Re: General questions regarding FreeBSD 10

On 27/09/2013 18:47, Nikolas Britton wrote: General questions regarding FreeBSD 10: Others have answered specific questions, for a general overview you might care to read this http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/09/20/freebsd-10s-new-technologies-and-features/ and the FreeBSD 10 Wiki page that

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

On 21/08/2013 11:35, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 20 August 2013 18:02 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: And that's just made me think of something else - I have a horrible feeling that jexec will attach to the jail using whatever fib it's running under, i.e. the fib from the host environme

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

On 20/08/2013 12:50, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 20 August 2013 08:27 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: In the source the exec.fib parameter is given as an integer, so the quotes probably shouldn't be there, but I'm not sure whether it matters. I tried it just as 'exec.fib = 1;'

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

On 19/08/2013 21:02, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 17 August 2013 17:32:18 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: What do you get in the jail from sysctl net.fibs sysctl net.my_fibnum ? I didn't know those sysctl's existed :) I only stumbled on them by doing sysctl -a | grep fib

Re: jail.conf ignoring exec.fib?

On 14/08/2013 16:49, Karl Pielorz wrote: --On 14 August 2013 08:58 -0400 Fbsd8 wrote: The jail(8) man page lacks details about how to use exec.fib. It requires either a new kernel (with "options ROUTETABLES=2" or however many you want), or a boot-time setting with "net.fibs=2" in /boot/load

Re: Static Jail ID's (JID's) for use with IPFW?

On 07/08/2013 09:28, Karl Pielorz wrote: I have a number of jailed systems running - and I've been setting up ipfw rules for them. This is on FBSD 9.1. 'ipfw' lets you match on traffic to/from a Jail ID (JID) - however every time jails get started / stopped their JID changes [thus breaking the

Re: X client without X server

On 07/03/13 16:26, Bill Tillman wrote: [Vast snip.] Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead > low. But the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc...are long > since behind us. I remember in 1994 when and IT consultant came in > and built a Novell server for us wit

Re: logging during loader

On 06/24/13 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding that file gets read before the syste

Re: poudriere keeps rebuilding apache22 on every run

On 06/05/13 16:06, Vincent Hoffman wrote: I'm not certain if this is the best place to ask but I seem to be having issues with apache22 and poudriere. on every run I get >> Creating the reference jail... done >> Mounting system devices for 8amd64-default >> Mounting ports/packages/d

Re: change specified byte in a hex file

On 06/03/13 07:28, s m wrote: i want to change a specified byte in a hex file. i want to edit my file and change byte 0x28a content from 0x08 to 0x14. Given your earlier posts about increasing the number of partitions from 8 to 20 on a BSD labelled disk, this probably is not something you rea

Routed(8) resurrecting deleted aliases

I've got a gateway machine running routed. If I use ifconfig to temporarily add a /32 alias to an interface to give it an alternate identity on that interface's network, and then delete the alias, it reappears in the routing table shortly after. Use "route delete" to clear it and it reappears a

Re: openvpn and tap device

On 05/28/13 23:14, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all! I installed openvpn (I use it like client). There isn't any "openvpn_enable=YES" and openvpn_if="tap" in rc.conf but after start openvpn I can connect to openvpn server and clients. ifconfig doesn't show me any tap interface is it a correct situati

Re: BSD sleep

On 05/29/13 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: You think it's trivial until you read this: http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-** programmers-believe-about-time

[OT] What's the http://localhost/phpmyadmin mail about?

Many apologies for the off topic post, but my curiosity has got the better of me. Every once in a while we get a post with a subject of "http://localhost/phpmyadmin"; and no body. What is the point of this - borked mailer, existentialist spam, hacking attempt by a wannabe script kiddie even m

Re: freebsd8.2 with /etc mount point can't run correctly

On 05/28/13 09:27, s m wrote: hello all, i want to install freebsd8.2 with different partitions. i want to have a separated partition for /etc. therefore this is my partitions: / , /var, /etc. /tmp, /usr, swap. but after installing, freebsd can not run correctly and have problem with fstab. i c

Re: setup journaling for root partition

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. doesn't want we he's asking for. Good point, I'd forgotten that problem as I don't use UFS snapshots. I can imagine it w

Re: setup journaling for root partition

On 05/21/13 12:43, saeedeh motlagh wrote: thanks Julien, but i think it's not true. man page for newfs seys that journaling is done via gjournal and in freebsd handbook it says do journaling with gjournal for UFS file system. you mean i should create a partition and just enable journaling for it

Re: small fanless mini-pc for home router/firewall?

