Re: Discussing ideas or wish list

2013-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/08/2013 16:36, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013, at 10:34, Mark Felder wrote: >> After the EoL of FreeBSD 8 (estimated June 30, 2015) the old package >> tools are scheduled to be removed from FreeBSD. This change will be >> MFC'd back to 9-STABLE and the release at that time (perhaps

Re: Vice versa of 'pkg_info -W'

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/01/2013 17:55, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > For example: > # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx > /usr/local/bin/lynx was installed by package lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > > # pkg_deinstall lynx-2.8.7.2,1 > > # pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx > pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/lynx: file cannot be found > > >

Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/07/2012 19:06, Yuri wrote: > It would be useful to have a command that finds the port name(s) by the > command name when needed though. > Today, for example, while searching for package that has a command > 'svlc' I do 'cd /usr/ports && make search key=svlc' and it finds nothing > instead of

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/07/2012 19:09, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:05:42 -0500, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> Using a third-party's name servers is not an option > > And how can you trust that your port 53 TCP/UDP traffic isn't being > redirected and you're talking to the real root servers? I think

Re: Gentoo Solution to Nanny Terminal Problem

2012-07-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/07/2012 15:58, Sean wrote: > > On 05/07/2012, at 10:02 PM, Richard Yao wrote: >> >> The second is the e-file command, which will query that database for >> whatever follows it. For example, if I want to find out which package >> installs repoman, I can do `e-file repoman`. I can also do `e-f

Re: TeXLive merge into FreeBSD ports tree - FreeBSD project idea

2012-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/06/2012 21:41, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > In portage, there is a knob package_provided meaning that the package > referenced as being provided is installed externally and that portage > does not need to resolve said dependancy, as it is already there. > > I do not know of a similar FreeBSD

Re: [ANN] host-setup 4.0 released

2012-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/01/2012 18:11, Devin Teske wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman >> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:07 AM >> To: freebsd-hack

Re: [ANN] host-setup 4.0 released

2012-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/01/2012 17:59, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 4. Prefixing the IPv6 address with fe80: generally means it's an IPv4 > -> IPv6 address (IIRC). Nope. That's a link-local address. Any NIC can configure itself with and address using that prefix and a host part generated from the MAC address completel

Re: [ANN] host-setup 4.0 released

2012-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/01/2012 16:52, Rick Macklem wrote: > The basics are in RFC4291, but I think that inet_pton(3) knows how to > deal with it. (I think "::" can be used once to specify the longest # > of 16bit fields that are all zeros.) RFC 4291 has a basic description of the textual representation of IPv6 add

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/10/2011 09:43, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > While we're at it, I'd be very grateful if someone could email me a > quick and dirty guide to setting up an LDAP server for testing. I have > too much on my plate right now to start reading documentation... The Quick Start guide on the OpenLDAP s

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/04/2011 16:53, Garrett Cooper wrote: > One thing I've been curious about for a while that I haven't had an > opportunity to look into is: what does IPV6 look like? I understand > that the /netmask bit is added to the end of addresses, but what does > the netmask actually look like? Like this

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2011 18:08, Devin Teske wrote: > $ time blen2netmask 26 > 255.255.255.192 > > real0m0.004s > user0m0.001s > sys 0m0.004s > > That's pretty fast, I'd say ^_^ (faster than the other implementations > -- especially considering that it doesn't have to fork anything). There are o

Re: Slow disk access while rsync - what should I tune?

2010-10-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/10/2010 14:15, cronfy wrote: > I tried to enable async (in hope it will make rsync faster) or even > disable softupdates on /backup partition (in hope it will make rsync > slower and OS filesytem cache will not be flushed by backups), it did > not help. I also want to try to upgrate to Adapte

Re: virtual machine on mac os x 10.6 to run FreeBSD ?

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/03/2010 12:41:57, Jiandong Lu wrote: > I have a macbook pro,and I want to do hack onFreeBSD.I have tried sun > virtualbox,and failed to install FreeBSD 8 on virtualbox. Works for me. IIRC the trick was to tick the 'Enable IO APIC' check box.

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

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 10:13:21, Paul Wootton wrote: > Sorry to hi-jack your thread, but this is also something I am currently > looking in to > > I really wanted to use Sendmail as a friend knows Sendmail fairly well > and I have a Sendmail book, but what I

Re: Jail on 2 interfaces?

