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On 13/05/2010 05:41:47, Artur Sentsov wrote:
> 1. I have freebsd server running apache and mysql. In logs i see around 100
> attempts to hack the server. Is that normal? what i have to do that after
> three wrong attempts to enter password server will
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Various leading lights of the FreeBSD project dropped from the CC -- you
really only need to ask on freebsd-questi...@... or even better, *read*
the archives where your questions have certainly been answered already
many times.
On 11/05/2010 09:25:4
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On 10/05/2010 19:41:10, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my work PC.
>
> My organization runs largely Windows desktops with a sizable chunk of
> Mac OS X machines.
>
> Whenever a Windows/Mac connects to the Windows-based
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On 10/05/2010 12:43:27, supp...@midphase.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Unfortunately, when we use the Unsubscribe site, we never receive a
> confirmation to finish the process. Please manually remove the address.
>
> Thank you.
The list members cannot act
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On 10/05/2010 04:38:25, Fbsd1 wrote:
> I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if
> found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from
> within a sh type of shell script.
>
> Does anyone have a example the
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On 09/05/2010 06:16:13, Adam Vande More wrote:
>> The background to this problem is because the FreeBSD root filesystem (UFS)
>> > is not journaled and for some reason I cannot set my root partition to be
>> > UFS+SoftUpdates.
>> >
> Well I'd say that'
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On 06/05/2010 21:40:02, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> I've got a small DNS server on my home network, and ever since May 6,
> 2010 (co-incidentally DNSSEC root sign day), lookups on freebsd.org have
> started failing. eg:
Uh, the DURZ was installed on j.roo
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On 06/05/2010 18:32:18, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> 3) If you're running a firewall, make sure that the sshd ports
>(22/tcp and 22/udp) are open for those machines/addresses
>you want to connect into your FreeBSD box.
Despite what it may say in /etc
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On 03/05/2010 21:09:26, Chris Maness wrote:
> I while back, I set up a podcast using wordpress. I did not use any
> special configuration, I just added the files as media, and the
> podcast software picked up the mp3's. However, now I would like to
>
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On 04/05/2010 09:06:34, n dhert wrote:
> A few weeks ago, freebsd switched to php5-5.3.2 instead of php5-5.2.9.
> I see there is now also php52-5.2.13 and pgp52-extensions-1.3 in ports/lang
> Can one switch back to 5.2.13 when 5.3.2 is already installe
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On 03/05/2010 15:41:10, John wrote:
> The script kiddies have apparently figured out that we use some
> time-window sensitivity in our adaptive filtering. From sshd, I've
> been seeing "reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo ... failed" and
> from ftpd
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On 01/05/2010 01:15:13, Robert Jenssen wrote:
> Many thanks to those who responded to my question. It seems that
> waiting for the network to start up is a common problem. Recently
> Jeremy Chadwick proprosed adding a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/waitnetwork
>
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On 27/04/2010 20:31:06, John wrote:
> I have done a monkey-simple spam trap. It just so happens that I have
> a dozen or more user accounts that haven't been actually used in over five
> years and get dozens of spam hits every day. I had been just se
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On 25/04/2010 07:59:44, Andrew Hill wrote:
> Hi does anybody know if Gnome 2.30 will be out soon in the FreeBSD ports?
I suspect the freebsd-gnome project might have an inkling. Try here:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Gnome
and the mailing list here:
ht
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On 25/04/2010 09:38:38, Fbsd1 wrote:
> I have Perl and apache installed on my system. Do I have to do anything
> additional to get apache to run Perl CGI programs?
> Is putting the perl script in the cgi-bin directory at
> /usr/local/www/data all it ta
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On 25/04/2010 02:02:52, Joe Auty wrote:
> I'm wondering if you guys have any general tips on how to find the
> Apache process/app that is gobbling up my RAM randomly until my machine
> crashes and I'm forced to reboot? I'm tired of staring at top and
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On 25/04/2010 09:13:07, Антон Клесс wrote:
> If I just ping FTP server from installer's shell for minutes, it will show
> me packets loss if some, right?
Probably. Packet loss can be a tricky thing, and depend on any one of a
number of parameters. Yo
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On 24/04/2010 22:41:13, Антон Клесс wrote:
>> Suspect hardware on the second system? Try escaping to the shell
>>> (Alt-F4) after pulling down some of the distribution sets and see if
>>> 'netstat -i' shows interface errors.
