Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions. In one of my corporate sites, I've got a Tandberg Magnum 2x24 dual 10-slot tape backup device that I feel is on its way out. The storage amount for this site is adequate with the existing device and so is the

Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:20 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 fwiw: %uname -a FreeBSD ..xxx 7.2

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:35 PM, Mark Felder wrote: In production and survived many area-wide power outages: % uptime 10:34PM up 2021 days, 18:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 That's hardcore homie... wow! What does this box survive to do? Steve

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:43 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:37:59 -0500, Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: That's hardcore homie... wow! What does this box survive to do? Transparent traffic shaping/firewalling via IPFW; it's not actually visible to the internet

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-04-24 11:50, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: My daughter is doing a touch typing course that presumes MS Word. So far she was fine with pico, but now they want the kids to practice CTRL/B (bold), CTRL/I (italic), CTRL/U (underline). She really needs to use these particular combinations because

Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
I know this is a backwards request, as I haven't had to go from mp3 to audio CD format in at least 10 years, but I do now. What is available to do so? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-03-12 15:19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit files. However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit to the shell. The client in question has strong (and unyielding) InfoSec requirements in this regard. So

Re: Joseph Campbell on PBS today

2012-03-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-03-11 11:38, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:16:54 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: {snip} WTF With this, the ReactOS crap, and the Microsoft sucks debacle, I woke up this morning thinking it may be April 1st :) Steve

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and once this thing is started, there's no

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.15 19:19, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:21 -0500 Steve Bertrandsteve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which desktop environment I choose when logging in,

Re: on hammer's, security, and centrifuges...

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.07 07:03, Henry Olyer wrote: Look, I'm going to use FreeBSD as long as both it and I am around, it's just the best choice for me, for my user's. But we need to improve security. I'm very happy with the security and stability of FreeBSD, and praise the sec team and contributors to

Re: Add to vendors list

2012-02-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.06 04:02, Matthijs Openneer wrote: With this we would like to be added to your vendor list overview: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Could you please tell us what to do to make this happen. As it states within the 2nd paragraph on that page, fill out a PR (the 'problem

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.01.30 18:40, David Jackson wrote: Perhaps that is because the people who want to use packages have given up on FreeBSD. WTF?!? hint: I'm standing right beside you as you're saying this. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

IPv6 VM

2012-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all! I've been away for some time, but I'm now getting back into the full swing of things. I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who can let me temporarily borrow a CLI-only clean install FBSD virtual machine with a publicly facing IPv4 and native IPv6 address. It will be extremely

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.11.11 19:44, Ryan Coleman wrote: Not this shit again... Amen! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.11.11 23:49, Adam Vande More wrote: I thought I remembered this little gem: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177810.html LMFAO!! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.07 18:28, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: Hello guys; I'm using a FreeBSD 7.0 in my firewall/gateway, and I have to connect via VPN to a Cisco box. The scene here is: * Peer A (Cisco): 200.xxx.xxx.xxx IPs that Peer B need to access: - 192.168.10.24 -

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.08 10:00, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: It has been a long time since I've done IPSec on FBSD, but I'm willing to bet that this has to do with routing, possibly amongst other things. On peer 'B' (FBSD box), what internal IP range are you trying to access the A network from...the

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.08 10:51, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.07.08 10:00, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: It has been a long time since I've done IPSec on FBSD, but I'm willing to bet that this has to do with routing, possibly amongst other things. On peer 'B' (FBSD box), what internal IP range

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.08 10:54, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.07.08 10:51, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.07.08 10:00, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: It has been a long time since I've done IPSec on FBSD, but I'm willing to bet that this has to do with routing, possibly amongst other things. On peer

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 14:36, Nathan Vidican wrote: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: It was a simplified diagram of what I thought I needed. ( Which may or may not be what I actually need! ) Basically, I want a port on the switch that I can plug un-trusted devices

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 12:57, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Modulok wrote: Criteria: - HostA must never directly talk to HostB. - Both hostA and hostB have an Internet connection. What I have to work with: proCurve switch which supports VLANs. 2x

Re: best open source site for Bourne .sh development project?

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 19:37, Fbsd8 wrote: I developing a jailed environment application in Bourne script. Looking for recommends for a open source web site to join and add my code to so others may participate. The site needs to be able to host the code to be used as the download location for a freebsd

Re: dealing with a possible security breach and am just trying to be careful...

