On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 10/14/2013 6:16 PM, CeDeROM wrote:
Isn't there Journal to prevent and reverse such damage?
Unlike other journaling filesystems, UFS+J only protects the metadata, not
the data itself - i.e. I think it ensures you won't have to run a manual
fsck,
of
the device inside your firm of GPL code without violating the GPL. This
is often forgotten in discussion, and leads to unnecessary worry.
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with data, so it provides only
partial protection against double failures.
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to improved security, if it leads to programs and daemons that
would otherwise run as nobody having to run with root priviledges.
daniel feenberg
I understand that launching a chmod 700 /root it's a matter of
something between 1 and 3 seconds. I do also understand that I had /root
closed for long
there
there is an NFS shutdown procedure that we should be using?
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On Fri, 3 May 2013, Graham Allan wrote:
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
2013-05-03 12:49, Daniel Feenberg skrev:
When we change the exportfs file on our FreeBSD 9.1 fileserver:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`
That seems a bit harsh, try /etc/rc.d
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not
change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel
expense is a hardship for them.
Can you filter outgoing mail with Spamassassin? How about refusing to
relay mail from addresses in a good DNSBL? Do you rate-limit outgoing
mail? Can you just refuse to relay mail from other continents, using
a geolocation service?
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, port negotiation, etc) but I am
confident that none are set in the factory default configuration. (Stick a
pin in the hole while power cycling).
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the entry in the dhcpd.conf file and
restarted dhcpd that the client would be assigned (and use) a new address
the next time it tried to renew (which is typically when half the lease
has been used up).
My view tends to be confirmed here -
http://www.cites.illinois.edu/ipam/leases.html
daniel
is incorrect.
The lack of a domain should not be a problem.
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of the server is? Mission-critical or low cost?
Those two tends to be mutually exclusive...
Surely the presence of SATA drives shows that low cost is essential.
Mirroring and ZFS provide very important advantages. HW raid seems to fill
a much needed gap (apologies to Brian Kernigan).
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client
and see if the kernel is available to it. I suspect the kernel isn't
world-readable and executable. It may also be that tftpd isn't available
beyond localhost - did you edit hosts.allow?
See http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html for our
experiences with diskless boot.
daniel
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
In the last paragraph of our description of PXE booting FreeBSD:
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote:
I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing
services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server
services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At
the time VPS looked like too many
on
vendors, and it can not become widely used if it starts insisting
on standards prematurely.
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:29 -0500, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:43:06 +0100
Polytropon articulated:
Allow me
over the existing windows install. It will
work fine and won't cost you anything.
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Cos wrote:
Hi all
The background is I have around 100pcs router-like products. they all
have a fixed IP address 192.168.1.100 and of course different MAC
address.
I need to connect them one by one to configure.
The trouble is while I disconnect one unit and change to
FreeBSD
based mailserver, but the viruses it looks for are Windows viruses. I
don't know if that will satisfy your IT policy. Maybe you should be
looking at Cygwin? Or, can FreeBSD run under HyperV?
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of dismissal. I don't want to lose my job, because you said I didn't need
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:15:17 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar articulated:
1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing
higher than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically=
destroyed before leving the secure area.
no. for
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 09/07/2012 04:22, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
UFS: /dev/ad10s3f (/usr)
Automatic file system check failed, help!
error aborting boo (sending sigtem to parent)!
init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode.
enter full
, and
the flashing light is an indication that power is still required to
complete the write to non-volitile memory?
Futhermore, are we sure that umount even waits for a sync? There is no
mention of that in the man page and I don't recall any long waits for
umount to return.
daniel feenberg
dates in the filesystem itself isn't
feasible.
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote:
I thought this URL http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html also shown
above, answered that question.
Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a good
idea to me. However, instant reaction is
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key
have to keep it secret?
Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ?
A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof.
Otherwise one of us would purchase a
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
On 6/6/12 6:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing
key
have to keep it secret?
Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ?
A limited
the way down to the userland binaries, then
users of FreeBSD will have to turn off secure boot in CMOS, and it will
lose a few users. But I can't tell from the discussions mentioned above.
Either way, I don't think it will destroy FreeBSD, or Linux, but I would
be interested anyway.
Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT)
Daniel Feenberg articulated:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel
binaries
http
http://www.osnews.com/story/22423/Should_ZFS_Have_a_fsck_Tool_
The link to the emotional posting by Jeff Bomwick is broken, but the
original is available at:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-October/022324.html
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, but is $35. It supports
PXE booting, which we do a lot.
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, but you can download an ISO also. iXSystems have
TrueNAS, which is costly. My understanding is that FreeNAS is a subset of
TrueNAS. See:
http://www.ixsystems.com/storage/ix/truenas/
for more information.
