On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this
> might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now.
>
> One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of
> promoting one's own books. (I've
Guys,
If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this
might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now.
One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of
promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either
published or to-be-published. [[ .
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On 06/01/2011, at 07:02, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> (don't see why this was on -current)
>
> In response to gahn :
>> hi all:
>>
>> i set up the freeradius 21.100.1 on freebsd 8.1. it uses local
>> authentication database of /etc/passwd (thanks to the
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:13:02 -0700
Chad Perrin wrote:
> In this case, example was:
>
> cat file | foo arg
>
> . . . where it could have been:
>
> foo arg file
>
> That's just kind of absurd. I mean, that sort of usage (foo arg
> file) is exactly the purpose for which grep was designe
On 01/05/11 15:20, Gary Gatten wrote:
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Definitely not 0, b
Adam Vande More writes:
> > I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
> > processors and 6GB RAM.
> >
> > What is the recommended swap space?
>
> > I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
> > others say stay with 2 x RAM.
> >
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
> activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
> rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
> file if necessary?
Swapping to a file is really slow and should only be done if absolutely
nec
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Gary Gatten wrote:
>
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
> > activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
> > rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
> > file if necessary?
>
> Swapping
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
> activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
> rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
> file if necessary?
Swapping to a file is really slow and should only be done if absolutely
ne
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:20:48 -0600
Gary Gatten wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and
> activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without
> rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap
> file if necessary?
Swapping to a file i
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden
wrote:
Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off
relieves you of the dependency?
Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something
related to Gtk 2 in general...
It's not guten
> I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
> processors and 6GB RAM.
>
> What is the recommended swap space?
>
>
> I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
> others say stay with 2 x RAM.
>
Definitely not 0, but 2x would probably be w
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Jeff Whitman wrote:
> I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
> processors and 6GB RAM.
>
> What is the recommended swap space?
>
>
> I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
> others say stay with 2 x
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden
wrote:
> Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off
> relieves you of the dependency?
Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something
related to Gtk 2 in general...
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user
Quoth Warren Block on Wednesday, 05 January 2011:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> >Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
> >libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
> >absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
>
> package = pre-bu
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Thank you
__
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
package = pre-built, off-the-rack, one-size-fits-all.
I don't know where the de
There's prolly a 10 line function the developer didn't want to write. I've seen
some case where it takes more code to link to other packages than just write
what's needed. Drives me crazy to have to install apps that have "nothing" to
do with the app I really need...
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:19:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
> libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
> absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
Welcome to the glory of rapid application development and
"mod
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require
libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat
absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something.
--
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:15:38PM +, RW wrote:
>
> For example it's easier to edit
>
> cat file | foo
>
> into
>
> cat file | bar | foo
> or cat file? | foo
>
> than editing
>
> foo < file
>
> into
>
> bar < file | foo
> or cat file? | foo
In this case, e
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:05:14 -0800
Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 04 January 2011:
> > The weirdest thing about most useless uses of cat is that not using
> > cat would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes
> > -- as in this case.
> >
> I blame OOP. Prog
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:02:58AM +0100, n j wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for inexpensive but reliable FreeBSD VPS hosting. Any
> input coming from a positive personal experience will be most
> appreciated.
>
> So far the most likely candidate seems to be
> http://www.nqhost.com/unmetered-xen
Hi all,
FYI (and ours ;-) ) the company I work with is __planning__ on
expanding our server usage at M5 hosting (which BTW provide
outstanding support and have really great infrastructure).
Anyway, in our new servers we are going to be migrating existing
customers to Jails, and we will probably h
http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html
I just rented a jail from exonetric.net - seems ok.
FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT is on aws now ( on EU instances too yay!)
still a bit slow as hell (if you're building stuff) on t1.micros tho..
