Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi

> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:48:48 +0100
> From: Polytropon 
> Subject: Re: well, try here first...
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> > 
> > To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma
> > is not optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There
> > are definite rules and it brings structure. 
>
> That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
> realitiy anymore. :-)
>
> A famous thing is "comma in lists": Unlike German, where "and"
> substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
> comma infront of "and":

In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
_required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and forbidden
if there were only two items.

The famous "eats roots, shoots..." would parse as eating 3 objects, with the
comma before the 'and'.
for three actions, change the 'and' to 'then', comma before 'then'.
If eating two objects, "eats roots AND shoots *comma* and..." (emphasis added)

The accepted 'rules' changed about the time "new math" was foisted on the
world.  The most visible ones involved comma placement, and punctuation
inside trailing quotes.

  The password is "frodo."
  It is 5 characters long.

  The password is "frodo."
  It is 6 characters long.

BAH, HUMBUG!!! 

Make the first one:
  The password is "frodo". 
and all the ambiguity goes away.<*snarl*>

>   He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
>
> In German, that would be
>
>   Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
>   und eine Nase.

how do you write:
The sandwich choices are: tuna salad, chicken, roast beef and
ham, and cheese.
*without* making the last option a '{2 meats} and cheese' sandwich ??
(the next-to-last has two types of meat on it)

<*EVIL* grin>

> Note that the structure of a sentence, aided by
> punctuation, is an important part during the reading experience.
> Sentences that do not show any structure are hard to read and
> to understand, and a missing comma can decide about life or
> death easily:
>
>   KILL HIM NOT WAIT UNTIL I ARRIVE

the traditional one of these in English is:
Go kill Joe Brown
_who_ is to die depends on whether or not there is a comma after
the second word.  Ditto for who -does- the deed.


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Re: portsnap

2012-11-13 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
Yeap. Same here:

pluto# portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
No updates needed.
Ports tree is already up to date.


How can it be possible? 3 years now that I use FreeBSD there was not even a 
single day that we didn't have updates in the ports tree. How can it be 
possible for two consecutive days to have "No updates needed."?

Something is wrong...

Regards
Elias
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:37 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> 
> > That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
> > realitiy anymore. :-)
> > 
> > A famous thing is "comma in lists": Unlike German, where "and"
> > substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
> > comma infront of "and":
> > 
> > He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
> > 
> > In German, that would be
> > 
> > Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
> > und eine Nase.
> 
> 
> This is interesting, because the comma before the "and" in a list
> is much more understandable, because it is open to less interpretation. 

This is different to "'and' substitutes a comma", but makes
sense. For example, I prefer reading the english documentation
of FreeBSD (manpages, handbook, FAQ and articles) over their
often sloppily and quite "mechanically" done translations.
Good quality in documentation helps to raise the quality of
the complete product.



> This is where the "eats shoots and leaves" comes in, kind of.
> There are similar examples where ambiguity arises from the
> lack of a comma before "and" in a list.   The comma before
> the "and" is traditional English.

Interesting, thanks for this pointer. So "modern English"
is what makes the difference here...



> There are, however, lots of people who advocate for the lack
> of a comma before the "and" in a list and that is taught in
> some classes in some schools.

This kind of arbitraryness is not good. Whatever "way" is
preferred, it should be used consistently.



> I don't claim to be a great German speaker or writer.   I have
> not visited there in 12 years nor lived there in almost 20 years. 
> But people at least can understand me and I can get my point
> across.  :)

With enough mental variability, that shouldn't be a problem. :-)



> Most of my post was meant to support what you were saying, btw.  
> As well as give examples and interesting tidbits.  I agree that
> proper grammar is important in language, even when I don't always
> use it or do it; especially in informal speech like email lists,
> forums, etc.

Personally I do not "make" such differences. Proper spelling
is easier (at least for me) than artificially avoiding it,
like _not_ putting a comma where it belongs to, _not_ capitalizing
a word that is to be capitalized, or _not_ using the proper
spelling in favour of some "variant". However, I'm not considered
"normal" so whatever I do does not imply anything. :-)



> > But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
> > make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
> > to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.
> > 
> > Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)
> 
> 
> You must really be taking a conniption fit with the changes
> (Verbilligen -- cheapening --  though the exact words I was
> searching for have failed me tonight)  that have happened in
> German in the last 10 or so years ( striking of ß; to always
> be written with "ss" now, etc)...

The Eszett has been abolished in Switzerland, not in Germany.
The "new" rule (historically: old, has been abolished after
about 100 years in use because too much prone to errors)
says something about "short vs. long vowels" which is nonsense
(as vowel length depends on dialect, not on spelling), so
some valid ß get turned into ss. Effect: Most valid ß get
turned into ss, and even some innocent s get turned into
ss, like Massband or Zeugniss. :-)

I'm still looking for a valid translation of "bespaßen",
an accusative-passive construct of "to entertain somebody". :-)



> >> Und "Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht" ist 100% verständlich
> >> auf deutsch, da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz
> >> zu englischer Sprache.
> > 
> > It may be 100% understandable, but it's not correct, because it's
> > not a sentence or a grammatically valid construct. The translation
> > would have been (quite literally, I admit):
> > 
> > Playboy everything what men fun makes
> 
> Actually, no.   A more correct translation would be:
>Playboy everything that to men fun makes.

Yes, that's much more valid, that's why I wrote "literally", which
means sloppy and possibly wrong, because I didn't find a proper
way to have the dative case "encoding" without adding additional
words, so it's even wronger. :-)



> [Or, if you wanted the same mistake (lack of comma or hyphen) but
> proper English word order:   Playboy everything that is fun for men.]

Whom is it fun for? +Dativ.
Whom is it fun to? +Dativ.

Sadly, I can't bring the "Dativ joke" here:
Ulli hat Dativ mitgebracht - für jedem einem.

Ulli has brought Dativ - one for everyone. Yes, the translation
isn't funny anymore. :-(



> "Männern" is dative case, which, when used without a preposition,
> is best translated as "to " where  is written
> with dative case endings.

Case endings and clear preposition requirements are something
m

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC

On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote:

> That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
> realitiy anymore. :-)
> 
> A famous thing is "comma in lists": Unlike German, where "and"
> substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
> comma infront of "and":
> 
>   He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
> 
> In German, that would be
> 
>   Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
>   und eine Nase.


This is interesting, because the comma before the "and" in a list is much more 
understandable, because it is open to less interpretation.   This is where the 
"eats shoots and leaves" comes in, kind of.  There are similar examples where 
ambiguity arises from the lack of a comma before "and" in a list.   The comma 
before the "and" is traditional English.   There are, however, lots of people 
who advocate for the lack of a comma before the "and" in a list and that is 
taught in some classes in some schools.

I don't claim to be a great German speaker or writer.   I have not visited 
there in 12 years nor lived there in almost 20 years.  But people at least can 
understand me and I can get my point across.  :)

Most of my post was meant to support what you were saying, btw.   As well as 
give examples and interesting tidbits.  I agree that proper grammar is 
important in language, even when I don't always use it or do it; especially in 
informal speech like email lists, forums, etc.

> But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
> make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
> to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.
> 
> Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)


You must really be taking a conniption fit with the changes (Verbilligen -- 
cheapening --  though the exact words I was searching for have failed me 
tonight)  that have happened in German in the last 10 or so years ( striking of 
ß; to always be written with "ss" now, etc)...

