Re: Can i use tmpfs to mount /tmp ?

2010-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
of the OS and an enhanced potential for things to go horribly wrong, so make sure you've got good backups and spend some time planning exactly what you are going to do, even down to the extent of writing out all the commands you'll need beforehand. Cheers, Matthew PS.

Re: FreeBSD8.1 AMD64 UFS2 file system size issues.

2010-09-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
suffice. The compelling advantage with ZFS is the built-in checksumming of every data block. That's important for large data volumes where bitwise errors can become significant. Also, no need for fsck(8). Not even background fsck. Cheers,

Re: Which of these NICs will work?

2010-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
able for some uses.] Also "working well" is quite subjective. It depends on the sort of traffic patterns and load levels you need to deal with. Cheaper NICs will not be able to cope with sustained mega-bit levels of traffic and complicated networking layouts, but they will be f

Re: Error message with "portsnap"

2010-08-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
lem with the DNS. It should fix itself once the correct data for portsnap6 propagates properly. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: Moving from one port to another

2010-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
ry search path, so until you reinstall, even pure-perl modules are going to be inaccessible. XS modules need relinking in any case. Not entirely sure of the details with python, but certainly any module which is available as dynamically loadable object code will need relinking. Generally, the advice i

Re: Mirror Freebsd - Doubts

2010-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
completely evil and set it up as a transparent proxy with a little work. The advantage of using a caching proxy is that over time it will pretty much auto-tune itself to contain the distfiles your users are interested in without your having to have any prior knowledge. Cheers,

Re: ISC-DHCP6 does not send replies

2010-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
worth a try using a static configuration on your gateway machine -- I believe you said this was a test setup to see if it could be rolled out on a customer network? Should be fine to try static configuration like that for a limited time even supposing it's all dynamically assigned. C

Re: ISC-DHCP6 does not send replies

2010-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
ly confused by all this new-fangled IPv6 stuff... Cheers, Matthew PS. On the off chance that it is the firewall. A good debugging trick with pf is to add a 'log' clause to any rule that has a block or reject action. Eg. in lines like the following: block log all block in log quick fro

Re: ISC-DHCP6 does not send replies

2010-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
/Avahi. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.a

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
nc -- that's another possibility, but probably a bit OTT for this particular job. Anonymous rsync is probably best thought of as a superior replacement for anonymous FTP. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Advantage -vs- Disadvantage: SFTP -vs- SCP

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
e sftp or scp natively from Terminal.app. See the appendix to the SVN manual for some useful hints: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html#svn.webdav Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: ipfw

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
reeBSD versions. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Try starting up a window manager or similar. It might be that nothing at all is actually wrong... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co

Re: Strange network issue (packet loss?)

2010-08-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
number of higher-end switches do provide -- so if you need bandwidth limitation, you should look into using dummynet or ALTQ. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
s if either: * Your loopback interface has lost address 127.0.0.1 or: * Some process other than a live sendmail instance has bound to port 25 on the loopback. or: * sendmail has somehow lost its setgid-ness Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seam

Re: freebsd.org maillist mx discard policy

2010-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
t of computing Spam scores, but not to make accept/reject decisions solely based on SPF. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Building and running new package versions not yet in ports?

2010-08-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
@ -- certainly post there if you run into difficulties trying to work with ports. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate J

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
While that talks about redirecting a couple of TCP and one UDP service into a single jailed host, I think it's pretty clear how to get from there to having several different jails each with running a different service. Cheers, Matthew [*] It's a British thing. You have

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/08/2010 14:29, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: > > Matthew> Yes, you can achieve the same effect using firewall rules, but > Matthew> as I have occasionally said before, firewalls should be > Matthew>

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
compatible with various other kernel bits, I don't think it's quite ready for primetime yet. Yes, you can achieve the same effect using firewall rules, but as I have occasionally said before, firewalls should be optional -- ideally your system should be secure even if you turn the firewall o

Re: ftp login failing after upgrade to 8.1

2010-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
x27;s internet, and switch to using sftp(8) instead -- which has the look and feel of FTP, but which runs tunnelled over SSH. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: firefox install problem

2010-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/08/2010 21:47:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/08/2010 18:21:25, Michael Powell wrote: >> A tar.gz is a source code tarball meant to be compiled via the ports system. >> pkg_add installs precompiled and packaged binary packages. Package files >> will have a .tbz ex

Re: Bind9.7.1 Package

2010-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
reate a package directly from what's already installed: # pkg_create -b pkg-config-0.23_1 pkg-config is an indirect dependency for bind -- it's required by security/openssl and textproc/libxml2 either of which bind are optional dependencies for dns/bind97. Cheers,

Re: firefox install problem

2010-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
es directory tree on one of the FreeBSD FTP servers is a pretty big hint as well. As is finding it in /usr/ports/packages/All. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: how to burn 8.1-RELEEASE CD

2010-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
handbook/creating-cds.html#CDRECORD Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: FreeBSD equivalent of Microsoft DFS

2010-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
HAST capability in FreeBSD: http://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST It's conceptually similar to Linux DRBD, which in theory you can use under FreeBSD as well, but no idea how it performs. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: Connection Bandwidth Metering?

