Re: sshd library problems

2000-04-04 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:28:52PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Hi Ben :) Hello Matthew, always nice to "see" you. On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:41:05PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Ben Rosengart remarked Hello all, I am running a 5.0-CURRENT system cvsup'd this

Re: bzip2 in src tree

2000-01-24 Thread Ben Rosengart
win here is if bzip is used in an infrastructural capacity (e.g. for packages and other install stuff), and it has been pointed out that the savings on disk space are offset by the additional memory requirements. If it won't be used for infrastructure, then why can't it stay in ports? -- Ben

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Ben Rosengart
then do: cvsup IN A198.104.92.71 ; cvsup1.freebsd.org cvsup IN A205.149.189.91 ; cvsup2.freebsd.org ... and so on This is legal, is it? Not only is it legal, but I believe BIND will return all the A records to any query, and will rotate them. -- Ben

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Ben Rosengart
would probably be more accurate, because some routers treat ICMP and TCP packets differently. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: multiple cd devices

2000-01-03 Thread Ben Rosengart
*. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: current for production?

1999-12-20 Thread Ben Rosengart
for a production site, but they'll be happy to share their own experiences and let you come to your own conclusion. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

building world on pre-signals-change systems

1999-12-20 Thread Ben Rosengart
will eventually want to update it, and I'd like to know when it's safe. Thanks in advance. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes )

1999-12-14 Thread Ben Rosengart
at times when only root's mounted, I'm with Bill. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: BIND update

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Rosengart
, but are vulnerable to the DoS attacks. I'd be happier if you said the message was *from* the security officer. :-) -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: BIND update

1999-11-15 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Forrest Aldrich wrote: Will we be updating 4.0-current to the latest BIND-8.22-P5? Or -stable for that matter? I believe these changes are eminently qualified, being bugfixes. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc

Re: egcs unstable

1999-11-13 Thread Ben Rosengart
. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ambiguity between -STABLE and -RELEASE

1999-11-08 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: What are your views? I think it's fine the way it is. It took me a few minutes to wrap my mind around the FreeBSD release and patching schemata, but ever since then, they've treated me pretty well. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group

Re: trek73

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Rosengart
a huge amount of resources, and the amount they're likely to dedicate to defending a case like this is minimal, I suspect. Followups to -chat. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: trek73

1999-10-25 Thread Ben Rosengart
You're talking as if litigious corporations follow logic and common sense. This is more the exception than the rule IMO. Don't construe this as arguing against the inclusion of trek73 ... I think you're probably right that the risk is minimal, but for different reasons. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX

Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talkto dialups)

1999-09-24 Thread Ben Rosengart
I understand the ISP's POV here, but I have legitimate reasons to telnet to port 25 on various machines (most of them administered by me), and I'd never dream of using an ISP that would stop me from doing so. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread Ben Rosengart
Mutual respect is the glue that holds FreeBSD together, IMHO. As such, it should not be discarded lightly. -- Ben Rosengart UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: more

1999-09-12 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Not with me, and I am sure Warner and a few other die hard ``more'' users are going to be chimming in here as soon as they get to this... Down with "n"! Up with "/"! No, u

SUPFLAGS in /etc/make.conf

1999-08-13 Thread Ben Rosengart
I submit that putting "-z" in here is silly, because the sample cvsup config files turn on compression, and suggest commenting it out if you have a fast link. It seems counterintuitive that one can comment out the compression in the standard supfiles and then have it enabled by default with

Re: it's time...

1999-08-12 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so great about not seeing the system boot up? One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong

tcp_wrapper in contrib and ports?

1999-06-07 Thread Ben Rosengart
Hi, I am curious as to why tcp_wrappers are present in /usr/src/contrib as well as in the ports collection. Can someone please enlighten me? TIA. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: bsd.lib.mk @'s

1999-06-07 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: I have an alternative compromise - add an option to make(1) so it will ignore the `@' symbol. The following adds a `-@' option (the option letter could be easily changed). I haven't updated make.1, but

Re: sysinstall manpage installation question

1999-06-07 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, John W. DeBoskey wrote: ps: I am a heavy user of the scripted install process. I beleive we could help our cause by better documenting how the process works and providing some examples. As someone who is soon going to have to set up scripted installs, I would