>> 
>> Und "Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht" ist 100% verständlich
>> auf deutsch, da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz
>> zu englischer Sprache.
> 
> It may be 100% understandable, but it's not correct, because it's
> not a sentence or a grammatically valid construct. The translation
> would have been (quite literally, I admit):
> 
>   Playboy everything what men fun makes

Actually, no.   A more correct translation would be:Playboy everything that 
to men fun makes.

[Or, if you wanted the same mistake (lack of comma or hyphen) but proper 
English word order:   Playboy everything that is fun for men.]

"Männern" is dative case, which, when used without a preposition, is best 
translated as "to " where  is written with dative case 
endings.

> 
> Again, a hyphen after the 1st word would it much more readable.
> 
> 
> 
>> (and "playboy -- everything that is fun for men" [in German] is
>> 100% understandable in German, because there is a real dative case
>> in German, unlike in english.)
> 
> In _that_ translation, you've used the hyphen correctly (which was
> missing in the german version discussed).
> 


Yes, my bad.  I was trying to write it the same but fixed it unconsciously.


regards
Chad



Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > 
> > Ouch.
> > 
> > Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
> > in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
> > is the "word order" that achieves this goal, and a comma is
> > mostly optional or "left to preferences". In German, there are
> > rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
> > are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
> > leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
> > 
> > In the above example,
> > 
> > Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
> > 
> > or better using a hyphen
> > 
> > Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
> > 
> > would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
> > in a correct manner.
> 
> To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma
> is not optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There
> are definite rules and it brings structure. 

That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
realitiy anymore. :-)

A famous thing is "comma in lists": Unlike German, where "and"
substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
comma infront of "and":

He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.

In German, that would be

Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
und eine Nase.

There are in fact only two exceptions of "comma prior to 'and'"
in German. But I don't want to start a school lesson here. The
exceptions are closures and appended main clause. :-)



> Unfortunately, lots of people forget (or don't pay attention to)
> these rules, or, they are casual with them in the casual forms of
> communication, like email. 

Well, I don't think that the e-mail (as a medium) implies abandoning
rules for written language. Sure, it's "sloppy" very often, but it
should not mangle the languge in a way that the reader has to guess
or to ask for what the writer wanted to express. Proper spelling and
punctuation help a lot, and it should not be "too much struggle" to
get it right: children learn it in the early years in school, so why
should adults forget it?



> (And there are some people who believe that the "text" language
> is English -- OMG, WTF, GR8, B4, LOL, etc --
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_language )

There is also a transition of this written representation to spoken
language - some (young) people actually speaking like SMS.

I don't think that people actually confuse SMS text with the
actual english language. They could have done so almost 100 years
ago with Q groups and abbreviations used in amateur radio telegraphy
(and even in phone mode), ok dr om, hw? :-)

All those "specific language deviations" have their place and
are fully valid. It depends on context. For example, if you got
a business letter with every 3rd word spelled wrong and containing
"SMS and L33T slang", would you take it as a serious information?
Form and content have to match. Nobody would accept a tax form
printed on toilet paper, even if it would be 100% correct in all
content and number details.



> Wie mit deutscher Sprache, man kann (mit englischer Sprache) vieles
> mit der Wortstellung machen.  Und dazu, ist, natürlich, die richtige
> Anwendung (und Verständnis) der Grammatik wichtig.

Sure it is, but it's not about an 1:1 translation. You need to "think
in German" if you want to get it fully right. Baumkuchen... :-)

Your sentence would have been:

In der deutschen Sprache kann man (wie in der englischen Sprache)
vieles mit der Wortstellung machen. Dazu ist natürlich die richtige
Anwendung (und das Verstaendnis) der Grammatik wichtig.

That is little difference, but it makes a big difference in
readability. Note that the structure of a sentence, aided by
punctuation, is an important part during the reading experience.
Sentences that do not show any structure are hard to read and
to understand, and a missing comma can decide about life or
death easily:

KILL HIM NOT WAIT UNTIL I ARRIVE

It's either "kill him, not wait until I arrive" or "kill him not,
wait until I arrive", and this translation is not very good as
"nicht" ~= "do not" cannot be represented so nicely as in the
german equivalent "sentence".

Er begann seinen Hut auf dem Kopf zu essen.

is another (famous) example of how a missing comma can confuse
the reader: "He started eating the hat on his head" is the first
interpretation, even if "He started eating, (having) the hat on
his head", and the comma already makes this difference.



> (Like with the German language, one can do a lot with word order
> (in English).   And for that, the proper use and understanding of
> Grammar is important)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Haha, nice! :-)

But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
to mak punctat

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:09:08 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > >   box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
> > >   I never studied.  yuk.  
> > 
> > I assume your "HW firewall" protects you to the outside. Of
> > course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
> > the "tao" box _if_ you want it that way.
> 
> 
>   my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
>   initial setup listed my internal IP as
> 
>   10.47.0.114,
> 
>   but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to
> 
>   10.47.0.113 .
> 
>   after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.

If you have the option of configuring the DHCP subsystem to
hand out IPs according to MAC addresses, that should make you
safe from reboots and _possible_ new IPs. (At least that's
how I've configured my home system so every device will get
the same IP, no matter how or when it requests one from the
DHCP server. It also includes certain port redirections so
a SSH request from external source will _always_ be directed
to the _correct_ machine on the LAN.)



> > But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
> > that might block SSH connections to "tao", no matter from
> > where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
> > ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
> > enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
> > matter if it's running.
> > 
> 
>   I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
>   ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} "pfw".  I got quite good
>   at it.  I should learn more about plain "pf" and pfSense.
>   do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
>   that would explain a Lot!

That depends on the pre-configuration of the firewall on the
Linux side. From reading the article I've mentioned, I got the
impression that the firewall would deny SSH connections per
default, and that _you_ would have to enable it if you wanted
to use that service. That is comparable to OpenBSD's "service
disabled by default" policy. I'm still not sure if this idea
will get much love or understanding in Linux land where an
"do everything out of the box" experience seems to be very
important among some distributions. :-)

On FreeBSD, ipfw can DEFAULT_TO_DENY or DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, and you
have to specify your rules usually according to the chosen paradigm.
Of course, there are rules to achieve the same effect, even if in
the opposite paradigm.



> > > > > > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > > > > > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> > > > > 
> > > > >   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
> > > > > had
> > > > >   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
> > > > 
> > > > There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
> > > > set up on Fedora:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
> > > > 
> > > > Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
> > > > also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
> > 
> > Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
> > It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
> > mentions the "built-in" firewall that has to be configured
> > to allow connections to that server.
> 
> 
>   the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
>   and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
>   not sure... .

Then there's the possibility that things have changed. Even though
there should not be a massive or paradigm-wide shift in things, you
never know when using automated updating on Linux. Still the 
instructions should be usable at least to identify the steps
involved and the tools to be used.




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:01:20AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2012-11-13 06:22, Gary Kline skrev:
> >
> > guys,
> >
> > hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get ssh working
> > from an outside computer into my brand new "tao" that is running a
> > flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the old, broken
> > tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway, linux is
> > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
> > server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
> >
> > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
> > "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
> > wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
> >
> > anybody know what im NOT doing?
> 
> You have to start the ssh daemon (sshd)


this may have been what did the trick; also, you need the full 
path.
-- 
 Gary Kline  kl...@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
  Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.

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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC

On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
> in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
> is the "word order" that achieves this goal, and a comma is
> mostly optional or "left to preferences". In German, there are
> rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
> are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
> leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
> 
> In the above example,
> 
>   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
> 
> or better using a hyphen
> 
>   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
> 
> would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
> in a correct manner.

