Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:23:01AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:49:10 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: But aristotle is halted and I am back into learn mode. This sentence probably belongs in a fortune cookie collection somewhere. Hah! :) i

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:09:58AM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm creating binary files in fortran. Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary file, is just at the

Re: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Huff wrote: Brandon Low writes: Not sure why this didn't attach the first time. The FreeBSD mailing list software is set to scrub all attachments as a security measure. To makew material available, post it in-line, or post a URL. The attachment eater doesn't actually eat

Re: Confusion About FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox

2009-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Ryan Ware wrote: Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment. In the press release for 8.0 it says, FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox. I understand what the host mode support is with the VirtualBox port. What I don't understand is what support for guest mode

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:29:18 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: My bet would be /usr/ports/editors/hexedit. Been a while since I've used it, but AFAIR, it has a curses or a curses like interface, and it's fairly simple to use, yet sufficiently powerful for most normal binary

how to set locale to French language on mail server ?

2009-12-18 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I am a bit confuse on how to set locale to French language on our mail server , all our users user French keymap and actually the server is NOT well configured mail# locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_TIME=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_ALL= I want to configure at

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-18 Thread Manfred Usselmann
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:29:54 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: Hello, I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company… unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. What are the options

Re: Confusion About FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Jobs
On Friday 18 December 2009 06:39, Ryan Ware wrote: Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment. In the press release for 8.0 it says, FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox. I understand what the host mode support is with the VirtualBox port. What I don't

Re: ifdown/ifup under FreeBSD?

2009-12-18 Thread Sandra Kachelmann
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandra Kachelmann wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Igor V. Ruzanov ig...@canmos.ru wrote: |Under RedHat Linux I can configure an interface, routes and so on in

install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2009-12-18 Thread Affan Basalamah
Hi all, I want to try FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE unattended installation with PXE boot using install.cfg. Currently after following some clues from FreeBSD Handbook and some websites like http://high5.net/index_files/freebsd_pxe_install_server.html, I tried to do that and come with success with some

Re: ifdown/ifup under FreeBSD?

2009-12-18 Thread Bas Smeelen
Sandra Kachelmann wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandra Kachelmann wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Igor V. Ruzanov ig...@canmos.ru wrote: |Under RedHat Linux I can

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread perryh
Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. This should do it: dd if=oldfile of=newfile bs=1 skip=4 Or, perhaps marginally more efficient: dd if=oldfile

xdvi problem after teTex-base-3.0_17 port upgrade

2009-12-18 Thread n dhert
A few days ago there was a port upgrade teTex-base-3.0_17. Since then, when xdvi'ing a .dvi file gives at the command line: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display ... xdvi-motif.bin: Warning: Could not find map file 'ps2pk.map' and in a separate Windows 'XDvi error Could

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Barnes
If your Fortran file has the same word size and enddian-ness as your C, this simple program convert.c will strip all the record length fields. I just knocked it up now, no warranty, etc, but it works for me. Use as a pipe: $ ls convert.c test.f $ gcc -Wall -Werror -ansi -pedantic

Re: xdvi problem after teTex-base-3.0_17 port upgrade

2009-12-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:13:22PM +0100, n dhert wrote: A few days ago there was a port upgrade teTex-base-3.0_17. Since then, when xdvi'ing a .dvi file gives at the command line: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display ... xdvi-motif.bin: Warning: Could not find map

Re: how to set locale to French language on mail server ?

2009-12-18 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 18 December 2009 10:13:53 Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I am a bit confuse on how to set locale to French language on our mail server , all our users user French keymap and actually the server is NOT well configured mail# locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_TIME=C

ezjail bsd 8.0

2009-12-18 Thread Graeme Dargie
I am trying to get ezjail running on bds 8.0 and I keep hitting the same wall FreeBSD amalthea.galaxy.lan.lcl 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I have update /usr/src using csup When I issue a ezjail-admin update -ip

Re: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: The FreeBSD mailing list software is set to scrub all attachments as a security measure. To makew material available, post it in-line, or post a URL. The attachment eater doesn't actually eat *all* attachments. Just the ones with MIME types it thinks

