Re: pf behavior question

2010-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/07/2010 18:22:04, Mario Lobo wrote: > Hi; > > System: 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Jun 11 09:41:37 BRT > 2010 > i386 > > The question is about how pf acts on an specific situation. > > Supose I have the following rules: > > > pass in log inet proto tcp from $int_if to

Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/07/2010 22:49:51, Tim Gustafson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a FreeBSD-compatible fibre channel board to > connect a FreeBSD 8.0 server to a Sun 3500 disk array? isp(4) mpt(4) ... which is basically what shows up on doing 'man -k fibre' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: Openldap clustering ?

2010-07-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/07/2010 09:21:53, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Could anybody recommend a rock solid software to build > an OpenLDAP cluster with FreeBSD 8.0 ? Well, you're off to a good start with FreeBSD and OpenLDAP. In fact, you don't really need much more than that. As mentioned else-thread, you can set up

Re: tuning FB 7.2 stable for lighhttpd

2010-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/2010 09:11:04, sonjaya wrote: > I need triks to tune up FreeBSD 7.2 stable for lighhttpd+php and > mysql, i feel so slow, my enggine is IBM Xseries 3250M2 + 4 g + 250 G Start by reading tuning(7). Be aware that tuning your applications -- pa

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2010 22:29:46, Chris Maness wrote: > Ahhh, I see I need to add: > > allow-query { any; }; > > to my authoritative zones. > > Thanks it all works now. Great. > p.s. So was this a change in the default behavior of BIND over the > years? B

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2010 20:28:27, Chris Maness wrote: > Including the line: > > acl public-nets { 127.0.0.1; ::1; } ^ You need a semi-colon here __| > for testing resulted in a failure to launch with the following e

Re: jail and uname

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2010 07:13:13, Aiza wrote: > From the console of a jail I issue uname –r and get 8.0-RELEASE-p3, > which is the release level of the host. I know the jail is running a > pristine minimum install of 8.0-RELEASE. The uname information is compil

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2010 18:57:11, Polytropon wrote: >> I don't know where these 'do not mix ports and packages' warnings come >> > from, but I suspect it's from people who think that they're different :) > I think it may have come from PC-BSD, taking into mind

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2010 12:44:48, John Almberg wrote: > I'm on the console, now. Looks like a swapspace problem... > > The first terminal is scrolling by the swapspace messages really fast > (it kills httpd, but then starts again). > I tried logging in on the 2

Re: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2010 12:11:16, Gilles wrote: > Hello > > On a FreeBSD 6.3 server sitting in a corner of the office not doing > much work, I noticed that /var/log/messages was turned over and has > been empty since 26 June: > > # tail /var/log/message

Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: > Henrik, > When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. > When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I > thought "O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition size

Re: Sendmail - One Trick Pony

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2010 16:12:36, J wrote: > I'd like to set up Sendmail to facilitate e-mail (with attached jpeg) > delivery to an internet account from my wireless IP camera. That's > all I want it to do, nothing more. I've been a very satisfied > FreeBSD u

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2010 15:05:37, Chris Maness wrote: > Can a sub block of IP address space be used, and if so, what is the > wild card? Yes. You can use lists of IPs or address-and-mask in BIND ACLs. See: http://www.isc.org/files/arm96.html#address_match_li

Re: Freebsd update from 7.2p8 to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2010 12:44:10, bsd wrote: > I wanted to know if I could safely update one of my production > server from 7.2p8 to 7.3-RELEASE without having to recompile all userland > apps installed… ? > > I am using portmaster and have a couple of hundred

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/06/2010 18:02:25, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> On FreeBSD, this is spelled GELI (or GBDE, but I think geli is >> slightly better). Native filesystem level encryption -- rather >> more efficient than something like fuse, needs no extra software >> ins

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/06/2010 17:11:22, Tim Gustafson wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could offer any personal experience with > using either fusefs-cryptofs or fusefs-cryptofs. > > I'm going to be bringing a FreeBSD OpenLDAP server online soon and I > need to ha

Re: Just want to ask

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/2010 17:38:46, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jun 29 06:13:19 2010 >> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:36:09 -0700 (PDT) >> From: esra perangin angin >> To: questi...@freebsd.org >> Cc: >> Subject: Just want t

Re: Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/2010 04:34:10, Richards, Toby wrote: > So as far as I can tell, turning Linux Mode on exposes another threat > vector. Can I turn on Linux Mode ONLY for a single binary (the Flash > plugin)? Unfortunately no. Enabling the linuxulator loads a

Re: How to get the SPD infomation in freebsd ?

