Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused disc
space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows. I'm looking
for the same thing for FreeBSD.
Thanks,
Jason C. Wells
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Hi there,
Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements.
Cheers,
Marc
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:10:02AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused
disc space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows.
Marc Silver wrote:
Hi there,
Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements.
Or always 'rm -P' :-)
Peter
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Hi there,
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:22:33AM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote:
Or always 'rm -P' :-)
Nice... never knew about this.
That said, this won't satisfy the Gutmann requirement as far as I
understand it and overwriting a file three times is not considered a
true secure wipe of data. This
man dd
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Jason C. Wells wrote:
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused disc
space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows. I'm looking for
the same thing for FreeBSD.
Thanks,
Jason C. Wells
This is a very good book:
http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0201702452rl=1
Also these are very nice resources, it know it's NetBSD:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/index.html
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/index.html
Kind regards,
Tom
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Hi there,
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:43:46AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
how? even single write is enough
Not according to the paper that Gutmann wrote:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/
In short, he says that if you know how the data
That said, this won't satisfy the Gutmann requirement as far as I
understand it and overwriting a file three times is not considered a
true secure wipe of data. This data would still be theoretically
recoverable.
how? even single write is enough
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we have a Solaris 10 NFS server and a FreebSD 7.0 NFS client.
We have a couple of NFSv4 mounted filesystem on the client.
nest.ifom-ieo-campus.it:/data/exports/obj/bsd7.ifom-ieo-campus.it/obj
/mnt/nest nfs rw,-r=16384,-w=16384,tcp,-4 2 0
Hi to all.
Stupid question here )
I've cvsup'ed recently from 6.1 to RELENG_6_3. All seems to works pretty
well right now. There are plenty of new drivers and fixes that I needed so
much! Many thanks to developers!
But now uname -a says it's 6.3-RELEASE. I thought it would be 6.3-RC2 .
Is it
Radheshyam Bhatt wrote:
Hello People,
How's it going?I am interested in to developing drivers
for FreeBSD. How do I go about start learning program for that? What
books resources I should look in to. I know C, and I am learning about
processes, and system calls.
At 12:03 17/01/2008, you wrote:
Radheshyam Bhatt wrote:
Hello People,
How's it going?I am interested in to developing drivers
for FreeBSD. How do I go about start learning program for that? What
books resources I should look in to. I know C, and I am learning about
Jeff Laine wrote:
Hi to all.
Stupid question here )
I've cvsup'ed recently from 6.1 to RELENG_6_3. All seems to works pretty
well right now. There are plenty of new drivers and fixes that I needed so
much! Many thanks to developers!
But now uname -a says it's 6.3-RELEASE. I thought it would
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:30:23PM +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
Jeff Laine wrote:
Hi to all.
Stupid question here )
I've cvsup'ed recently from 6.1 to RELENG_6_3. All seems to works pretty
well right now. There are plenty of new drivers and fixes that I needed so
much! Many thanks to
Hi,
I have this configuration:
Internet - [Hw Router] (LAN1: 192.168.2.0/24) - [
192.168.2.138 GatewayComp 192.168.0.1 ] -- (LAN2: 192.168.0.0/24)
I would like to access a computer from LAN1 to LAN2.
LAN1 machine is:
FreeBSD office1adsl.dyndns.org 6.2-RELEASE
Internet - [Hw Router] (LAN1: 192.168.2.0/24) - [
192.168.2.138 GatewayComp 192.168.0.1 ] -- (LAN2: 192.168.0.0/24)
I would like to access a computer from LAN1 to LAN2.
Perform the following and post the results of:
- ping from GatewayComp to pc on 0.0 network and a pc
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Internet - [Hw Router] (LAN1: 192.168.2.0/24) - [
192.168.2.138 GatewayComp 192.168.0.1 ] -- (LAN2: 192.168.0.0/24)
I would like to access a computer from LAN1 to LAN2.
Perform the following and post the results of:
- ping from GatewayComp to
In a smaller environment (50 users) will processor selection make
any real difference ? Website with some simple php scripting and
mysql databases tied in .
snip
-- Network: 100Mb switched soon to be GB switched.
- Disk: How much information are you pulling off of the disk? If you
are
In a smaller environment (50 users) will processor selection make
any real difference ? Website with some simple php scripting and
mysql databases tied in .
This is a very tough question to answer. If you already have a test
environment, see how it works on your current hardware, and
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 07:55:20PM -0800, Eric LaVoie wrote:
Will FreeBSD work if I install it on an external hard drive, connected to a
mobile PC via USB or FireWire, as a partition ( the two partitions being the
mobile PC's internal Hardrive and this external hard drive which I am asking
Hello,
I noticed I couldn't use some characters with libncursesw: namely ⚑ ⚐
and ⏏.
