Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com, 2011-09-17 14:33 (+0200): You really like to wait for hours before fsck will finish checking for your volume? While it's true that fsck on large filesystems takes ages soft updates and background fsck makes it a lot less bothersome than it used to be. --

Re: Can't Download FreeBSD

2011-09-19 Thread alphachi
Or you can try BT: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

LVS/DR load balancing via FreeBSD

2011-09-19 Thread Alexandr Matveev
Hi, We have two Linux servers doing LVS/DR load balancing (rewriting MAC addresses). Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD, so there won't be need for a Linux servers here? ( http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-DRouting.html ) There is a port net/ipvs but it's an old and (seemingly)

Re: LVS/DR load balancing via FreeBSD

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/09/2011 11:44, Alexandr Matveev wrote: We have two Linux servers doing LVS/DR load balancing (rewriting MAC addresses). Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD, so there won't be need for a Linux servers here? ( http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-DRouting.html ) There is a port

Re: 9.0 beta2 the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/19/11 02:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6727@bellsouth.net wrote: Some more ideas on the new bsdinstaller cross my mind. Since the way the bsdinstaller would make partitions is unpredictable, at least

OpenLDAP + CARP

2011-09-19 Thread Rafael NAVAZA
Hi guys, Is there a way to setup an OpenLDAP HA cluster (intersite multimaster) with CARP on FreeBSD ? Rafael. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Passing additional options to jail(8) via rc.conf

2011-09-19 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hello, let's say I want to pass additional options like ip4=inherit to my jails configured via /etc/rc.conf. How do I get this to work? Apparently, setting jail_www_flags=-l -U root ip4=inherit is the wrong order, because these parameters are expected after -c, which is apparently inserted by the

location of bsdinstall welcome dialog screen source

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
When installing 9.0 from cd or dvd the first screen bsdinstall shows is the bsdinstall welcome screen. I can not locate the source for this. Its not in /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/ Can someone please point it out? Thanks ___

Re: Segmentation fault, _malloc_prefork () - debugging help needed

2011-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 18), Unga said: I'm developing an multi-threaded application on FreeBSD. When it is running for sometime, it develops a Segmentation fault. The ddd debugger shows following: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 296c6580 (LWP

Enlightenment tips and tricks

2011-09-19 Thread Open Slate
After using Gnome for awhile I am giving Enlightenment a try. Loved it many years ago but it consumed a lot of resources, the current version does not appear to have that limitation. What other ports do Enlightenment fans recommend to extend its functionality? I have the gimp, Abi Word, Lyx, and

Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Hi, I'm running RELENG_8_2 and I've been using packages instead of ports for most things, because they're so much quicker. But certain packages aren't compiled the way I need them to be-- postfix had no TLS or SASL support, for example, so I built it from the port. However, that is

limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread James Strother
Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a single IP address? I found the following website, which describes a variety of approaches: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Block_repeated_illegal_or_failed_SSH_logins But I am honestly not really happy with any of

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Again if your goal is to protect against attacks, you might want to look at sshguard from the ports. Otherwise I believe there's a sshd_config directive to limit the number of concurrent connections from a single source IP On 19 Sep 2011, at 22:02, James Strother jstrother9...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Macdonald
2011/9/19 Григорьев Александр mr.fes...@yandex.ru: If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? 19.09.2011, 23:05, James Strotherjstrother9...@gmail.com: Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I'd like to say it doesn't matter, but ... If you are using packages from the

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Григорьев Александр
Standard inetd(8) has many options including limiting connections based on IP-address. Can it help in this case? 20.09.2011, 00:02, James Strother jstrother9...@gmail.com: That's an interesting project, I hadn't realized port knocking had become so easy to use. Unfortunately, for this

RE: System locking up.

2011-09-19 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Staal Sent: 18 September 2011 22:59 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: System locking up. --As of September 18, 2011 2:29:20 PM +0100, Graeme

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread James Strother
Wow, I'm glad I asked. This has been very helpful. @Григорьев Александр Thanks for the tip on inetd, that looks like it might just do the trick. @Paul Macdonald My main reason for looking into this was glancing through the logs on a server I just put online and seeing large numbers of

Re: location of bsdinstall welcome dialog screen source

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
Michel Talon wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: When installing 9.0 from cd or dvd the first screen bsdinstall shows is the bsdinstall welcome screen. I can not locate the source for this. Its not in /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/ Can someone please point it out?

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 9/19/2011 2:05 PM, James Strother wrote: Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a single IP address? I found the following website, which describes a variety of approaches: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Block_repeated_illegal_or_failed_SSH_logins

RE: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
Moving ssh to another port has solved the problem for me. I had used sshguard in the past, but was always leery of locking myself out. Regards, Matt Emmerton -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of James

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread suxor
Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a single IP address? I found the following website, which describes a variety of approaches: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Block_repeated_illegal_or_failed_SSH_logins But I am honestly not really happy

Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
Now I must point out that I tested hitting the cancel button in the kbdmap command. It worked in that no keymap= statement was inserted into /etc/rc.conf but it must also make some other changes some where else in the system because if you do select an entry from the kbdmap database and them

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Григорьев == Григорьев Александр mr.fes...@yandex.ru writes: Григорьев If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords Григорьев from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? Portknocking adds only a dozen bits or so to your password. Do you really think it helps to go from a

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Paul == Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com writes: Paul in my experience running ssh on a high port cuts the amount of unwanted ssh Paul connections to approximately zero, in fact i got a surprise when seeing a sec Paul log from a box which i hadn't done this for I run sshd on 443 (for

Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
I continued to research this problem and found the cause. The content of 9.0 /etc/ttys has changed, (IE; cons25 is now xtern). I have some changes in ttys on 8.2 and I just copied that file over to 9.0 without looking at the content. The block of 9 keys above the arrow keys now work

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Григорьев == Григорьев Александр mr.fes...@yandex.ru writes: Григорьев If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords Григорьев from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? Portknocking adds only a dozen

Re: Cannot remove filesystem ACLs

2011-09-19 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: I don't understand why I cannot completely remove the ACLs from a directory. Please look: [dd] Why are the + sign and the mask entry still there? How do I get rid of them completely? It may seem a bit radical but it does the job: find /some/dir | xargs rmextattr

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Sep 19 19:12:32 2011 From: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:12:14 -0700 Cc: James Strother jstrother9...@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limit number of

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-19 Thread Victor Sudakov
RW wrote: You can use videolan / vlc. It allows you to multicast video too. In September 2011 BSD Magazine you have some examples about that. I like vlc on Linux/Windows machines. But installing it to a streaming server is a pain. Even if you disable all options in make config, it

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I noticed only recently that there are

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. Doh, I just read the handbook.

Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I've installed Firefox36 from ports, it installed without a problem but it does not launch. In other words, there's no firefox file on my system. Had it installed before and working, then to clean out the system with unnecessary ports, I removed all ports and reinstalled only what is