Re: Spam and more spam.

2012-10-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Gary,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:03:49 -0700
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:49:34AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:13 -0700
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 im getting too aged [and achy and cranky:)] to sleep
   well, 
  
  oh, do you have a Windows machine secretly running somewhere? I
  would not be able to sleep then either.
 
 
   ha!  never, never have I bought even one dos/doze computer.
 my daughter was given an old [1998] w2k box that she played games on.
   it is long-gone:)

you do not even know then what these people go through.
  
  Let me see what you got.
  
 
   yup, exactly.  these sorry, pathetic guys see an easy way to
   spam and do it.  ... .
 
They have meet month's end.

They needed the money ...

Erich
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Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE

2012-10-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Greg Larkin wrote on Thu 11.Oct'12 at 20:49:19 -0400 ]

 Hi Stuart,
 
 If you click the link in this mailing list article
 (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218554.html),
 then follow the rest of the threaded messages, you should be able fix
 the problem once you upgrade to 7.4.
 
 The issue is that freebsd-update cannot update the ld-elf.so.1 binary
 on a running system, so after the upgrade to 7.4 (or higher), the
 system is not completely updated.
 
 This message
 (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html)
 has a fix, but it involves booting from a liveCD and replacing the
 binary manually.

Would it be easier to do an update by building from source? I've never used 
freebsd-update myself so not had to troubleshoot these issues before.
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Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE

2012-10-12 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 10/12/2012 10:53 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
 [ Greg Larkin wrote on Thu 11.Oct'12 at 20:49:19 -0400 ]

 Hi Stuart,

 If you click the link in this mailing list article
 (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218554.html),
 then follow the rest of the threaded messages, you should be able fix
 the problem once you upgrade to 7.4.

 The issue is that freebsd-update cannot update the ld-elf.so.1 binary
 on a running system, so after the upgrade to 7.4 (or higher), the
 system is not completely updated.

 This message
 (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html)
 has a fix, but it involves booting from a liveCD and replacing the
 binary manually.
 Would it be easier to do an update by building from source? I've never used 
 freebsd-update myself so not had to troubleshoot these issues before.

That's probably the best way.

Bit I am wondering about this.
I upgraded several systems (physical and virtual machines) with 
freebsd-update from 7.1 - 7.3 - 8.1 - 8.3 and also one system from 7.1 - 
7.4 (with custom kernels) and did not encounter this. Did I just get lucky then?




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How does freebsd supports ipx?

2012-10-12 Thread YC Wang
Hi,all:

I read from wikipedia that freebsd supports ipx. But when I tried
to set ipx address on em0,it showed the following message:

freebsd-yc# ifconfig em0 ipx (netnum.nodenum)
ifconfig: socket(family 23,SOCK_DGRAM: Protocol not supported

And as I furher trussed the ifconfig process, I found this was
probably caused by the failure of the socket syscall:

freebsd-yc# truss ifconfig em0 ipx netnum.nodenum
..
socket(PF_IPX,SOCK_DGRAM,0)  ERR#43 'Protocol not supported'
..


In contrast however, when calling socket(PF_IPX,SOCK_DGRAM,0) on
Linux, it will automatically load the ipx kernel module and the socket
syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in
/boot/kernel/ on freebsd.

   So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work
I should do for this purpose?

   And if this isn't the most appropriate list for this question,
please let me know.

  Thanks
  YC Wang
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Re: How does freebsd supports ipx?

2012-10-12 Thread Виталий Туровец
2012/10/12 YC Wang wangyc0...@gmail.com:
 Hi,all:

 I read from wikipedia that freebsd supports ipx. But when I tried
 to set ipx address on em0,it showed the following message:

 freebsd-yc# ifconfig em0 ipx (netnum.nodenum)
 ifconfig: socket(family 23,SOCK_DGRAM: Protocol not supported

 And as I furher trussed the ifconfig process, I found this was
 probably caused by the failure of the socket syscall:

 freebsd-yc# truss ifconfig em0 ipx netnum.nodenum
 ..
 socket(PF_IPX,SOCK_DGRAM,0)  ERR#43 'Protocol not 
 supported'
 ..


