Re: who is in swap?

2011-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
. That output should allow you to narrow down which process is allocating so much RAM. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmo...@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT

Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Moran
is this discussion on hack...@? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Number of open files per process

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Peter Steele pste...@webmail.maxiscale.com: Is it possible to determine the number of open files per process? We want to monitor this via a separate process and issue an alarm if some threshold is crossed. The fstat command will do this for you. -- Bill Moran Collaborative

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-23 Thread Bill Moran
because the original Sun spec for the API said so. It makes little sense to change it just to unsigned. The additional 2G it would give doesn't really solve the tuning problem on a 64G system. This is simply a spec that has become outdated by modern hardware. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Moran
OS (like FreeBSD) where ISNs are random, the possibility of blindly spoofing an IP during a 3-way handshake is so low as to be effectively impossible. Yes, it _can_ be done, but the effort required makes it not an effective method of attack. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Moran
for this purpose? If this belongs on -security let me know and I'll ask over there. http://potentialtech.com/cms/node/16 -- Bill Moran ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
they'll work on Gentoo and OSX as well: http://www.webmin.com/ http://www.cfengine.org/ http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Igor Mozolevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 24/02/2008, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Mozolevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Fact is, data is sensitive to different degrees. It's also valuable to different degrees. If you're worried about your personal

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
it as a limitation of the hardware and tested different hardware. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Igor Mozolevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/02/2008, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Mozolevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/02/2008, Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should actually read the paper. :) They successfully defeat both

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Christopher Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote: Or laptop vendors could make secure laptops that always lose memory on shutdown. That dosn't really change anything, just don't shutdown the laptop. It reduces the risk greatly when combined

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
of a roundabout that I don't know if it's worth it or not. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Welcome to Hell / Mysterious networking troubles on FreeBSD

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
on that box. They may even have it rooted. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Exclusive binary files

2007-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
to the admin to step in and stop things when a problem is detected, but at least you'd know. And those programs are available on all systems now. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

2007-08-01 Thread Bill Moran
, but we've been using ipmitool from ports for a while with success, and we're investigating FreeIPMI. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-11 Thread Bill Moran
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Re: How PMAP_SHPGPERPROC relate to vm.v_free_min, vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target?

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
6.x on these systems, so YMMV. Sorry for cross-posting, I was not sure which list was more adequate. Probably [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although I would have started with -questions@ -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: VMWARE-Player

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
Christoph P. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does FreeBSD provide the ability to run VMWARE-Player for Linux and run VMs in it? No. To the best of my knowledge it's not possible to run any VMWare product under FreeBSD. Qemu will run VMWare virtual machines under some conditions.

Re: Modified version of jexec allows non-root access into jails

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/code/jailme.html Feedback is appreciated. Be very very careful. Both chroot(2) and jail(2) can only be called by root, and for very good reasons. Unprivileged users can

Modified version of jexec allows non-root access into jails

2006-12-28 Thread Bill Moran
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/code/jailme.html Feedback is appreciated. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential

Re: unique hardware identification

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Moran
to each other. Another option is SSL certificates. Although, since you don't describe the goal you're trying to accomplish, it's difficult to know if either of those will work for you. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [I sent this to questions@ yesterday and have yet to get a response. I suspect it may be a little more technical than [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD db00.lab00 6.2-BETA3 FreeBSD 6.2-BETA3 #1: Fri Dec 8 09:27:37 EST 2006 [EMAIL

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Moran
[Kris -- are you interested in this or should I trim you from the CC?] In response to Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2006-Dec-13 10:50:21 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sysctl kern.ipc.shmmax=22 kern.ipc.shmmax: 21

shmmax tops out at 2G?

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
would like to allocate more than 2G for PostgreSQL to use ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: One OR MORE of source and destination addresses?

