Re: macports-users Digest, Vol 122, Issue 2

2016-10-03 Thread William H. Magill
. . . Launchd.info . . . As best I can tell, since the site is not dated other than by copyright, the information at launchd.info was written in 2013, and has not been updated since then. There are no references to any version numbers that I can find. _

A general upgrade question

2016-09-23 Thread William H. Magill
luded these as dependencies, and that if I re-installed that, it would pick-up all of the others. (I seem to have had a bunch of P5.16 modules installed, which should have been updated before I tried to begin the overall update.) Is there an obvious way to find that parent? T.T.F.N. Willia

Re: macOS Sierra / 10.12 support - where are we?

2016-09-21 Thread William H. Magill
pkg was the fastest and cleanest install of Mac Ports I can remember over many years of working with Mac Ports. Cudos to all those involved. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.12 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.12 mag

Re: el capitan

2016-01-27 Thread William H. Magill
whatever its name is) environment, and "sandboxing." William H. Magill mag...@icloud.com whmag...@gmail.com On Jan 27, 2016, at 08:38 AM, Mark Brethen wrote: On el capitan I’ve noticed when installing ports messages in the console like the following: 1/27/16 7:31:48.671 AM sand

Re: Wine Issue

2015-11-23 Thread William H. Magill
15 person Contacts list. I get the spinning-beachball effect CONSTANTLY now with El-Capitan with standard OSX apps as well as others. To me it appears that it has to do with Apple’s memory management and its attempts to integrate OSX with iCloud. Loading delays were bad with 10.10 and have gott

Re: Experiences with El Capitan

2015-11-05 Thread William H. Magill
> I got tired of seeing that bloody spinning beach-ball… This spinning beach ball seems to be a FEATURE of El Capitan — having nothing to do with Mac Ports. Everything causes it to happen. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.11.1 # Macmini

Re: Darwin Version

2015-10-09 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 7:31 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > On 2015-10-04 12:25, William H. Magill wrote: >> As with the “success” above, the answer appears to be with the >> Migration Instructions. The problem is that the visual queues given >> by the “command inden

Re: Darwin Version

2015-10-04 Thread William H. Magill
son reading them is always different when compared to that of the person writing them. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. And sadly today, the primary technique is “post first” and re-read the instructions later. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.1

El Capitan changes for Mac Ports ?

2015-10-03 Thread William H. Magill
currently available from the Software Update Server. This usually means you already have the latest version installed. You can also get the command line tools from the Apple developer website. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.5 # Macmini6,1 Int

Re: Darwin Version

2015-10-02 Thread William H. Magill
making them possible. Without MacPorts, you would have to figure out why XXX suddenly no longer worked and then try to fix it all by yourself. And that utterly ignores the fact that you would have had to have ported the software to your situation all by yourself. Thanks for all the hard work!

Re: selfupdate doesn't work

2015-03-02 Thread William H. Magill
rsion you have to search for it in the App store. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.2 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.2 mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com __

Re: configuring phpmyadmin: why no table mysql.host for mysql56?

2015-02-14 Thread William H. Magill
ng a installation page for that, but one thing has lead to another, and I simply have not gotten around to continuing what I was doing. So, yes, please feel free to update that page so that it reflects your experience. That's what a WIKI

Re: can't start mysql56 after move datadir

2015-02-13 Thread William H. Magill
described was giving _mysql ownership of the new datadir). T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.2 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.2 mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com __

Re: Not really MacPorts problem, I don't think.

2015-01-23 Thread William H. Magill
is/becomes available. Setting this subkey to false will start the job when/while all network connections are down." http://launchd.info And there is no indication on the guide.macports.org page as to what the output of "startupitem.netchange" might generate.

Not really MacPorts problem, I don't think.