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 20:19, Henry Olyer wrote: Hi all, So how do I delete a running load module? What type of module... a kernel module?: load: pearl# kldload smbfs unload: pearl# kldunload smbfs Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem installing Backula-bat

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.17 07:38, Cato Myhrhagen wrote: when i go into the Xorg window and types bat (is this the correct way to start BAT by the way), I get the message that the command is not found. I am now thinking that the installation did not succeed and that I have to do somthing else to fix the

Re: .sh getopts

2010-06-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.04 00:35, Aiza wrote: Have this code shift; while getopts :ugr: arg; do case ${arg} in u) action=freebsd-update;; g) action=freebsd-upgrade;; r) action=freebsd-rollback;; ?) exerr ${cmd_usage};; esac; done; shift $(( ${OPTION} -1 )) Command being executed looks

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote: To Matthias Apitz [ ...snip ...] Yours sincerely Richard Farnes I don't recall any netiquette rules about making your signature block on-topic. Aren't you getting a bit uptight?

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 20:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing, it has a friendlier license (since we're

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 18:35, Fbsd1 wrote: Walt Pawley wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. I'd suggest looking into aee. That has what I am looking and so simple. Simple is in the eye of the beholder. Also,

Cloning question

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
I've written a few howto's on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work. With that said, I'll lay out my scenario and my questions. Scenario: - live web server

Searching for functions in Perl code

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
This is more of a handy how-to than it is a question. A permanent 'howto' as it were. A Perl project I'm working on contains 457 functions (ie. subroutines (ie methods)), and even though I have documentation for all of them, sometimes it is handy to have a list in front of me. This is how I

Re: Searching for functions in Perl code

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.19 22:05, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Steve == Steve Bertrand st...@ipv6canada.com writes: Steve This is how I produce the list of all sub-routines within all module Steve files, which includes the module name and sub. See perldoc B::Xref. ...that *might* just work, for what I

100Mb LAN hardware

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm cleaning up my office, and I've come across a piece of hardware that has been successfully hacked with FBSD as a FW/GW in the past. The last time the hardware ran, it was from a 2GB CF card, but it also has a fully capable IDE channel that does work (that's how I installed FBSD onto the CF

Re: 100Mb LAN hardware

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.17 20:40, Steve Bertrand wrote: The unit is a Multi-Tech RF600VPN device, and it contains three 100Mbps interfaces. I'd like to give this away. fwiw... I am an hour east of Toronto, Ontario. ...Canada. -sb ___ freebsd-questions

Re: 100Mb LAN hardware

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.17 20:40, Steve Bertrand wrote: I'm cleaning up my office, and I've come across a piece of hardware that has been successfully hacked with FBSD as a FW/GW in the past. I also have (found) two Cisco Catalyst 2924 switches that I will get rid of too. ...and I'm not done yet

Find a file with an unknown name

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I want to find a file that was recently created. The content within the file is known, so I can grep for that. The directory structure that contains the file is also known. The filename is not known. What command string do I use to search a directory structure for a file, when my search pattern

Re: Find a file with an unknown name

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.17 22:17, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Steve == Steve Bertrand st...@ipv6canada.com writes: Steve What command string do I use to search a directory structure for a file, Steve when my search pattern only matches content and not filename? grep -r 'pattern here' top-level-dir-here

Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Marc, et-al, I wasn't originally going to post this to the list, but I thought that it would be useful to do so in order to try to solicit feedback. There's a suggestion that I have for the server-side of bsdstats. I would find it very useful if the server could track the % of the reporting

Disabling IPv4 in Sendmail

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I'm trying to configure an MTA/MSA using Sendmail on FreeBSD 8. The catch is, is that I don't have any IPv4 addresses on the box (not even loopback). I'm almost there, but I'm still missing something. Here is what I've changed in my configs: In submit.mc, per the documentation, I've

Re: Disabling IPv4 in Sendmail

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.27 13:05, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to configure an MTA/MSA using Sendmail on FreeBSD 8. ...sorry for the noise all... I got it by adding the following to the main .mc file: FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl ...thereafter: Apr 27 13:08:00 onlyv6 sendmail[43728

Re: hacked?

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.14 18:56, Steve Franks wrote: I don't have bsdstats or similar that I'm aware of installed, so this smells bad: You have an incredibly poor sense of smell. Firewall is showing repeated attempts from your FreeBSD machine to connect to port 25 (standard SMTP mail port) on a server

Re: IPFW and separate data files.

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.12 14:15, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:04:48 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca articulated: On 2010.04.11 11:57, Jerry wrote: I am using IPFW on a FreeBSD-7.3 machine. Presently, I am loading several tables for IPFW. So far, I have just keep the data for the tables

Re: IPFW and separate data files.

2010-04-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.11 11:57, Jerry wrote: I am using IPFW on a FreeBSD-7.3 machine. Presently, I am loading several tables for IPFW. So far, I have just keep the data for the tables in the actual ipfw-rules referenced in the 'rc.conf' file itself. What I would like to do is keep the data for these

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.06 17:10, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Now, on the other hand, emacs rules, vi sucks. :-) :-) ok, ok. I was on the side of Perl, and was content following this thread, but now I don't like you anymore :P heh ;) Steve ___

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.16 15:25, alexus wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.11 23:29, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing all the

Re: Mailing lists link in handbook redirects to......

