Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
David Demelier wrote: Hello there, I'm writing because after a power failure I was unable to log in on my FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE. The SU+J journal were executed correctly but some files disappeared, including /etc/pwd.db. Thus I was unable to log in. I've been able to regenerate the

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] The other box is my first foray into the land of GPT, along with SU+J. It was sitting at the 'couldn't mount... Press return for /bin/sh' line. There was an error indicating that replaying one or more journals had failed. I was able to successfully fsck all

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Sierchio
The brutal and brute-force approach can work - better if you boot from a USB stick, of course. You can untar base.tzx and kernel.tzx in your /, with filesystems mounted. As Polytropon says, do a backup of what you'll want afterwards. This approach will leave a lot of cruft (old versions of

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
Charles Swiger wrote: [snip] Yes. Without journalling, you'd normally perform the full timeconsuming fsck in the foreground. With journalling, it should be able to do a journal replay to restore the filesystem to an OK state, but sometimes that doesn't restore consistency, in which case

Re: NATD: net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1 vs firewall_type=OPEN

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Ross
all rules, this deletes rule 65000, but the default rule stays in effect. With ...default_to_accept=0 ( standard setting ) you now have disabled all network connections and locked yourself out if you're working remote. HTH, Michael ___ freebsd

Re: NAT: Handbook vs mailing list

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: [snip] The mailing list message linked above suggests that the handbook information is the old way and that the correct way is to set ipfw_enable and natd_enable in rc.conf. Then /etc/rc.d/ipfw will load ipfw.ko, and if natd_enable is set, will invoke /etc/rc.d/natd,

Re: failed to create gmirror with the handbook instructions

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Powell
Andy Zammy wrote: # gpart show ada0s1 gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook instructions for this method.

Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-03 Thread Michael
are right that virtualisation is the cheapest way to go. But this my actual setup and I am considering moving it to a physical support because for my uses, I value some of its features (low-noise™ or take-away™). Best regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-03 Thread Michael
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Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-01 Thread Michael
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Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Michael Powell
Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: [snip] I looked last command, reboot ~ ~ AM 03.15 ~ The last time It happened (one month ago) to me it was the hard disk (periodic scripts read a large part of the disk). If the disk is smart capable try a full test with smartctl (sysutils/smartmontools)

Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Michael Powell
kpn...@pobox.com wrote: [snip] While we're throwing ideas onto the table let me mention power supplies. Power supplies and hard drives are in a race to see which one will fail first. It may be that the power supply is marginal and added load from the drives being hit hard may send it over the

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

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

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Michael Powell
Brett Glass wrote: All: It's good to see corporate support of BSD, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about certain corporations -- Verisign among them -- hosting BSD-related conferences or becoming involved in the development of BSD-based operating systems. Why? Because Verisign,

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:47 AM, atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:15:58 +0300, Atar wrote: When I try to boot FreeBSD from a USB stick, it stuck during the boot process. But if I boot it in safe mode, it succeeds to boot. Yes, you

this 48-core box...

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Chen
I'm considering bidding on this 48-core box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-A-Server-1042G-TF-1U-H8QG6-4-CPUS-48-cores-2-2Ghz-128GB-RAM-/151119828428?pt=COMP_EN_Servershash=item232f7195cc Does anyone have experience with it and can I use all the cores? Thanks!

Disappointing dependency introduced in 9.1 (from 8-STABLE)

2013-09-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
Because I build a lot of embedded devices with serial consoles, I was in the habit of hacking /boot/loader by commenting out a line in a Makefile that enables terminal emulation /sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile: #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU and then in /sys/boot doing a make clean make unfortunately,

Re: Network startup with age Ethernet device

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Have you tried using netwait? I think that would involve putting enable_netwait in rc.conf, and netwait_enable=YES would be it. - M ___

Re: ipfw gateway rerouting

2013-08-19 Thread Michael Sierchio
# my kernel has # options ROUTETABLES=16 GATEWAY_0=10.3.255.0 GATEWAY_1=10.3.255.1 setfib 0 route add default $GATEWAY_0 setfib 1 route add default $GATEWAY_1 ipfw table 1 add $NET_0 0 ipfw table 1 add $NET_1 0 ipfw table 1 add $NET_2 1 ipfw table 1 add $NET_3 0 ipfw add 00500 setfib

