Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: RW Imperative languages have a natural order of decision followed by RW action, and code is most easily readable if the syntax doesn't try to RW subvert that. And yet, there's an

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Chuck == Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Chuck Let's suppose you want to display one message if debugging is Chuck enabled, and a shorter message if it is not. Then you wouldn't have used this construct. If the construct isn't

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Chuck == Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com writes: Then you wouldn't have used this construct. Chuck If the construct isn't a good idea considering the most obvious Chuck change one might make to the code, Objection: presumes facts

Re: OT: Keystrokes stick every ~1500 strokes

2010-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 26, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Joe R. Jah wrote: Since last Monday my ssh connections started working erraticly. Today I tested it by holding down a key until it stops printing, and made several itterations; it turns out that ~1500 key strokes print on the screen; then it stops responding for

Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?

2010-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 16, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch command? POSIX provides `uname -m`...? You should get either i386 or amd64, depending on whether the system is running that architecture. Regards, -- -Chuck

Re: building from source after freebsd-update

2010-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 13, 2010, at 7:37 PM, johnea wrote: I have been using freebsd-update to update several 7.1 systems. [ ... ] How can I build the source updated by freebsd-update? freebsd-update provides a binary update mechanism. It doesn't do anything to update the source files; if you choose to

Re: building from source after freebsd-update

2010-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 13, 2010, at 8:10 PM, johnea wrote: guess I was lead to believe that it updated the source from this entry in the handbook: The default is to update the source code, the entire base system, and the kernel. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html

Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD

2010-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Elmar-- On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support and a suspend to disk facility. mount_ext2fs or fusefs ought to work with ext3 filesystems. zzz or acpiconf -s 4 ought to address the suspend to disk

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David Jackson wrote: [ ... ] I seem to have also discovered that the lockup problems are not entirely due to USB issues. Many of them were being caused by an apparent problem with the swap system. I have two swaps, a file backed swap and a partition swap on the

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. This is good. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... [ ...Colin Percival is the owner of this, so I won't

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:52 AM, David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: * Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote: When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all* ports. Thanks for your suggestion, but it does not seem likely. All operating systems can always distinguish the system and

-STABLE vs security branches, was: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: So your system is approx. 4 months old, despite you cvsup-ping? I don't know what do you mean. Normally, FBSD issues new STABLE RELEASE once a year (approx). Whenever new release or new branch is available, I shall do either wget iso

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having an IPv6-only high-mx seems to terminally confuse most spambots... I understand why IPv6 would confuse them, but don't follow why higher numbered MXs would be more attractive to them in the first place? Are they assuming a 'secondary'

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, James Phillips wrote: Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about 10 years ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is still no viable replacement that has the same (or better) functionality. While I think floppy drives are

Re: RS232 / TCP converter and BSD.

2010-03-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Olivier GARNIER wrote: I have a weather station (Lacross WS2350). (can be connect by USB / RS232). I want to get data from a FreeBSD server 70 meter from the weather station (with http://www.wviewweather.com/ software). I already have a RJ45 cable between the two objects. You can simply

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Aaron Lewis wrote: [r...@meilk /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON]# make CC='cc' make -f ../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/Makefile MAKESRCPATH=../../../dev/aic7xxx/aicasm Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/AARON cc -O2 -pipe -march=i686 -ffast-math

Re: Mailing lists link in handbook redirects to......

2010-02-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: http://69.147.83.38/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation This is quite wrong. You are being redirected through DNS to a bogus FreeBSD.org host name alias. *IF* it is wrong, then it is the 'authoritative' FreeBSD nameservers that are

Re: using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: What's the simplest/easiest way to use secure memory (i.e., memory that won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD? Well, Ruby supports calling C functions, so you can invoke mlock() that

Re: Will this work with AMD64?

2010-02-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Paul Halliday wrote: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLANP CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5460 @ 3.16GHz (3158.77-MHz 686-class CPU) I am just reading this (the marked as 5xx numbers has me confused): The CPU you are looking up is a

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: Am I just having a case of the stupids here? It has been a few years since I've managed Apache even for local testing. I've also adjusted the permissions for that directory with no change. Also, the log files show Apache going

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Programmer In Training wrote: On 02/18/10 13:21, Chuck Swiger wrote: snip Apache is going to look up the home directories specified in /etc/passwd via getpwent() or similar. If allowed, it would chase a Then it shouldn't even bother with having a setting

Re: What would make ntpd hang in BSD 8?

