Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Bruce Cran wrote: On 10/14/2013 6:16 PM, CeDeROM wrote: Isn't there Journal to prevent and reverse such damage? Unlike other journaling filesystems, UFS+J only protects the metadata, not the data itself - i.e. I think it ensures you won't have to run a manual fsck, bu

Re: Commercial Licensing

can make commercial use of the device inside your firm of GPL code without violating the GPL. This is often forgotten in discussion, and leads to unnecessary worry. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: 2 lines

enerally come with built in software to do dynamic updates of DNS, that I understand works, provided you don't have unreasonable expectations about reliability. Just because some institutions can't stand 5 minutes of downtime doesn't mean there isn't a legitimate use for facili

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

en read since. The ZFS scrub processes only sectors with data, so it provides only partial protection against double failures. Daniel Feenberg NBER -- Steve O'Hara-Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: your mail

See http://www.nber.org/prefs/ On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Upali Kulasekara wrote: Thank you very much for subscribing me for your mailing list. Upali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

not lead to improved security, if it leads to programs and daemons that would otherwise run as nobody having to run with root priviledges. daniel feenberg I understand that launching a "chmod 700 /root" it's a matter of something between 1 and 3 seconds. I do also understand th

Re: Restarting exports disturbs clients

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Graham Allan wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-05-03 12:49, Daniel Feenberg skrev: When we change the exportfs file on our FreeBSD 9.1 fileserver: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` That seems a bit harsh, try /etc/rc.d

Restarting exports disturbs clients

is an NFS shutdown procedure that we should be using? Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD-update?

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a k

Re: FreeBSD-update?

issue Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Client Authentication

for them. Can you filter outgoing mail with Spamassassin? How about refusing to relay mail from addresses in a good DNSBL? Do you rate-limit outgoing mail? Can you just refuse to relay mail from other continents, using a geolocation service? daniel feenberg -- Doug

Re: Dumb down a Netgear Smart Switch

, port negotiation, etc) but I am confident that none are set in the factory default configuration. (Stick a pin in the hole while power cycling). daniel feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Revoke a DHCP lease early?

ou modified the entry in the dhcpd.conf file and restarted dhcpd that the client would be assigned (and use) a new address the next time it tried to renew (which is typically when half the lease has been used up). My view tends to be confirmed here - http://www.cites.illinois.edu/ipam/leas

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

ask is incorrect. The lack of a domain should not be a problem. daniel feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

purpose of the server is? Mission-critical or low cost? Those two tends to be mutually exclusive... Surely the presence of SATA drives shows that low cost is essential. Mirroring and ZFS provide very important advantages. HW raid seems to fill a much needed gap (apologies to Brian Kernigan).

Re: Problems with diskless/nfs

for our experiences with diskless boot. daniel feenberg NBER Any help is welcome. /B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? In the last paragraph of our description of PXE booting FreeBSD: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html we

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote: I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many proble

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:43:06 +0100 Polytropon articulated: Allow me to provide just

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

g the insisting. It is only when FreeBSD is more widely used that it can adopt the role of enforcing standards on vendors, and it can not become widely used if it starts insisting on standards prematurely. daniel feenberg -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

indows box and install FreeBSD over the existing windows install. It will work fine and won't cost you anything. daniel feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: How to refresh network card buffer?

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Cos wrote: Hi all The background is I have around 100pcs router-like products. they all have a fixed IP address 192.168.1.100 and of course different MAC address. I need to connect them one by one to configure. The trouble is while I disconnect one unit and change to a

Re: On-access AV scanning

n our FreeBSD based mailserver, but the viruses it looks for are Windows viruses. I don't know if that will satisfy your IT policy. Maybe you should be looking at Cygwin? Or, can FreeBSD run under HyperV? daniel feenberg NBER of dismissal. I don't want to lose my job, because you sai

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar articulated: 1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing higher than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically= destroyed before leving the secure area. no. for mo

