Re: If the mirror sites (all four I've tried now from all over the world) have the FreeBSD 6.1 downloads contain the FreeBSD4.11 image, how is one supposed to download V6.1?

2007-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I, for one, would really like to get a copy of FreeBSD 6.1. > :-) 1) Why use 6.1 when you could use 6.2? 2) What on earth are you talking about? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: If the mirror sites (all four I've tried now from all over the world) have the FreeBSD 6.1 downloads contain the FreeBSD4.11 image, how is one supposed to download V6.1?

2007-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I, for one, would really like to get a copy of FreeBSD 6.1. > >> :-) > > > > 1) Why use 6.1 when y

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
it in a loop and run it nonstop, or with a 5-minute sleep between each run. In general, however, the requirements you seem to be asking for don't fall under the category of "cheap". There are some things you just can't do cheaply, and getting up to the minute

Re: Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
appening and give me some idea so > that i can maximize my memory usage. My total memory is 8GB. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#PAE -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: 1 TB data copy

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
is shouldn't be too risky. I would format the drive with the Windows machine and make it NTFS, then work with the FreeBSD mount options to get FreeBSD to mount it. Have a look at mount_ntfs. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-quest

Re: mailing list

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
d. In addition, this list will not be monitored by the people who can actually do anything about your predicament. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Moran
> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _____ > Peek-

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Bill Moran
Illuminati and U.F.O.s AHA! I knew that the Illuminati were using UFOs to hold up this releast! I knew it! [Wrapping the tinfoil around my head] Who's paranoid now? huh? You all laughed at me before, but now you see I was right all along! -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How To Change Email Addr?

2007-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
ses at every startup A Bad Idea(tm). -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Moran
o delineate acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, you'll have problems. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Moran
rks in csh, the syntax is different. > Anyway, this seems to be security/stability issue, maybe a PR is in > order? No. Research (on your point) into fork bombs and how to configure the system to handle them properly is in order. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
re. I may be out of line, but I think if you're using FreeBSD as your learning platform, that it wouldn't be a problem to ask this list. Although, you'll have to include your code inline to get past the sanitizers. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
e volunteering to take ownership of the problem (if > not outright maintainership of the port). Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. During the freeze, you'll have difficulty getting any ports changes through. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Low-cost online disk backup solution on FreeBSD. Hardware/Software recomendations?

2007-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
endations? Investigate both Bacula and BackupPC. Both might suit your needs, depending on the exact details of your needs. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-25 Thread Bill Moran
andard (i.e. a book), > but it was ~ $300 last time I looked. If we're recommending books, I can't say enough good things about the Kernighan and Richie C book: http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd/dp/0131103628/ref=pd_bbs_2/105-1904293-7155604?ie=UTF8&s=books

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
if NO, then > start the script execution again? > > > > Please help and adviseā€¦ Have you considered something like daemontools? It's designed for such a task, as opposed to reinventing the wheel. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _

Re: Configure to use WITH_DEBUG

2007-11-05 Thread Bill Moran
is that the variable is set, not what it's set to. As a joke, you can do WITH_DEBUG=no in make.conf, and confuse the hell out of other sysadmins. Note that there may be additional port-specific debugging that would not be turned on by the global WITH_DEBUG, but you'll have t

Re: /bin/sh Can one Easily Strip Path Name from $0?

2007-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
p with only the script name and > nothing else no matter whether the path was prepended or not? basename $0 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: shell programming

2007-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
PROTECTED]" > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > --- > Bill Banks 508-829-2005 > Wachusett Programming Ourweb > http://www.ourweb.net > htt

Re: hyperthreading CPU and broken scheduling?

2007-11-19 Thread Bill Moran
gt; > and reboot (or execute sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 by hand). > > would an SMP kernel be required to properly use hyperthreading, or would > just the above sysctl setting be enough ? The SMP kernel is required as well. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: What's "unknown" about i386-unknown?

2007-11-20 Thread Bill Moran
e information is "unknown", it's just that nobody cares any more, therefore nobody bothers to enter the physical location information. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: What's "unknown" about i386-unknown?

