Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:31:41 -0500 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:49:18 + Matthew Seaman articulated: Unfortunately I can't answer that. I'm not in any position to decide such things. However I can hazard a guess at some of the possible reasons: * openssl API changes

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread RW
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:52:24 +0100 Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 2/28/12 2:14 PM, Stas Verberkt wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:21:35PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out.

Re: some problems to enable journaling

2012-02-20 Thread RW
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:47:08 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: #gjournal label -f -s 256M /dev/ad10s1e You aren't supposed to use -f and -s together: -fMay be used to convert an existing file system to use gjournal, but only if the journal will be configured on a

Re: ps output

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:28:29 + (UTC) jb wrote: Hi, It's fb9-release. Why the other ps entries do not display cron ? $ top ... PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 1897 root 1 200 9644K 1208K nanslp 0 0:03 0.00% cron ...

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 + Matthew Seaman wrote: Four possibilities, roughly in order of severity: 1) None of the security patches between p3 and p6 did actually touch the kernel. You can tell if this was the case by looking at the list of modified files in the

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: I don't know if it's the solution to your question but I asked the same a while back and the answer I got was that I had to recompile and install the kernel then you'll have p6 :-) The only thing you gain by that is that uname

Re: Question regarding SPF records

2012-02-18 Thread RW
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500 Jonathan Vomacka wrote: teamwarfare.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all I wouldn't need an include: or ptr statement in this right? I would told include: was to include OTHER

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200 Brent Clark wrote: I use Install from an FTP server The error message I get is Unable to transfer the sbase distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.; Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source. Get it with csup and be sure to set the

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpcre.so.0 not found, required by libxfsm-4.6.so.0 amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:08:54 -0600 Antonio Olivares wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick ryanrfreder...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as well: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html A

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-11 Thread RW
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:05:14 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: On Fri 2012-02-10 16:12:06 UTC+, Matthew Seaman (m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk) wrote: In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem of the argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use the

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 + Matthew Seaman wrote: ls -1 | xargs rm but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:11 -0500 Dean E. Weimer wrote: On 03.02.2012 21:36, RW wrote: Just in case you aren't aware, you don't necessarily need an eSATA card. You can get eSATA back-plates that plug into spare SATA connections on your motherboard

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread RW
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:56:05 -0500 Dean E. Weimer wrote: It's Looking like eSATA is going to be my pick, to be on the safe side, I could spend the $50 on a USB 3 card, and have it not work, or spend $50 on an eSATA card and another $40 for the drive doc, and cable. Just in case you aren't

Re: UFS+SU+J and still background fs check?

2012-01-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:17:16 +0100 (CET) Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, When booting my computer today I noticed the message at the end: starting background filesystem check in 60 seconds. This seems strange to me since SU+J is enabled on all filesystems. How is this possible? NB running

Re: Port upgrade change ownership of port installation directory and files

2012-01-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:24:08 +0100 Lubomir Matousek wrote: I changed apache default user from www to wbserv. I changed also file ownership from www to wbserv. Is there any way for portupgrade, that the ownership of installed port files remains the same? It means wbserv? If you take a

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500 David Jackson wrote: I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried: *portupgrade -PP -a *portmaster -PP -a *pkg_update All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread RW
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:01:29 -0500 Tim Kellers wrote: On 1/22/12 5:35 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, I'm attempting to install php5 from my ports tree. I've attempted the latest version ( 5.3.9 located in /usr/ports/lang/php5) and the 'latest stable' (5.2.17 located in

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 Da Rock wrote: I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD and ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to get away from gcc (which is tried and

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:06 + RW wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 Da Rock wrote: Even under GPL anything built using gcc can be licensed as you like, so I doubt it could be that. It is that. I don't know the details, but GPLv3 is sufficiently more viral that recent gcc

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Is it permissible to

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:44:04 +1000 Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 19:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: Thanks!!! It works fine with this: if header :contains [List-ID] freebsd-questions@freebsd.org { fileinto INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD.freebsd-questions;

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:17:40 -0500 Jerry wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:08:51 + RW articulated: The problem occurs when you don't get the in-list copy, either because the list doesn't send copies to addresses in Cc/To, or because some mail systems (gmail) treat the delayed in-list

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:21:51 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: The strange thing is that if I run this script manually /root/java_restart/java_restart.sh it works fine and does what it's supposed to do. The commonest reason for scripts that that work from a terminal failing under cron is that the

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:37:49 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: n terms of paths this is what I'm doing: I'm in a FreeBSD jail logged in by - #jexec jail tcsh which gets me in as root. Crontab is being run as root so paths should be the same no? PATH is set at the top of /etc/crontab