--
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IFDNRG Ltd
Web
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:46:53PM +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:10:02 +
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> > On 30/12/2010 01:21, n j wrote:
> > > Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options:
> > >
> > > http://arpnetworks.com/vps
> > > http://www.rootbsd.net/vir
(don't see why this was on -current)
In response to gahn :
> hi all:
>
> i set up the freeradius 21.100.1 on freebsd 8.1. it uses local authentication
> database of /etc/passwd (thanks to the previous discussions alan did with
> others). the problem is: it only works with the condition of the
hi all:
i set up the freeradius 21.100.1 on freebsd 8.1. it uses local authentication
database of /etc/passwd (thanks to the previous discussions alan did with
others). the problem is: it only works with the condition of the server id
running as "root" instead of "freeradius" due to the one way
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Mark Moellering wrote:
> That's an excellent point. A span port from the upstream switch/router
>
> Since I am going to be setting up a mail server sometime next week and have
> to keep things like this in mind;
> would it make sense to run pf and block all outboun
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:37:38 +0300
> Odhiambo Washington articulated:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jerry
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading
> > > to mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Po
Yes and no. You want to leave ftp open, too, just in case for port
upgrading/downloading, plus you would want to do monitoring across the wire
(Nagios or something, maybe?). You could, though, do a dual-NIC setup and have
one be a private network LAN for the servers if you aren't already conside
On 05-Jan-11 1:44 PM, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at
the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit and a host of others can
get you flow
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:10:02 +
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 30/12/2010 01:21, n j wrote:
> > Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options:
> >
> > http://arpnetworks.com/vps
> > http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/
> > http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html
> >
> > If you k
On 05/01/2011 19:09, David Demelier wrote:
On 05/01/2011 18:39, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0100,
David Demelier a écrit :
by the way xev outputs this :
The keysym is good.
IMO the problem is in the display. How do you see this text in
iso-8859-15 (download and c
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:04:03 -0500, Warren Block
wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 04/01/2011 00:51, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
No, the -R flag in portmaster tells it to not rebuild
ports taht have already been built on this run (I
believe from reading man portmaster). The
On Tue Sep 21 10, David DEMELIER wrote:
> 2010/9/21 Alexander Best :
> > On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> 2010/9/17 Alexander Best :
> >> > On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote:
> >> >> Hi there,
> >> >>
> >> >> I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so long on my
> >
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:54:58PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 05/01/2011 12:12, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I'd still like to start xdm automatically on reboot.
> > If I can't do it via /etc/ttys,
> > what would be the alternative way?
> >
>
> Well, you'ld have to start it as a daemon us
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:37:38 +0300
Odhiambo Washington articulated:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jerry
> wrote:
>
> > I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading
> > to mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Postfix and Dovecot.
> > Apparently reverting to the mysql-clien
On 05/01/2011 16:06, Gene wrote:
> I'm just upgraded from FBSD 8.0 (amd64) to 8.1, I currently run with the ZFS
> file system containing root. I understand that in the past, after rebuilding
> world and kernel and upgrading the pool to version 14, there have been some
> issues concerning bootco
On 05/01/2011 12:12, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'd still like to start xdm automatically on reboot.
> If I can't do it via /etc/ttys,
> what would be the alternative way?
>
Well, you'ld have to start it as a daemon using some sort of rc.d file.
There doesn't seem to be one supplied with the x1
On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
>> To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at
>> the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit and a host of others can
>> get you flow data with mostly minimal overhead
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:45:08 +0100
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Christopher J. Ruwe" writes:
> > I am trying to implement the feature to set a random password like
> > in BSD "pw usermod -W" in the Solaris passwd. Regrettably, I have
> > not found or perhaps not understood the PAM API documenta
I agree on this point.
That said, I once thought my employer's server was hacked and I ran local
utilities and dug through months of logs only to discover that an install of
either phpBB or phpMyAdmin had a slice of bad code that allowed someone to
install software remotely and run its own p2p
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what
> should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek=1465149167
>
> which command SHOULD report just 512 bytes wri
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
> On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell wrote:
>
>> There could be reasons you
>> aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by
>> the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase on a graph of
>> traffic on t
On 05/01/2011 18:39, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0100,
David Demelier a écrit :
by the way xev outputs this :
The keysym is good.
IMO the problem is in the display. How do you see this text in
iso-8859-15 (download and cat test.txt)?
http://user.lamaiziere.net/pa
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:07:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Do you know of any 'less useless' or more economical way to do such as:
>
> % cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot
> %
Actually, that looks like a useful use of cat, whose original purpose it
is to concatenate the conten
> teTeX is ancient and my advice would be to install TeXLive. It's not
> in ports but instructions for installing it can be found on the
> forums:
> I think TeXLive 2010 has been released and this has binaries for
> FreeBSD. You can get this from http://www.tug.org/ and installation
> should cons
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:56:33AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>
> I'm updating to teTeX-base-3.0_21. I can build the
> port, but trying to install it gives me this error:
>
> *snip*
> install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./mktex.opt
> /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.opt
> install -o root -g
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:20:02 +0100,
David Demelier a écrit :
> by the way xev outputs this :
The keysym is good.
