Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
nt the first line...legal..blah etc ): # rsync -arcvv \ # be very verbose --exclude=/backup \ # ignore our backup location --exclude=/tmp \ # ignore sessions, etc --delete-after \ # delete changes since last r

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
#x27;ing the pkg db in the past). >> >> I'm personally not one to help with GUI things, but hopefully my >> suggestion may provide a lead. >> >> Steve > > I solved that issue, after reading info in UPDATING .. however the issue > now is qt4-designe

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
%pkg_version -v > ~/pv.out ...and then review the ~/pv.out file *manually* to see if you can identify any oddities. (yes, grep is good and grep is great, but I've missed obvious things by grep'ing the pkg db in the past). I'm perso

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
to > work. > Has anyone seen this or have any ideas? Try forcing the interface to 'up': # ifconfig bce0 up If that works, add it to the /etc/rc.conf: # echo 'ifconfig_bce0="up"' >> /etc/rc.conf Steve ___ freebs

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
d will work > like sed for so long as there are unix-like systems. It is not clear that > perl is going to continue to work. Given that it seems as though you do know what you are doing (which makes me believe that you actually have the ability to provide valuable input), why would you be s

Re: for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
o ask perl questions. Why? The OP is not looking for help identifying why a complex subroutine is doing something unexpected. He is asking how to modify portions of his file system on FreeBSD using the command line. Would you have been so harsh if he was asking how to do it with sed? awk? I for one

Re: Multihome on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-10-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
roto lacp laggport re0 laggport age0" ipv4_addrs_lagg0="208.70.104.110/25" Your switch will need to be capable of LACP as well, and be configured in a similar manner. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Daily report cannot be emailed to a jailed mail server

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
David N wrote: > 2009/10/8 Steve Bertrand : >> David N wrote: [ big snips ] >>> When i try to send an email i get >>> Oct 8 08:47:07 server sm-mta[95130]: n97Ll7VV095129: SYSERR(root): MX >>> list for anotherdomain.com.au. points back to server.net >&

Re: Common practice for generating SSL CSR

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
;s what I thought, but just wanted to be sure. fwiw, TFM: http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC28 Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Common practice for generating SSL CSR

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Although not FBSD specific... I'm looking to garner production-wise operational feedback on the commands people are using to generate their (Open)SSL cert requests nowadays... All feedback appreciated. I'm just curious to know if things have chang

Re: Daily report cannot be emailed to a jailed mail server

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
is created, a simple 'make' in /etc/mail will build the mailertable.db file for you and take effect immediately (much like 'newaliases'). However, it's hard to tell if this recommendation will solve your problem though. Without knowing the real domain, we can't perfor

bridge wlan and tap

2009-09-28 Thread Steve Franks
ed network that this basic operation works on, so I'm suspecting wlan does break bridging... Best, Steve ___ 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: network freebsd computers

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
y enough to entice the developers themselves to provide you feedback. iow, there is no such thing as an irrational change. Everything happens for a reason. If you must compare, the changes in FreeBSD or any of it's subsystems or 3rd party applications generally happen for reasons other than financial gain (afaik). My .02 Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

bridge wlan and tap

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Franks
ed network that this basic operation works on, so I'm suspecting wlan does break bridging... Best, Steve ___ 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"

dvdstyler failure on vanilla 8RC1

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Franks
n /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdstyler. I don't see any dependencies to fribidi in the port (looks like there should be one), but I do happen to have: [st...@fyre /usr/ports/multimedia]$ pkg_info | grep fri fribidi-0.19.2_1A Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorith Is this pr

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
isagree with the claims made in that post. I've been using FreeBSD for nearly 10 years, and I vouch for the fact that FreeBSD has made huge strides during that time. Not only is the OS mature, but so are the people who write it, maintain it, and advocate it. Was about to add 'defend it' to the last sentence there, but it's not even necessary. FreeBSD's track record, and the fact that it's used in the most critical of infrastructures proves that FreeBSD merrily holds it's own water, without a word ever needing to be spoken. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: FreeBSD crossover cable network

2009-09-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Oliver Mahmoudi wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers >> running FreeBSD 7.0. >> The network cards are configured and they work, i.e. I pinged myself and it >> works. >&

Re: FreeBSD crossover cable network

2009-09-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
ad to manually force the cards to 'UP' prior to assigning any addresses to them: ifconfig_em6="up" ifconfig_em6="inet6 2607:f118:1:2::/64 eui64" Try the "up" statement, and see if it helps after the next reboot. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: net.inet.ip.random_id possible ASA problems?