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/2010 03:29:04, zaxis wrote: > > In windows, the `CPU-Z` utility can be used to get the SPD(Serial Presence > Detect) information. How about freebsd ? I want to get those information > especially frequency to add more memory. And i donot want

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/2010 12:23:36, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > On 28/giu/2010, at 11:56, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> Argh !!! >> >> I upgraded slapd to 2.4.22 and it does not start anymore !!! >> >> some symbol cannot be found anymore >> >> I had to revert to 2.3.4x to

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/2010 04:42:21, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... > > s/always/almost &/ > > If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tr

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/2010 19:38:43, Grant Peel wrote: > When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the > newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. > > What is the best way to get them back? Fix your ports supfile: for ports yo

Re: sudo "last login" message and how to turn it off FreeBSD8.0

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/06/2010 19:41:04, Martin McCormick wrote: > When one executes a sudo command, I get a "last login" > message which reflects the last time I ran sudo. Example: > Any ideas as to what to look at? /usr/local/etc/pam.d/sudo probably. T

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/06/2010 11:26:43, Aiza wrote: > Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD? A filesystem image that only takes up as much space as the total of all the files within it? Not exactly. There are many archiving formats -- dump, tar,

Re: portupgrade -af in FreeBSDupdate to 8.0

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/06/2010 08:29:41, n dhert wrote: > Why does it stop? Can it be avoided? Or can I make portupgrade -af start > from where it got so far in the first run ? portupgrade is written in ruby -- having its command interpreter ripped out from underneath

Re: GCD technology...

2010-06-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/2010 09:44:34, Ivan Klymenko wrote: > Why are not used is available GCD technology in the ports, where it can > be used? Do you mean Grand Central Dispatch? As described here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD It's not generally used in the ports

Re: Followup On Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/2010 19:56:26, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I should mention that I don't think it is actually "dumping core". > It's just reporting the problem in /var/log/messages... You'll only get a core file if the current working directory of the process is w

Re: system is under attack (what can I do more?)

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/2010 16:55:14, Jason Dixon wrote: > Doesn't FreeBSD's version of pf support the overload feature? This is > how we typically manage ssh bruteforce attempts in OpenBSD/pf-land. Sure it does. pf in FreeBSD 7.2+ or 8.0+ is basically the same a

Re: Obtaining / downloading latest release of freeBSD

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/06/2010 02:53:25, cipher crypted wrote: > I am a bit slow when it comes to downloads, and I have been consumed > by this slowness in trying to download/obtain your latest release of > FreeBSD (8.0, I think). I visited your "get FreeBSD page and

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 16:04:20, Warren Block wrote: >> This is not generally true for shlibs installed from ports, mostly due >> to the prevalence of linuxisms like ABI version numbers that aren't >> simple integers. Even so, applying a little intelligent scr

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 13:41:43, Tom Worster wrote: > On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" > would the order to do things be: update ports with portsnap, install > misc/compat7x, upgrade with freebsd-update and reboot? You need to be r

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:37:03, krad wrote: > so the logical extension to this is by changing the ownership of the > directory to bind, you are making the configuration directory writeable, and > therefore you are actually lowering security. Correct.

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:16:33, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: >> >> find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 04:21:34, Peter Boosten wrote: > On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: >> >> Martin McCormick writes: >> >>> Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across >>> reboots? >> >> Yes. I had this happen for a long time. >>

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 08:34:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: > >>> "ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8" has been misused a lot lately. >>&

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: > >> "ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8" has been misused a lot lately. >> >> Are there any programs that will detect these links and remind the >> user that they hav

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 18:15:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:08:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > After a recent upgrade to r209156 I get this error: > > $ ntpq -p > ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable > > Please advise What does 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' say? What ha

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 17:48:03, Tom Worster wrote: > as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind > and then i face the worries of upgrading. > > will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade work on a 7.1-RELEASE system or > do i

Re: Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 15:11:15, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am running 8.1-PRERELEASE and seeing a half dozen of these a day: > > > >(perl5.10.1), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > > > Anyone have theories on this? You have a perl process or processes owned b

Re: .sh and sed

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 12:16:06, Aiza wrote: > Trying to use sed to remove the path from the file name. > Variable has complete path plus the file name > /usr/local/etc/filename > Need variable containing only the file name. > Is the sed utility the best thing

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 16:06:36, Casey Scott wrote: > I'd appreciate it if someone could lend some assistance with this > issue. The machine in question is pretty much unusable atm! You've tried swapping out the drives and the disk controllers, but have you tr

