Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:17:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
ernate - ie save RAM and all state to disk and power off, then reload all RAM and state on power return - is a 300MHz Compaq Armada 1500C (mfg '98), but using the older APM BIOS rather than ACPI. (It's still running, 24/7/365 since 2002 :) cheers, Ian _

Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-28 Thread Ian Smith
#x27;t comment on the rest of your message(s). cheers, Ian ___ 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: Potential Vulnerabilities list on US Cert

2013-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
ould have known a week sooner :) Anyone running a FreeBSD system with possibly untrusted local users running multicast (in the case of CVE-2013-3077) or running servers using SCTP (in the case of CVE-2013-5209) would naturally have read these and have applied updates before t

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
age: 0.05% 99.94% 0.00% last 529us dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: 2254 dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: 1 dev.acpi_ibm.0.thermal: 47 46 42 -1 -1 -1 29 -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 47.0C State: discharging Remaining capacity: 95% Remaining time: 2:36 Present rate: 1731

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

2013-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
2e3 > > (This is a small VirtualBox VM.) > > Kernel config is at http://paste2.org/h17Ih0PD Please Walter, it's not fair to make us do the work of figuring out what you've changed from GENERIC in that, when all you need to provide is: # diff -uw /path/to/GENERIC /p

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
eystroke saver (at the very least). As I said, unless you're into the arcane maths needed to run fdisk and bsdlabel manually, sade (or its functions in sysinstall) is the only safe and sane way to manage MBR disks. I'd love to be proven wrong .. And credit to you, Devin, for developin

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
eBSD 8.4 and booting into it when ever needed. If I can do > this as described above, I will have plenty of space on the disk for the > future and a new FreeBSD release. Sure. Another option would be a much smaller new s2 after the bigger s1 as a 'transit lounge' between slices

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
ecific action, like a program which has aborted, > an unverified backup or the successful completition of > a task. Indeed it is. On an old laptop using APM I used to play little tunes as the battery got down to 30, 20, 10%, noiser just before forced suspend, which saved me not a few time

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:00:44 -0400, Stephen Cook wrote: > On 4/1/2013 5:23 AM, Ian Smith wrote: Actually, I forwarded a message that Joe posted to -jail and -ports. Proper attribution is what this issue's all about. It's been pointed out to me privately that cross-posting is fro

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Posted so people following -questions can gather what Joe Barbish is fishing for in the present thread regarding copyright and licensing. cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:26:16 -0400 From: Fbsd8 To: Dirk Engling Cc: po...@freebsd.org, freebsd-j

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
Joe, your mailer dropped -questions from the ccs on your response. Fixed, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:12:18 -0400 From: Fbsd8 To: freebsd-j...@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Smith , Dirk Engling Subject: Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:21:29 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:53:30 +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: [.. also chopping mercilessly ..] > > > # Copyright 2010, Qjail project. A

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
ain the idea of removing all of the worthy content of the present Chapter 16 - even if it does need some updating - and replace it with this effort is laughable, yet stranger things have happened if there's any disconnect between developers and documenters .. witness the Handbook firewall

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
with messed up screen, can you ping it, or maybe ssh in, or is it dead? If you boot it but don't start X, can it come back from suspend? Frankly, unless you're _really_ keen to get STR working, this could turn into not just a rabbithole, but the whole warren - you'll have to really want to be the bunny! Sounds like a very nice machine otherwise :) cheers, Ian ___ 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: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
rs.html > (7.2.1.2 Firefox and Adobe Flash Plugin) - no problem > > In fact, no problems at all! > > I can't recommend it enough. > > Anton Suspend and resume? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Smith
:25 +1100 === I forwarded the above (plus dig results proving there was nothing wrong with our reverse DNS on some big nameservers) to postmas...@zoneedit.com but have received no response, and of course we have no way to contact $poor_innocent. Not a good look. cheers, Ian ___ 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 and snd_hdspe last-ditch attempt

