On 05/17/2013 05:45, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:19:32 +0100
>
>> It seems to me that the level of spam in list is pretty much
>> negligible.
>
> That would be a subjective statement. It is like asking how many times
> you have to slap your wife before you are considered a wife beater.
On 02/12/2013 12:54, Chris Maness wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD box running sendmail that can see the whole internet.
> I have another mail server that hosts mail for an intranet. It does
> not have access to the i-net. I think I remember reading that it is
> possible for the i-net attached sendmai
On 11/29/2012 13:34, Fbsd8 wrote:
> Stay away from using vimage with production jails (vimage provides a
> network stack for each jail). Vimage is marked as experimental and use
> at your own risk. You have to compile it into your kernel to deploy it.
>
FWIW we are using vimages for several crit
On 11/25/2012 13:08, Jim Flowers wrote:
> Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of
> having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good?
> Bad? Indifferent?
>
I've been using ARP networks for a couple of years now and I'm quite happy.
http://w
On 09/07/2012 10:55, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD?
>
We use FreeBSD for our lockbox/remittance processing system. We have
non-disclosure agreements which prevent me from mentioning bank names,
but the most prominent players use our s
nice ad hominem screed
On 08/20/2012 12:57, Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:40:40 + (UTC)
> jb articulated:
>
>> This is a bad thing for all UNIX or UNIX-like ecosystems, performed
>> under the noble flag of "progress" to neutralize and fight opposition.
> Do you have any idea how idioti
On 07/16/2012 10:10, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:04:31 -0500, Robert Bonomi
> wrote:
>
>> This is *precisely* why dd is _grossly_inferior_ to professional-grade
>> tools like Spinrite.
>
> I bet you are a big fan of homeopathic treatments too, aren't you?
> ___
On 06/21/2012 10:30, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Because there's no reason to do that. It's an asinine suggestion.
>>
>> Clang is here to stay. Most of us are happy about that decision. GCC
>
> Because most that are not already stopped and ignored thing. and use GCC.
>
> Politics won.
>
Excellent. W
On 06/21/2012 00:33, Hooman Fazaeli wrote:
> Dear community
>
> In the past, I built a 8TB ZFS log server on freebsd 7.4.
> However, the system experienced instablility after long up times.
> My main motive to use ZFS was UFS inability to support large
> file systems.
>
> Now, I want to the same t
On 06/21/2012 10:08, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>> You seem to be unaware of what percentage of the development and
>> maintenance staff and the money to pay for them comes from those
>> commercial users. If FreeBSD cannot maintain the critical mass to
>> continue, it will not continue.
>
> but why
GPL runs contrary to the nature and intent of the BSD style license.
Free and open software benefits us all.
Getting rid of GPL is a good thing, and well worth any (debatable)
performance hits.
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Sales Solution Architect II
FIS Banking Solutions
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530/518-5194 (c)
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On 06/15/2012 08:30, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>
> Aha.A pissing contest and it's fridaycount me in...
>
> FreeBSD fqdn 4.11-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p20 #0: Mon Aug 28
> 07:21:42 CEST 2006 user@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HPNETSERVERFW i386
> _
On 06/13/2012 16:10, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb wrote:
>>> William Orr worrbase.com> writes:
>>>
Hello,
I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
/var/db/pkg/ and everything u
On 02/24/2012 13:52, Bender, Chris wrote:
> Hi, I am responsible for a system I know little about.
>
> Sendmail all of a sudden stopped working...the sendmial is supposed to
> send to another machine.
>
> The senmail locally looks to deliver email to a que and the que looks to
> forward to anothe
On 02/23/2012 09:27, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> Never underestimate the power of the Symbol! Hail Satan!
So mote it be!
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Sales Solution Architect II
FIS Banking Solutions
510/621-2089 (w)
530/518-5194 (c)
510/621-2020 (f)
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On 02/21/2012 10:28, Devin Teske wrote:
> Why can't you mount the disc on /mnt and then use tar after mounting the disk
> to copy the files from /mnt to /destdir ...