Re: Browser

2012-01-05 Thread RW
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:29:28 +0100 Polytropon wrote: Well, last time I tried to compile one of Firefox's recent versions from ports, it demanded to have access to X during the make stage. That was the point I decided _not_ to continue (as the system in question didn't have X). Maybe I did

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread RW
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:56:38 -0500 ill...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a few hours, lots of RAM, you'd like to stress- test your system: cd /usr/ports/www/chromium make install Unless things have changed radically that sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Until about 9 months ago I was

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:25 +0100 Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood paragraphs like individual-separated statements, that's why you did not fully understand my

Re: Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:13:24 -0800 (PST) UFS User wrote: Most of these were read-only mode, but some of them were left mounted 'rw' for years (with no swapping, of course).  The bottom line is, they never failed, and some were (and are) in the field for over 8 years now. So is this just

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:31:17 +0100 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:35 +, RW wrote: One strategy is to use csup to only update the port tree to release tags and so use successive release packages as you update the base system. You need to check portaudit for vulnerabilities

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 David Jackson wrote: I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do not prefer to build it all. it shouldnt be such a hassle If you want to use packages I would suggest

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:56:45 -0500 David Jackson wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 David Jackson wrote: I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many users do prefer to use packages

Re: Implementation details of altq hfsc scheduler in pf 4.5

2011-12-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:52:15 -0500 Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: It's about latency, realtime has priority over non-realtime. I sort of understand this, but I can't figure out how that would apply to my example: altq on $wan

Re: Implementation details of altq hfsc scheduler in pf 4.5

2011-12-13 Thread RW
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:51:39 -0500 Maxim Khitrov wrote: I've read everything I could find on the topic of configuring hfsc altq in pf (4.5, FreeBSD 9), but I still have no clear idea of how it is actually implemented. I even started looking through the source code, but that might take a

Re: Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:57:52 +0700 Dmitriy Kryuk wrote: I'm running Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/), а BitTorrent client on my FreeBSD 7.2 box. It requests large recieve buffers for its network connections. This leaves my system with absolutely no free memory. If some process

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:42:52 +1000 Da Rock wrote: On 12/11/11 10:23, RW wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000 Da Rock wrote: SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck. But fsck needs

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:53 + Frank Shute wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote: possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. And before I do- I looked up journaling on 9. I couldn't quite get to the bottom of whether it is or isn't available/standard, or

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000 Da Rock wrote: SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck. But fsck needs to be run manually- I have users that can't do that, and the filesystem corrupts. Ergo

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:06:29 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time it will nog be supported anymore? I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update 'sees' p3. Is this

Re: Weird stuff

2011-12-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:11:10 -0500 Greg Larkin wrote: Reading through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, the check permissions message is emitted when certain directories cannot be created. The actual error is: === Cannot create , check permissions Note the space before the comma. I suspect it's

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:29:40 +0800 Denise H. G. wrote: On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood correct there is also SU journaling file

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:33:21 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: Are there differences between .eli.journal or .journal.eli? AFAIK it only works one way round ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-14 Thread RW
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:57:28 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: hi Is it possible to create journaled FS which is crypted with geli? I can create crypted or journaled FS, but it is complicated to me to create both in time, can you help me clue? You have to encrypt first and then create the

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:06:00 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: catch idea, but some question: in this situation .eli.journal journal device will not be encrypted? can you describe how data flow will be? The journal is encrypted unless you choose to put it on a separate non-encrypted device. In

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:20:12 +1100 David Morton wrote: I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. A local magazine, Silicon Chip;

Re: Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl + C) while building a port or kernel?

2011-11-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:20:46 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Nov 3 12:10:08 2011 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7Uz84g68zF09M=?= rc5h...@yandex.ru To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:19 +0400 Subject: Is it safe to interrupt

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-11-01 Thread RW
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:28:18 +0100 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:08:42 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: My experience is exactly the opposite. The biggest problem I've had with ports came from trying to follow the recommended approach of updating the tree after installing,

Re: Configuring IPFW

2011-10-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:56:12 -0400 Carmel wrote: I am attempting to set up a firewall using IPFW with a stateful behavior. While I have investigated how to set up these rules, I have run into conflicting opinions as to whether to all or deny established behavior. EXAMPLE: (preceded by a

Re: [0.5 OT] Looking for recommendation on Unix shell account

2011-10-01 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:04:17 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: I looked briefly one night at SDF.org. http://sdf.org/?join For a contribution of, like, $1.00, you get full access, and I suspect that they're running FreeBSD (I haven't actually paid to see, but among the list of commands

Re: UFS journal size

2011-09-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:41:08 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/09/2011 10:48, Ross wrote: My question is: if I have 4 or 8 GB of RAM should I create 8 or even 16 GB journals?.. This seems huge especially if the fs size without journal is only 10 gigs. Or the recommended minimum is for

Re: How can I disable hyperthreads, but NOT smp ?