2009-09-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
s. You may also want to capture a pcap on the 'problematic' box to see if you can find anything interesting: # tcpdump -n -i em0 -s 0 -w /home/steve/packet-cap.pcap Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
; machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not > with each other. > > Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? In what sense are you trying to 'network' them? Via the likes of Windows file sharing? Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Help with NAT

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
679:3408461679(0) win 16384 20:09:52.912425 IP6 2607:f118::b6.80 > 2607:f118::5.1752: S 1781312333:1781312333(0) ack 3408461680 win 65535 ...whether you see the packets come in or not, post back with your findings. Do you perhaps have to 'restart' natd in order to release any sort of caching? STeve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Freeco wrote: > My gateway gave me a message: "gateway kernel: arp: x.x.88.17 is on fxp0 but > got reply from 00:0c:42:11:15:a8 on rl0 That MAC address is that of a Mikrotic router. I suspect that you've created a cabling loop of some sort again. Steve smime.p7s Des

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
f icmptypes 8 # ipfw add 15 allow icmp from any to any ...but my personal recommendation is to not do it. Even for the simple fact that if you ever have to call your ISP for support, pinging is one of the most basic and helpful utilities available. Again, IMHO. Cheers, Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
#x27;s (quite possibly) plugged into the as well: | | --- | | | | |\ | \ x.x.88.20\ | 192.168.1.2| | | | | |_| Yes? St

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
192.168.1.2 | | /|\ / | \ /|\ 192.168.1.5 .6 .7 Cheers. I'm glad it worked out for you! :) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
now know that NAT is functional, and you can reach the ISP gateway, and it knows how to get back to you. % ping 208.70.104.211 ...if that works, you are done :) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Freeco wrote: > Steve wrote: > In the diagram above, you need two NICs in the gateway. One goes to the > ISP, and the other 192.168.1.2 goes to the switch. The rest of the > computers also plug into the switch. If all of the devices have > 192.168.1.x, they are all in the same subn

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Freeco wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > |- > | > ISP>-- > | \ | > | \ |_ > | \ >

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32 > > Aside from that, are you sure that this entry shouldn't be: > > map rl0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32 > > ? Again, I don't know ipnat, but to me, in the fxp0 entry, it looks like > you are trying to m

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
fxp0 192.168.0.0/16 -> 0/32 should really be this: map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32 Aside from that, are you sure that this entry shouldn't be: map rl0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0/32 ? Again, I don't know ipnat, but to me, in the fxp0 entry, it looks like you are trying to map the 192 space coming INTO fxp0 (which in your original post is the NIC that faces the ISP, not the internal network). If this is how ipnat looks at this, then this is also a problem. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: [ snip ] > Freeco, let us know how things are connected physically. Your best bet > would be: > > |- >

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
connected physically. Your best bet would be: |- | ISP>- | |_ Trash bin> Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
ed TCP but we found performance to be much better > with UDP. NFSv3 by the way. Ok. [ snip ] > If you have a particular scenario you're thinking about I could help you > with the rules to make it work. I do, and that would be fantastic! I'll draw up a diagram this afternoon of what I envision. Where I'll need a bit of advice will likely be in the details, as opposed to the design, especially if I migrate completely away from our existing mail platform(s). Cheers! Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Killfiles (was Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security...)

2009-09-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
sense, good judgement while following best common practises, all on behalf of the people they are responsible forus (and technically, themselves). Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: >>> Steve Bertrand wrote: >>> >>>> If anyone has a setup that has redundancy for their IMAP/POP >> services, >>>> and a method to keep the changing data relatively up-to-date, I'd >> love >>>>

Re: ZFS on small systems

2009-09-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
aps however that there have been enhancements introduced that I don't know about, that allow ZFS to operate in such a small memory address space, but for some reason I doubt it. If I'm wrong, someone will let us know ;) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> If anyone has a setup that has redundancy for their IMAP/POP services, >> and a method to keep the changing data relatively up-to-date, I'd love >> to hear about it. > > Now, that is a different kettle of

Re: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> My minimum requirements: >> >> - IPv6 for all protocols >> - SPF >> - IMAP|POP3 must support SSL >> - SMTP AUTH >> - submit on 587 >> - MySQL backend for un/pw, vpopmail preferred, but not man

New mail server setup

2009-09-15 Thread Steve Bertrand
t email from my backup mx until tomorrow, as it were ;) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: looking for motherboard with 7.2 proven suspend/resume