To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma is not 
optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There are definite rules 
and it brings structure.   Unfortunately, lots of people forget (or don't pay 
attention to) these rules, or, they are casual with them in the casual forms of 
communication, like email.  (And there are some people who believe that the 
"text" language is English -- OMG, WTF, GR8, B4, LOL, etc -- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_language )

Wie mit deutscher Sprache, man kann (mit englischer Sprache) vieles mit der 
Wortstellung machen.  Und dazu, ist, natürlich, die richtige Anwendung (und 
Verständnis) der Grammatik wichtig.
(Like with the German language, one can do a lot with word order (in English).  
 And for that, the proper use and understanding of Grammar is important)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Und "Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht" ist 100% verständlich auf deutsch, 
da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz zu englischer Sprache.
(and "playboy -- everything that is fun for men" [in German] is 100% 
understandable in German, because there is a real dative case in German, unlike 
in english.)

Gruss aus Utah
Chad



Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
> > I never studied.  yuk.  
> 
> I assume your "HW firewall" protects you to the outside. Of
> course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
> the "tao" box _if_ you want it that way.


my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
initial setup listed my internal IP as

10.47.0.114,

but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to

10.47.0.113 .

after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.


> But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
> that might block SSH connections to "tao", no matter from
> where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
> ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
> enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
> matter if it's running.
> 

I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} "pfw".  I got quite good
at it.  I should learn more about plain "pf" and pfSense.
do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
that would explain a Lot!

> 
> > > > > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > > > > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> > > > 
> > > > rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
> > > > had
> > > > trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
> > > 
> > > There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
> > > set up on Fedora:
> > > 
> > > http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
> > > 
> > > Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
> > > also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
> 
> Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
> It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
> mentions the "built-in" firewall that has to be configured
> to allow connections to that server.


the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
not sure... .

> 
> >From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
> time), this looks like what you need to do.
> 

well, the deal is that my volunteer system admin worked for 
red hat for about 5 years.  I'm more used to ubuntu, but my
friend says that im on my own

anyway, things are starting to eork.  [!]


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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:58:14AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
> > Gary Kline  wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > 
> > Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
> in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
> is the "word order" that achieves this goal, and a comma is
> mostly optional or "left to preferences". In German, there are
> rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
> are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
> leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
> 
> In the above example,
> 
>   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
> 
> or better using a hyphen
> 
>   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
> 
> would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
> in a correct manner.
> 


So!  this explains a lot that I've noticed over the years.  
remember that im beyong =getting= old; I really Am  old.

before I started high school, the rules for commas were
almost set in concrete.  my english teacher took points off
if there was an incorrect comma.  it looks like in germany
language has remained very strict. {but then, that's why 
punctuation exists.}

I've noticed an easing of punctuation--esp'ly in the use of
commas--in how I was taught.  but let's face it: it's easier 
to text by slacking off.  :)

> 
> 
> 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
> Gary Kline  wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
> > > Gary Kline  wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
> > > > > 
> > > > What, no comma!?
> > > 
> > > what the Playboy did to the German language ...
> > > 
> > > Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
> > > obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
> > > decades of no comma in the tag line.
> > 
> > 
> > do you mean that it was "Play boy"? or what? what was the tag
> > line?
> > 
> Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht

Ouch.

Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
is the "word order" that achieves this goal, and a comma is
mostly optional or "left to preferences". In German, there are
rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
leave much space for individual preferences. :-)

In the above example,

Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht

or better using a hyphen

Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht

would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
in a correct manner.





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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Bernt Hansson

2012-11-13 06:22, Gary Kline skrev:


guys,

hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get ssh working
from an outside computer into my brand new "tao" that is running a
flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the old, broken
tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway, linux is
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
"Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
"Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}

anybody know what im NOT doing?


You have to start the ssh daemon (sshd)
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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread Warren Block

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:


OK.  I think that I always was doing that anyway.  But I want to be sure
that I understand... If the size of the BSD partition is a multiple of,
say, !MB, then the _alignment_ of that partition will likewise (auto-
magically) be at least 1MB also?


No.  If you start with $0.63, and only add full dollars or tens, you 
will still never have an integer amount of dollars.


Or do I need to set the alignment separately, e.g. my manually running 
bsdlabel?  (Normally, I've just been using what noadays is being 
called "guided" partitioning, you know, with the friendly curses-based 
GUI.  So As with fdisk, I have no real experience using bsdlabee from 
teh command line.  But I guess it is time that i learned how.)


I don't know of a way to make fdisk and bsdlabel do the correct 
alignment.  But that's okay, because gpart(8) does everything they do, 
and more.  Creating MBRs and bsdlabels is more work, but gpart can do 
it, and do the juggling to get the bsdlabel partitions to line up. 
Again, I suggest that GPT is the much easier and more versatile way. 
But if you insist on MBR/bsdlabel, there are examples of creating it 
with gpart in the new gmirror section of the GEOM chapter of the 
Handbook:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:40 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > >   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
> > > > > to my
> > > > >   server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
> > > > > 
> > > > >   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > > > >   "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
> > > > > like
> > > > >   "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
> > > > >   wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
> > > > 
> > > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > > 
> > >   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
> > >   tao to ethic.
> > 
> > The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
> > the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
> > FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
> > and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
> > specific service (that has to be enabled).
> 
> 
>   hmmm. that might be it.  my firewall is in a nice small, 4w netgear
>   box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
>   I never studied.  yuk.  

I assume your "HW firewall" protects you to the outside. Of
course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
the "tao" box _if_ you want it that way.

But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
that might block SSH connections to "tao", no matter from
where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
matter if it's running.



> > > > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > > > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> > > 
> > >   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
> > >   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
> > 
> > There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
> > set up on Fedora:
> > 
> > http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
> > 
> > Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
> > also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
> > 
> 
> 
>   thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.

Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
mentions the "built-in" firewall that has to be configured
to allow connections to that server.

>From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
time), this looks like what you need to do.



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
Gary Kline  wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
> > Gary Kline  wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> > > > > 
> > > > > you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
> > > > 
> > > > Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
> > > > 
> > >   What, no comma!?
> > 
> > what the Playboy did to the German language ...
> > 
> > Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
> > obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
> > decades of no comma in the tag line.
> 
> 
>   do you mean that it was "Play boy"? or what? what was the tag
> line?
> 
Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht

Playboy corrected this meanwhile as you can see on www.playboy.de.

Just on the side. Does playboy.com still mirror FreeBSD as they did
many years ago?

Erich
> > 
> > You know, while in other countries man could say that they read
> > Playboy only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy
> > only to check on the comma.
> 
> 
>   :-) funny.  I, of course, =always= read playboy for the
> articles, just like every other guy.  {that line goes back to the
> early 1970s.  at least.}
> 
A brother-in-law does this for another professional reason. He does or
did those days plastic surgery and has had to see the results of other
people's work. Of course, he was also interested in the articles.

Listening to his comments was more fun than reading the humour page of
Playboy. 

Erich
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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
wrote:

> >You can then easily use newfs with the -f parameter:
> >
> >   newfs -U -f 4096 
> >
> >This will make sure the proper fragment size will be applied
> >upon formatting the created partitions.
>
> OK.  Thanks.  I am guessing that this is really the one and probably
> _only_ thing that might really make any significant difference,
> performance-
> wise, right?  I mean if the partition is improperly aligned, that really
> only would affect reading and/or writing at the very beginning or at the
> very end of the partition, right?


No, I think it'll affect the whole thing, because every block will be
straddling two 4k sectors instead of filling one.  Then the drive has to
read and rewrite two sectors for every one block you write, instead of just
one, slowing things down to half speed.