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
or what level of testing it's had in the field, but I have to assume you've already discussed your issues with its author, Ruslan Bukin ? Sorry I can't offer anything more concrete, and good luck. cheers, Ian ___ 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: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
lling X on 9.1 before newer packages are available - and it IS painful or at least very slow to build on the likes of 1GHz laptops - I can't see any reason the X that was working as of mid-October would be any problem, unless there's been some major revision or security scare since? The

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
add it. If I were going to install say X + KDE on that laptop - which I'm not - I'd merrily use what was fresh in October and upgrade as packages become available again, and build anything needing 'more freshness' from ports. cheers, Ian ___ 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: shell script problem

2012-12-24 Thread Ian Smith
echo "ok !" > fi > done Or, to avoid subshell(s) created in pipeline(s), and subsequent loss of variables set in the subshell(s) to their parents, rather than using: cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 [..] cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 [..] done [..] done you can use: while read LINE1 [..] while read LINE2 [..] done < bar.txt [..] done < foo.txt cheers, Ian ___ 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: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
be documented in the actual sound driver's > documentation, as pcm and mixer are interfaces to the driver > functionality (FreeBSD kernel mixer <-> hardware driver). > > Because of use the source Luke, I found "use igain for the mic > 20dB boost" in /usr/src/s

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
eral. It's very fast and light, too, for recording or playback. cheers, Ian ___ 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"

Reprieve [was: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... (fwd)]

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Smith
up' for me, at least. Probably worth mentioning that this only ever affected RELENG_9_1, ie 9.1 BETAs and RCs, not RELENG_9 (ie 9-STABLE) sources. Thanks Bjoern! cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:20:23 + (UTC) From: Bjoern A. Zeeb To: FreeBSD Rel

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
d the elapsed time. If > that has been possible, chances are good that KDE in its > much advanced manner has something comparable. Maybe there's something new in KDE4. I'm sticking with 3.5 on my T23; I only have 768MB RAM :) and it does everything I need on the desktop. It&#x

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
ings are poorly explained. Those guys were losing 768MB or more, but had plenty to spare. You? I'm still running an older Xorg here, so had no idea about any default 10 minute blanktime. I'll remember that .. [..] cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-q

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
ly should only be shown on verbose dmesg IMO, as they tend to alarm people - QED] > On 08/16/12 00:06, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >Are you running any kind of screensaver ? > >Sometimes the OpenGL screen saver modules crash without proper > > hardware support. If you're running a screensaver try disabling it and just > > using display blanking. > > I'm not running a screensaver, just blanking the screen. Yes but how, where, using what software? It's still the main suspect .. cheers, Ian ___ 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: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0

2012-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
EWALL_VERBOSE > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=10 > options IPDIVERT > options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT > > (the rest like in GENERIC). Just to mention: you don't actually need to include FIREWALL* or DIVERT in kernels these days; a GENERIC kernel will work fin

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
ould be relatively trivial, without needing to mess with the shutdown code. Present circumstances don't permit me to work on this further, but I do think it could be a worthwhile and not so hard project for 'someone' :) cheers, Ian ___

Re[2]: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:13:47 +0300, Eugen Konkov wrote: > ????, Ian. > ?? ?? 23 2012 ?., 8:27:50: > IS> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 > IS> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov > wrote: > IS> Hi Eugen,

Re: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
22) to w.x.y.z dst-port 22 in recv ng0 setup Myself, I'd be more interested in a last-match timestamp than a count for table entries, but that won't happen either for the above reasons :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: > > In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. > > The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to > newfs to enab

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 422, Issue 10, Message: 29 On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 07:41:59 -0400 Carmel wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:36:36 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block articulated: > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: > > > > > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:43:35 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > > Well, there is devel/ar

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I thought I saw something somewhere (maybe just wishful thinking) about > > FreeBSD on the Arduino, which normally runs a sort of embedded Linux, > > that c

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
he quadricopter to follow me around the room at parties - at my age I need something really impressive :) On the FreeBSD side there's advanced work, I gather, on ARM and Atmel MEGA 32-bit and MIPS platforms at least. Personally I consider these 'big iron' and far prefer writing in