2004-08-04 Thread Bill Moran
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark wrote: Bill Moran wrote: How about using skipto instead of allow? Thus, if it passes the first one, it can just skipto the next rule to be checked. i.e.: ipfw add 11 skipto 12 tcp from any to me 25 setup limit dst-addr 32 ipfw add 12 allow tcp

Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems

2003-03-29 Thread Bill Moran
seems to happen the most often with bad media (i.e. disks/cds or bad disk/cd drive) I would check there first. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

[OT] POLA? (was Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs)

2001-07-20 Thread Bill Moran
Sometimes the stick of POLA should be broken. Off topic, I know, but it's going to bother me. What's POLA? -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Pflaum on BBC News TALKING POINT Globalisation Good or bad

2001-07-20 Thread Bill Moran
Does anyone have any explanation as to why this is coming through -hackers? Peter Pflaum wrote: I will be on this program Sunday at 10 - 11 AM on BBC - it is a webcast http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1444000/1444930.stm BBC News TALKING POINT Globalisation

Re: Pflaum on BBC News TALKING POINT Globalisation Good or bad

2001-07-20 Thread Bill Moran
Are you saying that he didn't even send them? Matthew Jacob wrote: No. Peter Pflaum responded when I asked him with a Quoi???!?!?!?! On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: Does anyone have any explanation as to why this is coming through -hackers? Peter Pflaum wrote

Re: Pflaum on BBC News TALKING POINT Globalisation Good or bad

2001-07-20 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Jacob wrote: My guess, fwiw, is that somebody subscribed freebsd-hackers to some eGroup toy and this is why this is happening. Joy. I don't know. If it's coming from some eGroup, why is it originating at what looks like a dialup address, and running through Earthling? Looks like SPAM

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Smith wrote: If anyone is taking a vote, I disagree. I do not want any system ever assuming anything about my network. Even Win checks with the user before enabling DHCP. Er, you *are* kidding, right? All modern Windows versions will try to get a lease long before the user has any

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
Wes Peters wrote: Just because you don't see it doesn't make it a bad idea. Network admins begged for years for a centralized IP address space management server; now that they've been given one (that works, and is FREE) people like you bitch about it and won't use it. Feh. Are you saying

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
Wes Peters wrote: Hmmm ... well, I was never upset with the crufty details ... I rather like to know what's going on under the hood all the time. Then again, that's me. If you're targeting newbies and other less-educated (or less I sure would like to figure this out inclined) people,

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
Joseph Mallett wrote: Are you saying you use DHCP for servers? If so, maybe I should shut up and listen for a while because apparently there's something here I can learn. I did for a long time because I simply couldn't get a static IP from my ISP. Hell, I'd love to use it now, then

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
David Scheidt wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: :Wes Peters wrote: : Just because you don't see it doesn't make it a bad idea. Network admins : begged for years for a centralized IP address space management server; : now that they've been given one (that works, and is FREE

Re: mail failed, returning to sender

2001-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
Has anyone else tried to contact the postmaster of this domain concerning this? If not, I'm willing to (but I don't see any need to spam him with 100 messages) -Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |- Message log follows: ---| | no valid recipients were

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Terry Lambert wrote: If you pick default installation or full installation, it _should_ try to be smart; if you pick custom installation, you chould have to babysit it like you do today. In the default case, it should attempt to obtain a DHCP lease, and, failing that, ask the user to give

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Wes Peters wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Wes Peters wrote: Oh, come now. FreeBSD's disk partitioning has always sucked. It does suck somewhat less than many Linux linstallers, and a lot less than the OpenBSD installer, but it still shoves way too many details and options

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Jordan Hubbard wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] These mechanisms existed before without BSDi, so there was no impact. Actually, ftp downloads got a LOT slower after BSDi took over, so i consider it a negative impact in that area. SNIP Elvis metaphore BSDi had no effect on

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Terry Lambert wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find the FreeBSD partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest one I've ever used. What should be changed to make it easier? 1) Buy a new laptop 2) Make the Windows partition