>>>
>>
>> I tried to, but
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On 24/04/2010 20:51:40, Антон Клесс wrote:
> Good day. I am trying to install 8.3-RELEASE on remote servers using
> "bootonly" ISO image connected through IPMI virtual media and then choosing
> FTP as installation media to get distributions.
Excellent
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On 23/04/2010 11:15:58, Aiza wrote:
> How does bsdstats know what country the PC posting its info is from?
GeoIP almost certainly. Like this: http://www.geoiptool.com/
Cheers
Matthew
- --
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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On 21/04/2010 09:30:54, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I need to create a user profile that works in different shells,
>> particularly bash, csh and ksh. It seems that these does not
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On 21/04/2010 09:36:24, mcoyles wrote:
> I'm actually trying to kill the following in one swep if they've taken more
> than
> 8 hours to complete... :
>
> 39028 ?? Is 0:00.01 /bin/sh -c sh /root/tools/backup/fullbackup.sh
> 39070 ?? I 0:0
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On 20/04/2010 11:24:44, mcoyles wrote:
>>> On 20/04/2010 08:52:58, mcoyles wrote:
>>> Morning all - on FreeBSD 7.1 (for various reasons - don't ask)
>>> Am attempting to run the following via cron but it keeps erroring out:
>>>
>>> kill -9 `ps ax | gre
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On 20/04/2010 08:52:58, mcoyles wrote:
> Morning all - on FreeBSD 7.1 (for various reasons - don't ask)
> Am attempting to run the following via cron but it keeps erroring out:
>
> kill -9 `ps ax | grep backup | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` && kil
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On 20/04/2010 08:08:40, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
>
>> Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week or so
>> after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ? Since around early
>> April?
>>
>> I've had four such in t
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On 19/04/2010 18:10:36, Joe Auty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've identified my pecl-APC install as being broken after upgrading to
> PHP 5.3.2. According to the commit history listed here:
> http://www.freshports.org/www/pecl-APC/ there is a fix out. However
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On 19/04/2010 16:16:21, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> Nope. "shutdown" doesn't appear in /etc/rc.d/zfs keywords, so it won't
> get "stop" during normal shutdown. That must happen later.
Dammit. I know this really -- but for some reason i had it in my
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On 19/04/2010 06:52:29, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> but I use zfs and I think that during shutdown, /etc/rc.d/zfs is
> called stop
> so it unmounts all zfs partition... (I did not tested...)...
> so It must be called /etc/rc.d/zfs start again.
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On 18/04/2010 15:19:32, Jan Hlodan wrote:
> you can migrate to zfs and then create snapshot of whole disk, import
> this snapshot (e.g. via ssh) and then restore it back.
You can create snapshots with UFS too. It's a good way of getting a
reasonably
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On 18/04/2010 15:37:03, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> 2) init 1 (this closes all applications and drop into single user)
It kills everything ungracefully and will screw up anything that needs
to sync state to disk -- like mysql.
Just use shutdown
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On 18/04/2010 04:32:26, Aiza wrote:
> kurt seel wrote:
>> Aiza wrote:
>>> My jail has public internet access because i can do pkg_add -r
>>> unix2dos and the package does install. But when I enter ping -c 2
>>> freebsd.org I get message "ping: socket:
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On 17/04/2010 18:08:14, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 06:37:10PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>
>> I'd recommend subversion for this -- configure it using HTTPS and with
>> Apache's basic auth for
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On 18/04/2010 01:21:44, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Just where do jails fall in reference to the host firewall?
> Do jails see the inbound packets before the host's firewall does?
No. The host firewall handles all of the incoming traffic before it
gets to the jai
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On 17/04/2010 16:08:49, Dan Naumov wrote:
> I think I am reaching the point where I want to have some kind of sane
> and easy to use version/revision control software for my various
> personal files and small projects. We are talking about varied kind
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On 15/04/2010 21:46:03, Gary Gatten wrote:
> I think by default it does only log "session" info not the full packet. For
> that you'd need to add -vvv and set the packet length to zero to capture the
> full packet.
