Re: Unable to download FreeBSD

2011-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
Balaje Suri wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Team, > > When I try to download the FreeBSD distribution (by clicking on the link > that refers to location: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.2-RELEASE) , I get an > error "425 Failed to establish connection".

Subversion over SSH works through GIT but not with SVN

2011-04-20 Thread Michael Grünewald
cessful svn+ssh authentication achieved by git svn: debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug2: key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa (0x801a61680) debug2: key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa (0x0) debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering pu

Re: Subversion over SSH works through GIT but not with SVN

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hello Greg, hello list, thank you very much for your answer, it was very useful! Greg Larkin wrote: On 4/20/11 7:21 AM, Michael Grünewald wrote: I have recently discovered that by subversion client (1.16_2) is not able any more to access my subversion accounts over svn+ssh (with key based

Re: Jails: How do i limit what ifconfig shows?

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Ross
the ifconfig binary from the jail. Works for me. Michael ___ 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: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Ross
it and tries to boot. I need some ideas here as the RAID is essential for this application. Thanks, Architecture mismatch, trying to boot a amd64 on an i386 machine? Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: hello

2011-04-27 Thread Michael Powell
Julian Fagir wrote: [snip] > >> But, the question is quite clear, though I have no idea why [s]he >> wants to do that downgrade and might want to explore that before >> encouraging that move. > That was what I was looking for, and for what was already done and how the > system is usually updated

Re: access an extended partition and

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Powell
sofiane chabane wrote: > Good morning, > I have installed FreeBSD in a multiboot way on my PC but till now I can't > access my extended partition. Indeed, on my PC I have 4 primary partitions > that I organized like this: > > > Primary partition 1 : WinRE of windows vista > > Primary partitio

Re: Drive selection for gmirror

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Powell
Ireneusz Pluta wrote: > Hello, > > when selecting SATA drives for gmirror, boot device, connected to an > on-board controller, should I look for so-called "enterprise grade", or > "raid edition" drives (like for instance > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=40), or I should rather >

Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:18:32 -0700 > Arthur Barlow articulated: > >> Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I >> tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from >> NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? > > You might

Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Powell
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > On 05/01/2011 18:18, Michael Powell wrote: >> Jerry wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:18:32 -0700 >>> Arthur Barlow articulated: >>> >>>> Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I &

Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Powell
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Janos Dohanics wrote: > >> Rebuilt the kernel with "options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES" and Firefox now >> works fine. >> >> Since this option seems to be required for Firefox (and perhaps for >> other ports?), shouldn't /usr/ports/UPDATING or /u

Re: firefox-4.0.1,1 crashes

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Janos Dohanics wrote: [snip] >> > >> > And it's not a requirement. I've never seen that issue, or enabled >> > the fix although firefox is my primary browser. >> >> These options are present in the GENERIC kernel and you probably did >> not remove them. My guess is the OP did and never realized

Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 7.4 Stable to 8.2

2011-05-22 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Just read that a save upgrade from my current 7.4 version would be easy > by performing: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE > # freebsd-update install > # shutdown -r now > # freebsd-update install > > Are there any pitfalls to this? > I only have done the src m

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [snip] > > Power supplies do fail occasionally, and not always in obvious > ways such as failing to turn on at all. The output voltages may > be a little too high or too low, or they may be correct but with > excessive ripple or electrical noise; or the supply may be

Re: System stop

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Powell
Janos Dohanics wrote: > Last night one of my systems stopped, it's FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE, i386. > In /var/log/messages I found this: > > Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 acpi: resumed at 20110610 23:11:59 > Jun 10 23:11:59 mail1 postfix/postfix-script[50651]: stopping the Postfix > mail system Jun 10 23:11:59

Re: mysql_connect error

2011-06-14 Thread Michael Powell
Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 09:46:17 AM Glenn McCalley wrote: >> Seen other people have this problem but cannot get their resolutions to >> work for me. >> >> "Fatal error: Call to oundefined function mysql_connect() in etc., etc." >> >> This began happening after an upgr

Re: Another PHP5 problem

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Powell
Jack L. Stone wrote: [snip] > > Now, I wrestling with the apache2 and apr0 issue. The apache port Makefile > wants apr0, but it now has vulnablilities. Ports UPDATING says to do this > with apr: > - remove apache2 and then: portupgrade -f -o devel/apr1 devel/apr > ...and then reinstall apache2. T

