Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:35:41 +0100 RW wrote: > The difference here is that the DHCP server is in a different address > block to the DHCP server, That should be: "the temporary address is in a different address block to the DHCP server" ___

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:52:26 -0400 Fbsd8 wrote: > Da Rock wrote: > > On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable > >> system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their > >> dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is no

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400 Mike Jeays wrote: > I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home > use. The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily > worth the lack of colour, IMO. How do they compare for light and occasional use? I'm thinking in terms of

libc regex word-boundary support fallen-off?

2012-03-08 Thread RW
I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those applications in FreeBSD. According to regex(3) it's an implementation POSIX.2, so the f

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500 David Jackson wrote: > One faulty argument I heard was that it is often not a good idea to > upgrade to new software release. This is an argument that you appear to have completely misunderstood. The point of suggesting that you use release package is that it's

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 - active plus inactive memory leak!?

2012-03-06 Thread RW
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:30:07 -0500 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On 3/6/2012 2:13 PM, Luke Marsden wrote: > >* Resident corresponds to a subset of the pages above: those > > pages which actually occupy physical/core memory. Notably pages may > > appear in size but not appear in resident

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:31:41 -0500 Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:49:18 + > Matthew Seaman articulated: > > > Unfortunately I can't answer that. I'm not in any position to > > decide such things. > > > > However I can hazard a guess at some of the possible reasons: > > > >* opens

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread RW
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:52:24 +0100 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 2/28/12 2:14 PM, Stas Verberkt wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:21:35PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the > >> even branches until the next even branch comes out.

Re: some problems to enable journaling

2012-02-20 Thread RW
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:47:08 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: > #gjournal label -f -s 256M /dev/ad10s1e > You aren't supposed to use -f and -s together: -fMay be used to convert an existing file system to use gjournal, but only if the journal will be configured on a se

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:11:09 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > I don't know if it's the solution to your question but I asked the > same a while back and the answer I got was that I had to recompile > and install the kernel then you'll have p6 :-) The only thing you gain by that is that uname r

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:22:57 + Matthew Seaman wrote: > Four possibilities, roughly in order of severity: > >1) None of the security patches between p3 and p6 did actually > touch the kernel. You can tell if this was the case by looking > at the list of modified files in the

Re: ps output

2012-02-19 Thread RW
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:28:29 + (UTC) jb wrote: > Hi, > > It's fb9-release. > > Why the other ps entries do not display cron ? > > $ top > ... > PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU > COMMAND 1897 root 1 200 9644K 1208K nanslp 0 0:03 > 0.00%

Re: Question regarding SPF records

2012-02-18 Thread RW
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500 Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > teamwarfare.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com > a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all" > > I wouldn't need an "include:" or "ptr" statement in this right? I > would told "include:" was to inclu

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:10:00 -0800 Robison, Dave wrote: > On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root > > partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs > > filesystem might be better for many situations. > >

Re: /lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:08:54 -0600 Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick > wrote: > > It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as > > well: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html > > > > A cursory se

Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

2012-02-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200 Brent Clark wrote: > I use "Install from an FTP server" > > The error message I get is "Unable to transfer the sbase distribution > from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org."; > > Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source. Get it with csup and be sure to set

Re: FreeBSD / Gnome / Audio

2012-02-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:35 -0800 (PST) Tim Gustafson wrote: > Audio is working in that I can play a video in Firefox and hear the > audio, but it's currently coming out the wrong sound card (for > whatever reason, Dell's audio card shows up twice: once for the > internal speaker and once for th

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-11 Thread RW
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:05:14 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: > On Fri 2012-02-10 16:12:06 UTC+, Matthew Seaman > (m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk) wrote: > > > > In addition, I don't believe it solves the OP's initial problem > > > of the argument list being too long! You'd probably need to use >

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread RW
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:14:56 + Matthew Seaman wrote: > ls -1 | xargs rm but be aware that that wont work for filenames with spaces. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:11 -0500 Dean E. Weimer wrote: > On 03.02.2012 21:36, RW wrote: > > Just in case you aren't aware, you don't necessarily need an eSATA > > card. You can get eSATA back-plates that plug into spare SATA > >

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread RW
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:56:05 -0500 Dean E. Weimer wrote: > It's Looking like eSATA is going to be my pick, to be on the safe > side, I could spend the $50 on a USB 3 card, and have it not work, or > spend $50 on an eSATA card and another $40 for the drive doc, and > cable. Just in case you are

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500 David Jackson wrote: > I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on > Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried: > > *portupgrade -PP -a > *portmaster -PP -a > *pkg_update > > All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in

Re: Port upgrade change ownership of port installation directory and files

2012-01-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:24:08 +0100 Lubomir Matousek wrote: > I changed apache default user from www to wbserv. > > I changed also file ownership from www to wbserv. > > > Is there any way for portupgrade, that the ownership of installed > port files remains the same? It means wbserv? > If you

Re: UFS+SU+J and still background fs check?