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
some preset bounds. You can also arrange to reserve bandwidth for other services than your webserver, which helps with the Slashdot effect. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Fla

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
est results. But that's hardly unique to ZFS. > I hope to get some answers or good reading points. The FreeBSD Wiki entries on ZFS are very useful to read: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS (and the links from that page) especially the recipes for installing various different ZFS base

Re: Bind9.7.1 Package

2010-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
should be available on the servers eventually -- keep checking in the 'Latest' directory Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracan

Re: REG:SAP server not starting -own laptop

2010-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
at might cause SAP to stop working, and what exactly happens when you try and start it up. In fact, it's well worth working through generating a report like that, as more than half the time you'll have a D'Oh! moment and realise exactly what the problem is and how to fix it yourse

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
iderably faster to me, although you don't get a point'n'click interface to configure it. Oh, no, wait: that's another plus. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Problem starting bconsole

2010-08-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
/var/db/bacula" PidDirectory = "/var/run" Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 Password = "*Long-string-of-gibberish*" <<< Messages = Daemon } [...] Cheers, Matthew signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
to upgrade the boot > loader with gpart partitions? Step 5 from: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror All you need is some bootable media with the latest gptzfsloader -- either 8.1-RELEASE or a recent 8.1-STABLE or 9-CURRENT snapshot. Cheers, Matthew

Re: Sudden refusal to boot with page fault in swapper

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Hambley
On 14/06/10 10:51, Matthew Hambley wrote: My FreeBSD system (amd64, SATA, root on ZFS) has suddenly started refusing to boot up. It crashes out with a page fault just after the ZFS warning that I "only" have 4GB of RAM. Just to conclude this issue in case anyone searches for it in t

Re: fnd cause "panic: page fault"

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
eloper, that's quite hard to achieve without bad hardware. Cheers, Matthew signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-07-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
ming and some gnashing of teeth; but losing your swap area would almost certainly take your machine down hard. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracani

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
ouncy balls) in translucent red. About 3--4cm in diameter. Would make an excellent freebie to hand out at conferences and the like. Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard F

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
A true Christian might not feel able to publically endorse the Pastafarian faith, but they should certainly agree with its objectives. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
the message appears to be from a Russian mail service, it actually originated from somewhere in Canada. Cheers, Matthew [*] SpamAssassin slam-dunked it into the junk folder. If no one had answered, I'd never even have noticed it. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: searching INDEX in .sh

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
you don't need to include the version number part This will include build dependencies as well as run- or lib- dependencies: if that's not what you want, then use cut(1) to get rid of the last two columns before passing the INDEX through grep(1) Cheers, Matthew --

Re: popt-1.50 or better??

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
d I'm not offering odds on which. How old is the ots software you're trying to port? If it's from before there was popt >= 1.10 available, then it might be something as simple as a failure to read all the digits in the popt version number, or comparing the numbers alphabetically

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
s shall spread over the face of the net; lightnings and thunders and unwholesome smokes shall assault those holy warriors attempting to drive out the daemonically possessed (Hint: turn off the power *before* applying the Holy Water.) Cheers, Matthew Disclaimer: Prophecy not

Re: monitor util in a scripted daemon?

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
queue(2) -- the EVFILT_VNODE filter can be used to pick up changes to the link count of a directory: ie that a file has been created or destroyed within it. Some C programming required. AFAIK there isn't a ready built application in the base OS to do what you want. Cheers,

Re: freebsd-install upgrade, how many install phases required

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
at just about any time. On the other hand, if you do a *major* version upgrade, you simply *do* need to reinstall every port. freebsd-update warns you about this directly, and the necessity of doing so is well documented all over the place eg. at Colin Percival's blog: http://www.daemon

Re: ports INDEX file

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
my ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex port to build an INDEX file -- ideally you should get it to run without complaints about missing dependencies and such, but if you don't it will do the best it can to produce something resembling an INDEX. Cheers,

Re: pf behavior question

2010-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
e let that been the place where you decided to pass or block the packet. Tagging is a lot more useful where you need several different rules to identify a particular class of traffic: you can apply the tag from several different matching rules, and then have just one rule to express your policy

Re: FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

2010-07-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/07/2010 22:49:51, Tim Gustafson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a FreeBSD-compatible fibre channel board to > connect a FreeBSD 8.0 server to a Sun 3500 disk array? isp(4) mpt(4) ... which is basically what shows up on doing 'man -k fibre' Cheers, Matthew

Re: Openldap clustering ?