I run into some tests and found that some characters were reported as
unprintable, while on Linux all was fine.
I found it extremely strange since those characters would show up in my
terminal (gnome-terminal)
Greetings,
Looking to purchase a server that I will run Freebsd on. It will be a
FAMP server. I am trying to decide buying used or new.
Used server has (2) Xeon 2.8GHZ processors with 512K cache.
New server has Dual Core Xeon 1.6Ghz with 4MB cache and
1066 front side bus.
In a smaller
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:30:53PM -0500, Bob Hall wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:42:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:48:47PM -0500, Radheshyam Bhatt wrote:
Hello People,
How's it going?I am interested in to developing drivers
- ping from pc on 0.0 network to 192.168.2.138
Well, I cannot do this from here. Those computers are X terminals,
they do not run inetd nor sshd. I cannot login from here and I cannot
leave now, but I can do it later if necessary.
- sysctl -a net.inet.ip.forwarding (on the GatewayComp)
have you your BIOS?
Javier Matos wrote:
Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when I do
it... Usually my hard drive make a strange noise... and the screen show
DMA problems (ok, it may be the hard drive)... but... I change my hard
drive and I take one more time
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
gmirror works too very good without any hardware :)
CB Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about
it. :-)
...and its failures? ;)
:)
for mirroring there is almost no CPU overhead so buying extra hardware
doesn't make sense at all. not
Marc Silver wrote:
Obviously it all comes down to how important the data is that you're
removing, but a single write is not enough if the data needs to be
disposed of 'securely'.
Yep. The magnetic media retains a trace of everything that was recorded
on it. If you have recorded over an old
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:00:46AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
Am running FBSD-6.2p10
Recently, I upgraded MySQL-4.1.22 to 5.0.x and while things seem to work
okay, I keep getting this warning in phpMyAdmin:
Your PHP MySQL library version 4.1.22 differs from your MySQL server
version
Rick Macklem wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
[good stuff snipped]
Right now we maintain a relatively stable VM/VFS KPI withing a major
release (i.e, FreeBSD 6.0 - 6.1 - 6.2 - 6.3), but see fairly
significant changes between major releases (5.x - 6.x - 7.x, etc).
I
Am running FBSD-6.2p10
Recently, I upgraded MySQL-4.1.22 to 5.0.x and while things seem to work
okay, I keep getting this warning in phpMyAdmin:
Your PHP MySQL library version 4.1.22 differs from your MySQL server
version 5.0.51. This may cause unpredictable behavior.
Perhaps my manner of
... But with a raid controller mirror you do not have to send the data twice
over the host bus.
please reread what i said. most todays RAID controllers are actually
normal controllers with BIOS with software support.
these are supported with ataraid.
there is nothing done by hardware
Hello,
Anyone know if Intel 5000V chipset with ESB2 SATA 3.0 onboard RAID is supported
on FreeBSD 6.2/6.3/7 ?
Last time I've checked on 6.1 it didn't work in RAID mode.
Thanks,
Tamouh Hakmi
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* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-17 02:25:11+0100]:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:03:29PM -0500, N.J. Thomas wrote:
Can someone tell me if lockfile(1) is a POSIX-defined utility?
Considering that lockfile(1) is usually installed as part of procmail
Ah, gotcha. Coincidently, the RHEL
On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Sean Hulbert wrote:
I am trying to download FreeBSD stable.
All I get is a cvsups file. I need to download the ISO to my winbox
then burn it to CD.
Is there a program or link to the direct ISO that will allow me to
download it.
See
Hello
I am trying to download FreeBSD stable.
All I get is a cvsups file. I need to download the ISO to my winbox then burn
it to CD.
Is there a program or link to the direct ISO that will allow me to download it.
Thank You
Sean Hulbert
Work Ph:925.227.8500 x136
Cell Email: [EMAIL
Hello,
I'have a Sony Vaio BGN-BX397XP.
I'have Windows XP and Mandriva installed, but I want use FreeBSD.
I cant boot with any CD, the system displays rapidly lines on the screen
incomprehensible, I have a picture for that.
I'have test 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0 beta 4 CDs
You can see on back the model
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have several postfix transport gateways on different networks all
working with local amavisd-maia+SA using a remote postgresql backend at
one location. I am getting delays in the queues on a gateway server at a
remote site since we added
nice solution found, thx anyway.
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After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM.
According to dmesg...
installing database on RAID-5 or asking if to add swap (when almost none
is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?