Imagine running across the top of a picket fence...if you start half a
fencepost off things are going to be painful. ;)
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
> Gary Kline  wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > >   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> > > > 
> > > > you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
> > > 
> > > Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
> > > 
> > What, no comma!?
> 
> what the Playboy did to the German language ...
> 
> Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
> mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
> comma in the tag line.


do you mean that it was "Play boy"? or what? what was the tag line?

> 
> You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
> only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
> on the comma.


:-) funny.  I, of course, =always= read playboy for the articles,
just like every other guy.  {that line goes back to the  early
1970s.  at least.}

gary

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Resolved: Attempting to build a port uses a stale make(1) configuration

2012-11-13 Thread Австин Ким
Втр 13 Ноя 2012 04:10:46 от Австин Ким :
> Hi, all,
> 
> While attempting to build the KDE 4 port, the build of /usr/ports/astro/gpsd 
> (which recursively got pulled in somewhere) failed because make(1) tried to 
> build using a version of GCC that I had installed from ports at one time but 
> long since `make deinstall'ed:
> 
> ...
> cc -o gpxlogger.o -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wextra -Wall -Wno-uninitialized 
> -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wcast-align -Wmissing-declarations 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -O2 
> -pipe -O3 -march=native -fno-strict-aliasing gpxlogger.c
> cc -o gpxlogger -Wl,-rpath=//usr/local/lib gpxlogger.o -L. -L/usr/local/lib 
> -lrt -lgps -lm
> cc -o lcdgps.o -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wextra -Wall -Wno-uninitialized 
> -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wcast-align -Wmissing-declarations 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -O2 
> -pipe -O3 -march=native -fno-strict-aliasing lcdgps.c
> cc -o lcdgps -Wl,-rpath=//usr/local/lib lcdgps.o -L. -L/usr/local/lib -lrt 
> -lgps -lm
> gcc48 -o gpsclient-py_2_7_3_final_0.so -c -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -pipe -O3 
> -march=native -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -DNDEBUG -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse,387 
> -march=pentium4 -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include/python2.7 
> gpsclient.c
> gcc48: not found
> scons: *** [gpsclient-py_2_7_3_final_0.so] Error 127
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> *** [do-build] Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/astro/gpsd.
> *** [build] Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/astro/gpsd.
> 
> 
> At one time I had installed GCC 4.8.0 from ports, but later removed it (due 
> to stability issues), reverting back to using the default system compiler.  I 
> removed the /usr/ports/lang/gcc48 port using `make deinstall,' and then 
> removed any mention of `*48' from /etc/make.conf.  However, when make(1) 
> tries to build /usr/ports/astro/gpsd above, it apparently tries to use an old 
> setting of `CC=gcc48' and old settings of `CPUTYPE=pentium4' and 
> `CCFLAGS+=-mfpmath=sse,387' that I once had in /etc/make.conf but long since 
> deleted.
> 
> Any ideas where these stale make/build configurations might be lingering?  I 
> suspect that the old options may be in some Python-related config file 
> somewhere, but I have so far not been able to find where.  I know this 
> doesn't give a lot to go on, but can anyone suggest possible places to try 
> looking for stale configuration files?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Austin Kim

Never mind; I figured it out.

Shortly after bringing my FreeBSD system up, I installed GNU GCC 4.8.0 from 
Ports (/usr/ports/lang/gcc48) and set `CC=gcc48,' `CXX=g++48,' `CPP=cpp48,' et 
al., in /etc/make.conf.  Then, as other ports got built under this 
configuration, Python 2.7 (/usr/ports/lang/python27) got pulled in for the 
ride, and when that was built, the above settings made their way into 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile:

...
CC= gcc48
CXX=g++48
...
CONFIG_ARGS= '--with-threads' '--enable-unicode=ucs4' '--enable-ipv6' 
'--with-fpectl' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/local/info/' '--build=i386-portbld-freebsd9.1' 
'build_alias=i386-portbld-freebsd9.1' 'CC=gcc48' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe 
-mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4  -fno-strict-aliasing' 'LDFLAGS= -pthread' 
'CPPFLAGS=' 'CPP=cpp48'
...

Later, after deinstalling GCC 4.8 and reverting back to using the FreeBSD 
system compiler, the vestigial settings above would on occasion get invoked 
when building other ports that presumably used scons or other Python-related 
build mechanisms, causing the `gcc48: not found' error above.  Reinstalling the 
Python 2.7 port from scratch with the updated /etc/make.conf fixed the problem.

Judging from the (lack of) responses, I guess no one else has run into issues 
arising from using different compilers or compiler versions at different times 
to build ports :)
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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi

> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" 
> Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ?
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:07:50 -0800
>
>
> And while we are on the subject... Has anybody ever down any analysis
> (i.e. benchmarking) to find out if -f 4096 is even the best number for
> a modern high(er) capacity drive?  I'm just sort-of wondering if 8192
> or 16384 might be better.

As long as the fragment size is a power-of-two multiple of the media sector
size, there is no significant performance difference.  The only case where
a larger fragment size makes any difference is heavy random i/o on files
where the larger fragment size translates to one less level of indirect
block in the meta-data.

Larger fragment sizes also make for more 'waste' space in the 'used'
part of the disk, assuming random file sizes.

And reduce the space savings gained by _not_ writing 'holes' to disk.

For these reasons, in general, small is better.

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Custom ISO mount script problem

2012-11-13 Thread dweimer
I have a server that I use to host ISO images, and mount them so they 
are available via network shares.  I ran into a problem today, I 
temporarily made an ISO image accessible via a md device and mounted it 
under /mnt just to check the data on the ISO image.  My ISO mount script 
ran its updated check while this was there, and hung up because of it.  
Now the obvious solution is to fix my script, but as I am baffled as to 
why it hung-up, it does do a query on md devices, and will try to 
dismount any that are mounted if they don't match its criteria, and 
delete the md device as well.  However as it would have found this one 
in use, it should have just returned a failure and continued on.  
However it didn't and then when I tried to manually umount it, my umount 
command hung as well.  What I was left with was two umount commands 
attempting to umount /dev/md1000 both stuck, they wouldn't respond to a 
kill -9 I couldn't use mdconfig -d -u 1000 to delete the md device, even 
with a -o force (had yet another process stuck).  After 1 hour all 
processes were still hung, killing the shell left them zombied, but 
still hung there, tying up the md device.


I was left with rebooting the server, until I can figure out why my 
script broke and didn't just error and continue the remaining checks in 
its list.  Does anyone have any idea how if this happens again to kill 
these hung-up umount processes, without rebooting the server?


This could be a fun one to fix, because so far attempting to duplicate 
the problem hasn't worked, think I just have to time something just 
right, or wrong depended how you look at it.


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Re: portsnap

2012-11-13 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Jason Garrett  wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, ajtiM  wrote:
>
>> On Monday 12 November 2012 17:46:44 Aldis Berjoza wrote:
>> > 13.11.2012, 01:27, "ajtiM" :
>> > > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > Is it something wrong with portsnap server or is something wrong with
>> my
>> > > system. When I run portsnap...:
>> > > portsnap fetch update
>> > > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
>> > > Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
>> > > Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
>> > > No updates needed.
>> > > Ports tree is already up to date.
>> > >
>> > > but on http://www.freshports.org/ are many new ports (I like update
>> > > Sage).
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > > Mitja
>> >
>> > It takes some time for mirrors to catch up.
>>
>> But is it about 12 hours okay (maybe more)?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Mitja
>> 
>>
>
> I have the same problem going on 2 days now...
>

Same. This is in Europe.