2011-09-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:28:18 +0100 Richard Collyer wrote: On 20/09/2011 21:34, Jason Usher wrote: FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE system with two physical CPUs, each of which are HT capable. From dmesg: cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:57:04 +0700 Victor Sudakov 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

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:55:53 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Either from the FreeBSD docs, or based on personal experiences, what is the recommended swap space for a 8GB system? Your opinions are greatly appreciated The old rule of thumb of swap

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:03 -0600 Brett Glass wrote: I'd like to see if I can set up local delivery of mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry program that is sendmail. I have the default settings and have 2 sendmail process with 3MB of resident memory each, and I've never

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've seen.

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:38:28 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: See mailer.conf(5) and mailwrapper(8) Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor this and invoke sendmail directly. They're supposed to, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to mailwrapper. The real sendmail is

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:15:02 -0600 Brett Glass wrote: At 01:55 PM 8/29/2011, Bruce Cran wrote: Actually, the ULE scheduler does know about HyperThreading and the topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc.

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:30 +0200 Julian H. Stacey wrote: I was reading I think it was nebsd-us...@betbsd.org a few days back, quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, it seems NetBSD may have more support support there /or with Xen. IIRC the Xen project itself

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:38:27 -0700 Yuri wrote: Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such. Is this true? I wonder if this might be a mix-up between virtual and physical memory. It's use of address space can be prohibitive on i386.

Re: make readmes no longer builds individual ports' README.html files?

2011-08-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me here. :-) Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: cd /usr/ports make

Re: password hash weaknesses in FreeBSD ?

2011-08-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:36:12 +0100 マンロークリストファ wrote: The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password hashing to be done using salted SHA1 /

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread RW
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:15:23 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X related. I.e.

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:07:41 +0200 Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port, and not to update its dependencies. That's kinda the point of portupgrade, takes care of

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:52:09 -0600 (MDT) Dennis Glatting wrote: I need is a method to embed into make.conf a proxy specification for fetch. Setting the environment variable HTTP_PROXY from the login shell /is not/ preferred because the account is used by different administrators, I don't what

Re: cvsup and versions

2011-06-27 Thread RW
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:17:09 +0100 wayne mitchell wrote: hey, i have just cvsup'ed for first time (newbie) RELENG_8_1_RELEASE You probably want to use RELENG_8_1 which is the security branch for the 8.1 release. RELENG_8_1_RELEASE is the version on the CD, without any security fixes.

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:54:53 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: That's a large part of why I want to make it 'go away'. It _is_ a lie on a RO system. Meaningless, and 'misleading' if you don't see the RO option as well. When the filesystem _does_ need to be RW, I _want_ softupdates

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-16 Thread RW
_ From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? You can set fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf, but it shouldn't

Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?

2011-06-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:30 +0400 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/15 08:51:22 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : R - From what I see in /var/db/portsnap/files/ it keeps every file

Re: Where's my disk?

2011-06-04 Thread RW
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:48:12 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:31:18 +0200, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: The first problem is that I have no idea how my disk will be recognized, now the root partition is on /dev/ad6s1a. A good approach is to

Re: Funny thing with portsclean

2011-05-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 May 2011 20:15:53 -0300 Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Monday 30 May 2011 01:20:42 Robert Simmons wrote: Sorry, I didn't mention why. You need use -DD if you don't want that to happen, and you want it to follow installed packages as well.

Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not support. I wanted to install

Re: Input file for shutdown warning?

2011-05-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:38:21 -0700 Alexander Lardner linuxtu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is it possible to do something like this: shutdown -p now /root/somefile How would I do that, or is it even possible? According to the man page it is. ___

Re: Input file for shutdown warning?

