Brent Bailey wrote:
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Backup /etc:
# cp -Rp /etc /etc.old
This may not do what you think it does, and it may not
do what you want. Links copied as files, etc.
Use tar or cpio.
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Forgive the top-post -- I have independently verified this,
suggest you open a PR. This is definitely a bug in opiepasswd.
It is also present in RELENG_4_8.
Regards, Michael
Sergey Sysoev wrote:
Hi. I have a question related to freebsd opie implementation.
I am running 4.9-RELEASE and I've
Darren Pilgrim wrote:
Soft updates are disable on / by default because of the chicken
and egg problem of runing tunefs on /.
If that's the problem, then why doesn't sysinstall enable it by default
when partitioning for a new install?
You can certainly change the options in sysinstall to
Sorry for the naive question, but most of my old rulesets still use
natd, and I've only used built-in nat for outbound traffic. I'd like
to redirect certain ports on certain addresses to the same ports on
internal (RFC1918) addresses. The examples in the man page aren't
helpful, and the handbook
xauth not in your path?
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:46 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote:
This sounds silly, but what happens if you try ssh -Y
Exactly the same thing as with -X, in either direction.
It still fails with the 6.1 system as the ssh client,
and
:
From: Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com
To: Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 1:07:31 PM
Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect
In the last episode (Jul 11), Michael Sierchio said:
Sorry
We're not talking about natd. The question was about the use of ipfirewall nat.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:
In the last episode (Jul 12), Michael Sierchio said:
Is there a way of specifying a particular public address if there is
more than one
12, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com
To: Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com
Cc: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 6:35:19 PM
Subject
...@hotmail.com wrote:
Michael Sierchio wrote:
I'm familiar with natd since its appearance. I was unclear on the
ipfirewall nat syntax, since there is no syntax definition in the man
page. It's true the man page is already too large, but some examples
(somewhere) would be nice. Marshaling packets
IMHO what has helped Linux is the existence of commercial
distributions with support - Red Hat, SUSE, etc. The only attempts to
do this for BSD have been undercapitalized and/or half-hearted.
But I find the general premise of the discussion to be - how to say
this politely? - stupid. Things
This is extremely important, esp. with Softupdates, since fsync() does
not guarantee a flush of all buffers to the medium. In order to
implement a stable queue, it would be best to use a different
filesystem.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Fri, 7/22/11,
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
But wouldn't sync() (see man 2 sync) make sure that
all buffers, even in regards to soft updates, get
immediately flushed / written?
Apparently not. I think most of Matt Dillon's notes are still relevant.
man freebsd-update
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
--As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA
USARPAC is alleged to have said:
How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am
running is supported via
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote:
User john is a member of both webcamd and vboxusers:
# grep john /etc/group
webcamd:*:145:john
vboxusers:*:920:john
When the file /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john can touch it ok:
$ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch
),
Michael Sierchio
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Dave Pooser
dave-free...@pooserville.com wrote:
3) Updates are a mess. It's cool that I *can* compile a new kernel, but
that I *have* to is ridiculous. Updating a server should not be more
difficult than yum update -- full stop.
Are you lazy, or stupid? man
Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login?
chpass allows root to set the encrypted password directly
chpass -p '$1$123456789$your-random-chars-here'
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
When adding a new user it is possible to assign a
dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c [:alnum:]
'0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z'
will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login?
chpass allows
fzDMVOy76nPEWA9DfeT5yUrSO9fSyREAes7XxSbYvcyuzahBdqBaySc4EIgRQDBFqRxJ6hzbY7dg98HtcQzoWSrCgf2SA6VJwLivtld3eCddIz5HZIjcHUqISzFXMLnOPszV627zGhOm5Ei7diTQbf8GZQ3ZD8r7yY2ao9Mbm9w16nCt5issPD2toxoKSdqaNWYHbTCqEhXineHmQPwX9z1qDFZkM7B20FecLS5ECKe8yH7iSlIiFDCbAbFNVJ1PP
#
I'll leave it to you to pick out 9 chars for the seed and 31 chars for
the rest, as in
$1$zNvPGEVzC$Z0QQRMUjtzcJJXRlKNPfVFCTEol0pdP
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c [:alnum:]
'0-9A-Za
That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. Probably doesn't
matter if the purpose is to make login unusable.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
Michael == Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com writes:
Michael dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr
It occurs to me that there may be a couple of other wrinkles. There
are kernel boot parameters that tell which kind of console to use, and
there are switches you can twiddle in /boot/loader.conf, notably
#console=vidconsole # A comma separated list of console(s)
console
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. YMMV.
- M
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Brett Glass
Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor
this and invoke sendmail directly.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:55 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700
Michael Sierchio wrote:
I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote:
thanks, but did u actually tried it?