2009-09-15 Thread Steve Franks
> On 9/15/09, Steve Franks wrote: >> S3 is a key feature for me for my desktops. I have gone thru probably >> 5 mobo's and 5 laptops in my time as a FBSD user, the only one which >> ever S3'd was a compaq of all things (well, lots of them will S3 if >> you k

looking for motherboard with 7.2 proven suspend/resume

2009-09-15 Thread Steve Franks
27;s time for a new system, and as long as I can shove a somewhat modern dual core in it, my second most critical criteria for purchase is that S3 works with FreeBSD with a minimum of or at least well described hacking. Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questi

Re: csh issues bogus error message

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
name must begin with a letter. > > I can change the # to #!/bin/csh > but I get the same error message > > This looks like a csh bug to me 8o) What exactly are you trying to do? Can you post the entire contents of your .cshrc file? ...seems as though there is something missing h

SVN + Apache

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
dress and filter those who could potentially access it via IPFW :) Cheers! Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Franks
165G-S0) = $24.95 Best, Steve ___ 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: remove newlines from a file

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> George Davidovich wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:03:19PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote: >>>> I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it >>>> again. >&

Re: webserver and natd

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
ed > or something and loads the pages verry slow. > The problem is that natd is not working without firewall activated. > > i have apache (directadmin cpanel) It's been years since I've needed to use NAT, so unfortunately, I can't help here. I'm sure someone else will speak up. If nothing comes up in the next while, perhaps asking on -ipfw will help (but do not cross-post). Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: webserver and natd

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
ve a proper DNS name set up for the IP that the web server is running on? How are you accessing the web server... by name or IP? I'll assume that you are using Apache. What does the "ServerName" directive say? Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: remove newlines from a file

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
ther (easier to remember) solutions could include: > > tr -d '\n' < my_file > tr '\n' ' ' < my_file > > echo $(cat my_file) # not so useless use of cat! > > paste -s my_file > > while read line; do > joined

Reading raw memory

2009-08-28 Thread Steve Bertrand
o find out if the data is in a state where it could later be retrieved. Is accessing memory like this permitted within the OS? If so, what type of editor would be used to do such a thing? Perhaps a snip of C code that one could pass in the address as a parameter? Steve smime.p7s Descript

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
state)), but it would deny everything and anything else, inbound and outbound. Note that in heavy environments that keeping state can have it's own detrimental drawbacks, which there is no need to get into here. These drawbacks are generally why one might decide not to block everything at the network edge, but on the box itself. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Accidentally moved /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
't know if it will help or not, but here is a link to the file in question. If all of the other great recommendations don't pan out, you may be able to boot from some form of 'live cd', and then fetch the file into place. http://www.ipv6canada.com/ld-elf.so.1 % mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt # where ad0s1a is your / on the hard disk % cd /mnt/libexec % fetch http://www.ipv6canada.com/ld-elf.so.1 % reboot Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
keith cak wrote: > Dear Sir, > > May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . If it is a one-time change: % ifconfig em0 208.70.111.88/24 If you need it to remain across a reboot, use rc.conf as Aftab suggested. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: >>> Apologies up front for the off-topic'dness. >>> >>> I'm thoroughly enjoying my new editor, and swiftly le

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Franks
out of the box, after I swapped the internal broadcom wifi for a highpower atheros. The ACPI is a real nightmare on it, however. dmesg is constantly full of acpi barfs, and it hangs on shutdown, and won't suspend, which is pretty much a requirement for a notebook at my house. Tried all th

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
k, that is not (and hope not) the design goal. Instead of "Desktop" features to appeal to people, what FreeBSD really needs is people who are willing to take the time to drop the GUI for a few weeks, and gain a bit of exposure and enlightenment. If it clicks, you're hooked. If not, the

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
don't utilize them anymore because of the ominous unavoidable illegal behaviour. If this is the case, ideas on a (legal) workaround so posting to text-only newsgroups would be great. Now that this has been brought up, I'd be interested if I could barder with another small ISP for this functionality. (post on -isp). Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
rk like vi does :) Getting to the point, I'd like to find a vi(m) community, but the list subscribe that appears authoritative for vim-users bounces. I despise and refuse to belong to web forums. Given that, where can I go to follow vim discussions, without having to bring it up OT here on my fa