 In contrast however, when calling socket(PF_IPX,SOCK_DGRAM,0) on
 Linux, it will automatically load the ipx kernel module and the socket
 syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in
 /boot/kernel/ on freebsd.

So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work
 I should do for this purpose?

And if this isn't the most appropriate list for this question,
 please let me know.

   Thanks
   YC Wang
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I suppose you should add options IPX line to your kernel
configuration file and rebuild/reinstall the kernel.


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Re: How does freebsd supports ipx?

2012-10-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
 I suppose you should add options IPX line to your kernel
 configuration file and rebuild/reinstall the kernel.

have a look at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and/or 
/usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES for more information about kernel options
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Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE

2012-10-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Bas Smeelen wrote on Fri 12.Oct'12 at 11:02:47 +0200 ]

 On 10/12/2012 10:53 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
  [ Greg Larkin wrote on Thu 11.Oct'12 at 20:49:19 -0400 ]
 
  Hi Stuart,
 
  If you click the link in this mailing list article
  (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218554.html),
  then follow the rest of the threaded messages, you should be able fix
  the problem once you upgrade to 7.4.
 
  The issue is that freebsd-update cannot update the ld-elf.so.1 binary
  on a running system, so after the upgrade to 7.4 (or higher), the
  system is not completely updated.
 
  This message
  (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html)
  has a fix, but it involves booting from a liveCD and replacing the
  binary manually.
  Would it be easier to do an update by building from source? I've never used 
  freebsd-update myself so not had to troubleshoot these issues before.
 
 That's probably the best way.
 
 Bit I am wondering about this.
 I upgraded several systems (physical and virtual machines) with 
 freebsd-update from 7.1 - 7.3 - 8.1 - 8.3 and also one system from 7.1 - 
 7.4 (with custom kernels) and did not encounter this. Did I just get lucky 
 then?

I couldn't comment on the freebsd-update(8) procedure as I've never used it. 
But I'd personally upgrade the system by building from source. You can then 
easily integrate your custom kernel and I would *imagine* you'd avoid the 
issues you've encountered so far. 

Make sure you read /usr/src/UPDATING thoroughly, and also check your customer 
kernel options. Some changes have been made to more recent versions of FreeBSD, 
such as the ata(4) driver. I believe in the past certain elements could be (and 
still can be) added in a modular fasion, explicitly setting each element. Now, 
you only need to have: device scbus, device ata and options ATA_CAM. Already 
present in the GENERIC kernel config now. See man 4 ata for details. I hope 
i've got that right, hopefully others will correct my comments if necessary but 
in any case, reading the appropriate files will provide all the information 
needed. For example: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and 
/usr/src/sys/{i386,amd64}/NOTES have more information about kernel options that 
might be helpful and of interest to you. 
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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC), jb wrote:
 Hi,
 what is the diff between
 --index
 and
 --index-only

According to man portmaster there are some options that
control the behaviour regarding the use of INDEX:

 --no-index-fetch
 skip fetching the INDEX file

 --index
 use INDEX-[7-9] exclusively to check if a port is up to date

 --index-first
 use the INDEX for status, but double-check with the port

 --index-only
 do not try to use /usr/ports.  For updating ports when no /usr/ports
 directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required.  See
 the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements.

This means --index-only is to be used when using portmaster for
binary installs without an installed ports collection.



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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread jb
Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes:

 
 On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC), jb wrote:
  Hi,
  what is the diff between
  --index
  and
  --index-only
 ...
  --index
  use INDEX-[7-9] exclusively to check if a port is up to date
 ...
  --index-only
  do not try to use /usr/ports.  For updating ports when no /usr/ports
  directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required.  See
  the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements.
 
