Re: Mutt /tmp full error when trying to read email

2009-09-20 Thread Doug Hardie
You have 4 directories in /tmp. Check them. If nothing, run lsof +L1 and see if there are files allocated but not in the directory. On 20 September 2009, at 00:41, Bryan Cassidy wrote: I decided to reinstall and make /tmp 2Gigs and here is my current layout df -H Filesystem Size

I am not understanding something about pf

2009-12-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I am running 7.2-Stable with pf. I have the following pf.conf: no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white-local to any port smtp no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white to any port smtp rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port smtp - 127.0.0.1 port spamd This is the basic spamd configuration

Re: I am not understanding something about pf

2009-12-16 Thread Doug Hardie
On 11 December 2009, at 19:30, Doug Hardie wrote: I am running 7.2-Stable with pf. I have the following pf.conf: no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white-local to any port smtp no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white to any port smtp rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port smtp

atapicam issues

2010-05-22 Thread Doug Hardie
I have 2 systems running 8.0 installed from the same CD. One of them shows 2 PASS devices as expected and camcontrol devlist shows the appropriate devices. They work as expected. The other does not show any PASS devices and camcontrol devlist shows nothing. Doing a kldload atapicam installs

Re: atapicam issues

2010-05-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 May 2010, at 20:47, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have 2 systems running 8.0 installed from the same CD. One of them shows 2 PASS devices as expected and camcontrol devlist shows the appropriate devices. They work

Re: atapicam issues

2010-05-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 May 2010, at 21:05, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: Both machines were installed from the same CD over old Windows systems. They were installed within a few days of each other. loader.conf only has console=comconsole

Verifying a DVD

2010-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However, at that point I want to verify that the write was successful. I tried using dd to read back in the DVD to a file. Its interesting that the bs

Re: Verifying a DVD

2010-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 May 2010, at 15:31, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 24/05/2010 1:23 π.μ., Doug Hardie wrote: I am periodically backing up a bunch of files to DVD. I use mkisofs to create the original image and growisofs to write it to a real DVD. However, at that point I want to verify that the write

Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen it even close to the limit (including buffers). Basically these are lightly used

Re: Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread Doug Hardie
On 1 August 2010, at 03:42, RW wrote: On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half

Routing Question

2010-08-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have several servers with one ethernet interface. Currently it is connected via a WAN to the internet. We are in the midst of switching to a different provider. I would like to be able to operate with both temporarily until all the users/services get switched. The new circuit is in and

Re: Routing Question

2010-08-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On 27 August 2010, at 05:07, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:19 -0700, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org a écrit : PF's route_to will return the packets to the proper router, but I have not been able to figure out which ones those would be. The source IP address can be any

freebsd-update

2012-10-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I am using freebsd-update to update a system running a generic kernel. I ran into an interesting situation where after it has downloaded the updates it enters a configuration phase where it shows updated config files with the old and new. You can hit return to enter vi and clean up the file.

SATA Controllers

2012-10-09 Thread Doug Hardie
Looking through the list of SATA Controllers available at Best Buy, I don't find any of them listed on the 9.0 hardware page. I need a couple cheap ones (for non-production systems). Does anyone have recommendations? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

send-pr Submission Times

2012-10-13 Thread Doug Hardie
I sent a PR using send-pr earlier today. However, after having sent it and received a line that said it was submitted, I realized I didn't include my email address. Somehow I completely overlooked that. I have been waiting for it to show up in the on-line indexes, but it hasn't so far. How

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 November 2012, at 07:04, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: I didn't notice

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Doug Hardie
On 15 November 2012, at 14:46, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hi, On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:52 -0800 Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ Scroll down about halfway. 9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January 31, 2013. Alternate releases are

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Doug Hardie
On 15 November 2012, at 17:04, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Andreas == Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net writes: Andreas On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 Andreas Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.net wrote: Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade from

Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Can someone kindly explain what is going on here: Machine A: FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE (I don't recall seeing the behavior described below in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it).

Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 November 2012, at 14:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/24/2012 03:25 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Can someone kindly explain what is going on here: Machine A: FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE (I don't recall

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 November 2012, at 16:36, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/24/2012 05:58 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:38:35 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for

Problem upgrading to 9.1-Release

2013-01-04 Thread Doug Hardie
I have upgraded my development system to 9.1 without any problems. This system maintains kernel source and I build a new kernel with a couple extra options there. The other systems mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from it and do the install. The first one to be upgraded had no problem with make

SOLVED: Problem upgrading to 9.1-Release

2013-01-05 Thread Doug Hardie
I found the problem. Somehow /usr/obj was not successfully exported and hence was completely empty. There must have been some error message in that process that I missed. Anyway, correcting that problem so that /usr/obj was available fixed the problem. On 4 January 2013, at 15:38, Doug

Booting Problem

2013-01-28 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I

Unusual TCP/IP Packet Size

2013-02-08 Thread Doug Hardie
Monitoring a tcpdump between two systems, a FreeBSD 9.1 system has the following interface: msk0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=c011bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE ether 00:11:2f:2a:c7:03 inet

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-28 Thread Doug Hardie
On 28 February 2013, at 01:02, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:08:58 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging

Re: What is your favorite board for a micro system?

2013-03-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On 8 March 2013, at 15:53, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi! What is your favorite mini/micro/nano/pico-itx platform for home projects? I currently run a home server on an Intel mini-itx board but was looking around for something fun to play with with the following specs:

Using bsdinstall to create MBR

2013-03-12 Thread Doug Hardie
I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter for the parameters. Everything I have tried gives an error message. I wanted one for / and one for swap. How do I

Re: Using bsdinstall to create MBR

2013-03-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On 12 March 2013, at 18:50, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I am trying to use bsdinstall to create a MBR partitioned disk. I can set the partition type to MBR fine. However, when trying to add in slices I can't figure out what to enter

Client Authentication

2013-03-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I am not sure this is the best place to ask this, but I didn't see any other maillists that seemed more appropriate. Basically, my outgoing mail server is being systematically attacked to try passwords looking for one that works. When they do find one, we get inundated by spam sent through

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 March 2013, at 01:03, CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl wrote: Why don't you just use PKI for authentication (you can generate your own certificates)? You can easily upload keys/certificated to client machines (PC, Android, Apple, ...). That should work :-) Thats exactly what I have been

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 March 2013, at 22:59, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: The following steps may be another idea : Assume that you supply to your users a small login program prepared for them specifically ( since you are using SSH ) : Compile that program for each user with a

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 March 2013, at 01:10, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: You might consider disabling external smtp auth service and using ssh tunnel to server to connect to mail. Also provide web based convenience service. I am not convinced that a ssh tunnel is going to be easy for my

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Doug Hardie
On 24 March 2013, at 01:22, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Wouldn't there be a possibility to combine key _and_ password? The key shouldn't have to be removed, but it should only work with a password (which again is kept individual to each user). The process has to be made more

Re: gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Doug Hardie
On 31 March 2013, at 18:28, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I am in the midst of setting up the framework for new servers using FreeBSD 9.1. I used the bsdinstall and Manual`` option when setting up the disk geometry using GPT - graphical setup. The idea will be to

System Calls that do DNS

2013-06-03 Thread Doug Hardie
I have an unusual situation. A program is doing a DNS lookup and often the IP address has no reverse DNS entries. As a result the program hangs for several timeouts. The call is not being made directly in its code, but is occurring in a system call. There are no specific calls to DNS, its

Re: System Calls that do DNS

2013-06-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On 3 June 2013, at 20:39, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 07:57:07PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I have an unusual situation. A program is doing a DNS lookup and often the IP address has no reverse DNS entries. As a result the program hangs for several timeouts

Re: Can sasl/sendmail Report IP Of Failed Access?

