the correct files... By the way, if you're using Lighty (lighttpd), you can host virtual domains

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread cpghost
e "horned ball" sticker. But perhaps it's not so much the sticker, than them running RELENG_7 now while the others still run RELENG_6... but who knows for sure? ;) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-que

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-12 Thread cpghost
reat if the author not only agreed to put the rendering under a permissive license, but also considered releasing and licensing the (graphics/povray?) source code too. I'd love to experiment a little bit with that! ;) Anyway, whatever comes out of it, kudos for the great find! :-))) -c

Re: How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread cpghost
purious TCP RST packets with a sniffer (and at first, the sniffer machine had also one of those buggy NICs, go figure!) So Comcast is doing it all over again? Shooting down connections from the middle? Crazy nasty folks over there! A short-term fix is to filter out TCP RST packets a

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread cpghost
patch to reword this page and have that discussed on the appropriate mailing list. questions@ is probably not the appropriate forum for that. Thank you, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences

2007-11-26 Thread cpghost
erwise) I > would also be interested. Well, disregarding the problem of not being able to talk to my HP-1320 via USB (instead of parallel), all other problems are not FreeBSD-specific; they show up in Linux distros as well. Regards, -cpghost. -

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread cpghost
sary, i.e. check the index tables. If on the contrary the disks are quiet while the select runs, check if mysqld is accumulating CPU time (with top): if it is NOT, I'd guess it is some issue with the threading library, i.e. some threads are deadlocked and waiting. -cpghost. -- Cordula'

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread cpghost
alls fts_open(), which itself calls fts_sort() from /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c, and that function calls qsort(3); so it's not entirely impossible... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread cpghost
(line.split()[-1], line) for line in lines ] dsu.sort() return ''.join(tupl[1] for tupl in dsu) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys if len(sys.argv) < 2: print >>sys.stderr, "Usage:", sys.argv[0], "path" sys.exit(1) p

Re: smtp in inetd.conf

2007-12-02 Thread cpghost
o see what happens) The line should be commented out. Otherwise, inetd (if started) will try to grab port 25 and start qmail on it. AFAICT, it's commented out by default. > Thank you for info; > Jeff K Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread cpghost
some slight tweaks here and there, but overall, it is very usable and I'm quite happy with it, despite its (unavoidable) shortcomings. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: When switching from console to X, mousebuffer gets pasted

2007-12-05 Thread cpghost
6 I've noticed this too but thought I had misconfigured something or that it was related to sysutils/screen from where I was switching back to X. Glad to see that others are affected by this as well; so it's really a bug. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-12-13 Thread cpghost
what does "top" say? Is that process accumulating CPU time, or is it just sitting around waiting, waiting, waiting...? Are you using NFS or another file system where stat(2) is expensive? > Thanks > Mark > > > - Original Message - > From: "cpghost" &l

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread cpghost
torial beats a 350 pages book anytime; and a 350 pages book with the right mix of selected topics beats an 800+ pages "reference-style" all-rounder book as well, most of the time. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freeb

devel/boost -- where is tools/build/v2?

2007-12-14 Thread cpghost
it? Thanks for any insight, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: devel/boost -- where is tools/build/v2?

2007-12-15 Thread cpghost
run. Those are *not* copied over. A few html files are put in doc/, but not the real stuff (which belongs elsewhere, see 3.). 3. Those files are NOT doc files: they are needed by bjam. Their "right" place should be something like

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-10-01 Thread cpghost
prefetchable) Expansion ROM at feaf [disabled] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable- Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-07 Thread cpghost
n't depend on the specifics of the window manager, and can still be customized with multiple flags like -fn, -fg, -bg, -geometry, -strftime etc... Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

2008-10-24 Thread cpghost
rite to DVD-RAM and to copy Solaris boot CD's. - scgcheck (checks and validates the ABI of libscg) - rscsi (daemon providing access to local SCSI-devices over the network) WWW: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html Regards, -cpghost. -- Cord

Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
pflog would be incomplete, because some packets would have been snatched away from pflog0 by tcpdump, before pflogd ever got a chance to read them out. Is there a way to watch /var/log/pflog grow, while still making sure that pflogd logs EVERY packet that appears on the pflog0 interfa

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:20:42PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? > > > > This won't work: > > $ tail -f /var/log/pflog | tcpdump -n -s 116 -r - > >

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:22:42PM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote: > cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? > > > > This won't work: > > $ tail -f /var/log/pflog | tcpdump -n -s 1

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:15:57PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:54PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? > > > > This won't work: > > $ tail -f /var/log/pflog