2012-01-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:17:16 +0100 (CET) Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > When booting my computer today I noticed the message at the end: > starting background filesystem check in 60 seconds. This seems > strange to me since SU+J is enabled on all filesystems. How is this > possible? NB running

Re: php5 port seems broken

2012-01-22 Thread RW
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:01:29 -0500 Tim Kellers wrote: > On 1/22/12 5:35 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm attempting to install php5 from my ports tree. I've attempted > > the latest version ( 5.3.9 located in /usr/ports/lang/php5) and the > > 'latest stable' (5.2.17 located in /

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:35:06 + RW wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 > Da Rock wrote: > > > Even under GPL anything built using gcc can be licensed as you like, > > so I doubt it could be that. > > It is that. I don't know the details, but GPLv3 i

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:11:18 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > I've been seeing a lot of hoorays and pats on the back and a general > feeling satisfaction in being able to use clang to compile FreeBSD > and ports. The only reason I can see from searching is a need to get > away from gcc (which is tried and

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: > > On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: > > > Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: > > > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > > > Is it permi

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:17:40 -0500 Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:08:51 + > RW articulated: > > The problem occurs when you don't get the in-list copy, either > > because the list doesn't send copies to addresses in Cc/To, or > > because some mail sy

Re: FreeBSD Mailling list and Slieve filter

2012-01-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:44:04 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > On 01/14/12 19:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 14/01/2012 05:25, Tobi wrote: > >> Thanks!!! > >> It works fine with this: > >> > >> if header :contains ["List-ID"] "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" { > >> fileinto "INBOX.Mailinglisten.FreeBSD

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:37:49 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: n terms of paths this is what I'm doing: I'm in a FreeBSD jail > logged in by - #jexec tcsh > > which gets me in as root. Crontab is being run as root so paths > should be the same no? PATH is set at the top of /etc/crontab __

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread RW
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:21:51 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: > The strange thing is that if I run this script manually > /root/java_restart/java_restart.sh it works fine and does what it's > supposed to do. The commonest reason for scripts that that work from a terminal failing under cron is that the e

Re: Browser

2012-01-05 Thread RW
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:29:28 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Well, last time I tried to compile one of Firefox's > recent versions from ports, it demanded to have > access to X during the "make" stage. That was the > point I decided _not_ to continue (as the system > in question didn't have X). Maybe I

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread RW
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:56:38 -0500 ill...@gmail.com wrote: > If you have a few hours, lots of RAM, & you'd like to stress- > test your system: > cd /usr/ports/www/chromium && make install Unless things have changed radically that sounds like a bit of an exaggeration. Until about 9 months ago I w

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:31:17 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:35 +0000, RW wrote: > > One strategy is to use csup to only update the port tree to release > > tags and so use successive release packages as you update the base > > system. You need t

Re: Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:13:24 -0800 (PST) UFS User wrote: > Most of these were read-only mode, but some of them were left mounted > 'rw' for years (with no swapping, of course).  The bottom line is, > they never failed, and some were (and are) in the field for over 8 > ye

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:25 +0100 Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, > took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood > paragraphs like individual-separated statements, that's why you > did not fully understand my qu

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:56:45 -0500 David Jackson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW > wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 > > David Jackson wrote: > > > > > > > I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many &g

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

2011-12-26 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500 David Jackson wrote: > I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many > users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do > not prefer to build it all. it shouldnt be such a hassle If you want to use packages I would suggest

Re: Implementation details of altq hfsc scheduler in pf 4.5

2011-12-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:52:15 -0500 Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, RW > wrote: > > It's about latency, realtime has priority over non-realtime. > > I sort of understand this, but I can't figure out how that would apply > to my example: &

Re: Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:57:52 +0700 Dmitriy Kryuk wrote: > I'm running Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/), а > BitTorrent client on my FreeBSD 7.2 box. It requests large recieve > buffers for its network connections. This leaves my system with > absolutely no free memory. If some process