Re: system state after freebsd-update and before portugprade -af

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 14:34:43, n dhert wrote: > When doing a major version upgrade of FreeBSD, the last (mandatory) step is > to rebuild and reinstall all third party software (ports) > (# portupgrade -af ) > > I have a system with 750+ ports, I guess the po

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 09:25:45, Aiza wrote: > I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file > names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3 > letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But

Re: turkish translate

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/2010 03:08:15, e.k wrote: > I can also help for a Turkish translation (The FreeBSD Project web page) > freebsd.org/tr/ Excellent, and very good of you to show interest. Might I suggest that you join the freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list,

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/06/2010 18:35:39, Andrew Wright wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, A. Wright wrote: > >> Not a cache issue; clearing/restarting has no effect, and I have >> seen the issue on several machines/browsers (FBSD/links, Mac/Firefox, >> Mac/Safari). I'm wo

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/06/2010 13:21:40, Carmel wrote: > I am/was attempting to search the archive located at: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ > > Unfortunately, I am continually greeted with this error message: > > > > Internal Server Error

Re: Simulate CRON

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/06/2010 12:55:34, Robert Huff wrote: > > Carmel writes: > >> > > I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running >> > > a script under CRON. I wrote it down and now cannot find it. >> > > Googling has not proved very usef

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/06/2010 01:49:39, Chad Perrin wrote: > What I *do* find to be of value, however, is improving the installation > process so that it is clearer what is going on at each step and improving > the efficiency of it without damaging its flexibility. I

Re: php help, please....

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 18:26:42, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody 'splain what suddenly went wrong with my two-year-old > php script? Simple. You upgraded to php-5.3.x. This is a well known gotcha -- php-5.3.x needs to have the timezone set explicitly in /us

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the >> disparity in numbers of users betw

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 04:33:02, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > I'm working on a project for my client, and I spent the better part of > two days trying to get my laptop running OSX to have the right > combination of BerkeleyDB and Perl modules to build what I

Re: CVSUP

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 17:26:22, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Its been a while since I have used CVSup. > > I have a server with FreeBSD 8 RELEASE on it. It was built very shortly > after 8.0 was released. > > I want to run CVSup on the source and ports b

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 17:12:50, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 > Jonathan McKeown articulated: > >> On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> >>> The only other mechanism might

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 15:13:39, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Am 10.06.10 15:30, schrieb Matthew Seaman: >> Until then, as someone upthread said, block them using your access DB if >> you run your own sendmail based mail system. The equival

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 14:12:48, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > Isn't that called VERP (variable envelope return path)? I agree - the load it Dat's der bunny. > would impose isn't worth it. I'm just shocked that midphase care so little > about their reputation o

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2010 13:32:23, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > I know it creates work for the admins, but couldn't their address be > unsubscribed and banned, given that they have been creating a nuisance for at > least the last several weeks now? Sure. Just te

Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote: > Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see it? > [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]% ps aux|grep Me > eitan 96325 0.0 0.0 1856 724 5 RL+ 10:14AM 0:00.00 grep Me > [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]%

Re: office apps

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2010 15:43:42, p...@pair.com wrote: > Am I the only one who has (force) installed open office from package > without java dependency and has yet to see a problem with MS Word & > simple Excel files? > > It took about 15 "seconds" of manual co

Re: need help with apache22 and libphp5.so

2010-06-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/2010 03:58:13, Gary Kline wrote: > question number one, which port builds the apache php5 > library? number two; is there one that will resolve the > missing 'ap_user_id'? Do you now, or did you once have apache13 installed

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2010 17:34:56, Chip Camden wrote: > For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients > who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in > Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemot

Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 12:30:53, Reko Turja wrote: > From: "Matthew Seaman" >> STABLE is a development branch: it's called 'STABLE' because it is >> expected to run stably. STABLE generally receives continual fixes a

Re: installworld and sources

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 11:55:51, Fbsd1 wrote: > Compiling a new kernel from source requires /usr/src to be populated, I > understand that. Uh -- compiling a kernel requires /usr/src/sys. I think you can do without the rest of the system sources if all you wan

Re: freebsd releases?!?!?!(confused)

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 11:27:19, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > > i was using gentoo linux and i have install FBSD 8.0 in my second machine.. > > i have read the handbooks but i cannot understand which version of FBSD i > have. > i mean i know that i

