Using Megabyte, Gigabyte, ... in fdisk

2011-02-01 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello, I have a small question. How may I use Kilobyte, Megabyte, ... in fdisk interactive mode? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Using Megabyte, Gigabyte, ... in fdisk

2011-02-01 Thread Da Rock
On 02/01/11 23:09, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: Hello, I have a small question. How may I use Kilobyte, Megabyte, ... in fdisk interactive mode? Usually just k, m, or g to the end of the digits you enter. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: PF firewall rules and documentation

2011-02-01 Thread Da Rock
On 02/01/11 00:40, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:58, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Yes. Me unfortunately, but I did manage to pick it up quite quickly though. I had a little thief attack one of my ports and attempt login on the firewall. I had

Re: Using Megabyte, Gigabyte, ... in fdisk

2011-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/02/2011 14:09, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: Hello, I have a small question. How may I use Kilobyte, Megabyte, ... in fdisk interactive mode? It is best not to use fdisk at all until it gets rewritten. Use gpart. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 09:32, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? thanks in advance That's a loaded question. Both have advocates, just like vi or emacs, Linux or Nothing, FreeBSD or OpenBSD, OS X or Windows and X Window System or CLI.

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? qmail is not actively supported by its developer. It requires numerous patches, etc to bring it up to acceptable servicable standards. Postfix is actively

serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Macdonald
I'm trying to get the dell bmc +sol serial thing working, kin dof getting there, but noticed this inconsistency in the handbook: Is it boot.conf or boot.config? Create boot.config in the root directory of the a partition on the boot drive.

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread John Levine
I like qmail, but I would, having written a book about it. If you want something that works reasonably well out of the box, I'd use Postfix. If you want something you can tweak to do whatever you want, qmail is more of a toolkit. Don't use the version of qmail in ports, it includes way too many

same function name in multiple archives - bad idea?

2011-02-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Is it wrong to have functions with the same name in multiple archives? E.g: % ar -t /usr/local/lib/libslatec.a | grep fdump.o fdump.o % ar -t /usr/local/lib/libcmlib.a | grep fdump.o fdump.o Which fdump function will be used if I then link against -larchive1.a -larchive2.a? And is there an easy

RE: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Mahan
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Macdonald Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config I'm

RE: same function name in multiple archives - bad idea?

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Mahan
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Anton Shterenlikht Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:08 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: same function name in multiple archives - bad idea? Is it

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Mike.
On 2/1/2011 at 10:23 AM Jerry wrote: |On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 |Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: | | Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? | |qmail is not actively supported by its developer. It requires |numerous patches, etc to bring it up to acceptable

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/1/2011 at 10:23 AM Jerry wrote: |On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 |Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: | | Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? | |qmail is not actively supported by its

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/1/2011 at 10:23 AM Jerry wrote: |On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 |Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: | | Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? | |qmail is not actively supported by its

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Outback == Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com writes: |Postfix is actively maintained and is constantly being upgraded by |its author. Its mail forum is robust and Postfix has outstanding |documentation; perhaps the best of any software available in the FOSS |world. = It

Re: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 01), Patrick Mahan said: From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Macdonald I'm trying to get the dell bmc +sol serial thing working, kin dof getting there, but noticed this inconsistency in the

RE: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Mahan
It's at the root - # echo /boot.conf -P Patrick Patrick Mahan Lead Technical Kernel Engineer Adara Networks Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author and are not to be construed as an official

Make FreeBSD read the slice table and partition table again

2011-02-01 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello When I destroy the partition table with the following command: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=10 The entries /dev/ad1s1a, ... still exist in /dev. This means that the kernel has not found out that the slices and partitions do not exist anymore. How may I make the kernel read the

Re: Make FreeBSD read the slice table and partition table again

2011-02-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hello When I destroy the partition table with the following command: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=10 The entries /dev/ad1s1a, ... still exist in /dev. This means that the kernel has not found out that

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:44:24 + Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com articulated: so for us folks still using sendmail (which works fine for me) what benefits do we get with postfix that'd outweigh the hassles of changing? Without knowing your exact configuration and requirements, answering

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:44:24PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something

Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when I try to use a newly compiled kernel from 8.2(GENERIC) I have no luck. Root will not mount. Here are relevant

RE: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Patrick Mahan wrote: It's at the root - # echo /boot.conf -P Line 78 of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c says: #define PATH_CONFIG /boot.config Also, there's boot.config(5). If boot.conf also works, maybe it's only looking for a match on the first 8 or 9

RE: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Patrick Mahan wrote: It's at the root - # echo /boot.conf -P Line 78 of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c says: #define PATH_CONFIG /boot.config Also, there's boot.config(5). If boot.conf also works, maybe it's only looking

Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Andres Perera
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? qmail is more secure... but the design is just as alien to unix as sendmail is for example, the fact that qmail uses custom libc, or at least did so on the version i

Replacing failed disk in raidz2 zfs (and gpt)

2011-02-01 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
All, I have a zroot(mirror)+zmysql(raidz2) setup on a MySQL db box. One drive failed (mfid3). We've since replaced it. I can't for the life of me get zpool to replace it. I can't remember why I used gpt instead of direct disks for the zmysql pool (but thats how it is). I've tried all of the

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Jarrod Slick
Calling qmail more secure is pretty much just echoing conjecture at this point. Sure, it was designed to be secure (years and years ago) and the original author even held a contest with a monetary reward for anyone who could find a vulnerability -- that said, AFAIK that person no longer maintains

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Andres Perera
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: Calling qmail more secure is pretty much just echoing conjecture at this point.  Sure, it was designed to be secure (years and years ago) and the original author even held a contest with a monetary reward for anyone

4k drives and zfs

2011-02-01 Thread krad
Hi All, A quick question. Im upgrading my filer at home to have 2x 2tb samsung F4EG drives. I believe these are 4k drives. I'm intending to use the gnop trick to get zfs ashift to 12. Will this make my pool unbootable. I have read a few threads aluding to this.

AHCI dvd woes

2011-02-01 Thread Neil Short
old problem on HP laptops. the workaround has been to go to the BIOS and switch from AHCI to IDE interface; but my BIOS doesn't support switching. is anybody working on this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user.  At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message:

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message:

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: That's interesting.  The problem is that there is no /root/.opera folder.  As a matter of fact there doesn't seem to be any folders at all that refer to the linux-opera browser, in my /home/user directory, or anywhere

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Could you post your environment variables? btw. how do you login / start x? (eg login in the console and use startx, or using any login manager like xdm, kdm, gdm, slim...) Armin On 02/02/11 06:47, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
Could you post your environment variables? btw. how do you login / start x? (eg login in the console and use startx, or using any login manager like xdm, kdm, gdm, slim...) Armin On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the environment variables are found. You should be doing this step as your

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net mailto:remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the environment variables are

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to

Re: Opening Opera as user

2011-02-01 Thread Rem P Roberti
I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to open linux-opera. Naturally, it opened fine, but will