Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-10-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for the responses! On 01/10/2010 02:52, Paul Wootton wrote: On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am trying this out: #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' Try upgrading the failing ports by hand. portupgrade tends to

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread krad
On 30 September 2010 23:19, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.orgwrote: Hi, We are in the process to replace two Cisco Pix firewalls and one Cisco router with two servers running PF with carp. The network is large (it is an University) and all will depend on this two machines. We have

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:13:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am trying this out: #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*'

A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) Thanks a lot! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) I use iftop[1] Cheers! [1]

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, 2010/10/1 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) I use iftop[1] No, this one is built into the system. I havent't used it

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi there, 2010/10/1 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :)

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Try 'systat -if 1' or 'netstat -I re0 -w 1' / 'netstat -I lo0 -w 1'. One of them is probably what you are thinking of. systat -if This is what I was looking for. Many, many thanks! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Mark Blackman
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) netstat -w 1 -i lo0 and netstat -w -l -i re0 for 1 second updates on each interface with packets/bytes in/out

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:13:28 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com articulated: Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? Or Freebsd-10.x perhaps! -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header.

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:13:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread jorge espada
I can say that both of them are pretty good choice, in my personal experience I had the same configuration that you are planning to implement qith two servers on OpenBsd 4.6 + carp+ bgp as a router in a huge network , the only problem was some well know bug with carp and bgp..that for some reason

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Kobb
Both would probably be fine. However, I would recommend taking a look at pfsense if I were you. It is made to do what you want without as much of the overhead as a full blown *BSD install. It is easier to configure, update, the documentation is good, and you can get top notch paid support

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 October 2010 05:29, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model (auditing) Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built into

FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Chetan Shukla
Hi All, I am working on some code porting activity that wants Some code to be ported on FreeBSD. I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v does not help here. What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? Thanks Regards, Chetan DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary

5.25 floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25 floppy media (1.2MB). I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having recalled that the floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in dmesg (FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE). I can do a dd

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:02:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migrating. Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? I'd go for 8.x as soon as possible. It'll be a while before 9 is ready for production, and when it is

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On 1 October 2010 05:29, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model (auditing) Krad, I was

Re: 5.25 floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:04:40 +0200, Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25 floppy media (1.2MB). I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having recalled that the floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 October 2010 10:16, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built into FreeBSD. Is there a facility in OpenBSD that is better or is there

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:02:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migrating. Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? I'd go for

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread krad
On 1 October 2010 15:34, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 October 2010 10:16, Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built into

Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
I have seen several notices on other forums regarding the update of bzip2 to correct a potential security problem. From the bzip2 web site: quote The current version is 1.0.6, released 20 Sept 2010. Version 1.0.6 removes a potential security vulnerability, CVE-2010-0405, so all users are

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Jerry said: I have seen several notices on other forums regarding the update of bzip2 to correct a potential security problem. From the bzip2 web site: quote The current version is 1.0.6, released 20 Sept 2010. Version 1.0.6 removes a potential security

Re: 5.25 floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25 floppy media (1.2MB). I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having recalled that the floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in dmesg

BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-01 Thread Matthew
Hello, I noticed my email client was taking just over two minutes to start up, with the mail folder being accessed from a share on an NFS server. After rebuilding my workstation (due to h/w heating problems), I deleted my 50,000 emails from freebsd-questions, and ipfw folders. Now the email

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla chetan.shu...@aricent.com wrote: Hi All, I am working on some code porting activity that wants Some code to be ported on FreeBSD. I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v does not help here. What is the similar command in FreeBSD ?

dynamically generating install.cfg

2010-10-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hello all, I would like to dynamically generate various settings that will be placed into the install.cfg file before sysinstall executes. I am PXE booting and have a mfsroot that contains a install.cfg with variables that will be applicable to all installs. Inside the mfsroot is a script

Re: BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-01 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 10/01/2010 12:52 PM, Matthew wrote: I would be grateful for any pointers on how to resolve this. I suspect the error message may not be exactly descriptive of whats happening. Kinda. Here's a few points to keep in mind when working with bind in FreeBSD: * By default, named runs in a

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com articulated: You must have missed http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has fixed binaries if you use that. Never saw it. So I

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jason
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com articulated: You must have missed http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Devin Teske
On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla chetan.shu...@aricent.com wrote: I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v does not help here. What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +, Paul B Mahol wrote: gmake. On serious side there is no way to find

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Devin Teske
On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla chetan.shu...@aricent.com wrote: I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v does not help here. What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +, Paul B Mahol wrote: gmake. On serious side there is no way to find

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:00:16 -0700 Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com articulated: You must have missed

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:00:16 -0700 Jason jhelf...@e-e.com articulated: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com articulated: You must have missed

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:23:16 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:00:16 -0700 Jason jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com articulated:

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:49:29 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the UPDATING file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine: 20100920: p1 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 Fix an integer overflow in RLE length

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/1/10, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla chetan.shu...@aricent.com wrote: I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v does not help here. What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +, Paul B Mahol wrote:

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: [snip]. OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the UPDATING file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine: 20100920: p1 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 Fix an integer overflow in RLE length parsing when decompressing corrupt bzip2 data. I am

Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:44:43PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Radel wrote: On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Yes! changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my server cleanly, thanks for the tip. I still don't

Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and all, but 'freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see output below. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start

Re: FreeBSD on Compaq mini CQ10 anyone?

2010-10-01 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 26/09/2010 01:32 p.m., BernardL escribió: Le 05/09/2010 06:04, Gonzalo Nemmi a écrit : I just got one and was wondering if anyone was running FreeBSD on it and how well does it work out of the box. All comments are welcome. I have one with FreeBSD 8.1. Some difficulties to install X11 (I

Re: Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Jason
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake: Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and all, but 'freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see