Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/03/2010 06:33:53, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote

12 TB Disk In freebsd AMD 64 ?

2010-03-22 Thread Ian Lord
? Thanks in advance ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Québec) J5K 0E2 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca http://www.msdi.ca

Re: how to compare permissions between two dirs

2010-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
, something like: ls -la dir1 | awk '{print $1,$9}' /tmp/lsd1 ls -la dir2 | awk '{print $1,$9}' /tmp/lsd2 diff /tmp/lsd1 /tmp/lsd2 cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Smith
That cover it? Should do .. with the abovementioned exception, take ipfw(8) as being definitive, ignore the misleading and often just plain wrong handbook section, and prosper .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Robert Huff wrote: Ian Smith writes: So ... double-checking I'm doing this right: 1) in /boot/loader.conf: ipfw_load=YES ipdivert_load=YES I thought from your earlier mail that you wanted to use in-kernel NAT

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html rant This is absolutely the worst section of an otherwise great handbook ... Nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could fix

Re: reliable rs-232

2010-04-10 Thread Ian Smith
or using packet protocols, and such? Is the communication two-way? cheers, Ian (please CC me; I'm subscribed to the -digest which can take a while) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0

2010-04-12 Thread Ian Smith
? The system uses a Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 mother board and the prcessor is AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ The last para may hold the primary keys to the solution set .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0 | Perhaps solved?

2010-04-16 Thread Ian Smith
, Regards, Malcolm Kay Thanks for cc'ing me, I read -digests which can take half a day and make replying a bit tedious, not to mention breaking list threading. cheers, Ian [..] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

[SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)

2010-04-20 Thread Ian Smith
' I can block their source, but if more widespread I'll ask our esteemed postmaster (cc'd) to try hunting the errant recipient. cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Return-Path: srs0=5hauor=l7=bda204.bisx.produk.on.blackberry=r...@srs.bis.eu.blackberry.com Received: from smtp04

Re: [SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)

2010-04-20 Thread Ian Smith
Hi all, Thanks to our indefatiguable postmaster, who has suspended the bouncing account with suitable rousing about where bounces should be sent; to the envelope-sender, ie the list owner, rather than to individual posters. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Oh look, one just like yours, but with an acceptable browser string .. so it got the homepage, attempted proxying request being just ignored. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
why they or their robot might have taken offense. At least at lists.freebsd.org only something pretty extreme may provoke our esteemed postmaster into removing a message, and there's less obfuscation there of email addresses (like parklogic.com) .. for better or worse. cheers, Ian

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Smith
of those, especially those that do write to the kernel message buffer .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-20 Thread Ian Smith
'', but echo | { B=2; echo $B; } or (equivalent within a pipeline) echo | ( B=2; echo $B; ) writes '2'. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
=== the dhcpd.conf is quite standard and does not say anything about the interfaces, that info is in rc.conf above === /var/log/messages extract dhcpd: bridge0: not found Yes; at that time your bridge hadn't been created, ie it had no members. cheers, Ian

Re: ipdivert.ko

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Smith
issue, write to me privately and I'll put you onto some patches - but unless you're also (or instead) using kernel NAT (ipfirewall_nat - which needs to load libalias.ko) then the above settings should do you. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Smith
implying that these students are using the University's web mail for possible illegal actions and no one is policing that action? Ah Jerry, good to see you end your admonition with a little humour! cheers, ian He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases -- Lewis Carroll

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-23 Thread Ian Smith
out, without intent or knowledge of their poor blighted owners .. and they're a smarter crew! cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Please i wait to hear from you its very important

2011-05-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate by accepting to stand as the legal recipient

Please i wait to hear from you, its very important

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to assume the new recipient of a Fixed

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
. Best left as an exercise for the (morbidly curious) student :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
or ipfw nat, rather than the poor Handbook examples. Depending on what protocol port 12345 is, you may be better off using static rather than dynamic rules to handle it .. another area where that Handbook section is inappropriately deprecatory; rc.firewall uses both. HTH, Ian (but if not, try

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Smith
I=804237 OWNER=smithi MODE=100640 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jun 29 20:29 2011 CLEAR? no ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 401132 files, 8584016 used, 3155190 free (88926 frags, 383283 blocks, 0.8% fragmentation) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 14 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 7/4/11, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Subject: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument To:

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Does anybody successfully use the ipfw fwd? If so in which FreeBSD version? Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks correct.  Do you have a TCP service running on localhost

