Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 05/17/2013 05:45, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100 It seems to me that the level of spam in list is pretty much negligible. That would be a subjective statement. It is like asking how many times you have to slap your wife before you are considered a wife beater.

Re: Sendmail relaying for Intranet?

2013-02-12 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/12/2013 12:54, Chris Maness wrote: I have a FreeBSD box running sendmail that can see the whole internet. I have another mail server that hosts mail for an intranet. It does not have access to the i-net. I think I remember reading that it is possible for the i-net attached sendmail

Re: FreeBSD in finance sector

2012-09-07 Thread Robison, Dave
On 09/07/2012 10:55, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? We use FreeBSD for our lockbox/remittance processing system. We have non-disclosure agreements which prevent me from mentioning bank names, but the most prominent players use our

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-20 Thread Robison, Dave
nice ad hominem screed On 08/20/2012 12:57, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:40:40 + (UTC) jb articulated: This is a bad thing for all UNIX or UNIX-like ecosystems, performed under the noble flag of progress to neutralize and fight opposition. Do you have any idea how idiotic that

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-16 Thread Robison, Dave
On 07/16/2012 10:10, Mark Felder wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:04:31 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: This is *precisely* why dd is _grossly_inferior_ to professional-grade tools like Spinrite. I bet you are a big fan of homeopathic treatments too, aren't you?

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/21/2012 10:08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You seem to be unaware of what percentage of the development and maintenance staff and the money to pay for them comes from those commercial users. If FreeBSD cannot maintain the critical mass to continue, it will not continue. but why it isn't

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/21/2012 00:33, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: Dear community In the past, I built a 8TB ZFS log server on freebsd 7.4. However, the system experienced instablility after long up times. My main motive to use ZFS was UFS inability to support large file systems. Now, I want to the same thing on

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/21/2012 10:30, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Because there's no reason to do that. It's an asinine suggestion. Clang is here to stay. Most of us are happy about that decision. GCC Because most that are not already stopped and ignored thing. and use GCC. Politics won. Excellent. We have a

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread Robison, Dave
GPL runs contrary to the nature and intent of the BSD style license. Free and open software benefits us all. Getting rid of GPL is a good thing, and well worth any (debatable) performance hits. -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c)

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/15/2012 08:30, Bernt Hansson wrote: Aha.A pissing contest and it's fridaycount me in... FreeBSD fqdn 4.11-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p20 #0: Mon Aug 28 07:21:42 CEST 2006 user@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HPNETSERVERFW i386

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/13/2012 16:10, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: William Orr will at worrbase.com writes: Hello, I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing

Re: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-24 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/24/2012 13:52, Bender, Chris wrote: Hi, I am responsible for a system I know little about. Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to send to another machine. The senmail locally looks to deliver email to a que and the que looks to forward to another

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/23/2012 09:27, Andrey Chernov wrote: Never underestimate the power of the Symbol! Hail Satan! So mote it be! -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _

Re: New iso format on 9.0

2012-02-21 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/21/2012 10:28, Devin Teske wrote: Why can't you mount the disc on /mnt and then use tar after mounting the disk to copy the files from /mnt to /destdir ... tar cpf - -C /mnt . | tar xvpf - -C /destdir That will preserve hard links, symlinks, permissions, and times (and doesn't

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/20/2012 09:44, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Jerry wrote: So, the OP posted a question about normal and/or preferred use of FreeBSD and people responded. Or do you consider this thread to be too technical? Maybe the discussion could fit in Hackers. Yes, hackers@ Would have been a

One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
Hiya, A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD. It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such: / /tmp /var /usr swap The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@.

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better for many situations. Sure it has its uses, but now you're jumping into new territory where

Re: swap space

2012-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
On 02/17/2012 15:58, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap? A df seems to avoid the swap area. You're looking for swapinfo Regards, Chuck beat me to it. swapinfo or top are the two ways I

Re: Printing directly to IP address

2012-02-14 Thread Robison, Dave
You're going to want to use lpr, and you'll have to set up /etc/printcap first. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/corp-net-guide/printserving-lpr-freebsd.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/corp-net-guide/printserving-unix.html The command I use to print to a printer set up in

RE: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread Robison, Dave
True. But as a new user it was the separate partitions that attracted me, having been burned with linux's megaroot. And a new user would have trouble setting up the partitions. Not to mention the break with tradition (what is happening to this world)! :) I prefer having separate partitions

Re: Free BSD Website Question

2011-12-01 Thread Robison, Dave
On 12/01/2011 12:17, Frank wrote: Hey Julian, Thanks for the kind response - rough crowd :) Some people on certain lists should just add the phrase Wanna fight!? to their signatures. We're not all like that. -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-07 Thread Robison, Dave
On 11/05/2011 14:52, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname

Re: CARP related trivial question

2011-10-26 Thread Robison, Dave
On 10/26/2011 12:20, Snoop wrote: Hi everybody, I've got a pretty trivial question but I'm kind of disoriented. In the CARP man pages is clearly stated http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html: __ To

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Robison, Dave
Using primarily FreeBSD, and in fact, still FreeBSD 4.11 (we are in the process of upgrading to 8.x now), our systems moved well over 1.6 trillion dollars in business to business financial transactions last year. I'd hardly call that irrelevant. On 07/17/2011 04:10, Jerry wrote: While I

Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-26 Thread Robison, Dave
I second the idea that this is a RAM issue. Power down, ground yourself, remove and re-seat the RAM and see if the problem goes away. On 04/26/2011 07:35, Mikael Bak wrote: C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bakm...@inbox.lv wrote: Hi list, I have a system running

Re: SSHD Strangeness

2011-04-08 Thread Robison, Dave
is your host ip denied by /etc/hosts.allow? On 04/08/2011 12:22, Scott Ballantyne wrote: I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I got: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed I was able to log in using my vendors KVM access, and didn't see anything

Re: Simplest way to deny access to a class C

2011-03-04 Thread Robison, Dave
Check out portsentry perhaps? I used to use it quite a bit. Whenever someone would hit one of a number of defined ports, I'd automatically add a rule denying them in IPFW and also drop their route to a non-existent IP on my class C. On 03/04/11 16:14, Patrick Gibson wrote: fail2ban by

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-17 Thread Robison, Dave
I like bacula, I've used it for years. I also like this command Julian once taught me: find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here On 02/17/11 18:25, Xn Nooby wrote: Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out your other articles too. Thanks! On Thu, Feb

Re: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread Robison, Dave
Allow me to split hairs here. I was taught sync;sync;sync;halt. One for the father, one for the son, one for the holy spirit. This, of course, in the days when I/O was slow enough that sync didn't have time to finish before the halt, so doing it three times ensured your file system shut down

Re: Swap Space

2011-01-05 Thread Robison, Dave
On 01/05/11 15:20, Gary Gatten wrote: I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON processors and 6GB RAM. What is the recommended swap space? I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM, others say stay with 2 x RAM. Definitely not 0,