2015-01-22 Thread William H. Magill
is the FQDN of the server. ServerName is configured: ServerName localhost:80 >From trying to deal with the local host issue from before. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.1 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.1

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-22 Thread William H. Magill
ime the OS flags a Disk error, you have been suffering constant performance degrading failures which are simply below the "reporting threshold", for quite some time. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com w

Re: OT probably, help please

2015-01-20 Thread William H. Magill
use I had turned on the iCloud drive (which does impact things). But after a lot of trial and no-luck turned off the option in Sophos. Long ago I had tried Avast! and discovered that it's anti-malware was simply horrible in what it did to a Mac. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i

MAMP and related "how tos" on the Wiki

2015-01-06 Thread William H. Magill
in error. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.1 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.1 OSX Server (now dead) mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com ___ macports

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-04 Thread William H. Magill
nix like" plain-text information files into a database. (NIS maybe?) I haven't played extensively with this sort of stuff since I retired back in 2003, (Apple makes it so easy to forget) but I assume that OSX (NeXTStep) has not "gotten closer" to UNIX(tm), but continued on its

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 3, 2015, at 3:41 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > >> Did Apple change something in Yosemite/Safari so that "localhost" is no >> longer an accessible DNS address for Safari? >> >> I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari alway

A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
e's Apache via OSX Server, but have since replaced that with MacPorts. And, I have no idea if "localhost" worked after I upgraded to Yosemite and OSX Server ceased operation. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@iclo

Re: Trying to create a portfile patch test repository

2015-01-02 Thread William H. Magill
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:46 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:28 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > File:///Users/magill/ports > > I'm pretty sure the URL scheme needs to be all lowercase; that is, "file:" > not "File:". Tha

trac.macports.org still down

2015-01-02 Thread William H. Magill
trac.macports.org went down sometime last evening (around 2:300-23:30 1 January) and is still down. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.1 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.1 OSX Server (now dead) mag...@icloud.com

Trying to create a portfile patch test repository

2015-01-01 Thread William H. Magill
port:php56-intl port:php56-dba port:php56-mbstring \ + port:ImageMagick use_configure no T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com ___ macpor

Re: MAMP issue -- Mysql 56

2014-12-26 Thread William H. Magill
luded for the "my-new.cnf" file or instructions to replace the "my.cnf" file included. However, the chown instructions on the MAMP page appear to no longer be necessary. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.1 # Macmini6,1 Intel C

MAMP issue -- [MacPorts] #46318: mysql51-server fails to install mysql51

2014-12-24 Thread William H. Magill
=> duplicate > > > Comment: > > mysql51 is old. Please use a newer version or fork of MySQL, such as > mysql55, mysql56, mariadb, mariadb-10.0, mariadb-10.1, or percona. > > Duplicate of #45456. > > -- > Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46

MAMP - Step 3 - Install MySQL failing

2014-12-24 Thread William H. Magill
getname" :info:build Warning: targets not executed for mysql51: org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install :error:build Failed to install mysql51 :debug:build could not read "/opt/local/share/man/man8/tcpdmatch.8.gz": no such file or directo

A question about MAMP

2014-12-24 Thread William H. Magill
rt of that sentence mean - (not recommended for production!)? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10.1 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10.1 OSX Server (now dead) mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...

Re: 2.3.3 build on Linux: results from `make test` (errors)

2014-12-08 Thread William H. Magill
7 ms 10 ae-4-90.edge1.sanjose2.level3.net (4.69.152.199) 100.140 ms 96.607 ms 96.680 ms 11 apple-compu.edge1.sanjose2.level3.net (4.28.172.82) 97.842 ms 98.334 ms 100.100 ms 12 * * * 13 * * * 14 * * * 15 packages.macports.org (17.251.224.218) 100.378 ms 99.777 ms 99.533 ms T.T

Re: [KDE/Mac] MacPorts usage statistics

2014-12-07 Thread William H. Magill
hen updating a port, or even which variants should become defaults. We hope to use the variants data to build binary packages for non-default, but popular variants in the future. etc.etc.etc. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill ma

Re: MacPorts usage statistics

2014-12-07 Thread William H. Magill
nstall mpstats Activating mpstats @0.1.6_0 But no information/discussion on contacting the server beyond the initial "test server" -- The implication being that this is "not ready for prime time." So, being a sucker for statics on "stuff," I guess I'm user #52.

Re: You have a new notification from avijitshe...@gmail.com. View?