If what you're asking is, does traffic shaping work? the answer is
yes. There are some provisos - you must create an outbound pipe and
an inbound pipe that accurately reflect the observed
source ip/port as 0/0 and dest 0/? i dont understand
that at all
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com
wrote:
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote:
thanks, but did u actually tried it?
If what you're asking is, does traffic shaping
amending my remark... UID matching is problematic. Why are you trying to
classify packets based on that?
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
You don't seem to have any rules that match packets. This won't work.
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, alexus ale
Sorry to have missed your prior post - please include the entire
ruleset. Thanks.
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
#
#
# FreeBSD_7-4 RELEASE
# Our hardware is pristine
#
# What is described herein are regular, yet random
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Is there _any_ reason why moving from port 22 to something
different is _not_ a solution?
Reason why I'm asking: Moving SSH away from its default port
seems to be a relatively good solution as break-in attempts
concentrate
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
Normally if the rules are stateless you would allow established tcp
packets, but would deny them with stateful rules. In the latter case,
established traffic would be passed by the check-state
You need to pay attention to
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote:
Similarly, for udp rules, be sure to include the keep-state (but not
setup) keyword.
RIght - if you're just protecting a single host, for example, your
ruleset might be something like
ipfw add 1000 allow ip from any
You could edit the label and make it cover the unit, then run growfs
(assuming you have backups), but for the most part this can safely be
ignored.
2011/10/24 Sergei Vyshenski sv...@pn.sinp.msu.ru:
Hi,
Is it safe to ignore a sting in gmesg:
GEOM: ad10s1: geometry does not match label
I've been trying to upgrade a client firewall to 8.2, but have an odd
problem. The current config, based on 7.4, has the firewall as an
IPsec endpoint for other offices, but also is doing 1:1 NAT and
passing L2TP traffic to a VPN endpoint inside the firewall.
The upgrade to 8.2 breaks the L2TP
It depends...
some VPNs push routes, including default routes, and nameservers and
search paths, but it's up to the client on how to handle it. Some of
these will set /etc/resolv.conf, etc.
What *kind* of VPN are you talking about? OpenVPN? PPTP? L2TP?
I generally prefer dnscache to BIND,
in /boot/loader.conf (see /boot/defaults/loader.conf)
acpi_load=NO
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote:
Aloha,
I have a box that wont shut down with ACPI setting activated. Anyone point
me to a how to on keeping ACPI from being set to on at boot.
Thanks .
##
Mount via tcp.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
What kind of speed should I be expecting over an NFS mount from
a linux box using a gig interface (igb)? I'm seeing linux clients
getting approx 2 or 3 times the throughput rsyncing files
It will work fine - it won't attempt to update the kernel.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:49 AM, masayoshi rocksta...@y7mail.com wrote:
I would like to know about freebsd-update command.
It is rumoured that freebsd-update command does not work well with custom
kernel.
First question is the
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote:
I does work fine with a custom kernel, as long as you are running and
maintaining the actual update server that distributes.
I don't think that's relevant. It works fine with the public servers.
This is simply not the case. freebsd-update works on the basis of
cryptographic hashes on the binaries. It is, after all, a binary
update program. If it detects a custom kernel, it will not update the
kernel, but updates userland programs. It doesn't *care* what your
kernel config name is, it
I just use tar for this.
( cd /path/to/src ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /path/to/obj ; tar xf - )
- M
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to
USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and
Are you running a firewall? Do you have a ppp connection?
This happens when there is a dependency that is not expressed in the
/etc/rc.d scripts.
- M
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working
Oh, and what kind of filesystem is on the USB device?
- M
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
Chris cpubur...@gmail.com writes:
The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux,
so I thought it strange that it
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote:
I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is:
( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd
/mnt/usb ; tar xf - )
Show, don't tell. What does tar report when you run it?
The keywords in /etc/rc.d/ntpdate have
# PROVIDE: ntpdate
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING syslogd named
# KEYWORD: nojail
which means that networking must be up first. The question in your
case is why name resolution is failing.
See what happens if you pick some public stratum 1 or stratum 2
servers for
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
However, if you _can_, solve the _cause_ of your
problem, i. e. educate those who create that
kind of trouble-carrying file and directory names
_not_ to use spaces!
Amen, Brother. Just because you *can*, doesn't mean you
You're mistaken. ;-) 495736 / 507630, with some margin for free
space, means you're full.
Boot in single user mode.
for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var )
chflags -R noschg /mount point
rm -rf /mount point/*
You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems.
- M
On
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's using
the space and to recover it. You should use them.
If there are files hidden by a covering mount, you won't find them
when those filesystems
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no
matter how much butter you put on it.