On 05/08/13 15:48, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/08/13 15:10, firm...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best option out there for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD as a home router/firewall? (needs to have 2 nic's) I use an alix2d3 running embedded pfSense as a 3 NIC (WAN, LAN, DMZ) router. If you only

Re: small fanless mini-pc for home router/firewall?

On 05/08/13 15:10, firm...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best option out there for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD as a home router/firewall? (needs to have 2 nic's) I use an alix2d3 running embedded pfSense as a 3 NIC (WAN, LAN, DMZ) router. If you only need 2 NICs go for the alix2d2. You can also a

Re: sshd - time out idle connections

On 05/03/13 15:28, Fleuriot Damien wrote: Hello list, I'm facing this unusual demand at work where we need to time out idle SSH connections for security purposes. I've checked the following options from sshd_config but none seems to fit my needs : TCPKeepAlive ClientAliveCountMax ClientAliv

Re: Diskless question

On 04/24/13 13:45, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-04-24 13:21, Arthur Chance skrev: On 04/24/13 11:55, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-04-24 12:30, Arthur Chance skrev: On 04/24/13 09:18, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log in

Re: Diskless question

On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernt Hansson writes: 2013-04-24 12:30, Arthur Chance skrev: On 04/24/13 09:18, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log in, but when I try to log in as root it won't work. H

Re: Diskless question

On 04/24/13 11:55, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-04-24 12:30, Arthur Chance skrev: On 04/24/13 09:18, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log in, but when I try to log in as root it won't work. How to resolv that issue. I

Re: Diskless question

On 04/24/13 09:18, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list! I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log in, but when I try to log in as root it won't work. How to resolv that issue. I have tried with and without password but the computer said no. How did it say no? What do

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

On 04/22/13 21:49, Michael Powell wrote: Alejandro Imass wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Michael Powell 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

Poudriere change to distfile cache handling?

I've been using poudriere (and pkgng) for building and installing ports since just before the new year. This morning I started doing a bulk build and got >> Error: DISTFILES_CACHE cannot be in the portsdir as the portsdir will be mounted read-only I've been using /usr/ports/disfiles as m

Re: EC2 Instances Future

On 04/11/13 15:43, Michael Sierchio wrote: I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them available. I'd be more interested in a step by step How To so I could roll my own. I need to use EU instances bec

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

On 04/02/13 20:55, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message <515aae16.9030...@qeng-ho.org>, you wrote: On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [Overheating CPU war story snipped.] ... I've had a fan jam that way. Cable ties are your friends. Yes. P.P.S. I have a (relatively) monster si

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [Overheating CPU war story snipped.] I don't know what to make of this, except to suspect that some loose wires inside my case got in the way of the CPU fan turning. (I am not neat like some folks. The inside of myu case _is_ really rather sloppy,

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message <5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com>, you wrote: I have filed the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431 Er, don't take my word for law: I didn't. I won't. I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea Any size

Re: Port devel/arduino serial port problems [SOLVED]

On 03/14/13 13:08, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:48:22 +, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/13/13 21:56, Arthur Chance wrote: I'm trying to get devel/arduino working.[snip] I shouldn't work 13 hour days. Now I've had some slee

Re: Port devel/arduino serial port problems [SOLVED]

On 03/13/13 21:56, Arthur Chance wrote: I'm trying to get devel/arduino working.[snip] I shouldn't work 13 hour days. Now I've had some sleep, I've spotted what I missed last night. The underlying code from comms/rxtx is trying to create a lock file in /var/spool/l