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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:53 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also have assumed in the past that db performance could be better if I
get off the system RAID-5 and put it on 1+0? The system has 4 SATA
drives.
That will speed things up if IO
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
[good stuff snipped]
Right now we maintain a relatively stable VM/VFS KPI withing a major release
(i.e, FreeBSD 6.0 - 6.1 - 6.2 - 6.3), but see fairly significant changes
between major releases (5.x - 6.x - 7.x, etc). I expect to see further
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:53 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also have assumed in the past that db performance could be better if I
get off the system RAID-5 and put it on 1+0? The
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:19 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB)
we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed?
If you're using a 32-bit (i386) kernel you need PAE. Or
We have several postfix transport gateways on different networks all
working with local amavisd-maia+SA using a remote postgresql backend at
one location. I am getting delays in the queues on a gateway server at a
remote site since we added more memory to the db server. After seeing
the issues of
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB)
we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed?
If you're using a 32-bit (i386) kernel you need PAE. Or switch to 64-bit
(amd64).
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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:19 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB)
we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed?
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:34 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't know anything about amavisd's usage of databases. If it's doing
a lot of small writes, then it's likely that getting off RAID 5 will make
a marked difference.
I believe this is
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM.
According to dmesg...
installing database on RAID-5 or asking if to add swap (when almost none
is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?
That is not a
hello,
I just bought a dedicated server (unmanaged server)
Can you help me?
I want to install the ftp.
Can you help me step by step ?
I can connect to my server via SSH and I have installed the cpanel/whm.
Please reply me as soon as if its possible.
Thank you,
GiotisSL
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:17 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM.
According to dmesg...
installing database on RAID-5 or asking if to add swap (when almost none
is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?
That was my whole point
is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?
That was my whole point of showing you the low usage. I take that as a
yes, RAID 1+0 would provide a dramatic difference in speed, thanks!
the only adventage of RAID-5 is less wasted space than RAID-1. one and
the only adventage. write
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:11 +0200, Giotis Eugen wrote:
hello,
I just bought a dedicated server (unmanaged server)
Can you help me?
I want to install the ftp.
Can you help me step by step ?
I can connect to my server via SSH and I have installed the cpanel/whm.
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Subject: Gutman Method on Empty Space
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of
unused
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:49 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote?
That was my whole point of showing you the low usage. I take that as a
yes, RAID 1+0 would provide a dramatic difference in speed, thanks!
the only adventage of RAID-5 is less wasted
Guys,
moving disks from an old server to a new one I suffered from a moment of
brain fade last night and newfs'ed a drive I shouldn't have. One of that
new crop that is so large you won't have an adequate backup for it... :(
So, just wondering if there are any disk recovery tools that might be
use systat
Using 'systat -iostat' it shows mostly idle with 25-70 MB/s on the aacd0
array. Most of time above 50. Thanks for the help!
--
Robert
70MB/s can't be mostly idle. or you meant CPU mostly idle.
changing to RAID-not5 will help. seeking why disk traffic is so high -
will help even
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of
unused disc
space?
split -b 200m /dev/random randomdata ; sync rm randomdata*
Run as many times as your paranoia factor requires on your file system.
Gutman suggests in his own writings that overwriting with random data
From professional experience as a data recovery technician, I can tell
you that ufs2 drives are among the hardest to recover from after a
format. So far the best applications that I have found for recovering
data in a situation like this are testdisk and Easy Recovery
Professional (by Kroll
Hi, I installed freeBSD 6.3RC2 on my computer.
SSH deamon is installed and working.
On my linux computer I can connect easily ssh -D 8080 myserver.com
and use it as SOCKS for firefox as proxy server.
But on windows I cant using putty, I can make it local like -L in linux
but i cant make it
On Friday 18 January 2008 04:52:44 Juan Ortega wrote:
Hi, I installed freeBSD 6.3RC2 on my computer.
SSH deamon is installed and working.
On my linux computer I can connect easily ssh -D 8080 myserver.com
and use it as SOCKS for firefox as proxy server.
But on windows I cant using putty, I
Ok I was wondering around,
Then found the 6.3 ISO's
are these the real 6.3 release's ?
Can I use these ISO's as the
6.3 release CD's ?
I am asking because I never saw a word of 6.3 REL being ready.
Thanks
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:56:32PM -0800, Jon wrote:
Ok I was wondering around,
Then found the 6.3 ISO's
are these the real 6.3 release's ?
Maybe. Unless some last second problem is found in which case the ISO's
will be rebuilt.
Can I use these ISO's as the 6.3 release CD's ?
Can? Yes.
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