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Re: portsnap

2012-11-13 Thread Jason Garrett
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, ajtiM  wrote:

> On Monday 12 November 2012 17:46:44 Aldis Berjoza wrote:
> > 13.11.2012, 01:27, "ajtiM" :
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Is it something wrong with portsnap server or is something wrong with
> my
> > > system. When I run portsnap...:
> > > portsnap fetch update
> > > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
> > > Fetching snapshot tag from your-org.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
> > > Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have.
> > > No updates needed.
> > > Ports tree is already up to date.
> > >
> > > but on http://www.freshports.org/ are many new ports (I like update
> > > Sage).
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Mitja
> >
> > It takes some time for mirrors to catch up.
>
> But is it about 12 hours okay (maybe more)?
> Thanks.
>
> Mitja
> 
>

I have the same problem going on 2 days now...


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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette

In message <50a2002b.9040...@qeng-ho.org>, 
Arthur Chance  wrote:

>According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block 
>sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 
>4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks 
>were 2k and 16k which doesn't play so well with 4k drives.

Thank you Arthur for pointing this out.  This comes as welcome news,
since now, it would seem, I won't have to get down a grunge around
trying to run the command line versions of fdisk, bsdlabel, and newfs.
(Normally, I prefer doing most things from the command line, but
initializing new disks for use with FreeBSD is one of the rare
exceptional cases where I prefer to have a bit of a GUI wrapper that's
double checking to make sure that I don't do anything completely
goofy.)
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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette

In message <20121113073030.87bc0608.free...@edvax.de>, 
Polytropon  wrote:

>Note that 4k = 8 x 512 byte, and so 64 sectors would be a
>good alignment "grid", while 63 sectors is not. That implies
>that in case you use fdisk to create a slice holding your
>partitions, try to make it start at sector 64 (63 would
>have been the default).

OK.  I've only ever used the FreeBSD fdisk to just look at what the
current (DOS) partitioning is, so I guess I'll have to dig into the
man page and try to figure out how to actually use it to create a
DOS partition starting at "block" 64.

>After that, use bsdlabel to create the partitions inside
>the slice as you want. Make them multiples of 1M or 1G,

OK.  I think that I always was doing that anyway.  But I want to be sure
that I understand... If the size of the BSD partition is a multiple of,
say, !MB, then the _alignment_ of that partition will likewise (auto-
magically) be at least 1MB also?  Or do I need to set the alignment
separately, e.g. my manually running bsdlabel?  (Normally, I've just
been using what noadays is being called "guided" partitioning, you
know, with the friendly curses-based GUI.  So As with fdisk, I have
no real experience using bsdlabee from teh command line.  But I guess
it is time that i learned how.)

>that should be no big deal because disks are big and cheap
>today. :-)

Yes, exactly so.  I am not exactly going to sweat losing even, say,
one megabyte now that I am the proud owner of a shiny new one TERABYTE
drive.  (Thirty years ago, I could hardly have even ever imagined that
such might exist one day, let alone that I myself would own one, and
let alone that I might have been able to purchase one for less than
$100 USD.  Rather amazing really.)

>You can then easily use newfs with the -f parameter:
>
>   newfs -U -f 4096 
>
>This will make sure the proper fragment size will be applied
>upon formatting the created partitions.

OK.  Thanks.  I am guessing that this is really the one and probably
_only_ thing that might really make any significant difference, performance-
wise, right?  I mean if the partition is improperly aligned, that really
only would affect reading and/or writing at the very beginning or at the
very end of the partition, right?  Whereas this -f parameter for newfs
is, I gather, the thing that really tells the kernel the size of the
physical chunks of data that it can/should read/write to the drive at
any one time, right?

And while we are on the subject... Has anybody ever down any analysis
(i.e. benchmarking) to find out if -f 4096 is even the best number for
a modern high(er) capacity drive?  I'm just sort-of wondering if 8192
or 16384 might be better.

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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
> > > > to my
> > > > server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
> > > > 
> > > > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > > > "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
> > > > like
> > > > "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
> > > > wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
> > > 
> > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > 
> > ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
> > tao to ethic.
> 
> The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
> the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
> FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
> and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
> specific service (that has to be enabled).
> 

and I believe you need to give the full path name; that's one of the 
things ii just did.

> 
> > > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> > 
> > rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
> > trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
> 
> There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
> set up on Fedora:
> 
> http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
> 
> Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
> also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
> 

well, it works.  im not sure what I did, but no comp;laints!
I'm running pfSense in a netgear box.  before I rebooted, my
local IP ended in .114; after and now it moved to .113.  when 
I did an ssh 10.47.0.113, voila! the new tao requested my password.
and I was in.  and go ssh back and forth.  Whew!

thanks for the help, guys.  

gary

ps:  I'v got to figure out how to remove gnome and install kde, 
&c, but  at least that should be easy.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline  wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
> > > Gary Kline  wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can
> > > > > > ssh *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I
> > > > > > cant ssh back in.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an
> > > > > > instant "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get
> > > > > > a string like "Connnection closed".  can any of you network
> > > > > > wizards or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff
> > > > > > is from OpenBSD.}
> > > > > 
> > > > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > > > 
> > > > ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> > > 
> > > you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
> > 
> > Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
> > 
>   What, no comma!?

what the Playboy did to the German language ...

Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
comma in the tag line.

You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
on the comma.

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
> > Gary Kline  wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > >   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
> > > > > *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
> > > > > back in.
> > > > > 
> > > > >   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > > > >   "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
> > > > > string like "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards
> > > > > or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
> > > > > OpenBSD.}
> > > > 
> > > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > > 
> > >   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> > 
> > you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
> 
> Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
> 
What, no comma!?

:)




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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:10:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
> Gary Kline  wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
> > > > *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
> > > > back in.
> > > > 
> > > > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > > > "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
> > > > string like "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards
> > > > or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
> > > > OpenBSD.}
> > > 
> > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > 
> > ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> 
> you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
> 
> Erich


Ha! yes!  I did not know it was one word, but should have remembered
the "v" should be a "w" ...



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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Friedrich" == Friedrich Locke  writes:

Friedrich> The http server is just an excuse, ok? Happy now?

So why lie to us, then?  Not very nice to lie to people from whom you
want help and answers and advice... FOR FREE.

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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
> > > > to my
> > > > server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
> > > > 
> > > > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > > > "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
> > > > like
> > > > "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
> > > > wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
> > > 
> > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > 
> > ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
> > tao to ethic.
> 
> The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
> the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
> FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
> and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
> specific service (that has to be enabled).


hmmm. that might be it.  my firewall is in a nice small, 4w netgear
box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
I never studied.  yuk.  

> 
> 
> 
> > > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> > 
> > rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
> > trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
> 
> There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
> set up on Fedora:
> 
> http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
> 
> Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
> also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
> 


thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.

> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Friedrich Locke
I am really sorry i offend you! It was not my wish!

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:

> > "Friedrich" == Friedrich Locke  writes:
>
> Friedrich> The http server is just an excuse, ok? Happy now?
>
> So why lie to us, then?  Not very nice to lie to people from whom you
> want help and answers and advice... FOR FREE.
>
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Friedrich Locke
Jesus Christ!
The http server is just an excuse, ok? Happy now?

I just need to know, for a tcp server which of those apporaches could
deliver best results!

That's really the question was all about !

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:

> > "Friedrich" == Friedrich Locke  writes:
>
> Friedrich> I am aware og ngnix, but i have to write my own http
> Friedrich> server. Using someone else solution is not an option.
>
> As this is a very unusual requirement (given that nginx is available
> under the most free license available), I think you owe us a better
> explanation.
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Friedrich" == Friedrich Locke  writes:

Friedrich> I am aware og ngnix, but i have to write my own http
Friedrich> server. Using someone else solution is not an option.

