to use anything but 9 :-)
I did tests with the subtly different cat and dd methods of naming the remote
file and found no discernible timing difference.
I find it handy to encode the dump level (e.g. .0 .1) in the remote name.
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Has anyone got a Dell like one of these working? Or an HP? Sun? IBM?
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VISUAL ((t)csh) is all you need.
(If VISUAL is not set most utilities then look for $EDITOR.
Traditionally EDITOR was expected to be a line-editor which would work
on a teletype, but not much call for that these days :-)).
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This works for me.
xset -dpms; xset s off
And back on with the reverse:
xset +dpms; xset s on
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You are right Alex. I had forgotten about that never having used it
personally. I have a question though. The PC based send-pr captures
certain system attributes. Does the web based one function similarly? I
don't believe it does
Eric wrote:
So what terminal type is set when you use SecureCRT? putty will use
something like xterm or vt100 both of which will display make config
correctly, but a setting for a dumb terminal or no setting will look
more like your screenshot.
--Alex
i have tried xterm, linux, ansi, etc
.
That's just how it is. Nothing is wrong with your installation.
The process as you list it is in select, so it's not actually slowing
your machine down, just chewing memory.
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- the sudoers man page has more details.
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Ray Still wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Ray Still wrote:
Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my
point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and
directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this
context.
This list is piped to sudo
will look
more like your screenshot.
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every shred of data regardless of whether it
changed or not, as was previously noted.
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PS Backup gets used to mean at least two different things:
1) A single, separate copy of the data for which rsync is great.
Read the manpage as it has lots of configuration potential.
2
will
still fit comfortably.
This is *one* of the reasons why dump is better than dd. dd just copies
the whole slice, all 10Gb in this case, and then you'd be stuck :-)
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and then just doing portsdb -u, though anything that needs the
.db file to be up-to-date will do this automatically.
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PS The thread you reference seems to be about portupgrade -a which is
confusing since your subject line says portsdb -Uu. Though both part of
portupgrade, the similarity
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Are you *sure* it's hung? -U does a make index in /usr/ports which
takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*.
If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider
running make fetchindex from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest
alias to
seq, or make a symlink or whatever you want).
Or check out FreeBSD's jot command.
(Okay, everyone knows it.)
Personally, I'd never heard of it :-)
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is a good thing as you would be contributing to the debugging
effort. But you will have to be prepared to deal with things breaking
now and again, so a familiarity with how to upgrade and downgrade (as
well as the time) are very helpful.
hth,
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, as
Giorgos has explained.
hth,
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unrelated(*) so updating Java is
unlikely to fix a problem if it's source is, as you think, javascript.
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(*) It is quite possible for java and javascript to interact, and this
has been an area of great inconsistency and numerous timing bugs in
many, many browsers over the years, but nothing
intire apache2 port.
AFAIK, You can use the apache config file to leave out a module which
you have compiled, but you can't make use of a module which you haven't
compiled.
--Alex
PS Simply reading /usr/ports/apache22/Makefile would have answered your
question about how to set which modules
for the limited number of people who run CURRENT machines, may break in
more diverse environments when more people running STABLE try them.
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FreeBSD uses the mailer 'sendmail' by default. You can check the
FreeBSD handbook and 'man sendmail' for information about this. You can
send mail from the command line by using echo 'msg' | mail -s subject
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Please
) but just make sure that your application data is in a separate
tree (such as /home) which, personally, I would always put on a separate
partition. For optimum performance, though, you might want one
disk/RAID for the OS and one disk/RAID for the applications.
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Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:26:38PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:39:50AM +0100, VeeJay wrote:
Maximum space required for SWAP to get high performance.
If you end up using swap space you will *not* get
it from a desktop
running mrtg...
Any other suggestions?
The firewall ipfw comes with a counter option. You could collect this
information out the firewall with ipa into its database. Then create
graphs with mrtg. I have two articles about how to do this on my
website.
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Please copy
. RAM, CPU, HD capacity
1) I'm using healthd for check temperature sensors and speed of coolers.
There are other software for this.
You can check the temperatures for S.M.A.R.T. enabled hard disks with
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
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just use /usr/ports ?
Just use ports (to upgrade ClamAV). Freshclam is part of ClamAV.
Afther updating your sources you could upgrade easy with portupgrade
clamav if you installed the port portupgrade. If you haven't then it
wise to install this port.
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large(*) lists of hosts, which IIRC, hosts.allow is not overly efficient
for.
--Alex
(*) large probably means hundreds. IIRC the relevant library will just
scan down the list of hosts/addresses and compare each, rather than
trying anything clever with a db file or whatever.
(**) And I block
if they
hold any clues.
