generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I can randomly hit the keyb

RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02 PM > To: Wojciech Puchar > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests > > > Nameservers are hitting an address of yours

Re: how to determine the date a port is installed

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: > > Two questions: > > 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? > > ls -ld /var/db/pkg/, use the mtime of the directory. > > > 2) How can I dele

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Baptiste Grenier
Le 11/06/08 à 09:22, Zbigniew Szalbot téléscripta : > Hello, Hello, > Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow > me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts > or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to > gen

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 10:20:30 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow > me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts > or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to > generate a random st

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-11 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, Set it with sysctl inet.inet.ip.forwarding=1 or Alternatively set it by adding this to /etc/sysctl.conf net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 I guess "more proper" way of doing this is adding: gateway_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf? I don't have any sysctl custom configuration in my sysctl.conf and

Re: firewall high-load performance

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
Woj, another of the few joys of -digests: two birds with one stone: > is there a way to check on running system how much CPU time is used to > perform firewalling/traffic manager - be it pf or ipfw? Sure, compare ping times / traffic throughput with firewall turned off and on? I recall that a

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pearl# dig dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 21682 IN 2001:4070:101:2::1 that's funny because i have in my domain: dns3A 213.192.74.1 dns32001:4070:101::1 not :2::1 tried my secondary dns - the same. tri

RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
can find to any DNS query. After a few days the owners of the misconfigured nameservers or clients will go hunting for whatever is poisoning their cache. Problem solved. Ted when i will be sure it is not my fault i would do this ;) but now i actually don't know where is a problem __

Re: firewall high-load performance

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> is there a way to check on running system how much CPU time is used to > perform firewalling/traffic manager - be it pf or ipfw? Sure, compare ping times / traffic throughput with firewall turned off and on? this will not measure CPU load but delays. delays are unnoticable and doesn't look l

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Pretty much anything but / (rot). I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. root partition is always checked foreground. i would be possible to check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts ___

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do a netstat -na | grep 53. This will help. Something is wrong with your setup if you are seeing undesirable results. all OK, on port 53 my named is listening. it is used as cache-only DNS for my computer and few others. yes i can just block out accesses from outside 2001:4070:101:2::/64 bu

Re: system needing fsck at reboot, manual intervention necessary

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
fsck_y_enable="YES" On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Michael Grant wrote: One of my freebsd 6.3 boxes is crashing and when it reboots, it comes up in single user mode. Unfortunately, it's a remote box and I don't have access to a history of the console and there's nothing in /var/log/messages. I think i

Re: Synchronizing packages on several machines from a repository

2008-06-11 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, You must cvsup your ports tree before you execute the portupgrade. This way you make your system aware of the need of update. In your case I asume it would be better to make your main server a cvs replica of the ports tree and use it for internal synchronization. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat bin/genpwd #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8 count=1 2>/dev/null |hexdump|cut -b 9-12,14-17,19-22,24-2

Re: system needing fsck at reboot, manual intervention necessary

2008-06-11 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, You may put fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf file. The other option is to modify /etc/rc.d/fsck which is not so good approach. Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff "Michael Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11.06.2008 03:41 To "FreeBSD Questions" cc Subject system need

Problem updating nvidia driver

2008-06-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
The update of nvidia-driver-169.12 fails on my system. ( 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD) estanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissin g-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -ff ormat-extens

hesiod in RELENG_7 not working or poorly documented

2008-06-11 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Hi all. I'm trying to setup a hesiod/kerberos based domain. Kerberos works just fine but as for hesiod I can't understand what I need to do to make it work. Originally I have created a sample zone 'ns.local': $TTL 86400 ; 1 day @ IN SOA server.local. hostmaster.server.local. (

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Heikki Suonsivu wrote: I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD

FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Heikki Suonsivu
I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installati

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Pretty much anything but / (rot). > > > > > > I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root > > partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. > > root partition is always checked fo