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-19 Thread Michael W. Lucas
For the archives: I left the problem alone for a few days, with no changes on my side. Came back Monday. Tried again. Everything worked on the affected machines. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http

pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Michael W. Lucas
This is from a machine freshly converted to pkgng. Any suggestions? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Absolute OpenBSD 2/e - http://www.nostarch.com/openbsd2e coupon code

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Thanks, Matt. # pkg -vv | sed -ne '/Repositories/,$p' Repositories: packagesite: url: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-freebsd:9:x86:32/latest key: enabled: yes mirror_type: SRV Also: # pkg -v 1.1.4 ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Michael W. Lucas
repo theory, but it's interesting. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Absolute OpenBSD 2/e - http://www.nostarch.com/openbsd2e coupon code ILUVMICHAEL gets you 30% off helps me

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-16 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:23:41AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: Have you done a pkg update first, just in case you needed to pull in a pkgng update? Yep, tried that. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http

Re: Theft in the Clouds

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Sierchio
Amazon EC2 certainly offers Dedicated Instances, in which the hardware is dedicated to a single customer. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Not really a FreeBSD issue, but I did find this article rather fascinating.

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 18:34, Michael Grimm trash...@odo.in-berlin.de wrote: On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes

Re: Re[3]: vBSDcon Website Update

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Powell
Fish Kungfu wrote: Weird, now it's up. ...Fish DNS takes time to propagate -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
or a port that I might have missed to find? Thanks in advance and with kind regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port

Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Upon doing; gpart destroy da0 I get; gpart: Device busy crude but effective: DISK=da0 offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'` dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK

Re: auth.notice on syslog server

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:35 AM, SWENNEN Rudi rudi.swen...@onprvp.fgov.be wrote: Hello FreeBSD-list, I have the following two freebsd systems/servers: a server and a client. The syslog of the client is send to the server. I was wondering why the auth.notice entry on my server is generating a

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot

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: 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: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Ross
I'm no BASIC Guru, but this one line caught my eye while scrolling through your mail: 2010 IF ABS(H1. THEN GOTO 2040 Missing parenthesis? Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD maximum password length

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Sierchio
I know this may seem off-the-wall to some, but I pasted a hashed password for a user under 9.1 into the /etc/passwd entry for that user on an 8.3 machine, and auth continues to work properly. That's nice. - M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

pkg-devel problem with incremental update

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Gass
, no need to fetch fresh copy What should I do to make incremental updates possible? -- Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Bourne shell if syntax

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: That wasn't really my point. I use sentinels because in the face of an empty string this: if [ $PTR = ] Actually evaluates to: if [ = ] Which throws an error. Right. Many scripts seem to assume that

What is the correct CPUTYPE for this machine?

2013-06-08 Thread Michael Gass
=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc0480800SYSCALL,MP,MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow! What is the correct value for CPUTYPE in make.conf? Thanks, mg -- Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu

Re: What is the correct CPUTYPE for this machine?

2013-06-08 Thread Michael Gass
On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 10:10:10AM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 June 2013 09:34, Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu wrote: I have an old laptop: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: Tue Dec 4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 CPU: Mobile AMD

Error building math/sage

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Gass
SAGE_KEEP_BUILT_SPKGS to 'yes' to prevent this. gmake: *** [build] Error 1 *** [do-build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/math/sage. *** [build] Error code 1 Any suggestions? -- Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu

Re: Error building math/sage

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Gass
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:41:46AM -0500, Michael Gass wrote: Trying to build math/sage-5.9_1 from ports. Everything builds except sage itself. Here is the system info. FreeBSD dc7800.home.net 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r251294: Mon Jun 3 17:52:11 CDT 2013 root@:/usr/obj

Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on

2013-06-03 Thread Michael Powell
Al Plant wrote: James wrote: Several modest servers applied well will take you further than one big iron—and for less cost. James I agree. I have witnessed the benefit of what you say. Putting your faith in one big server can be a problem if the box fails, especially hardware failure.

