On 8/3/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen
the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via
a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the
use of an
On Monday 03 August 2009 18:28:52 Modulok wrote:
I wrote a python script which uses /dev/random, and hashes the output
with sha256. I then truncate the output to the desired length.
Blasphemy! According to the superstitious password crowd my passwords
are not very secure ... maybe.
They
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Joel Dahlj...@vnode.se wrote:
[snip description of network flakiness on one server, out
of several on the same switch behind the same gateway]
Any ideas? :-)
I have 2:
1.) Bad NIC
2.) Bad CPU
3. Bad cable from
Glen Barber skrev:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
I have 2:
1.) Bad NIC
2.) Bad CPU
A while back, I found out I had a bad CPU after replacing everything
else on the machine -- I would still receive CRC mismatch errors with
portsnap(8).
The NIC is
Tim Gustafson wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot
partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to
documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the impression I got
is that support for ZFS partitions
Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen
the.real.david.al...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a
USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of
an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall.
PJ wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
Dear Phil,
Ofcourse if you upgrade, files will be overwritten. Could you please be
more specific?
Greetz,
Mark
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all
about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing
something...
It is very easy to generate hard-to-guess semi-random passwords:
openssl rand
Neal Hogan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mel
Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote:
2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:21AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all
about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing
something...
It is very easy to
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:21AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all
about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing
something...
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:14:39AM +0200, Mark Stapper typed:
It would be nice to hear more she-calling on these lists though...
So maybe mailing list etiquette should state anyone posting to a mailing
list should be referred to as she like we do with boats and
institutions like the
Hi,
an Acer notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad makes some trouble
here. My primary problem is: I restart the mouse daemon and then I
can move the mouse only for a short distance; suddenly the mouse
freezes.
To analyze the problem I do the following:
# /etc/rc.d/moused restart
# dd
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote:
Neal Hogan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mel
Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote:
2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Aug
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:06:47 -0500
Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
New mailing list etiquette: Everyone should include his/her gender
when posting.
OK, then lets also include ethnic background, political affiliation,
religious affiliation along with a cornucopia of other irrelevant
My zfs only system works fine but it based on 8-beta2 built around 16 May(
will be rebuilding soon)
The main thing to remember to do it make sure your have
zfs_loader_support=yes in your src of make.conf
I based my install on this howto
Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:06:47 -0500
Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote:
New mailing list etiquette: Everyone should include his/her gender
when posting.
OK, then lets also include ethnic background, political affiliation,
religious affiliation along with a cornucopia of other
Hi,
I have 7.2-RELEASE running on two older laptops and both have had a
few kernel panics lately. Unfortunately the one that paniced today
doesn't have debugging symbols, so I'm sure how useful any of output
below will be.
Joey
% dmesg
.
.
.
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault
Good call on the hashing, reducing the quality of the passwords, Kurt.
The hash generated passwords are for online accounts, as
auto-generated initial passwords and such.
But I'm also looking for a good way to generate high quality crypto
keys. In the later case, the data being protected are disk
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:20:50 -0800
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 18:28:52 Modulok wrote:
I wrote a python script which uses /dev/random, and hashes the
output with sha256. I then truncate the output to the desired
length.
As I understand it I would have to double the length of a hashed
password for it to be as secure as an un-hashed one, as each pair of
characters represent one byte. Aye?
-Modulok-
On 8/4/09, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:20:50 -0800
Mel Flynn
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:28:52 -0600
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
However, wouldn't hashing bytes from /dev/random be quite secure? The
hash function would cover any readily apparent patterns, if they were
found to existed.
That's fine, the only issue is that hex digits lead to long
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:42:22 -0600
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it I would have to double the length of a hashed
password for it to be as secure as an un-hashed one, as each pair of
characters represent one byte. Aye?
I wouldn't put it quite like that, it's the hexadecimal
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
_7_BP
_7_2_BP
_7_2_0_RELEASE
_7_2
But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!!
# uname -a
7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 00:14:35 UTC
David Southwell wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
_7_BP
_7_2_BP
_7_2_0_RELEASE
_7_2
But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!!
# uname -a
7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:56 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Joel Dahlj...@vnode.se wrote:
[snip description of network flakiness on one server, out
of several on the same switch behind the same gateway]
Any
David Southwell wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
_7_BP
_7_2_BP
_7_2_0_RELEASE
_7_2
But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!!
# uname -a
7.2-RELEASE-p2
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwellda...@vizion2000.net wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
_7_BP
_7_2_BP
BP ?
_7_2_0_RELEASE
Should be RELENG. Don't blindly follow how-tos.
_7_2
But
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 04. Aug 2009, 13:26:24 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
Hi,
an Acer notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad makes some trouble
here. My primary problem is: I restart the mouse daemon and then I
can move the mouse only for a short distance; suddenly the mouse
freezes.
To
Until late Sunday night I was here at keyboard/computer virtually
24/7 working on thesis. So was my advisor, but then that's his
*job*. Anyway, now it's wait and see.
