Re: lang/lua fails to build on 9.0-STABLE amd64 - bug or config issue?

2012-01-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 04:22:30PM -0700, Lee Thomas wrote: Hello fellow FreeBSD users, I ran across an odd issue compiling lua from ports on amd64 with FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, and I'm not sure whether it's a bug or incorrect configuration on my part. The lang/lua port throws a linker error,

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:37:48AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused PCC is only a C compiler, and there is some C++ code (e.g. groff) in the base system. The FreeBSD port is marked as i386 and amd64 only, even though other

Re: Cross building FreeBSD

2012-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 07:37:38AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: Well, that is the question. How to copy those file over. Files have special chflags (for instance in /lib) Use BSD tar. It can handle flags. E.g. pipe the output from tar to netcat (nc) on the amd64 machine, and send it to

Re: Which Common Lisp port for FreeBSD/sparc64?

2012-01-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:50:54PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: You can find various cmucl snapshots here: http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/downloads/snapshots/2012/01/ i think one of the authors has a sparc machine, and also runs maxima, so i would be confident that cmucl works OK on the

Re: Which Common Lisp port for FreeBSD/sparc64?

2012-01-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:07:23AM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: Hi, is anyone running a Common Lisp port on FreeBSD/sparc64? I'm asking because none of our Common Lisp ports lang/clisp, lang/ccl, lang/cmucl, lang/sbcl compile on sparc64. The first thing to check is to comment out the

Re: IPFW transparent VS dummynet rules

2012-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, budsz wrote: Hi folks, I already found the mistake of my ruleset sequence on my box, for ex: ${fwcmd} add 30 fwd ${ipproxy},${portproxy} tcp from ${ipclproxy} to any dst-port ${porthttp} in via ${ifint0} ${fwcmd} add 52 pipe 2 ip from any to ${ipclient} via

Re: Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:13:24PM -0800, UFS User wrote: I have run a lot of different FreeBSD systems off (fileservers, firewalls, routers, etc.) off of compact flash cards[1] and have never had a CF part fail. Most of these were read-only mode, but some of them were left mounted 'rw'

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:23:17PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 12/24/11 11:34, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:03:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: might render the application performing it unresponsive during that time. Bingo! Thats exactly the issue. Taking a look at FUSE I can see there are calls that FUSE_FSYNC which I would say is the closest to what is needed. The question

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44:53PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: And yes, that will block write calls until they're truely done. You said that was slower too. A bit. But I think it is a good trade-off for filesystems on USB disks. It certainly circumvents a whole lot of problems with filesystem

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:18:19PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: This is doing my head in. :-) I'm trying to get my head around hal, dbus, and PolicyKit, and I've made some inroads on the basics, but I cannot get a few things happening. One: I managed to get network:/// smb shares working in

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 01:27:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: couldn't give a shit about network drives. One scenario is network goes down and I get a screenful of error messages- it annoys the shit out of me, let alone scaring illiterate users. If the network goes down, network drives won't

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 08:03:22AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: If the network goes down, network drives won't work. Your users will be sad/scared/frustrated with or without error messages, I'm guessing. Nah. They'd flip out a whole lot more when the screen literally fills with error messages and

Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:57:38AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: FreeBSD be default already does buffering in the VFS layer (unless you turn that off). I don't think that adding more buffering would help. It might even make matters worse. If data is buffered and not immediately written to the

Re: Best solution to install zfs on root for FBSD 9

2011-12-20 Thread Corey Smith
also look at this link for more information: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS -Corey Smith ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: blender - python32

2011-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:35:17PM -0600, ajtiM wrote: H! I have fresh installed 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 and I use KDE 4. I like to install Blender 2.6 but: Required To Build: lang/python32 Required To Run: lang/python32 Installed Python on the system is 2.7. I don't like to update

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10, Message: 25 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:53 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: SNIP For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' But isn't that handled by setting

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 9, Message: 9 On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:35:45 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/01/2011 05:45 PM, Jon Radel wrote: On 12/1/11 6:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any It does work but, two

Dedicated Bulk Email Servers Bulk Email Hosting

2011-11-28 Thread jake smith
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Re: 9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 1, Message: 18 On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:47:27 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: I'm planning to install FreeBSD alongside a whole range of Windows builds for testing. In 8.x it's possible to tell the installer not to bother updating the MBR

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

2011-11-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 389, Issue 8, Message: 6 On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:08:22 -0500 William Bulley w...@umich.edu wrote: According to Edward Martinez eam1edw...@gmail.com on Fri, 11/18/11 at 19:53: Have you tried installing with ACPI disabled.