>
> tar cpf - -C /mnt . | tar xvpf - -C /destdir
>
> That will preserve hard links, symlinks, permissions, and times (and doesn't
>
On 02/20/2012 09:44, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>
>> So, the OP posted a question about normal and/or preferred use
>> of FreeBSD and people responded. Or do you consider this thread
>> to be too technical? Maybe the discussion could fit in Hackers.
> Yes,
> hackers@ Would hav
On 02/17/2012 15:58, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
is there a command which can show the size of the hard drive swap?
A "df" seems to avoid the swap area.
You're looking for "swapinfo"
Regards,
Chuck beat me to it.
"swapinfo" or top are the two wa
On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root partition;
although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs filesystem might be better
for many situations.
Sure it has its uses, but now you're jumping into new territory where
t
On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default.
No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up,
the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get
a majority on hackers@ or current@ or arch@. Som
Hiya,
A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as
opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD.
It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap
as such:
/
/tmp
/var
/usr
swap
The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a
You're going to want to use lpr, and you'll have to set up /etc/printcap
first.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/corp-net-guide/printserving-lpr-freebsd.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/corp-net-guide/printserving-unix.html
The command I use to print to a printer set up in /etc/prin
>True. But as a new user it was the separate partitions that attracted
>me, having been burned with linux's megaroot. And a new user would have
>trouble setting up the partitions. Not to mention the break with
>tradition (what is happening to this world)! :)
I prefer having separate partitions be
On 12/01/2011 12:17, Frank wrote:
Hey Julian,
Thanks for the kind response - rough crowd :)
Some people on certain lists should just add the phrase "Wanna fight!?"
to their signatures.
We're not all like that.
--
Dave Robison
Sales Solution Architect II
FIS Banking Solutions
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On 11/05/2011 14:52, Robert Simmons wrote:
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working
before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address?
After setting ntpdate_enable="YES" in rc.conf, I get the following
error on boot:
Setting date via ntp.
Error : hostname
On 10/26/2011 12:20, Snoop wrote:
Hi everybody,
I've got a pretty trivial question but I'm kind of disoriented.
In the CARP man pages is clearly stated
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html:
__
"To enab
Using primarily FreeBSD, and in fact, still FreeBSD 4.11 (we are in the
process of upgrading to 8.x now), our systems moved well over 1.6
trillion dollars in business to business financial transactions last year.
I'd hardly call that irrelevant.
On 07/17/2011 04:10, Jerry wrote:
> While I usu
On 06/02/2011 09:09, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
On 06/02/11 18:02, Reid Linnemann wrote:
I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power supply. After
an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over the place. I
replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, and when
t
I second the idea that this is a RAM issue.
Power down, ground yourself, remove and re-seat the RAM and see if the
problem goes away.
On 04/26/2011 07:35, Mikael Bak wrote:
C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bak wrote:
Hi list,
I have a system running FreeBSD 7.3.
is your host ip denied by /etc/hosts.allow?
On 04/08/2011 12:22, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I
got:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed
I was able to log in using my vendors KVM access, and didn't see
anything particularl
Check out portsentry perhaps?
I used to use it quite a bit. Whenever someone would hit one of a number
of defined ports, I'd automatically add a rule denying them in IPFW and
also drop their route to a non-existent IP on my class C.
On 03/04/11 16:14, Patrick Gibson wrote:
fail2ban by def
I like bacula, I've used it for years.
I also like this command Julian once taught me:
find . -name | cpio -pdmluv /destination/folder/here
On 02/17/11 18:25, Xn Nooby wrote:
Wow, that article is just what I was looking for! I will check out
your other articles too. Thanks!
On Thu, Feb 17
Allow me to split hairs here.
I was taught "sync;sync;sync;halt".
One for the father, one for the son, one for the holy spirit.
This, of course, in the days when I/O was slow enough that sync didn't
have time to finish before the halt, so doing it three times ensured
your file system shut dow
On 01/05/11 15:20, Gary Gatten wrote:
I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.
What is the recommended swap space?
I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.
Definitely not 0, b
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