As this is a very unusual requirement (given that nginx is available
under the most free license available), I think you owe us a better
explanation.

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Re: Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 13), Karl Pielorz said:
> I've noticed on our systems (9.0-Stable, amd64) that starting smartd at
> boot time massively extends the startup time of the box.
> 
> I think I've traced this down to smartd, and our use of the '-M test'
> config option (which sends a test message, apparently forking to 'mail' -
> and, as the config man page says - it will block until that command
> returns).
> 
> For whatever reason (networking not stable at that point in time, MTA not
> started yet etc.) - on our machines this leaves smartd handing around for
> minutes - before it returns, the machine starts up (and the status emails
> arrive).
> 
> Can anyone think of a 'simple' fix for this? - Is there anything I can do
> to '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd' to make it run later in the startup
> process?

Try adding "mail" to the REQUIRE: line, since sendmail has that in its
PROVIDES: line.

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problem with pkgng

2012-11-13 Thread Walter Hurry
I am attempting to migrate a test box to pkgng, and have run into 
difficulty:

When I run the pkg2ng script, it fails to register postgreql-jdbc because 
one if its files, namely /usr/local/share/doc/postgresql/README-client, 
is also installed by postgresql-client-9.2.1.

In this, pkgng is perfectly correct, but how do I work around the issue? 
My assumption is that I will need to use pkg register with a hacked plist 
file from which the offending entry has been removed. Can anyone shed 
light on how to achieve this? I'm afraid I'm rather a novice at present. 


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Re: BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From lenzi.ser...@gmail.com Tue Nov 13 16:17:49 2012

That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products
specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well..

the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with
FreeBSD10.

HP notebooks are "closed"  works only with windows, are expensive
consumes too much power, the bateries did not last...

regarding the power and weak batteries - this is my experience too.

I live in Brazil and here one HP costs about 750 euros... a sony vaio is
about 800 euros,

I bought recently a Lenovo G475 (14inch LED display) notebook brand new,
for 350 euros with 2Gb of memory,
320Gb of HD, atheros wifi, dvd rw, AMD radeon video, dual core... I
bought more 4Gb of memory
for 30 euros, and the notebook is now with 6Gb...

ok, I might look at this model, thanks for the hint.

Last week I bought a 15 inch notebook at the shopping near my home,
with the same amd chip, wifi, large keyboard with separated numeric key,
4Gb memory, 500Gb disk for 320 euros (no brand name)...

any of them works very well with FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux...

A friend of mine bought 10 of those for his company employees.. 
it is cheapper than upgrade de desktops


That is my experience


Sergio

Anton

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Re: BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-13 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products
specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well..

the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with
FreeBSD10.

HP notebooks are "closed"  works only with windows, are expensive
consumes too much power, the bateries did not last...

I live in Brazil and here one HP costs about 750 euros... a sony vaio is
about 800 euros,


I bought recently a Lenovo G475 (14inch LED display) notebook brand new,
for 350 euros with 2Gb of memory,
320Gb of HD, atheros wifi, dvd rw, AMD radeon video, dual core... I
bought more 4Gb of memory
for 30 euros, and the notebook is now with 6Gb...

Last week I bought a 15 inch notebook at the shopping near my home,
with the same amd chip, wifi, large keyboard with separated numeric key,
4Gb memory, 500Gb disk for 320 euros (no brand name)...

any of them works very well with FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux...

A friend of mine bought 10 of those for his company employees.. 
it is cheapper than upgrade de desktops


That is my experience


Sergio

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Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Chance

On 11/13/12 14:21, Arthur Chance wrote:

Oops, sent this off too quickly.


I wrote that. It's only relevant if you have recent disks with 4k
hardware blocks. If you have, you ought to use 4k/16k filesystems
whatever your OS rev.


That should be 4k/32k. As "man newfs" says:

The optimal block:fragment ratio is 8:1.  Other ratios are possible, but 
are not recommended, and may produce poor results.


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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread Warren Block

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:



In message <20121113065602.ee2310d7.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon  wrote:


On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:47:40 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

Is there _anything_ that I will have to do differently than I did for the
last 20 drives I've used with FreeBSD over the last 10+ years?


As far as I know, the "old ways" still work as intended.
I've been initalizing 1 TB and 1.5 TB disks the "old way",
using sysinstall (to create a slice, then to create the
partitions) and newfs (to format the 2nd data disk). So
far, the disks are working for some years without trouble.
Those are "normal" disks, not SSDs, purchased few years
ago.

The term "advanced format" is usually used for 4k-sectorized
disks (in difference to "traditional" 512k sectors).

You can find more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

The implication for FreeBSD is (and has been for some time)
to align partitions "at a 4k border". If you create partition
sizes as multiples of 4k, it should be fine.


Thank you.

Which "partitions" need to be aligned to the 4KB boundaries?
The FreeBSD ones, the MBR ones, or both?


The ones you want to be fast instead of half-speed.

The easy way to do it is to jettison the old MBR slice/partition stuff 
and use the simpler GPT.


The first half of this document shows how to set it up:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
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Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Chance

On 11/13/12 13:00, Leslie Jensen wrote:


I just read in another post about disklayout
_
According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment
and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your
partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work.
Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't
play so well with 4k drives.



I wrote that. It's only relevant if you have recent disks with 4k 
hardware blocks. If you have, you ought to use 4k/16k filesystems 
whatever your OS rev. If you haven't, it doesn't matter. If it's not 
broken, don't fix it, is a very good principle.



I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running 8.3
systems.

I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding all
ports according to man portmaster.


Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling?

Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation?


Like Erich Dollansky, I prefer to upgrade via source, but that's because 
I like tweaking my system in mildly non-standard ways. (More a habit 
than a necessity, but I've been doing it since 6th Edition Unix. :-) If 
you're running a vanilla install with GENERIC kernel freebsd-upgrade is 
probably going to be quicker even if you've got a multicore monster to 
recompile on. Just make sure you can reinstall if something goes bad 
during the upgrade and *back up anything vital first*.

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Re: Moused error in 9.1-RC3

2012-11-13 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello.

2012/11/13 14:55:21 +0100 Leslie Jensen  => To FreeBSD 
Questions :
LJ> I've just installed 9.1-RC3 on a machine.
LJ> When starting I get the error:
LJ> Starting default moused
LJ> moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory
LJ> I have moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf
LJ> Do I need to set some right in devfs for it to go away?

Yes, in the case if your kernel detected the 'psm0' device, typically that
message found in dmesg for that case.

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Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Fbsd8

Leslie Jensen wrote:


I just read in another post about disklayout
_
According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment
and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your 
partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work.

Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't
play so well with 4k drives.



I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running 8.3 
systems.


I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding all 
ports according to man portmaster.



Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling?

Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation?

Thanks

/Leslie



I all ways reinstall from scratch using disc1.iso burned to cdrom as 
each new OS Release becomes available to the public. Followed by pkg-add 
-r for all my ports. I even use the pkg versions of dependents that are 
required by php because I have to recompile the php port to turn on the 
apache module and turn off everything else. This way I only compile php 
and not its dependents. I have the pkg_add -r commands embedded in a 
script that automates the whole procedures. The installed packages stay 
at whatever version they are at as of new OS Release time. I do not 
update running packages during the life of the installed OS Release. 
Been doing this since Release 3.0 without any problems. Install process 
takes about 30 minutes. Time for downloading disc1.iso and burning it is 
not included in that 30 minutes.