2010-07-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
to make the H-A almost seamless, but frequently the extra complication just doesn't provide enough extra performance to justify the effort or the expense. Test early, and test often while working up your cluster. Cheers, Matthew [*] Partly this is due to the intrinsic nat

Re: tuning FB 7.2 stable for lighhttpd

2010-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
rchitecture -- strategic use of caching (eg. memcached) can make a big difference, as can use of a PHP accelerator like eAccelerator (which is really just a cache for the byte-compiled PHP code generated from your pages). Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
he following error code: > > /etc/namedb/named.conf:23: unknown option 'acl' > /etc/rc.d/named: ERROR: named-checkconf for $named_conf failed Just defining the acl won't do a great deal on its own -- you need to add it to an allow-recursion {}; or similar block.

Re: jail and uname

2010-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
ty/Errata branch concept was developed partly in response to such things, and the whole release engineering process is done differently now. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
on than what the big lump was compiled against. In this case, there's nothing for it but to grit the teeth; gird up the loins; make plenty of hot, strong, black coffee and start compiling. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Court

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
y other clues, the only option is to monitor the server closely and wait for something similar to happen again. Hopefully if there is a next time, you'll be able to catch it and fix the underlying problem before it takes the machine out a second time. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matth

Re: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
in addition to what flags you usually use in order to see what the problem is. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Rams

Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
files onto their own partition[*]. Nowadays too, I much prefer using ZFS -- so I have *one* zpool from which is allocated all of the space for the zdevs on the system. This is much the best of both worlds -- you get as many filesystems as you can eat, but each of them can use as much of the total

Re: Sendmail - One Trick Pony

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
provide a competent anti-spam and anti-virus filter. In this case, you need to talk to the webmail provider and get them to examine the mail logs and tell you what the problem was with your message. It could be the same sort of DNS address verification stuff as ab

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
6.html#address_match_lists and http://www.isc.org/files/arm96.html#id2553419 So, for example, I use this in my own BIND configuration: acl public-nets { 127.0.0.1; ::1; 81.187.76.160/29; 81.187.220.164; 2001:8b0:151:1::/64; }; Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Sea

Re: Freebsd update from 7.2p8 to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
ave a couple of hundred ports installed… Yes, this is perfectly fine: so long as the major version number stays the same, you don't need to reinstall all your ports. The FreeBSD project guarantees ABI stability for the shlibs in the base system over the lifetime of a major version. Chee

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
ithin a jail. In practice, I haven't tried this, so no real idea if it works or not. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.u

Re: fusefs-cryptofs vs fusefs-cryptofs

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
tware installed, very secure. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninop

Re: Just want to ask

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
it all goes horribly wrong. Practically speaking the answer to the OP's original question is "Yes. You can use this freely." Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat

Re: Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
Pad and iPhone, you could just grit your teeth for a year or so, by which time most sites should be providing a flash-free alternative. The FlashBlock and NoScript add-on modules for firefox work pretty well to smooth over the rough edges caused by lack of Flash support. Cheers,

Re: How to get the SPD infomation in freebsd ?

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
for best results it helps if you install a uniform set of RAM modules, and I don't think there's any option other than popping the case and pulling a RAM stick for a visual inspection if you want a 100% certain match. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Ph

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
add to reload your data, then restart slapd. As a matter of course when updating slapd, always use slapcat to grab a copy of the directory before starting. You can't always tell if the update will require you to reload the data, so it's wise to always be prepared.

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/2010 04:42:21, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... > > s/always/almost &/ > > If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tr

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
e: for ports you /always/ want HEAD. If you put something like RELENG_8_1 in ports.supfile, then you will see exactly the effect you described. It's quite obvious why: the ports are simply not tagged RELENG_X_Y. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: sudo "last login" message and how to turn it off FreeBSD8.0

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
pam.d/sudo probably. The 'last login' message usually comes from login(1), but I don't see why sudo(8) would invoke login unless you were running 'sudo -i ...' Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA,

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
ite the same thing. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11

Re: portupgrade -af in FreeBSDupdate to 8.0

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
recently than 2010-06-23." You should chose the date where you *started* your original portupgrade -af session. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://

Re: GCD technology...