2007-11-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran schrieb: > > In response to "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> Hey all. > >> > >> I see i386-unknown as a build target all the time. >

Re: routing problem

2007-11-21 Thread Bill Moran
ystem? If not, you need to point it at a valid DNS server. If routes are missing then something is configured wrong. If you'd post the contents of /etc/rc.conf, it's more likely that we could provide more detailed assistance. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-21 Thread Bill Moran
ource code right now. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:27:48 -0500 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The systems > > in question have no way to connect without using the proxy, and I'd > > like to convince fetch(3) to use the proxy for

Re: firewall is blocking our access

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
er would be helpful. I've removed various emails from the return message, as there's no reason to spam them with troubleshooting on the questions mailing list. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22/11/2007 2:27 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > It seems that if I set HTTP_PROXY, fetch(1) works just dandy, _UNLESS_ > > I'm trying to fetch an https document, in which case it seems to > > ignore HTTP_PROXY.

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
ently make backups? If resyncing your raid on a regular basis is truly a requirement, I'd do #3 at least, followed by getting my money back. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
type of debugging folks could ask me to do. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
" disk, then it's a BIOS issue and the answer will depend on the BIOS. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
stuff off their site, and thus I can't build OpenOffice.org for my shiny, new laptop ... Does anyone have any advice on how to get the required files from Sun? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
"Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/11/23, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > OK guyz, I did some tests and I foun

Re: firewall is blocking our access

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
Rodrigo Moura Bittencourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Prazado Bill Moran, Take a bit of advice -- wildly CCing dozens of people is just going to piss people off and cause them to start ignoring you. You'll get much more helpful results if you take the time to understand w

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
more difficult to parse, and usually require a lot of clicking around to get back to earlier messages, etc. 3) RFC-1855 says so. Most people who _honestly_ ask this question simply don't have a lot of experience with online discussions. Take the advice of people who have been doing this

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
"Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Dear subscribers, > > > > > > I am currently runni

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
rc.conf with my static routes? This is beyond the scope of routing. You'll need to install a packet filter. The best at this time is probably pf: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pfctl&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE htt

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
"Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/11/23, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, I have IPFIlTER installed, but

Re: Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It appears as if jdk 1.5 is now at version 14, but the FreeBSD ports > still requires version 13. > > Luckily, Sun is run by a bunch of Nazis, and doesn't use a standard > directory tree to distribute their stuff. A

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
RIP is in use on your network ... I don't know what the default behaviour is for routed when it can't acquire routing information. What is the output of "netstat -rn"? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-que

Re: VMware FreeBSD to Physical

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
don't know the appropriate name for > it), it refuses to go any further. > > Can anything be done to fix this? Or is there a better way of doing the > whole procedure? VMWare has a tool specifically for doing this. Don't remember what it's called, but I

Re: Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:32:45PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > Been spending some time setting up my new Lenovo T61 laptop. > > > > 7.0 ... just cvsupped and build world/kernel yesterday. Ports have > > installed n

Re: how to fight concurrent connection DOS attack to FreeBSD ftpd?

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
attack? Thanks in advance! Probably copy /etc/rc.d/ftpd to /etc/rc.d/lukemftpd and edit it to adjust, then set the appropriate settings in /etc/rc.conf to run lukemftpd instead of ftpd. "man lukemftpd" brings up a different man page than "man ftpd" -- Bill Moran htt

Performance problems after upgrade from xorg 7.2 -> 7.3

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Moran
al frontend for printing xfce4-session-4.4.1_1 Session manager for the Xfce 4 desktop environment xfce4-utils-4.4.1_1 XFce 4 essential utilities and scripts xfce4-wm-4.4.1_2XFce 4 window manager xfce4-wm-themes-4.4.1 XFce 4 window decoration themes for xfwm4 -- Bill Moran

Re: Performance problems after upgrade from xorg 7.2 -> 7.3

2007-11-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 26 November 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > > I upgraded my ports over the holiday, and I'm having a number > > of problems with xorg. I'll address them one at a time, in > > order of most problemati

Re: remove X11

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
rt, which makes this kind of thing many orders of magnitude easier. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Moran
try has become a mess. Use ls -l to compare the sizes of the actual directories themselves as a little exercise. Anyway, if that turns out to be the problem, you can fix it by taring the directory and then restoring it from the tarfile. Not an ideal solution, mind you. -- Bill Moran http://www.pot

Re: FW: Dell 2950 RAID issues!!!

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
sive SMART Error Rate Measurement counters during > > read verifies > > --- > > > > > > Dell has advised to upgrade the RAID controller firmware. > > > > Tamouh > > > _____

Re: Ports: Outdatet dependencies on jdk-1.5 (OpenOffice 2.3.*)

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
/text/2007/freebsd-questions/20071125.freebsd-questions The various answers are in that thread. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Moran
han one home machine running FreeBSD, > or > just one of them? Do this on every machine that you have running FreeBSD. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Moran
download it and run it without any installation. If you're that locked down that you can't do any of those things, I'd suggest you get a laptop or other way to manage this remotely. What good is a text editor if you can't restart daemons

Re: Shell script in crontab cannot write files into FreeBSD's filesystem.