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-18 Thread Олег Петрачёв
Konrad, Erik, thank you for the good advice. Several foreground fsck in a row really helped. Konrad, which hardware are you using with FreeBSD on heavily loaded and i/o-bound systems? If you have other instances of filesystem corruption (which includes everything which can trigger a kernel

Re: Confusion About FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox

2009-12-18 Thread Ryan Ware
Thanks Ed. I looked at the guest additions. Unfortunately, they only have additions for Linux, Windows and Solaris. I tried installing the Linux additions on the off chance that they really meant *NIX, but they are specifically tied to the Linux kernel. I tried installing the virtualbox

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Markiyan Kushnir
If you don't mind, I would add fixed buffer processing to your program. For some really huge files (or any other type of stream) which have really huge records, reading entire records into memory would get the box down. Markiyan /* convert.c: remove record length fields from Fortran output

Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE

2009-12-18 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Ho folks, As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update, when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2 wich seems to belong to an old linux installation and a Grub-error pop up, after restarting again, Freebsd completly dissapear booting just that

Re: Joining multiple Multicast Streams

2009-12-18 Thread Dex Nada
Thank you very much. I currently use the SO_REUSEADDR flag. I will try the SO_REUSEPORT as well - makes sense. Thank again. -DxN On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009 19:45:24 Dex Nada wrote: Hi: I am writing an application

Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE

2009-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Ho folks, As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update, when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2 wich seems to belong to an old linux installation and a Grub-error pop up, after restarting again, Freebsd completly dissapear

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Warren Block
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. This should do it: dd if=oldfile of=newfile bs=1 skip=4 Or, perhaps marginally more

Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

2009-12-18 Thread Noel Jones
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Michael Goodell mggl...@pdc4u.com wrote: Hello . . . Looking for a *simple* protocol monitoring solution to test connectivity of various facets of a system, i.e. HTTP / HTTPS / POP3 / SMTP etc. I am not looking, and don't want to install a *heavy* application

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Barnes
At 2009-12-18 16:33:49+, Warren Block writes: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. This should do it:

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:33:49AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. This should do

Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE

2009-12-18 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR? 2009/12/18 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Ho folks, As a plan for a recovery planing due to a crash on a kernel Update, when restarted I used to have F1 Freebsd and F2 Other, I choosed F2 wich seems to belong to an old linux

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:40, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine (host ESX for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen). For VMware, the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is supported (and works) for Linux, but by what

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:38:16PM +, Nick Barnes wrote: At 2009-12-18 16:33:49+, Warren Block writes: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Nick Barnes wrote: All very interesting, but the OP is wanting to lose all the Fortran record markers, not just the first (and last) four bytes of the file. The record markers precede and follow each record, and give the record's length. The size and enddian-ness of the record marker itself

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-18 Thread ocean
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:33:49AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: ... truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file.

Re: Geom not found, disaster recovery plan on FREEBSD 7.2 STABLE

2009-12-18 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/12/18 Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com: Hi, how can i change that value on the MBR? You can try reading this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fdisk Search for active slice. 2009/12/18 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org: Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Ho folks, As a plan for a

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 01:41:04PM +0300, cronfy wrote: After panic data *is* getting corrupted anyway - MySQL tables that were open are broken, soft-updates are unsync'ed etc etc. By the way, you might want to look into using a DBMS that (unlike MySQL) doesn't hose up open tables because of

broken tmux

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
When I tried asking this before, it was evidently during a period that the mailing list was down, so I'll try again: After updating software on a FreeBSD 6.1 system, tmux appears to be broken. I still have a persistent tmux session running on the system, but I cannot access it with `tmux att`.

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:45:39PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 289, Issue 4, Message 14 On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:32:07 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ariatotle is offline; i'm exclusively on my new server. will somebody please do a digg thought.org

Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

2009-12-18 Thread Marcelo Celleri
Hi, Nagios uses perl scripts to check tcp services, you could use them instead of a complete installation. Noel Jones escribió: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Michael Goodell mggl...@pdc4u.com wrote: Hello . . . Looking for a *simple* protocol monitoring solution to test

sysinstall differences between i386 and ia64/sparc

2009-12-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Why when I run sysinstall on ia64 or sparc, I don't see these options under Configure: Console Time Zone Mouse which are present in i386 sysinstall? Is this because vga console is not supported on all sparc graphic cards, or at all on ia64? What about time zone? How

mount_udf information

2009-12-18 Thread Dean Weimer
Does anyone know where I can find out what versions of the UDF file system that the FreeBSD mount_udf command supports? Or more specifically does anyone know if it's possible to mount an ISO image of Windows 2008 server with FreeBSD? I created an ISO image server running on FreeBSD 7.2 (Also