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-06 Thread cpghost
o optimize CPU bottlenecks or call into / link against other compiled code. Hybrid systems are usually very fast to set up, yet don't significantly sacrifice speed. Ever used numpy, scipy etc. with optimized C and FORTRAN libraries (ATLAS, FFTW3 etc.) in Python for big numeric computations? W

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread cpghost
t the PRERELEASE phase is so long: in this time, more bugs are being fixed that would have normally been lingering in the pr database. Quality is much more important than deadlines, IMHO; and those lenghty code freeze phases are a blessing since they help stabilize

mdconfig(8) with offset? Or: resizing a NTFS qemu image

2008-11-14 Thread cpghost
le to mdconfig a file, but starting from a specific offset? (Of course, taking the image file apart, mdconfig one of its fragments, then putting it back together could be a hackish work-around (?), but it would be nice if mdconfig were able to map a partial file directly.) Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula&

Re: mdconfig(8) with offset? Or: resizing a NTFS qemu image

2008-11-15 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:46:43AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to extend a ntfs filesystem in a qemu raw image, by > following the instructions here: > > http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?p=12362 > > Of course, this requires sysutils/nt

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread cpghost
gt; is important to you, you should considering purchasing a drive that can > be flashed with a "hacked" firmware. Check out for RPC1 modded firmwares. http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php Of course, you'll void your drive's warranty, if something

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread cpghost
archive them locally, as we do now with the mailing lists. Please give it a thought. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:23:55PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: > >> You can register and start using our new service here: > >> > >> http://forums.FreeBSD.org > > >

java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-20 Thread cpghost
src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Is that version of Java really vulnerable? If yes, why doesn't # portaudit -Fda report it as such, and could you please update the java/jdk16 port? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-ques

Re: How to get pf to wait for ng0

2009-09-20 Thread cpghost
IRE: SERVERS cleanvar NETWORKING This setup will effectively run mpd5 *before* pf, and will also wait (hopefully) long enough for mpd5 to set up ng0. Then, when pf runs, ng0 will be already there. Of course, there is more than one way to do it. It just happens to work here. > Sam Fourman Jr.

java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-28 Thread cpghost
:26 CEST 2009 r...@phenom.cordula.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Is that version of Java really vulnerable? If yes, why doesn't # portaudit -Fda report it as such, and could you please update the java/jdk16 port? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula

Re: java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-30 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:48:37PM -0700, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:10:48PM +0200, cpghost wrote: > > Freenet (http://www.freenetproject.org/) on my FreeBSD/amd64 system > > complains about an old and vulnerable Java version: > > > > Your i

Re: mplayer: X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

2009-09-30 Thread cpghost
Mech Eng Dept > Bristol University > University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK > Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 > Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread cpghost
annoying, that if X crashes (or you have to stop it for some reason), you only get DRI support again after rebooting. :-( Having said this, IMHO ATI will probably be better supported in the long run on FreeBSD, because they have released the specs of rather recent chipsets, while nVidia has not (A

rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-21 Thread cpghost
doesn't recover automatically even after many hours. Any ideas? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-10-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Henrik Hudson wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: > > I'm experiencing frequent crashes on my soekris net4801 home router > > for some months now, and I'm wondering if it could be some kind of > > pf-related

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread cpghost
... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-22 Thread cpghost
y idle. Perhaps disk and net subsystems concurrently using a non-locked resource and killing each other? Have you tried to run rtorrent and the router on two different FreeBSD machines? Does it lock the router, or does it crash the rtorrent box only, or both? -cpghost. -

Re: OT: XML newbie

2009-12-11 Thread cpghost
though I guess it could be automated at the XML (DTD?) level too. Regards, -cpghost -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's

2008-04-18 Thread cpghost
passively for requests from "clients". "Servers" run on "hosts", regardless of the number of users on those hosts (ranging from 0 to very high). Obviously, the security implications vary considerably if you have to host many user accounts, esp.

Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-18 Thread cpghost
x27;t put your own stuff in /lib or /usr/lib, since this is used by FreeBSD's userland itself. On FreeBSD, third party stuff goes into /usr/local/{lib,bin,etc,...}. See hier(7). As to plugins: if you've got many of them, it's better to group them in a subdirectory of /usr/

Re: Problem with reconnecting ppp (ppp -ddial isp)

2008-04-28 Thread cpghost
XX" set link max-redial 0 set link mtu 1460 set link mru 1460 set link keep-alive 10 60 set link disable acfcomp set link disable protocomp set pppoe iface sis0 set pppoe service "" set log +echo open

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 06 May 2008 19:11:45 +0200 Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login > attempts increases after X failed tries? It shouldn't be too hard to patch /usr/src/crypto/openssh/sshd.c:server_accept_loop() by adding code for per-

Re: Dowloading entire source code

2008-05-11 Thread cpghost
area) as described in the Handbook (have a look at /usr/src/UPDATING, near the end), and move the compiled binaries from /usr/obj to where they belong (again: see the Handbook). > regards, > Onkar -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread cpghost
plone3 as is Silva: /usr/ports/www/zope-silva But be forewarned: both are resource hogs and need a reasonable fast server to run smoothly if you've got a lot of traffic; and finding a good Zope-provider may prove a little more difficult than the usual LAMP-based el-cheapo web hostin

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread cpghost
has proved both dead-easy to configure and able to withstand many waves of serious DDoS attacks by rate-limiting itself. Its anti-spam features, if used right, are also quite effective. I've used sendmail extensively in the past, and that was not bad either, though a little tough to confi

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread cpghost
stem is corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? Even if the filesystem is corrupt, ufs_rmdir() shouldn't panic(), IMHO, but fail gracefully. Hmmm... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread cpghost
rm an in-kernel fsck on the filesystem and its internal (in-memory) structures to repair the damage... and THEN resume the processes. However, this is a major project, and we don't have a self-healing filesystem / kernel (... yet). ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread cpghost
On 07/27/13 21:12, cpghost wrote: > A more robust file system would halt all processes, and perform > an in-kernel fsck on the filesystem and its internal (in-memory) > structures to repair the damage... and THEN resume the processes. > > However, this is a major project, and we do

Re: Unusual file: /bin/[

2013-07-29 Thread cpghost
used in (bourne) shell programming. It has been part of BSD Unix for ages. And I really mean AGES! > just checking thats all ok, and i've not been rooted! Don't worry about it. It's perfectly legitimate. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Tablet PCs and FreeBSD?

2013-08-05 Thread cpghost
for a Tablet PC that runs Linux/arm (not just Android), and it would be nice if that model was also able to run FreeBSD; and if not now, so in the foreseeable future. Any suggestions w.r.t. models? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Tablet PCs and FreeBSD?

2013-08-07 Thread cpghost
On 08/05/13 23:07, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Adam Vande More <mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:44 PM, cpghost <mailto:cpgh...@cordula.ws>> wrote: > > Hello list, > >

Re: where to start with PGP/GPG?

2013-08-15 Thread cpghost
using thunderbird with the enigmail add-on. Works great. -cpghost. > Thanks > Anton -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-17 Thread cpghost
#0 r253323 Sat Jul 13 21:00:32 CEST 2013 amd64 I'm not the only one who's got X server crashes with xeyes: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011833.html @Polytropon: what version of xeyes/xorg-server are you usi

Re: Mouse Trails?

2013-08-18 Thread cpghost
On 08/18/13 16:48, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/17/13 19:08, cpghost wrote: >> On 08/17/13 18:14, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:31:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > >> Good ole Xeyes... ;-) But beware, xeyes crashes X server right now! Using >> >&g

Missing MIDI Framework (was Re: Freebsd Theme Song)

2005-12-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:32:59AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:14:34AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:09:38PM +, David Gerard wrote: > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > > > > I vote for > > &g

Re: projector under FreeBSD?

2005-12-26 Thread cpghost
1024x768). Most projectors don't like exotic settings. > thanks. > > -- > Best Regards. > Yuan Jue Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-19 Thread cpghost
rom an admin POV and the main reason I picked that distro, just to feel more at home), do whatever is needed, and then reboot into FreeBSD. Not ideal, but workable. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-question

Re: portmanager status?

2006-01-20 Thread cpghost
Use portupgrade. Eww... :) portupgrade with its ruby dependency? Actually portmanager was/is a very good replacement for portupgrade, lightweight, C-based, and its author was pretty helpful in the past providing quick fixes and help on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTH, > Micah Regards, -cpghost. -- Cord

ppp and pf interacting badly?

2006-01-27 Thread cpghost
lling /etc/rc.d/pf start manually works well though, since tun0 is now there and pf can initialize. Am I the only one seeing this happen? Is there any way to tell pf startup script to wait for ppp until all needed interfaces have really come up? Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's

Double NFS mount causes panic?

2006-01-27 Thread cpghost
directory? I thought a new mount would simply mask the mount below as with regular mounts? 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 25 20:50:14 Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ppp and pf interacting badly?

