Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:17:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:55PM

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
return - is a 300MHz Compaq Armada 1500C (mfg '98), but using the older APM BIOS rather than ACPI. (It's still running, 24/7/365 since 2002 :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-28 Thread Ian Smith
(s). cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: Potential Vulnerabilities list on US Cert

2013-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
:) Anyone running a FreeBSD system with possibly untrusted local users running multicast (in the case of CVE-2013-3077) or running servers using SCTP (in the case of CVE-2013-5209) would naturally have read these and have applied updates before the CERT advisories appeared. cheers, Ian

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
: 2:36 Present rate: 17313 mW Present voltage:12236 mV Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

2013-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
/to/GENERIC /path/to/YOURKERNEL More ideal for custom kernel configs - for just these occasions - is: include GENERIC ident YOURKERNEL # custom {no,}device and {no,}options statements cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
to manage MBR disks. I'd love to be proven wrong .. And credit to you, Devin, for developing bsdconfig to replace most of sysinstall's other post-installation functions. I'll have a play with that when I upgrade my 9.1 to 9.2 fairly soon. cheers, Ian

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
. Speaking of which, given that you're all safely backed up, nothing can go wrong, right? :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
but true. :-( I hope noone's losing too much sleep, after ~20 uneventful years :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:00:44 -0400, Stephen Cook wrote: On 4/1/2013 5:23 AM, Ian Smith wrote: Actually, I forwarded a message that Joe fb...@a1poweruser.com posted to -jail and -ports. Proper attribution is what this issue's all about. It's been pointed out to me privately that cross-posting

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Posted so people following -questions can gather what Joe Barbish is fishing for in the present thread regarding copyright and licensing. cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:26:16 -0400 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: Dirk Engling erdge

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:21:29 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:53:30 +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: [.. also chopping mercilessly ..] # Copyright 2010, Qjail project. All rights reserved

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
Joe, your mailer dropped -questions from the ccs on your response. Fixed, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:12:18 -0400 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: freebsd-j...@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au, Dirk Engling erdge...@erdgeist.org

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
if there's any disconnect between developers and documenters .. witness the Handbook firewalls section, by Joe Barbish. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html (7.2.1.2 Firefox and Adobe Flash Plugin) - no problem In fact, no problems at all! I can't recommend it enough. Anton Suspend and resume? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
to be the bunny! Sounds like a very nice machine otherwise :) cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Smith
$poor_innocent. Not a good look. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: FreeBSD and snd_hdspe last-ditch attempt

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
offer anything more concrete, and good luck. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
it, and will do the same for X when I get 9.1 also going on my 'big' 768MB RAM ThinkPad. For those with the horsepower, sure, build X, KDE/GNOME, OpenOffice etc. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-24 Thread Ian Smith
than using: cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 [..] cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 [..] done [..] done you can use: while read LINE1 [..] while read LINE2 [..] done bar.txt [..] done foo.txt cheers, Ian

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
and ogain were about. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
very fast and light, too, for recording or playback. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Reprieve [was: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... (fwd)]

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Smith
. Probably worth mentioning that this only ever affected RELENG_9_1, ie 9.1 BETAs and RCs, not RELENG_9 (ie 9-STABLE) sources. Thanks Bjoern! cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:20:23 + (UTC) From: Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net To: FreeBSD

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
desktop bottons to run whatever scripts you might need to start/stop/whatever with user ppp(8), but I've never bothered since mpd does a fine job of fulltime PPPoE, and gkrellm keeps and displays good enough traffic stats by day/week/month. cheers, Ian

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
. You? I'm still running an older Xorg here, so had no idea about any default 10 minute blanktime. I'll remember that .. [..] cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
saver modules crash without proper hardware support. If you're running a screensaver try disabling it and just using display blanking. I'm not running a screensaver, just blanking the screen. Yes but how, where, using what software? It's still the main suspect .. cheers, Ian

Re: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0

2012-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
from: # egrep 'ifconfig|firewall|natd|gateway|ntpd' /etc/rc.conf # cat /etc/natd.conf # ipfw show # netstat -finet -rn cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
code. Present circumstances don't permit me to work on this further, but I do think it could be a worthwhile and not so hard project for 'someone' :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re[2]: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:13:47 +0300, Eugen Konkov wrote: , Ian. ?? ?? 23 2012 ?., 8:27:50: IS In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 IS On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: IS Hi Eugen, I use ipfw

Re: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
ng0 setup Myself, I'd be more interested in a last-match timestamp than a count for table entries, but that won't happen either for the above reasons :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. Thanks. Next time I blow