2014-12-01 Thread William H. Magill
either Apple's mail server's flags or on its own flagging. In the end its one of those things -- SPAM is simply a very efficient (i.e. cost productive) way to obtain money from the great unsuspecting hordes of "new users." It's a "thing in life" that we just h

Re: {distfiles,packages,rsync,trac}.macports.org are back up (eom)

2014-11-28 Thread William H. Magill
had been. I have no idea how Comcast routes its routers DNS traffic, and haven't looked. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com _

Re: Trac is broke

2014-11-03 Thread William H. Magill
m Yosemite, but previously from Maverick 10.9.5 via Comcast ISP.) T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10 OSX Server (now dead) mag

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-03 Thread William H. Magill
people switched to Alpha and OSF/1 (aks Digital Unix) and learned Darwin from the Mach side. :) T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.10 OSX Server (now dead) mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-02 Thread William H. Magill
and re-install, is clearly one, which also has the benefit of trashing all of the various Cache databases created by various apps, as User/Library/Caches is not backed-up. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4G

MediaWiki equilivant to MAMP documet at trac

2014-10-27 Thread William H. Magill
ast. https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP So my question is -- is there an equivalent document for MediaWIki -- one component of which is ImageMagic as I recall. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 160

Fwd: Getting Apache to restart

2014-10-25 Thread William H. Magill
oops forgot to cc the list > Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: Re: Getting Apache to restart > From: "William H. Magill" > Date: October 25, 2014 at 5:12:56 PM EDT > To: Dave Horsfall > > >> On Oct 25, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: >

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2 -- part 2

2014-10-24 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:55 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > >>> On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:37 PM, William H. Magill >>> wrote: >>> What is the equivalent today? MacPorts does not contain

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:49 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > At one time there were instructions in the port on how to start and stop the > Apache server -- they are now missing. > > The technique to be used is

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 10:58 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > > At 10:43 PM -0400 10/23/14, William H. Magill wrote: >> > On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:52 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >>> Finding

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > > At 9:52 PM -0400 10/23/14, William H. Magill wrote: >> > On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:23 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >>> On Oct 2

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:52 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > Finding /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl was "obvious." But not from any > pllist file. > > Looking at that file and comparing it with

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:23 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:34 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > >> port notes installed > &g

Re: controlling Macports version of Apache2 -- part 2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:37 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > What is the equivalent today? MacPorts does not contain a Lynx port which the > search command can find. > > links or elinks, probably. Ports exist for b

controlling Macports version of Apache2 -- part 2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 9:23 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:34 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >> On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:06 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >>> What I

controlling Macports version of Apache2

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:34 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:06 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >> What I'm looking for is the "notes" (or explanations) which were in the >

Re: Installation log files?

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:06 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > What I'm looking for is the "notes" (or explanations) which were in the > install stream. > Are they recorded anywhere? Or do you have to rem

Installation log files?

2014-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
e "I think" I remember that the MacPorts version of Apache2 does something different. What I'm looking for is that block of text from the installation log which tells me how to start and stop Apache2. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10 # M

Re: "Updating database of binaries" step very slow under Yosemite?

2014-10-22 Thread William H. Magill
ay. I can easily see how something like this database check does MUCH MORE I/O per given unit of time than the OS design parameters test for. Testing of extremes normally yields some totally unexpected results, which usually results in having those "extremes" modified. Frequently, in so

iStumbler update?

2014-10-19 Thread William H. Magill
matically rejected. If you think that your messages are > being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at > macports-users-ow...@lists.macosforge.org. > > > Date: October 19, 2014 at 1:36:09 PM EDT > From: "William H. Magill" > Subject: iStumbler update?

Re: Yosemite, XCode 6.1?

2014-10-19 Thread William H. Magill
ported" 10.10. Where the definition of "supported" means -- will run under 10.10; but does NOT provide 10.10 tools! Most annoying. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.10 # Macmin

ssh/sshd question

2014-08-01 Thread William H. Magill
ch are dated pre Mavericks, and none of them have any obvious time-out parameters. The question becomes -- Is this time out a parameter issue or a bug? If a parmeter issue, which/where? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.9.4 # Macmini6,1 Intel Co

Re: Questions about MediWiki port

2014-08-01 Thread William H. Magill
On Aug 1, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:18 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >> >> What I was wondering about was the fact that OSX Server includes Apple's >> installation of Apache, PHP, SQL and ??? > > MacPorts does not use a

Re: Questions about MediWiki port

2014-07-31 Thread William H. Magill
On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:25 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > >> 1- How does the MacPorts installation of MediaWiki integrate with OSX Server >> under Maverick -- OSX 10.9.4 and Server 3.1.2. (anybody tried it