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
Terry Lambert wrote: If anyone is taking a vote, I disagree. I do not want any system ever assuming anything about my network. Even Win checks with the user before enabling DHCP. FYI: The networking bootstrap process I described above is derived from the process used by Windows 98 and

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
*sigh* this has gotten way off track somehow. Looking back, I'm probably primarily to blame. The fact is: *I* *AM* interested in replacing or helping out with an effort to replace/improve sysinstall. However, there are two critical things I must understand if I am to do anything truely

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Bill Moran
Terry Lambert wrote: Historically, you've always held that the CDROM must boot to sysinstall. As the software's daddy, I can see why you'd want that; but your baby is ugly. I don't see anyone stepping up to replace it any time soon, so long as you insist that they not be able to make

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-09 Thread Bill Moran
Terry Lambert wrote: 2 practical questions: What *exactly* do you see wrong with sysinstall and what *exactly* would you do to improve it. I've been looking for various projects to work on, but sysinstall has never looked (to me) like it needed any serious work. Perhaps I'm looking

Re: Quick question on kgdb

2001-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both the kernel and kernel.debug files are of exactly the same size - about 3.3 Megs . This is inspite of having the DEBUG=-g option being set in the MYKERNEL directory. Any other clues, why this could be happening. I also tried the other procedure of using 'make

Re: 2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options

2001-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
[You may get better responses if you send 2 seperate emails with one question in each] Len Conrad wrote: ad1: 73308MB IBM-DTLA-307075 [148945/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 If it's any help, I'm using that exact same drive currently and it's sort of working. I'm having trouble with random panics

Re: 2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options

2001-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Len Conrad wrote: [You may get better responses if you send 2 seperate emails with one question in each] I didnĀ“t want to send TWO OT msgs :))) Tradeoff. I almost didn't read the message because I was confused by the subject line. Other's might complain if you sent two OT messages. Hmmm

Re: 2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options

2001-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
Alex Zepeda wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:43:44AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: ad1: 73308MB IBM-DTLA-307075 [148945/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 If it's any help, I'm using that exact same drive currently and it's sort of working. I'm having trouble with random panics on this system

PANIC - 4.3-STABLE, suspecting ata controller

2001-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Hello all, I've been trying to resolve this for a few weeks now. Previous posts to -questions have produced no useful info, and I haven't found anything in the list archives that has helped. This machine is running 4.3-STABLE cvsupped from May 21. I have experienced the exact same problem with

Re: PANIC - 4.3-STABLE, suspecting ata controller

2001-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): So ... I'm looking for any possible help in straightening this out. Advice on how to run gdb more effectively is welcome, as well as anyone Hi! In the handbook there is a chapter about how to debug kernels. If you

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-15 Thread Bill Moran
Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it. I found I had some netscape interop problems. Trying hitting reload a couple of times. If you're using

Security problems with access(2)?

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
I'm working on a quick little programming project for a client and ran across this in the man page for access(2) "Access() is a potential security hole and should never be used." Obviously, I could use stat() instead, but use of access() will make this project so simple it's not even funny.

Re: Security problems with access(2)?

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
Rick Bradley wrote: * Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010331 10:48]: [...] Does anyone have a pointer to more detailed information on the potential security hole in access()? I've got a bit more research to do on this, but I'd appreciate any pointers to speed me along. I'd say

Re: Security problems with access(2)?

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
in the man page. The current message is a little harsher than needed (I think) -Bill Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Paul Herman wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Moran writes: : I'm a little confused here, if access

Re: Security problems with access(2)? - off topic

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
Greg Black wrote: Bill Moran wrote: | Thanks for the additional explanation. It has done a number of things | for me, one of which is convince me that (for my application) the use of | access() is not a security problem. You're almost certainly wrong in that conclusion; and even

Re: Security problems with access(2)? - off topic

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Moran
Mike Smith wrote: This is actually an interesting case. I have some interesting clients. The reality of the matter is that their filesystem organization on the server is terrible. This could all be solved with a properly reorganized directory hierarchy - and that was my first suggestion when