2009-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mel Flynn wrote: Hi, I don't see this documented in jail(8) nor rc(8) nor defaults/rc.conf, so is it possible to have 2 IP's on 2 ethernet interfaces? And if so, is it settable for rc(8)? The usage case is to have the same jailed proxy server on two seperate internal networks. Ideally, the

Re: small usr.bin/find patch

2009-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Alexander Best wrote: > hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate > kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard > telling app developers what to use? Sure. The standard for scale-prefixes is defined by the Systeme Internationale as pa

Re: gcache [was: Re: 3x read to write ratio on dump/restore]

2009-01-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Christian Brueffer wrote: | On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:41:11AM +0100, Christoph Mallon wrote: |> Yoshihiro Ota schrieb: |>> Try GEOM Cache(gcache). |> Just a side note: gcache does not seem to have any documentation. "man |> gcache" is unsuccessf

Re: Severe DNS Problems, 6.2-RELEASE, BIND 9.5.2

2008-10-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having severe DNS problems. I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, and I upgraded to the bind9 port (after cvsup) on July 14. Starting yesterday morning, DNS became very, very slow. If I repeated a "dig" command three or four times, I could get an answer after 20-30 seconds. Th

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Oliver Fromme wrote: | Ollivier Robert <> wrote: | > According to Henrik Hudson: | > > Yeap, -security | > > | > > However, also try this in pf.conf (specific rules related to this; you'll need | > > more for a real pf.conf): | > > | >

Re: SSH Brute Force attempts

2008-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: You naturally have to keep pf.conf.ssh-* in sync if you have multiple machines. You can use pfsync(4) to accomplish this task (I think), or you can do it the obvious way (make a central distribution box that scp/rsync's the files out and runs "/etc/rc.d/pf reload"). pfs

Re: Temp files in /etc

2008-09-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Joshua Piccari wrote: I have a shared /etc folder that is mounted read-only to the different jails that share it. Some of the configuration files which need to be dynamic from jail to jail are replaced with symbolic links to the jails /usr/local/etc folder. The reason for mount /etc as read-only

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To who it may concern, I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to increase the administrative capability

Re: IPv6 CVS

2008-08-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Stefan Sperling wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:16:35PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, 19:52+1000, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there are any IPv6 CVS servers for FreeBSD? (As in receiving the STABLE and ports branches) I currently use cvs.freebsd.org bu

Re: embedding pdf viewers in firefox

2008-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > as you can see, i am running the freeBSD OS. i have a gnome desktop. i > usually run firefox browser (i note that gnome has built in browser > called ephinany). i am dissatisfied with the fact that if i browse to a > webpage

Re: Fetching thermal information from HP servers

2008-01-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: >> Any ideas what could be done to make the hardware sensors usable on HP >> servers? I have a bunch of DL3xx, BL2xp, BL4xxc machines running FreeBSD >> and al

Re: Tar output mode for installworld

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tim Kientzle wrote: >> Being able to record a series of incremental changes in a filesystem >> hierarchy, and then roll them back as required. That would be >> exceedingly useful, and I think your 'ntree' format has virtually >> everything necessary

Re: Tar output mode for installworld

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tim Kientzle wrote: > Paul Schenkeveld wrote: >> Having a file describing everything that gets installed would also >> benefit >> later upgrades to a system. > > One of my questions: Does my proposed format suffice for these > other purposes? If

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ivan Voras wrote: > Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make >> index" and pkg_version and things like that. So for example, in >> pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKGNAME" for every ins

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make > index" and pkg_version and things like that. So for example, in > pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKGNAME" for every installed package. Now > "

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Matthew Seaman wrote: > I can certainly add a check for duplicate PKGNAME and emit warnings. In > order to be sure of getting the canonical INDEX-N you'ld need a system > with no ports installed. Well, other than p5-FreeBSD

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Extra whitespace I can fix for you -- it's just the COMMENT field which > is affected IIRC. I just copy the string exactly as shown in the port's > Makefile. make index collapses multiple whitespace to

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:46:17AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> The problem is that maintaining the INDEX is expensive and/or tricky. >>> p5-FreeBSD-Portindex c

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Kris Kennaway wrote: > The problem is that maintaining the INDEX is expensive and/or tricky. > p5-FreeBSD-Portindex comes close but seems to have some wrinkles. If you'ld just tell me what you perceive the wrinkles to be, then I'd have a fighting c

Re: User mounting take 2

2006-04-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/homes/home/%u/smb_homesmbfsrw,noauto,user > 0 0 > > Then, a user could just run, for example: > > mount /home/marcus/smb_home > > And their SMB home directory would get mounted (~/.nsmbrc is also > respected). Nice. Very nice.