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 422, Issue 10, Message: 29 On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 07:41:59 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:36:36 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: I thought I saw something somewhere (maybe just wishful thinking) about FreeBSD on the Arduino, which normally runs a sort of embedded Linux, that could be very interesting

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-22 Thread Ian Smith
MEGA 32-bit and MIPS platforms at least. Personally I consider these 'big iron' and far prefer writing in macro assembler for little Atmel Tiny25s and such, but that's strictly Look Ma, no OS! programming. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: hwpstate0 set frequency err 6

2012-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
@ subject: [stable 9] broken hwpstate calls that may or may not have yet resulted in a patch you could try. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-May/thread.html Thread continues in June, as a perhaps more general p-state discussion. Thanks Lynn Steven Killingsworth cheers, Ian

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
of environment, none of the punters had any clue about forging MACs or anything vaguely like that, and it stopped people randomly plugging boxes into the network. Horses for courses. I replied in more detail to another from Bill privately, copy follows. cheers, Ian

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
love it! Ian ___ 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

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
ruleset. HTH, Ian [please cc me on any reply] ___ 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

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
opening more than 9 connections, or fwd IP,PORT2 tcp from any to me dst-port PORT1 limit dst-port 42 to limit total open connections by everyone to dst-port PORT1 to 42. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
, not just one list such as questions@ . Yes, in this case I think you should, after exploring the options Matthew outlined. Be sure to show complete headers of any and all messages you need to forward to postmaster@. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)

2012-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
Jos, did you not get my response to your original query over a week ago? I see it made the list archives. Anyway this second time around, Robert Bonomi wins gold for the best guess, with even fewer clues to go on :-) cheers, Ian (who probably said too much, but doesn't resile

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
to any t23# ipfw -q add 137 deny all from 180.0.0.0/8 to any t23# ipfw show 137 001370 0 deny ip from 180.0.0.0/8 to any So what doesn't work? (apart from scattergun removal of small pieces of a whole lot of Asian countries, incl. Japan, Indonesia, Australia, .. :) cheers, Ian

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:30:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 21/05/2012 14:50, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonaldp...@ifdnrg.com wrote: can anyone suggest what i'm doing wrong here

Re: problems with networking and route command

2012-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
: # Allow outbound pings from our net ${fwcmd} add pass icmp from any to any out icmptypes 8 keep-state # Allow essential ICMP: unreachable, source quench, TTL exceeded ${fwcmd} add pass icmp from any to any icmptypes 3,4,11 ${fwcmd} add deny icmp from any to any # or default deny all later cheers, Ian

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
message? On my other FreeBSD server the same cronjob goes ok... Check /etc/crontab and /etc/newsyslog.conf on both, and make sure you're not also trying to run a user crontab for root, apart from /etc/crontab? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
(probably in n...@freebsd.org), but I've no time for hunting tonight. Anyone? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Ian Smith
): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host ^C What sayeth 'netstat -finet -rn' ? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/01/12 20:01, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: Every once in a while the nightly periodic security checks tell me

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
/var/log/messages kern.=info /var/log/kerninfo.log # touch /var/log/kerninfo.log # service syslogd restart cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Postfix + Courier IMAP local email problems

2012-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
# hostname boofar t23# csh boofar# exit exit t23# hostname boofar t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

2012-04-12 Thread Ian Lord
is a clean install of 9.0-RELEASE that I installed about 2-3 months ago. I never changed the permission myself on that file so I guess there is something wrong that would need to be fixed (unless it's already fixed in newer versions). Thanks again ~~ Ian Lord MSD

Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Lord
to change permissions to make it work Any help would be appreciated. Regards ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Québec) J5K 0E2 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
sleep 60 t23# jobs -l t23# cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
topics for which lists, without having to subscribe, is to browse a list's archives for several months. Works for me. In this case try: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/ cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: IPFW transparent VS dummynet rules

2012-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
- wise, after an action, the packet is reinjected into the firewall at the next rule. It seems that you may have one_pass set to 1. Set to 0, packets will continue through the ruleset on exit from pipe/s, so to your fwd rule. cheers, Ian

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10, Message: 25 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:53 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: SNIP For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' But isn't that handled by setting

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
} icmptypes 8 $fwadd deny log icmp from any to any in recv ${ext_if} $fwadd pass icmp from any to any# outbound, and inside cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
c232581 h16 s63 p 1 0x0b 63 8385867 p 2 0xa5 8385930 125821080 p 3 0xa5 134207010 33543342 p 4 0xa5 167750730 66685815 a 4 cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread Ian Smith
, Ian ___ 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