Port devel/arduino serial port problems

I'm trying to get devel/arduino working. Plugging in the USB cable to the Arduino creates /dev/cuaU0* and /dev/ttyU0* and I'm manually changing them to mode 666 while trying to get started so should be able to access them as my normal user. However, the Tools => Serial Port menu item in the Ard

Re: periodic security always sends output mail

On 03/10/13 03:26, Steve Rikli wrote: 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 rep

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

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: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

On 03/07/13 19:53, Kris Sridhar wrote: Gentlemen, The library (/lib/libz.so.6) in FreeBSD 9.1R does seem to have Zlib 1.2.4 based on the complaints from the following at least: libarchive.so.* libssh.so.* grep gzip I've provided objdump -p output from my machine: -

Re: Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

On 03/05/13 16:12, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2013-03-04 07:28, KrisUniverse wrote: The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through 1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes. Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7?

Re: Soekris or .. ?

On 03/01/13 10:56, Frank Reppin wrote: On 01.03.13 11:49, Julien Cigar wrote: [...] I'm looking for a small Soekris-like (http://soekris.com/) box which support FreeBSD, any experience or brand to advise .. ? I once had FreeBSD (7-CURRENT days) running on ALIX boards [ https://shop.tronico.net/

pkg -c/pkg -j question

A question for pkgng gurus. When using pkg -c or pkg -j to work within chroots or jails, how much of the pkg infrastructure needs to be present in the chroot/jail? The reason I ask is because I'm thinking of building a server which has all services running in jails, with the necessary packages

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

On 02/08/13 14:47, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 02/08/13 07:38, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From ch...@monochrome.org Fri Feb 8 13:27:48 2013 On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [ snip ] > So what is the advice for transferring data > via USB in such cases? Any

FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?

[I'm not sure whether this would be better on -hackers@ or -hardware@ but -questions@ seems like a good place to start.] Is anyone considering getting FBSD to run on the Acer C7 Chromebook? The pros are that it's a cheap, small and relatively lightweight 64 bit Intel portable using integrated

Re: tar & compression

On 01/18/13 02:29, Fbsd8 wrote: The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip. bzip and bzip2 are synonyms I believe. Which one is the fastest and compresses the most? The general rule for compression is that fast and high compres

Re: 9.1 - FTP_PASSIVE_MODE removed from login.conf?

On 01/11/13 13:57, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:13:27 +, Arthur Chance a écrit : Hello, I see that the default environment in /etc/login.conf no longer contains FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES. I presume this is because ftp and fetch default to passive mode so it's deem

9.1 - FTP_PASSIVE_MODE removed from login.conf?

I see that the default environment in /etc/login.conf no longer contains FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES. I presume this is because ftp and fetch default to passive mode so it's deemed no longer necessary? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: just a curiosity about auth.conf

On 01/01/13 12:33, ASV wrote: Good afternoon and happy new year to everybody. I'm just curious about auth.conf. According to the detailed release notes (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/relnotes-detailed.html): "auth.conf(5) has been removed because it was deprecated years ago.[r238481]" b

Re: FreeBSD as an Access Point

On 12/21/12 21:12, dweimer wrote: Just wondering if anyone has used FreeBSD (or NanoBSD) on any small form factor broads such as PC Engines Alix, or similar hardware. And how well it has worked for them, and what hardware they used. I have been having a lot of performance issues with my home wi

Re: ZFS info WAS: new backup server file system options

On 12/21/12 14:06, Paul Kraus wrote: On Dec 21, 2012, at 7:49 AM, yudi v wrote: I am building a new freebsd fileserver to use for backups, will be using 2 disk raid mirroring in a HP microserver n40l. I have gone through some of the documentation and would like to know what file systems to choo

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

On 12/16/12 11:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook, dev

Re: Listen to file changes

On 12/14/12 10:34, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:45:43 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote: Hi all I want to monitor files access and change time. How can I listen to specific file or directory to monitor ? I'm coding with c. If I remember correctly, what you're searching for does alr