Re: hwpstate0 set frequency err 6

2012-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
some threads in May on freebsd-stable@ subject: "[stable 9] broken hwpstate calls" that may or may not have yet resulted in a patch you could try. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-May/thread.html Thread continues in June, as a perhaps more general

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
spewing spam, provider complains and/or cuts access .. you know the deal. In that sort of environment, none of the punters had any clue about forging MACs or anything vaguely like that, and it stopped people randomly plugging boxes into the network. Horses for co

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

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
g resident troll for Microsoft out of the woodwork for a proper full-tilt rant, replete with inimitable "socialism/fascism" jibe. Gotta love it! Ian ___ 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: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
C filtering rules (remembering the reversed order of MAC addresses vs IP addresses, and to allow broadcasts as well), pass good guys and/or block bad guys, then deal with your normal IPv4|v6 traffic in a separate section(s). Or you could just split the flows into two streams, one for layer2 for

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
y to me dst-port PORT1 limit src-addr 9 to prevent any one source address opening more than 9 connections, or fwd IP,PORT2 tcp from any to me dst-port PORT1 limit dst-port 42 to limit total open connections by everyone to dst-port PORT1 to 42. cheers, Ian _

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
ely logged, but last-resort stuff. OTOH this may be something postmaster@ does routinely, what do I know :) > Maybe I should resend the message to postmas...@freebsd.org instead > of freebsd-questions-ow...@freebsd.org? > > This problem relates

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)

2012-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
Jos, did you not get my response to your original query over a week ago? I see it made the list archives. Anyway this second time around, Robert Bonomi wins gold for the best guess, with even fewer clues to go on :-) cheers, Ian (who probably said too much, but doesn't r

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:30:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 21/05/2012 14:50, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > > > can anyone sug

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
.0.0.0/8 to any t23# ipfw -q add 137 deny all from 180.0.0.0/8 to any t23# ipfw show 137 001370 0 deny ip from 180.0.0.0/8 to any So what doesn't work? (apart from scattergun removal of small pieces of a whole lot of Asian countries, incl. Japan, Indonesia, Aust

Re: problems with networking and route command

2012-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
vr0 - but the network cannot connect > to the internet via rl0. > > If there are any commands that would help collect information leading > to the answer I would appreciate any feedback. rc.firewall, though not perfect, provides a good, safe basic firewall for your

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
from the just-rolled maillog.0, the other finds maillog.0 has disappeared before getting to run bzip2 on it? So, two files per day, and the above message? > On my other FreeBSD server the same cronjob goes ok... Check /etc/crontab and /etc/newsyslog.conf on both, and make sure you'

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: > > Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network > > profiles for such as wireless vs wire

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
rt is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireless nets (probably in n...@freebsd.org), but I've no

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
the wireless connection, > even to the router: > > % ping 192.168.1.1 > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: No route to host > ping: sendto: No route to host > ^C What sayeth 'netstat -finet -rn' ? cheers, Ian ___

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 05/01/12 20:01, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 > > On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chance > > wrote: > > > > > Every once in a while the nigh

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
;authpriv.none;kern.!=info;mail.crit;news.err;ntp.err;local0.none;ftp.none /var/log/messages kern.=info /var/log/kerninfo.log # touch /var/log/kerninfo.log # service syslogd restart cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Postfix + Courier IMAP local email problems

2012-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
hat complicated to change hostname(1) t23# grep hostname /etc/rc.conf hostname="t23.smithi.id.au" t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au t23# hostname boofar t23# hostname boofar t23# csh boofar# exit exit t23# hostname boofar t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au cheers

RE: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

2012-04-12 Thread Ian Lord
works fine now ! Thanks a lot for the fix, but this server is a clean install of 9.0-RELEASE that I installed about 2-3 months ago. I never changed the permission myself on that file so I guess there is something wrong that would need to be fixed (unless it's already fixed in newer versio

Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Lord
e something working out of the box I guess, I doubt we're supposed to change permissions to make it work Any help would be appreciated. Regards ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Québec) J5K 0E2 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI ->