Re: Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

2008-06-11 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote: > All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages, > a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and > a recent kernel and graphics support.  Compared to Ubuntu that > would be a lot more value for a lot less effort.  If

Re: [OT]Change font for aterm

2008-06-11 Thread Kemian Dang
2008/6/8 Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: >> >> 2008/6/8 Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear All, >> >> >> >> I used to use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Gnom

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-06-11T09:20:30+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random > passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying > existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a > random string of characters. One way

Re: how to determine the date a port is installed

2008-06-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:31:08 +0300 Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: > > > Two questions: > > > 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is > > > i

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility.> So, the question: What is the linux distro which is closest to FreeBSD in terms of installatio

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
See also this very interesting post on minimum memory requirements for each FreeBSD version: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html I have a 4.11 installed successfully on a 386 with 20Mb RAM. NetBSD 1.5 runs for sure and runs fast on 486SX and 8MB RAM

sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

2008-06-11 Thread jonathan michaels
greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated. i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into which i moved teh whole scsi harddisk ssubsystem (c

RE: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Bob McConnell
Paul, The message you sent right after this one produced the same error in Outlook as Andrew's. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts There is no explicit fsck for the root partition. If you have background-checking enabled there is a single call to "fsck -p -F" that does foreground checking on filesystems in fstab that aren't eligible for background-checking. AFAIK the

Re: [OT]Change font for aterm

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:39:21PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: > > 2008/6/8 Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:38PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: > >> > >> 2008/6/8 Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: > >> >>

Re: mplayer plug-in not playing some streams

2008-06-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:05:46 -0500 Novembre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Novembre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I have installed mplayer-0.99.10_14 and mplayerplug-in-3.45 using > > packages on my 7.0-RELEASE machine which runs Firefox 2.0.0.12.

Re: how to determine the date a port is installed

2008-06-11 Thread Florent Thoumie
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: >> > Two questions: >> > 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? >>

Re: how to check status of ida disks?

2008-06-11 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Anybody on this, please? -- Robi Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hello. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on an old compac server. The server has a RAID SCSI controller (if I'm not wrong is the Compaq SMART 3200 Controller) that at times I'd like to check if the status is still ok or somehow degraded. The OS

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Jon Radel
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Radel Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:02 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Nameservers are hitting an address o

Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Intel Turbo, 9c Li-Ion, My cu

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html now i made my tests with FreeBSD 7. no installer, my semi-custom kernel i use everywhere on x86 (everything moduled, all needed things in loader.conf). i used qemu results: 16MB RAM - boots without problems, no swapping

Re: libcdio upgrade problems

2008-06-11 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
>Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i >think i do. > >When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies in >the >end with a "libcdio-0.78.2_2 is already installed. You may wish to make >deinstall" >etc. message. > >But i did go

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Brian
Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2006-August/011029.html now i made my tests with FreeBSD 7. no installer, my semi-custom kernel i use everywhere on x86 (everything moduled, all needed things in loader.conf). i used qemu results: 16MB RAM - boots witho

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Jon Radel
Wojciech Puchar wrote: pearl# dig dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl dns3.tensor.gdynia.pl. 21682 IN 2001:4070:101:2::1 that's funny because i have in my domain: dns3A 213.192.74.1 dns32001:4070:101::1 not :2::1 tried my secon

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread herbs
Also Slackware has a rather Unix-like concept. The versions until 11 (if I remember right) still run on the 2.4 kernel and have an option to install without X11 and KDE and such. I still use it on a slow server, it is easy to understand when you come from BSD-land. Cheers herbs On Wed, Jun 11, 2

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Heikki Suonsivu
Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of powe

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: > >>>On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 219, Issue 6

2008-06-11 Thread Jon Radel
Camilo Reyes wrote: The easiest way to deal with this is to disable IPv6 on your kernel. There is a good guide here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. Simply comment out the 'options INET6' line from your config file. Also, you could give more

RE: what ype of app? port of "*free*"-service app?