Re: Another PHP5 problem

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Powell
Jack L. Stone wrote: [snip] > > Thanks to both you and Mike for the advice. I've already installed > apache22 on a test server and trying to allocate time to it as and when. > Looks like this apr thing is going to raise the priority. You shouldn't have any of these apr problems with 22. > Als

Re: startup postgresql 9.0.3

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Powell
Jeff Hamann wrote: > I've installed and tested postgresql just fine on FreeBSD 8.2. > > I've been trying to get postgresql (the server) to start on bootup using > /etc/rc.conf system. Sometime quite a while back FreeBSD imported the rc.subr startup subsystem from NetBSD. > I'm using the script

Re: Another PHP5 problem

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Powell
Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 12:56 PM 6/16/2011 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: >>Jack L. Stone wrote: >> >>The no-accf.conf under includes is for if you do not desire to use either >>of >>the AcceptFilter choices, one for httpd the other for SSL traffic. These >

Re: Another PHP5 problem

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Powell
Jack L. Stone wrote: [snip] > > A note of concern was that apache22 changes the path to the document root > by inserting ../www/apache22/data > versus the previous ../www/data doc root. > > Of course my vhosts and a bunch of other things of importance now reside > within the ../www path. I suppo

Re: Auto Reply: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:27:04 -0700 (PDT) > Dave Segleau articulated: > >> I am out of the office until June 20th. I will only have intermittent >> access to email. I will read and reply to your message when I get >> back to the office. >> >> If you need assistance with a Berkeley

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Powell
d...@safeport.com wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>> "Dieter" == Dieter BSD writes: >> >> Dieter> Attempt to install package xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2.tbz >> Dieter> gives conflict between perl-5.10.1_3 and perl-5.12.3 >> Dieter> even when installing into clean direct

Re: cvsup and versions

2011-06-27 Thread Michael Powell
wayne mitchell wrote: > hey, > i have just cvsup'ed for first time (newbie) Cvsup as an add-on port is actually no longer needed. Csup is cvsup rewritten in C and is a part of the base OS now. Functionally identical. > RELENG_8_1_RELEASE > rebuilt world... > there is a problem with a particular

Re: ports/158374: databases/firebird21-client coredumps

2011-06-28 Thread Michael Maguire
Hi everyone, I'm posting this to the bug and to freebsd-questions in case anyone can help me out with advice on how to investigate further. This is in regards to: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/158374 I'm not sure if I jumped the gun on submitting the PR because the fix only parti

Re: error in installation of uwsgi

2011-07-08 Thread Michael Ross
lve this problem. *ln -s /usr/local/include/pth/pth.h /usr/local/include/python2.7/pth.h* Then I rebuilt this port again. The second error appeared. I hit that one a few days ago. Haven't solved it. If it's an option for you, you can compile Python without GNU Pth support. This will sol

IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
nd the handbook still seems very natd-centric in its examples. Thanks in advance. - Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
xauth not in your path? On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:46 AM, wrote: > Mark Felder wrote: > >> This sounds silly, but what happens if you try ssh -Y > > Exactly the same thing as with -X, in either direction. > > It still fails with the 6.1 system as the ssh client, > and works with the 6.1 system a

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Sierchio
: > > > > From: Dan Nelson > To: Michael Sierchio > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 1:07:31 PM > Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect > > In the last episode (Jul 11), Michael Sierchio said: >> Sorry for the naive q

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Sierchio
We're not talking about natd. The question was about the use of ipfirewall nat. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 12), Michael Sierchio said: >> Is there a way of specifying a particular public address if there is >> more t

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Sierchio
aining. - M On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > > > > > ____ > From: Michael Sierchio > To: Dan Nelson > Cc: Bill Tillman ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 6:35:19 PM > Subject: Re: IPF

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Sierchio wrote: > I'm familiar with natd since its appearance. I was unclear on the > ipfirewall nat syntax, since there is no syntax definition in the man > page. It's true the man page is already too large, but some examples > (somewhere) would be nice. M

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Michael Sierchio
Mike - You're confused. natd is still a userland process that works via divert sockets. ipfirewall nat is an extension to ipfirewall (ipfw is the userland control program to modify the rulesets, nat config, tables, etc.). - Michael On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Michael Powell

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Powell
n the IPFW ruleset. I did indeed mis-speak wrt to natd as the above was conceived in IPFW2 to supersede userland natd. Been about maybe 7 or 8 years since I used IPFW, so the memory is rusty. Michael Sierchio wrote: > Mike - > > You're confused. natd is still a userland process

Re: Droid fonts

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Ross
Checksum OK for DroidSansMono.ttf. => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSansThai.ttf. => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSerif-Bold.ttf. => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf. => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSerif-Italic.ttf. => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSerif-Regular.