/etc/ttys

2009-05-07 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 Thanks ianf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
. You can most likely rely on the return code from 'unzip -t $file' to check any files are valid zipfiles, if munpack can't recover the original filename from the MIME headers. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/ cheers, Ian ___ 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

What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
for specific expression in files (Valentin Bud) 4. Re: MIME attachments in mbox files (Ian Smith) 5. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (Jerry) 6. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found (Prokofyev Vladislav) 7. GSM to Serial Converter (Exemys) 8. Re

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
://www.totalphase.com/products/aardvark_i2cspi/ linux software might be expected to work 'well enough' on FreeBSD 7? Thanks. -- Ghirai. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Brooks Davis wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
race to be 'top dog'. Woof, Ian ___ 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: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Smith
links - to stash dirs and files on msdosfs, but format flash disks - or at least one or more slices on them - as UFS for real backup purposes. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread Ian Smith
, Ian ___ 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: 9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
c232581 h16 s63 p 1 0x0b 63 8385867 p 2 0xa5 8385930 125821080 p 3 0xa5 134207010 33543342 p 4 0xa5 167750730 66685815 a 4 cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
} icmptypes 8 $fwadd deny log icmp from any to any in recv ${ext_if} $fwadd pass icmp from any to any# outbound, and inside cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10, Message: 25 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:53 -0600 Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: SNIP For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' But isn't that handled by setting

Re: IPFW transparent VS dummynet rules

2012-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
- wise, after an action, the packet is reinjected into the firewall at the next rule. It seems that you may have one_pass set to 1. Set to 0, packets will continue through the ruleset on exit from pipe/s, so to your fwd rule. cheers, Ian

Re: upgrading net-snmp-5.2.1 gives error

2005-04-30 Thread Ian Moore
/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/mach/auto/SNMP/SNMP.so: Undefined symbol perl_get_sv *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.2.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc

firefox crashes after upgrade to R5.4

2005-05-10 Thread Hou Ian
Hi, After successful upgrade to R5.4 via buildworld/installworld on my amd64/R5.3 machine, everything works quite well except that the firefox-1.0.3 crashes whenever I try to use find (Ctrl-f) or access to localhost for samba administration. The firefox window got closed immediately and core-dump

Re: firefox crashes after upgrade to R5.4

2005-05-10 Thread Hou Ian
--- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 06:59 am, Hou Ian wrote: Hi, After successful upgrade to R5.4 via buildworld/installworld on my amd64/R5.3 machine, everything works quite well except that the firefox-1.0.3 crashes whenever I try to use find (Ctrl-f

Re: firefox crashes after upgrade to R5.4

2005-05-10 Thread Hou Ian
have a /etc/libmap.conf setup with mappings for firefox-- let it use the default. --mark On May 10, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Hou Ian wrote: --- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 06:59 am, Hou Ian wrote: Hi, After successful upgrade to R5.4 via buildworld

simple? sh problen

2005-05-15 Thread Ian Smith
-integer argument? Do I need to delve into awk and REs, or is there something more simple I've missed in mans test, expr, etc? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: simple? sh problen

2005-05-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ian Smith wrote: How do I test whether a sh argument is an integer or not, so as to avoid failing on a syntax error from otherwise working code such as: [ $3 -lt 10 -o $3 -gt 600 ] echo $0 $1 $2: $3 invalid exit 1

NSSwitch settings on 5.4

2005-05-15 Thread Ian Moore
with other sources May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf line 5: 'compat' used with other sources Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc pgpfcufap6TdC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4

2005-05-23 Thread Ian Moore
On Monday 16 May 2005 18:41, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:18:09AM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: passwd: files ldap group: files ldap This is correct and sufficient for local files + ldap. On my 5.4-Release system, the default nsswitch.conf is: AFAIK there never

Re: web-based ldap user administration

2005-05-23 Thread Ian Moore
what I've been using as a guide. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc pgpQc1Nw73fhq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4.

2005-05-23 Thread Ian Moore
scratch at the moment and it has host.conf nsswitch.conf on it. host.conf says Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf Is this a circular argument? :-) Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc pgpAAaYBTIjXV.pgp Description: PGP signature

correct make switch syntax for Hylafax

2005-05-25 Thread Ian Moore
are straightforward ( like -DWITH_some option)but sometimes I find it really hard to figure out what to use. I've tried various options but they don't seem to be correct. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc pgp47TdExhFDB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
topics for which lists, without having to subscribe, is to browse a list's archives for several months. Works for me. In this case try: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/ cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
sleep 60 t23# jobs -l t23# cheers, Ian ___ 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

Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Lord
to change permissions to make it work Any help would be appreciated. Regards ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Québec) J5K 0E2 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http