2008-06-11 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Gary Kline > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:08:11AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: > > On Behalf Of Gary Kline: > > > > > > This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear > > > with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my > > > site so that members of my writin

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: > > T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA > Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth,

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
$ dig @bilbo.nask.org.pl tensor.gdynia.pl ns so something is broken with my registrar. as other dns'es reports only 2 nameservers. host -t ns tensor.gdynia.pl dns.task.gda.pl reports 2 of them, and dns.task.gda.pl is main dns for gdynia.pl thank you for finally explaining things ___

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To the OP, if you go ahead with trying to use this 486 or older hw, consider the effort of maintaining the system. maintaning? while running netbsd 1.5, my routers don't need any maintaining. they just works. what maintaining? just make your config so logs won't fill the disk. ___

Re: Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:42:27PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote: > > > > All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages, > > a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and > > a recent kernel and graphics support.  Co

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. My questions are: 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, CDRW/DVDRW, wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most important. not sure about

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > > Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: > > FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: > > The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but > it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See > ww

Re: prevent overwriting custom make options in ports

2008-06-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:33:01PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I use ports/lang/gcc42. > I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. > However, with each tree update this option is > overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile > each time I update the port. > > What is the best way to preserve

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Brian
Wojciech Puchar wrote: To the OP, if you go ahead with trying to use this 486 or older hw, consider the effort of maintaining the system. maintaning? while running netbsd 1.5, my routers don't need any maintaining. they just works. what maintaining? just make your config so logs won't fill th

RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Jon Radel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:15 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Wojciech Puchar; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests > > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > >> -Original M

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
maintaning? while running netbsd 1.5, my routers don't need any maintaining. they just works. what maintaining? just make your config so logs won't fill the disk. security patches, port updates? Any OS will probably require at least some of this. for router - not much :) there are for sure so

FreeBSD 7 and Apache 1.3.41 PROBLEM

2008-06-11 Thread Jack Raats
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a server I was running FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE together with apache 1.3.41 without any problem. After upgrading FreeBSD to FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE using a source upgrade, compiling, and a full recompile of all the ports apache refuses to start, or starts

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Was: Re:

2008-06-11 Thread Camilo Reyes
e whomever runs > the parent > nameserver(s) to update the records for his zone. (Just to > cover the > rest of your questions. :-) > > --Jon Radel > -- next part -- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: smime.p7s > Type: application/x-pkcs7-

Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-11 Thread Jon Radel
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Jon Radel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:15 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Wojciech Puchar; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Mess

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow > me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts > or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wojciech Puchar wrote: |> tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or |> another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. |> |> My questions are: |> 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, |> CDRW/D

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Roland Smith wrote: >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow >> me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts >> or modifying existing o

Re: very strange reaction of the md disks

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hello, I don't know why nobody else has given the correct answer to this (it's should actually be a FAQ). So I'll try to give an answer. The Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe I just don't understand something, but anyway, it looks really odd. > > I have a machine with 2

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | Wojciech Puchar wrote: | |> tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or | |> another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. | |> | |> My questions are: | |> 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my har

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:29:30 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. > > I'm from a linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some > > googling an

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. there is no cure for that in FreeBSD. you need some non-computer hardware to stop that behaviour ;) ___ freebsd-qu

Re: intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm really no security expert. I don't leave the system up 24/7, and > > I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes. > > > > Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk > > thrashing I ca

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread herbert langhans
The linux progs run very well, what I can tell with my modest amount of programs using this mode. BSD uses a seperate directory what contains all linux-bins and it integrates well. Also the speed is like a normal Linux distro. Maybe it is a good idea to get an old 20GB harddisk, change it and give

Re: FreeBSD 7 and Apache 1.3.41 PROBLEM

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In httpd-error.log [Wed Jun 11 17:01:04 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 10.10.10.10 [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [info] (2)No such file or directory: make_sock: for port 80, setsockopt: (SO_ACCEPTFILTER) [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean

Re: Effects of CPUTYPE

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jonathan Chen wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > Trying to identify why I should be having all these problems I've been > > looking for anything that may be specific to my machine. One thing I've > > come up with is the fact that I have CPUTYPE?=athlon-mp in > > /etc/make.conf on both 6.3 and 7

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Ian Smith wrote: However, what normally happens to attachments to questions@, at least to digests, is that they get stripped with a note pointing to the original attachment, as this subsequent message from Chad illustrates: Which makes sense - attachments don't clog up the list, and people can

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). --Andrew smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Static NAT and PAT on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Brennan
I have continued to experiment and am still running into the same issues. Anyone? -Matt On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Matt Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2-release. I have been running PAT via natd > and ipfw for some time now and it runs great. Howeve

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
On 10-Jun-08, at 3:02 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Actually I don't think you can do the same thing with a tunnel. You have to use a different IP addresses for the tunnel itself. Have you read the OpenVPN manual? Yes, I should have been clearer: With a tunnel, I can still push routes and DNS, as lon

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Heikki Suonsivu wrote: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials, so

Re: how to determine the date a port is installed

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: > >> > Two questions: > >

Re: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

2008-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated. i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into w

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging "feature" of checksumming all > blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can > turn this off Obviously you have been lucky to never be a victim of silent disk corruption (or you just haven't noti

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, June 11, 2008 13:13:42 -0400 Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). And it came through fine. From: Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 Referen

Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Steve Lake
Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my s

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-11 Thread eculp
Quoting "Derek Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hey all, I have tried using swfdec-plugin to do flash, but it doesnt seem to work too well at least with firefox. One ... I prefer being able to select what flash loads automaticly and Two ... I like to be able to see the flash video but all it does i

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Norman Maurer
rtorrent should work for you bye Norman 2008/6/11 Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before > via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download > isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Schiz0
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via > the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos > and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the cons

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hello, Novembre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of > using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I > asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel > more comfortable

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-11 Thread eculp
Quoting "herbert langhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There are some instructions how you can get the Flashplayer running. Not perfect, but it will do in many cases. http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html Excellent howto Herb. My problem is that it seems that firefox-devel doesn't work wi

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Nerius Landys
F1 (vote yes) to rtorrent. I have rtorrents running permanently on my servers, seeding torrent files. I use screen, just like you suggest. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi a

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

2008-06-11 Thread Heikki Suonsivu
Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. S

Re: Effects of CPUTYPE

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than > overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE. I'm setting CPUTYPE on all of my machines for many years, without the slightest problems. No pain at all. They're all kinds of different processors, c3-2 (VIA), athlon64, an

Re: FreeBSD and NFSv4

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Konrad Heuer wrote: > are there any experiences with FreeBSD being an NFSv4 client out there? > > And furthermore, is there any further development of NFSv4 functionality > within FreeBSD to come closer to RFC 3530? As far as I know (not 100% sure, though), the NFSv4 client is under active d

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging "feature" of checksumming all > blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can > turn this off Obviously you have been lucky to never be a victim of silent disk corruption (or you just haven't noticed)

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Chess Griffin
Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk a

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk

reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread eculp
This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups

Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread eculp
Quoting eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Paul Schmehl wrote: > [...] > By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also > has > pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, > multipart/alternative > and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead. It's documented

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I c

Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
eculp wrote: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine th

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Berry
Oliver Fromme wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: > [...] > By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also has > pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative > and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead.

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:16:29 Steve Lake wrote: > Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before > via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download > isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the > console so I can s

Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-11 Thread eculp
Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: eculp wrote: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just hap

mounting WD external USB disk

2008-06-11 Thread AN
I'm trying to mount a WD "My Book" external usb hard drive, and am having a problem. My system: uname -a FreeBSD opteron.foo.bar 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 11 21:20:59 IDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target

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