>
> So, just run it without any a
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On 15/04/2010 11:08:14, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> On 15 Apr 2010 at 8:30, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the following lines in my /etc/newsyslog.conf
>>
>> /var/log/*-access.log 644 30*@T00 JCG
>> /var/lo
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On 13/04/2010 16:59:37, Alex Huth wrote:
> I have searched the ports and the web for a while, but haven found
> something about gnus on freebsd. Is there no port for it?
gnus as in the NNTP client? It's bundled with emacs, and that is
certainly avai
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On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote:
> Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters?
> Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open,
> dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname?
> for
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On 07/04/2010 12:09:56, Peter Steele wrote:
>> Can you write a few shell scripts? You'ld need to create a tarball
>> of the /var contents you need on the box, and explode it onto /var
>> at boot time -- if you're using auto-var on MFS all the time,
>
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On 07/04/2010 06:28:40, Peter Steele wrote:
> I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It looks
> like what the auto-var process does is a construct basic directory
> structure but no data. Is there a solution to this? Can I get /va
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On 07/04/2010 05:24:41, Wayne Burkart wrote:
> I have a new Mac Pro 8 core desktop machine. I want to install an os that
> will let me install Cpanel and whm so I can use it as a server. Will FreeBsd
> install on the new intell based pro macs ? Please
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On 06/04/2010 02:55:44, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 3. lazy evaluation, where the (result) is not evaluated until it is
> needed, which gives the interpreter plenty of time to notice there's
> an "unless" immediately following it
>
> Obviously, t
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On 06/04/2010 02:04:16, Aiza wrote:
> The ports make file tree is so very large now a days (21491 ports).
> Doing portsnap to download the complete ports system just to install 3
> ports is massive over kill. I have been doing package installs because
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On 05/04/2010 15:35:05, tristan wrote:
> How would i go about compiling the FreeBSD source code (to build my
> own) in an Ubuntu machine? (windows 7 is also available). What
> programs do i need?
Really you need FreeBSD already installed if you want
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On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
> Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met:
>
> 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys
> 2. Normal users will still be able to use pam/keyboard-interactive
Only by run
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On 04/04/2010 19:48:14, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> But honestly pun aside unless(){} is far more readable than if(!){}
> and _especially_ if you are programming in an exception manner as you
> correctly point out. Every language should have an unless con
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On 02/04/2010 13:33:09, David Allen wrote:
> Secondly, it seems the cause of the OP's problem was a delay associated
> with an IDENT query. Specificially
>
> confTO_IDENT Timeout.ident [5s] The timeout waiting for a
>response to an ID
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On 02/04/2010 15:12:33, Jon Radel wrote:
> This is why there's a school of thought that even if your default for
> firewall configuration is to quietly drop unwanted packets, IDENT is a
> protocol that you should actively reject. It makes things move
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On 02/04/2010 17:19:02, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Jerry wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to combine all of the certificates in a chain into one
>> *.pem file?
>>
>> EXAMPLE:
>>
>> openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993
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On 02/04/2010 01:51:27, Norbert Papke wrote:
> When I connect to sendmail on a local interface, sendmail responds to the
> connection with its "220" greeting immediately. If I connect to sendmail
> from
> another machine on my (home) LAN, sendmail
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On 01/04/2010 10:29:48, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Yep that is the problem. I have no source. I did minimum install.
> Is there any way to convert the preprocessed version in
> /usr/share/man/*cat8*/jail.8.gz to native macro file.
Download mdoc sources from here:
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On 01/04/2010 09:41:59, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Getting closer but not there yet. Selected man jail to be my example of
> macro commands used. Did [gunzip jail.8.gz] and now I have jail.8 file.
> How to I convert this file to native macro file that I can edit
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On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote:
> OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use
> /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert
> this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit it with ee?
% cp
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On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create "man" pages
> for a port?
If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to
get started is to just copy a man page from the base syst
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On 30/03/2010 13:52:57, Walter wrote:
> In the example firewall rule set in rc.firewall, there are
> the following lines:
>
> # set these to your outside interface network
>oif="$firewall_simple_oif"
>onet="$firewall_simple_onet"
>
> # set th
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On 30/03/2010 03:01:27, Tim Judd wrote:
> I've never heard of either, but when I configure my IMAP server and
> put any mail client to it, as soon as a mail is delivered, the mail
> client is notified.