 This means --index-only is to be used when using portmaster for
 binary installs without an installed ports collection.
 

Well, yes, BUT they seem to be redundant (that's why I asked).

# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
=== New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
=== 618 total installed ports
=== 1 has a new version available

# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
=== New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
=== 618 total installed ports
=== 1 has a new version available
# 


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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes:

 ... 
   --index-only
   do not try to use /usr/ports.  For updating ports when no 
   /usr/ports
   directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required.  
   See the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements.
  
 ...

And -PP|--packages-only option implies index only entry behavior, so there
is redundancy here as well.

Does anybody know where this --index-only option really matter ?
jb


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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 10/12/2012 01:57 PM, jb wrote:
 jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes:

 ...
   --index-only
   do not try to use /usr/ports.  For updating ports when no
   /usr/ports
   directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required.
   See the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements.

 ...
 And -PP|--packages-only option implies index only entry behavior, so there
 is redundancy here as well.

 Does anybody know where this --index-only option really matter ?
 jb


Well /usr/local/sbin/portmaster is a _big_  shell script
You could read through it to find the answer to your question




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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:34:17 + (UTC), jb wrote:
 Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes:
 
  
  On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC), jb wrote:
   Hi,
   what is the diff between
   --index
   and
   --index-only
  ...
   --index
   use INDEX-[7-9] exclusively to check if a port is up to date
  ...
   --index-only
   do not try to use /usr/ports.  For updating ports when no 
  /usr/ports
   directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is required.  
  See
   the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional requirements.
  
  This means --index-only is to be used when using portmaster for
  binary installs without an installed ports collection.
  
 
 Well, yes, BUT they seem to be redundant (that's why I asked).
 
 # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
   === New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
 === 618 total installed ports
   === 1 has a new version available
 
 # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
   === New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
 === 618 total installed ports
   === 1 has a new version available
 # 

Did you test this with or _without_ an actually installed ports
collection? If you don't have one installed, --index probably
won't work.

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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread jb
Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes:

 ... 
  Well, yes, BUT they seem to be redundant (that's why I asked).
  
  # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
  === New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
  === 618 total installed ports
  === 1 has a new version available
  
  # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
  === New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
  === 618 total installed ports
  === 1 has a new version available
  # 
 
 Did you test this with or _without_ an actually installed ports
 collection? If you don't have one installed, --index probably
 won't work.
 

# mv /usr/ports /usr/ports-saved

# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
/tmp/d-85964-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1619 kB  185 kBps
=== New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
=== 618 total installed ports
=== 1 has a new version available

# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
/tmp/d-87852-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1619 kB  125 kBps 00m00s
Terminated
#

Well, the second entry outcome (with --index option) looks like a bug to me.
jb






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Sysctls and privacy

2012-10-12 Thread schultz

In my system I use separate user accounts for running untrusted
programs at the moment. While many will probably argue that jails
are a superior solution, in my specific case its the inverse.

I know FreeBSD is not ready by default to have multiple untrusted
users in the system, at least from a security viewpoint. I have
done quite a bit of changes to make the situation better.

However, there is something bugging me. Some sysctls apparently
expose too much information about the system. Some examples: the
number of context switches, the number of forks, the total used
memory (at the byte level), the total used space for each file
system (at the byte level) and even a graph of how my GEOM devices
are organized!

I know some programs like gkrellm need this information to function,
but on the other hand, I feel pretty uncomfortable with the
information presented by gkrellm being logged. It's at the very least
a loss of privacy.

So, I would like to ask for a way to disable user access to all
sysctls that are not needed by basic user programs (shell, terminal, etc).
Also, if possible, I would like to have a group of users to whom
these sysctls are accessible as an exception (to run gkrellm).

Thanks for your time.