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 387, Issue 10, Message: 34 On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:49:29 -0400 Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris cpubur...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize for the

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 386, Issue 9, Message: 5 On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and denying them the

Re: Wifi Scanner Gnome

2011-10-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:41:44PM -0700, Michael Starr wrote: Hey, I use multiple wireless networks on a daily basis and they are different each day. Is there a simple gnome wifi scanner that allows me to easily connect my laptop to the available network? I have been looking... This

Re: is there a way to code this .... without curses?

2011-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:46:45PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i have written a small program using curses; that isn't the problem. but does anybody onlist know how to code the following in C: void foo() { system(stty raw); man cfmakeraw . . .

RE: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

2011-09-02 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hi Alejandro: I'm not aware of a pfSense book, but if you want a book on PF, there is: The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book Editor: Jeremy C. Reed Publisher: Reed Media Services ISBN: 978-0-9790342-0-6 Regards, Mike -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GSEC, GISP Chief Technical Officer - Adhost

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:16:00PM +0100, Michael wrote: Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password. But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users? Preferably in a non-interactive and scriptable way. Is it possible with

RE: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Carl G Smith
. ___ 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 I have heard that the OS X OS is based on FreeBSD. Is this true? Carl G Smith c...@carlgsmith.com

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: In order to restore functionality that my old system provided almost 10 years ago (I checked when I bought it!), I'm currently trying to get wine working. Sadly, its Makefile states: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386 I've done some

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:43:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/12/11 22:54, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:44:07PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz Does this file actually exist if you extract

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:43:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/12/11 22:54, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:44:07PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: files

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 05:46:37PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: Since today, I can not update my ports tree due to this error as follows. This happens on all boxes running FreeBSD, the version of the OS (FBSD 8.2/9.0) doesn't matter. What's up with the ports collection? Probably nothing.

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:38:06PM +0200, Olivier Smedts wrote: 2011/8/12 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 05:46:37PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: Since today, I can not update my ports tree due to this error as follows. This happens on all boxes running FreeBSD

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:44:07PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz This file is relatively recent; When I used portsnap yesterday, it wasn't there, and now it is. I do a postrmaster on a nearly daily basis. This occured

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 05:41:44PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 08:00:25PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have been using TeX for a while and I have never had to set up anthing like this :( I had used MikTeX in winblow$ and TeTeX in linux distros and FreeBSD 5.3/FreeBSD6.2, and I had never had to mess with TDS. This is what I

Re: Printr?

2011-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:16:48PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: this 3040cn is seriously low-end, Avoid that low-end crap like the plague. Those are usually depend on the driver to do all the processing work and chances of finding a FreeBSD driver are essentially nonexistant. Preferably get a

Re: groff UTF-8

2011-07-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). What is Latin-1 ?

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38:22AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:19:13 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If you know of another tex project where teTeX fails, please send me the details. I'm keen to patch teTeX as far as possible with no major changes to TDS, i.e. just

Re: groff UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:49:39PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. I've now a project where it would fit really nicely. It's making (Postscript or

Re: Am I Missing A Compat Library?

2011-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:11:28AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just ran pkg_libchk and got this: avahi-app-0.6.29: /usr/local/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1 misses libicui18n.so.46 As I've never seen this before, I'm unclear on what to do to remmediate. Have you updated your ports recently? The

Re: Am I Missing A Compat Library?

2011-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 7/18/2011 11:23 AM, Roland Smith said this: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:11:28AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just ran pkg_libchk and got this: avahi-app-0.6.29: /usr/local/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1 misses libicui18n.so.46

Re: Am I Missing A Compat Library?

