Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions. In one of my corporate sites, I've got a Tandberg Magnum 2x24 dual 10-slot tape backup device that I feel is on its way out. The storage amount for this site is adequate with the existing device and so is the performanc

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:43 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:37:59 -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: That's hardcore homie... wow! What does this box survive to do? Transparent traffic shaping/firewalling via IPFW; it's not actually visible to the internet. There isn't much l

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:35 PM, Mark Felder wrote: In production and survived many area-wide power outages: % uptime 10:34PM up 2021 days, 18:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 That's hardcore homie... wow! What does this box survive to do? Steve

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 14/06/2012 9:20 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 fwiw: %uname -a FreeBSD ..xxx 7.2

Uptime [OT]

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
I still have non-root access to a box from my old job... it is non-available and doing nothing, so updates are irrelevant: %uptime 9:01PM up 1142 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-04-24 11:50, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: My daughter is doing a touch typing course that presumes MS Word. So far she was fine with pico, but now they want the kids to practice CTRL/B (bold), CTRL/I (italic), CTRL/U (underline). She really needs to use these particular combinations because

Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
I know this is a backwards request, as I haven't had to go from mp3 to audio CD format in at least 10 years, but I do now. What is available to do so? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-03-12 15:19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit files. However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit to the shell. The client in question has strong (and unyielding) InfoSec requirements in this regard. So ..

Re: Joseph Campbell on PBS today

2012-03-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-03-11 11:38, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:16:54 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: {snip} WTF With this, the ReactOS crap, and the Microsoft sucks debacle, I woke up this morning thinking it may be April 1st :) Steve ___

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012-02-23 10:17, Erich Dollansky wrote: I suggest to everyone of you that you recommend to change/replace the unnecessary picture right in front of your website. Are you talking about this ugly ball? Some say that it is a sex toy. Don't you like sex toys? lol iirc, Ted Mittelstaedt star

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.15 19:19, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:21 -0500 Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and once this thing is started, there's no sto

Re: on hammer's, security, and centrifuges...

2012-02-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.07 07:03, Henry Olyer wrote: Look, I'm going to use FreeBSD as long as both it and I am around, it's just the best choice for me, for my user's. But we need to improve security. I'm very happy with the security and stability of FreeBSD, and praise the sec team and contributors to

Re: Add to vendors list

2012-02-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.02.06 04:02, Matthijs Openneer wrote: With this we would like to be added to your vendor list overview: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Could you please tell us what to do to make this happen. As it states within the 2nd paragraph on that page, fill out a PR (the 'problem

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.01.30 18:40, David Jackson wrote: Perhaps that is because the people who want to use packages have given up on FreeBSD. WTF?!? hint: I'm standing right beside you as you're saying this. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: IPv6 VM

2012-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2012.01.26 16:03, Robert Boyer wrote: I can probably arrange for a tunneled v6 address - should be the same thing at the end of the day…. how much time/mem you need? Thanks Robert, As far as time/mem, I'm not all too sure as it has been some time since I've run anything virtualized, so an

IPv6 VM

2012-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all! I've been away for some time, but I'm now getting back into the full swing of things. I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who can let me temporarily borrow a CLI-only clean install FBSD virtual machine with a publicly facing IPv4 and native IPv6 address. It will be extremely l

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.11.11 23:49, Adam Vande More wrote: > I thought I remembered this little gem: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177810.html LMFAO!! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-12-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.11.11 19:44, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Not this shit again... Amen! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@free

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.08 10:54, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.07.08 10:51, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> On 2010.07.08 10:00, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: >>>> It has been a long time since I've done IPSec on FBSD, but I'm willing >>>> to bet that this has to do

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.08 10:51, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.07.08 10:00, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: >>> It has been a long time since I've done IPSec on FBSD, but I'm willing >>> to bet that this has to do with routing, possibly amongst other things. >>>

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.08 10:00, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: >> It has been a long time since I've done IPSec on FBSD, but I'm willing >> to bet that this has to do with routing, possibly amongst other things. >> On peer 'B' (FBSD box), what internal IP range are you trying to access >> the A network fro

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.07 18:28, Matheus Weber da Conceição wrote: > Hello guys; > > I'm using a FreeBSD 7.0 in my firewall/gateway, and I have to connect > via VPN to a Cisco box. > > The scene here is: > > * Peer A (Cisco): 200.xxx.xxx.xxx >IPs that Peer B need to access: > - 192.168.10.24 >

Re: dealing with a possible security breach and am just trying to be careful...