It was with no small amount of discrimination and discernment that I
offered that advice. Any files that
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
/proc is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is still on
the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a
mountpoint), so reading it isn't leaving that filesystem. Reading
anything *in* it
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Matthew Seaman
m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
I find it quite astonishing that /proc would deliberately behave
differently to *every other* filesystem available. The mountpoint
should belong to the filesystem mounted on it.
I have an idea what you
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kees Jan Koster kjkos...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your reply. Your comment about dupe IP triggered something that
I failed to mention: the interface is aliased. It has two IP addresses. IP
address a and it has an alias IP address b. I just tested
Matthew suggests turning off hardware checksums - it won't hurt to
give that a try:
ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt -txcsum
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster kjkos...@gmail.com wrote:
My #1 choice is - your web browser and Amazon Web Services (EC2),
where you may have Linux, FreeBSD, or Windoze instances.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote:
Guys,
My day job is looking for a good VM lead and I thought of you. Well, ok, I
thought
You can rate-limit pings and other icmp with sysctl nodes (sysctl
net.inet.icmp )
You can make the rule a little more restrictive:
add allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,8,11
if you want to disallow echo requests, omit 8 - the others are
essential for most things to work properly or to
Cheap USB drives, and even many CF drives, aren't much good as random
read-write devices. On my Soekris boxen I run FreeBSD, and mount the
root filesystem rw,noatime. And I don't write to it. ;-) /var is a
memory filesystem, there /var/db/... contain symbolic links to
/usr/local/db/.. because
Careful reading, as opposed to blindly applying updates, is often
rewarded. If you aren't running telnetd, it follows that you are not
vulnerable to the most serious exploit addressed by the patch (remote
root).
I have had no trouble since applying the patch to 7.4 and 8.2 systems. YMMV.
Given
man 4 enc
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Edward Carrel aza...@carrel.org wrote:
On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
Thinking -pf@ or -net@ would be a better place to discuss this, more chances
of getting an answer.
I was wondering about that. I'll send my question to -net@
I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1, and IMHO, the 9.0 installer SUX!
It blow chunks. It's a POS. It's crap. It is a joke.
I hope I made myself clear. ;-)
- M
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Lyubomir Grigorov
lyubo...@grigorovl.eu wrote:
Just to give thoughts as a younger user...
Also, there was plently of time during RC to discuss this, I don't see why you
all cry right now. To me, it seems you are afraid of change and getting out of
your comfort
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
... On the other hand, bsdinstall does get the job done, at least for my
purposes. It just does so in a way that feels a bit more
straightjacketed, and it rubs me personally a bit the wrong way. ...
From my
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
does anyone know if there's an implementation of the RIP version 2 routing
protocol in FreeBSD???
man routed
The routed utility is a daemon invoked at boot time to manage the network
routing tables.
man hier
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
--As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
have said:
man hier
True, but /usr/... was a typical place to find users' home
directories, since /usr is mounted when the system goes
Forgive the naive question, but on one of my Nikons, it is possible to
present the device itself, or the SD card as a USD drive. Which are
you doing? No doubt there is no driver for the D50 in the kernel, but
the generic umass driver should handle the device.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote:
ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method.
Or just delete the existing keys and sshd will recreate them at first
boot ;)
No, sshd will not create the keys. They are created by
/etc/rc.d/sshd, which invokes ssh-keygen if it
ipsc, from packages or ports, is very useful.
ipsc -gch 10.0.0.32/27
Network class:A
Network mask: 255.0.0.0
Network mask (hex): FF00
Network address: 10.0.0.32
Subnet bits: 19
Max subnets: 524288
Full subnet mask:
There are two edits to make to ex_shell.c in /usr/src/contrib/nvi/ex that
will prevent a shell from being executed.
99,100c
return (1);
.
48,51c
return (1);
.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk
That would be something in the BIOS settings, probably...
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Jens Schweikhardt
schwe...@schweikhardt.net wrote:
hello world\n
I'm running 9-STABLE/amd64 and for a few months now, whenever I shut
down with shutdown -p now, the USB devices still have power. This
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Does newfs always must create sufficient count of inodes? or I must
supply some addition options when creating FS?
yes
man newfs
(-i option)
There are many use cases for a filesystem - if you have
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Noel noeld...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, I should have mentioned that if you have freebsd-8x or
earlier, this feature isn't built-in but can be easily added:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
Details are *IMPORTANT* grin
What's the user's shell in the password file, and does that shell:
exist? executable? In the /etc/shells file?
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On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:37 AM, fake fake
four.troublesome.he...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a sort of file permission template.
Under some particular directory (like ~/secret), I need all those
files (including newly creating one) mode 700.
Is there any
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote:
A very open firewall test script is as follows:
00010 allow ip from any to any via lo0
00081 deny log ip from 180.0.0.0/8 to any
00100 check-state
You don't need the following
00101 allow tcp from any to any established
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote:
this is now resolved, i hadn't realised (embarrassingly) that ipfw list will
show rules if if the fw is disabled.