Re: Implementation details of altq hfsc scheduler in pf 4.5

2011-12-13 Thread RW
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:51:39 -0500 Maxim Khitrov wrote: > I've read everything I could find on the topic of configuring hfsc > altq in pf (4.5, FreeBSD 9), but I still have no clear idea of how it > is actually implemented. I even started looking through the source > code, but that might take a wh

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:42:52 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > On 12/11/11 10:23, RW wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000 > > Da Rock wrote: > > > > > >>> SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If > >>> something happens to

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:17:41 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > > SUJ speeds up the check a lot, seconds as opposed to minutes. If > > something happens to the journal, it falls back to a standard fsck. > But fsck needs to be run manually- I have users that can't do that, > and the filesystem corrupts. Erg

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:40:53 + Frank Shute wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 07:51:50PM +1000, R Skinner wrote: > > possibly could, but it escaped me as to how. And before I do- I > > looked up journaling on 9. I couldn't quite get to the bottom of > > whether it is or isn't available/standard

Re: freebsd-update

2011-12-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:06:29 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my > FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that > time it will nog be supported anymore? > I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update 'sees' p3. Is t

Re: Weird stuff

2011-12-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:11:10 -0500 Greg Larkin wrote: > Reading through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, the "check permissions" > message is emitted when certain directories cannot be created. > The actual error is: ===> Cannot create , check permissions Note the space before the comma. I suspect

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:29:40 +0800 Denise H. G. wrote: > > On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote: > > > > Hi! > > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. > > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood > > correct there is also SU journaling file sistem. I

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:33:21 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: > Are there differences between .eli.journal or .journal.eli? AFAIK it only works one way round ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:06:00 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: >catch idea, but some question: > in this situation .eli.journal journal device will not be encrypted? > can you describe how data flow will be? The journal is encrypted unless you choose to put it on a separate non-encrypted device. I

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-14 Thread RW
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:57:28 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: > hi > > Is it possible to create journaled FS which is crypted with geli? > > I can create crypted or journaled FS, but it is complicated to me to > create both in time, can you help me clue? You have to encrypt first and then create th

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:20:12 +1100 David Morton wrote: > I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing > commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn > and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one > platform. > > A local magazine, Silicon

Re: Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl + C) while building a port or kernel?

2011-11-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:20:46 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Nov 3 12:10:08 2011 > > From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7Uz84g68zF09M=?= > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:19 +0400 > > Subject: Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl +

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-11-01 Thread RW
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:28:18 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:08:42 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > My experience is exactly the opposite. The biggest problem I've > > had with ports came from trying to follow the recommended approach > > of updating the tree after installi

Re: Configuring IPFW

2011-10-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:56:12 -0400 Carmel wrote: > I am attempting to set up a firewall using IPFW with a stateful > behavior. > > While I have investigated how to set up these rules, I have run into > conflicting opinions as to whether to all or deny "established" > behavior. > > EXAMPLE: (prec

Re: [0.5 OT] Looking for recommendation on Unix shell account

2011-10-01 Thread RW
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:04:17 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I looked briefly one night at SDF.org. > > http://sdf.org/?join > > For a contribution of, like, $1.00, you get full access, and I suspect > that they're running FreeBSD (I haven't actually paid to see, but > among the list of comma

Re: UFS journal size

2011-09-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:41:08 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/09/2011 10:48, Ross wrote: > > My question is: if I have 4 or 8 GB of RAM should I create 8 or even > > 16 GB journals?.. This seems huge especially if the fs size without > > journal is only 10 gigs. Or the recommended minimum is f

Re: How can I disable hyperthreads, but NOT smp ?

2011-09-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:28:18 +0100 Richard Collyer wrote: > On 20/09/2011 21:34, Jason Usher wrote: > > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE system with two physical CPUs, each of which > > are HT capable. From dmesg: > > > > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 > > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 > > cpu3 (AP)

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:57:04 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > > You can use videolan / vlc. It allows you to multicast video too. > > In September 2011 BSD Magazine you have some examples about that. > > I like vlc on Linux/Windows machines. But installing it to a streaming > server is a pain. Even

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:55:53 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/09/2011 13:34, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > > Either from the FreeBSD docs, or based on personal experiences, > > what is the recommended swap space for a 8GB system? Your opinions > > are greatly appreciated > > The old rule of thumb