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Smith
links - to stash dirs and files on msdosfs, but format flash disks - or at least one or more slices on them - as UFS for real backup purposes. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
race to be 'top dog'. Woof, Ian ___ 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

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Does anybody successfully use the ipfw fwd? If so in which FreeBSD version? Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks correct.  Do you have a TCP service running on localhost

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 14 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 7/4/11, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Subject: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument To:

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Smith
I=804237 OWNER=smithi MODE=100640 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jun 29 20:29 2011 CLEAR? no ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 401132 files, 8584016 used, 3155190 free (88926 frags, 383283 blocks, 0.8% fragmentation) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
or ipfw nat, rather than the poor Handbook examples. Depending on what protocol port 12345 is, you may be better off using static rather than dynamic rules to handle it .. another area where that Handbook section is inappropriately deprecatory; rc.firewall uses both. HTH, Ian (but if not, try

Please i wait to hear from you, its very important

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to assume the new recipient of a Fixed

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
. Best left as an exercise for the (morbidly curious) student :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Please i wait to hear from you its very important

2011-05-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate by accepting to stand as the legal recipient

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-23 Thread Ian Smith
out, without intent or knowledge of their poor blighted owners .. and they're a smarter crew! cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Smith
implying that these students are using the University's web mail for possible illegal actions and no one is policing that action? Ah Jerry, good to see you end your admonition with a little humour! cheers, ian He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases -- Lewis Carroll

Re: ipdivert.ko

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Smith
issue, write to me privately and I'll put you onto some patches - but unless you're also (or instead) using kernel NAT (ipfirewall_nat - which needs to load libalias.ko) then the above settings should do you. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
=== the dhcpd.conf is quite standard and does not say anything about the interfaces, that info is in rc.conf above === /var/log/messages extract dhcpd: bridge0: not found Yes; at that time your bridge hadn't been created, ie it had no members. cheers, Ian

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-20 Thread Ian Smith
'', but echo | { B=2; echo $B; } or (equivalent within a pipeline) echo | ( B=2; echo $B; ) writes '2'. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Smith
of those, especially those that do write to the kernel message buffer .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
why they or their robot might have taken offense. At least at lists.freebsd.org only something pretty extreme may provoke our esteemed postmaster into removing a message, and there's less obfuscation there of email addresses (like parklogic.com) .. for better or worse. cheers, Ian

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Oh look, one just like yours, but with an acceptable browser string .. so it got the homepage, attempted proxying request being just ignored. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
lots of it wholesale (acknowledged :) cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
many years, hard to go past Geoff Huston's: http://www.potaroo.net - blog http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2010-10/when.html - explanatory column Oct '10 http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html - the modelling as of today cheers, Ian (Sorry, missed the cc to hackers@, adding questions@ back

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is likely because something has them open for writing, and the system won't let you remove such files, naturally enough. Really

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [..] Last I knew having a file open, even for writing, was no protection against its last link being removed. The _inode_ won't go away until the last handle is closed, but the _directory entry_

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
prove more useful longterm. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: Which php??

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
then install the package and replace the module IF php was otherwise built with the same options, but the only way to get the module is build it. In the almost singular case of php, I'd stick with building the port(s). cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_way_tt_fdisk_8_tt_and_tt_bsdlabel_8_tt) and +5 for Ian and his incredible patience. Hodgepodging Warren's and Bruce's pages together got me a working base. Laptop is now installed w/o the assistance of a boot cd or the usb hard-drive

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed on 8.2 (Bruce

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you used 'W' to write anyway

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
economical way to do such as: % cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot % ?, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
in these? I haven't time to hunt now, but recall a swathe of messages to -stable a couple of years ago about SATA problems that were entirely solved by replacing cables. [..] On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On /dev/ad4, oseek=0 zeroes sector 0, the MBR

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
or such, but this sure sounds like the next thing Chris should try. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it? Argh .. that should be seek=N, not skip. Up way too late .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: [..] The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned, specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the boot

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you partitioned

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
in sysinstall for 8.2? cheers, Ian (please cc me on any reply; I take -questions as a digest) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: what process is sending this packet?

2010-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
Luigi's linux port of ipfw + dummynet sometime, but have yet to hear of ipchains - let alone (ugh!) tc - on FreeBSD :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
and/or imprecise description. Try eg: nooptions NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER, NFSLOCKD, NFS_ROOT with no space[s] before comma[s], as is generally conventional. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:29:47 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Arguably unforgiving parsing and/or imprecise description. Try eg: nooptions NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER, NFSLOCKD, NFS_ROOT with no space[s] before comma[s

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