Re: warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (8243200 pages).

2013-10-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 17/10/2013 17:01, RW wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:27:49 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 17/10/2013 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm using a 72gb swap disk. I've 10gb RAM I get this warning: warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amoun

Re: Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-14 Thread Frank Leonhardt
. Other things that might be interesting are UseLogin and UsePAM. If this was a fundamental problem with changed defaults in 9.2, I'm sure a lot more people would have complained. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
is root's home directory valid? Why not post /etc/passwd and we'll check :-) Could it be a dud /root/.tcshrc? Or /etc/login.conf? I assume you've configured sshd to allow direct root logins. If you hadn't I think you get a different rejection m

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
ced on it; to make a noise wind it back in and hear it clatter to the floor. (Incidentally - email over-lap because earlier reply posted to me and list rather than just list) Regards, Frank. ___ 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: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 14:31, RW wrote: On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and speakers, but it won't do anything with the "bee

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote: On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt <mailto:fra...@fjl.co.uk>> wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesise

How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
al port (or similar) that could be triggered to make a noise, but these things have already got the hardware built in and I'm looking to use what I've already got. Thanks, Frank. P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is t

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 28/09/2013 00:20, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 27/09/2013 23:08, Terje Elde wrote: On 28. sep. 2013, at 00:03, Frank Leonhardt wrote: If I understand the way it works correctly, the resolver pulls a list of the NS and hard-sets the

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/09/2013 23:08, Terje Elde wrote: On 28. sep. 2013, at 00:03, Frank Leonhardt wrote: If I understand the way it works correctly, the resolver pulls a list of the NS and hard-sets the port number for each to 53 (via a manifest constant) . See libc/resolv/res_init.c. All you need to do

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
its own lookup. I could be spectacularly out-of-date with this. Regards, Frank. ___ 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: Files in /tmp directory - Is there any timelimit ?

2013-09-25 Thread Frank Leonhardt
dual values can be over-ridden by /etc/periodic.conf IF IT EXISTS. Regards, Frank. ___ 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: What is Negative permissions

2013-09-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
forbidden members of "wheel". Regards, Frank. ___ 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: how to tell which process call sendmail

2013-09-19 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 19/09/2013 19:30, Glenn McCalley wrote: So, some idiot is using a cgi or php or something to send mail out of his website that he shouldn't be sending. With a bunch of sites on the server, can't tell who. I had a similar problem, but some time back and I can't remember *exactly* what I

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
dynamic IP addresses (form DHCP) you may have some fun and games when it comes to security certificates. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: ufs recovery

2013-09-08 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 08/09/2013 10:39, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: On 2013.09.08., at 11:07, Frank Leonhardt <mailto:freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk>> wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:46, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Hi, By mistake I forgot to edit my crontab on my FreeBSD 8.3 after I took out one of the hard drives. I had

Re: ufs recovery

2013-09-08 Thread Frank Leonhardt
e to decide which the next block is. This is no joke if you've lost a lot of files, but worth it if you have one or two vital ones amongst them. Sorry I can't be of any more comfort. As I'm sure someone will chip in, there are things you can do before the event. Regards, Fr

Spam control (was: Let People Find You in Google!)

2013-09-06 Thread Frank Leonhardt
rresponsibly run freemail operators would be a big help, but it's not going to happen. If anyone wants to discuss this OFF LIST, I'm up for it. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Custom release ISO questions.

2013-09-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/09/2013 13:17, Paul Wootton wrote: On 09/04/13 10:27, Sergey wrote: Hi all! Is there a way to create custom ISO without buildworld? I just want to edit some configs and bsdinstall scripts for silent automated install - why need to recompile whole world? It will be great if you'll share so

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

2013-09-02 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 02/09/2013 08:41, doug wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Reko Turja wrote: -Original Message- From: Frank Leonhardt FWIW I'm using Dovecote 1 or 2 for the IMAP. In particular, Dovecot 1 with Squirrelmail has been really hammered, but has never broken. I sometimes get time-outs co

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

2013-08-31 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 31/08/2013 10:32, Reko Turja wrote: -Original Message- From: Frank Leonhardt On 30/08/2013 22:20, Tim Daneliuk wrote: SquirrelMail seems to be forever on hold because of an incompatibility with PHP 5. So I am going to have to replace it as our Webmail interface. I'm

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

2013-08-31 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 30/08/2013 22:20, Tim Daneliuk wrote: SquirrelMail seems to be forever on hold because of an incompatibility with PHP 5. So I am going to have to replace it as our Webmail interface. I'm a bit confused about this - you seem to be saying that Squirrelmail won't work on PHP 5? I've been runn

