On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote:
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted
program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no
guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents
On 11 May 2011 08:37, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote:
Hello.
Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers
which might be outdated (at least I hope so).
What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3?
I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd
On 13 May 2011 08:32, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote:
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted
program set-uid, because the filename is opened
On 05/13/2011 00:32, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote:
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted
program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no
guarantee
On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote:
what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you
shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested method.
That I freely admit is for no rational reason. It's just annoying. But
let me ask you.. is sudo ping acceptable? Please
On 13 May 2011 11:07, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote:
On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote:
what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you shed
any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested method.
That I freely admit is for no rational reason.
cronfy cro...@gmail.com writes:
I have a server that freezes under high load sometimes. It is on
FreeBSD 7.3. It does not respond neither by network nor to keyboard.
In the same time I can hit Ctrl-Alt-ESC and go to debugger - it works.
What can I try to do in DDB to find out the reason of
Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org writes:
On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote:
what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you
shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested
method.
That I freely admit is for no rational reason. It's just annoying.
Hi All,
If I install FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT, I will be able to upgrade to
FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE (once available) via the freebsd-update utility, right?
That's what I'm getting from the following link:
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/upgrade.html
BTW, does anyone know of any major
On May 13, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Mike Seda wrote:
If I install FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT, I will be able to upgrade to
FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE (once available) via the freebsd-update utility, right?
There isn't a supported RELENG_9 branch, yet.
Once it exists, it is likely that you could use
On 13/05/2011 05:29, Dale Scott wrote:
D It's pretty general question, but is it typically standard procedure for
D a utility building using the GNU tool chain to be able to install itself
D into /usr/local/bin?
On Fri, 13 May 2011 06:39:30 +0100,
Matthew Seaman
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my new laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad X220), and
it dies in the middle of the boot, using either the memstick image or the
DVD image. (That's all I've tried so far.) I'm using the 8.2 images.
The last two lines it shows are:
atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042)
C
On Friday, 13 May 2011, Pan Tsu iny...@gmail.com wrote:
Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org writes:
On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote:
what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you
shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested
method.
That I
All,
Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can
leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server.
What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the
moment? Should I just install FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE and then apply the
On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote:
Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage
ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server.
What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment?
By definition, HEAD
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mike Seda mas...@stanford.edu wrote:
All,
Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can
leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server.
What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the
On 05/13/2011 02:20 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote:
Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage
ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server.
What is the best (most stable) way to get this
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear folks,
I have recently successfully updated an amd 64 bit machine from 8.1 to
8.2 release and reinstalled most of the previously installed ports.
Now, I tried to use my usb disk and it is not automounting :(
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Antonio Olivares
olivares14...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear folks,
I am trying out several things and reading and I have found several sites:
http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors
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