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.26 08:22, Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2010-02-26 12:41, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Leslie Jensen wrote: This address http://searchportal.information.com/?o_id=94081domainname=lists.freebsd.org I'm trying to subscribe to freebsd-emulation but I end up at the above. I've tried via

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.19 16:11, gahn wrote: Hi, all: How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of course with a space in between? Yes. Using the word 'this' as an example: 100ithis ESC Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Jailcfg - A new tool for creating small(!) jails

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aiza wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Your URL dont work Yes, it does :) But you need mercurial to get the source. But the project also have a homepage - http://code.google.com/p/jailcfg/ Hay wake up. Nobody is going to

Re: documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Robert Huff wrote: Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. Quote: IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module. The system will

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. ... Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I suppose, but much mroe secure for when people

Re: How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jun Furukawa wrote: Hi, For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). [ big snip ] How can I solve this problem? Subscribe to freebsd-hackers@, and post your message there. Hopefully they can help. Steve ___

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: 2010/1/26 Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com That seems to have been the problem. Thanks for the help. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under /zroot/boot/zfs. once you

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm running 8-Stable, and ports are current. I'm installing snmp support, mostly just to investigate it. I have three ports installed: bsnmptools-0.0.20060818_2 Snmp client tools mbrowse-0.3.1_8 An SNMP MIB Browser for X net-snmp-5.4.2.1_6 An extendable SNMP

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: On Tuesday 26 January 2010 08:23:16 pm Steve Bertrand wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: I have three ports installed: bsnmptools-0.0.20060818_2 Snmp client tools mbrowse-0.3.1_8 An SNMP MIB Browser for X net-snmp-5.4.2.1_6 An extendable SNMP implementation I got

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to find out what I can monitor with it. I don't know enough about it to know if it will be useful to me. I'm an old hardware guy and I've been Admin'ing my own systems for many years. I am having a hard time finding pertinent documentation. I know one of

High availability SQL server setup

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, For some time, I've been considering consolidating all/most of our SQL databases (all MySQL) onto a single dedicated cluster setup. I'm looking for feedback on the best way to do this. All of the options I've considered so far have both their drawbacks and benefits. From what I can

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I need to set up a machine so that I can type ssh [host] as root from some other host and I get a prompt with super user privs... I already have set this up for u...@host for root and ssh host for normal users... but root still asks for a password after I set the

Re: Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: 2010/1/11 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca mailto:st...@ibctech.ca All, I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can import/mount the pool properly. However, I designed this box originally so that it mounts / from zfs:storage

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Diego Montalvo wrote: I am temporarily at a different location for the next day or so, and need to connect to the internet via FreeBSD. My initial Network settings where detected during setup using DCHP. How do can I have FreeBSD automatically detect the new network settings via DCHP? #

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Diego Montalvo wrote: I am temporarily at a different location for the next day or so, and need to connect to the internet via FreeBSD. My initial Network settings where detected during setup using DCHP. How do can I have FreeBSD automatically detect the new network

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Diego Montalvo wrote: weird, I had restarted FreeBSD, and did not work, needed to completely close down, reopen virtualbox and relaunch FreeBSD... DHCP kicked in! Danke! Niets te danken ;) I didn't know that you were using Virtualbox. Since I've never used it before, I don't know how that

Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
All, I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can import/mount the pool properly. However, I designed this box originally so that it mounts / from zfs:storage after booting from a USB stick. After the upgrade of the disks, I'm stuck at a mountroot prompt when I attempt

Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names themselves. I personally haven't run into any bad problems using the full device, but I suppose it could be a problem. (Side note - geom should learn how to parse zfs labels so it could create something like

Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: krad wrote: the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names themselves. I personally haven't run into any bad problems using the full device, but I suppose it could be a problem. (Side note - geom should learn how to parse zfs labels so it could create

Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of one server to a temporary mount point on the other server, and

Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Nerius Landys wrote: I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of one server to a temporary mount point

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bogdan Webb wrote: I'm having problems with the /etc/rc.conf setup of a ipv6 tunnel on my FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 It`s a particular issue on the ipv6_defaultrouter config, it jost does not work... Upon network and routing restart ipv6 is enabled the gif interface are given ip's and everything

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Funny. My IPv6 config works like a charm, on both 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-STABLE. Related config settings look like this: gif_interfaces=gif0 gifconfig_gif0=81.187.76.162 81.187.81.6 ipv6_ifconfig_gif0=2001:08b0:0151:0001::1/64 ipv6_prefix_de0