Re: Grow Mounted Filesystems project

On 11/29/12 10:48, Lucian wrote: Hi, anyone knows what has become of this? http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/new-funded-project-grow-mounted.html I guess the above issue is one of the main reasons why FreeBSD seems to be lagging so badly in the "cloud". If you look here: http://

Re: Next csup tool to fetch src/ and ports/

On 11/28/12 12:24, David Demelier wrote: Hi, I'm fan of csup, I've been using it for years, since 7.0-RELEASE, however it will be disabled on February 2013.. I don't care about using portsnap instead, but how to fetch src/ then ? I will need to use portsnap, to fetch ports build subversion and

Re: denyhosts, fail2ban, or something else?

On 11/27/12 22:25, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: Finally got sick of seeing tons of ssh break-in attempts in my logs. Am considering using denyhosts, or fail2ban. Anyone have any experience with these? I'm already using the AllowUsers facility of ssh to only allow specific users in, so I'm not overl

Re: how to correct portsnap corruption

On 11/27/12 05:50, Dale Scott wrote: Hi, I was running "portsnap fetch" on a remote terminal when my connection failed. After connecting running portsnap again, it appeared to complete correctly. However, when I run "portsnap extract" I get the following error: casper# portsnap extract /usr/p

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

On 11/26/12 15:38, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/11/2012 15:13, Michael Powell wrote: As a result of the security incident I switched away from csup and am now using portsnap for ports, and svn for source. The only disconcerting item I noticed is the 500-some MB .svn directory now under /usr/src/.

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

On 11/25/12 22:07, Michael Sierchio wrote: Top-posting for brevity. I use EC2. You can start with Colin Percival's HVM instances - I run a Xen kernel using a modified version of his original scheme - which is to have a 1GB Linux partition running grub to boot from a FreeBSD disk. I'm happy to

gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote: gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be modified to do that also. It's a little more complicated than that Warren. AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with both the bootme and bootonce attributes set.

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On 11/16/12 14:07, dweimer wrote: On 2012-11-15 17:31, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: (This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew what I was doing, but...) OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew from the manpage examples, and then followed t

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message , Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know... taking it out on the road f

Re: 'device' representation in the filesystem questions

On 11/14/12 23:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: it appears that FreeBSD, at least 8.0 and later: a) no longer uses 'raw' devices for anything b) no longer uses 'block' devices for anything c) randomly assigns device 'major' numbers d) doesn't use device 'minor' numbers for anything.

Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

On 11/13/12 14:21, Arthur Chance wrote: Oops, sent this off too quickly. I wrote that. It's only relevant if you have recent disks with 4k hardware blocks. If you have, you ought to use 4k/16k filesystems whatever your OS rev. That should be 4k/32k. As "man newfs" say

Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

On 11/13/12 13:00, Leslie Jensen wrote: I just read in another post about disklayout _ According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 4k al

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

On 11/13/12 06:30, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:14:11 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Which "partitions" need to be aligned to the 4KB boundaries? The FreeBSD ones, the MBR ones, or both? The partitions, all of them. :-) For MBR partitions, the "DOS primary partitions", which ar

Re: Installing fusefs-ntfs and nvidia-drivers fails

On 11/08/12 13:30, Neil M. Stewart wrote: Hi All, I am new to FreeBSD, and I am having an issue installing fusefs-ntfs and nvidia-driver. The error messages are shown below. Any idea what's going on here? Thanks in advance. ===> Installing for fusefs-ntfs-2012.1.15 ===> fusefs-ntfs-2012.1.