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 20:19, Henry Olyer wrote: > Hi all, > > So how do I delete a running load module? What type of module... a kernel module?: load: pearl# kldload smbfs unload: pearl# kldunload smbfs Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: best open source site for Bourne .sh development project?

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 19:37, Fbsd8 wrote: > I developing a jailed environment application in Bourne script. Looking > for recommends for a open source web site to join and add my code to so > others may participate. The site needs to be able to host the code to be > used as the download location for a free

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 12:57, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Modulok wrote: >> >> Criteria: >> - HostA must never directly talk to HostB. >> - Both hostA and hostB have an Internet connection. >> >> What I have to work with: >> proCurve switch which supports VLANs

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.05 14:36, Nathan Vidican wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Modulok wrote: > >> It was a simplified diagram of what I thought I needed. ( Which may or >> may not be what I actually need! ) >> >> Basically, I want a port on the switch that I can plug un-trusted >> devices into. Sy

Re: Problem installing Backula-bat

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.17 07:38, Cato Myhrhagen wrote: > when i go into the Xorg window and > types bat (is this the correct way to start BAT by the way), I get the > message that the command is not found. I am now thinking that the > installation did not succeed and that I have to do somthing else to fix the

Re: .sh & getopts

2010-06-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.04 00:35, Aiza wrote: > Have this code > > shift; while getopts :ugr: arg; do case ${arg} in >u) action="freebsd-update";; >g) action="freebsd-upgrade";; >r) action="freebsd-rollback";; >?) exerr ${cmd_usage};; > esac; done; shift $(( ${OPTION} -1 )) > > > Command bein

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 18:35, Fbsd1 wrote: > Walt Pawley wrote: >> On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: >> >>> Been using ee and been happy. >>> >>> Now I have need for an editor with block commands. >> >> I'd suggest looking into aee. > > > That has what I am looking and so simple. Simple is in the eye of

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 20:40, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. > > I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing, > i

Re: text editor and your postscript

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote: >> To Matthias Apitz [ ...snip ...] >> Yours sincerely >> Richard Farnes > > I don't recall any "netiquette" rules about making your signature block > on-topic. Aren't you getting a bit

Cloning question

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
I've written a few "howto"'s on backup/restore/cloning in the past, but now I have a question that I hope to have quickly answered. I'm not looking for criticism on my approach, only on whether it will work. With that said, I'll lay out my scenario and my questions. Scenario: - live web server (

Re: Searching for functions in Perl code

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.19 22:05, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Bertrand writes: > > Steve> This is how I produce the list of all sub-routines within all module > Steve> files, which includes the module name and sub. > > See "perldoc

Searching for functions in Perl code

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
This is more of a handy how-to than it is a question. A permanent 'howto' as it were. A Perl project I'm working on contains 457 functions (ie. subroutines (ie methods)), and even though I have documentation for all of them, sometimes it is handy to have a list in front of me. This is how I produ

Re: Find a file with an unknown name

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.17 22:17, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Bertrand writes: > > Steve> What command string do I use to search a directory structure for a > file, > Steve> when my search pattern only matches content and not filename?

Find a file with an unknown name

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I want to find a file that was recently created. The content within the file is known, so I can grep for that. The directory structure that contains the file is also known. The filename is not known. What command string do I use to search a directory structure for a file, when my search pattern o

Re: 100Mb LAN hardware

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.17 20:40, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm cleaning up my office, and I've come across a piece of hardware that > has been successfully hacked with FBSD as a FW/GW in the past. I also have (found) two Cisco Catalyst 2924 switches that I will get rid of too. ...and

Re: 100Mb LAN hardware

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.17 20:40, Steve Bertrand wrote: > The unit is a Multi-Tech RF600VPN device, and it contains three 100Mbps > interfaces. > > I'd like to give this away. fwiw... I am an hour east of Toronto, Ontario. ...Canada. -sb ___