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need to be
established during setup, and I regret that no installer (for FreeBSD or
Linux) notices that I have two empty drives, and defaults to a RAID 1.
Daniel Feenberg
Last but not least I find your calling the new installer a pos highly
disrespectful towards the people that invested time
in FreeBSD form?
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote:
On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote:
On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000
Da Rock articulated:
On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote:
Don't ndis(4) ndiscvt and ndisgen(8
for FreeBSD or Ubuntu. Does anyone have that working?
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=html
The source html on that page for what appears in your browser as
ssuuddoo is:
bs/bbsu/bbud/bbdo/bbo/b
which is weird enough that I wouldn't blame the browser for the odd
appearance.
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think it a good candidate for special casing as non-mounted.
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or may not emerge.
I haven't tried it, as we have been able to make CUPS work (barely), but I
am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed. Other than Windows-specific
printers, FreeBSD printing problems are home-grown, and not caused by
vendor misbehavior.
Daniel Feenberg
, only the number of bits
in the key.
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote:
I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job
for which gets executed on their user account. For some
of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a
month. It should happen at logout time.
The intended mechanism to do so is ~/.logout,
haven't tested the mouse in FreeBSD. Since any USB KVM would be fairly
recent, you might just want to take a chance.
Solaris Sparc systems had worse problems.
Daniel Feenberg
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Carmel wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:28:42 -0400 (EDT)
Daniel Feenberg articulated:
The problem I have heard of relates to what happens if the machine
boots with the KVM switched to another machine? The KVM may need to
pretend there is a keyboard connected at that point
.
The problem with using country lists for blocking is that individual
sources can't get off them by behaving better. With no incentive to
improve behavior, they are likely to continue the bad behavior forever,
and the entire country is likely to remain tolerant of bad behavior.
Daniel Feenberg
obsolete.
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and Linux.
While it is inferior to open source drivers, it would attract users, and
with users manufacturers would feel pressure to have better support, which
would best be achieved with open-source drivers.
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that we use on a (non-FreeBSD) server that hangs from time to time. WOL
also works.
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can
do everything you might need through the OS interface. Can I ask what is
the brand of this so-called LOM? Is there any documentation implying
something more useful? Do they describe doing a bare metal install of an
OS?
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
...
There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I
can't tell if their JBOD mode is a true pass-through, or leaves some
undesirable junk on the disk.
So does
controller? We aren't looking for anything fancy at this point.
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].freebsd.org and ftp10.us.freebsd.org. We have no firewall or
proxy regulating outbound connections.
Is there something off about the sysinstall ftp dialog? I don't see a way
to monitor what is happening.
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote:
I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both
7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds
for a few seconds
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:37:14 -0700
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com articulated:
On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find
are suitable for building various types of network switches. Do
-bridges/index.html
It isn't something I have any experience with, though.
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-server 66.251.72.4;
filename pxeboot;
option root-path 66.251.72.44:/vol/vol1b/FreeBSD-7.2-root;
Where would the boot loader options go? Are they a numbered option? Which
one?
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Rudolf Cejka wrote:
Daniel Feenberg wrote (2009/04/24):
and from the motd message I can see that the server is using this
configuration file. The compress program has been copied to
/var/ftp/bin/compress so it should be available too.
\
From /usr/bin/compress? Are you
that there is something wrong with my
ftpd.conf entry, but have found no examples anywhere on the net to guide
me. There is supposed to be an example in /usr/share/examples/ but it
isn't there (PR 133468). I'd sure like to see it, if anyone has it
or another.
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pxeboot as
it has greatly simplified maintainance.
Any suggestions, pointers much appreciated.
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it
to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp
etc) are available when systems are restarting after
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
So, is there advice anywhere about speeding up the boot process? It
appears that most of the 1 minute 45 seconds to boot our system is wait
time for checking the existence of non-existant hardware and would not
be
appreciable
PROTECTED]/BACKUP 36659328 13238176 2342115236%/mnt
backup2# mount_smbfs -v
mount_smbfs: version 1.1.0
backup2# uname -a
FreeBSD backup2 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27
UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
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-only filesystems.
Thanks
Daniel Feenberg
feenberg isat nber dotte org
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-08-17 16:32, Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I notice on this list that Garance Drosehn
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?p06230924bf1c752ccf7f reports making
a snapshot of a 4 gigabyte filesystem in less than one second
.
This is with FreeBSD 5.4 Release #0 (right off the distribution disk, no
additional software).
Is there likely a problem with our setup, or should we give up on the plan
of nightly snapshots? Is this a product of Raid 5, 3ware, super-linearity
or to be expected?
Thanks
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