Re: Disable build new pkg format in poudriere

2013-06-03 Thread Michael Powell
C. L. Martinez wrote: HI all, I need to build some packages without using new pkg format. I would like to accomplish this using poudriere, but is this possible?? Or do I need to use another package builder?? I have tried to build rsync, but when I try to install, this error is

Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Gass
, worse, or the same after the change? I may eventually bring the memory up to 4GB, but not anytime soon. I understand some ports my not work - like WINE - but I do not use WINE. Would there be other problems? -- Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu

Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Gass
, worse, or the same after the change? I may eventually bring the memory up to 4GB, but not anytime soon. I understand some ports my not work - like WINE - but I do not use WINE. Would there be other problems? -- Michael Gass mg...@csbsju.edu

Re: swap partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Normal dynamic wear leveling on a modern SSD will be better than imposing an FS- backed swap for 4GB partion occupying a small fraction of total drive space. Quite so. - M

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-28 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: You think it's trivial until you read this: http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-** programmers-believe-about-timehttp://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time Some

Re: swap partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Michael Sierchio
The Intel SLC mSATA drives I use in embedded devices don't support TRIM, but - it doesn't seem to matter. Actually, I'm confident that just using bare partitions for swap is fine, and I haven't had any of the trouble I witnessed with MLC devices. The difference is that the size is limited to

Re: Case sensitive usernames and sendmail - mystic voodoo

2013-05-26 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:41 -0600, Modulok wrote: I know usernames are case-sensitive, I thought emails were too. If I remember e-mail basics correctly: No. They're not. For example, f...@example.com, f...@example.com

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-05-23 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:53 PM, s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote: thanks Michael for your quick reply:) yes, i can boot from usb freebsd flash and use fixit mode. i have root, var, tmp, usr and swap on my system. i create an extra swap partition to use it as journal provider for root

Re: file corruption solution (soft-update or ZFS)

2013-05-23 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: .. One thing mentioned earlier is that ZFS wants lots of memory. 4G-8G minimum, some might say as much as the server will hold. Not necessarily so - deduplication places great demands on memory, but that can be

Re: MySQL hangs server completely

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Ross
, the machine itself hasn't stalled yet - but I'm sitting at the console while doing this, so I don't know what would eventually happen if I'd let it sit for a while. Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-05-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:27 PM, s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote: thanks Michael, but in all documentation about journaling, tunefs is used as below: tunefs -J enable ad3s1X.journal. ad3s1X.journal is created by gjournal command: gjournal label ad3s1a ad3s1g that assign ad3s1g as journal

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:59 PM, s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote: hello everybody i want to setup a journal partition for my root partition. but i do not know how to do that. in FreeBSD handbook, it is done in single user mode, unmount the desired partition and assign the journal partition

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Sierchio
AFAIK Softupdates journaling still breaks snapshot functionality - which makes it unusable for me. I wouldn't assume that the O.P. doesn't want we he's asking for. - M On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 05/21/13 12:43, saeedeh motlagh wrote: thanks

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2013, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/21/13 15:46, Michael Sierchio wrote: AFAIK Softupdates journaling still breaks snapshot functionality - which makes it unusable for me. I wouldn't assume that the O.P

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:14 PM, s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote: thanks guys for your attentions. i want to setup journaling in FreeBSD 8.2. i compare soft-update and journaling and choose journaling (it is more suitable for my goals). i want to enable journaling for all my partitions. i

Re: problems with port upgrade consistency using portsnap

2013-05-19 Thread Michael Powell
fddi wrote: [snip] so ther is something wrong in my crontab 0 3 * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap -I cron update pkg_version -vIL= See man portsnap, section TIPS - it shows example of correct way: 0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron The TIPS section contains more details. [snip] -Mike

Re: How to get kernel source code of free-BSD release 9.1

2013-05-19 Thread Michael Powell
Chou, David J wrote: Hi, I have created a virtual machine of PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit in VMware Player Version 5.0.0 build-812388 based on PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso downloaded from ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1/amd64/PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso , and setup network configuration and installed

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-11 Thread Michael Ross
get through this list. Just counted, and I have about 2 Spams per week for the last month, that's more than usual. Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Bird
, overwritten or deleted. What does the list say about the above mentioned? Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: enter single user mode from boot menu

2013-04-28 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: After the BTX loader has started, keep hammering the space bar. :-) At some point, you'll see the Ok _ prompt. This is where you enter the command boot -s to go into single-user mode. The