Re: .sh & getopts

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 08:40:56, Aiza wrote: > I have been looking for documentation on freebsd's sh shell programming. > Want to understand what is happening in that getopts I posted. Where can > I find real explanations? Well, the essential reference is the

Re: .sh & getopts

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 05:57:37, Aiza wrote: > i) action="installworld"; flag_count=$((flag_count+1));; Try it like this instead: i) action="installworld"; flag_count=$(( $flag_count + 1 ));; (Obviously, apply the equivalent change to the other lines)

Re: .sh & getopts

2010-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2010 02:47:38, Dan Nelson wrote: >> flag_count=`expr $flag_count + 1` > /bin/sh can do math on its own: > > flag_count=$((flag_count+1)) flag_count=$(( $flag_count + 1 )) surely? Needs to dereference the variable inside the arithmetic expa

Re: x11/xfce ssh-agent once per logon for minimal (no gnome/kde) installation

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/2010 24:39:46, Steve Franks wrote: > I'm totally lost. What I desire is to put in my passphrase for my > public key(s) when I logon to my box. Since I usually install from > ports and use xfce, I have no infrastructure for this, and I'm gett

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2010 17:11:16, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:25:36 -0400 > Vinny wrote: >> On 06/02/2010 04:30, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> archive_name=${fromarchive%-*} >> Thanks Matthew, that's really nea

Re: Issues reinstalling Bind9 on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2010 16:51:09, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/sbin/named > > /etc/rc.d/named ans /usr/sbin/named are not from the ports but from > native FreeBSD distribution. > > Portsx will go into /usr

Re: command to strip suffix in .sh script

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/2010 09:24:01, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 04:15:22PM +0800, Aiza escribió: > >> I have this code >> >> archive_name=`echo -n "${fromarchive}" | tr -c '[:alnum:]' _` >> >> ` is the key under Esc key and ' ke

Re: fonts qstns.

2010-06-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/2010 04:21:53, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2010-05-30 09:51, Gary Kline skrev: >> >> according to one fellow, the top display shows only 72dpi; >> that is why sans serif [like arial] render better than, say, >> times. does this still h

Re: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/05/2010 21:31:15, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:48:22PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi >> wrote: >>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Vim is much smaller than Emacs but

Re: Sending alarms to my mobile phone

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2010 05:25:10, Olivier Nicole wrote: > I would like my FreeBSD server to send alarms to my mobile phone, it > could be voice messages or SMS. > > I think I can hook a voice modem to that machine, but any suggestion > on the software side? P

Re: HELP: cups - can not login on localhost to cups server

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/05/2010 19:26:07, Hartmann, O. wrote: > Hello, > my problem sounds trivial, but isn't. I can not login to my cups server > on localhost via http://localhost:631, which worked for me several > months ago. Well I installed a new host using FreeBSD

Re: how to debug .sh type script

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/05/2010 08:59:04, Aiza wrote: > Is there way to single step through each line of code and see the real > values of the variables? Not 'single step' as such -- what you can do is run with '-x' which prints each line as it is executed. That's eit

Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/2010 07:58:58, Aiza wrote: > Anh Ky Huynh wrote: >> On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:36 +0800 >> Aiza wrote: >> >>> Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said: > In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250

Re: Re : Possible to run Linux distro in a jail?

2010-05-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/2010 22:15:37, Alexandre L. wrote: > I have this link to a French Blog : > http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Emprisonner_une_debian_dans_un_FreeBSD > > This describe how to "jail" a Linux Debian in FreeBSD. > > I hope this will help you. I hav

Re: fonts qstns.

2010-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/2010 22:11:07, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > given the depth and wide scope of knoweldge on this list, i'm > hoping that somebody can clue me in on font stuff... BUT: > the fonts i'm interested in have to work with openoffice. Any truetype o

Re: benchmark graphs, which software to use?

2010-05-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/2010 19:41:15, Adam PAPAI wrote: > Dear Mailing List, > > I don't know how to create images like these: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/p3.png > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png > > Which software should I us

Re: 'Serious' crypto?

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/05/2010 09:20:11, Peter Cornelius wrote: >> > Yes -- in many use cases this is true. Modern processors are fast >> > enough that they don't need an external accelerator to perform. It >> > doesn't mean that running crypto imposes *no* extra co

Re: BSD support for latest hardware

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/05/2010 05:18:35, chip_bai...@dell.com wrote: > I'm interested in finding out if the latest version of freebsd > supports the latest processors from AMD (Magny-Cours) & Intel Nehalem > EP(Westmere) & EX? Yes, sure it does. > How many cpu cores

Re: 'Serious' crypto?

