In the last episode (Jun 24), Olivier Nicole said:
> Is the port security/pgp working on amd64 system?
>
> I copied my public and private keyrings from i386 to amd64 system and I
> cannot decipher any file, it keeps on complaining that the pass phrase is
> bad.
>
> I already tried to export the k
Gary Kline:
> Http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/SPD/runcore-64gb-pata-mini-pci-e-pcie-ssd-for-asus-eee-pc-901-and-1000---backorder-runcore-64gb-pata-mini-pci-e-pcie-ssd-for-asus-eee-pc-901-and-1000--88DB-1224129741.jsp
> ... statement that this device lasts ten years before it fails to
> hold s
First, be careful about statements like "10 years before it fails to hold
state." Usually that means if you write data to the device and put it on a
shelf, you've got 10 years before the data is unreadable. Being marketing
possibly it's true if you will write it few times and no more ;) store it
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote:
> I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty
> reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to
> /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor.
Which is why you have ed(
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:39:22 +0200 kenneth hatteland wrote:
> when I start upgrading openoffice.org it switches from my localized
> language build to standard us en.
> Anyone have an idea how to force upgrade to stick with my norwegian
> build with portmaster ??
> Platform freebsd 7.2 stable
Daniel Underwood writes:
> Whenever I
>
> $ ssh -X u...@server
>
> from my FreeBSD machine, I get the following message (and am
> successfully logged in):
>
> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for
Boris Samorodov wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:39:22 +0200 kenneth hatteland wrote:
when I start upgrading openoffice.org it switches from my localized
language build to standard us en.
Anyone have an idea how to force upgrade to stick with my norwegian
build with portmaster ??
Platfor
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote:
...
>About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in
>this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares
>which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no
>stretch of imagination woul
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:37:12 +0200
Erik Norgaard wrote:
> You're right, as long as port-knocking as a first pass authentication
> scheme is not in wide spread use, then any attackers will not waste
> time port-knocking. If ever port-knocking becomes common, attackers
> will adapt and start knoc
RW wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:37:12 +0200
Erik Norgaard wrote:
You're right, as long as port-knocking as a first pass authentication
scheme is not in wide spread use, then any attackers will not waste
time port-knocking. If ever port-knocking becomes common, attackers
will adapt and start
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:37:12 +0200
> > Erik Norgaard wrote:
> >
> >> You're right, as long as port-knocking as a first pass authentication
> >> scheme is not in wide spread use, then any attackers will not waste
> >>
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:13:49AM -0700, b. f. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote:
>
> >About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in
> >this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares
> >which he managed to reproduce in U
2009/6/24 cpghost :
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:13:49AM -0700, b. f. wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote:
>>
>> >About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in
>> >this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares
>> >which he
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:59:13 Manish Jain wrote:
> About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in
> this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares
> which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no
> stretch of imagination would
> Point remains: Adding port knocking does not solve any security problem, it
> only adds
> complexity, cost, points of failure, inconvenience etc while making your
> problem appear
> differently and leaving you with the illusion of being more secure.
I think that's grossly overstated, if not ju
cpghost wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
But port knocking can be useful and provide more security *if* you
modify the kocking sequence algorithmically and make it, e.g. a
function of time, source IP/range (and other factors). This could
prevent a whole class
Hi,
is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
right now?
Maybe something like what's discussed here?
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Secure/FAST03_abs.html
I don't care if it is native or a layer, geom-ified, fuse-based,
or even if it uses subversion as its backend, as lo
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:50:01PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> cpghost wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> > But port knocking can be useful and provide more security *if* you
> > modify the kocking sequence algorithmically and make it, e.g. a
> > function
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:07:19PM -0500, Derek Funk wrote:
> Attempting to setup cups and samba into a jail. How do you mount/add
> device node /dev/ulpt0 within a jail.
> Essentially I would like to know, how to add device nodes within jail
> /dev for specifically the devices I want?
You need
Hello,
I have a process with several threads - the main "worker" threads
typically use < 20% CPU - but after upgrading to a new version they're
now using > 90% cpu. I'm trying to determine what function these
threads are performing that's requiring so much more cpu. Is it bad
code? I bug in a
On Monday, 22 June 2009 16:48:02 RW wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
>
> Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> > I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
> > ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
> > about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it
> >
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:22:19PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
>
> You also suggested doing away with ed and /rescue/vi altogether. You may not
> need statically-linked tools very often, but when you do need them, you
> *REALLY* need them. Don't suggest throwing them away without thinking thr
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:13:49AM -0700, b. f. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote:
>
> >That's the whole problem of /rescue/vi. When you suddenly find yourself
> >in single-user mode, the last thing you want to do is realise that
> >tweaking is needed for something whic
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> right now?
> I don't care if it is native or a layer, geom-ified, fuse-based,
> or even if it uses subversion as its backend, as long as it
> provides some kind of
Hello,
I see this error on two machines i386 and amd64 on FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE
Is this error also present to you?
# portmaster /usr/ports/math/plplot
...
[ 77%] Built target example0
[ 88%] Built target example1
[100%] Built target example2
Installing the project stripped...
-- Install configura
Chris Rees wrote:
Although I think it's not a big deal, as long as your id_?sa has
permissions 600 like mine, or even 400.