That's the IDLE extension to IMAPv4 -- it's not a
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On 30/03/2010 02:58:13, Programmer In Training wrote:
>> find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib -name -type f | \
> Is the 'f' a typo? I had to remove it because find kept on erroring on it.
There is a typo, but it's to do with the -name predicate. -name
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On 29/03/2010 21:10:42, krad wrote:
> You will need to newfs the gmirror device
> after that so backup the data currently on /, then copy it back afterwards.
This is counter to all my experience of dealing with gmirror -- it's
carefully designed so th
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On 29/03/2010 04:16:29, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> I have the current FreeBSD handbook but it does not seem to have the
> answer to the following question.
> When building and installing an application from ports, how does the
> original binary or scr
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On 28/03/2010 09:51:50, Modulok wrote:
> Trivial question,
>
> Is there an rc.conf way to mark a network interface as being 'down' at
> boot time? I could do it with a cron job, or a kernel rebuild, but I
> thought there'd be some nifty rc.conf syntax
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On 28/03/2010 05:04:06, Ron (Lists) wrote:
> Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push
> notifications to an iPhone (I assume other smart phones work the same
> way). I've searched the web and I can't find any information about how
>
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On 25/03/2010 01:48:36, Rob Weissenburger wrote:
> I have been picking my brain apart trying to figure this one out. Any
> help is appricated.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --mandir=/usr/local/man
> --enable-ssl --enable-suexec --enable-c
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On 25/03/2010 09:17:30, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> I am updating a system:
>
> FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3: Tue Sep 15 18:49:58 EDT 2009 amd64
>
> and failing to understand the (practical) consequences of
> UPDATING entries 20090926 and 20091202
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On 24/03/2010 21:23:54, krad wrote:
> If you want 100% of the drives you could have a pool per drive. Its not as
> nice as one big pool, but its less risky than one big raid0
Errr... no it's not. The risk of something going wrong is exactly the
same.
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On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote:
> With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace
> would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable?
That depends on how you configure your zpool. The choices are:
disk -- just u
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On 23/03/2010 14:40:15, jegue...@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
> Free BSD representative,
>
> I am inquiring if Free BSD is installable under the The GNU General Public
> License (short: GNU GPL or simply GPL)? Need to verify that for the
> requester
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On 22/03/2010 23:47:44, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Looks like i found the problem , i thought i've made a mistake.
>
> I shouldn't use `pw user add aaron' right ?
> That won't create user home directory , when i found i've got no home
> directory.
> So at t
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On 22/03/2010 14:03:53, Ian Lord wrote:
> I kinda understand freebsd is not well suited for that. I can read
> between the lines that we shouldn't go over 2TB. Is this information
> still exact or outdated ?
Outdated. The 2TB limit comes from the old
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On 22/03/2010 12:46:06, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 22/03/2010 07:11:23, Aaron Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> Hello BSD hackers,
>>>I have a strange problems with user's home directory , if i log
On 22/03/2010 11:33:28, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> In switching to a new make file for a personal project I have run into
> the problem of under the old makefile everything works (web site) and
> under the new one it does not... when manually looking at the two dirs
> they appear identical in layou
On 22/03/2010 07:11:23, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Hello BSD hackers,
>I have a strange problems with user's home directory , if i log in
> through ssh , everything's fine.
>But on virtual terminals , it tolds me:
>
>no home directory
>Logging in with home dir "/"
>
>Does anyone has
On 21/03/2010 13:53:16, Dan Naumov wrote:
> What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed
> throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in
> base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a
> custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rat
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On 19/03/2010 04:08:45, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>>
>> I'm thinking of implementing a greylisting milter for sendmail. I just
>> wanted to ask here first to see if anyone has any feedback on which
>> one might be
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On 18/03/2010 11:57:56, Peter Steele wrote:
>> Thinking about this some more, a good trick would be to generate a
>> hostname from the MAC address of the host, since that is guaranteed
>> to be unique.
>
> In fact, this is what we are currently using.
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On 18/03/2010 09:52:50, Антон Клесс wrote:
> 2010/3/18 Aiza
>
>> /usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb used. I
>> would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new partition
> The same question: how to ex
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On 18/03/2010 10:09:55, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of
>> harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB driv
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On 18/03/2010 09:36:44, Aiza wrote:
> /usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb
> used. I would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new
> partition for mysql DB testing. How do I shrink /usr?