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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC)
jb wrote:

 Hi,
 what is the diff between
 --index
 and
 --index-only

From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use
the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded
into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations are skipped or done
less efficiently.  
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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread jb
RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com writes:

 
 On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC)
 jb wrote:
 
  Hi,
  what is the diff between
  --index
  and
  --index-only
 
 From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use
 the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded
 into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations are skipped or done
 less efficiently.  
 ...

# ls -al /usr/ports/
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel  26881412 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel  26765446 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel  26715339 Oct 12 13:28 INDEX-9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel   1658547 Oct 12 12:01 INDEX-9.bz2
...
#

# find /tmp -name *INDEX*

# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
=== New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
=== 618 total installed ports
=== 1 has a new version available

# find /tmp -name *INDEX*

Nope :-)
jb






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Re: How does freebsd supports ipx?

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Powell
YC Wang wrote:

[snip]
 syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in
 /boot/kernel/ on freebsd.
 
So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work
 I should do for this purpose?

I believe what you read in Wikipedia may be out of date. Someone correct me 
if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that IPX was dropped from FreeBSD and is 
no longer supported. The code went unmaintained for too long and succumbed 
to bit rot, so eventually it was pulled.

What I am unclear about is exactly when this happened. It wasn't all that 
long ago.

-Mike
 



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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:42:10 + (UTC), jb wrote:
 RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com writes:
 
  
  On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 + (UTC)
  jb wrote:
  
   Hi,
   what is the diff between
   --index
   and
   --index-only
  
  From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use
  the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded
  into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations are skipped or done
  less efficiently.  
  ...
 
 # ls -al /usr/ports/
 ...
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel  26881412 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-7
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel  26765446 Oct 12 07:47 INDEX-8
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel  26715339 Oct 12 13:28 INDEX-9
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root  wheel   1658547 Oct 12 12:01 INDEX-9.bz2
 ...
 #
 
 # find /tmp -name *INDEX*
 
 # portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
   === New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
 === 618 total installed ports
   === 1 has a new version available
 
 # find /tmp -name *INDEX*
 
 Nope :-)

But this?

# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
/tmp/d-87852-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1619 kB  125 kBps 00m00s
Terminated

This is with --index and _no_ ports collection in the default
location (example quoted from your message)...


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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread jb
Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes:

 ... 
 But this?
 
 # portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
 /tmp/d-87852-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1619 kB  125 kBps
 00m00s
 Terminated
 
 This is with --index and _no_ ports collection in the default
 location (example quoted from your message)...
 

The above (aborted ?) entry did not create any /tmp die files - this will be
obvious below.
I repeated the procedure once again, with extra tests.

[root@localhost ~]# mv /usr/ports /usr/ports-saved

[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /tmp/d
d-49774-index/   dbus-VVS2cduIFg  dbus-cgVqiePRiB  dbus-pt6vB9UUJ6
dbus-4inUXwgfJ4  dbus-Y2iXdHF5tz  dbus-fsMikdzeLa  dbus-u5N9XsFQwT
dbus-DoADJZr2PE  dbus-ZGcPBBe763  dbus-o2yUi7puUT  dbus-vT3uAQQB6U
dbus-FEJgZRlX7B  dbus-ZmBHPDrpWD  dbus-oVPu6XWzrw  dbus-zrcvtjVO62
dbus-KPYiGOw8UL  dbus-c36HAD5e3q  dbus-paXxX0f1fy  
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /tmp/d-49774-index/
total 8
drwx--   2 jbwheel   512 Oct  7 00:19 .
drwxrwxrwt  23 root  wheel  2048 Oct 12 15:35 ..
[root@localhost ~]# find /tmp -name *INDEX*
 
[root@localhost ~]# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total
install'
/tmp/d-93752-index/INDEX-9.bz2100% of 1619 kB  185 kBps
=== New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
=== 618 total installed ports
=== 1 has a new version available