Re: Questions about MediWiki port

2014-07-31 Thread William H. Magill
On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:30 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:25 PM, William H. Magill wrote: > >> 1- How does the MacPorts installation of MediaWiki integrate with OSX Server >> under Maverick -- OSX 10.9.4 and Server 3.1.2. (anybody tried it

Questions about MediWiki port

2014-07-31 Thread William H. Magill
-- apparently the intervening releases were security releases. Anybody else working with MediaWiki on OSX Server? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.9.4 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.9.4 mag...@icloud.com ma

xcode-select --install fails

2014-05-25 Thread William H. Magill
updating via the App Store in a few hours. While some updates (iWork) did complete, the "error has occurred" message continue to display between updates. The other symptom was that my new iMac was not detecting that OS X 10.9 was in need of an update to 10.9.2. T.T.F.N. William H. Magi

Re: Issue upgrading from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 - Error: llvm-3.1 is not supported on Mavericks or later.

2014-02-08 Thread William H. Magill
after the hassle to get the Xcode tools installed. Wasn't 2.0 the Mavericks update? Guess it's time to completely uninstall and start over. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com

Issue upgrading from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 - Error: llvm-3.1 is not supported on Mavericks or later.

2014-02-08 Thread William H. Magill
cports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_llvm-3.1/llvm-3.1/main.log Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide: http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X

Is there an iStumbler equilivant for iPhone/iPad

2013-11-05 Thread William H. Magill
s Choices" from iTunes 11 (Mavericks).. Similarly, the Search function is singularly "unhelpful." T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.9 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.8.5 mag...@icloud.com mag

Fwd: Setting up a new Mavericks machine

2013-10-29 Thread William H. Magill
list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.9 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.8.5 mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@

Re: Setting up a new Mavericks machine

2013-10-24 Thread William H. Magill
am Mercer wrote: > >> "Can't install the software because it is not currently available from >> the Software Update Server." Thank you for the URL been trying since Tuesday and failing with xcode-select --install. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8

Re: Port won't install on 10.9

2013-10-23 Thread William H. Magill
t variable when used with --sdk. 15190491 T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.0 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.8.3 mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whm

Re: Suggestion: Time to Use Trello?

2013-06-26 Thread William H. Magill
l of which is to say -- I don't really see any particular benefit to Mac Ports users or contributors. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.8.4 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667

Re: Suggestion

2013-05-28 Thread William H. Magill
he stacks. (I know I'm REALLY dating myself now.) Personally, I find a search engine which does not tokenize every bloody word in the search string just so that it can return me "something" really annoying.--- Returning nothing is JUST AS VALID, it has just as much, and maybe more, me

Re: perl

2013-02-28 Thread William H. Magill
Terminal session initiated from your "login window." Previous versions of OSX used the file: ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as a mechanism to pass this same information on to programs which WERE NOT LAUNCHED DIRECTLY FROM YOUR TERMINAL WINDOW, but which ran under your userid. That is, progra

About iStumbler

2013-02-21 Thread William H. Magill
s to be active. 4- Is twit the only way to contact the author? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.8.2 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 1

Re: UNIX commands font

2013-02-21 Thread William H. Magill
On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > On 2/21/13 10:15 AM, William H. Magill wrote: >> Up until "recently" ?? Tiger maybe?? ... OSX also defaulted to ksh. > > I don't think that's correct. On 10.2 OS X defaulted to tcsh, then switched > to

Re: UNIX commands font

2013-02-21 Thread William H. Magill
On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Jean Gobin wrote: > FreeBSD defaults to csh, OpenBSD and NetBSD to ksh. Up until "recently" ?? Tiger maybe?? ... OSX also defaulted to ksh. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.8.2 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core

Does the MacPorts installation of Aspell include Textinfo?

2012-12-30 Thread William H. Magill
eparate installation? Or is that an obsolete statement now that aspell.net exists? "port list aspell*" doesn't find anything other than dictionaries. Nor does "port list text*" T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.8.2 # MacB

Aspell question?