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/2010 21:49:12, Peter Cornelius wrote: >> NAT. Doing serious crypto slows things up somewhat. > > I've been pondering this since a while but thought that crypto > engines on modern hardware would make 'extra' hardware accelerators > obsolet

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/2010 16:00:12, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > Hello everyone. > > We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on > commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I > consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall band

Re: chroot scp only network storage?

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/05/2010 22:29:57, Matthew Law wrote: > > I want to provide some users with secure network attached storage over > SCP. The intent is to provide people with a similar thing to, e.g. > rsync.net but inside of our network only. > > Security is ob

Re: [#24512320] Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/05/2010 24:01:52, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Is someone saying that FreeBSD lists are not hosted on Mailman? Or is the > list admin on holiday on the space station? Mailman supports regexes for > blocking, IIRC. Check the message headers: the

Re: PHP upgrade fails

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 19:01:40, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > I cannot find php5-pdf* which I was trying to install. It's called pecl-pdflib Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 16:12:23, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > BTW, FreeBSD lists now have a tag in the subject?? I almost thought I mailed > the wrong address, only to realize it's something new. No -- that's the on-going saga of the Idiot and the Clueless Sup

Re: phpmyadmin & apache22

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 14:54:20, Fbsd1 wrote: > pkg_info -Ix php > ap22-php5-5.3.2 PHP Scripting Language Version 5.3.2 > php5-bz2-5.2.11 The bz2 shared extension for php > php5-ctype-5.2.11 The ctype shared extension for php > php5-filter-5.2.

Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 16:00:59, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Did I miss something? Trying to upgrade apache22 on my FreeBSD boxes results > in: See the /usr/ports/UPDATING entry for 20100518. Apache now requires apr rather than it being optional. To upgrade

Re: phpmyadmin & apache22

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 12:39:44, Fbsd1 wrote: > Tried 'make install' on phpmyadmin port and got not found errors on > php5-filter, php5-session, php5-ctype, php5-mysql all of which were all > ready installed by pkg_add. Pkg_info verifies that they are there. An

Re: "real time" files mirroring ?

2010-05-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/2010 15:12:47, Frank Bonnet wrote: > I'm searching for a software that could perform some kind of real time > mirroring between two (or more) freebsd servers. > > My meaning is to keep up to date some files ( flat and db maps ) used by > Pos

Re: Need advise.

2010-05-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/05/2010 21:07:22, pa...@magi.magidesign.com wrote: > I have a box that I need to add several software > package, I can't use ports because it appears that they have blocked the > ports to do a fetch. > > So I am wondering what can I do? Do yo

Re: Livefs/fixit

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/05/2010 21:20:24, Peter Clark wrote: > I have a amd64 8.0-RELEASE-P2 FreeBSD box. I was building a spam/av > gateway. Something has happened and there seems to be some OS > corruption. I am not sure what did it but symlinks all over the system >

Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/2010 24:03:17, Amaru Netapshaak wrote: > I am planning to move from 7.0-REL-i386 to 8.0-REL-amd64 > in the near future. My OS drive is a single > ata-133 80gb drive, and > my data drives are four 1.5TB SATA drives. 6TB total, configured as

Re: downloading e-mail is blocking network

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/05/2010 21:48:36, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 19, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Marco Beishuizen wrote: >> On Wed, 19 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: >>> Are you using NAT? >> >> Not that I know of. > > You presumably would know from the IP your machine has-

Re: Apache web server being attacked

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/05/2010 04:55:26, Aiza wrote: > I take a totally different approach to this problem for my production > web sites. This is the result of people running scripts that roll > through a large block of ip address scanning each ip address for open > [S

Re: Interpretting 3Ware error messages

2010-05-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/2010 15:43:25, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 7.2-R i386 system running a 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA 150 > controller with 4 SATA drives. I recently starting seeing the > following in my logs > > smartd[906]: Device: /dev/twa0 [3war

Re: Apache web server being attacked

2010-05-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/05/2010 11:00:16, Aiza wrote: > I put apache13 in a jail and left inbound port 80 open in my firewall. > There is no domain name pointing to my web server. The content there is > a small apache web application that fools web > email address harve

Re: download

2010-05-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/05/2010 16:00:29, Karen Bester wrote: > I'm not sure if I will be able to download 2GB successfully, I prefer > getting the separate ISO's. I only see disk1 for 8.0, where are the rest? Disc1 is all you need to install the OS. The other disk im

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