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
g sleep 60 # /usr/bin/jobs -l # jobs -l [1] + 86819 Running sleep 60 # exit t23# jobs -l [1] + 86793 Running sleep 60 t23# jobs -l [1]86793 Done sleep 60 t23# jobs -l t23# cheers, Ian _

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
ne who's been subscribed to freebsd-security@ for 12 or so years, I look forward to seeing informed responses to some of schultz' issues. In any event, {s,}he promptly took Julian's advice to post it there, where one aspect has already attrac

Re: IPFW transparent VS dummynet rules

2012-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
iting from the dummynet pipe or from ng_ipfw(4) node is not passed though the firewall again. Other- wise, after an action, the packet is reinjected into the firewall at the next rule. It seems that you may have one_pass set to 1. Set to 0, packets

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10, Message: 25 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:53 -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > > For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' > &

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
ll need to generally deny inbound pings except friendlies # pingok="{ was a list of IP addresses[/masks] allowed to ping }" #% XXX better using a pre-loaded table (for OOB on the fly additions) pingok="table\(8\)" $fwadd pass icmp from any to any in r

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:40:45 -0500, William Bulley wrote: > According to Ian Smith on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29: > > > > Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a > > Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore -

Re: 9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
ice 4) % fdisk -p ad0 # /dev/ad0 g c232581 h16 s63 p 1 0x0b 63 8385867 p 2 0xa5 8385930 125821080 p 3 0xa5 134207010 33543342 p 4 0xa5 167750730 66685815 a 4 cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread Ian Smith
ng and maintaining many existing systems. I've yet to install RC1, and here's RC2, but I'm encouraged to see the memstick.img has dropped GPT partitioning for MBR with a single provider (eg da0a) so it can be again used by sysinstall; in my case I'd rather use that than manually newfs needed partitions. I hope someone will correct any now-obsolete concerns I've expressed :) cheers, Ian ___ 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: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Smith
ps the -o and -p options to tar(1) might help here, but the bottom line is that msdosfs is not really a suitable target for UFS files. I tend to use zip(1) - which keeps perms and ownership, though not hard links - to stash dirs and files on msdosfs, but format flash disks - or at least

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
in its development. There is just no 'esteemed leadership' assigning tasks to teams of programmers, let alone having absurd goals of 'beating Microsoft' in the consumer gadgetry market; by and large, people work on what interests them or their employers. Microsoft's

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: > On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Does anybody successfully use the "ipfw fwd"? If so > > > in which FreeBSD version? > > > Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks > > correct.  Do you &g

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 14 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Unga wrote: > --- On Mon, 7/4/11, Unga wrote: > > > From: Unga > > Subject: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Monday, July 4, 2011

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Smith
e 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts UNREF FILE I=804237 OWNER=smithi MODE=100640 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jun 29 20:29 2011 CLEAR? no ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 401132 files, 8584016 used, 3155190 free (88926 frags, 383

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
mple' ruleset in /etc/rc.firewall especially regarding placement of NAT rules, never mind whether using natd or ipfw nat, rather than the poor Handbook examples. Depending on what protocol port 12345 is, you may be better off using static rather than dynamic rules to handle it .. anoth

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

2011-06-23 Thread Ian Smith
;t be loaded as a module as it impacts many parts of the stack. Neither do you have to use ipfw nat; natd works as well as ever, but I'd be surprised if this isn't an issue more to do with your rule placement. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-question

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
... Not at all; sysinstall just sees it as a primary partition (ie FreeBSD slice) of type 0x05 (IIRC) ie as a non-bootable partition, completely ignored by boot0{,ext} or any 'normal' MBR code for that matter .. the FreeBSD convention of naming these as s5 etc is a convenient fiction

Please i wait to hear from you, its very important

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to assume the new recipient of a Fixed

Please i wait to hear from you its very important

2011-05-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate by accepting to stand as the legal recipient to a