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Powell
David Arendt wrote: > Hi, > > well I don't actually now which package it was, but I compiled gdm (so > it should be one of it's dependencies). A compilation resulted in a non > working gdm (something with pam support not found on execution). Upon > installing gdm and is dependencies from packages

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Sierchio
that interest me are relevant, things that don't presumably are not, until they are. - Michael (FreeBSD since 2.2.2) On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Sam George wrote: > On 7/17/2011 05:10, Jerry wrote: >> >> While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
This is extremely important, esp. with Softupdates, since fsync() does not guarantee a flush of all buffers to the medium. In order to implement a stable queue, it would be best to use a different filesystem. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Unga wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/22/11, Pieter de Goeje wr

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Polytropon wrote: > But wouldn't sync() (see "man 2 sync") make sure that > all buffers, even in regards to soft updates, get > immediately flushed / written? Apparently not. I think most of Matt Dillon's notes are still relevant. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/ma

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I burned a copy of FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso to CD. It > booted and ran OK, but I encountered some rather odd behavior in a few > places: > > As another user mentioned elsewhere, the packages distributions are > beyond minimal, consisting only of some basic

Re: semi-OT: Looking for a hosting provider w/ FreeBSD root-servers

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Ross
Am 04.08.2011, 08:56 Uhr, schrieb Matthias Apitz : Hello, I have to change my hosting provider, because the actual one does not want to fullfill my needs. I'm looking for a provider offering FreeBSD root-servers, best in Europe. Any pointers are wellcome. Thanks matthias http://www

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Sierchio
man freebsd-update On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA > USARPAC is alleged to have said: > >> How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am >> running is supported via automated fas

Re: pdo_mysql.so

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Powell
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I need pdo_mysql.so for Drupal7 to work correctly, but I only see pdo.so > and pdo_sqlite.so in the php5 extension directory. So, I checked the > 'make config' to see if I forgot something. But the option to build > pdo_mysql is not there. How do I get this pdo_mysql.so fi

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Powell
Hartmann, O. wrote: > Since today, I can not update my ports tree due to this error as follows. > This happens on all boxes running FreeBSD, the version of the OS (FBSD > 8.2/9.0) doesn't > matter. What's up with the ports collection? Nothing wrong with ports. Just csup'd 2 machines and all is fi

Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Powell
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: >> It's been a while since I've had to do this and the drive that contained >> all of my notes is dead, along with the backup (I was actually lucky to >> recover my home drive before it also failed but my notes were not >> the

Re: Group permissions are broken?

2011-08-15 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Yuri wrote: > User john is a member of both webcamd and vboxusers: > # grep john /etc/group > webcamd:*:145:john > vboxusers:*:920:john > > When the file /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john can touch it ok: > $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch  /tmp/my-test > -rw

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Ross
Am 17.08.2011, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : Lars Eighner wrote: ftp protocol does not support command du, so one can't see size of ftp://ftp.freebsd.orgpub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/All/ My FTP client shows it at about 32GB total. Mi

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Ross
Am 17.08.2011, 15:59 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : Hi, Reference: From: "Michael Ross" Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:41 +0200 Message-id: "Michael Ross" wrote: Am 17.08.2011, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : > Lars Eighner wrote:

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Michael Sierchio
same conclusion as I did, having spent several minutes pondering the matter while popping pimples." Regards (very slight), Michael Sierchio ___ 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: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: > 3) Updates are a mess. It's cool that I *can* compile a new kernel, but > that I *have* to is ridiculous. Updating a server should not be more > difficult than "yum update" -- full stop. Are you lazy, or stupid? man freebsd-update _

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login? chpass allows root to set the encrypted password directly chpass -p '$1$123456789$your-random-chars-here' On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Michael wrote: > Hello, > > When adding a new user it is possible to a

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c "[:alnum:]" '0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-z0-9A-Za-a-z0-9A-Za-z' will give you the right kind of characters to use, for example. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Presumably you're doing this to prevent direct login? &

