9.1 - 9.2 upgrade, clang question

2013-10-03 Thread dweimer
When upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 using source, is there any benefit to rebuilding twice, due to the clang version change? So that the second buildworld/kernel is done from the updated clang 3.3, instead of the clang 3.1 that was in FreeBSD 9.1? -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade, clang question

2013-10-03 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
03.10.2013 17:36, dweimer wrote: When upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 using source, is there any benefit to rebuilding twice, due to the clang version change? So that the second buildworld/kernel is done from the updated clang 3.3, instead of the clang 3.1 that was in FreeBSD 9.1? During the

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se To: Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se Cc: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 2013-09-14 15:41, Bernt

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:36:58 +0200 Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have a setup with a diskless machine and working, but I can not log in as root on the diskless. How to proceed? Log in as non root see what

Re: Network Question

2013-09-14 Thread Daniel Nang
fixed IP and hostname for the DHCP clients based on the MAC addresses. Best wishes Eugene -Original Message- From: Daniel Nang Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I

Re: Network Question

2013-09-14 Thread Al Plant
To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
- Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam Vande More

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Al Plant
, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@machine2

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Eugene
, September 13, 2013 10:28 PM To: Eugene Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Daniel Nang Subject: Re: Network Question Eugene wrote: Hi Daniel, The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar) page of the router. They usually allow one to specify fixed IP and hostname for the DHCP clients

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-12 Thread Pablo Carboni
Hi Damien (I'm sorry for delay) Thanks for your comments (specially for the tips / experience with your -STABLE boxes) Regards, Pablo Carboni. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so the entry

Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
| | | machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com - DHCP -- DHCP - Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
--- machine.2.example.com - DHCP -- DHCP - Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam Vande More

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
-- DHCP - Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` There's the rub

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: There's the rub. How do you determine the IP address of the other machine? Normally I look at /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases. Pretty much all of the home routers also have the information accessible on it's administration

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Eugene
, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@machine2.example.com

question

2013-09-11 Thread Pawel Sulewski
Hello, I have read through documentation and didn't find answer for my issue. The issue is: How to recognize kernel panic and dump memory state onto USB device using C language? It would be great if I get the answer. Regards, cid:image001.png@01CE518C.41DEB9F0 Paweł

ttys file question

2013-09-11 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
I have added the following entry to /etc/gettytab file test.std.115200:\ :ep:sp#4800:tc:Pc And also I have changed /etc/ttys file cuau3 /usr/libexec/getty test.std.115200cons25 on secure I expect /dev/cuau3 device to use even parity and 4800 as speed, but when I check the device

Re: question

2013-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:41:31 +0200, Pawel Sulewski wrote: How to recognize kernel panic and dump memory state onto USB device using C language? The kernel has its own crash handling and will initiate the writing of the proper image automatically. It will be stored on the partition designated by

Fw: ttys file question

2013-09-11 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
I have added the following entry to /etc/gettytab file test.std.115200:\ :ep:sp#4800:tc:Pc And also I have changed /etc/ttys file cuau3  /usr/libexec/getty test.std.115200    cons25  on secure I expect /dev/cuau3 device to use even parity and 4800 as speed, but when I check the device

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-09 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
connections. For more detail see sio(4), after all the detail about multi-port serial cards and their master ports comes a couple of paragraphs describing the devices associated with each serial port in detail. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org Thanks. Another question is how can I change

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-09 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 23:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclau...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks. Another question is how can I change the default values of e.g. databits, stopbits and ... for the device? I can set the speed in /etc/ttys. Look at the man pages for sio and stty - all

ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyu6 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200

ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyu6  /usr/libexec/getty std.115200

Fw: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: #Serial terminlas #The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyu6  /usr/libexec/getty  std.115200

ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: ttyu6   std.115200 cons25  on secure But I can not connect to my server with this configuration. But if I change ttyu6 to

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 09:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclau...@yahoo.com wrote: But I can not connect to my server with this configuration. But if I change ttyu6 to cuau6, everything works fine! I don't understand the difference, would you please explain the reason for me? In