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hmmm. This config does not work: ifconfig_re0=inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192 ifconfig_re0_alias0=inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_re0_alias1=inet6 2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64 ifconfig_re0_alias2=inet6 2607:f118

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hmmm. This config does not work: ifconfig_re0=inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192 ifconfig_re0_alias0=inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255 ifconfig_re0_alias1=inet6 2607:f118::b6 prefixlen 64 ifconfig_re0_alias2=inet6 2607:f118

Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I've got a 7.2 system with four 500GB drives, originally built thusly: # zpool history History for 'storage': 2008-07-11.23:15:40 zpool create storage raidz ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 I just bought four 1.5TB drives, in which I want to use to replace the 500GBs. Also, I've been loosely

Re: Starting sshd, ssh connections

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote: On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get past Starting sshd.. I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8 # ssh r...@192.168.75.8 or # ssh

Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, happy holidays! I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm ...so that I have an easy way to remove the temp files left by svn. After adding the alias, logging out and then back in, I get an error stating: acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % srm srm: Command

Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: Hi Steve On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Hi all, happy holidays! I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm Try enclosing it in quotes, such as: alias srm find . -name \*~\ | xargs

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Gary Kline wrote: ariatotle is offline; i'm exclusively on my new server. will somebody please do a digg thought.org and see if they see what i see? hope i get this. % whois thought.org Name Server:NS1.THOUGHT.ORG Name Server:ETHIC.THOUGHT.ORG % dig ns1.thought.org ;; ANSWER

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jerry wrote: Out of pure morbid curiosity, would you please answer this question for me. You work for a corporation that specifically requires the use of a specific OS, the OS itself is not material to this question. It also forbids the use of any unauthorized OS or equipment on the

Re: Apache22 + Subversion 1.6.6 = No go.

2009-11-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Johnson wrote: I just happened to notice something in the log as I was about to go off and check my own setup: [Thu Nov 19 09:36:10 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] (20014)Internal error: Can't open file '/usr/home/svn/repos/default/format': No such file or directory ...and then:

Re: Measuring disk I/O

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: A friend and I are working on a small video-game related project as a hobby. We're running several scripts 24/7 that make lots of calls to a MySQL database. The mysql server process shows an average CPU use of 1% (reported by top) and it never goes above about 2% The

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Yuri wrote: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Are you sure about that? AFAIK, all system reports are sent with the sendmail binary. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. imho, your thought-process is not nuts. I can see what you are trying to do, so kudos given for trying to work it out with what you have. To recap, two pipes, one destination. I set up second DNS server. ns1.example.com at 70.65.

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. In addition to my other post: I like your mentality of trying to do whatever you can to create redundancy. I've often tried to think of ways to use DNS to make things redundant and resilient. Keep up trying new ways to stretch things

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: hi there, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. It doesn't

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run on active file systems. ??? It should. This

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bob Hall wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:27:42PM -0400, PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
PJ wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: PJ wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Neal Hogan wrote: Aha! Gotcha! Whoever wrote that has made an unintentionnal booboo. It is a subtle difference and is indicative that whoever wrote it is not a native english user... the meaning is clearly should be executed, done, carried out, performed - should work means it can be carried

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup (and what I've done in the past) is to take a full low-level dd image

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Liddell wrote: im running AMD64 FreeBSD7.2-STABLE latest src//kernel and ports so far as what depends on various QT4 pkgs ... Everything comes down to this 1 port but yet i removed all of them an it still cracks .. what am i missing or havent read... What exactly are you doing that

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Liddell wrote: Do a: %pkg_version -v ~/pv.out ...and then review the ~/pv.out file *manually* to see if you can identify any oddities. (yes, grep is good and grep is great, but I've missed obvious things by grep'ing the pkg db in the past). I'm personally not one to help with

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup (and what I've done in the past) is to take a full low-level dd image

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brian McCann wrote: I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install, using an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine. The machine uses the NetXtreme II card. The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a link, but the card shows no carrier in the setup. It started working

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Gary Kline wrote: Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate hex back into ', , -- [that's a

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be

Re: Multihome on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-10-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I have a DELL server with dual port nic card on it. The NICs are connected to the same VLAN. I would like to configure the server so that both NIC cards are redundant that if one goes down the second one would pick up and continue. So I would need both ports

Re: Daily report cannot be emailed to a jailed mail server

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
David N wrote: Hi, FreeBSD 7.2-R box with 10 jails. The mail server (actually its a mail filter) is hosted on the same server inside a jail. I can't seem to get the main server reports to be sent to the mail filter inside the jail inside the same box. so.. r...@localhost tries to

Common practice for generating SSL CSR

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Although not FBSD specific... I'm looking to garner production-wise operational feedback on the commands people are using to generate their (Open)SSL cert requests nowadays... All feedback appreciated. I'm just curious to know if things have changed. Steve

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