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-22 Thread Ian Smith
ng to deal with perhaps half of 25,000 similarly vulnerable laptops, at least 1% of which will be trying hard to spam or portscan the planet at any given time - nearly all, as Martin points out, without intent or knowledge of their poor blighted owners .. and they're a smarter crew! chee

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Smith
stamping their feet, demanding we change the way we've always used these lists. > are you implying that these > students are using the University's web mail for possible illegal > actions and no one is policing that action? Ah Jerry, good to see you end your admonition wit

Re: ipdivert.ko

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Smith
loadable, rule-based > forwarding disabled, default to deny, logging disabled > ipfw0: bpf attached There are a number of outstanding PRs regarding module loading by natd and (if used) firewall_nat, and the use of these by /etc/rc.firewall. If enabling natd in

Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
andard and does not say anything about > the interfaces, that info is in rc.conf above > > === /var/log/messages extract > dhcpd: bridge0: not found Yes; at that time your bridge hadn't been created, ie it had no members. cheers, Ian ___ 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: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-20 Thread Ian Smith
affect its environment when used in pipelines. The braces aren't relevant because it's a pipeline, so even without: echo | B=2; echo $B writes '', but echo | { B=2; echo $B; } or (equivalent within a pipeline) echo | ( B=2; echo $B; ) writes '2'. cheer

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Smith
ies? and YMMV. Colour me very surprised not having to be root to do any of those, especially those that do write to the kernel message buffer .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
bsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-December/225236.html Apart from charging Svein Skogen with 'signature too long' :) I can't imagine why they or their robot might have taken offense. At least at lists.freebsd.org only something pretty ex

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)" 84.127.236.75 - - [06/Feb/2011:10:25:53 +1100] "GET http://www.ebay.com/ HTTP/1.1" 403 287 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)" (forbidden browser strings &/or IP addresses in $apachedir

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

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
led analysis of IPv4 depletion stats and predictions over many years, hard to go past Geoff Huston's: http://www.potaroo.net - blog http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2010-10/when.html - explanatory column Oct '10 http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html - the modelling as of today che

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

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
d some new techniques. I expect to steal lots of it wholesale (acknowledged :) cheers, Ian ___ 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: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [..] > > Last I knew having a file open, even for writing, was no protection > > against its last link being removed. The _inode_ won't go away > > until the last handle is

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is > > likely because something has them open for writing, and the system > > won't let you remove such files, naturally

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
l worth implementing, now that you've been bitten. If you don't want to look at your logs too often or need blow-by-blow details, reducing the logging level to more severe problems may prove more useful longterm. cheers, Ian ___ 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: Which php??

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
, for years now. Seeing Gary already has the module built, he could save it, remove then install the package and replace the module IF php was otherwise built with the same options, but the only way to get the module is build it. In the almost singular case of php, I'd stick with building th

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
saver! +1 for you and your wiki page. +1 for Warren's page > ( > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_way_tt_fdisk_8_tt_and_tt_bsdlabel_8_tt) > and +5 for Ian and his incredible patience. Hodgepodging Warren's and > Bruce's pages tog

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote > > > Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 > > are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you > > used 'W&#x

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > 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: > &g

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
lve fewer keystrokes -- as in > this case. Do you know of any 'less useless' or more economical way to do such as: % cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot % ?, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > [.. trimming ccs, selec

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
I've offended some gods? > Well, the irony here, the failing drive is *ALSO* 8.1, I can slap > that back in and fire it up, it still boots and works, I just didn't > want to take the risk of the drive's cheese sliding off it's cracker. How hard is it to re

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N > > where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it? Argh .. that should be seek=N, not skip. Up way too late .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
ackup table, thanks. So: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it? If not, we can't rule out Mike's concerns about BIOS incompatibility or such, but this sure sounds like the next thing Chris should try. cheers, Ian ___ 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: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned, > > specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the > > b

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan > > wrote

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many > > slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you >

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
x27;t expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you partitioned the FreeBSD slice into (and sizes of) / /var/ /usr [/tmp?] and especially swap. I wouldn't allocate any less than 1GB for your

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