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Peter Steele wrote: [ ... ] It never gets past this last log line and we have to do a kill -9 on the ntpd process. Everything is identical as far as the conf and drift files are concerned, we're using lagg interfaces on both systems. The versions of the

Re: What would make ntpd hang in BSD 8?

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Peter Steele wrote: My ntp.conf looks like this: # General Configuration server 0.us.pool.ntp.org server 1.us.pool.ntp.org server 2.us.pool.ntp.org server 3.us.pool.ntp.org # Drift file driftfile /var/db/ntpd.drift Wonderful: short and clear. :-)

Re: FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: The tech told me that I need to forward ports 500 and 4500 with my FreeBSD router to the small VPN router inside my LAN. That's simple enought but then he tells me I need to redirect all EPS and all AH traffic as well. I guess this is

Re: Is it possible to see memory over 3GB on 32-bit FreeBSD?

2010-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Yuri wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: It very much depends on what hardware you have in the system. Just about every expansion card or I/O device will reserve some of the address space for its own use. Some devices will need a lot of space - a graphics card

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:12 AM, tristan wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Install and configure an X11

Re: free bsd license

2010-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:38 AM, tristan wrote: is the FreeBSD-8.0-amd.iso itself under the bsd license? Mostly; there's a compilation copyright associated with the FreeBSD ISO images, but some of the components of FreeBSD are under the GPL (notably the GCC compiler toolchain), and possibly CDDL

Re: rpm trashed my system with linux so's

2010-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Steve Franks wrote: Main thing is that portupgrade -f gamin is *not* putting fresh bsd copies overtop the bad linux ones I stupidly installed, and anything with gtk is now useless (shared object 'libselinux.so.1 not found, required by libgio-2.0.so.0), which is

Re: Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness

2010-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: First, I noticed that I was able to send data that is 9216 in length between 2 FreeBSD 7.1 hosts (far apart in network distance) running Sun JDK 1.5.0_16-p9 (compiled myself from /usr/ports/java/jdk15). [ ... ] For my particular application, I

Re: Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness

2010-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: % sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216 However, increasing it will guarantee that you will exceed even normal jumbo frame size and thus depend upon IP fragmentation / reassembly for the traffic. I don't consider that

Re: NTP Stratum

2010-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:16 AM, DAve wrote: I am syncing with three server from N.us.pool.ntp.org. I have no fudge configured. ]# ntpq -c peers remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter

Re: Cheating OS fingerprinting

2010-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 7, 2010, at 5:54 AM, yavuz wrote: I want to cheat os fingerprinting tools ( primary nmap) in my freebsd machine. Assume I am using freebsd 8 and I want to be seen as a windows xp machine when someone scans my ports. I'll try not to second-guess this goal, but you should be aware that

Re: UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 29, 2010, at 8:51 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, James Smallacombe u...@3.am wrote: To follow up on this: Noticed the issue again this morning, which also was accompanied by latency so high that I could not connect (some pings got through at very

Re: How do I create a 40x40 pixel monochrome mage for KMail?

2010-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: I've noticed that several apps support images of the user, such as KMail, which supports a 40x40 pixel jpeg. I have a webcam, but it won't take a monochrome picture and it doesn't snapshot all the resolutions that it can display in. In

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.6: Undefined symbol EVP_idea_cbc

2010-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Ronny Forberger wrote: my FreeBSD seems to be broken, since I get the following error when trying to link against libssl etc: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.6: Undefined symbol EVP_idea_cbc I am using openssl-0.9.8k_5 from the base

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.6: Undefined symbol EVP_idea_cbc

2010-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Ronny Forberger wrote: Thanks for the help. I installed from a binary package using pkg_add - -r openssl since I cannot build openssl from ports: [r...@sonne ~]# portupgrade -f openssl ** Port marked as IGNORE: security/openssl: is marked as broken: No

Re: Shared object libcrypt.so.4 not found ...(or library munging after make-delete-old)

2010-01-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:45 PM, mikel king wrote: [ ... ] I would have thought that perl was rebuilt when I make the world and upgraded from 7.x to 8.0. Anyone have a quick and easy fix out of this mess? perl isn't part of FreeBSD 7.x; hence, it was not rebuilt when you upgraded to

Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

2010-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Because your carefully crafted local .mc files shouldn't be clobbered whenever freebsd.mc is updated? I see.. so you are saying that freebsd.mc shouldn't even be touched at all, all local chages should be made straight to local .mc?

Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:24 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: NOTE: Please reply off-list as well as I am not subscribed OK. In return, please don't cross-post or multi-post the same question to multiple FreeBSD lists. My server (7.2-STABLE) suffered at least two outages Sunday through yesterday

Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client IP REMOVED#57938: error sending response: not enough free resources Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client IP REMOVED#59830: error sending response: not enough free resources Were these

Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

2010-01-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Iv Ray wrote: If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance - a) Is FreeBSD 8.0 the right for us, or shall we rather go for FreeBSD 7.x? Pretty much by definition, the stability of a .x release is better than that of a .0 release.

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Chris Peiffer wrote: Or is there a good way to do it in the kernel that I'm missing, and can someone direct me to an ipnat ruleset that creates new connections, so the TCP forwarding machine doesn't also need to be a router? I don't know about ipnat, but

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

2010-01-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: A few lines in python should do what you're looking for, see socket lib, twisted if you have high performance needs. I'm a big fan of python, but you'd have to be careful to choose the right processing model-- some sort of

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John wrote: This used to be a hot topic long ago, but now seems to have become rather dormant. Does that mean that all NICs are pretty much commodity with all the good features (unaligned scatter/gather, etc), or does it just mean that machine performance

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:20 AM, John wrote: [ ... ] Thanks! That's perfect. I have a chance to buy a few Intel Pro 10/100 (fxp) cards. I guess I'll take it! If you don't need gigabit, the fxp cards are great-- very reliable and some even support interrupt mitigation in firmware (which

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Thanks for the suggestion and the pointer to man 5 core. I implemented your suggestions but still get no core dump. Very strange... Check your default resource limits (shell startup files /etc/login.conf) and see whether coredumpsize

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Doug Poland wrote: % sysctl -a | grep core kern.corefile: /var/coredumps/%U/%N.core Does /var/coredumps/doug and/or /var/coredumps/clamav exist and have appropriate permissions (or be 1777 like /tmp to avoid a problem with that)...? -- -Chuck

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Doug Poland wrote: No joy. # sysctl kern.corefile=/var/crash/clamd.core # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start Starting clamav_clamd. Segmentation fault # ll /var/crash total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 Apr 10 2005 minfree Please see man 5

Re: Restarting after Make Install....

2010-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 19, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Diego Montalvo wrote: Been using FreeBSD for a long time now, but have never really been sure if FreeBSD needs to be restarted after installing a Port or Ports using make install clean? What is the best practice... Used to restarting Windows for everything... The

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:12 AM, davidowe...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Can i install free bsd on a Window's 98 machine and what do i need on the machine to set it up as a server and what software and hardware does it need FreeBSD is an operating system; you would run it instead of Windows, although if

Re: fsck failed to sync inodes

2010-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:27 PM, gahn wrote: I booted the system into single user mode and tried to clean up one of my corrupted file system: fsck -y /dev/ad1s1f but in the end, the file system is still dirty. anything else I can do to salvage the data? You're not providing enough

Re: NFS exporting mounted msdosfs subdir

2010-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 13, 2010, at 1:52 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: Anyone has got an idea how this can be resolved? Thanks. Does FreeBSD even support NFS-exporting a locally mounted MS-DOS filesystem? Traditionally, NFS was implemented over the default UFS filesystem and it was common for other

Re: Crontab not working??

2010-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: It didn't work so I tried to cut down areas which I suspected might not work and ended up with the syntax below for root: crontab -l shows: @reboot root/usr/local/sbin/logwatch.pl 02 4 * * * root

Re: top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Should the Active memory, as reported by top(1), be equal to the sum of rss (the real memory (resident set) size of the process) of all processes, as reported by ps(1)? No. They aren't measuring the same thing; in a system with

Re: speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:45 AM, David Banning wrote: I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed. I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is a simpler solution. You can use ftp

Re: FreeBSD 8.0, HyperV and non-uniform processors.

