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Today, firefox didn’t start up

Configuring mutt as you mail client does force you to configure a mail server on you local system, as mutt cannot send mails by itself. When I chose to use mutt, I decided to set up postfix to drop my sent mail to my usual mailserver. This mailserver does run on port 465, uses TLS and needs authentication. Therefore, I added relayh ...

If you want to install FreeBSD packages via HTTP (e.g. because your firewall does not allow FTP), you need to set PACKAGESITE to a repository which distributes the packages via HTTP. For example: setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/

The FreeBSD pxeboot binary wants to include the loader from a NFS share. If mounting the share fails, the system will halt and needs a hard reboot. In order to propagate the loader via TFTP you need to recompile the binary. Therefore, you will have to install the FreeBSD sources and edit your /etc/make.conf. Insert LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT ...

After I csuped to the latest CURRENT-Source and had a quick look at /usr/src/UPDATING I found this entry: 20090619:NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS have been increased from 16 to 1023and 1024 respectively. As long as no more than 16 groups perprocess are used, no changes should be visible. When morethan 16 groups are used, old binaries may fail ...

I used to add users to a new unix group by firing up my favorite editor and edit /etc/group. That’s because I always forget which tool to use and how to use it. This blog posting shall remind me of usermod: usermod -a -G [,,…]

Mercurial from macports on Mac OX X Leopard gives this error message on any hg command: Traceback (most recent call last):File “/opt/local/bin/hg”, line 25, inmercurial.util.set_binary(fp)File “/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py”, line 75, in getattributeself._load()File “/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-pack ...

Lenny ships with rrdtools version 1.3 which is not supported by nfsen-1.3 (the latest stable version of nfsen). One needs to patch the source code in order to install nfsen --- libexec/NfSenRRD.pm.old 2009-04-01 10:21:54.000000000 +0200 +++ libexec/NfSenRRD.pm 2009-04-01 10:11:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if ( $rrd_ve ...

There was a post on my blog in August 2008, where I described how to change the caps key into control on via Xorg configuration files. This is nice and handy if you have control over you xorg.conf. But it will not work, if you don’t have that control (or if you don’t have such a file). You can use xmodmap insteed. Create the file .xmod ...

As stated in the previous post, I upgraded several machines to lenny. These machines are virtualized via xen. After the upgrade none of the installation did boot correctly. They stopped right after INIT: Entering runlevel: 2Starting system log daemon….Starting kernel log daemon….Starting system message bus: dbus.Starting OpenBSD Secur ...