# ls -al /tmp/d
d-49774-index/   dbus-FEJgZRlX7B  dbus-Y2iXdHF5tz  dbus-c36HAD5e3q 
dbus-o2yUi7puUT  dbus-pt6vB9UUJ6  dbus-zrcvtjVO62
dbus-4inUXwgfJ4  dbus-KPYiGOw8UL  dbus-ZGcPBBe763  dbus-cgVqiePRiB 
dbus-oVPu6XWzrw  dbus-u5N9XsFQwT  
dbus-DoADJZr2PE  dbus-VVS2cduIFg  dbus-ZmBHPDrpWD  dbus-fsMikdzeLa 
dbus-paXxX0f1fy  dbus-vT3uAQQB6U  
# ls -al /tmp/d-49774-index/
total 8
drwx--   2 jbwheel   512 Oct  7 00:19 .
drwxrwxrwt  23 root  wheel  2048 Oct 12 16:00 ..
[root@localhost ~]# find /tmp -name *INDEX*
/tmp/INDEX-9
/tmp/INDEX-9.bz2
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /tmp/*INDEX*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26715339 Oct 12 16:00 /tmp/INDEX-9
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1658547 Oct 12 12:01 /tmp/INDEX-9.bz2

[root@localhost ~]# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total
install'
Terminated

[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /tmp/d
d-49774-index/   dbus-VVS2cduIFg  dbus-cgVqiePRiB  dbus-pt6vB9UUJ6
dbus-4inUXwgfJ4  dbus-Y2iXdHF5tz  dbus-fsMikdzeLa  dbus-u5N9XsFQwT
dbus-DoADJZr2PE  dbus-ZGcPBBe763  dbus-o2yUi7puUT  dbus-vT3uAQQB6U
dbus-FEJgZRlX7B  dbus-ZmBHPDrpWD  dbus-oVPu6XWzrw  dbus-zrcvtjVO62
dbus-KPYiGOw8UL  dbus-c36HAD5e3q  dbus-paXxX0f1fy  
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /tmp/d-49774-index/
total 8
drwx--   2 jbwheel   512 Oct  7 00:19 .
drwxrwxrwt  23 root  wheel  2048 Oct 12 16:00 ..
[root@localhost ~]# find /tmp -name *INDEX*
/tmp/INDEX-9
/tmp/INDEX-9.bz2
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /tmp/*INDEX*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  26715339 Oct 12 16:00 /tmp/INDEX-9
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1658547 Oct 12 12:01 /tmp/INDEX-9.bz2

[root@localhost ~]# rm /tmp/INDEX*
[root@localhost ~]# find /tmp -name *INDEX*
[root@localhost ~]# 

# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
Terminated
[root@localhost ~]# 

[root@localhost ~]# find /tmp -name *INDEX*
[root@localhost ~]# 

jb


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MÁS DE 170 DISCOGRAFIAS COMPLETAS... ESPECTACULAR!!!

2012-10-12 Thread DISCOGRAFIAS


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Re: problems upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4 or 9.0-RELEASE

2012-10-12 Thread Stuart Matthews

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the tips. I'll be able to retry the upgrade this weekend.

- Stu

On 10/11/2012 5:49 PM, Greg Larkin wrote:

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On 10/11/12 2:43 PM, Stuart Matthews wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am including as much information in here as I think will be
useful. Since I can do snapshots on VMWare, I am happy to try any
solution or diagnostics. Steps I took to upgrade FreeBSD: Using
freebsd-update, I upgraded from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE-p8 Then,
to upgrade to 9.0-RELEASE, I ran the following commands, using
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
as my guide: freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update
install reboot freebsd-update install portupgrade -f ruby rm
/var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb rm
/var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /usr/ports/INDEX-*.db portupgrade -af
freebsd-update install reboot

I noticed that lots of things weren't working, and specifically
that I was getting lots of complaints about /libexec/ld-elf.so.1. I
also noticed that when I ran freebsd-update IDS, it seemed to
report that every single file had the wrong signature.

