Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-05 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and upgrade the connection to encrypted. This will allow name-based virtual hosting with TLS to work as

Re: Upgrading to higher major version directly or via small steps?

2010-10-05 Thread c0re
I can't understand why should I use this adm tool instead of standard method, described in /usr/src/Makefile. And it's not an answer to this question: 6.2 to 7.3 is which one of the folowing: - 6.2-6.4-7.0-7.3 or - 6.2-7.3 directly? 2010/10/4 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com: On Mon,

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue a STARTTLS command and upgrade the connection to

Re: Upgrading to higher major version directly or via small steps?

2010-10-05 Thread b. f.
I can't understand why should I use this adm tool instead of standard method, described in /usr/src/Makefile. List subscribers generally ask that those sending messages to the list place their replies below quoted material, rather than above it. If you read /usr/src/UPDATING, you will see: To

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released

2010-10-05 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:26 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr a écrit : Hello, This release is based on the latest XFCE desktop and includes a wide variety of desktop-related packages, like OpenOffice, abiword, gnumeric, firefox35, gimp, inkscape, evince and so on. The base system is

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-05 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of RFC2817 -- in essence you start an ordinary HTTP session, then issue

XFCE 4.6.2 : Thunar 1.0.2 always reloads files under /usr/home/user

2010-10-05 Thread Alexandre
Hi, On my laptop under 8.1-RELEASE, I have installed XFCE 4.6.2 meta port last week, and I have noticed anything strange. When I open Thunar, my home directory is opened. But Thunar seems to reload and access to a few text files and hidden files and directories (.gvfs, .cshrc...) in my home. I

Global Security Solutions October Newsletter

2010-10-05 Thread Global Security Solutions
Global Security Solutions October Newsletter ( http://www.global-securitysolutions.com/ ) Latest Security News: Background employment screening decreases ( http://www.global-securitysolutions.com/news/26-security-news/49-background-employment-screening-decreases.html ) solar power for

Raid 5 questions

2010-10-05 Thread Aron Szabo
Hi! I have a raid problem ... one of the subdisk is missing and i can't mount my partition. FreeBSD testhost 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # gvinum printconfig # Vinum configuration of

Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon

2010-10-05 Thread Eric Masson
Hello, I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi mode. So far, I've the following script : #!/bin/sh # # PROVIDE: phpfastcgi # REQUIRE: DAEMON # KEYWORD: shutdown # # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable phpfastcgi : # # phpfastcgi_enable (bool):

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Carmel
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:44:17 +0200 Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com articulated: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Leandro F Silva fsilvalean...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc..

Is /boot updated by make installkernel or by make installworld ?

2010-10-05 Thread Matt Thyer
Background I'm running a ZFS FreeBSD-STABLE system on Western Digital 2TB EARS models green drives. These are the so called Advanced Format Drives that use a 4KiB block size internally but lie about this to the operating system and claim to use 512 byte blocks. This causes all sorts of

Re: How can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?

2010-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Just curious if I can do this. netstat -s gives you system-wide stats. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon

2010-10-05 Thread RW
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:18:38 +0200 Eric Masson e...@free.fr wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a script that would launch php-cgi in fastcgi mode. So far, I've the following script : ... sig_stop=TERM pidfile=/var/run/${name}/${name}.pid command=/usr/sbin/daemon -f -p ${pidfile}

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jon Radel
On 10/5/10 7:31 AM, Carmel wrote: I realize that at this point someone will inevitably chime in and play the blame the manufacturers whine. If that were factually correct, then no one else would be able to supply drivers and support for hardware that FreeBSD has left orphaned. I'm somewhat

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Robert
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:52:21 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS. Should I remove

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Mark Blackman
Jon Radel wrote: I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now that it has significant mindshare, have simply decided that there's no economic benefit to releasing detailed hardware specs in a form

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:20:29 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in 47027.134085 secs (10634453 bytes/sec) ~ 14 hours later here is what I have.

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is virtually no support for modern hardware; i.e., drivers for 'N' protocol devices. That one factor alone, and there are others, precludes me

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to use FreeBSD

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Robert
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:34:41 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:20:29 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:47:36 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 13:31:08 Carmel wrote: I have been tooling around with FreeBSD for a year or so now and I find it incredible that there is

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:32:11AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:31:48 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za articulated: So. What's the connection between freebsd.u...@seibercom.net, carmel...@hotmail.com and ges...@yahoo.com, who all post through scorpio.seibercom.net, and who all have remarkably similar views on why FreeBSD

Re: LibreOffice?

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, October 04, 2010 21:50:27 -0700 Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com wrote: When can we expect it in the ports? Sure. Just submit the port as usual. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer.