Re: Using any network interface whatsoever

2006-04-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >> So I doubt that the overwriting of an Ingres database really >> happened in Solaris, like some other poster described - unless the >> administrator fiddled with /etc/path_to_inst by hand (you are free >> to shoot

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disks as RAID

2005-02-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:33:09PM -0800, Amandeep Pannu wrote: > I have this Supermicro MB P4SCI and I am using the onboard SATA > controllers and making a RAID of two Seagate 80Gb SATA drives but when I > try to install FreeBSD 4.11 it doesnt see the drives configured as RAID. > Any ideas as if

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: > > > Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B > > > sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: > Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for > the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp > directory for PHP, NFS resource which will be mounted on all the > 'front' webservers. I am won

Re: testing for substrings in perl

2003-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:32:11AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi, > > I have a perl regex to test if a file resides under a particular > directory. The test looks like this: > > if ($filename =~ $directory) { ># yes, this filename resides under directory > } > > This is working for most c

Re: My jail can not ssh..

2003-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:16:31AM +0800, maillist bsd wrote: > I am just testing jail on my FreeBSD4.8-stable box, i found i can not ssh to the > jail environment, but i can telnet to jail environment, the sshd is running both > inside and outside jail. What's the problem. This is [EMAIL PROT

Re: kern/40611 linux compatibility fix

2003-03-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:47:42PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:47:42AM -0800, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > > Dear Hackers, > > > > > > Is there any chance that the patch given in kern/40611 could be > > > committed to the 4-STABLE tree? It has the desirable effect of making >

kern/40611 linux compatibility fix

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dear Hackers, Is there any chance that the patch given in kern/40611 could be committed to the 4-STABLE tree? It has the desirable effect of making eg. the linux-sun-jdk14 port usable as a non-root user. This would appear to my untutored eye to be a sub-set of the differences already existing be

Re: Resizing file-backed vnode disklabels

2003-02-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:30:52PM -0800, Hans Zaunere wrote: > > Fairly straight forward question I suppose. I'm creating several file-backed > vnode devices on a single physical disklabel to support some jails. If I > start the file at 1gb is it possible to increase the file without losing the

Re: Multi-threaded or async Mozilla (NSPR, really)

2002-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:56:46PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > >> I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even with the > >> serialized DNS

Re: Multi-threaded or async Mozilla (NSPR, really)

2002-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even with the > serialized DNS lookups. If nslookup replies within fractions of a second, > why doesn't Moz?? Take a look at look at the getaddrinfo(3) man page and then try d

Re: Perl issue on freebsd 4.x?

2002-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:40:21PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:45:34PM -0600, GB Clark wrote: > > What version of Perl is this? > > > > I've used syslogging with FreeBSD 4.4/4.5. Have not tried it lately. > > /usr/bin/perl as shipped on 4.4, 4.5,

Re: X11 display problem

2002-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:52:32PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > --nolisten-tcp was added deliberately for security reasons: see the > commit logs (it's also documented clearly at the top of the startx > manpage). It sounds like an oversight that xdm doesn't do this; I've > asked the XFree86 main

Re: Perl module for periodic scripts

2001-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
sthetic to me. On the other hand, FreeBSD /bin/sh is a lot more like Solaris /bin/ksh than it is like Solaris /bin/sh. Cyrille's ksh code should port fairly readily to FreeBSD /bin/sh. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman Tel: 01628 498661 Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Perl module for periodic scripts

2001-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:57:46AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > To: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Perl module for periodic scripts > Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail-Copies-To: never > From: Cyr

Perl module for periodic scripts

2001-06-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dear all, I've slung together a tiny little perl module to enable periodic(8) scripts to access periodic.conf(5) settings without having to use sh(1). I thought it might be useful to some, so I tidied it up and made it available for download at: http://www.plasm.demon.co.uk/Free

Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab)

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
anyone is counting, put me down as one who thinks the DST hack is a good idea. -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NU Tel: +44 20 7631 4644 x229 Fax: +44 20 7631 4844 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kernel type

2000-12-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
nd which was pretty much stock BSD 4.3, it was very important in the AppKit --- NeXT's real stock in trade. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NU Tel: +44 20 7631 464

Re: How to make *real* random bits.

2000-08-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
000 samples per second. Efficiently converting the normally distributed white noise samples to the evenly distributed random numbers most computer uses require is left as an exercise for the student. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthe

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
er.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html for some pre-canned recipies that will block e-mails with this infection. Worked perfectly here. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London,