So, this being a VMWare guest, I reluctantly reverted to a
previous snapshot, putting me back at 7.2-RELEASE-p8.

I decided to try this time to go from 7.2-RELEASE-p8 to 7.4-RELEASE
to 8.0-RELEASE to 8.3-RELEASE. I only got to 7.4-RELEASE before I
had the same issues as above. As a specific example of errors I
would get, I try to run sudo and I get: [stuart@richelieu ~]$ sudo
bash /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: sudo: invalid PT_PHDR

This seems to be the most relevant thread to the problem I'm
having:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html

  However, I'd be more comfortable using an official upgrade path,
like freebsd-update, exclusively. That thread involves replacing a
file from a FreeBSD liveCD. Also, with freebsd-update IDS reporting
so many files with incorrect signatures, I feel like my problem is
bigger than fixing one file.

Right now I am back on 7.2-RELEASE-p8 eager to get my OS upgraded
to something that is under current support by the security team.
Optimally I'd like to be on 8.3 after looking at the EOL dates.

Also, I did see one other post _somewhere_ mentioning a similar
proble also on a VMWare guest. So I am suspicious that the problem
might be related to VMWare.

Thanks, everyone.

- Stuart Matthews


Hi Stuart,

If you click the link in this mailing list article
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218554.html),
then follow the rest of the threaded messages, you should be able fix
the problem once you upgrade to 7.4.

The issue is that freebsd-update cannot update the ld-elf.so.1 binary
on a running system, so after the upgrade to 7.4 (or higher), the
system is not completely updated.

This message
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218884.html)
has a fix, but it involves booting from a liveCD and replacing the
binary manually.

Hope that helps,
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editing pdf files

2012-10-12 Thread Gary Aitken
Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files?
I have some forms I'm trying to fill out that contain labels followed by 
a bunch of underline characters and all I need to do is delete some of the
underlines and add text.

I tried using pdfedit but the modified file doesn't display properly.  I assumed
it would take care of text placement, etc., but it did not produce readable
results.  For example, removing underline characters and replacing them with 
340007174 only displays 3400014; 75-300mm displays as -300mm.  Am I
missing something or does it just not work?

Does anyone have any experience with the open office oracle pdf import 
extension?
I don't see it in the ports collection,
and I am not sure whether to even try using the linux version.

Thanks,

Gary
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Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-12 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 9 October 2012 18:35, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote:
 Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files?
 I have some forms I'm trying to fill out that contain labels followed by
 a bunch of underline characters and all I need to do is delete some of the
 underlines and add text.

 I tried using pdfedit but the modified file doesn't display properly.  I 
 assumed
 it would take care of text placement, etc., but it did not produce readable
 results.  For example, removing underline characters and replacing them with
 340007174 only displays 3400014; 75-300mm displays as -300mm.  Am I
 missing something or does it just not work?

 Does anyone have any experience with the open office oracle pdf import 
 extension?
 I don't see it in the ports collection,
 and I am not sure whether to even try using the linux version.


That a file is a .pdf doesn't tell you much about it, actually.

If the .pdf is just an image (eg a scanned document) you can
perhaps import it into gimp, or export it as a .png.  You might
be able to OCR it, I don't know.

If it's a proper text document saved as a .pdf, you can surely
import it into open- or libre-office  edit it from there.  You
might also be able to export it as a .ps (using perhaps print/gv
or graphics/xpdf, or perhaps one of the tools from graphics/poppler)
 edit it with an even wider variety of tools.

Yet another option would be to use google docs (or similar), which
generally allows viewing  perhaps editing as an HTML document.
I don't know if google docs allows re-export back to .pdf, though.