Re: power failure, boot, and fsck

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/07/2012 04:22, Patrick Donnelly wrote: UFS: /dev/ad10s3f (/usr) Automatic file system check failed, help! error aborting boo (sending sigtem to parent)! init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode. enter full pathna

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

it is complete, and the flashing light is an indication that power is still required to complete the write to non-volitile memory? Futhermore, are we sure that umount even waits for a sync? There is no mention of that in the man page and I don't recall any long waits for umoun

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

lacing the dump dates in the filesystem itself isn't feasible. daniel feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/6/12 6:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof. Otherwise one of us would purchase a key

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote: I thought this URL also shown above, answered that question. Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a good idea to me. However, instant reaction is th

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg articulated: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

way down to the userland binaries, then users of FreeBSD will have to turn off secure boot in CMOS, and it will lose a few users. But I can't tell from the discussions mentioned above. Either way, I don't think it will destroy FreeBSD, or Linux, but I would be interested anyway. Danie

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

ck of fsck is considered in this intelligently written piece http://www.osnews.com/story/22423/Should_ZFS_Have_a_fsck_Tool_ The link to the emotional posting by Jeff Bomwick is broken, but the original is available at: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermai

Re: FreeBSD Server

nice, but you can download an ISO also. iXSystems have TrueNAS, which is costly. My understanding is that FreeNAS is a subset of TrueNAS. See: http://www.ixsystems.com/storage/ix/truenas/ for more information. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Network Cards Compatibility

r current favorite card, but is $35. It supports PXE booting, which we do a lot. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fre

Many SATA disks

, but portability of the partitions to other systems is necessary. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

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

don't want to bother arguing with people. daniel feenberg feenb...@nber.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

tnftpd conversions feature

-ftpd? (Pure-ftpd doesn't mention /etc/ftpconversion in its docs). Apparently the Solaris and Mac ftp daemons do support ftpconversions, but I don't know the source of their server, or if it is available. Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org ___

Re: Horrible installer

ing, RAID setup and encryption are things that do need to be established during setup, and I regret that no installer (for FreeBSD or Linux) notices that I have two empty drives, and defaults to a RAID 1. Daniel Feenberg Last but not least I find your calling the new installer a "pos" h

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/04/12 02:10, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 Da Rock articulated: On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: Don't ndis(4) ndiscvt and ndis

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

adable in FreeBSD form? Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Need to know the compatibility

B ethernet card for FreeBSD or Ubuntu. Does anyone have that working? Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

amp;arch=default&format=html The source html on that page for what appears in your browser as "ssuuddoo" is: ssuuddoo which is weird enough that I wouldn't blame the browser for the odd appearance. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd

Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?

ally /proc is filled with stuff that you wouldn't want to recurse through, so I wouldn't think it a good candidate for special casing as non-mounted. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

r, and may or may not emerge. I haven't tried it, as we have been able to make CUPS work (barely), but I am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed. Other than Windows-specific printers, FreeBSD printing problems are home-grown, and not caused by vendor misbehavio

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

rict the method, only the number of bits in the key. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: I have some users who I want to "schedule" a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month. It should happen at logout time. The intended mechanism to do so is ~/.logout

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Carmel wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:28:42 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg articulated: The problem I have heard of relates to "what happens if the machine boots with the KVM switched to another machine?" The KVM may need to pretend there is a keyboard connect

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

ntion) works fine with FreeBSD and Windows. We haven't tested the mouse in FreeBSD. Since any USB KVM would be fairly recent, you might just want to take a chance. Solaris Sparc systems had worse problems. Daniel Feenberg Robert Huff

Re: Poll on server attacks

m with using country lists for blocking is that individual sources can't get off them by behaving better. With no incentive to improve behavior, they are likely to continue the bad behavior forever, and the entire country is likely to remain tolerant of bad behavior. Dani

Re: will have 4th FreeBSD Edition handbook?

dbook which is hopelessly obsolete. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

"halfway house" to ease them into proper support for FreeBSD and Linux. While it is inferior to open source drivers, it would attract users, and with users manufacturers would feel pressure to have better support, which would best be achieved with open-source drivers. D