2006-01-27 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:12:14PM -0500, Peter wrote: > --- cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any way to tell pf startup script to wait for ppp > > until all needed interfaces have really come up? > > >From the OpenBSD 3.8 manpage (should be good for y

[WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread cpghost
all normal cases. Perhaps someone's already working on this, but I can't find any hints or pointers to it. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread cpghost
well defined API (perhaps it does, I don't know). Basically, a driver can access ANY data structure of the kernel, and that's why it's not trivial to combine a Linux driver with the FreeBSD kernel. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?

2006-02-07 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:59:27PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 07/02/06 cpghost said: > > since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, > > it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD > > system (userland, including a

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-09 Thread cpghost
imagery (metaphor, simile), and not simply meter or rhyme. > After 7 years of my writing group I've learned how DIFFICULT > it is to write a good poem. Or prose. Absolutely! >Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Publ

Re: Powered-by FreeBSD icon using new logo

2006-03-06 Thread cpghost
uestions@ if possible. > Are powered by icon using the new logo available someplace for > download. > Do we need to get written permission to use it? > > Where can I see this new logo at? Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-06 Thread cpghost
change every now and then. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-06 Thread cpghost
e contribute outselves lots of code (those of us who are coders), there's nothing we can really do about it. > DT Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-08 Thread cpghost
r heavy duty load; and no problems at all. You may want to add some RAM for very complex graphics to speed things up. For regular day-to-day use, that's not required. > - Parv -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread cpghost
or regular backups and sychronizations between multiple IMAP hosts, both mobile and fixed. Good luck! > Best Regards, > Carlos Silva, > http://www.yourdot-services.com/ Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: C Program to execute programs in same console

2006-04-03 Thread cpghost
ss' (the shell's process) current working directory, only the current working directory of the process running the C program. Perhaps connecting to the shell via a pty, and then sending it a 'cd' command could work? Of look at how expect(1) (/usr/ports/lang/expec

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread cpghost
> > As for security, NFS is well-known for *NOT* being secure. > > Do not use NFS over networks where you don't trust all the machines. > > What should you use instead of NFS? I like the fact that I can open up a > window and throw some files to my server. Maybe, something can be > accessed throug

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread cpghost
> > > I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my > servers as > > > backup space. I have NFS client and Servers running OK, but was > wondering how > > > secure it really is. > > > > NFS is not secure at all. If you don't trust the local subnet, don't use > NFS > > there. C

Re: cvsupfile checkup

2004-07-06 Thread cpghost
David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > before I munge a system again with a wrong cvsup tag, I thought I > would ask the good graces of this group to make sure I have my tags > correct. I want to stay with releng 4.10 and keep my ports collection > updated as well. does this file look okay? > >

Re: Sendmail upgrade advice

2004-07-10 Thread cpghost
Rob wrote: Actually, I don't have access to the ports tree. This is a server owner by the ISP and they told me I need to do my own upgrades. It is one of those virtual servers where I have root access to my own little virtual area, however I can't make any updates to the ports tree. So, it looks li

Re: Firewall rules for local lan

2004-07-11 Thread cpghost
eway in /etc/rc.conf: hostname="your.hostname.tld" gateway_enable="YES" ppp_enable="YES" ppp_profile="your-isp-profile" ppp_user="root" ppp_mode="ddial" ppp_nat="YES" named_enable="YES" nam

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread cpghost
es to propagate throught the net. Another reason is that you (or your net admin) blocked ICMP at the firewall level, so you can't expect a reply to a ping. You can test this easily by pinging, say, www.altavista.com or another site that replies to pings. Other reasons are possible too. Sean cpgho

Re: DNS server

2004-07-11 Thread cpghost
h ;; res_nsend: Operation timed out Yep, not yet visible here... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn

2004-07-12 Thread cpghost
ugh you won't be able to use the CD. Are you sure? If you download the ISO in ASCII mode (therefore corrupting it), it will be bigger than the already full binary image. Some combination of burning software and media could result in a bad burn. -cpghost. -- Cordula's

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 vs. 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread cpghost
RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE tag, and then rebuilding world. You can do this from your 5.2.1-RELEASE or -CURRENT host system. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: "sanitizing" disks: wiping swap, non-allocated space, and file-tails

2004-07-16 Thread cpghost
David Kreil wrote: I'm also interested in people's personal experiences in using partition or file system encryption options. gbde(1) works fine for me, even for swap and /tmp. The only problem is that you can't reboot without operator assistance to enter the passphrase(s). Dav

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