Backup the cont
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On 18/03/2010 08:32:31, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 17/03/2010 22:06:30, Peter Steele wrote:
>> Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
>> have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
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On 17/03/2010 22:06:30, Peter Steele wrote:
> Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
> have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
> the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname
> g
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On 17/03/2010 16:22:17, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also
> upgraded from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems
> to work fine except the mouse. There is an irritating delay tha
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On 16/03/2010 22:34:47, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> Thanks Matthew for such a prompt and detailed answer and to give me
> the confidence I was in the right track! I think my main mistake was
> to jump from such an old version to the latest 7 release. This
On 16/03/2010 17:02:47, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch
> command?
>
> I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run
> just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out
> the likely boot drive, formats it and then b
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On 15/03/2010 18:16:17, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried upgrading from 6.2 STABLE to 7.3 RELEASE, and everything went
> very smooth until I rebooted the new kernel. Make installworld failed
> complaining that cc1 was not executable. After a l
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On 14/03/2010 08:05:37, Антон Клесс wrote:
> I compile my own kernel:
>
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN && make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN
>
> After this, the new kernel is into /boot/kernel , and old one is into
> /boot/kernel.old
>
> After
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On 13/03/2010 19:08:38, RW wrote:
> ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
>
> is not a complete substitute for running ntpdate at startup. It allows
> ntpd to make a large correction, but it doesn't block the boot sequence
> so you could still get a large step-c
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On 13/03/2010 14:47:31, Антон Клесс wrote:
> I saw that more than year ago on my teacher's server, when I was deal with
> my first FreeBSD, so it's just a kind of habit.
It's a bad habit you should try and cure yourself of. Stepping the
clock with nt
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On 13/03/2010 14:22:58, Eitan Adler wrote:
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>> You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP
>
> but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it
For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious
'install via HT
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On 12/03/2010 10:37:08, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Will Windows users be able to use an ftp client to connect? I've never
> implemented ssh with ftp before so I want to clarify for my understanding.
No, they'll need a SSH/SFTP client to be able to connect
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On 11/03/2010 16:44:38, Ameed Imad wrote:
> I would like to know from where can we get FreeBSD training to become able
> to administrate FreeBSD servers.
Formal training courses in FreeBSD administration will be few and far
between. FreeBSD isn't sup
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On 11/03/2010 15:07:07, Eitan Adler wrote:
> instead of "ftp through an http proxy" is it possible to get a pure http
> mirror?
Yes
happy-idiot-talk:~:% HEAD -uSe http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
HEAD http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
HEAD http
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On 11/03/2010 05:41:10, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said:
>> I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 server to a newer 8.0
>> server (different box). This is what I did:
>>
>> copied the '/etc/master.passwd' from
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On 10/03/2010 03:34:52, Gary Kline wrote:
> Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a
> power surge. I did not realize that my printer was also off
> until hours later. A friend helped me trace the problem and
>
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On 08/03/2010 12:23:04, n dhert wrote:
> MySQL and Postgresql appear in the freebsd with many different versions.
> Normally ports have only one version (the latest) and you upgrade with
> portupgrade.
>
> Sometimes a mysql-client or postgresql-client
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On 07/03/2010 08:45:41, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
> By necessity and convenience, I have developed a series of additions and
> changes to the ports tree. These changes are probably not worthy of
> inclusion into the official tree, so I'm looking to main
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On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
> because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at
> all, much less a bootable one.
Yeah, but the floppy disk
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On 06/03/2010 06:33:53, Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6
> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman
> wrote:
> > On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > >
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On 05/03/2010 16:54:50, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 05.03.10 17:01, schrieb Matthew Seaman:
>> table persist
>> [...near the top of the rules section...]
>> block drop in log quick on $ext_if from
>>
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On 05/03/2010 16:35:07, John wrote:
> Is there any reason one couldn't do something similar for SMTP? Maybe
> a little wider sample window, like 10/300? Or would you end up blocking
> too any things that you don't mean to block? Anyone played with t
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On 05/03/2010 16:14:12, Anselm Strauss wrote:
> That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would
> like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of
> dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can por
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On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes:
>
> Matthew> On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>> The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam,
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