2011-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 7/18/2011 12:43 PM, Roland Smith said this: But I _don't_ get this linker error. Just a thought, but have a look at glib and dbus, and check that it is linked to the right libicu? ('ldd /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I would advise you to get TeXLive instead, but that is just me. You can install from TeXLive DVD, or go get a DVD with packages: I would second

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 years. atlas:~uname -mprs FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 I've been using the cvsup/make method of upgrades for years and only used freebsd-upgrade once.

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I would advise you to get TeXLive instead, but that is just me. You can install from TeXLive DVD, or go get a DVD with packages: I would second that. It comes comlete with FreeBSD binaries for i386 and amd64 in the

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Does anybody successfully use the ipfw fwd? If so in which FreeBSD version? Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks correct.  Do you have a TCP service running on localhost

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

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

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 19 On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:43:23 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 04/07/2011 15:53, tethys ocean wrote: If a partition was not unmounted cleanly (eg. the machine crashed, or the power was cut off

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

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, umage wrote: Some points: 1) I did use the handbook as reference, and my ruleset mimics the layout used there. Excuse the late response, I've been away. The best reference, apart from ipfw(8), is /etc/rc.firewall. 'Nuff said. 2) Handbook uses divert natd, which I

RE: LTO3 tape drive not detected

2011-06-23 Thread a . smith
Seems in theory that LTO 3 should work ok based on this forum post: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8042 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 366, Issue 8, Message: 5 On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:23:48 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/06/2011 08:18, Bret Busby wrote: the current FreeBSD Handbook ... states FreeBSD must be installed

portaudit: exim vulnerable but exim-mysql not??

2011-06-07 Thread a . smith
Hi, I've noticed that servers runing exim version 4.74 are being flagged by portaudit as having this vulnerability: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/36594c54-7be7-11e0-9838-0022156e8794.html But systems with the port exim-mysql are not. This has to be an oversight doesn't it? If

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread a . smith
Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time a few months back. Ok, so I think you are sitting in /usr/src trying to run the make buildworld right? If you are getting the error you mentioned then I think it means you are missing the Makefile?

RE: zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread a . smith
Hi, zpool create is a destructive command to data on the disks, ie any preexisting pool, but it would normally warn you if it found an existing pool on the disks you are trying to use. Run: # zpool import and it will scan any attached disks for pools that are importable, if it detects

Hard drive detection

2011-05-12 Thread Dillin Smith
Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two

Hard drive detection

2011-05-12 Thread Dillin Smith
Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two

Re: Seeking full-cups/lpd compilant printer

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:49:04PM +0200, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I'm searching a printer that works with cups only (I mean no hplip needed no specific vendor driver). If you buy a printer that understands PostScript, you won't need any extra drivers. But; I would like a simple

Re: Get the dev.cpu.0.temperature from sysctl(3)

2011-05-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:12:33AM +0200, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I would like to get the dev.cpu.0.temperature node from sysctlbyname(). It seems this node is an opaque type but how to check it and store it to the appropriate variable type ? The best way to determine this is to read

Re: audacious-2.5.0 broken for anyone else?

2011-04-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:37:11AM -0400, Jimmie James wrote: Removing audio/xmp fixes the xmp-audacious.so is not compatible with this version of Audacious Removing the icecast (libshout2) leaves Failed to load plugin (/usr/local/lib/audacious/Output/icecast.so): Shared object

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 359, Issue 7, Message: 1 On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:27:13 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: Actually yes. Ignoring for a moment the reply you sent me directly, conveniently

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:34:32 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500 Martin McCormick

Re: ipdivert.ko

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 357, Issue 3, Message: 8 On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:58:50 +0930 Sebastian Ramadan s...@geekycode.net wrote: I wish to cause ipdivert.ko to load at boot time. Currently, ipfw.ko loads correctly at boot time with ipfw_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, but ipdivert.ko

Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 355, Issue 4, Message: 33 On Wed 23 Mar 2011 22:20:06 + (GMT) Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote: I have a server machine that I use as DHCP server, sshd login etc, and since I have multiple Ethernet interfaces on it, I would like to use two of those

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-20 Thread Ian Smith
in freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 354, Issue 10, Message: 4 On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:15:26 -0400 Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: Here's another, but related, problem that I just ran into. The man page reads: Commands may be grouped by writing either (list) or

Re: Kind of OFF Topic. Advise pls.