2012-12-29 Thread William H. Magill
; This is "sort of true" -- that is the header line created by aspell, and is as is documented at aspell.net So the question is: Which is it... an issue with the macports aspell installation or an issue with aspell itself? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz -

apparent failure in "port clean all"

2012-11-29 Thread William H. Magill
While going through step 3 of the migration process... "sudo port clean all" it apparently aborted part way through:(a new Mac mini now running 10.8.1 -- migrating from an old mini running Snow Leopard)===--->  Cleaning hs-platform-cabal--->  Cleaning hs-platform-cgi--->  Cleaning h

Conflicts with OSX Server

2012-11-29 Thread William H. Magill
Are there any inherent conflicts between Mac Ports and OSX Server -- aside from the obvious ones of having two versions of, say, Apache installed.I'm installing/updating a new Mac mini from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and have re-installed Mac Ports and installed OSX Server. _

Re: macports without XCode

2012-11-08 Thread William H. Magill
On Nov 08, 2012, at 01:29 PM, "William H. Magill" wrote:On Nov 07, 2012, at 08:47 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:After having a go with homebrew I decided that macport's use of /opt/local is significantly less likely to screw up my system, so I am now quite firmly on the macport s

Re: I need consultation on running WINE on the Mac

2012-10-19 Thread William H. Magill
On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 17:01, William H. Magill wrote: > >> Ok. I have the wine-crossover port and Xquartz installed... It crashes just >> as the normal CrossOver does. >> So I assume that the normal "por

Re: I need consultation on running WINE on the Mac

2012-10-19 Thread William H. Magill
sale and will be moving in 2 weeks. ... Ok. I have the wine-crossover port and Xquartz installed... It crashes just as the normal CrossOver does. So I assume that the normal "port install" installs an unpatched version. So, how do I apply the patch? As best I can tell, there is no

Re: I need consultation on running WINE on the Mac

2012-10-17 Thread William H. Magill
On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:32 PM, "William H. Magill" wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2012, at 11:43 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > >> PyLotRO uses the PyQt bindings, but since it's built as a Windows app, >> Qt uses Windows API calls, which are implemented by wine using X11

Re: I need consultation on running WINE on the Mac

2012-10-17 Thread William H. Magill
rg / Xquartz X server. > > Found 2 ports. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@mcgillsociety.org mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.maco

Re: I need consultation on running WINE on the Mac

2012-10-16 Thread William H. Magill
0023 FS:1007 GS:000f EIP:6514382d ESP:0032f0c8 EBP:0032f0d8 EFLAGS:00210246( R- -- I Z- -P- ) EAX:00154ae0 EBX: ECX:00154ae0 EDX: ESI:001548b8 EDI: Stack dump: ... Threads: process tid prio (all id:s are in hex) 0008 (D) C:\Program Files\PyLotRO\p

I need consultation on running WINE on the Mac

2012-10-15 Thread William H. Magill
ted instructions are desired. Any help is greatly appreciated. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.8.1 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)

Re: anything in MacPorts to repair JPEG images?

2012-09-25 Thread William H. Magill
cPorts The latest version is at: http://www.lemkesoft.org It is also available from the app store. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@mcgillsociety.org mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com _

Re: Update: Macports does not work on recent Mountain Lion machines

2012-09-15 Thread William H. Magill
ving buildings, not just geographical areas. I.e. it happens frequently. Consequently the current MTBF for the LOTRO Clients are about 90 minutes. If I force quit Activity Manager, from what I can tell, it typically reports DispatchQueue issues. But then I don't have a background in reading App

Upgrading to Mountain Lion -- migration document changes?

2012-07-26 Thread William H. Magill
f and all of my installed ports. sudo port selfupdate sudo port upgrade outdated Backup (time machine) is now running. And am now at the "breathe deeply then visit the app store" stage. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.7.4

?? Warning: xcodebuild exists but failed to execute ??

2012-04-10 Thread William H. Magill
upgrade outdated outpost> sudo port -v upgrade outdated Warning: xcodebuild exists but failed to execute Error: No ports matched the given expression [/Users/magill] magill outpost> ls -als /usr/bin/xcodebuild 0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1086 Feb 2 21:06 /usr

An interesting announcement from Apple -- Mountain Lion

2012-02-16 Thread William H. Magill
g" -- ios apps integrated into OSX. Guess I'm going to be forced into upgrading my iPhone 3Gs and my iPad I --- :) T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.7.3 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4

Re: strange behavior - PHP question...