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Alejandro Imass wrote: [snip] Most consider the answer to use WPA2, which I do use too. Many think it is 'virtually' unbreakable, but this really is not true; it just takes longer. I've done WPA2 keys in as little as 2-3 hours before. Are you saying that any WPA2 key can be cracked or or you

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Arthur Chance wrote: [snip] What I was pondering is some form of L2TP tunnel, or some other form of IPSEC tunnel to form some kind of VPN like communication between the client and the wifi. Just never have begun to find the time to get anywhere with the idea. But basically it would resemble a

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] Are you saying that any WPA2 key can be cracked or or you simply referring to weak keys? I would also like to specifically if it's for weak keys or are all WPA2 personal keys crackable by brute force. Also is WPA2 Enterprise as weak also. Could anyone expand

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Powell
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi, I'm looking to replace the piece of crap 2wire WiFi router that gets crakced every other day for something with pfSense or m0n0wall Not sure what you mean

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Powell
Alejandro Imass wrote: [...] Really these WEP/WPA2 protocols are not providing the level of protection that is truly necessary in this modern day. You can keep out script kiddies and people who don't have skill, but people who know what they are doing are only slowed down. Thanks for

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Powell
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Alejandro Imass wrote: [...] Really these WEP/WPA2 protocols are not providing the level of protection that is truly necessary in this modern day. You can keep out script kiddies

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi, I'm looking to replace the piece of crap 2wire WiFi router that gets crakced every other day for something with pfSense or m0n0wall Not sure what you mean by 'cracked' here. If you are meaning that someone is using aircrack-ng to break your Wifi authentication

Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Powell
Tak Tak wrote: hi everyone, i wanna know what exactly happens for freebsd files and processes, when we shutdown system via pressing hardware power key for 3 seconds? here's what has happened to me, recently: i've faced a strange problem.. on one of my bsd servers, one of my coworkers

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Powell
Mike. wrote: [snip] Additionally, for me, building from ports for me has tended to pull in many, many X-windows support files when they are not needed. Specifically, I run a non-windowing system using command line tools. When I tried to compile Samba from ports, I finally killed the

Re: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Sierchio
I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal Linux grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when modifying the

Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
Okay, what's your DNS setup? Are you running a recursive cache that contacts the root servers directly? Using your ISP's servers? Etc. As a mitigation step, I tried pointing my caches to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. - but it turns out that Google is intentionally blocking (returning NX responses to)

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Powell
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one question, towards the end. See below. ]] Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just thought that I would

Re: databases/mysql55 to databases/mariadb

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Powell
Andrei Brezan wrote: [snip] Also what i've noticed is that 'p' as a suffix is for percona. Oops! And I was thinking Percona but for some reason PostgreSQL came out my fingers! DOH! -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: use of the kernel and licensing

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Ross
all rights reserved. Regards, Michael ___ 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: smartd

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:25:32 -0500, ajtiM wrote: I installed smartmontools, start_smartd=yes I have in rc.conf Without further investigation - shouldn't that be smartd_enable=YES conforming to the syntax of other service start commands? At least that might be the

Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Sierchio
It would be really helpful if you'd post the ruleset. At first glance, your stateful rules seem rather wrong, unless there's a check-state above. Also, in and out aren't discriminating enough - every packet is seen by the ruleset more than once. You should think in terms of interfaces,

Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Powell
Don O'Neil wrote: Hi everyone. recently my server started having issues with DNS and FTP sessions either not resolving or timing out. I've tracked the issue down to IPFW. if I issue a 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0' then my issues go away. [snip] I'm probably not smart enough to be able

Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Sierchio
interface stats to make sure there aren't a bunch of fragmented packets or errors, and there aren't. I'm not running NAT, it's a publically accessible IP address. -Original Message- From: Michael Sierchio [mailto:ku...@tenebras.com] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:58 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc

Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm probably not smart enough to be able to help directly with your problem but I'd like to add that there is a snowballing DNS Amplification ddos attack against SpamHaus going on which is spilling over Yes

Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Sierchio
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime ? net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_udp_lifetime ? You might want to increase these, given the current state of things... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Portsnap gets ports that claim to be out of date

2013-03-30 Thread Michael Powell
John Levine wrote: When I do portsnap update and try building stuff, I get errors like this: ^^ Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 5: warning: You are using a ports file that originated from CVS!! Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 6: warning: The FreeBSD project has switched from