Failing all that try emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see
if they can spot some obvious variant of your address.
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Solution :-) To delete
something
based upon the inode - fantastic!
Most handy for filenames loaded with unprintable characters which ls
just shows as ? and which you have no clue how to type or wildcard,
but not required for simple - prefixed files, as has been demonstrated :-)
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:
mount: exec mount_fusefs not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or
directory
Of course, we have it here: /usr/local/sbin/mount_fusefs
Make a symlink from either /sbin/mount_fusefs or
/usr/sbin/mount_fusefs to /usr/local/sbin/mount_fusefs
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have their own separate superuser account, personal setup
preferences etc. and you get a limited amount of accountability, too.
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How can I delete it?
rm \-exclude or rm '-exclude'
Or even rm ./-exclude
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the beep so I am kind of stumped.
set prompt=hello%{^G%}there
where ^G is a single control char, not two chars.
man tcsh, look for the section on shell variables and then scan down to
prompt.
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, HP etc, pick the model numbers that
interest you and type those in to Google along with freebsd.
Those have worked for me so far, and yes, it is labour intensive.
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though it can get tricky with NAT in the equation.
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hth,
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on your PC is 30 seconds different, do you mean a
Windows pc? Maybe it's the one that's wrong, or maybe your local ntpd
isn't finding any servers.
As root: ntpdc -c dmpeers
should get you a list of the servers ntpd is polling and a * shows the
one it is currently trusting, if i recall.
--Alex
for some reason, you still
keep up with the defaults and just add your own local customisation. If
you cut-and-paste the default value out of /etc/defaults/rc.conf then
you may not notice when that value changes.
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PS rc.conf is just a shell script, so all variable assignments follow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells.
Why not?
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checking for *all* ports
which seems a little extreme. Either add the flag to pkgtools.conf (for
portupgrade (and portmanager?)) or use it from the command line with make.
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relied on figuring out what to do as I went
along if I ever needed to, hence the somewhat sparse nature of the above
procedure :-)
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. And you'll at
least be aware of what security issues might exist even if you don't fix
them :-)
Investigate portupgrade or portmanager for doing the updating. I prefer
the former and it has a good man page.
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should show the files as listed above.
To try starting postif now, run as root
sh /etc/init.d/postfix start
If none of this makes any sense, then I suggest getting a book on Linux
administration.
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keep this in mind if you
add rules)
add allow ip from any to any
/etc/natd.conf contains:
redirect_port tcp ip_to_goto:port local_port
Did you setup ipfw and directed packes to natd?
You also need to setup i
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change in
4.4 is making your app crash might also bite in 4.5. I could find
nothing on google about perl+4.4 core dumping so I would harbour a
suspicion that it is something about the way you are using BerkeleyDB
which is causing the trouble. I could be wrong of course :-)
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PS I
Pete Slagle wrote:
Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual
memory to build with portupgrade or make install clean.
I have several classic boxes running bind and a mail MTA on 4.11 that
are memory-limited, but otherwise work well. The main boards are maxed
out at 64
. Other than that, try google as your problem may not have
anything to do with FreeBSD, or try asking the p5-BerkeleyDB author -
maybe they have other feedback like yours.
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but if you can get more... . I'm sure I
used to run 4.X off 4Gb of disk and would suspect 6.X would fit too,
with care. Of course, you have to be very careful what you actually do
with a machine this low spec'ed. Certainly no room to compile firefox
or openoffice :-)
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== swap read. Give it time and it should finish. If you have other
processes using significant memory which you can kill off that might help.
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the others grow to 90% full,
for example.
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of a filesystem not random directories.
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; if you weed out the good results you'll only get
email if something does go wrong.
Use both approaches since they tell you different things which just
happen some of the time to coincide.
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by hand (but you are with nested labels as well); or you can forget
labelling them and just use each slice as a partition.
Another solution: buy another disk. Slightly wasteful, but by far the
easiest.
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with the correct
permission once to seed the the process or use newsyslog -C. See the
man page for more info.
Solution one is easier, solution two also gets you a more permanent
record of how the command ran, rather than losing it every day.
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fine for me :-)
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- they might be 0 bytes each
and it wouldn't matter.
Try man inode for more information.
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and *that* could be run from cron and
parsed to weed out status OK results.
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Hi All,
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and have recently received the following
though. Maybe you need to start translating ;-)
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Chris wrote:
On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Chris wrote:
Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been
changed on the various components of the OS.
Go to the source :-)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
Wow! That's an excellent resource
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Alternatively you could just try downloading the two files and copying
them over your existing ones (after backing them up!) and just try and
see if a make buildkernel will compile them. If the changes don't
rely on anything outside of these two files, you'd likely
is clicking on.