Partly solved: WAS: sysinstall differences between i386 and ia64/sparc

2009-12-18 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 08:32:06PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Why when I run sysinstall on ia64 or sparc, I don't see these options under Configure: Console Time Zone Mouse which are present in i386 sysinstall? Is this because vga console is not supported on

problems with cups

2009-12-18 Thread Michal
Hello, Every time I choose print or print preview option in my X applications (for example firefox, okular, thunderbird) then my system freezes. WCPU of given program goes up to 100% very quickly and I cannot kill it or even shut down the machine cleanly. I got that problem both on 8.0

8.0-RELEASE, puc, ppbus lpt

2009-12-18 Thread Eric Masson
Hello, I'd like to know whether it is possible to force device numbering on a box which has a built in parallel port and another on a serial/parallel card ? Parallel port managing code is loaded as modules : 131 0x80917000 8cc0 ppc.ko 143 0x8092 99c8 ppbus.ko

Re: Transfer zfs pool to new hardware

2009-12-18 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
mailinglists wrote: ... r...@flappie:...home/rob#zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT data - - - - FAULTED - Try removing /boot/zfs/zpool.cache and rebooting to clear out the stale zfs config pointing to the old device names, then re-importing the

how to make vimage jail permanent by configuring rc.conf?

2009-12-18 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
Hi. I'm trying to freebsd cruster with jails. I know how to make vimage jail temporarily with the commands like this. # jail -c vnet path=/usr/jail/jail01 persist # ifconfig epair create # ifconfig epair0a vnet $JID (snip) I want to make it permanent. I want jails to start automatically when

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-18 Thread bsd
Thanks Manfred ! This program really rocks. Backup up are fast and efficient… Learning curve is not so steep, seems very good to me. Encrypts backup with GPG; looks perfect. Thx everyone for your answers. Le 18 déc. 2009 à 10:16, Manfred Usselmann a écrit : On Thu, 17 Dec 2009

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:58:43PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:52:20 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Gary, seems that my MX has problems with thought.org, that's why I'm repeating my reply on the list, I hope you can receive it this way. The MX

Re: broken tmux

2009-12-18 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 18 December 2009 19:34:18 Chad Perrin wrote: When I tried asking this before, it was evidently during a period that the mailing list was down, so I'll try again: After updating software on a FreeBSD 6.1 system, tmux appears to be broken. I still have a persistent tmux session

Re: broken tmux [solved]

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:02:51AM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009 19:34:18 Chad Perrin wrote: When I tried asking this before, it was evidently during a period that the mailing list was down, so I'll try again: After updating software on a FreeBSD 6.1 system,

MF626 3g modem

2009-12-18 Thread Mark
Hi, I have been trying to get this device working as a 3g modem but it also has memory slot for MMC card. When it is plugged in it only sees the memory card - port 6 addr 2: high speed, self powered, config 1, ZTE CDMA Technologies MSM(0x2000), ZTE, Incorporated(0x19d2), rev 0.00 umass0

i have a CLUE....

2009-12-18 Thread Gary Kline
Well, for a change, i'm beginning to figure at leas one thing out here. For the second time ever, I rebooted my modem ... by unplugging power and clearing out whatever was there, then plugging back in and waiting. I am, or was, able to google stuff, but using

sound problem in 8

2009-12-18 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I just update to 8 release, and found that my sound has problem, my mpg123 can't find oss output, and mpg321 can't create mcop directory. Though mplayer and xmms don't complain while playing mp3 files, the music is distorted, I can't really describe it. It seems people have been talking

Re: sound problem in 8

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Moellering
On Friday 18 December 2009 21:53:45 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I just update to 8 release, and found that my sound has problem, my mpg123 can't find oss output, and mpg321 can't create mcop directory. Though mplayer and xmms don't complain while playing mp3 files, the music is distorted,