You should consider using tables, which allow you to add ad hoc nets,
etc. and you can swap rulesets
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I do _not_ want to try to claim a ZFS inferiority due to
missing backups, but there may be occassions where (except
performance), low-level file system aspects of UFS might be
superior to using ZFS.
If you have an operational
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Better=random read performance of single drive.
What an entirely useless performance measure! Maybe you should
restrict yourself to
using SSDs, which have rather unbeatable random read performance - the
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
ZFS is somehow in that part similar to Amiga Fast File System. when you
overwrite a directory block (by hardware fault for example), everything
below that directory will disappear. You may not be even aware
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
I will agree that ZFS could use a good worst-case scenario 'fsck' like tool.
Worst-case scenario? That's when fsck doesn't work. Quickly followed
by a sinking feeling.
ZFS can be a complicated beast: It's not the best choice
Try
machdep.independent_wallclock=1
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Martin Dimitrov
martin.dimit...@mafiainc.org wrote:
Hi,
I am new to FreeBSD, decided to migrate a web server to FreeBSD. I
recently both a VPS that claim to use KVM as a virtualization service, I
don't know the details of
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Simon si...@optinet.com wrote:
This easily causes DoS for when too many FIN_WAIT_2 are created and IPFW
stops forwarding using the rule above because of too many dynamic rules
Change the defaults for the fw.dyn sysctl MIB nodes
to something like
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote:
There is also this you can place in /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.inet.tcp.fast_finwait2_recycle=1
Good catch. The defaults are perhaps not ideal in all cases:
net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6 - ms, ten minutes
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6 - ms, ten minutes
I can't do arithmetic, but you get the idea. A full minute.
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Maybe introducing something along the /etc/rc execution?
An /etc/rc.local entry like
/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S /var/log/thisboot.log
and then just look at the file. Requires at least one reboot
to take effect.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote:
I reconfigured my ssd filesystem with the /var partition of size 512M.
Unfortunately, something in portsnap or the ports tree in general uses a
boatload of small files, and i ran out of inodes. Can anyone recommend
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
Does Intel control AMD too? Last I checked there are plenty of AMD machines
in major stores and they come with Windows too.
So... attempting to bring reason into the argument? That won't do, I'm
afraid. ;-)
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
cat /etc/shells
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Arlen McIntyre fallofz...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot afford to buy FreeBSD.
Dada is not dead!
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
Slices isn't the old way. There is no perf advantage for dedicated
disks. Maybe you get a
few kb of extra space. Don't do it.
http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml
That is EXTREMELY old advice. The general
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
i need high speed disk encryption (many disks running in parallel, lots of
I'm not cryptography expert, is CBC somehow less secure, and if so is it
really a problem?
XTS-AES is a standard devised
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
You didn't get an answer because in security, the answer depends on
exact circumstances of use. The short answer is that if you don't have a
specific adversary you need to protect your data from, I'd say that
GELI's CBC is
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre
navarre.matt...@gmail.comwrote:
I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After
that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on
the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old
make LINT
vi LINT
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jason Usher jushe...@yahoo.com wrote:
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an
i686 CPU.
By default, GENERIC has HAMMER as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I
tried both:
cpu I586_CPU
and:
cpu
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote:
Actually, freebsd-update is claimed to respect custom kernels. ...
And it does, in my experience. If the hash of the kernel doesn't
match that of the distribution (or recent update), freebsd-update
leaves it alone.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote:
At 11:33 AM 8/13/2012, Michael Sierchio wrote:
And it does, in my experience. If the hash of the kernel doesn't
match that of the distribution (or recent update), freebsd-update
leaves it alone.
That is what I thought
This will happen automatically if you go to multiuser without a
writeable /tmp. See /etc/rc.d/tmp
I have a problem with the semantics of the rc scripts for this and
var, though - if you are going to use a memory-backed filesystem, you
should reserve all the space at the outset. Bad things can
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
Sorry I misread the previous post which *was* referring to an md device,
but the rest is right.
Not really. ;-) The one compelling reason to use an md filesystem for
/tmp or /var is when you have no swap, and/or your root
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
For the mentioned appliances, that would not be a problem.
However there's a distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp
that can be summarized like this: The content of /tmp may
disappear after a reboot (see clear_tmp_enable=YES
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
tmpfs and swap md devices don't actually need swap. I don't seen any
advantage in your way of creating an md device for /tmp.
Then you don't understand. ;-) The advantage of my approach is
avoiding a kernel panic when
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote:
So
my question is: how do i force the system to ignore old corrupt GPT
header on this hdd, or how do i remove the header, or is there any
workaround possible?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 bs=64k
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote:
Well, i thought that my need to get files from hdd is easy enough to
understand from my original message:)
Извините, пожалуйста!
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