Re: Reconstruct meaningful data from tcpdumps?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010, Modulok wrote: >Is there a way to reconstruct network traffic from a tcpdump file? Or >something similar? As in: analyze the dump file and attempt to >re-construct files transfered though http, ftp, known messenger >protocols, instant message conversations, http requests, web

Reconstruct meaningful data from tcpdumps?

Is there a way to reconstruct network traffic from a tcpdump file? Or something similar? As in: analyze the dump file and attempt to re-construct files transfered though http, ftp, known messenger protocols, instant message conversations, http requests, web pages, and so forth? There's a bunch of

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza wrote: > Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this > > > setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message > setenv: Syntax Error. Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv. > man setenv is useless. The manual entry

Disk very slow in FreeBSD

I've tried everything here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15747 and here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15722 Also followed this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...8&postcount=38 I have a 2TB WD drive

how to setenv using Bourne .sh

Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message setenv: Syntax Error. man setenv is useless. The question is how do I set a environment variable using the default freebsd shell? __

Re: troubles with my optical drive on old thinkpad....

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:23:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > guys, > > i only have a couple more black cd-r discs left; have wasted many since > i WAS ABLE to install PC-BSD. the optical [dvd/cd] drive =does= read > my ancient 5.3 CD set, but it reads nothing i burn. i have tried > burning 8.0 boo

Re: ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

> "Michael" == Michael writes: Michael> Does anybody has a working configuration with ipfw nated jails Michael> on loopback interface? I noticed in my pf.conf that I had "set skip on lo". I changed that to "set skip on lo0" (still advisable), and then created an "lo1" using ipv4_addrs_l

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Thanks for your responses! fsdb really works. The event sequence was as follows: $sudo smartctl -t long /dev/ad6 $sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/ad6 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining ... LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure90%7376

ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

Hello. Does anybody has a working configuration with ipfw nated jails on loopback interface? It simply doesn't work on my system. I can not get any connections to outside world from within a jail. FreeBSD 8.0-p3 amd64 laptop connected to internet via wlan0 (ath0) with 192.168.1.111 address.

Re: shrinking swap space

Hi-- On Jul 9, 2010, at 6:18 AM, John Almberg wrote: > Is there a utility that shows which programs are using swap space? Or that > can help debug this problem? Try: "top -o size" Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: shrinking swap space

> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jul 9 08:18:56 2010 > Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:18:01 -0400 > From: John Almberg > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: shrinking swap space > > Since my server locked me out last week because it was out of swap > space, I've been monitorin

Re: ezjail -vs- "Do it yourself" jail?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:50:26AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: > I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be > facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. > > I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the > jail, when I came across several websites that referen

Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?

On 08.07.2010, at 03:04, Olivier Nicole wrote: > That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based > on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more > wide spread. Yes, that's what I think, too. > You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you ar

Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?

On 07.07.2010, at 23:24, Henrik Hudson wrote: > One caveat is that ESX / ESXi are very picky about their hardware > and pretty much won't run on anything but server class devices > (mobo, NICs and CPU are the big ones). Yes, I'm aware of that. We have entry level, but ESXi compatible, HP and IBM

Re: slow down dd - how?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi, > > > How can I slow down dd? > > > > you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio): > > > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k > > of=/dev/somewhere > > > > T

Re: ezjail -vs- "Do it yourself" jail?

On 9-7-2010 17:13, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: > >> I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be >> facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. >> >> I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the >> jail, when I

Re: ezjail -vs- "Do it yourself" jail?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: > I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be > facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. > > I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the > jail, when I came across several websites that reference the "e

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Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

krad writes: In my experience dedup requires a fairly large amount of juice so if your backups are large I hope you machines are big on ram The way tarsnap does it is not that intensive. I have used in an old 900Mhz machine with less than 640MB of RAM and it worked well. I think the program c

ezjail -vs- "Do it yourself" jail?

I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the jail, when I came across several websites that reference the "ezjail" package. Are there some caveats or downsides to usin

Re: VPN IPsec Help

>> % route add 192.168.10.24/32 200.x.x.x >> % route add 192.168.201.196/32 200.x.x.x >> % route add 10.115.90.236/32 200.x.x.x > add net 192.168.10.24: gateway 200.x.x.x: Network is unreachable > -- The kernel will not create routes automatically? -- Matheus Weber

Re: slow down dd - how?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > > How can I slow down dd? > > > > you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio): > > > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k > > of=/dev/somewhere > > > > Thi

shrinking swap space

Since my server locked me out last week because it was out of swap space, I've been monitoring the swap space every 4 hours. It started off with 3% used and little by little it has crept up to 17% this morning. I've been reading up on the subject in my two FreeBSD books (Absolute and Complete)

Re: sort: write error with portsnap

On 07/08/2010 19:01, Jakub Lach wrote: Julien Cigar-2 wrote: Am I the only one to have sort: write errors since a few days with portsnap ? : Same here. FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0 r209773 - Jakub Lach good to know I'm not the only one ... I thought my disks/RAID was silently dying (no k