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-29 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 29/08/2013 09:52, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 29/08/2013 02:08, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 28/08/2013 19:42, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Frank Leonhardt

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-29 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 29/08/2013 02:08, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 28/08/2013 19:42, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: [...] Sorry guys - I had not intention

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 28/08/2013 19:42, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On28/08/2013 00:19, Patrick wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: [...] (Tidied up so all now bottom posted) I

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
an't see a mechanism that would get the results you're seeing, but I don't know what ezjail might be doing. I suspect your problem is with ezjail or something bizzare on your network config; can you try it manually? Regards, Frank. ___ freeb

Re: dig

2013-08-21 Thread Frank Leonhardt
complete trace with lots of useful information. ___ Works for me on 9.0 and 9.1 (and 8.2, 7.1, 7.0) Is there something wrong with your local bind configuration? Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Frank Leonhardt
group files without conflict and "untar" everything. If you've got to do this in-place it's not going to work, but as you'd be wise to make a backup anyway you may as well make a copy instead, and let it convert them on the fly. rsync s

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-20 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 20/08/2013 08:32, krad wrote: When i migrated a large mailspool in maildir format from the old nfs server to the new one in a previous job, I 1st generated a list of the top level maildirs. I then generated the rsync commands + plus a few other bits and pieces for each maildir to make a single

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-18 Thread Frank Leonhardt
is a program called fatback in the ports collection but I haven't tried it. The tools on these forensic live-CDs are likely to be more powerful by a long way. Regards, Frank. On 18/08/2013 18:00, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, After a nice day in the fields, my wife deleted accidently the p

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-18 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 18/08/2013 12:51, Terje Elde wrote: On 18. aug. 2013, at 12.20, Frank Leonhardt wrote: I'm not sure that TLS would cause more problems than any other packets, but as you point out, the exercise is bound to be full of pooh traps as yet undiscovered. FTP should be interesting, for a

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-18 Thread Frank Leonhardt
etworking layers so I may be busy for some time. Regards, Frank. ___ 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"

NAT loopback using natd and ipfw

2013-08-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
back" test in natd but if I experiment and get it wrong it's five hours on the motorway for me. Incidentally, I've set net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass set to 0 but it didn't help. Thanks, Frank. (By "NAT loopback" I mean the situation when you're using NAT to transla

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 17/08/2013 12:02, Terje Elde wrote: On 17. aug. 2013, at 12:42, Frank Leonhardt wrote: The setup is basically as described and the desired outcome is to NAT "the other end" so the addresses appear different. That's a solution to a problem, but I don't yet know what t

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 16/08/2013 20:30, Terje Elde wrote: On 16. aug. 2013, at 19:17, Frank Leonhardt wrote: Has anyone actually done this, and if so, how? This is wrong on so many levels, and you'll have to work around all og them. Yes, you can use nat, but what about adress-resolution? And so on. If i

VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-16 Thread Frank Leonhardt
l. I've heard of a mythical solution called "VPN NAT". It makes sense; just use NAT to map one range on to something completely different and away you go. Hosts at either end would be none the wiser. Has anyone actually done this, and if so, how? Thanks, Frank. _

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 15/08/2013 19:13, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? Currently breaking up a simple rsync over 7 or so scripts which copies 22 dirs having ~500,000 dirs or files each. I'm reading all this with interest. The first thing I'd have tried would be tar (an

Re: High availability on remote site

2013-08-15 Thread Frank Leonhardt
er going please do tell me know how. Incidentally, in the end I just used rsync - much less fuss but only good as a backup, really (which is what I really wanted). Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: New to Free-BSD with questions.

2013-08-10 Thread Frank Leonhardt
e desktop try this one: http://www.pcbsd.org/ Regards, Frank. ___ 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: Terrible disk performance with LSI / FreeBSD 9.2-RC1

2013-08-08 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 08/08/2013 12:42, Terje Elde wrote: On 8. aug. 2013, at 00:08, Frank Leonhardt wrote: As a suggestion, what happens if you read from the drives directly? Boot in single user and try reading a Gb or two using /bin/dd. It might eliminate or confirm a problem with ZFS. If not too

Re: Terrible disk performance with LSI / FreeBSD 9.2-RC1

2013-08-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
/dd. It might eliminate or confirm a problem with ZFS. Regards, Frank. ___ 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: BSD Magazine

2013-08-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/08/2013 13:19, Kamil Sobieraj wrote: Hello, I am from BSD Magazine (BSDMag.org), devoted to BSD operating systems. I would like to ask if you are interested in contributing an article? Current theme is: *Day-to-day BSD administration*. I believe that your experience will enrich our magazin