RE: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

2012-04-12 Thread Ian Lord
is a clean install of 9.0-RELEASE that I installed about 2-3 months ago. I never changed the permission myself on that file so I guess there is something wrong that would need to be fixed (unless it's already fixed in newer versions). Thanks again ~~ Ian Lord MSD

Re: Postfix + Courier IMAP local email problems

2012-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
# hostname boofar t23# csh boofar# exit exit t23# hostname boofar t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
/var/log/messages kern.=info /var/log/kerninfo.log # touch /var/log/kerninfo.log # service syslogd restart cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: On 05/01/12 20:01, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: Every once in a while the nightly periodic security checks tell me

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Ian Smith
): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host ^C What sayeth 'netstat -finet -rn' ? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
(probably in n...@freebsd.org), but I've no time for hunting tonight. Anyone? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
message? On my other FreeBSD server the same cronjob goes ok... Check /etc/crontab and /etc/newsyslog.conf on both, and make sure you're not also trying to run a user crontab for root, apart from /etc/crontab? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: problems with networking and route command

2012-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
: # Allow outbound pings from our net ${fwcmd} add pass icmp from any to any out icmptypes 8 keep-state # Allow essential ICMP: unreachable, source quench, TTL exceeded ${fwcmd} add pass icmp from any to any icmptypes 3,4,11 ${fwcmd} add deny icmp from any to any # or default deny all later cheers, Ian

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
to any t23# ipfw -q add 137 deny all from 180.0.0.0/8 to any t23# ipfw show 137 001370 0 deny ip from 180.0.0.0/8 to any So what doesn't work? (apart from scattergun removal of small pieces of a whole lot of Asian countries, incl. Japan, Indonesia, Australia, .. :) cheers, Ian

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:30:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 21/05/2012 14:50, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonaldp...@ifdnrg.com wrote: can anyone suggest what i'm doing wrong here

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)

2012-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
Jos, did you not get my response to your original query over a week ago? I see it made the list archives. Anyway this second time around, Robert Bonomi wins gold for the best guess, with even fewer clues to go on :-) cheers, Ian (who probably said too much, but doesn't resile

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
, not just one list such as questions@ . Yes, in this case I think you should, after exploring the options Matthew outlined. Be sure to show complete headers of any and all messages you need to forward to postmaster@. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
opening more than 9 connections, or fwd IP,PORT2 tcp from any to me dst-port PORT1 limit dst-port 42 to limit total open connections by everyone to dst-port PORT1 to 42. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
ruleset. HTH, Ian [please cc me on any reply] ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
love it! Ian ___ 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: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
of environment, none of the punters had any clue about forging MACs or anything vaguely like that, and it stopped people randomly plugging boxes into the network. Horses for courses. I replied in more detail to another from Bill privately, copy follows. cheers, Ian

Re: hwpstate0 set frequency err 6

2012-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
@ subject: [stable 9] broken hwpstate calls that may or may not have yet resulted in a patch you could try. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-May/thread.html Thread continues in June, as a perhaps more general p-state discussion. Thanks Lynn Steven Killingsworth cheers, Ian

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-22 Thread Ian Smith
MEGA 32-bit and MIPS platforms at least. Personally I consider these 'big iron' and far prefer writing in macro assembler for little Atmel Tiny25s and such, but that's strictly Look Ma, no OS! programming. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: I thought I saw something somewhere (maybe just wishful thinking) about FreeBSD on the Arduino, which normally runs a sort of embedded Linux, that could be very interesting

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 422, Issue 10, Message: 29 On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 07:41:59 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:36:36 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. Thanks. Next time I blow

Re: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
ng0 setup Myself, I'd be more interested in a last-match timestamp than a count for table entries, but that won't happen either for the above reasons :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re[2]: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:13:47 +0300, Eugen Konkov wrote: , Ian. ?? ?? 23 2012 ?., 8:27:50: IS In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 IS On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: IS Hi Eugen, I use ipfw

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
code. Present circumstances don't permit me to work on this further, but I do think it could be a worthwhile and not so hard project for 'someone' :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0

2012-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
from: # egrep 'ifconfig|firewall|natd|gateway|ntpd' /etc/rc.conf # cat /etc/natd.conf # ipfw show # netstat -finet -rn cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
saver modules crash without proper hardware support. If you're running a screensaver try disabling it and just using display blanking. I'm not running a screensaver, just blanking the screen. Yes but how, where, using what software? It's still the main suspect .. cheers, Ian