2010-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Paul Halliday wrote: Is this warning as harmful as it sounds: WARNING: Non-uniform processors. WARNING: Using suboptimal topology. More info: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 @ 2.40GHz (2304.83-MHz 686-class CPU) ACPI APIC Table: VRTUAL

Re: required apache22 modules

2010-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:55 AM, John Almberg wrote: I'm installing Apache22 on a new server and for once, I'd like to install just the modules I need, instead of the default mess. I've been googling for this answer, but can't seem to find it: Are any apache modules *required*? Or can I

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is supported (and works) for Linux, but by what

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
discussed on the NTP pool timekeepers list: Begin forwarded message: From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com Date: October 14, 2009 2:43:08 PM PDT To: PGNet Dev pgnet.dev+...@gmail.com Cc: timekeep...@fortytwo.ch Subject: Re: [time] what significance does the number 3.906 have in ntp? On Oct 14, 2009

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 11:53:19 CET 2009 norga...@localhost:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: VIA Nehemiah (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0 This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier. For a long time, BIOSes using the older C/H/S addressing mechanism were limited to

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Robert Huff wrote: STARTTLS=server, error: SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(/etc/mail/CA/private/cakey.pem) failed appears in the log. The file exists and has permissions 0600. What am I probably looking at, and how do I find more specific information

Re: semi-problem starting sendmail

2009-12-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Make sure none of the directories in that path have 022 perms (go+write). Checked, and not the problem. Well, the error is coming from /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src/tls.c, and depends on openssl to deal with your cert. Does:

Re: How to change dst IP in packet with IPFW

2009-12-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: Can I change dst IP in packet with IPFW? Normally this was done using natd's redirect_address capability. In newer versions of FreeBSD, IPFW has grown internal support for doing nat redirects without using the userland natd; for example, see

Re: Re[3]: How to change dst IP in packet with IPFW

2009-12-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 2, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: Actually I have google clue: http://gara.opennet.ru/http_redirect.html but it is impossible to implement that with IPFW NAT. And now -a and -proxy_only are exclusive but in article as you can sen in examples they are not. article is

Re: How known?

2009-12-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Gary Kline wrote: hey, mail gurus, how is this possible? thru evolution:: This is a receipt for the mail you sent to x...@msn.com at 12/1/2009 12:43 PM This receipt verifies that the message has been displayed on the recipient's computer at 12/1/2009 1:55 PM

Re: How known?

2009-12-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 1, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Most mail user agents have an option to enable read receipts; they use (or abuse) the DSN or MDN capabilities of the recipient's MTA or MUA. They are not a reliable signal that a human has seen the mail, although they can be used to confirm it

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:06 AM, James Phillips wrote: Last time I was looking for a mouse, I could not find a PS/2 version. I was reluctant to get a USB mouse because none of them are USB Certified (http://www.usb.org). Many of them also had a Side-scrolling scroll wheel (designed with

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Jerry wrote: It's quite possibly to your credit that you've actually checked whether a USB mouse has been tested as compliant, but when I do a search for Mice/trackballs/pointers, I get 68 results, including a dozen or so from both Logitech and Microsoft.

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ian Smith wrote: [ ... ] For instance, I've got two Fujitsu 5400rpm 2.5 drives in two laptops, one MHV2040AH with near 19,000 hours on it, and a much newer MHV2120AH, 40 and 120GB respectively. Nice quiet low-power laptop drives, fwiw. Both show as (more

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, all-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] Not all power supplies are created equal. Unfortunately, there's no government oversight on power supply ratings, thus a cheap 450W power supply might go unstable if it has to supply 200W for very long, whereas a good quality

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Polytropon wrote: V12N : +0.97 - Reference -12.0 Volt V50N : +1.99 - Seems to be reference -5.0 Volt, but looks strange As you can see in relation to your output, your board seems to put other values on the default named output lines, e. g.