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:38:28 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > > See mailer.conf(5) and mailwrapper(8) > > > Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor > this and invoke sendmail directly. They're supposed to, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to mailwrapper. The real send

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: > I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This > involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and > > ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail > > which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've see

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:03 -0600 Brett Glass wrote: > I'd like to see if I can set up > local delivery of mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry > program that is sendmail. I have the default settings and have 2 sendmail process with 3MB of resident memory each, and I've never noti

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:15:02 -0600 Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:55 PM 8/29/2011, Bruce Cran wrote: > > >Actually, the ULE scheduler does know about HyperThreading and the > >topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the > >information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:30 +0200 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > I was reading I think it was nebsd-us...@betbsd.org a few days back, > quite an interesting thread about para-virtualization support, > it seems NetBSD may have more support support there &/or with Xen. IIRC the Xen project itself pro

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:38:27 -0700 Yuri wrote: > Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as > such. Is this true? I wonder if this might be a mix-up between virtual and physical memory. It's use of address space can be prohibitive on i386. ___

Re: "make readmes" no longer builds individual ports' README.html files?

2011-08-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with > all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me > here. :-) > > Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: > > cd /usr/ports >

Re: password hash weaknesses in FreeBSD ?

2011-08-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:36:12 +0100 マンロークリストファ wrote: > The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for > password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are > widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password > hashing to be done using salted SHA1 / S

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread RW
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:15:23 +0200 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 > system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option > screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling > they are X related. I.e

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:07:41 +0200 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin > wrote: > > Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port, > > and not to update its dependencies. > > > > That's kinda the point of portupgrade, takes care of the deps for

Re: cvsup and versions

2011-06-27 Thread RW
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:17:09 +0100 wayne mitchell wrote: > hey, > i have just cvsup'ed for first time (newbie) > RELENG_8_1_RELEASE You probably want to use RELENG_8_1 which is the security branch for the 8.1 release. RELENG_8_1_RELEASE is the version on the CD, without any security fixes. > r

Re: Using a "special" proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:52:09 -0600 (MDT) Dennis Glatting wrote: I need is a method to embed into make.conf a proxy specification > for fetch. Setting the environment variable HTTP_PROXY from the login > shell /is not/ preferred because the account is used by different > administrators, I don't wh

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:20:46 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: > Read /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk. I think mostly many of the variables > contained within may be set in /etc/make.conf and can be picked up at > build time by make. Particularly interesting were PERL_VERSION, > PERL_PORT, and USE_PERL, for

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:54:53 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > That's a large part of why I want to make it 'go away'. It _is_ a > "lie" on a RO system. Meaningless, and 'misleading' if you don't see > the RO option as well. > > When th

Re: 'mount -u' stumper

2011-06-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:45:27 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Environment is FreeBSD 7.2 i386 > > I have a Berkeley FFS filesystem that is mounted ro at boot time. > > If I do a 'mount -u' to make it writable, it _is_ made writable, but > "soft-updates' is also set. Incidentally, does an

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-16 Thread RW
_ > From: Chuck Swiger > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM > Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? > You can set fsck_y_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, but it shouldn't be > necessary. The system can figure out for itself w

Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?

2011-06-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:30 +0400 Peter Vereshagin wrote: > You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! > 2011/06/15 08:51:22 +0100 RW => To > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : > R> > - From what I see in /var/db/portsnap/files/ it keeps every file > R> &g

Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?

2011-06-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:34:34 +0400 Peter Vereshagin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! > 2011/06/14 17:17:39 -0700 Chuck Swiger => To Peter > Vereshagin : > CS> > Does it keep them? Does portsnap keep snapshots fetche

Re: Where's my disk?

2011-06-04 Thread RW
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:48:12 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:31:18 +0200, Erik Nørgaard > wrote: > > The first problem is that I have no idea how my disk will be > > recognized, now the root partition is on /dev/ad6s1a. > > A good approach is to apply a label or use the UFSID of

Re: Funny thing with portsclean

2011-05-30 Thread RW
On Mon, 30 May 2011 20:15:53 -0300 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 30 May 2011 01:20:42 Robert Simmons wrote: > > Sorry, I didn't mention why. You need use -DD if you don't want > > that to happen, and you want it to follow installed packages as > > well. __

Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. > > You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not > support. > > > I wanted to install something fr

Re: Input file for shutdown warning?