2010-06-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
lmost certainly be glad to receive patches to do that. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt

Re: Followup On Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
core(5). It is possible to set kern.corefile to an absolute path -- eg /tmp/%N.core -- to always record corefiles in a writable directory. Also, look at setrlimit values for the maximum size core file permitted. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: system is under attack (what can I do more?)

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
that they aren't eating your bandwidth or flooding your log files quite so much, but it is still annoying. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.i

Re: Obtaining / downloading latest release of freeBSD

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
t with a command line interface. Installing the windowing system and so forth will take further work. It's all covered pretty well in the Handbook, but feel free to ask here if you have further questions. Cheers, Matthew - --

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
cted under *BSD, but it's a link to another shlib with a *different* major version number, then it's pretty clear someone has been bodging things. Clear enough? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 13:41:43, Tom Worster wrote: > On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" > would the order to do things be: update ports with portsnap, install > misc/compat7x, upgrade with freebsd-update and reboot? You need to be r

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Correct. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 09:16:33, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:39:37 Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> "But what about hard links?" I hear you ask. Simple: >> >> find /usr/lib /lib -name '*.so.

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
bind needs a writable working directory, so the latest layouts include /var/named/etc/namedb/working Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/06/2010 08:34:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 17/06/2010 01:59:04, Warren Block wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Warren Block wrote: > >>> "ln -s libintl.so.9 libintl.so.8" has been misused a lot lately. >>&

Re: Detecting fake library versions

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
ed from ports, mostly due to the prevalence of linuxisms like ABI version numbers that aren't simple integers. Even so, applying a little intelligent scrutiny to the list of results will help you sort out any spurious linkage. Cheers,

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 18:15:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:08:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
and 'netstat -rn' say? What happens if you try and ping localhost? Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsga

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
choice. There have been some pretty significant bugfixes between 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracan

Re: Perl Dumping Core

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
ut of ps(1) to find likely looking perl processes. If you've actually got perl.core files you may be able to investigate with a debugger and work out what is producing them, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope of that. Cheers, Matthew [*] well, only occasio

Re: .sh and sed

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
ram basename(1) The same trick with sed(1): fname=$( echo $path | sed -e 's,^.*/,,' ) but the built-in prefix matching stuff is preferable since it is more efficient. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.P

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
then you can be fairly certain the problem will be fixed in 8.1-RELEASE (although there has definitely been a zpool version bump between 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE). Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

Re: system state after freebsd-update and before portugprade -af

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
ack to square one. You can have the server back live running on one disk while you rebuild the other or while the resynch is happening if you need to. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
n think of immediately. These glob-pattern command line arguments similarly need quoting to protect them from the shell. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP:

Re: turkish translate

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
g list, and enquire again there? They should be able to put you in touch with other people working on Turkish translations. Actually, I think most such could be contacted via http://www.enderunix.org/ Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
200 OK Connection: close Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:56:13 GMT Via: 1.1 varnish Age: 81 ETag: "3b7660-a999-4c166f17" Server: Apache/1.3.x Sausalito (Unix) Content-Length: 43417 Content-Type: text/html Last-Modified: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:04:07 GMT Client-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:56:13 GMT Client

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
ite at all. Try quitting and restarting your browser. If you're using a web proxy, then the same caching problem might occur there. If the proxy isn't under your control, then probably the best thing for you to do is leave well alone for several hours, and then try again. Chee

Re: Simulate CRON

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
ommand or program, I forgot which, that >> would allow a user to run a program under another environment, >> similar to the environment that a script under CRON would be >> running under. > > Are you possibly talking about a jail? Try: env -i USER=$USER HOME=$HOME

Sudden refusal to boot with page fault in swapper

2010-06-14 Thread Matthew Hambley
My FreeBSD system (amd64, SATA, root on ZFS) has suddenly started refusing to boot up. It crashes out with a page fault just after the ZFS warning that I "only" have 4GB of RAM. The following is a transcription of what I see: ZFS file system version 13 ZFS storage pool version 13 Timecounters

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
es have it's own aesthetic. It's minimal, and spare and it says "We're not going to pretend that this isn't complicated or difficult. Effort brings reward." This is something I find incredibly attractive; even after more than 10 y

Re: php help, please....

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
net/date.default-latitude ;date.default_latitude = 31.7667 Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ra

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the >> disparity in numbers of users betw

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
thin a few hours -- it's a pretty astonishing accomplishment. Cheers, Matthew Mind you, I am vaguely starting to wonder when perl5.12 is going to hit the tree... - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: CVSUP

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
hare/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile (standard-supfile should default to RELENG_8_0 on a box running 8.0-RELEASE, but check and edit the file to make sure) Cheers Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

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