100Mb LAN hardware

2010-05-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm cleaning up my office, and I've come across a piece of hardware that has been successfully hacked with FBSD as a FW/GW in the past. The last time the hardware ran, it was from a 2GB CF card, but it also has a fully capable IDE channel that does work (that's how I installed FBSD onto the CF car

Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Marc, et-al, I wasn't originally going to post this to the list, but I thought that it would be useful to do so in order to try to solicit feedback. There's a suggestion that I have for the server-side of bsdstats. I would find it very useful if the server could track the % of the reporting conne

Re: Disabling IPv4 in Sendmail

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.27 13:05, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to configure an MTA/MSA using Sendmail on FreeBSD 8. ...sorry for the noise all... I got it by adding the following to the main .mc file: FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl ...thereafter: Apr 27 13:08:00 on

Disabling IPv4 in Sendmail

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I'm trying to configure an MTA/MSA using Sendmail on FreeBSD 8. The catch is, is that I don't have any IPv4 addresses on the box (not even loopback). I'm almost there, but I'm still missing something. Here is what I've changed in my configs: In submit.mc, per the documentation, I've cha

Re: hacked?

2010-04-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.14 18:56, Steve Franks wrote: > I don't have bsdstats or similar that I'm aware of installed, so this > smells bad: You have an incredibly poor sense of smell. > Firewall is showing repeated attempts from your FreeBSD machine to > connect to port 25 (standard SMTP mail port) on a serve

Re: IPFW and separate data files.

2010-04-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.12 14:15, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:04:48 -0400, Steve Bertrand > articulated: > >> On 2010.04.11 11:57, Jerry wrote: >>> I am using IPFW on a FreeBSD-7.3 machine. Presently, I am loading >>> several tables for IPFW. So far, I have just ke

Re: IPFW and separate data files.

2010-04-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.11 11:57, Jerry wrote: > I am using IPFW on a FreeBSD-7.3 machine. Presently, I am loading > several tables for IPFW. So far, I have just keep the data for the > tables in the actual "ipfw-rules" referenced in the 'rc.conf' file > itself. What I would like to do is keep the data for thes

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.06 17:10, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Now, on the other hand, emacs rules, vi sucks. :-) :-) ok, ok. I was on the side of Perl, and was content following this thread, but now I don't like you anymore :P heh ;) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.16 15:25, alexus wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke wrote: >> On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: >> >>>> The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III >>>> processo

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.11 23:29, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. > This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest > version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x > and after doing all th

Re: Mailing lists link in handbook redirects to......

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.26 08:22, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > On 2010-02-26 12:41, Glen Barber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Leslie Jensen wrote: >>> This address >>> >>> http://searchportal.information.com/?o_id=94081&domainname=lists.freebsd.org >>> >>> >>> I'm trying to subscribe to freebsd-emulation but I end up at

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.19 16:11, gahn wrote: > Hi, all: > > How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of > course with a space in between? Yes. Using the word 'this' as an example: 100ithis Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Jailcfg - A new tool for creating small(!) jails

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aiza wrote: > Christer Solskogen wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Aiza wrote: >> >>> Your URL dont work >>> >> >> Yes, it does :) But you need mercurial to get the source. >> But the project also have a "homepage" - >> http://code.google.com/p/jailcfg/ >> >> > Hay wake up. Nobody is goin

Re: documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Robert Huff wrote: > Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the > Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. > Quote: > > IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a > separate run time loadable module. The system will

Re: How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jun Furukawa wrote: > Hi, > For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). [ big snip ] > How can I solve this problem? Subscribe to freebsd-hackers@, and post your message there. Hopefully they can help. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service > might be 'fun' .. ... > Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for > your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I suppose, but > much mroe secure for when pe

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: > I want to find out what I can monitor with it. I don't know enough about it > to know if it will be useful to me. I'm an old hardware guy and I've been > Admin'ing my own systems for many years. I am having a hard time finding > pertinent documentation. > > I know o

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 08:23:16 pm Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Steven Friedrich wrote: >>> I have three ports installed: >>> bsnmptools-0.0.20060818_2 Snmp client tools >>> mbrowse-0.3.1_8 An SNMP MIB Browser for X >&g