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

http://dataprobe.com/remote-reboot.html that we use on a (non-FreeBSD) server that hangs from time to time. WOL also works. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

ou can do everything you might need through the OS interface. Can I ask what is the brand of this so-called LOM? Is there any documentation implying something more useful? Do they describe doing a bare metal install of an OS? Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: ... There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I can't tell if their JBOD mode is a true pass-through, or leaves some undesirable junk on the disk. So

SAS controller for FreeBSD

easonably priced SAS controller? We aren't looking for anything fancy at this point. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Two Networks on one System

have a section on having a FreeBSD box belong to two networks, and not route between them, perhaps because it doesn't require any additional configuration. See (3) above. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

I forgot to send it. I just did. dan On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: Indeed. Brain fade comes with age - and long weekends with the 2 year old boy... Kurt On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 14:14, Gary Gatten wrote: Yeah Pete, kinda need that huh.  Kurt, If that turns out to be the only issue,

Re: ftp installation

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last

ftp installation

].freebsd.org and ftp10.us.freebsd.org. We have no firewall or proxy regulating outbound connections. Is there something off about the sysinstall ftp dialog? I don't see a way to monitor what is happening. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Long Day's Journey into

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:37:14 -0700 Chuck Swiger articulated: On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find are suitable for building various types of network switches. Do you know of any

Re: Long Day's Journey into

icles/filtering-bridges/index.html It isn't something I have any experience with, though. Daniel Feenberg -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Can FreeBSD 8.2 install on an EFI motherboard?

another motherboard. Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: Diskless boot fails when network card is reset before NFS root mount

I have is: next-server 66.251.72.4; filename "pxeboot"; option root-path "66.251.72.44:/vol/vol1b/FreeBSD-7.2-root"; Where would the boot loader options go? Are they a numbered option? Which one? Daniel Feenberg NBER

Diskless boot fails when network card is reset before NFS root mount

ace.net National Bureau of Economic Research (nber.org) - Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org National Bureau of Economic Research (nber.org) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: tnftpd, lukemftpd and conversions

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Rudolf Cejka wrote: Daniel Feenberg wrote (2009/04/24): and from the motd message I can see that the server is using this configuration file. The compress program has been copied to /var/ftp/bin/compress so it should be available too. \ From /usr/bin/compress? Are you

tnftpd, lukemftpd and conversions

left with the conclusion that there is something wrong with my ftpd.conf entry, but have found no examples anywhere on the net to guide me. There is supposed to be an example in /usr/share/examples/ but it isn't there (PR 133468). I'd sure like to see it, if anyone has it or another. Da

Re: faster booting

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Bill Moran wrote: So, is there advice anywhere about speeding up the boot process? It appears that most of the 1 minute 45 seconds to boot our system is wait time for checking the existence of non-existant hardware and would not be appreciable reduce

Re: faster booting

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Feenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp etc) are available when systems are restarting a

faster booting

pxeboot as it has greatly simplified maintainance. Any suggestions, pointers much appreciated. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

mount_smb shows no files

Mounted on //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/BACKUP 36659328 13238176 2342115236%/mnt backup2# mount_smbfs -v mount_smbfs: version 1.1.0 backup2# uname -a FreeBSD backup2 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Thanks Dani

diskless booting and t134

ified 6.0 #0 kernel, with the default options. It does serve to generate a system that boots and functions (except where programs write to read-only filesystems. Thanks Daniel Feenberg feenberg isat nber dotte org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Making UFS snapshots

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-08-17 16:32, Daniel Feenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I notice on this list that Garance Drosehn > > <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?p06230924bf1c752ccf7f> reports making > > a snap

Re: Making UFS snapshots

ot file that takes so long. This is with FreeBSD 5.4 Release #0 (right off the distribution disk, no additional software). Is there likely a problem with our setup, or should we give up on the plan of nightly snapshots? Is this a product of Raid 5, 3ware, super-linearity or to be expected? Thanks