2013-06-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 June 2013, at 08:47, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I am seeing login dictionary attacks on a FreeBSD mail server being reported. Is there a way to determine the IPs that are doing this so they can be blocked at the firewall? auth.log only notes the attempted user name,

Re: System Calls that do DNS

2013-06-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 June 2013, at 22:19, Enno Davids e...@metva.com wrote: See if whois can tell you who owns the block the IP is in. That may give you some insight into what is asking for the reverse. Its ATT. Its probably at least a state's worth of DSL addresses. I am physically at one of them for a

Re: System Calls that do DNS

2013-06-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On 3 June 2013, at 22:21, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On 3 June 2013, at 20:39, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 07:57:07PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I have an unusual situation. A program is doing a DNS lookup and often the IP address has no reverse

Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work. If I enter ufs:/dev/ada0s1a then the system boots fine and runs. I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-12 Thread Doug Hardie
On 12 July 2013, at 10:49, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Since you are going to wait anyway, why don't you try peeking at some of the file checksums while this is running? MacOS X comes with a

Re: FreeBSD 9.2

2013-08-15 Thread Doug Hardie
On 15 August 2013, at 06:37, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: How will be ATI supported in FreeBSD 9.2, please? I like bluetooth mouse. Is it supported? I try Linux Mint and it works perfect. I am downloading live CD for NetBSD (jibbed) and I will see how is works but I like to install

Re: dig

2013-08-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On 21 August 2013, at 17:02, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On 21 August 2013, at 16:46, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: On 22/08/2013 00:34, Doug Hardie wrote: There appears to be a problem with dig and the +trace option in 9.2. I believe its also in 9.1. The command

Re: dig

2013-08-22 Thread Doug Hardie
On 21 August 2013, at 18:14, Colin House co...@restecp.com wrote: On 22/08/2013 9:34 AM, Doug Hardie wrote: There appears to be a problem with dig and the +trace option in 9.2. I believe its also in 9.1. The command: dig freebsd.org +trace Only yields a dumb response. No useful

Re: Finding exactly which commands, and in which order, rc is running at startup

2013-08-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 22 August 2013, at 13:07, Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: Greetings again. After doing a freebsd-update, my system is starting up differently than it was before. I want to figure out why before I come here and say it's broken. Is there a way to say show me all of the commands

Re: Throughput test with iperf...

2013-09-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On 28 September 2013, at 23:38, takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: hi again.. would any of you please at least explain it to me what may cause iperf server ending up with Segmentation fault (core dumped) message right at the beginning of setting second connection in my bi-directional

Re: Throughput test with iperf...

2013-09-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On 29 September 2013, at 01:20, takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for your reply.. :) i think it's iperf.. i installed /usr/ports/benchmarks/iperf port. where can i find iperf2? my machines are both FreeBsds but i can't find iperf2 in my ports collection.. Bad memory - its

9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-03 Thread Doug Hardie
I just did an upgrade using freebsd-update to 9.2. This system uses a custom kernel so I am rebuilding everything after the update completed. However, I noticed that /usr/src/UPDATING has not been updated. The first entry still says: 9.1-RELEASE. Is this correct?

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On 3 October 2013, at 10:49, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I just did an upgrade using freebsd-update to 9.2. This system uses a custom kernel so I am rebuilding everything after the update completed. However, I noticed that /usr/src/UPDATING has not been updated. The first entry

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-03 Thread Doug Hardie
On 3 October 2013, at 11:58, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: On 10/03/2013 1:48 pm, Doug Hardie wrote: On 3 October 2013, at 10:49, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I just did an upgrade using freebsd-update to 9.2. This system uses a custom kernel so I am rebuilding everything after

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 October 2013, at 09:22, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: On 10/04/2013 1:36 am, Doug Hardie wrote: On 3 October 2013, at 11:48, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On 3 October 2013, at 10:49, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I just did an upgrade using freebsd-update to 9.2

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:58:52 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: The exact sequence was: Step 1: freebsd-update from 9.1 to 9.2 Have you verified in /etc/freebsd-update.conf that src is definitely part of what should be updated

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:58:52 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: The exact sequence was: Step 1: freebsd-update

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On 5 October 2013, at 05:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon free

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On 8 October 2013, at 06:22, dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote: On 10/08/2013 4:27 am, Doug Hardie wrote: On 5 October 2013, at 05:08, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-09 Thread Doug Hardie
On 8 October 2013, at 16:40, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:20:40 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I tried downloading the src with: svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/9.2 /mnt/usr/src I didn't get Release 9.2. The first entry in UPDATING

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