2011-03-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:03:01AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello All. These could sound off topic, I am sorry in advance. I am upgrading an old machine from 7.3 to the latest 8.x release branch. Have you looked at what is available in the /usr/ports tree? I want to use that machine

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 354, Issue 1, Message: 15 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:08:20 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help in relating kernel printf messages

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 353, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:57:03 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 06:49 -0500, ajtiM wrote: In the last week I got four emails like this one today: From: a

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 353, Issue 5, Message: 21 On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:02:57 -0500 pe...@vfemail.net wrote: At 03:06 PM 3/9/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical entries like these caught my attention:

Re: xorg-driver/xf86-video-ati-6.14.0: Worse performance since last update

2011-03-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:16:05PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Since the last update of Xorg stuff, including the xf86-video-ati-6.14.0, the video performance of all of our AMD/ATi-driven boxes went worse. The bad performance also occur with the recommendations made in ports/UPDATING for

Re: Fresh binary install

2011-03-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:11:25PM -0600, Chris wrote: The goal - to keep this system running with as little intervention as possible (I suspect binary updates/upgrades is the way to go since it was something that was just starting a few years back). Keeping the system itself up to date can

Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?

2011-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 05:20:33PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: 2.) How do I rebuild the ports? Either you rebuild them by hand, one after another... It kind of depends what kind of upgrade you are doing. When upgrading to another minor version (say from 8.1 to 8.2) no port rebuilds

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:34:37PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. The following

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

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 349, Issue 8, Message: 15 On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:53 -0800 Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi All, I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest of the

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

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Eitan Adler wrote: Nice Script! I intend to steal parts of it for my own use. It's great when you can plunder without robbing anyone :) P.S. Maybe I ought to expand it to IPv6 considering that the IPv4 address space has [reportedly] finally ran out (is that

Re: Running Xsane as user

2011-02-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:41:24PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Boy, this kind of problem has been following around lately. When I attempt to start Xsane as user I get an error message telling me No device available. One of the help options states that the permissions for the device file

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:15:50PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: What do you folks think of the relative merits of AES vs Blowfish for disk encryption? Neither have been broken with their complete number of rounds. Versions of both can be broken with a reduced number of rounds. See http

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 08:10:40AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: It seems prudent to me to reduce the attack surface to that which really needs to be defended -- When you defend everything, you defend nothing. Not to mention avoiding the overhead of encrypting OS files. Indeed. What do you

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote: Hi, is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation manually? Currently you have to do it manually afterwards. Personally, I would not

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:38:38PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chuck Swiger on Monday, 17 January 2011: On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote: is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:05:53PM -0700, Modulok wrote: On 1/17/11, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote: Hi, is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

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

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

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

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 345, Issue 9, Message: 10 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:35:26 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:08:33 +0100, Swe Gill sweg...@gmail.com wrote: That is the problem. One file sizes upto 50GB and other 3 GB... 52872944 -rw-rw

Re: Which php??

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 345, Issue 7, Message: 11 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:13:02 + Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: On 13/01/2011 00:18, Gary Kline wrote: autoconf: required version 2.68 not found some stuff here to try for autoconf issues

Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

2011-01-10 Thread Ed Smith
This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. On 1/10/2011 4:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maseratiableton...@gmail.com

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

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs commands if you want). I

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

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4

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

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed on 8.2 (Bruce

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

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you used 'W' to write anyway

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14 On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Patrick == Patrick Bihan-Faou patrick.bihan-f...@teambox.fr writes: Patrick cat

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

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
in these? I haven't time to hunt now, but recall a swathe of messages to -stable a couple of years ago about SATA problems that were entirely solved by replacing cables. [..] On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On /dev/ad4, oseek=0 zeroes sector 0, the MBR

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

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit

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

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:22:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:13:57 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success. What I tried was

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: Try zeroing out the mbr: Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do:

Re: what process is sending this packet?

2010-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 3, Message: 10 On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:30:05 -0800 S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1

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