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
. You? I'm still running an older Xorg here, so had no idea about any default 10 minute blanktime. I'll remember that .. [..] cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
(or on another drive), you should have no worries even using sysinstall. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Smith
. Furthermore, if you change your mind you've got time to kill shutdown itself before the timeout. 'sudo killall shutdown' should do the trick. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Moore
result - the job starts printing but stops after about 12% and won't go any further. Any ideas as to why my cups no longer accepts the file: URI? I'm running FreeBSD 5.11-Release-p2 and my printer is an Epson Stylus C61 on a USB port. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore

Re: Cups USB workaround was working but now fails

2006-08-06 Thread Ian Moore
On Sunday 06 August 2006 02:50, Apatewna wrote: O/H Ian Moore έγραψε: It seems that cups now won't recognise the file: setting, yet previously it did. I checked back through my logs to see if a newer cups port had come out I'd inadvertently upgraded to it, but it seems that's

urgent: I just rm-r a directory

2006-08-06 Thread Ian Lord
I did a rm-r by mistake on a directory... any way to recover ? Help please :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: urgent: I just rm-r a directory

2006-08-07 Thread Ian Lord
to recover :) Thanks to all At 20:34 2006-08-06, jan gestre wrote: On 8/7/06, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a rm-r by mistake on a directory... any way to recover ? Help please :( _ if you don't have back ups of the directory concerned, i'm sorry to inform you that you won't be able

Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-08-09 Thread Ian Smith
on this lil' 160MB laptop; 'systat -vm' shows it's not actually doing any paging during this time. Any ideas why top hasn't much of a clue about what's consuming cpu? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-08-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Ian Smith wrote: But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show 0.0% idle but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a fraction of 100%. [ ... ] Any ideas why top hasn't much of a clue about what's consuming cpu? Sure

Apache 2.2 http accept filter

2006-08-19 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, When I start apache2.2, I get the following error: [Sat Aug 19 11:26:50 2006] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter [Sat Aug 19 11:26:50 2006] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter [Sat Aug 19

Re[2]: Apache 2.2 http accept filter

2006-08-19 Thread Ian Lord
well, the apache22_http_accept_enable=YES should do this for him, but it seems like the problems stands elsewhere. Ian, are you sure that these modules are present under the /boot/modules directory? Hi, I just checked and the /boot/modules directory is empty so I guess the problem

Re: Apache 2.2 http accept filter

2006-08-19 Thread Ian Lord
At 12:18 2006-08-19, you wrote: Ian Lord wrote: well, the apache22_http_accept_enable=YES should do this for him, but it seems like the problems stands elsewhere. Ian, are you sure that these modules are present under the /boot/modules directory? Hi, I just checked and the /boot/modules

Re: Apache 2.2 http accept filter

2006-08-19 Thread Ian Lord
At 12:18 2006-08-19, you wrote: Ian Lord wrote: well, the apache22_http_accept_enable=YES should do this for him, but it seems like the problems stands elsewhere. Ian, are you sure that these modules are present under the /boot/modules directory? Hi, I just checked and the /boot/modules

www/rt36 with mod_perl2 broken

2006-08-21 Thread Ian A. Tegebo
install for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Log/Dispatch.pm in /usr/ports/devel/p5-Log-Dispatch === p5-Log-Dispatch-2.12 is marked as broken: Broken due the new mod_perl2 API. *** Error code 1 -- Ian Tegebo Residential Computing University of California, Berkeley

Mysterious Freezing

2006-08-22 Thread Ian Gibson
On FreeBSD 6.1, I am experiencing a problem involving my system freezing. This happens at irregular intervals, on the order of days rather than hours or weeks. It is a total freeze; everything on the screen becomes completely static, no response from the mouse or keyboard, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

Re: Resolved??? Re: Apache 2.2 http accept filter

2006-08-30 Thread Ian Lord
? not yet. apache22_http_accept_enable=YES Do I need to put something in /boot/modules? I already have accf_http loaded, apparently because of the apache22_http_accept_enable flag in rc.conf. Let me know if you've gotten anywhere with this. tack On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Ian Lord wrote: At 12:18 2006

Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Hilt, Ian
. If this is not the place to ask such questions, thanks for reading my post and I'll continue my search elsewhere. Ian Graeme Hilt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Hilt, Ian
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:55 PM To: Hilt, Ian Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Origin of hard drive parameters On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Hilt, Ian wrote: Basically, I want to know where

RE: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread Hilt, Ian
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:21 PM To: Hilt, Ian Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Origin of hard drive parameters On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Hilt, Ian wrote: The hard disk has an on-board

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