2012-01-23 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > William H. Magill wrote: >> However, when I visit php.net and follow their tutorial, the very first >> example fails. >> > ... >> >> What happens is "a blank page" -- no source code, no &

strange behavior - PHP question...

2012-01-22 Thread William H. Magill
ething is not configured correctly. But as I mentioned, phpinfo.php, runs fine and outputs (apparently) valid information. Any hints on what/where I should look for ? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.7.2 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10

Self update of apache2 overwrites index.html

2011-12-10 Thread William H. Magill
he original file is maintained. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.7.1 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667] OS X 10.6.8 # Flat-panel iM

Re: Lots and lots of system time

2011-10-29 Thread William H. Magill
at Apple's developers never even looked at the issue. For my 40+ yeas in the business ALL "accounting" is an add-on "after thought." It is never designed in from the beginning, and the tools to process what little data is available are basically unchanged since Dennis Richi

Re: MacPorts selfupdate fails… cannot write to location

2011-10-01 Thread William H. Magill
On Sep 14, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 13, 2011, at 21:49, William H. Magill wrote: >> This is very weird… True… registry.db does not exist… no idea why unless the >> previous "selfupdate" attempt deleted it. >>

Re: MacPorts selfupdate fails… v 1.9.2 to 2.0.3 w Xcode 4.1 - OSX 10.7.1

2011-09-13 Thread William H. Magill
On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 12, 2011, at 14:54, William H. Magill wrote: > >> == >> # 27 inch iMac Intel (mid 2010) - 27 inch diagonal screen - Acquired 6/2011 >> Model >

FYI - MacPorts selfupdate fails… v 1.9.2 to 2.0.3 .. no log file produced (in an obvious place) w Xcode 4.0.2 - OSX 10.7.1

2011-09-12 Thread William H. Magill
L_STUB_LIB_FLAG='' TCL_STUB_LIB_SPEC='' TCL_VERSION='' UNIVERSAL_ARCHS='' UNZIP='' XAR='' XCODEBUILD='' XCODE_SELECT='' XZ='' ZIP='' ac_ct_CC='/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2' ac_ct_OBJC='' acx_pthrea

Re: does istumbler actually install?

2011-07-08 Thread William H. Magill
On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Scott Webster wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM, William H. Magill wrote: >> >> On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Perry Lee wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:13 AM, William H. Magill wrote: >>>> And yes, it is defin

Re: does istumbler actually install?

2011-07-08 Thread William H. Magill
On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Perry Lee wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:13 AM, William H. Magill wrote: >> And yes, it is definitely not in either /opt/local/bin or /opt/local/sbin > > Check /Applications/MacPorts Aha... a totally unexpected location:) BTW.. on launch it pr

does istumbler actually install?

2011-07-08 Thread William H. Magill
ftware/istumbler/98_0+universal+use_binary/Applications/MacPorts/iStumbler.app/Contents/Resources/istumbler-logo.icns ./local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/aqua/istumbler T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.6.7 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo

Re: Postfix (Fetchmail and Dovecote) on OSX 10.6.7 ???

2011-06-21 Thread William H. Magill
ll aid in # starting fetchmail with launchd. It is disabled # by default. Execute the following command to start it, # and to cause it to launch at startup: # # sudo port load fetchmail ### ---> Installing fetchmail @6.3.17_0 ---> Ac

How does one add multiple email addresses for list authentication?

2011-06-21 Thread William H. Magill
Is it possible to add multiple email addresses to the mailing list. I can't find any option on the "lists.macforge.org" page that even implies it is possible. Is it? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill mag...@mcgillsociety.or

Re: Postfix (Fetchmail and Dovecote) on OSX 10.6.7 ???

2011-06-17 Thread William H. Magill
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > William H. Magill wrote: >> >>> But what are your ambitions ??? >>> Mine are rather extensive, as I need to set up several virtual domains, >>> so it's my intension to use postfix with either my

Re: Postfix (Fetchmail and Dovecote) on OSX 10.6.7 ???

2011-06-16 Thread William H. Magill
On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "William" == William H Magill writes: > > William> Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7) > > Postfix is part of the base install of OSX. No need for a port any more. Except that i

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