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ahcich Timeouts SATA SSD

2012-10-12 Thread Keegan,Nate
My configuration is as follows:

FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
Supermicro X8DTi-LN4F (Intel Tylersburg 5520 chipset) motherboard
24 GB system memory
32 x Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 disks connected to 4 x Intel SASUC8I (LSI 3081E-R) 
in IT mode
2 x Crucial M4 64 Gb SATA SSD for FreeBSD OS (zroot)
2 x Intel 320 MLC 80 Gb SATA SSD for L2ARC and swap
SSD are connected to on-board SATA port on motherboard

This system was commissioned in February of 2012 and ran without issue as a ZFS 
backup system on our network until about 3 weeks ago.

At that time I started getting kernel panics due to timeouts to the on-board 
SATA devices. The only change to the system since it was built was to add an 
SSD for swap (32 Gb swap device) and this issue did not happen until several 
months after this was added.

My initial thought was that I might have a bad SSD drive so I swapped out one 
of the Crucial SSD drives and the problem happened again a few days later.

I then moved to systematically replacing items such as SATA cables, memory, 
motherboard, etc and the problem continued. For example, I swapped out the 4 
SATA cables with brand new SATA cables and waited to see if the problem 
happened again. Once it did I moved on to replacing the motherboard with an 
identical motherboard, waited, etc.

I could not find an obvious hardware related explanation for this behavior so 
about a week and a half ago I did a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to 
move from the ATA driver to the AHCI driver as I found some evidence that this 
was helpful.

The problem continued with something like this:

ahcich0: Timeout on slot 29 port 0
ahcich0: is 0 cs  ss e000 rs e000 tfd 40 serr  
cmd 0004df17

ahcich0: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms (tfd = 0080)
ahcich0: Timeout on slot 31 port 0
ahcich0: is  cs 8000 ss  rs 8000 tfd 80 serr  
cmd 0004df17
(ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): lost device

ahcich0: AHCI reset: device not ready after 3100ms (tfd = 0080)
ahcich0: Timeout on slot 31 port 0
ahcich0: is  cs 8003 ss 80003 rs 8003 tfd 80 serr 000 
cmd 0004df17
(ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): removing device entry

ahcich0: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms (tfd = 0080)
ahcich0: Poll timeout on slot 1 port 0
ahcich0: is  cs 0002 ss 0 rs 002 tfd 80 serr  
cmd 004c117

When this happens the only way to recover the system is to hard boot via IPMI 
(yanking the power vs hitting reset). I cannot say that every time this happens 
a hard reset is necessary but more often than not a hard reset is necessary as 
the on-board AHCI portion of the BIOS does not always see the disks after the 
event without a hard system power reset.

I have done a bunch of Google work on this and have seen the issue appear in 
FreeNAS and FreeBSD but no clear cut resolution in terms of how to address it 
or what causes it. Some people had a bad SSD, others had to disable NCQ or 
power management on their SSD, particular brands of SSD (Samsung), etc.

Nothing conclusive so far.

At the present time the issue happens every 1-2 hours unless I have the 
following in my /boot/loader.conf after the ahci_load statement:

ahci_load=YES

# See ahci(4)
hint.ahcich.0.sata_rev=1
hint.ahcich.1.sata_rev=1
hint.ahcich.2.sata_rev=1
hint.ahcich.3.sata_rev=1

hint.ahcich.0.pm_level=1
hint.ahcich.1.pm_level=1
hint.ahcich.2.pm_level=1
hint.ahcich.3.pm_level=1

I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which disables NCQ on these drives:

#!/bin/sh

CAMCONTROL=/sbin/camcontrol

$CAMCONTROL tags ada0 -N 1  /dev/null
$CAMCONTROL tags ada1 -N 1  /dev/null
$CAMCONTROL tags ada2 -N 1  /dev/null
$CAMCONTROL tags ada3 -N 1  /dev/null

exit 0

I went ahead and pulled the Intel SSDs as they were showing ASR and hardware 
resets which incremented. Removing both of these disks from the system did not 
change the situation.