Re: nanobsd configuration

On 10/23/12 12:37, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: From: Arthur Chance To: Jack Mc Lauren Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:54 PM Subject: Re: nanobsd configuration On 10/23/12 09:28, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: hi i have a problem with nanobsd. there are

Re: nanobsd configuration

On 10/23/12 09:28, Jack Mc Lauren wrote: hi i have a problem with nanobsd. there are somethings which don't have WITHOUT knobs, > how can i control these directories manually ? how can i add a costume function to > nanobsd.sh to do this ?? How about something along the lines of cust_clean (

Re: pkgng and the old pkg_* programs

On 10/21/12 18:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 21/10/2012 18:10, Arthur Chance wrote: Now that portmaster officially supports pkgng I've converted to using it. Is there any reason to keep the old pkg_* programs around, or can I delete them and add WITHOUT_PKGTOOLS to my /etc/src.conf? I'

Re: pkgng and the old pkg_* programs

On 10/22/12 11:17, andrew clarke wrote: On Sun 2012-10-21 18:10:06 UTC+0100, Arthur Chance (free...@qeng-ho.org) wrote: Now that portmaster officially supports pkgng I've converted to using it. Is there any reason to keep the old pkg_* programs around, or can I delete them an

pkgng and the old pkg_* programs

Now that portmaster officially supports pkgng I've converted to using it. Is there any reason to keep the old pkg_* programs around, or can I delete them and add WITHOUT_PKGTOOLS to my /etc/src.conf? I'm running RELEASE-9.0 on amd64 and will update to REL-9.1 as soon as it arrives if that matte

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

On 10/03/12 10:22, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com Wed Oct 3 09:53:17 2012 Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:50:16 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I got sent a pdf file, version 1.6, with annotations. > xpdf can view

Re: Port update hosed entire system

On 10/02/12 11:20, Rod Person wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:02:54 +0200 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 20:08:29 -0400, Rod Person wrote: Hi All, I was attempting to update ports that used libogg with the command portmaster -d -y -r libogg I went away and came back some hours later and

Re: What replaces csup?

On 09/18/12 13:00, Michael Sierchio wrote: We are really behind the curve here. Git assumes (correctly) that disk space is inexpensive, much cheaper per byte than network bandwidth. By the time we adopt SVN completely, every serious project I know of will have moved from subversion to git. ;-)

Re: On-access AV scanning

On 07/27/12 13:14, Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:52:16PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: FUSE ClamFS Ah, thanks for that. I'll check it out. But then, FUSE... ew... I know. But, if it gets me my workstation... ;-) The wiki suggests that FUSE might be part of release 10: h

Re: "Twitter.com is loading slowly" after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

On 07/17/12 14:48, Greg Larkin wrote: On 7/17/12 7:56 AM, Toomas Aas wrote: I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updating Firefox from 12.0 to 13.0.1, whenever I access twitter.com, I can log in but after that a mess

Re: YASSDQ

On 07/09/12 13:38, Bruce Cran wrote: On 09/07/2012 11:31, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with windoze. Apparently the Intel 320 SSDs use an 8KB page/block size. From a Crucial forum, thread about Crucial M4 SSDs, posted by a C

Re: Tweetless

On 07/03/12 07:04, Lars Eighner wrote: Call me crazy, but it seems that since the perl bump (5.12 -> threaded-5.16) when firefox (13.0.1,1) got rebuilt, it seems twitter pages do not fully load, give me the slow loading banner, and the page (not browser or X) freezes, but no such problems were e

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

On 06/09/12 00:58, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette writes: I got a lot of disks here, so that part is not a problem. I just need to make sure that I'm gonna do this the Right Way[tm]. (I've already been making my own ham-fisted disk-to-disk back

Re: "Cloud" software ?

On 05/25/12 16:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: [big snip] Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not

Re: "Cloud" software ?

On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say it

Re: "Cloud" software ?

On 05/25/12 14:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) look at clouds. More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... ( Pe

Limiting closed port RST response

Every once in a while the nightly periodic security checks tell me I've got a kernel message Limiting closed port RST response from N to 200 packets/sec where N > 200. The problem is that it doesn't say which port was involved. Is there any way to find that out so I can try tracking down the

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

On 04/24/12 20:02, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:33:58PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:50:26 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U My daughter is doing a touch typ

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

On 03/25/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this list

Re: Moved drives ...

On 03/15/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Arthur Chance writes: I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2->9.0 disk naming switch from /dev/ad to /dev/ada had absolutely n

Re: Moved drives ...