Meanwhile: how do I get rid of a truckload of old binaries that I
rarely/never use?
Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwelldavid at vizion2000.net wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
_7_BP
_7_2_BP
BP ?
It is the branchpoint tag, made
Hi, Gary
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote:
Until late Sunday night I was here at keyboard/computer virtually
24/7 working on thesis. So was my advisor, but then that's his
*job*. Anyway, now it's wait and see.
Such is academia. :-)
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwelldavid at vizion2000.net
wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:07:20PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwellda...@vizion2000.net wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
_7_BP
_7_2_BP
BP ?
BP = Branch
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 00:14:39 Mark Stapper wrote:
It would be nice to hear more she-calling on these lists though...
So maybe mailing list etiquette should state anyone posting to a mailing
list should be referred to as she like we do with boats and
institutions like the court...
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS
boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some
how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 12:52:54 Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:07:20PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwellda...@vizion2000.net
wrote:
I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
I took a look at the web pages and found
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:32:54 -0400
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
Meanwhile: how do I get rid of a truckload of old binaries
that I rarely/never use? Most show a list of dependencies that's
about 70 lines long, and I don't want to break things.
On 8/4/09, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
_7_2_0_RELEASE
Should be RELENG. Don't blindly follow how-tos.
RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE is a valid tag. Don't make pronouncements if you
haven't verified them.
He has _7_2_0_RELEASE, not RELENG_7_0_2_RELEASE.
Well, neither actually.
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:16:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
Until late Sunday night I was here at keyboard/computer virtually
24/7 working on thesis. So was my advisor, but then that's his
*job*. Anyway, now it's wait and see.
Good luck!
Meanwhile: how do I get
Adam Vande More skrev:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:56 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Joel Dahlj...@vnode.se wrote:
[snip description of network flakiness on one server, out
of several on the same switch behind the
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
He has _7_2_0_RELEASE, not RELENG_7_0_2_RELEASE.
Well, neither actually. :) s/0_2/2_0/ . But I inferred from the
context -- it seemed obvious, particularly from what he wrote later
-- that he meant those choices as
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Joel Dahlj...@vnode.se wrote:
And now everything seems to be working. I've been doing some tests for a
few hours, but I can't get the machine to crap out again. Looking good so
far... :-)
Good to hear. :-)
--
Glen Barber
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:34:27 -0400
Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote:
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all
about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing
something...
You could just use apg ...
Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl wrote:
What you can do is make a list of all installed ports with
ports-mgmt/portmaster:
portmaster -L ports.list
Looking through this list, you'll see four categories;
- Root ports (No dependencies, not depended on)
- Trunk ports (No dependencies, are depended
I wouldn't recommend using zfs at all right now, unless you want
random crashes and lots of missing data.. ESPECIALLY in 8.0,1,2
versions.
I'm using 7.2 at the moment with a standard UFS2 boot partition and a 500GB ZFS
pool. My ZFS pool actually seems pretty stable. I did a make -j 16
I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I
cannot figure it out.
I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all
of the files in the directory to a file.
Here is the code.
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
cat ${FILELIST} | while read LINE
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 17:06:56 Jay Hall wrote:
I am sure this is something I am doing that is obviously wrong, but I
cannot figure it out.
I am reading a list of directories from a file, and then listing all
of the files in the directory to a file.
Here is the code.
What is -type supposed to do? I've never used it before, never needed it.
- Original Message -
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tue Aug 04 20:06:56 2009
Subject: find
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Gary Gattenggat...@waddell.com wrote:
What is -type supposed to do? I've never used it before, never needed it.
Gary,
-type allows different types of files to be located -- 'f' - regular
file, 'd' - directory, 'l' - link, etc.
Have a look at find(1) for more
What is -type supposed to do? I've never used it before, never
needed it.
Type is used to specify the type of file to be found.
f is a regular file.
Jay
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
Ah yes, I do remember now. Plus, for once the syntax is almost self
explanatory. So, did the OPs question get answered?
From: Jay Hall
To: Gary Gatten
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tue Aug 04 20:41:22 2009
Subject: Re: find question
What
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 04. Aug 2009, 21:28:37 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
Am Dienstag, 04. Aug 2009, 13:26:24 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
Hi,
an Acer notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad makes some trouble
here. My primary problem is: I restart the mouse daemon and then I
can move the
Ah yes, I do remember now. Plus, for once the syntax is almost self
explanatory. So, did the OPs question get answered?
I think I just found the problem. I am testing now.
There was a blank line at the end of the file.
___
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 03:26:24 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
Further I seem to have missed something else. I found the page
http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad where are mentioned some
sysctls:
hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_hor_area=1300
I don't have those
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:49:17PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
Ah yes, I do remember now. Plus, for once the syntax is almost self
explanatory. So, did the OPs question get answered?
Yes. But to be clear, one of the lines in the input file is blank,
which means that find is run as
find -type
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