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: > I'm running 8-Stable, and ports are current. > > I'm installing snmp support, mostly just to investigate it. > > I have three ports installed: > bsnmptools-0.0.20060818_2 Snmp client tools > mbrowse-0.3.1_8 An SNMP MIB Browser for X > net-snmp-5.4.2.1_6 An extendabl

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: > 2010/1/26 Ross Penner > >> That seems to have been the problem. >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, George Liaskos >> wrote: >>> I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under >>> /zroot/boot/zfs. > once you have generated the zpo

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I need to set up a machine so that I can type "ssh [host]" as root from > some other host and I get a prompt with super user privs... I already > have set this up for u...@host for root and ssh host for normal users... > but root still asks for a password after I set the

High availability SQL server setup

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, For some time, I've been considering consolidating all/most of our SQL databases (all MySQL) onto a single dedicated cluster setup. I'm looking for feedback on the best way to do this. All of the options I've considered so far have both their drawbacks and benefits. From what I can tell,

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Diego Montalvo wrote: > weird, I had restarted FreeBSD, and did not work, needed to completely > close down, reopen virtualbox and relaunch FreeBSD... DHCP kicked > in! Danke! Niets te danken ;) I didn't know that you were using Virtualbox. Since I've never used it before, I don't know how tha

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Diego Montalvo wrote: >> I am temporarily at a different location for the next day or so, and >> need to connect to the internet via FreeBSD. My initial Network >> settings where detected during setup using DCHP. How do can I have >> FreeBSD a

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Diego Montalvo wrote: > I am temporarily at a different location for the next day or so, and > need to connect to the internet via FreeBSD. My initial Network > settings where detected during setup using DCHP. How do can I have > FreeBSD automatically detect the new network settings via DCHP? # d

Re: Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: > > > 2010/1/11 Steve Bertrand mailto:st...@ibctech.ca>> > > All, > > I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can > import/mount the pool properly. > > However, I designed this box originally s

Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
All, I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can import/mount the pool properly. However, I designed this box originally so that it mounts / from zfs:storage after booting from a USB stick. After the upgrade of the disks, I'm stuck at a mountroot prompt when I attempt t

Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Nerius Landys wrote: >> I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing >> system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an >> ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of >

Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: > I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing > system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an > ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of > one server to a temporary mount point on the other server, an

Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > krad wrote: > >>>> the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names >>> themselves. >>> >>> I personally haven't run into any bad problems using the full device, but >>> I suppose it could be a p

Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: >>> the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names >> themselves. >> >> I personally haven't run into any bad problems using the full device, but >> I suppose it could be a problem. (Side note - geom should learn how to >> parse zfs labels so it could create something l

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Hmmm. This config does not work: >> >> ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192" >> ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255" >&g

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Hmmm. This config does not work: >> >> ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192" >> ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255" >&g

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > Funny. My IPv6 config works like a charm, on both 7.2-STABLE and > 8.0-STABLE. Related config settings look like this: > > gif_interfaces="gif0" > gifconfig_gif0="81.187.76.162 81.187.81.6" > > i

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bogdan Webb wrote: > I'm having problems with the /etc/rc.conf setup of a ipv6 tunnel on my > FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 > It`s a particular issue on the ipv6_defaultrouter config, it jost does not > work... > Upon network and routing restart ipv6 is enabled the gif interface are given > ip's and every

Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I've got a 7.2 system with four 500GB drives, originally built thusly: # zpool history History for 'storage': 2008-07-11.23:15:40 zpool create storage raidz ad4 ad5 ad6 ad7 I just bought four 1.5TB drives, in which I want to use to replace the 500GBs. Also, I've been loosely follow

Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Steve > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Hi all, happy holidays! >> >> I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: >> >> alias srm find . -name "*~" | xargs rm >> > > Try enc

Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, happy holidays! I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: alias srm find . -name "*~" | xargs rm ...so that I have an easy way to remove the temp files left by svn. After adding the alias, logging out and then back in, I get an error stating: acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % srm srm: Command n

Re: Starting sshd, ssh connections

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote: >> On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get >> past "Starting sshd.". >> I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8 >> # ssh r...@192.168.75.8 >> or #