The combination of /boot/loader.conf and this script gets me 6 days or so of 
operation before the issue pops up again. If I remove these two items I get 
maybe 2 hours before the issue happens again.

Right now I'm down to one OS disk and one swap disk and that is it for SSD 
disks on the system.

At the last reboot (yesterday) I disabled APM on the disks (ada0 and ada1 at 
this point) to see if that makes a difference as I found a reference to this 
being a potential problem.

I'm looking for insight/help on this as I'm about out of options. If there is a 
way to gather more information when this happens, post up information, etc I'm 
open to trying it.

What is driving me crazy is that I can't seem to come up with a concrete 
explanation as to why now and not back when the system was built. The issue 
only seems to happen when the system is idle and the SSD drives do not see much 
action other than to host OS, scripts, etc while the Intel/LSI based drives is 
where the actual I/O is at.

The system logs do not show anything prior to event happening and the OS will 

Re: How does freebsd supports ipx?

2012-10-12 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 12 October 2012 09:44, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote:
 YC Wang wrote:

 [snip]
 syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in
 /boot/kernel/ on freebsd.

So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work
 I should do for this purpose?

 I believe what you read in Wikipedia may be out of date. Someone correct me
 if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that IPX was dropped from FreeBSD and is
 no longer supported. The code went unmaintained for too long and succumbed
 to bit rot, so eventually it was pulled.

 What I am unclear about is exactly when this happened. It wasn't all that
 long ago.


options IPX is still valid in 9.1-RC2.

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Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
10.10.2012 02:35, Gary Aitken пишет:

 Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files?

Take a look at graphics/inkscape.

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http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2012-10-12 Thread alexandors titonis

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Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2012-10-12 Thread Виталий Туровец
2012/10/12 alexandors titonis alextot...@gmail.com:

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Cool for you :)
BTW, try not use phpmyadmin, it's kinda security hole :)

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Re: portmaster options

2012-10-12 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes:

 ...

I have doubts about these options use, so I filed a PR#:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=172651

jb


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Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:40:29PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
 10.10.2012 02:35, Gary Aitken пишет:
 
  Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files?
 
 Take a look at graphics/inkscape.
 
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ive got a question that fits in here.  hopefully.

last week  I found a book from 1901 that google had scanned and listed
as a pdf file.  it was text plus photos of the rich/famous of the 
1800s.  somehow, google found the exact string that matched my great
grandfather [from the civil war].  I d'loaded the file (maybe 2mbytes)
and searched using acroread.  nada.  I used the pdftotext utility.
same: nothing but  some 600 page numbers.

my guess is that google just took photos of the book and used other
tools to create a pdf file.  I am not =that= serious  about genealogy,
but I would like to know if there are any tools to edit this kind of
pdf file.

tia guys,

gary


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Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:40:29PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
 10.10.2012 02:35, Gary Aitken пишет:

  Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files?

 Take a look at graphics/inkscape.

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 ive got a question that fits in here.  hopefully.

 last week  I found a book from 1901 that google had scanned and listed
 as a pdf file.  it was text plus photos of the rich/famous of the
 1800s.  somehow, google found the exact string that matched my great
 grandfather [from the civil war].  I d'loaded the file (maybe 2mbytes)
 and searched using acroread.  nada.  I used the pdftotext utility.
 same: nothing but  some 600 page numbers.

 my guess is that google just took photos of the book and used other
 tools to create a pdf file.  I am not =that= serious  about genealogy,
 but I would like to know if there are any tools to edit this kind of
 pdf file.

I suspect the following: they scanned the book and put all the images
into the PDF. The PDF itself is merely a container for scanned pages;
it thus contains no text (save for the page numbers).

That Google was able to search in this file is probably due to them running
some OCR program on the image files, and then indexing the (approximate)
text that the OCR program generated. Probably they used something like
tesseract-ocr from ports graphics/tesseract:
  http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

 tia guys,

 gary


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