2011-05-16 Thread RW
On 17 May 2011 01:24:56 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: In article 20110517021633.26b47...@gumby.homeunix.com you write: On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:38:21 -0700 Alexander Lardner linuxtu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is it possible to do something like this: shutdown -p now

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:13:16 -0400 Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: The first need to change is your Windoze vocabulary, so the command line is called a shell. Next you will need to eventually master a text editor. The are literally hundreds of text-editor in the Unix world but there are

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10

2011-05-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 May 2011 10:01:46 -0700 Arthur Barlow arthurbar...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry. I should have mentioned that I'm using a GeForce FX 5200 card. Because of it's age, NVIDIA says that it need the the nvidia-driver-173..., but NVIDIA also says they do not have a version that works for

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:00 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:54:06AM +0100, RW wrote: but they aren't the same - that's what the quotes were about. Looking back, I don't see anything in your quotes that raises the issue of anonymous objects being used

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:17:41 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man page. I think it's just taken as read

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:14:02 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: malloc() uses either sbrk or mmap to extend the heap. As far as I know, sbrk extends the heap with zero filled memory. According to the man page, mmap extends it either with remapped data, or with remapped data plus

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:56:14 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:29:08PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread RW
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:48:53 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:29:08 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The reason I thought that heap memory isn't zeroed is from the discussion of pre-zeroed pages in this article: There's an idlezero task

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread RW
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:23:11 +0200 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The above quote states that the memory not occupied by the remapped object is zero filled. Which is to say that memory allocated by mmap

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread RW
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:53:41 +0200 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD... Process A requests memory. Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive data.

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: I don't believe the heap is allocated

Re: Missing plugin for Firefox

2011-04-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:05:29 -0400 Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com wrote: On Friday April 22 2011 5:46:19 PM Jimmie James wrote: It's a youtube video, so it's flash. I'm running the latest port of Firefox 4.0 I have Sockwave Flash 10.2 r153 plugin in Firefox. I have been

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:34:32 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500 Martin McCormick

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:44:57 -0700 Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: At least two variations to the rule that { ... } is a block of commands executed in the current shell are: 1. When the block appears as a function Is that correct? I'd assumed that functions do execute in the current

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:27:27 +0100 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Hello list. I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. ... When Googling this problem I see both the use of /var/squid and /usr/local/squid. ... I find what I consider conflicting information, often it's

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell johnandsa...@cox.net wrote: Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. rc.d question I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible unix audience. I need a line in /etc/inittab and to have a

Re: portmaster -a command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:37:32 + Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks Aurthur. :-) It's funny...I DID what it asks and it still didn't work (make deinstall, etc.). ... Apparently, I installed it from a package, so I did a pkg_delete

Re: How to push privoxy traffic through squid?

2011-02-24 Thread RW
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:09:04 -0800 Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I have squid installed and working fine using its default settings; if I set my browser proxy to the server address:3128 , everything works fine. ... and I've added: listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118 and

Flac and/or shell problem

2011-02-20 Thread RW
I found a recipe for converting flac to mp3: flac -cd in.flac | lame -h - out.mp3 and I thought I might be able to able to combine multiple flac files into a single mp3 file with something like the following: ( flac -cd file1.flac ; flac -cd file2.flac ) | lame -h - both.mp3 but in

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:39:59 +0100 Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: I already tried something similare, but I keep getting command not found for formail. I was hoping there was a way of doing this without installing additional software - just use what comes with a default FreeBSD

Re: Install Squid on FBSD with different configure options?

2011-02-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:53:27 -0800 Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I want to install squid from the ports package (i.e., /usr/ports/www/squid) instead of installing from source (which, it's my understanding, would force me to create a squid user, squid group, etc. manually).

Re: script help

2011-02-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:12 +0300 Peter Andreev andreev.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Use of xargs on many files will be much faster than find...exec construction This is a surprisingly common myth. exec can pass single or multiple arguments according to whether you use ; or + find / -type f

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both

Re: Run your own portsnap mirror?

2011-02-10 Thread RW
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:52:01 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: patrick gibblert...@gmail.com writes: Is there any official way to run a private portsnap mirror? ie. Have one, external server fetch from the official portsnap sources, and then internal

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread RW
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:04:59 -0500 Robert Fitzpatrick rob...@webtent.org wrote: I have a server I installed 8.1-RELEASE on and believe I screwed up when rebuilding the kernel to support QUOTA because now that I am troubleshooting these weird messages in the log, I find I am actually running

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:17:43 -0800 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message:

Re: Starting from Scratch!

2011-02-02 Thread RW
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:09:11 - Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: After several months away from FreeBSD I am asking for advice on versions for general desktop / interest use [non critical learning platform] Should I hang on a bit for 8.2 to go current? Or will I easily be able

Re: perl - update

2011-02-02 Thread RW
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:03:32 -0600 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! My system: FreeBSD 8.1 I like to update perl to higher version and I don't want to screw up... I red /usr/ports/UPDATING: perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.12 If I update to perl 5.12.3 is it enough

Re: perl - update

2011-02-02 Thread RW
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:47:02 -0600 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much. But I like to know if I need to change entry in make.conf: # added by use.perl 2010-11-05 17:40:46 PERL_VERSION=5.8.9 to PERL_VERSION=5.12.3 or just delete those line. You don't need to do anything,

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