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. I'm using FreeBSD on my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. One of the nice things about choosing FreeBSD for my laptop OS

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Phan Quoc Hien
Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks! On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Mubeesh ali
just dont choose an acer 5745 or any laptop runnning Insyde BIOS ...from my personal experience (BIOS gets stuck at splash screen after BSD install) regards, Mubeesh On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Monday 04 October 2010 12:11:30

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-10-05 Thread Harald Weis
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:04:00PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Erik Ulven
Hi, I use lenovo thinkpad T400s with freebsd 8.1 amd64 and openbsd 4.8 i386 (snapshot) as dual boot. I'm extremely satisfied with both hardware and the OS's. The laptop is light, doesn't heat up as much as the others I've tried and is very performant. Wireless works very well with both OS's.

Re: Custom rc script using /usr/sbin/daemon

2010-10-05 Thread Eric Masson
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: Hello, I don't think you can do it like that. IIRC when you try to stop a daemon it doesn't just kill the process by pid, it also sanity checks the command in case the daemon has died and the pid was reused. Since daemon wont show-up in the ps output it

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. MacOS X 10.6.4. Its solid, supported, and Unix. In general the Unix things that need to be treated differently

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 with XFCE packages released

2010-10-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 05/10/2010 10:20 π.μ., Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:26:26 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr a écrit : Hello, This release is based on the latest XFCE desktop and includes a wide variety of desktop-related packages, like OpenOffice, abiword, gnumeric,

Confused about keeping system up to date

2010-10-05 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm running Production Release 8.1 on a production server. For a variety of reasons, I've decided to keep my system up to date via building it from source code. 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) pretty much just applies any released patches, right?

Re: Confused about keeping system up to date

2010-10-05 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:55:50 -0700, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) pretty much just applies any released patches, right? Yes 2.) I want the entry in my supfile to read: tag=RELENG_8_1_0 - or tag=RELENG_8.1_0

Re: Confused about keeping system up to date

2010-10-05 Thread Ed Flecko
Thanks Patrick! :-) 1.) How do you know if a patch applies just to the kernel? For example, I'm looking at the security advisory 2010-09-20 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 ( http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ), but it isn't clear to me if it applies to just the kernel

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Michel Talon
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. MacOS X 10.6.4. Its solid, supported, and Unix. In general the Unix things that

Re: Confused about keeping system up to date

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Powell
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm running Production Release 8.1 on a production server. For a variety of reasons, I've decided to keep my system up to date via building it from source code. 1.) I want to follow the 8.1 errata branch, which (after rebuilding) pretty much just applies any

altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?

2010-10-05 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would

Re: altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?

2010-10-05 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/5/10, Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com wrote: Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:12:31PM +, Michel Talon wrote: Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this domain. How is it light years ahead of FreeBSD

Re: altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?

2010-10-05 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
I didnt check it, but changing /etc/login.conf should do that On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:23:43 -0400 Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com wrote: Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 fbsd_platform vs amd64 fbsd_platform, on intel_64_architecture cpu

2010-10-05 Thread spellberg_robert
[ note that there is a new question, about half_way down ] first, i thank you, most sincerely, for the time that you took to type detailed responses. this is most helpful. second, let me posit that there exists no perfect notation, so, i err on the sides of readability and clarity, at the

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Mubeesh ali wrote: just dont choose an acer 5745 or any laptop runnning Insyde BIOS ...from my personal experience (BIOS gets stuck at splash screen after BSD install) It works fine if you don't blow away the BIOS partition. At least it has for me on an Aspire One

Re: How can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?

2010-10-05 Thread Steven Williamson
tcpdump, then analyze with wireshark. If it's longer term monitoring you require in the past iv'e used ruby-pcap and written a quick and dirty script to log retransmissions. Essentially you just need to watch for duplicate packet id's I'm not sure there are any stats normally recorded for this

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 05/10/2010 06:51 p.m., Chad Perrin escribió: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:12:31PM +, Michel Talon wrote: Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió: Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series, can run fine on FreeBSD or other opensource OS? Thanks! Please, take a look at the following thread before going any further: HP Envy 14 laptop damaged by FreeBSD 8.1

Questions about udp socket(AF_UNSPEC)

2010-10-05 Thread dave jones
Hi, When disconnect a UDP socket, Linux kernel set local port to zero if the port number comes from a implicit bind, but on FreeBSD, it doesn't set local port to zero. Here's my test program: #include errno.h #include string.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/socket.h #include netinet/in.h

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 05/10/2010 02:39 p.m., Erik Ulven escribió: Hi, ... Wireless works very well with both OS's. suspend/resume works most of the time with freebsd, and always with openbsd. built in camera works with openbsd. Most of the special keys (light, suspend, etc) seems to work fine with freebsd. Erik

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Phan Quoc Hien
Hello everyone, Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ? Thanks. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote: El 05/10/2010 02:29 p.m., Phan Quoc Hien escribió: Hello. I have same question here. My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 series,  can run fine on FreeBSD or

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:41:13PM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: In my personal experience I have found that creating, maintaining and handling rpm packages is a lot easier than creating ports or keeping the software up to date using packages. I find working with the ports system easier, as