Chris
The man page for ssh(1) provides a lot of detail about the sensitivity
of the various files related to ssh. To quote it regarding a few of them:
~/.ssh/
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:59 +0200
cpghost wrote:
> It all boils down to this: do you login from a secure machine
> or not? Each tool has its own set of uses. When I want to log in
> from a public terminal, I prefer OPIE;
OPIE is probably fine in almost all cases, but you may wish to read the
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> > right now?
>
> > I don't care if it is native or a layer, geom-ified, fuse-based,
> > or ev
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:59:18PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> open(2) could open a file at an earlier revision:
>
> FILE *filep;
s/FILE */int /;
-cpghost.
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I'm running a modest PC that has FreeBSD-7.2 installed (fairly current
build from CVS).
Today, I did a "shutdown -r" to reboot the system. When it returned,
the console is reporting:
"Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a"
I've gone through and restored the boot loader, this works fine
On Wed 24 Jun 2009 at 02:32:24 PDT free...@t41t.com wrote:
The lifetime and reliability of SSDs are less-than-or-equal-to the
lifetime and reliability of spinning magnetic drives, so don't buy an SSD
for that. Whether SSDs use less power is an open question. There's a lot
of data going either wa
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:13:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I also did a proper mount, fsck, and umount under the LiveFS shell,
> which made no difference.
I hope I'm just reading it in the wrong order. The correct
order is to 1st fsck, then mount, not vice versa. Never
fsck a mounted file syst
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:59:18PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:04:22PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> > > right now?
> >
> > > I
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:11:25 +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> VMS had a filesystem that uses versioning:
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11]
That's the first thing that came into my mind when reading this
message. See LOGIN.COM;1 and then rm -rf /*.*;* :-)
But it's not "had", it's "has", beca
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:48:00AM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Wed 24 Jun 2009 at 02:32:24 PDT free...@t41t.com wrote:
> >
> >The lifetime and reliability of SSDs are less-than-or-equal-to the
> >lifetime and reliability of spinning magnetic drives, so don't buy an SSD
> >for that. Whether SS
Hi,
Could use some pointers here. I have an AMD64 system Gigabyte GA-MA770
motherboard, 4 GB RAM, Athlon 64 CPU. System won't boot. Flags error,
panic ohci_add_done : addr 0x... not found
Then it reboots. Tried disabling everything in the bios. (Including usb
kbd and mouse)
At wit's end...
I used this sample echo driver listed here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-char.html and
used Example 9-2 for 5.X FreeBSD. Modifed and added a printline in write
function to display Count value:
I am using 7.1 FreeBSD version. I compiled the driver and ran the
* cpghost [2009-06-24 17:04 +0200]:
> Hi,
>
> is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> right now?
- I don't know how fare along hammerfs is in being ported to FreeBSD.
But from what I have heard, feature-wise, it might be something that
meets your needs.
An altern
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:11:25PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > Yes, that's one possibility. But just like Subversion (which I'm
> > using extensively here), it's not really transparent.
>
> What is? If you have to extend the API like you propose below, all
> programs that want to use that featu
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:26:50PM +0200, Morten Grunnet Buhl wrote:
> * cpghost [2009-06-24 17:04 +0200]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there anybody working on a versioning file system for FreeBSD
> > right now?
>
> - I don't know how fare along hammerfs is in being ported to FreeBSD.
> But from what I
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:57:34 +0200, cpghost wrote:
> Yep, you're right. I thought about a way to extend the API in a
> backwards compatible way, but that's not as easy or straight
> forward as it seems. In fact, it opens a whole can of worms.
>
> If the versioned file system isn't also POSIX comp
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:13:49 -0700
"b. f." wrote:
> ??? Who is giving them that credit? This isn't new. You already have
> some control over swapping via several oids:
>
> vm.swap_enabled
> vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts
> vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts
> vm.swap_idle_enabled
> vm.swap_idle_thresh
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:57:34PM +0200, cpghost wrote:
> Quite true!
>
> I see even more ambiguity here: What about a versioned file pointed
> to by hard links from two versioned directories?
The more I think about it, the more problems I can see. Look e.g. at
symbolic links. Or looking from th
This option "-mfdpic" is shown in manual page for gcc 4.1 or later
-mfdpic
Select the FDPIC ABI, that uses function descriptors to represent
pointers to functions. Without any PIC/PIE-related options, it
implies -fPIE. With -fpic or -fpie, it assumes GOT entr
If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're going to have
to come up with some concrete reasons for doing so, not just make a
(long and hyperbolic) statement that you don't like it.
Any Unix tool has to clearly fall either under the category of
non-interactive (grep, sed, ex) or
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Manish Jain wrote:
>>
>> If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're going to have
>> to come up with some concrete reasons for doing so, not just make a
>> (long and hyperbolic) statement that you don't like it.
>>
>
> Any Unix tool has
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 18:09:36 Jin Guojun wrote:
> This option "-mfdpic" is shown in manual page for gcc 4.1 or later
>
>-mfdpic
>Select the FDPIC ABI, that uses function descriptors to
> represent pointers to functions. Without any PIC/PIE-related options, it
> implies -fP
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 07:42:06 Gary Gatten wrote:
> I have a process with several threads - the main "worker" threads
> typically use < 20% CPU - but after upgrading to a new version they're
> now using > 90% cpu. I'm trying to determine what function these
> threads are performing that's req
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