Re: php problems

2013-08-06 Thread Frank Leonhardt
you have reasons you don't want to do that. Email me directly if you want to cross-check config files and so on on what may be a very similar environment. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: php problems

2013-08-06 Thread Frank Leonhardt
you have reasons you don't want to do that. Email me directly if you want to cross-check config files and so on on what may be a very similar environment. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-05 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 06:05, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 21:39, Frank Leonhardt wrote: This suggests it's not the ACPI in FreeBSD shutting you down, but something on the motherboard. That was my guess as well. As it's probably not FreeBSD you're now asking on the wrong list,

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
ecification but applies AMD64 CPUs too. The thermal module only works on some chip-sets. FWIW I've found it works on more AMD platforms than it does Intel ones. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
1 first before it will let you. Final trick - make sure you specify the temperatures like sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT=80C Don't specify it as 80.0C (as it will display) and don't forget the C or it will assume degrees Kelvin! Regards, Frank. ___

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 14:38, Terje Elde wrote: On 4. aug. 2013, at 12:54, Frank Leonhardt wrote: The program writing the log is actually called flubnutz and it doesn't play nice with newsyslog, reopen handles on a signal or anything else Then you're out of luck for normal rotation. No mat

Re: hardware monitor

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
/dev/ad?? | grep -i temp" should do the trick. It lets you mess with the drive SMART (self-diagnositc) system and it can tell you all sorts of stuff about you drive performance to make you really paranoid. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 04:04, mikel king wrote: On Aug 3, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsyslog I did some more digging on the whole log piping thing and apache includes a nifty little application called rotatelogs which lives in /usr/local/sbin/rotatelo

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-03 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 00:20, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:11:21AM +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsyslog As a one-off, I need to archive an old log file - say httpd-access.log - while its still open. I don't want this to happen automatically a

Archiving a log file

2013-08-03 Thread Frank Leonhardt
the cp command simply(!) issues read() and write() calls until read() fails to get any more bytes, so if data is being appended to the file after cp is started it'll still be copied. Therefore the window where stuff could be written after the copy but before the truncation i

Re: System hangs for several minutes (disk IO related)

2013-07-31 Thread Frank Leonhardt
ch a SATA drive directly - does it have a SATA optical drive connection you could pinch? Regards, Frank. On 30/07/2013 18:19, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I'm seeing rather strange behavior on an HP DL585 G5 wrt. disk IO: When there's any disk io the machine completely freezes

Re: Kernel Panic - Unix socket communication in kernel module

2013-07-29 Thread Frank Leonhardt
e an official way of doing this properly. You could always load the module from rc.local instead. Regards, Frank. P.S. You do know that an fd only relates to the kernel thread it's currently running in? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 28/07/2013 06:54, Polytropon wrote: And here, kids, you can see the strength of open source operating system: You can see _why_ something happens. :-) Too true! On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:35:09 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 27/07/2013 19:57, David Noel wrote: So the system panics in

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
t's wrong with it. Returning ENOENT or EACCES or ENOTDIR may be better ("No such directory", "Access denied" or "Not a valid directory"). The trouble is that it's tricky to test properly without finding a good way to corrupt the link count :-) Regards, Frank.

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
uot;). The trouble is that it's tricky to test properly without finding a good way to corrupt the link count :-) Regards, Frank. ___ 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: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
removing a directory is a PITA as it can lead to a race - a context swap could create a file it it mid-way through the process. Regards, Frank. ___ 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: disk is AWOL

2013-07-26 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 26/07/2013 17:56, Dieter BSD wrote: 8.2 amd64 ad8 is a 3TB Seagate on nforce4-ultra controller At boot: ad8: 2861588MB at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s DEBUG g_part_gpt.c gpt_read_hdr() ad8 succeeded with pp->sectorsize=512 An hour later: # dd if=/dev/ad8 bs=4k count=1 of=/dev/null dd: /de

Re: dhcp server returns core dump when i define network with mask 8

2013-07-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 23/07/2013 13:35, j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: Quoting Frank Leonhardt : There are two common ways of defining a subnet mask - one is a dotted quad (e.g. 255.255.255.0) and the other is with a slash and the number of low-order bits - e.g. 192.168.1.0/8. Eight bits here means you get 2^8

Re: dhcp server returns core dump when i define network with mask 8

2013-07-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 23/07/2013 09:45, s m wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 23/07/2013 09:03, jb wrote: s m gmail.com> writes: ... subnet 192.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 { range 192.0.0.1 192.255.255.255; The 'range' denotes IP addresses that can be