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
expandtab > set showmode > set nocompatible > set vb t_vb= > set display=lastline > set ignorecase > set nomodeline Many of these were documented in the tutor, and others I have found while reading other docs. Thanks! Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled >> the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. > > I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. &g

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
es at ~160MBps for 6-8 consecutive hours per day. What I would recommend is if you go with -CURRENT and boot from ZFS on a box going into production, ensure that you have very up-to-date backups, stored in a method in which you could very quickly replicate onto another box in case of emergency. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Managing encrypted disks

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
knows? I want to automate everything except the insertion of the keys, which will always be manual. Knowing how to identify what is attached but not mounted would be a good start. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
gt; to recover them, but recover did as recover should. ...backup...always. Even if you don't think you need it, back it up anyway. > Oh, well, before I give it all up, I'm giving it one final shot. This last sentence makes me believe that you are coming at this with a mindset of "fsck it... if it don't work this time, that's it", which I have found will set your mind up for failure, as that's what you've trained your brain to expect. After your brain knows _I'll quit after this_, you will work as diligently as possible to ensure that it happens. Take a break... there have been many, many well-written attempts to help. All of those who have helped already will still be here no matter what! Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. Giving it a try was no where near as intimidating as I have been told it was. Now that I have the basics down, it's trivial to periodically search the web to find out new things it can do. It is the default editor in FreeBSD, so it&#x

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
ot;). This of course will require having the Windows install CD. Your desktop may still have a sticker with a license key on it, in which case, you can simply borrow the Windows CD from someone else if you don't own one. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. Well, after a two week hiatus from technology, I'm back at work (actually, considering I build a large new deck, being back at work is more of a holiday than being on holidays :) Although it was recommended that I give both Emac

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
I'm going to give vim a go. It's what I've been contemplating for quite some time anyway, and the recent post brought it to the surface. Thanks everyone. I've saved all of the relevant links, code snips and keystrokes for further perusal. Steve _

A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
ecause I want a four char tab...really. I don't want/need an excessive amount of features, just something that will just work. In the last few weeks, I've been leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome your feedback. Thanks, Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Kalle Møller wrote: >> Well any other port works flawless. It's only the vim ports (other = screen >> sudo wget bash apache22 mysql-server subversion etc) >> >> And the ISP is not the problem - I works for them in the network department >

Re: vim port have a lot of broken links ??

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
0:1:80aa:192:87:102:42, 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:43 Connecting to ftp.vim.org|2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ^C Are you IPv6 ready? If not, do you have v6 enabled in some fashion that could be interfering with proper Internet communication? Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: How to Benchmark zpool?

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
G 1.02K 0 129M 0 storage 1.53T 292G 1.02K 0 129M 0 storage 1.53T 292G 1.05K 0 134M 0 Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
#x27;t in use, so I can't really bypass the HP RAID card. I will however slap a 200GB USB drive against the box, and see if I can get faster performance from USB than I can the native SATA setup. FWIW, I do have the battery backed cache installed... Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Polyack
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions co

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: >> My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if >> I can keep the abstraction performance loss to <25% (my ultimate goal >> would be 15%). >> usable mem

Re: INN configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
he *exact* error message your client is getting... if you can extract such a thing from (him|her), then provide anything you can find in your NNTP server logfile(s). Steve [0]: http://tinyurl.com/l8lo9z [1]: personally, I use uTorrent frequently to download/re-upload FreeBSD releases, whitepapers, b

VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
. I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. Off-list is fine. Cheers, Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Can't login to the system...!

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > thanos trompoukis wrote: >> Hi all, I am a noobie here. >> I was in the system as root and I type this command: >> chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) > > Login as a different user, and "su" to root as you've

Re: Can't login to the system...!

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am a noobie here. > I was in the system as root and I type this command: > chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) Login as a different user, and "su" to root as you've stated you can do, then: # chsh -s /bin/sh Steve

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
herbert langhans wrote: > - sometimes the photos, mostly the JPG I guess, appear visible but in a deep > purple shade. I can't resist... was it about 1620 hrs when you witnessed this? ;) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: >> I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs >> on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? >> >> I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
gure out that your storage method is better than the storage mechanism, then you won't ever have to ask this question again ;) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Peter Boosten wrote: > Ruben de Groot wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: >>> John Almberg wrote: >>>> On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>>>>You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: [...snip...] > There is a single file in /etc/dnscache/root/ip, named 127.0.0.1 > > If you want this cache to serve internal /24 network queries: > > % touch /etc/dnscache/root/ip/192.168.0 Need to add some clarification: Adding the new empty file permi

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
that allow cache access: amigo# ll /etc/dnscache/root/ip total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 2008 127.0.0.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 2008 208.70.104 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 2008 208.70.105 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 2008 208.70.106 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 2008 208.70.107 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 19 2008 208.70.108 ... Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ZFS scrub is finished?