IMO the problem is in the display. How do you see this text in
iso-8859-15 (download and cat test.txt)?
http://user.lamaiziere.net/patrick/test.txt
You should see "un œuf pour un €u
Hi All:
I'm just upgraded from FBSD 8.0 (amd64) to 8.1, I currently run with the ZFS
file system containing root. I understand that in the past, after rebuilding
world and kernel and upgrading the pool to version 14, there have been some
issues concerning bootcode not being able to read the upg
by the way xev outputs this :
KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1c1,
root 0x12c, subw 0x0, time 1519140, (917,798), root:(919,814),
state 0x90, keycode 13 (keysym 0x20ac, EuroSign), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (a4) "¤"
XmbLookupString gives 1
On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell wrote:
> There could be reasons you
> aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by
> the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase on a graph of
> traffic on the network interface if the server is busy.
Those are good
Quoth Ian Smith on Thursday, 06 January 2011:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > > > "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou
> writes:
> > >
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 04 January 2011:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > > "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou
> > > writes:
> >
> > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla
> >
> > And yet, you still have the "Useless Use of Cat".
>
El dÃa Wednesday, January 05, 2011 a las 10:41:29AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick
escribió:
> Keep getting calls from our provider at one location that our FreeBSD
> 8.0-RELEASE server is sending bursts of >1000 spam messages to >70K
> recipients. Since the first call a few weeks ago, I have MRTG
It's unlikely that the bot would relay outbound spam through your MTA -
that would be inconvenient, slow and raise some suspicion. If the
provider is right, you most likely have a bit of code running on the
server that is directly connecting to external mail servers. There
could be reasons yo
Keep getting calls from our provider at one location that our FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE server is sending bursts of >1000 spam messages to >70K
recipients. Since the first call a few weeks ago, I have MRTG and Mail
Statistics graphs setup and see no spikes in traffic. Their last
sighting was over the
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Redd Vinylene wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to set up a virtual vsftpd-ssl-2.3.2 server (FreeBSD
>>> 8.2-PRERELEASE) so my band can share new trac
On 05/01/2011 15:07, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:49:31 +0100,
David Demelier a écrit :
Hello,
Hello,
I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in
fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
As you can see here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_
Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:49:31 +0100,
David Demelier a écrit :
> Hello,
Hello,
> I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in
> fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
>
> As you can see here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 the œ
> character should be repl
Hello,
I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in
fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
As you can see here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 the œ
character should be replaced with ½, so i'm guessing if the locales are
really using ISO-8859-15 and not
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > > "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou
> > > writes:
> >
> > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | gr
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jerry wrote:
> I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading to
> mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Postfix and Dovecot. Apparently
> reverting to the mysql-client-5.5.7 corrects this problem.
>
> Can any one else confirm this or is this simpl
> Check so you not have "perl-threaded". If you have you must type
> "portupgrade -fr perl-treaded". Othervise it just do nothing.
wow that was easy. this was the problem and it's now rebuilding everything.
thanks to everyone for their advice.
jamie
_
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 03:04:44PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 27/12/2010 14:11, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On 9.0-CURRENT r216732 ia64 I get this message:
> >
> > % grep getty /var/log/messages | tail
> > Dec 27 13:26:57 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> > /dev
TIME column is supposed to show time of the process (according to its
man page).
But it seems like it only shows the time of its main thread.
Why? Bug in documentation?
Yuri
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I'm updating to teTeX-base-3.0_21. I can build the
port, but trying to install it gives me this error:
*snip*
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./mktex.opt
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.opt
install -o root -g wheel -m 555 ./mktexdir
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir
install -o root -g
I have seen it posted here and on the Dovecot forum that upgrading to
mysql-5.5.8 on FreeBSD breaks both Postfix and Dovecot. Apparently
reverting to the mysql-client-5.5.7 corrects this problem.
Can any one else confirm this or is this simply an isolated incident?
If this is correct, is there a P
"Christopher J. Ruwe" writes:
> I am trying to implement the feature to set a random password like in
> BSD "pw usermod -W" in the Solaris passwd. Regrettably, I have not
> found or perhaps not understood the PAM API documentation on how to
> _inject a given string_ into the change-auth-token func
2011-01-05 02:42, ja...@gnix.co.uk skrev:
Do you have PERL_VERSION= set correctly in /etc/make.conf?
This was set automatically when i first installed perl5.12. This line was later
over-written when perl5.10 was installed. Since i used portupgrade to change
back to perl5.12 this line has been
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