Re: good morning to all

2009-06-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
> * malathi selvaraj wrote: >> i am new one to freeBSD, kindly guide me > > Sure. In order to be eligible to use FreeBSD, you must buy a license > for > $ 100,-. I expect this money to be transferred to my bank account as > soon as possible. The IBAN number is: > > NL30ABNA0385823426 > Yo

Re: Simulating bad network conditions

2009-02-18 Thread Tim Clewlow
Here is a link to a mailing list post about a patch to give dummynet support in pf. It is _fairly_ recent and so may still be a little buggy, but the poster seems quite confident that it works as intended. http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd...@freebsd.org/msg03857.html Cheers, Tim. > On 2009-0

Re: What file on FreeBSD acts like autoexec.bat?

2008-09-28 Thread Tim Clewlow
> What file on FreeBSD acts like autoexec.bat? > Also please leave the full path% > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >Fr

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <[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 of FreeBSD

Re: IPv6 CVS

2008-08-05 Thread Tim Clewlow
> 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 but > it dosent have an record. > > Ta > > Peg > dig cvsup4.freebsd.org ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> cvsup4.freebsd.org ;

Re: Fwd: Q: case studies about scalable, enterprise-class firewall w/ IPFilter

2008-08-05 Thread Tim Clewlow
> > Hello, > > I've posted the attached mail in the IP Filter mailing list; the > only > responses have been bad configured vacation replies :-( > > someone from freebsd-hackers has an idea? thanks in advance > > matthias > > - Forwarded message from Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
> Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks. > > -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop: >> /usr/sbin/ >>postdrop >> >>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not >> owner+group+world >>executable: /u

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-03 Thread Tim Clewlow
> Robert Watson wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Lothar Braun wrote: >> >>> Robert Watson wrote: >>> My primary concern about some of these replacement installer projects is that they've placed a strong focus on making them graphical -- I actually couldn't care less about GUI

ICANN votes to expand domain name character set

2008-06-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi there, In case you haven't heard yet, ICANN have unanimously voted their approval to expand the domain name character set to include Asian, Middle Eastern, Eastern European and Russian character sets in domain names. In addition, top level domains will have their restrictions removed, ie any no

PXE on 7.0 problem and solution

2008-02-28 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi there, Installing 7.0 via PXE has a slight problem that is easily worked around. The file /boot/mfsroot.gz on the installation media needs to be unzipped to make PXE boot via tftp/nfs work. Otherwise the loader ultimately complains that it cant find the device to boot from. For example, if you

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Dimitry Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-23 02:08, Atom Smasher wrote: > > article below. does anyone know how this affects eli/geli? > > > > from the geli man page: "detach - Detach the given providers, which means > > remove the devfs entry and clear the keys from memory." d

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Pieter de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > It's interesting that you classified this as a "feature" (in quotes), > > because there's nothing "modern" about said "feature". This issue has > > existed since the beginning of RAM chip engineering; I can even confir

Re: firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with > flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous > technology in websites. is there any progress on this? > i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop > Hi there, I have native firef

Re: Project Ideas and a question

2007-10-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- David Naylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The question first: init does allow a chroot before booting the system > however > does it allow the first device to be unmounted and use the new chroot as the > root device. If it does how can that be achieved. > > My motivation for th

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > --- Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > ... > > > > > > > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and > > > without having to d

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having thought this over some more, if a > > shred/scramble/scrub command is created in its own > > right, then a number of new features could be > added > > that do not currently exist. > > > - The command could be writen to protect a single > > fi

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Clewlow
ack that calls > "shred" and returns with error every time the latter > does. > > These are my 1.99 cents. > > > - Daniel > > > - Original Message > From: Tim Clewlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if I tuned in late:-) > > I vote for taking *out* -P. It is an ill-designed > feature. > Or if you keep it, also add it to mv, cp -f & ln -f > since > these commands can also unlink a file and once > unlinked in > this matter you can't scrub it