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread jb
Jack Mc Lauren jack.mclauren at yahoo.com writes: Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: ttyu6   std.115200 cons25  on secure But I can not connect to

Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Patrick Dung
Hello! I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. Actually what do those numbers mean? Thanks and regards, Patrick Dung ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:29 +0800 (SGT), Patrick Dung wrote: I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. Actually what do those numbers mean? Those numbers show you how many buffers have to be synced until the

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Patrick Dung
Thanks for the answer. That is cool and unique. From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Patrick Dung patrick_...@yahoo.com.hk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Question about

question about pkg

2013-09-04 Thread Waitman Gobble
Hi, by chance anyone know what's up with this.. could save me some troubleshooting time.. Here's a 9.2 machine. # uname -a FreeBSD do.burplex.com 9.2-BETA2 FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253773M: Mon Jul 29 14:22:34 PDT 2013 da3m0n8...@do.burplex.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KAGISO amd64 # sqlite3

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE ! UPDATING: $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $ newvers.sh: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07 svnexp Exp $ I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-04 Thread Pablo Carboni
Dear Damien, I use to install and update 'Releng' releases (plus patches, but not stable releases) in our production servers (Ok, I agree stable is fine, but my main reason is to be conservative under some circunstances). (BTW, You're right, on 8-STABLE branch, it appears the 'missing' line I

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so the entry is added for the next revision of 8.4-RELEASE. Regarding -STABLE, while I respect your decision to be conservative and run -RELEASE, I'd like to point out we've not run into any problem here, in over 3 years with

Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-03 Thread Pablo Carboni
Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-03 Thread Damien Fleuriot
From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni pcarb...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-03 Thread Pablo Carboni
Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3)

c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
% uname -a FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.2 Thread model: posix

clang and c++11 question

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
% uname -a FreeBSD cobalt.corp.nai.org 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC   amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.2

c++11 and clang question

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
% uname -a FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.2 Thread model: posix

Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
Subject: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found % uname -a FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final

Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:22:49 +0800 (SGT) Quark wrote: % uname -a FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502)

Fwd: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Константин Беседин
AFAIK, the easiest way to get C++11 support in clang is to use libc++ (see http://blogs.freebsdish.org/theraven/2013/01/03/the-new-c-stack-in-9-1/). See also https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/2013-May/000841.html . 2013/8/27 Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com % uname -a

Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
- Original Message - From: Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org To: Quark unixuser2000-f...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013 1:41 PM Subject: Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 future header not found On Tue, 27

Re: kern_jail_set() Error Scenario Question

2013-08-23 Thread James Gritton
On 08/22/13 17:46, Matt Miller wrote: We ran into the following scenario in an application recently and were wondering if the behavior of kern_jail_set() is as expected here. This was an application bug where we were in, say, the JID 1 context and tried to call jailparam_set() with the flags

kern_jail_set() Error Scenario Question

2013-08-22 Thread Matt Miller
We ran into the following scenario in an application recently and were wondering if the behavior of kern_jail_set() is as expected here. This was an application bug where we were in, say, the JID 1 context and tried to call jailparam_set() with the flags (JAIL_CREATE | JAIL_UPDATE) and the jid

RE: Pre-sales question

2013-08-18 Thread petersontr
Sir: I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual

RE: Pre-sales question

2013-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did +not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core

Question about usbhid.h and dev/usb/usbhid.h

2013-08-09 Thread David Demelier
Hi, I'm currently writing a USB driver for the SFML framework. I'm reading the code of SDL and seen the usage of usbhid. However, /usr/include/usbhid.h and /usr/include/dev/usb/usbhid.h are different. But they have both some common functions and the same data definition. For instance, enum and

Control-M question

2013-08-08 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Hello list, Im trying to install control-m agent on FreeBSD doing some searching i didnt find anything that point to me to a sucessfull installation. I would really appreciate if someone can give to me a clue or some recipe or some howto !! Arquitecture is: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue

Re: Control-M question

2013-08-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 August 2013 17:15, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, Im trying to install control-m agent on FreeBSD doing some searching i didnt find anything that point to me to a sucessfull installation. I would really appreciate if someone can give to me a clue or

Re: Control-M question

2013-08-08 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Ok thank you very much =) Regards / Saludos.- Leonardo Santagostini http://ar.linkedin.com/in/santagostini 2013/8/8 ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com On 8 August 2013 17:15, Leonardo Santagostini lsantagost...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, Im trying to install control-m agent on

Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Pietro Paolini
Hello all, I have to install in a probably not latest version BSD machine but when I try to pkg_add -r vim-lite Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/vim-lite.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Teske, Devin
On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Pietro Paolini wrote: Hello all, I have to install in a probably not latest version BSD machine but when I try to pkg_add -r vim-lite Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/vim-lite.tbz: File

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Pietro Paolini
On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: env PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-releases/Latest/ pkg_add -r vim-lite Thanks for the quick answer but I got the error: env

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Pietro Paolini pulsarpie...@aol.comwrote: On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: env PACKAGESITE= ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-releases/Latest/pkg_add -r vim-lite Thanks

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Pietro Paolini
On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/ Yep, thanks a lot ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Teske, Devin
On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Pietro Paolini wrote: On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-07-23 18:07, Teske, Devin wrote: (opening a can of squiggly worms here) Well, then you can go fishing This is a A sidenotnote ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

question, following error Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by fortune

2013-06-29 Thread Rev Herbert Miller
I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by fortune Neither the

Re: question, following error Shared object libc.so.6 not found, required by fortune

2013-06-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:48:38 -0400, Rev Herbert Miller wrote: I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. In

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread ASV
things that touch /root content. System updating might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) I'll play Devil's advocate

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
for your question: It's just the default. :-) I'll play Devil's advocate for a moment ;-) One reason not to tighten ~root is because one might want ~root/httpuserfile to be readable by httpd to access the crypted passwords of locked web page. ... ;-) No not really, that's perverted, I

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
that touch /root content. System updating might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) I'll play Devil's advocate

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Before we might ask (via send-pr) for it to be commited, we should various of us run chmod 750 /root;chown root:wheel /root give it a couple of months to see if problems. Done years ago: drwxr-x--- 7 root wheel 512

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: ( I'd guess OpenBSD might go for a tighter /root though, as they're supposedly keen on security. ) Currently I've got no OpenBSD installation at hand to verify, but I _assume_ they still have

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread jb
Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com writes: jb.1234abcd at gmail.com 's ref to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578470 relates to Linux upgrade procedures /root I don't see it affects how we should perceive an idealised Unix. The upgrade was a canary that told the user

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread ASV
are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
content. System updating might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) I'll play Devil's advocate for a moment ;-) One reason

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread jb
ASV asv at inhio.eu writes: Mine is just a concern about these permission defaults which look to me a bit too relaxed and cannot find yet a reason why not to restrict it. After all I believe having good default settings may make the difference in some circumstances and/or save time. I

A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread ASV
This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) Thanks in advance

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Ayan George
ASV: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) I imagine / needs those

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 06/26/13 15:47, Ayan George wrote: ASV: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ASV a...@inhio.eu writes: This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1) By default

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Polytropon
not be public). There are few things that touch /root content. System updating might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) -- Polytropon

mouse configuration question

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
I have a ps/2 mouse attached to a HP mini-tower running FreeBSD 8.3, with a stripped-down kernel (no loadable modules). I've apparently removed something necessary for standard mouse functionality, but I have no clue as to -what- is missing. Gory details: 1) '/dev/psm0' exists and +is+ the

Re: mouse configuration question

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:21:45 +0200 Subject: Re: mouse configuration question From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 02:09:13PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi Robert, I have a ps/2 mouse attached to a HP mini-tower running FreeBSD 8.3, with a stripped

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Block
There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on FreeBSD and get to the files with rsync or scp or some FUSE module on the

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 19. 19:41 napon Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com írta: There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on

FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I have a question regarding FreeBSD slices/partitions. I have a disk with linux partitions with the following layout: /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home /dev/sda3 /usr/local /dev/sda5 swap /dev/sda6 /home/user1 /dev/sda7 /home/user2 etc. sda1, sda2, and sda3 are primary partitions, sda5

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: ... How can I do this in FreeBSD? Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? Can I do something like the following: /dev/ad0s1a / /dev/ad0s2e /home /dev/ad0s3e /usr/local /dev/ad0s5b swap

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 18. 19:49 napon Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com írta: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: ... How can I do this in FreeBSD? Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? Can I do something like the following:

Re: Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jun 18 13:47:50 2013 Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_FreeBSD_slice/partiton_setup_?= =?UTF-8?Q?question?= From: =?UTF-8?Q?Istvan_Gabor?= suseuse...@lajt.hu To: =?UTF-8?Q?FreeBSD_Questions?=freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Michael_Sierchio?=ku

Re: Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
You can simply newfs the device itself, without a volume label, slice, or partition. That's the normal thing to do with malloc devices, or additional disks. If the disk doesn't require a boot loader, isn't the root device, etc. that may be the best thing to do. Your caution about EXT* is

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:20 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: 2013. június 18. 19:49 napon Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com írta: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: ... How can I do this in FreeBSD? Can I have slices with only one partition

easy question about logcheck

2013-06-17 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) I just configurated logcheck and everything is perfect :-) A question: where is the script that handle to send email? I check also with pkg_info -L but I didn't see any script that send email thanks for help! Pol ___ freebsd-questions

Re: easy question about logcheck

2013-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/13 4:16 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) I just configurated logcheck and everything is perfect :-) A question: where is the script that handle to send email? I check also with pkg_info -L but I didn't see any script that send email

Re: easy question about logcheck

2013-06-17 Thread Pol Hallen
If you include logcheck in a cron job (hourly, daily, etc.), the cron system will send the email with its output. After installed logcheck I didn't done any changes to cron... but I've notify mails from logcheck Thanks! ___

question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
Where should site-specific, ie local, man pages live? For instance, I have: /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3597 May 6 00:38 /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3383 Dec 20 19:54 /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

Re: question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 09), Paul Beard said: Where should site-specific, ie local, man pages live? For instance, I have: /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3597 May 6 00:38 /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
On May 9, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: I don't have a /usr/local/share/man/ directory at all, and have 7300 files in /usr/local/man/man?/ , so I'd say /usr/local/man/ is the correct location :) I wish it were that simple here. /etc/manpath.config is unmodified

question installing 9.1

2013-05-06 Thread doug
I installed 9.1-release amd 64 from the DVD. I intended to leave the obligatory windows 7. I shrunk the primary windows partition and installed FreeBSD. I never got an option to install the multi-partition boot record. Rather the install overwrote the MBR with a boot record to boot FreeBSD.

Re: question installing 9.1

2013-05-06 Thread doug
On Mon, 6 May 2013, doug wrote: I installed 9.1-release amd 64 from the DVD. I intended to leave the obligatory windows 7. I shrunk the primary windows partition and installed FreeBSD. I never got an option to install the multi-partition boot record. Rather the install overwrote the MBR

freebsd-update question

2013-05-04 Thread doug
it got to rc.conf. The message was something like, deleting file hosts.allow no longer in 8.3. Happily aborting the process left the system unchanged. Aside from, what could I have done wrong? My question is should we be able to trust freebsd-update on expired systems if it says a mirror exists

pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Walter Hurry
Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20130502: AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ tinderbox AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org This only affects people who are _building_ binary packages for pkgng. If

Re: pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2013 21:26, Walter Hurry wrote: Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20130502: AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ tinderbox AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org This only affects people

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-27 Thread Bernt Hansson
2013-04-25 16:03, krad skrev: type id from your user account and paste the results back here uid=1001(bernt) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody),0(wheel) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread krad
type id from your user account and paste the results back here On 24 April 2013 14:55, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2013-04-24 15:40, Lowell Gilbert skrev: Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org writes: On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: No, that's from /etc/passwd

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