Re: State of interface polling in FreeBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Brett Glass wrote: I'm building a FreeBSD router based on a small, Intel Atom-based board and am trying to decide whether or not to configure the kernel for polling. What's the current state of interface polling in FreeBSD? Is it worth doing with a single

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:15 PM, James Phillips wrote: I initially set the time-out to 60 seconds, then 300 seconds in a vain attempt to see the actual power savings. With a 900 second time- out, the drive only spun down once in the past 12 hours. It appears that syslogd can defer *one*

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, David-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:48 PM, David Allen wrote: There are options available in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to do just that, but how does one copy over the contents of /var at system boot? I'd consider adding something to /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (which normally mounts the local

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:54 PM, David Allen wrote: I'd consider adding something to /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal (which normally mounts the local filesystems) to setup a RAMdisk on /var and then do rsync -a /var_template /var (or use a dump/restore or tar pipeline). At the risk of sounding

Re: Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

2009-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Yuri wrote: I am getting these errors in messages: Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change attributes for /usr/ local Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: bad exports list line /usr/local -maproot Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote: I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size. Do you actually have an Itanium processor? They were pretty much only used in high-end multi-CPU enterprise

Re: Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

2009-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Yuri wrote: The workaround suggested in this PR eliminates the messages, but causes client to get Permission denied message Because the modified mount points are for different nets. Assuming /usr/diskless, /usr/local, and /usr/home are all on the same / usr

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ray Still wrote: Hello, I am adding a redundant Internet connection to my current hosting setup and I need to figure out how to set up the DNS to make this work. The two issues normally aren't related. If both connections are from the same provider, talk to

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Chris-- On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders'

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but if i had control

Re: DNS Question

2009-10-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: You aren't supposed to use CNAMES for anything found in other RR's; in particular, you should always use an A record with the hostnames used for nameservers (ie, have an NS record), because you are supposed to be using the canonical name

Re: auto format and partion

2009-10-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, DAS15-- On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:23 PM, da...@hushmail.com wrote: got the latest version of your os for 64 bit systems from osdisc.com do you think you could throw in an auto install feauture that like every other os on the market i dropped out of devry and i still cant figure out what the

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing

Re: building lynx with ssl

2009-10-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Noah wrote: and the build strategy used is: ./configure --with-ssl make sudo make install what am I doing wrong? You're building stuff yourself without looking at how the ports maintainer already solved this issue. Try doing ./configure --with- ssl=/usr or

Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports

2009-10-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Noah wrote: I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is needed for the build and then it is removed? You're describing the default behavior of ports-- it only downloads

Re: How can I get 100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. That IP is probably running a web proxy or possibly some kind of spider. It could also be malicious,

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:53:35 -0400 Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org) replied: Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. I was not aware of that. What is the problem? Somewhere around binutils-2.17, it switched to

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Jerry wrote: That's not a bad idea, although you can likely export PREFIX=/usr and install the binutils port, and get the desired result. The only problem with that is that it would get over written when updating 'world'. I am not sure if a user could exclude

Re: Apache server imap.so ssl_once_only_init error

2009-10-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 7, 2009, at 8:11 AM, David Southwell wrote: [Wed Oct 07 16:03:17 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?) [Wed Oct 07 16:03:18 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:42 PM, John Almberg wrote: My basic problem is at peak usage times (usually in the afternoon), the server starts using swap space, and then response times really bog down. Limit the MaxChildren to the number of Apache httpd's which your machine can actually

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:58 PM, John Almberg wrote: My Apache 2.2 instances are running about 18 Meg each. I've been thinking about doing something to trim these down, and I think tomorrow is the day to take action. They are getting out of hand. [ ... ] But what about the set that is left after

Re: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Peter-- On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g swapon -a

Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

2009-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: When I install FreeBSD, I am installing a core operating system version number (your term). Most people install FreeBSD from a release CD; ie, they install 6.4- RELEASE, or 7.2-RELEASE, or similar. Then I may choose to install the ports

Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

2009-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: If you just want security updates and no other changes, you'd update against RELENG_7_2 instead. Here are you referring only to security updates to the core OS and not applications in ports such as Firefox? That's

Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

2009-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Ports are not branched-- there is no STABLE or CURRENT for ports. The same ports tree can be used on 6.x, 7.x, and 8-CURRENT. 1. With what is the STABLE/CURRENT tag associated? a) core operating system version number b

Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions

2009-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:27 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:41:12 -0500 Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: STABLE is what it sounds like. I don't think it is what it sounds like - STABLE branches are development branches with stable binary interfaces. It's the security branches

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