2009-07-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 2009-07-11 16:37:20, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> On 2009-07-11 15:08:04, Steve Bertrand wrote: >>>> Perhaps it is as simple as cron-ing something like the following (of >>>> course,

Re: ZFS scrub is finished?

2009-07-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 2009-07-11 15:08:04, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Perhaps it is as simple as cron-ing something like the following (of >> course, replace "zpool scrub" with my cat commands. > Problem is that 'zpool scrub' immediately

Re: ZFS scrub is finished?

2009-07-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
cat a.fil && sleep 3 && cat b.fil [1] 29821 this is a ... % this is b [1]Done ( cat a.fil && sleep 3 && cat b.fil ) If you want to run it at the command line, simply throw another '&' at the end of the entire command string to ensure that if your terminal terminates, the process(es) will continue thereafter. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
casual users on > Windows boxes will be able to manage fun stuff like SSH connections or > alternative software, like SCP. Provide them a link to a client software that uses SFTP. I use WinSCP (portable), which defaults to SFTP, and provides the server, username and password fields as soon as it is launched. Hope I didn't miss anything ;) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption

2009-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
the -s0 flag). If you don't, tcpdump will not capture enough information to decode the packet. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Network traffic monitoring: BSD monitor & verifying encryption

2009-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
rkstation and view it in Wireshark (which is my preference). Wireshark displaying SSH traffic will for instance tell you straight-up in the Info field that the packet is "Encrypted response packet len=xxx". It does the same for IPSec etc. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Hacker problem...Takes down apache?

2009-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
y not even be a web server at all. If the timestamp of httpd is different, it may be as simple as restoring the binary from a backup. Also, check your "last" command for logins, check privileged users .history files and check users home directories for any files/directories that appear out

Re: ot: regular expression help

2009-07-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
ld*ste ve'; print join (', ', (split(/[^\w\$]/, $string))); ...output: hello, wo$rld, ste, ve Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Configuring VLANs - Why is IP address require on NIC connected to Trunk?

2009-06-18 Thread Steve Polyack
Geoff Roberts wrote: I find I have to give the ext0 interface an IP address in order for routing and packet filtering to work on the attached VLANs. This shouldn't be the case. The "ext0" interface should not need an IP address for the two vlanX interfaces to function correctly. Are you

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >>> I'd like to make it so that '~' remains /home/steve, but when I log in, >>> I would prefer to be dropped immediately into /home/steve/devel. >>> >>> csh is (always) my shell, and I'm on 7.2.

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, Steve > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've got a couple of jails now that I use exclusively for Perl development. >> >> As soon as I log into the box via SSH, my first command is

Changing my login directory

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I've got a couple of jails now that I use exclusively for Perl development. As soon as I log into the box via SSH, my first command is _always_ "cd devel/something". I'd like to make it so that '~' remains /home/steve, but when I log in, I would pr

Re: Problem with jail connecting out

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
P loopback, advertised by OSPF) ifconfig_lo10="UP" ifconfig_lo10="inet 172.16.104.8 netmask 255.255.255.255" -- >From RFC 1700: (g) {127, } Internal host loopback address. Should never appear outside a host. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Fixed: Re: another cross-gcc question ("can't compute suffix of object files")

2009-06-15 Thread Steve Franks
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Steve Franks wrote: > Sorry to be such a pest,  I'm trying to go from being a good hardware > programmer to a good OS programmer, but there's alot to pick up to be > FreeBSD proficient... > > Can't seem to do a vanilla cross-gcc

another cross-gcc question ("can't compute suffix of object files")

2009-06-12 Thread Steve Franks
installs... I don't even know what other info would be needed to track this down. My machine is pretty much useless without an arm compiler - that's what I do for work. Best, Steve [st...@terra /usr/ports/devel/cross-gcc]$ sudo make MULTILIB_OPTIONS="mno-thumb-interwork/mthum

Re: Automagic revision numbers with Perl Modules and SVN

2009-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been migrating all of my projects from CVS to SVN (starting over > from the beginning). > > All of the projects in question are Perl modules. [..snip..] > Any guidance to fix the version numbering (especially to fix the FreeBS

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