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Gary Kline wrote: > ariatotle is offline; i'm exclusively on my new server. will somebody please > do a digg thought.org and see if they see what i see? > > hope i get this. % whois thought.org Name Server:NS1.THOUGHT.ORG Name Server:ETHIC.THOUGHT.ORG % dig ns1.thought.org ;; ANSWE

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jerry wrote: > Out of pure morbid curiosity, would you please answer this question for > me. > > You work for a corporation that specifically requires the use of > a specific OS, the OS itself is not material to this question. It also > forbids the use of any unauthorized OS or equipment on the c

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > >> >From my information security manager: >> >> FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a >> (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example: >> >> >> http://www.h-online.com/sec

Re: Apache22 + Subversion 1.6.6 = No go.

2009-11-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Johnson wrote: I just happened to notice something in the log as I was about to go off and check my own setup: > [Thu Nov 19 09:36:10 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.12] > (20014)Internal > error: Can't open file '/usr/home/svn/repos/default/format': No such > file or directo

Re: Measuring disk I/O

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: > A friend and I are working on a small video-game related project as a > hobby. We're running several scripts 24/7 that make lots of calls to > a MySQL database. The mysql server process shows an average CPU use > of 1% (reported by top) and it never goes above about 2% The

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: > Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >> Hi, > >>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > >>> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > >>> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that >>> address. >>> unfortunately ho

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: > > permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 > > so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. > unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. It do

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: > Ok, > tell me just how nuts this idea is. In addition to my other post: I like your mentality of trying to do whatever you can to create redundancy. I've often tried to think of ways to use DNS to make things redundant and resilient. Keep up trying new ways to stretch things

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: > Ok, > tell me just how nuts this idea is. imho, your thought-process is not nuts. I can see what you are trying to do, so kudos given for trying to work it out with what you have. > To recap, two pipes, one destination. > I set up second DNS server. > ns1.example.com at 70.65.

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. Are you sure about that? AFAIK, all system reports are sent with the sendmail binary. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Neal Hogan wrote: Aha! Gotcha! Whoever wrote that has made an unintentionnal booboo. It is a subtle difference and is indicative that whoever wrote it is not a native english user... the meaning is clearly "should be executed, done, carried out, performed" - should work means it

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
PJ wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> PJ wrote: >> >>> Polytropon wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ wrote: >>>> >> >>>>> but from man tunefs: >>>>> BUGS >>>

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bob Hall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:27:42PM -0400, PJ wrote: >> Polytropon wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ wrote: but from man tunefs: BUGS This utility should work on active file systems. What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
PJ wrote: > Polytropon wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ wrote: >>> but from man tunefs: >>> BUGS >>> This utility should work on active file systems. >>> What in hades does this mean--just above it says cannot be run on active >>> file systems. ??? >>> >> It "should". This me

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: > My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I > need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially > /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup > (and what I've done in the past) is to take a full low-level dd im

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: > My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I > need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially > /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup > (and what I've done in the past) is to take a full low-level dd im

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Liddell wrote: > >> Do a: >> >> %pkg_version -v > ~/pv.out >> >> ...and then review the ~/pv.out file *manually* to see if you can >> identify any oddities. (yes, grep is good and grep is great, but I've >> missed obvious things by grep'ing the pkg db in the past). >> >> I'm personally not

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Liddell wrote: > im running AMD64 FreeBSD7.2-STABLE latest src//kernel and ports so far > as what depends on various QT4 pkgs ... > > Everything comes down to this 1 port but yet i removed all of them an it > still cracks .. what am i missing or havent read... What exactly are you doing th

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brian McCann wrote: > I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install, using > an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine. The machine uses the NetXtreme II card. > The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a link, but the card > shows no carrier in the setup. It started workin

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> >>> Gary Kline wrote: >>> > >>> > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a >>> > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char >>> to be >>> >

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Lars Eighner wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Gary Kline wrote: > >> >> Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a >> text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be >> used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate >> hex back into ', ",

Re: Multihome on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-10-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > I have a DELL server with dual port nic card on it. The NICs are connected to > the same VLAN. > I would like to configure the server so that both NIC cards are redundant > that if one goes down the second one would pick up and continue. So I would > need both p

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