Re: dhcp server returns core dump when i define network with mask 8

2013-07-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
he lower ones are reserved for use in documentation (like example.com) - is that where the idea came from?!? :-) Regards, Frank. ___ 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: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-20 Thread Frank Leonhardt
ond drive in a RAID system fails during a rebuild is higher than would be expected. During a rebuild the remaining drives get thrashed, hot, and if they're on the edge, that's when they're going to go. And at the most inconvenient time. Okay - obviou

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 16/07/2013 10:41, Shane Ambler wrote: On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: ... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also Z

Re: jls usage

2013-07-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 13/07/2013 05:12, Shane Ambler wrote: On 13/07/2013 01:26, Frank Leonhardt wrote: Okay - answering my own question and solved... It's a bug (or is that a feature?). In /etc/rc.d/jail line 647 it currently reads: eval ${_setfib} jail ${_flags} -i ${_rootdir} ${_hos

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 12/07/2013 16:32, Frank Leonhardt wrote: I've tried using the actual jail name, and the hostname to be sure - nothing - and on checking (jls -v) I'm somehow ending up with the Name being the same as the ID. I just put this down to a quirk/bug (it's there in 8.2-9) but it s

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
k just fine, I don't see what I'm doing wrong! Incidentally, it doesn't matter if I start them at boot time or start/stop later - the jail name always sets to the jail-iD, and not the name specified. I suspect a bug in the rc.d script, but I can't be the first person to notic

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 12/07/2013 15:20, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 12/07/2013 02:33, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: In a .sh script I'm trying to get the jid for a single jail using this code jid=`jls -j jailname | cut -f 1-

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
ould tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd be very interested to know. Or at least it'd be good to know I'm not the only one with the problem. Thanks, Frank. ___ 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: prevent ip conflict in dhcp client

2013-07-11 Thread Frank Leonhardt
be precise). Or at least, that's how I think it normally works. Regards, Frank. On 11/07/2013 12:43, krad wrote: ops %s/rand/range/ On 11 July 2013 12:42, krad wrote: alter the pool rand on the network to use say, x.x.x.1-199 on a /24, and then allocate your statics >200 but <= 2

Re: How to get file from nfs id

2013-07-11 Thread Frank Leonhardt
me a headache. I know Linux people do something similar using SystemTap. Is the attribute caching on the client set correctly? Or even working (bug?) BTW, what you're seeing isn't unusual. Regards, Frank. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Soekris or .. ?

2013-03-01 Thread Frank Reppin
). No problems at all. cheers, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?

2013-02-12 Thread Frank Staals
from the log. Furthermore, one should realize that any setup would only be guaranteed to report the first breach/login. In other words: after the first notice that someone logged in as root you can no longer trust that you will get further notices (assuming that the emails safely arrive once t

Re: SSH on FreeBSD

2013-01-15 Thread Frank Staals
ugh inetd is more secure than directly through rc.conf. Care to elaborate on that? Regards, -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

reboot after removing ipv6 ?

2012-12-19 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Do I have to reboot a server after unvalidating IPv6 in /etc/rc.conf ? I seems to use "/etc/rc.d/netif restart" is not suffisant Thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: using AWK

2012-12-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 12/17/2012 12:39 PM, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi guys How can I read a file which contains a number and assign that number to a variable via awk programming? By the way, I want to use this awk program in a shell script. Thanks in advance ___ freebsd

Re: bash pipe redirection gets stuck

2012-12-03 Thread Frank Reppin
indeed a chance that it blocks - see the section about 'kern.random.sys.seeded'. So in fact - when you think the command gets stuck - it's probably not bash related at all. cheers, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anythi

Re: NFS client over private network

2012-12-03 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 12/03/2012 10:11 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have some trouble on a mail server running 9.0-RELEASE-p3 Last week I set up a NFS mounted partition containing 1 Tb of IMAP folders the NFS mount is done through a private network link on a dedicated giga ethernet link with the following con

NFS client over private network

2012-12-03 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I have some trouble on a mail server running 9.0-RELEASE-p3 Last week I set up a NFS mounted partition containing 1 Tb of IMAP folders the NFS mount is done through a private network link on a dedicated giga ethernet link with the following config : 10.0.0.1/24 <--> 10.0.0.2/24 mailhub

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-29 Thread Frank
-- Frank On Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Used it on 8.3 boxes here, no complaints so far. > > Gonna slowly transition all our ~60 firewalls to pkgng. > > Note that I used pkg2ng on firewall boxes with ~180 installed ports each.