2007-12-05 Thread Bill Moran
`crontab -l`### > > SHELL=/bin/sh > MAILTO=pjn > * * * * * . /home/pjn/parseGP/fetchPage.sh What is the . doing there? Are you watching /var/log/cron.log for errors, as I expect you'll see some. -- Bill Moran http://www.pote

Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics

2007-12-05 Thread Bill Moran
;ve no idea what you're imagining this program does ... > Whatever the answer, PC-BSD has hardly lost > more than 2/3 of its users since November, so something is fishy here. Huh? > In any case, it would be nice to see a DATE somewhere on these pages. Date of what?

Re: Maybe this is a bug, should I report it?

2007-12-05 Thread Bill Moran
ed. Show us the output that demonstrates this problem. My first guess is that it's not portupgrade that's doing it, but that some port you're upgrading now lists gpg2 as a dependency instead of gpg, which causes the attempted installation. But I'm just speculating witho

Re: It's very important replying my email, please

2003-12-07 Thread Bill Moran
awaiting your response as soon as possible, and thanks a lot for everything. You have not configured X yet. Use the xf86config program to do so before running X. See the documentation for more information. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Advice on a DVD burner compatible with FreeBSD

2003-12-11 Thread Bill Moran
rking or not working under FreeBSD 4.9? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Looking for laptop suggestions

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Moran
reeBSD? We were looking at the $700 lappys that Dell is selling (Inspiron 1100), but I'd really like a confirmation that these are going to work before I spend money on one. http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/cs1page2.aspx?br=7&c=us&cs=04&fm=10423&kc=6W300&l=en&s=b

Re: Looking for laptop suggestions

2003-12-23 Thread Bill Moran
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 20:54, Bill Moran wrote: We're looking to get a laptop for the business. Of course, we need to make sure it works with FreeBSD, but money is tight, so we're trying to find the best deal we can that we know will work. Does anyone have any s

netgraph.ko vs. compiled in.

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moran
Does anyone know if this is intended behaviour or a bug? If it's intended behaviour, is it in the documentation and I just haven't seen it? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: netgraph.ko vs. compiled in.

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moran
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:38:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: If I build a kernel with "options netgraph", in order to use mpd, netgraph.ko is still loaded at boot (with an error) but mpd does not work. You can't simultaneously load a .ko and have the same cod

Re: Configure 2 gateways on a freebsd box for 2 interfaces

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Moran
terfaces lead to different networks, then you should add static routes as appropriate. If they are alternate routes, then you should probably run something like RIP to automatically update the routing table. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: Why not GNU cmp?

2008-09-24 Thread Bill Moran
D license. Given enough time/manpower, all the GNU tools in FreeBSD will eventually be replaced with BSD-licensed versions. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Hard disk bottle neck.

2008-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
RAID 10, which is generally faster than RAID 5, or move to 15,000 RPM disks. I think you might be surprised how much adding some RAM will help, though, unless your access patterns are very random, RAM should speed up the access of popular data significantly. -- Bill Moran http://www.poten

Re: Hard disk bottle neck.

2008-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
stat,:vmstat on another console More specifically, do this before and after you make the change, to demonstrate whether or not you actually fixed the problem. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: More RAM for buffers?

2008-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
left side of top output, the less expensive it is for the kernel to move it to active ... inactive being the most efficient and cache requiring the most work by the kernel ... I could be wrong, though. I know that a lot of what I'm saying isn't authoritative, so I hope I'm not remembering

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
around instead of spawning them on demand and killing them when the demand ends. Another option is to upgrade to 7.X, which seems to have replaced the mechanism by which this is done to be more dynamic and not have this problem. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
e. The table size is too deep inside the kernel to adjust it at run time. The kernel needs to know what it is when it boots, and it can't change after. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Disk top usage PIDs

2008-11-04 Thread Bill Moran
ering my disk? Is there an "iotop" > or "disktop" tool or something alike? top -m io -o total -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Disk top usage PIDs

2008-11-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Eduardo Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Eduardo Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In response to "Eduardo Meyer" &l

Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00

2008-11-05 Thread Bill Moran
he pagein/ pageout statistics during this? Are you sure the disk isn't dying? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:16:56 -0700 "Kelly Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What Unix program sends email directly, using the MX record of the > recipient, instead of using sendmail or an installed MTA? > > I realize I could tweak sendmail.cf/etc to do this, but that's not > working in my (fair