Re: databases/mysql55 to databases/mariadb

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Andrei Brezan wrote: Hello list, Is there a make.conf option that I can use to replace mysql55-[server,client] with mariadb55-[server,client] or i need to use for example pkg set -o databases/mysql55-client:databases/mariadb55-client? What happens if I want to use one port with mysql

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Ross
by dropping the packet if they are coming too fast. Uses ipfw divert sockets, so would work if you prefer ipfw over pf. Me Me Me! ...ahem. I do prefer IPFW over PF and would very much like to try it out, so please do share. Regards, Michael ___ freebsd

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:37:36 +0100, Daniel O'Callaghan da...@clari.net.au wrote: On 27/03/2013 10:37 AM, Michael Ross wrote: I'm happy to share a program I wrote which slows down the brute force attackers. It simply counts the SYN packets from a given IP and limits the rate per minute

Re: gettext problem in FreeBSD 8.3 system hosed

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Powell
Antonio Olivares wrote: [snip] As following /usr/port/UPDATING, I ran into a bit of trouble. System is hosed and I cannot update any ports. I tried to follow advice here: 20130316: AFFECTS: users of converters/libiconv and devel/gettext AUTHOR: b...@freebsd.org libiconv now

Re: Is fdisk broken?

2013-03-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:33 AM, mla_str...@att.net wrote: Can fdisk be made happy again? (At least for a few more years?) The short answer is: no. Fdisk comes from a world where even 1G drives were not yet on the horizon. Use gpart. The long answer is readily available in the forums -

Re: How To Get App To Start At Boot?

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: I installed Splunk which is not part of the ports tree. It's a proprietary app that I downloaded and installed on it's own. I start it with '/usr/local/splunk/bin/splunk start'. It should also be stopped with

Re: No sound with Thinkpad X60

2013-03-15 Thread Michael Ross
at. You could also try if sound works from a terminal without running Gnome at all, just to be sure it's not some Gnome configuration thing. Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: No sound with Thinkpad X60

2013-03-15 Thread Michael Ross
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:28:27 +0100, Peter Harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Friday, 15 March 2013 at 18:48:24 +0100, Michael Ross said: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:59:09 +0100, Peter Harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi list, I've a problem with sound on a Thinkpad X60

Re: OpenVPN vm cant connect to other VM's

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
Are you pushing routes in your server.conf file? (hint - show, don't tell) - M On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys Im struggling with a freebsd vm, that I have that I use for a VPN connection too, from my workstation to my home LAN. And I was

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Ross
shrink drive in the drive administration console, and I do think that was there in XP already. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Ross
: 2h 12m S2: 2h 59m If I read you right, you didn't ``make -jX buildworld'', with X being the number of processes to spawn, so you used just one core on either machine. Buildworld does a lot of I/O, so disk speed is relevant. Regards, Michael

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:38:34 +0100, Frederico Costa fredpo...@mufley.com wrote: On 2013-02-27 22:27, Michael Ross wrote: If I read you right, you didn't ``make -jX buildworld'', with X being the number of processes to spawn, so you used just one core on either machine. Buildworld does a lot

Re: dump issue

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
Snapshots are not yet supported when running with journaled soft updates: Operation not supported :-( On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Will someone please confirm or deny that (UFS) journaling and dump -L continue to be incompatible?

Re: Can anyone direct me to some information about what WITHOUT_PROFILE=YES actually means.

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Powell
dweimer wrote: I have ran into a recent issue, after a lot of trouble shooting I have narrowed it down to something in my /etc/src.conf the full file just has: WITHOUT_BIND=YES WITHOUT_NTP=YES WITHOUT_FLOPPY=YES WITHOUT_FREEBSD_UPDATE=YES WITHOUT_PROFILE=YES Of course bind and ntp

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Powell
Artem Kuchin wrote: [snip] The server is going to be a web server with many sites and with mysql running on it. Nothing really really heavy. Currently with run all this on our own server with 8 cores and 16GB ram and 3ware raid1 and cpu load is about 5% :) Everything is quick and responsive.

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Powell
Artem Kuchin wrote: Hello! I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good options they do not provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for freebsd. The server base conf is 8core

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