Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Dave
Hi... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver=fire (or whatever it is) I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up,

Port based VLAN

2010-12-22 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I plan to make a FreeBSD based router sometime soon. I would like to be able to do port based vlanning on the router, so that a client computer that plugs into that socket is dumb to the vlans' existance. IE em0 - untagged em1 - vlan 1 em2 -

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Rees
Your PATH isn't set. # fsck / # mount -uw / # /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Or (can't remember where des is kept) # fsck /usr # mount /usr # /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Good luck! Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Your PATH isn't set. # fsck / # mount -uw / # /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf Or (can't remember where des is kept) # fsck /usr # mount /usr # /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf For someone who

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread b. f.
dave wrote: ... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver=fire (or whatever it is) I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:01:10AM -, Dave wrote: Hi... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver=fire (or whatever it is) I put a ;

do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread S Mathias
http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 # Set up SSL protection on your website. is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? thank you happy Christmas! :) ___

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Dave
On 22 Dec 2010 at 11:41, b. f. wrote: dave wrote: ... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver=fire (or whatever it is) I put a ; at the

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread c0re
2010/12/22 S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 # Set up SSL protection on your website. is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? thank you happy Christmas! :)

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Laszlo Nagy
On 2010-12-22 07:53, S Mathias wrote: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 # Set up SSL protection on your website. is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? Obviously, you cannot have a website without an IP address.

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 07:53:11 S Mathias wrote: is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? It's only necessary if you want to use name based virtual hosts with a different SSL certificate for each virtual host. This

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! Bit of an oversight that I suspect Fixed in r216651 :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

FreeBSD crashes

2010-12-22 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! A while back I wrote about some problems I was having with FreeBSD crashing randomly. I then disappeared for a while, due to a variety of issues, but I'm still having problems. The computer in question is a general-purpose server -- it runs listservs, websites, databases (both MySQL and

Re: Port based VLAN

2010-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/12/2010 11:15, Indexer wrote: Hi, I plan to make a FreeBSD based router sometime soon. I would like to be able to do port based vlanning on the router, so that a client computer that plugs into that socket is dumb to the vlans' existance. IE em0 - untagged em1 - vlan 1 em2 -

DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Mohammad Hedayati
Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0330, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? bdes(1)? % ls -al zzz % bdes zzz zzz.des Enter key: % -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University

Re: DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/12/2010 14:20, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? To encrypt, something like: openssl enc -e -des -in plaintext.txt -a -out encrypted.asc Decrypt like so: openssl enc -d -dex -in encrypted.asc -a -out plaintext.txt

Re: DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Mohammad Hedayati
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0330, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? bdes(1)? % ls -al zzz % bdes zzz zzz.des Enter key: % --

Re: DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 12/22/2010 9:35 AM, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0330, Mohammad Hedayati wrote: Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? bdes(1)? % ls -al

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! Bit of an oversight that I suspect Fixed in r216651 :) IIRC ';' isn't a

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:49:46 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net articulated: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove

Re: Port based VLAN

2010-12-22 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 22/12/2010 11:15, Indexer wrote: Hi, I plan to make a FreeBSD based router sometime soon. I would like to be able to do port based vlanning on the router, so that a client computer that plugs into

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 22 05:01:28 2010 From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Subject: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release Hi... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found

Re: DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 22 08:22:15 2010 From: Mohammad Hedayati hedayati...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:50:19 +0330 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DES Cipher Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD? I hate

Re: DES Cipher

2010-12-22 Thread Mohammad Hedayati
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Dec 22 08:22:15 2010 From: Mohammad Hedayati hedayati...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:50:19 +0330 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DES Cipher Can

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:54:02 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk Also. What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver? # vidcontrol -t off see 'man splash' Also see /etc/defaults/rc.conf which states:

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:49:46 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Jason Helfman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! Bit of an

9 TB single device and zfs

2010-12-22 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, Is it suggested to create a zfs on a single 9 TB volume? There is hardware raid and I am thinking to enable write-back cache on that hw based raid card. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:45, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: IMHO... It seems that /etc/rc.conf is in need of a sytax check script. Something similiar to visudo for editing /usr/local/etc/sudoers. Just run it with /bin/sh. If no errors appear the syntax is good. Or you can use /bin/sh

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com writes: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Sysinstall alows you to select and enable

Re: 9 TB single device and zfs

2010-12-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Omer Faruk SEN omerf...@gmail.com wrote: Is it suggested to create a zfs on a single 9 TB volume? Depends on your need. You really haven't provided enough info to give advice ie how many disks do you have, what storage capacity do you need, performance etc.

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Well, rc.conf isn't supposed to have anything but variable settings, so for syntax alone, /bin/sh /etc/rc.conf is a perfectly fine test. If you want to check semantics as well, things get

RE: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Michael J. Kearney
No, I've done that before I could get what's called a pointer record or reverse DNS for my mail server ... Register a domain and setup the DNS server. If the ip is dynamic you have to regularly update your DNS server. The forward zones will work. If you use openssl to generate your own ssl

Re: Strange error

2010-12-22 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Sunday 19 December 2010 12:57:39 pm Jack Raats wrote: I have a strange error. Normally when you compile the complete system, the first line of /etc/motd is being adjusted telling you the time and version you just compiled. On one server this is not being done. What is the problem. Which

Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

2010-12-22 Thread Mike Clarke
I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the release notes

what's wrong?

2010-12-22 Thread Neil Short
Hopefully this will work. I attached a text file of my dmesg. After boot, I start getting ACPI errors. Here's an excerpt. Root mount waiting for: usbus1 ugen1.3: vendor 0x090c at usbus1 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a wlan0: Ethernet address: c4:17:fe:24:04:eb wlan0: link state

Re: A jail with a dash in its name

2010-12-22 Thread Leon Meßner
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:31:42PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Of course, there's no problem with using the form 'forest-friend' on the RHS of any assignments, so long as it's properly quoted, of

Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

2010-12-22 Thread Jason C. Wells
Here is my file system scheme for a newly created jail as viewed from the host: /usr/jail/template on /usr/jail/f1 (nullfs, local, read-only) /usr/jail/f1-fs/etc on /usr/jail/f1/etc (nullfs, local) /usr/jail/f1-fs/tmp on /usr/jail/f1/tmp (nullfs, local) /usr/jail/f1-fs/var on /usr/jail/f1/var

Re: Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

2010-12-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: I like the idea of using a template for multiple jails that I plan to use later. I like the ide of mounting the template read only. I had to splice in the other nullfs filesystems so that things that need to be

Re: Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

2010-12-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: Here is my file system scheme for a newly created jail as viewed from the host: /usr/jail/template on /usr/jail/f1 (nullfs, local, read-only) /usr/jail/f1-fs/etc on /usr/jail/f1/etc (nullfs, local) /usr/jail/f1-fs/tmp on /usr/jail/f1/tmp

Re: Nullfs Allows Jailbreaking

2010-12-22 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 12/22/10 19:00, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have been doing this for years with great success. I don't understand your question. How does it look like everything is read only from inside the jail? The fact that a df only shows the root filesystem and not all your others file

Laptop with external monitor, how to make it work

2010-12-22 Thread Leslie Jensen
I'm looking for a description on how to make the switching between monitors work. In my case it's the key combination Fn + F8 on a Dell Latitude E6500. Any help appreciated :-) Thanks /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list