2011-05-16 Thread RW
On 17 May 2011 01:24:56 - "John Levine" wrote: > In article <20110517021633.26b47...@gumby.homeunix.com> you write: > >On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:38:21 -0700 > >Alexander Lardner wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> Is it possible to do something like this: > >> > >> shutdown -p now /root/somefile > >

Re: Input file for shutdown warning?

2011-05-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:38:21 -0700 Alexander Lardner wrote: > Hello, > Is it possible to do something like this: > > shutdown -p now /root/somefile > > How would I do that, or is it even possible? According to the man page it is. ___ freebsd-question

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:13:16 -0400 Alejandro Imass wrote: > The first need to change is your Windoze vocabulary, so the "command > line" is called a "shell". Next you will need to eventually master a > text editor. The are literally hundreds of text-editor in the Unix > world but there are two pr

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10

2011-05-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 May 2011 10:01:46 -0700 Arthur Barlow wrote: > Sorry. I should have mentioned that I'm using a GeForce FX 5200 card. > Because of it's "age", NVIDIA says that it need the the > "nvidia-driver-173...", but NVIDIA also says they do not have a > version that works for FreeBSD 8.x. I wa

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:00 -0400 Bob Hall wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:54:06AM +0100, RW wrote: > > but they aren't the same - that's what the quotes were about. > > Looking back, I don't see anything in your quotes that raises the > issue of anonymo

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:17:41 -0400 Bob Hall wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:10AM +0100, RW wrote: > > I'm not saying that anonymous mappings used by malloc aren't > > zero-filled, just that it's not mentioned anywhere in the mmap man > > page. I think

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:14:02 -0400 Bob Hall wrote: > malloc() uses either sbrk or mmap to extend the heap. As far as I > know, sbrk extends the heap with zero filled memory. According to the > man page, mmap extends it either with remapped data, or with remapped > data plus additional zero fille

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread RW
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:23:11 +0200 "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, RW > wrote: > >> The above quote states that the memory not occupied by the remapped > >> object is zero filled. Which is to say that memory allocated by > >&g

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread RW
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:48:53 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:29:08 +0100 > RW wrote: > > > The reason I thought that heap memory isn't zeroed is from the > > discussion of pre-zeroed pages in this article: > > There's an idlezero

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:56:14 -0400 Bob Hall wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:29:08PM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400 > > Bob Hall wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > > > >

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:54:20 -0400 Bob Hall wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:46:33PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Hall wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:18:46PM +0100, RW wrote: > > >> I don't believe the heap is

Re: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-25 Thread RW
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:53:41 +0200 "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Modulok wrote: > > I don't know if this is a problem on FreeBSD... > > > > Process A requests memory. > > Process A Stores a plaintext password in memory or other sensitive > > data. Process A terminates a

Re: Missing plugin for Firefox

2011-04-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:05:29 -0400 Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Friday April 22 2011 5:46:19 PM Jimmie James wrote: > > It's a youtube video, so it's flash. > > > > >I'm running the latest port of Firefox 4.0 > > I have Sockwave Flash 10.2 r153 plugin in Firefox. > > I have been playing flash

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:34:32 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700 > per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: > > > Jerry wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500 > > > Martin McCormick articulated: > > > > ... our entire network is on the blacklist ... > > > > > > Why

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:44:57 -0700 Devin Teske wrote: > At least two variations to the rule that { ... } is a block of > commands executed in the current shell are: > > 1. When the block appears as a function Is that correct? I'd assumed that functions do execute in the current shell since yo

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:27:27 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: > Hello list. > > I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. > ... > When Googling this problem I see both the use of /var/squid and > /usr/local/squid. >... > I find what I consider conflicting information, often it's quite > dat

Re: "portmaster -a" command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:37:32 + Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed Flecko wrote: > > Thanks Aurthur. > > > > :-) > > > > It's funny...I DID what it asks and it still didn't work (make > > deinstall, etc.). > ... > > Apparently, I installed it from a package, so I did a pkg_delete > >

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:01:10 -0500 "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote: > Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. > > rc.d question > > I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible > unix audience. I need a line in "/etc/inittab" and to have a > start/stop in

Re: How to push privoxy traffic through squid?

2011-02-24 Thread RW
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:09:04 -0800 Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I have squid installed and working fine using its default settings; if > I set my browser proxy to the server address:3128 , everything works > fine. > ... > and I've added: > > listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118 > > and > > forwar

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