Regarding beer and optimal hacker productivity

2008-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
s case for beer at work ;) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Regarding beer and optimal hacker productivity

2008-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to APseudoUtopia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Somewhere, out on the WWW, there was a study (perhaps an imaginary study) > > on what the optimal blood alcohol level was for softwar

Re: sshit runs out of semaphores

2008-12-02 Thread Bill Moran
ny > script for countering these attacks? > If not I'll write one I think. My approach: http://www.potentialtech.com/cms/node/16 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
memory left. Looks like the server would run more smoothly with a bit more RAM. At least an additional 256M, I would think, but considering the price of RAM, you might as well just up it to 2G. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dan Nelson : > In the last episode (Oct 01), Bill Moran said: > > bsd wrote: > > > I have a FBSD 6.4p7 box that I use as a mail server - 1Go RAM - RAID1 > > > Works quite well. > > > > > > As I plan to put 100 more mail accounts so

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
:" line, then you know the server will accept the mail and you can close the connection without completing the transaction. Note, that this is no guarantee. Some spam catching nonsense may accept the mail right up to end, then throw it away without delivering it. -- Bill Moran http://www.

Re: When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?

2009-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
etic, but we never saw a workload on PostgreSQL that was hurt by turning hyperthreading on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

[OT] Service that provides security questions

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
these systems know what I'm talking about. I have a hard time believing each of these companies sets up such a system on their own, and I have a feeling that there's a 3rd party that compiles the data for them. Can anyone refer me to such a company? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialt

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Moran
des, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things like cron? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: FreeBSD && remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Moran
ou'll be much better off, long run, to move this onto a read DB server. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Bill Moran
I run a video inside a vbox machine, I can't access the mouse until the video is done running). Been running Windows WP inside a Virtual Box on FreeBSD 7. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Bill Moran
you're not getting 120V/60H at the outlet (or whatever voltage/freq you're supposed to get in your part of the world). Not a direct answer to your question, but hopefully some useful information to consider. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativef

Re: Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Moran
t;at" to "@", and even if the method of obfuscating is more clever than that, if it's consistent and a larger number of email addresses are available after breaking it, well ... you get the idea. Far better to complain to the ISP where the email originated. That's someone

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
r most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. While it would be nice if FreeBSD shipped with a more performant default setting, it would also be nice if mindless benchmark drones would quit assuming that every system ships pre-configured to

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Huff : > > Bill Moran writes: > > > It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is > > non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance > > improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. > >

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
OpenBSD) with a better record than that, I'd love to hear about it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: alerts for stopped daemons

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
monitoring/ reporting packages. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD versions

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
nd IA64 are not compatible at all. If you were talking about amd64, that's a different story. Most newer CPUs are amd64. All amd64 CPUs can also run a 32bit x86 OS. Some x86 32bit CPUs are also amd64 compat. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborati

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Moran
do is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.c

Re: Accessing Computer

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
t; > If someone were to use computer 1 via Putty to access computer 2, would > they then be able to access computer 3? If so, how could I prevent it > from happening? You could prevent ssh connections from 2 -> 3 on port 22 via firewall. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http:

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
> > @reboot command > > in crontab > > Not really. > > The more proper way is to add a startup script in /usr/local/rc.d/ Just for the sanity of the OP: that directory is /usr/local/etc/rc.d -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
munity lists, including a support list. Have you tried asking there?: http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/22/29/ -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:52:38AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Luigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Maybe it's a simple question but i'

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
Because I don't think it's appropriate to drag this conversation on and on, I'm going to try to answer all the responses in a single email. Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:27:36AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > [snip] > &g

Re: That age old question again

2008-03-16 Thread Bill Moran
o keep this version updated ?? You want RELENG_7_0 for bugfixes/security fixes for production systems. You only want STABLE or CURRENT if you're testing the next version, assisting with development, or need a feature before it's officially released. -- Bill Moran http://www.potential

Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Bill Moran
stat if you don't wan to install Linux software on your BSD system. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In the last episode (Mar 17), Bill Moran said: > > In response to "Armando Cambra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Or try to find the culprit with lsof (can't remember the options). > >

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
via Google. Another, possibly even easier, option is to set up a shell server. Just install the OS, enable sshd and add some users. You could argue that it's a secure file transfer server (load up WinSCP on a Windows box and show off just how 133t your are) The handbook is going to be your

Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

2008-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd? > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:30:28 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd? > > &

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