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-29 Thread Frank
It is safe yet to use pkg2ng in production? -- Frank On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 23/11/2012 19:19, Fbsd8 wrote: > > > Where do I find the url for the beta-test server repositories? > > > Can I use ftp or b

Re: denyhosts, fail2ban, or something else?

2012-11-27 Thread Frank Reppin
n, so I'm not overly concerned about the attempts. Not sure if letting sshd listen on a different port is an option for your specific needs... but (at least in my experience) it significantly cuts down those log entries since probably most of these attempts are from bots anyways. HTH, Fr

Postgresql related memory question

2012-11-09 Thread Frank Broniewski
post already some system configuration information in the thread on the PostgreSQL list, but I am happy to provide all the information necessary to shed some light on this matter. Many thanks, Frank [1] http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Memory-issue-on-FreeBSD-td5730651.h

Re: Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-05 Thread Frank Broniewski
31648 # sysctl -a kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 1 kern.ipc.shmall: 4189816 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmax: 17161486336 kern.features.sysv_shm: 1 kern.features.posix_shm: 1 I hope that helps a little bit with value tuning, Frank

lagg interface not created at reboot ( 9.0 )

2012-11-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
hello I use the lagg feature on a server and it seems the lagg pseudo interface is not created when the machine reboots , the server runs 9.0-p3 here is the incriminated part of the /etc/rc.conf file ifconfig_bce2="up" ifconfig_bce3="up" cloned_interface="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0=" laggproto lacp

Bug in LAGG driver at 9.0 ?

2012-10-23 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I cannot get the lagg driver to work properly at 9.0 the Cisco switch is well configured to support LACP no problem on that side it supports another Linux server with two aggregated eth ports that works well. here is the config of the FreeBSD 9.0-P3 server ifconfig_bce0="up" ifconfig_bce

Bug in LAGG driver at 9.0 P3 ?

2012-10-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I have a problem with a server running FreeBSD 9.0-P3 It seems the lagg driver does not works well here is the contents of the /etc/rc.conf file the problem is, only the first interface (bce0) is working in the lagg0 interface , the two others are not "active" ifconfig_bce0="up" ifconfig

sending fax from commandline/or via appliance

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
phone number 4) HylaFAX is not the solution 5) better some cli solution which could feed this .ps via a CLI directly and non-interactive into a multifunction printer (which can do fax ofcourse) thanks! frank\ -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segment

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
There's an errorneous extra ^ in line 6 - please remove this character. Fixed version should look like: #!/bin/sh PROCESS_PATTERN="^/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd" PGREP="/bin/pgrep" if ${PGREP} -q -j none -f ${PROCESS_PATTERN}; then echo -e "OK" else echo -

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
is in the # COMMAND row PROCESS_PATTERN="^/usr/local/sbin/amavisd" PGREP="/bin/pgrep" if ${PGREP} -q -j none -f ^${PROCESS_PATTERN}; then echo -e "OK" else echo -e "FAIL" fi hth, Frank Reppin -- 43rd L

Re: small script help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Reppin
On 24.08.2012 00:57, Jack Stone wrote: [...] How can I modify my script to see only the host based on the bottom line above? pgrep(1) has an option (-j jid) to either include jails by given id or to exclude them (-j none). HTH, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread Frank Reppin
Hi all, On 05.08.2012 20:41, Polytropon wrote: [website to picture cli] google search comes up with http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ which also provides a download called wkhtmltoimage ... which in turn seems to be what you want. cheers, frank\ -- 43rd Law of Computing

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Staals
Ciprian Dorin Craciun writes: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) >> >> More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors >> a kind of private cl

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Frank Bonnet
Thanks Marcelo seems useful for me let's try tomorrow Le 28/05/2012 16:51, Marcelo Celleri a écrit : Hi, You could try sprakleshare, it's something like dropbox in your own server. Marcelo. El vie, 25-05-2012 a las 18:41 -0500, Derek Ragona escribió: At 06:15 AM 5/25/2012, Fr

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-28 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:11:21 +0200 Frank Bonnet wrote: > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... > ( Personnal PC, Mac, smart

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 04:49 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I re

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it. :-) It summarises the marketing hype

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Staals
Frank Bonnet writes: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost a

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 05/25/2012 12:10 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:11 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their pers

"Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Personnal PC, Mac, smartphones and tablets ... etc ) An

Re: Write only directory.

2012-05-07 Thread Frank Staals
going to prevent *that*? > > The users shell is /bin/false > > and sshd is setup like: > > Match User a_user > ChrootDirectory %h > ForceCommand internal-sftp > AllowTcpForwarding no There is also shells/scponly for this kind of thing. As for the file permissi

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