Re: vlan routing

2013-03-09 Thread Виталий Туровец
2013/3/10 : > I am trying set this up. First I munged the IP addresses. Not to worry if I > hit yours. I did the following commands: > >ifconfig vlan0 create >ifconfig vlan0 vlan 95 vlandev fxp0 >ifconfig vlan0 inet 134.217.128.117 netmask 255.255.255.0 >ifconfig fxp0 add 134.217.1

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread pete wright
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? > not sure about svn, but this port has recently been commited: http://www.freshports.org/net/svnup/ it is a csup replacement. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA _

periodic security always sends output mail

2013-03-09 Thread Steve Rikli
I would like to configure periodic on my FreeBSD servers to only send daily/weekly/monthly/security mails (or logs) when there is something "important" to report. I'm close, but periodic security seems to _always_ send mail, even when there is nothing to report. My periodic.conf.local has these p

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread Robert Huff
Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? > > No. [good reasons for not including subversion ellided] On the other hand ... The traditional - and I believe still canonical - way of updating the system is to recompile

Re: How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Luís Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silveira
You might want to try the sysutils/pv port, which is a small program that works like cat, but provides a progress bar. On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 10:54:00AM +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > Hello, > > I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this: > > camibar% cat file.g

vlan routing

2013-03-09 Thread doug
I am trying set this up. First I munged the IP addresses. Not to worry if I hit yours. I did the following commands: ifconfig vlan0 create ifconfig vlan0 vlan 95 vlandev fxp0 ifconfig vlan0 inet 134.217.128.117 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig fxp0 add 134.217.128.117 netmask 255.255.2

Re: how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com Sun Mar 10 00:25:27 2013 > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Anton Shterenlikht < > me...@bristol.ac.uk>wrote: > > > I run a program that uses large arrays. > > I don't want it

Re: Revoke a DHCP lease early?

2013-03-09 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Modulok wrote: List, I'm running isc-dhcpd to serve leases to clients. Is there a way to expire a lease before it normally would, i.e. force a client to re-negotiate a lease early? Perhaps some shell command akin to the following (which would be nice, but obviously doesn't

Re: how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com Sun Mar 10 00:25:27 2013 On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I run a program that uses large arrays. > I don't want it to use swap, because it's > too slow. I want the program to fail when > ther

Re: how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I run a program that uses large arrays. > I don't want it to use swap, because it's > too slow. I want the program to fail when > there's not enough RAM, rather than using > swap. How to do this? > > Is it something to do with these kerne

Re: how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Mar 9, 2013, at 15:55, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I run a program that uses large arrays. > I don't want it to use swap, because it's > too slow. I want the program to fail when > there's not enough RAM, rather than using > swap. How to do this? If it were me I would start with mlockall() and

Re: svn & new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:25:22 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? No. Subversion is a large system, with a ton of dependencies, and there's basically _nothing_ to gain by having to spend extra effort trying to keep an imported version up to date.

how to forbid a process to use swap?

2013-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I run a program that uses large arrays. I don't want it to use swap, because it's too slow. I want the program to fail when there's not enough RAM, rather than using swap. How to do this? Is it something to do with these kernel variables: kern.dfldsiz: 34359738368 kern.dflssiz: 8388608 kern.maxd

svn & new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread Fbsd8
Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? Is the new pkg system going to totally replace the pkg_ system in the base 9.2-Release? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:22 +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello, > Zitat von Giorgos Keramidas : > >> If this is a UFS2 filesystem, it may be a good idea to snapshot the >> filesystem, and then rsync-backup the snapshot instead. > > Last time I tried UFS2 snapshots I found out two serious l

Revoke a DHCP lease early?

2013-03-09 Thread Modulok
List, I'm running isc-dhcpd to serve leases to clients. Is there a way to expire a lease before it normally would, i.e. force a client to re-negotiate a lease early? Perhaps some shell command akin to the following (which would be nice, but obviously doesn't work):: dhcpd --revoke 192.168.1.2

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Michael Ross
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:27:45 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? Yes. If so, how can this instal

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:49:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > "Partition Magic" > > I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are > full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at > http://partedmagic.com

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > "Partition Magic" I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a live media. Perhaps you need to defragment the Windows partiti

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:07 PM, wrote: > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a > computer on which Windows XP currently resides? As others have already answered, yes. The risks are minimal if you are careful but you will always have the risk of breaking someth

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST), leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be > installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently > resides? Yes. > If so, how can this installation be done? First of all, you need a tool to mak

Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST) wrote: > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed > on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how > can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to > install 9.1 so that it can be booted from th

FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread leeoliveshackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can this installation be done? In particular, is there a way to install 9.1 so that it can be booted from the traditional master boot record? It is important that

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-09 Thread Mark Blackman
On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:52, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > Hi, > > I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. > This however does not work as there is no directory "packages-9.1-release" on > the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? > If you're prepared to move t

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

2013-03-09 Thread iamatt
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/08/13 23:53, Erik Nørgaard 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 pl

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

2013-03-09 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/08/13 23:53, Erik Nørgaard 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: - mini-itx or smaller, low profile - f

Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error

2013-03-09 Thread Simon L. B. Nielsen
On 2 March 2013 07:48, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to -questions) > > (I'm CC'ing Simon Nielsen who maintains the FreeBSD webserver cluster, as > this obviously needs to be looked at.) > [...] > NOW BACK TO THE ACTUAL PROBLEM REPORTED -- > > It appears that

fbsdmon error message

2013-03-09 Thread Jerry
After working fine for over a year, the "ports-mgmt/fbsdmon" port has started spitting out errors once a week for the past month. ** Rebuilding locate database: Rebuilding whatis database: makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man3/EVP_PKEY

Re: How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:11:26 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > Yes, in your case cat(1) is superflues (see also the Useless Use of Cat > Award) because the correct way would be: > > camibar% fossil import --git file.fossil < file.git > > It depends of the tool 'fossil' if you can monitor somehow the

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

2013-03-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:53:27 +0100 Erik Nørgaard 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: > > - min

Re: How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:54:00 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > Hello, > > I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this: > > camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil > > It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if > there's some 'magic

Re: How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Hakisho Nukama
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > Hello, > > I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this: > > camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil > > It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if there's some > 'magic' tri

Re: How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, March 09, 2013 a las 10:54:00AM +0100, Eduardo Morras escribió: > > Hello, > > I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this: > > camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil > > It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know

How to know % of read file in cat?

2013-03-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
Hello, I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this: camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if there's some 'magic' trick can I use to show me how many bytes or the % of the file.git cat