On 03/15/12 01:11, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 March 2012 17:39, David Walker wrote: Hey. I had installed 9.0 to a SATA drive (ada1 I think) and went to install Windows on a higher numbered drive but Windows doesn't like that or so I gathered. Anyway, I moved drives around and installed Wind

Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

On 03/14/12 08:57, Arthur Chance wrote: Somewhere, possibly here, a while back I saw a remark that certain manufacturer's nVidia cards worked reliably with the nVidia supplied drivers and others usually have problems because they tweak nVidia's reference spec. Of course, I didn't

Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV

On 03/13/12 19:54, Carmel wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:59:45 -0500 Adam Vande More articulated: Are you sure these devices aren't trying to connect to a DLNA server? Such need can be met by net/mediatomb or other port. A couple of people have replied to this thread. The Samba shares are con

nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

Somewhere, possibly here, a while back I saw a remark that certain manufacturer's nVidia cards worked reliably with the nVidia supplied drivers and others usually have problems because they tweak nVidia's reference spec. Of course, I didn't bookmark it and neither Google nor searching the last

Re: Raspberry Pi

On 03/09/12 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-03-08 19:46, Chad Perrin skrev: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:51:03AM +, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry Pi, or comes up with more in the next few

Re: Raspberry Pi

On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: People have not had a chance to get their hands on to even start on it yet. The few boards out in public before last week were developer boards that were really hard to get a hold of. Most curre

Re: FreeBSD And ARM

On 02/29/12 15:30, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I'm not quite sure where to ask this so even a pointer to the right place would be appreciated: Is there any intent/work underway to port FBSD to the Raspberry PI ARM SBC? At $35 this thing looks perfect for firewall/DNS/dhcp boundary machines. +1 on the

Re: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

On 02/23/12 22:55, Da Rock wrote: On 02/24/12 05:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Arthur Chance wrote: DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! Well spotted& said :-) [snip] However misguided they are, they may believe strongly in this; so I'm not sure there is a troll per se. The evidence is that

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. DO NOT FEED THE TROLL!

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! Not only is "Al Hadith" the Islamic term for the teachings and acts of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the To: field had 388 other addresses in it. It's a nasty troll. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: FreeBSD license vs /usr/bin/true license

On 01/31/12 12:55, vermaden wrote: FreeBSD, as specified here [1] uses 2-clause BSD license, but /usr/bin/true [2] (as empty as it is) uses something like 3-clause BSD license, is that desired? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~c

Re: drivin' me nuts: permissions and cdda2wav

On 12/06/11 16:12, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Chance Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:47 AM To: Ronald F. Guilmette Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re

Re: drivin' me nuts: permissions and cdda2wav

On 12/06/11 11:22, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: With a pre-recorded CD in the drive, the following works fine for me when I'm root: cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -B My question is: What do I need to do in order to make this work also when executed from a non-root account? Here's what I get when I try

Re: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

On 09/02/11 21:33, Alejandro Imass wrote: Anybody know the editorial/publisher of the psSense book? Presuming you mean "pfSense: the Definitive Guide ...", from the front page of my copy: Publisher: Reed Media Services Editor: Jeremy C. Reed Web site: www.reedmedia.net

Unionfs - is it actually usable?

Ever since RELEASE-5.0 man mount_unionfs has contained a section saying BUGS THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. On the oth

Re: Looking to build a router box, seeking some general advice

On 06/30/11 23:34, Chris Brennan wrote: Greetings! While trying to learn IPv6 as best as I can and messing with my Linksys WRT54Gv3 router running DD-WRT, I realized that it cannot properly do IPv6 yet. This leaves me rather limited. More then once some people on IRC who were helping me with thi

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

On 06/16/11 07:28, Gary Kline wrote: is there a laser other than the brother {tm}? i mean, that the members of this org would go for? It depends how much printing you need it for, so check the manufacturer's specs. I've got a Kyocera FS-C5200DN, which is rated as a workgroup printer good for

Re: Sending a Fax

On 05/10/11 09:36, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. Maybe. But as soon as you have to interact with

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