Thanks VERY much,
You're welcome.
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in the man page which says it does
add newlines. OTOH, emacs may be overkill if you don't already use it.
I would have thought vi would have an option to stop this happening, but
don't see one.
I'm surprised at PHP barfing on extra newlines, but then I've never
used it.
--Alex
/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345
or change your shell to a bourne shell compatible one like bash.
--Alex
PS In csh the means redirect to a file including stderr, in this
case the file 1; then you are telling it to also pipe to something,
which is impossible since you just redirected to a file
if anything has changed recently, as well
as the comments in the commit logs.
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local patches.
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no mailing list
compaired to the ones FreeBSD has.
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Top-posting!
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it better is not somehow pandering to the great unwashed.
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rules only apply to /dev!
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with the new version I either copy it
across to the original partitions or just boot the new partitions from
then on and use the old partitions as the alts.
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vein so you could try searching it's archives if no-one here replies
with the info.
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Henry Lenzi wrote:
Hi --
Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just
reinstall portversion.
$ pkg_info -W `which portversion`
/usr/local/sbin/portversion was installed by package portupgrade-20041226_7
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Jim Stapleton wrote:
d'oh, thanks, I was looking for vpn in net and net-mgmt, didn't
think of grepping the security directory.
cd /usr/ports; make search name=vpn
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, and didn't tell me which directory it couldn't
find, so I couldn't make the proper symlink.
You could try a strings on the binary to try to find the directory -
assuming that's the only problem, of course :-)
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as you don't have a host called local :-)
There is also rc.conf.local where you could put machine specific and
leave rc.conf for your generic defaults. Not clear to me if
rc.conf.local is meant to last though as it is described as historic.
--Alex
or more space separated email addresses and mailed to
those users. If this variable is not set or is empty, output is
sent to standard output.
e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
same for weekly, monthly.
Or unset all of them and use the crontab email method you used above.
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are symlimks, which
can be done automatically using a devfs.conf rule like
linkacd0cdrom
The days of MAKEDEV are over as its manpage testifies :-)
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for it and
burn a CD), or just try pulling memory sticks and seeing if the problem
goes away (but beware static).
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arrive, test that memory!
rm -fr /usr/obj/*
whatever make buildworld and buildkernel stuff you did.
hth,
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Does it have the same problem?
hth,
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but) complain!
I've seen worse. The last (Linux) colo we got, had 60+Gb for /var and
5Gb for /home - completely backwards!
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Olivier Nicole wrote:
Why not doing the parsing on the server?
Is there a limit on the size of an HTTP GET request?
Yes. Something like 4k springs to mind. That's what POST is for and
would be easy in Perl, but then we can't use that :-(
--Alex
to do it with rc scripts; feel free to investigate :-). Or
just try ifconfig pflog0 down; ifconfig pflog0 up but it may try and
remember your DHCP setting).
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on a lightly loaded network.
If you start getting real symptoms - card locking up for example - then
you;ll have to get a better network card. But unless and until that
happens I would ignore it.
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Then, as long as the methodology is clearly explained along with any
stats, you'd have the ammunition to persuade vendors (we hope).
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Nikolas Britton wrote:
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But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out
of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thought you couldn't.
At the end of the day, I think that unique IP address is as close as
it's
. Whether that
will outnumber hosts lost to other counting methods, I could only guess.
And anything upgraded using cvsup would be missed too.
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that was
good enough.
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. It's clear from reading this list for a while that there
are plenty of hosts out there not running the latest version, with good
reasons for that. But what percentage, it's impossible to tell without
some kind of counting :-)
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We use cvsup here, daily, to update the ports tree ... and based on
someone else's post (alex?), finding out that portsnap overwrites the
ports tree, which I'm taking to mean it will remove anything I add to
it, makes changing over for me a no-op :(
Caveat: I don't
, and then wait for
the majority to adopt it, that's longer than I think you want to wait
for some kind of answer.
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nvidia.
Can you run glxgears of glxinfo?
If all of that shows up normal, then I'm out of ideas, I'm afraid.
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Robert Huff wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw writes:
Make sure nvidia-driver isn't installed now and (hateful I know)
try re-installing xorg-libraries and xorg-server.
The good news: Done.
The bad news: this does not seem to have fixed the desire for
the nvidia driver
) overwrites X11R6 glx stuff. Make sure nvidia-driver isn't
installed now and (hateful I know) try re-installing xorg-libraries and
xorg-server. The nvidia-driver definitely won't help you if you have a
matrox card!
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using rsh, or take the risk for
remote machines.
Though if it's been running for days, they don't sound local :-)
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