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Moused error in 9.1-RC3

2012-11-13 Thread Leslie Jensen


I've just installed 9.1-RC3 on a machine.

When starting I get the error:

Starting default moused
moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory

I have moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf

Do I need to set some right in devfs for it to go away?

Thanks

/Leslie

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Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100
Leslie Jensen  wrote:

> 
> I just read in another post about disklayout
> _
> According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment
> and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your 
> partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work.
> Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't
> play so well with 4k drives.
> 
> 
> 
> I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running
> 8.3 systems.
> 
> I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding
> all ports according to man portmaster.
> 
> 
> Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling?
> 
> Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation?

let me phrase it this way: I upgrade always via source but I am
prepared to hit a wall between. The number of walls are very low
meanwhile. The advantage of a normal upgrade via sources are so many
that I always risk it. But I make sure that I have the option of
re-installation at hand.

Erich
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Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Leslie Jensen


I just read in another post about disklayout
_
According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment
and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your 
partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work.

Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't
play so well with 4k drives.



I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running 8.3 
systems.


I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding all 
ports according to man portmaster.



Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling?

Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation?

Thanks

/Leslie



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Re: Old file reappeared by itself

2012-11-13 Thread Artem Kuchin


12.11.2012 14:07, Artem Kuchin:

The machines runs 4 jails. Everything is in the jails except NAMED.
Named is run on the root host (if i may say so) itself.
There is a zone file there which i changed last week.
Today in the morning i try to open a site and host name is not found. 
It worked on friday.
I went to see the the zone file. IT WAS DATED 2010  I open it and 
the serial number is
something like 201103021. I do all my serials using dates, so, while 
the file date is 2010

the content is from 2011 and it sure does looks so.
Then i go to secondary zone (slave) on another server and there i find 
the zone from last week.
I checked all logs  and did not find anything special. The zone file 
from 2010 just reappeared

from nowhere kill all the new changes.
As i said, i saw things like this in the past. It happened insides 
jails and was related to files
for web sites and i thought that i and someone else messed up. No i 
think i saw the same thing.


It happened today again! I checked file today and the file was dated 5 
oct 2012 but content was
from a week ago except the serial. I changed it yesterday. No automatic  
backup or restore is running.

Uptime is 321 day.  last says not one has logged in since yerterday.
I am going crazy.

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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Mark Blackman  wrote:

>
> On 13 Nov 2012, at 11:03, Friedrich Locke 
> wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > when i say high performance, i am looking something at least as fast as
> the fastest performing http server on the market for a given set of
> requests on the same pool of static files.
> >
> > I am aware og ngnix, but i have to write my own http server. Using
> someone else solution is not an option.
>
> Ok, fair enough. It's a shame you're not in a position to use proven high
> performance technology to minimise
> your time-to-market, but I'll assume you've got a good reason to re-invent
> the wheel.
>
> I think for design questions like that, freebsd-questions@ is not the
> ideal list, but I suggest
> either freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-net@ or a more general purpose
> networking list.
>
> Try
> http://www.slideshare.net/joshzhu/tips-on-high-performance-server-programmingtoo.
>
> - Mark
>
>

If there is NO any absolute requirement to write a new http server  in a
clean room approach ,
any existing related software with suitable license may be utilized to
generate a new fork and
make necessary additions with possible translation to another programming
language .


For example ,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx
( BSD licensed )

is forked by


http://www.zhuzhaoyuan.com/

as

http://tengine.taobao.org/

.

To find other suitable licensed http servers , the following page may be
useful :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_servers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_HTTP_server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_server_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_web_server_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_server_management_software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_free_software_licence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_and_open-source_software_licenses



Please do NOT take the following sentences against your personality ,
they are only to remind you about problems :


If you are not able to fork an existing http server software in your
programming language ( the programming language you want to use ) and
modify it with respect to your special needs , then it is very likely that
you will not be able to write an equivalent software .

If you attempt  to create such a software , with the above condition , at
the end  ,
your gain will be amount of knowledge you gained , amount of time and
resources ( money , time , etc. ) you lost .

If you will use a different programming language and you do not know the
programming languages used by suitable licensed http server software , then
study development history of such http server software and get information
about its difficulty , problems , cost , human effort requirements , etc. ,
.
This will supply to you a clear road map for you development .

Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Damien Fleuriot
That's a shame, nginx is definitely a robust and fast server, it's
well maintained, it's patched quickly...

If you need proof of its prowess to convince your upstream managers,
I'd be inclined to provide you with a diagram of our architecture for
this particular project, as well as the graphs (network traffic,
server loads, requests/sec...)



On 13 November 2012 12:03, Friedrich Locke  wrote:
> Mark,
>
> when i say high performance, i am looking something at least as fast as the
> fastest performing http server on the market for a given set of requests on
> the same pool of static files.
>
> I am aware og ngnix, but i have to write my own http server. Using someone
> else solution is not an option.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Fleuriot Damien  wrote:
>>
>> Define "high performance" , what are your expectations in terms of
>> concurrent connections, requests/second and all ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Allow me to shed some measure of light here, we're running 16x web servers
>> with nginx doing *permanent* (as in, for all requests) URL rewriting and
>> serving 500 req/s each.
>>
>> These servers admittedly running debian are behind 4x freebsd boxes using
>> a combination of PF, CARP and relayd on 8.3-STABLE.
>>
>> The web servers deliver 200mb/second worth of *small* files (roughly 1kb
>> javascripts).
>> They hardly ever reach 0.25 load average, on 8 cores + hyperthreading.
>>
>>
>> What I'm getting at here is, nginx *totally rapes* performance-wise, at
>> least for our own needs.
>>
>> If it is able to deliver 500 req/s (for each server) of small files,
>> surely it can handle the load you're planning on throwing at it ?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Friedrich Locke 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you Mark for suggestion, but my doubt still remains.
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Mark Blackman 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:23, Friedrich Locke 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi list members,
>> >>>
>> >>> i would like to be an http server for static content only. Due to this
>> >>
>> >> [snip]
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> What you have to say
>> >>
>> >> benchmark nginx to see if it does the job already.
>> >>
>> >> - Mark
>> >>
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Blackman

On 13 Nov 2012, at 11:03, Friedrich Locke  wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> when i say high performance, i am looking something at least as fast as the 
> fastest performing http server on the market for a given set of requests on 
> the same pool of static files.
> 
> I am aware og ngnix, but i have to write my own http server. Using someone 
> else solution is not an option.

Ok, fair enough. It's a shame you're not in a position to use proven high 
performance technology to minimise
your time-to-market, but I'll assume you've got a good reason to re-invent the 
wheel.

I think for design questions like that, freebsd-questions@ is not the ideal 
list, but I suggest
either freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-net@ or a more general purpose networking 
list.

Try 
http://www.slideshare.net/joshzhu/tips-on-high-performance-server-programming 
too.

- Mark

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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Friedrich Locke
Mark,

when i say high performance, i am looking something at least as fast as the
fastest performing http server on the market for a given set of requests on
the same pool of static files.

I am aware og ngnix, but i have to write my own http server. Using someone
else solution is not an option.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Fleuriot Damien  wrote:

> Define "high performance" , what are your expectations in terms of
> concurrent connections, requests/second and all ?
>
>
>
> Allow me to shed some measure of light here, we're running 16x web servers
> with nginx doing *permanent* (as in, for all requests) URL rewriting and
> serving 500 req/s each.
>
> These servers admittedly running debian are behind 4x freebsd boxes using
> a combination of PF, CARP and relayd on 8.3-STABLE.
>
> The web servers deliver 200mb/second worth of *small* files (roughly 1kb
> javascripts).
> They hardly ever reach 0.25 load average, on 8 cores + hyperthreading.
>
>
> What I'm getting at here is, nginx *totally rapes* performance-wise, at
> least for our own needs.
>
> If it is able to deliver 500 req/s (for each server) of small files,
> surely it can handle the load you're planning on throwing at it ?
>
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Friedrich Locke 
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you Mark for suggestion, but my doubt still remains.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Mark Blackman 
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:23, Friedrich Locke 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi list members,
> >>>
> >>> i would like to be an http server for static content only. Due to this
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What you have to say
> >>
> >> benchmark nginx to see if it does the job already.
> >>
> >> - Mark
> >>
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Fleuriot Damien
Define "high performance" , what are your expectations in terms of concurrent 
connections, requests/second and all ?



Allow me to shed some measure of light here, we're running 16x web servers with 
nginx doing *permanent* (as in, for all requests) URL rewriting and serving 500 
req/s each.

These servers admittedly running debian are behind 4x freebsd boxes using a 
combination of PF, CARP and relayd on 8.3-STABLE.

The web servers deliver 200mb/second worth of *small* files (roughly 1kb 
javascripts).
They hardly ever reach 0.25 load average, on 8 cores + hyperthreading.


What I'm getting at here is, nginx *totally rapes* performance-wise, at least 
for our own needs.

If it is able to deliver 500 req/s (for each server) of small files, surely it 
can handle the load you're planning on throwing at it ?



On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Friedrich Locke  wrote:

> Thank you Mark for suggestion, but my doubt still remains.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Mark Blackman  wrote:
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:23, Friedrich Locke 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi list members,
>>> 
>>> i would like to be an http server for static content only. Due to this
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What you have to say
>> 
>> benchmark nginx to see if it does the job already.
>> 
>> - Mark
>> 
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Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-13 Thread Karl Pielorz


Hi,

I've noticed on our systems (9.0-Stable, amd64) that starting smartd at 
boot time massively extends the startup time of the box.


I think I've traced this down to smartd, and our use of the '-M test' 
config option (which sends a test message, apparently forking to 'mail' - 
and, as the config man page says - it will block until that command 
returns).


For whatever reason (networking not stable at that point in time, MTA not 
started yet etc.) - on our machines this leaves smartd handing around for 
minutes - before it returns, the machine starts up (and the status emails 
arrive).


Can anyone think of a 'simple' fix for this? - Is there anything I can do 
to '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd' to make it run later in the startup process?


Does the dreaded '/etc/rc.local' still get run -after- everything else? 
(Worst case I could launch it from there).


Thanks,

-Karl
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:23:38 -0200
Friedrich Locke  wrote:

> 0) To have a single process "accepting" incoming connection on port
> 80 and send the new socket fd to one of the http server in a
> round-roubin manner, or

if you have N cores, create N - X processes or threads for handling the
requests. Leave at least one core for the OS, so, have X >= 2.

I would not fork at all. Have the threads ready when the requests are
coming.

At least this is what I did several years ago achieving the highest
performance. Make X a variable to be able to tune a bit.

You also should have a memory pool available to avoid calls to malloc
and free. You must have a limit for the memory pool. Free the memory in
the pool time to time so others can make use of the memory too.

> The first approach leads to n+1 process. The second to exactly n
> process.

You need at least one core for handling the tasks of the OS. If I
remember right, I took 10% of the cores plus one which I did not use
and I took at least one core.

This is all from memory. So, please consider that I could have missed
something out.
> 
Erich
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Blackman
On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:23, Friedrich Locke  wrote:

> Hi list members,
> 
> i would like to be an http server for static content only. Due to this

[snip]

> 
> 
> What you have to say 

benchmark nginx to see if it does the job already.

- Mark
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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Blackman

On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:28, Friedrich Locke  wrote:

> Thank you Mark for suggestion, but my doubt still remains.

perhaps some benchmarking/testing will help clear up the doubt?

- Mark

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Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Friedrich Locke
Thank you Mark for suggestion, but my doubt still remains.

Regards.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Mark Blackman  wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2012, at 10:23, Friedrich Locke 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi list members,
> >
> > i would like to be an http server for static content only. Due to this
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> >
> > What you have to say
>
> benchmark nginx to see if it does the job already.
>
> - Mark
>
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
> Gary Kline  wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > Anyway, linux is 
> > > > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
> > > > *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
> > > > back in.
> > > > 
> > > > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > > > "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
> > > > string like "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards
> > > > or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
> > > > OpenBSD.}
> > > 
> > > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> > 
> > ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
> 
> you wanted to say 'jawohl'?

Jawohl mein Herr! :-)



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
Gary Kline  wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > Anyway, linux is 
> > >   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
> > > *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
> > > back in.
> > > 
> > >   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > >   "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
> > > string like "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards
> > > or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
> > > OpenBSD.}
> > 
> > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> 
>   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to

you wanted to say 'jawohl'?

Erich
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Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Chance

On 11/13/12 06:30, Polytropon wrote:

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:14:11 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

Which "partitions" need to be aligned to the 4KB boundaries?
The FreeBSD ones, the MBR ones, or both?


The partitions, all of them. :-)

For MBR partitions, the "DOS primary partitions", which are
slices, you typically only need one if you want to stay in
compatibility mode. For dedicated mode, you don't need it.

The slice typically starts in sector 63 and occupies the
space until the end of the device.

The partitions within the slice should have sizes of
multiples of 1 MB or 1 GB (which makes them multiples
of 4k easily).

See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html

Even though the handbook elaborates on the GPT approach, it
will work with traditional disklabel partitioning too.

Note that 4k = 8 x 512 byte, and so 64 sectors would be a
good alignment "grid", while 63 sectors is not. That implies
that in case you use fdisk to create a slice holding your
partitions, try to make it start at sector 64 (63 would
have been the default).

After that, use bsdlabel to create the partitions inside
the slice as you want. Make them multiples of 1M or 1G,
that should be no big deal because disks are big and cheap
today. :-)

You can then easily use newfs with the -f parameter:

newfs -U -f 4096 

This will make sure the proper fragment size will be applied
upon formatting the created partitions.

Also see:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html

As I have limited experience, anyone having more practical
experience with this matter is welcome to comment. :-)


According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block 
sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 
4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks 
were 2k and 16k which doesn't play so well with 4k drives.


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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > Anyway, linux is 
> > >   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
> > >   server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
> > > 
> > >   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > >   "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
> > >   "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
> > >   wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
> > 
> > Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
> 
>   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
>   tao to ethic.

The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
specific service (that has to be enabled).



> > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> 
>   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
>   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
set up on Fedora:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH

Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.





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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Anyway, linux is 
> > installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
> > server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
> > 
> > doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
> > "Connection refused".  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
> > "Connnection closed".  can any of you network wizards or setup
> > wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
> 
> Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?

ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
tao to ethic.
> 
> The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> using and is very different among the Linusi.

rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

> 
> The FreeBSD equivalent would be something like
> 
>   # /etc/rc.d/sshd start
> 
> or putting sshd_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf to have this
> task at boot.
> 
> Depending on what Linux you are using, this may be as easy as
> on FreeBSD... or overcomplicated, because "nobody needs this
> anyway". :-)


no mo' energy.  I hear my bed singing sirens' songs:)

5 mins later: I ssh'd from tao to ethic then used the ssh-vvv
for debug.  Somewhere this string shoewd up.  as noted, this 
is from OBSD:

SSH2_MSG_IGNORE

so  if anybody running openbsd or fedora, or anybody who has stubbed
his toe this way, give a hollar.

S'All,

gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

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