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
P2Ka9Gu39jFULWbLYwqNfzDMVOy76nPEWA9DfeT5yUrSO9fSyREAes7XxSbYvcyuzahBdqBaySc4EIgRQDBFqRxJ6hzbY7dg98HtcQzoWSrCgf2SA6VJwLivtld3eCddIz5HZIjcHUqISzFXMLnOPszV627zGhOm5Ei7diTQbf8GZQ3ZD8r7yY2ao9Mbm9w16nCt5issPD2toxoKSdqaNWYHbTCqEhXineHmQPwX9z1qDFZkM7B20FecLS5ECKe8yH7iSlIiFDCbAbFNVJ1PP # I'll leave it to you to pick out 9 chars for the seed and 31 chars for the rest, as in $1$zNvPGEVzC$Z0QQRMUjtzcJJXRlKNPfVFCTEol0pdP On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > dd if=/dev/random count=1 | tr -c "

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. Probably doesn't matter if the purpose is to make login unusable. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sierchio writes: > > Michael> dd if=/dev/r

Re: Resetting bootloader on a CF

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
It occurs to me that there may be a couple of other wrinkles. There are kernel boot parameters that tell which kind of console to use, and there are switches you can twiddle in /boot/loader.conf, notably #console="vidconsole" # A comma separated list of console(s) console

Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
Is it possible to mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel? How would the fstab entry look? Thanks, Michael M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in fstab upon mount? Thanks, Michael M On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 2 06:30:22 2011 > &g

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:08:08 +0200, Michael M wrote: > > Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: > > > > Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in > fstab > > upon mount? >

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've seen. YMMV. - M On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > J

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor this and invoke sendmail directly. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:55 PM, RW wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700 > Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-sen

Re: A quality operating system

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Doyle
p or OSX problems, I tend to rely on external search engines (Bing, Google) to trawl through the sites, and it takes longer to find the answers I need Michael Doyle mdo...@cooperationireland.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailS

Re: Samba question

2011-09-10 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:53:48 +0100, Graeme Dargie wrote: >> I am trying to mount a samba share that is on a FreeBSD 8.2 >> server to another FreeBSD 8.2 server, >> >> Mount_smbfs -I //user@host/share /mountpoint >> >> It then asks for a password, I enter the users password >

Re: traffic shaping freebsd

2011-09-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:38 PM, alexus wrote: > thanks, but did u actually tried it? If what you're asking is, "does traffic shaping work?" the answer is yes. There are some provisos - you must create an outbound pipe and an inbound pipe that accurately reflect the observed network performance

Re: traffic shaping freebsd

2011-09-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
0 ip 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/10561920651 00 0 > 16 ip 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/10643641781 00 0 > 32 ip 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/10724353920 00 0 > 48 ip 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/2

Re: traffic shaping freebsd

2011-09-11 Thread Michael Sierchio
amending my remark... UID matching is problematic. Why are you trying to classify packets based on that? On Sunday, September 11, 2011, Michael Sierchio wrote: > You don't seem to have any rules that match packets. This won't work. > > On Sunday, September 11, 2011, alexu

Re: Recommended SWAP space for large amounts of ram (8GB)

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Sierchio
ves a lot of explanation." But... disk is still (by far) the cheapest commodity, and the opportunistic paging algorithm manages VM very well. VM is not by any means obsolete, and seeing paging behavior is not a sign of a misconfigured system. Regards, - Michael _

Re: apache 2.2.21 - back to 2.2.20 ?

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Powell
Sergio Tam wrote: > 2011/9/20 n dhert : >> Monday I did a portupgrade >> apache-2.2.20 < needs updating (index has 2.2.21) >> There was no problem during the update (and nothing special mentionned in >> /usr/ports/UPDATING) >> Today Tuesday afternoon I did a >> # apachectl

Re: updating 8.1 release

2011-10-03 Thread Michael Powell
wayne mitchell wrote: > hey > just tried to update a system using 'csup' > current system is: 8.1 RELEASE on a amd machine (amd64 GENERIC kernel) > tried downloading the CURRENT branch ( tag=. ) > when running "make buildworld" > get an exit with error at /usr/lib/libmagic > system gives various w

Re: FBSD82 sec patch -p4, uname still -p3

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Schaefer
On 07.10.2011 09:01, Jason Helfman wrote: > If your kernel wasn't touched during the update, then uname won't bump. but as -p4 for 8.2 fixes FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix, it should have touched the kernel, shouldn't it? regards - Michael ___

Re: FBSD82 sec patch -p4, uname still -p3

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Schaefer
well I know about the newvers.sh. But as far as I understand the advisory (and the patch) the file sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c is modified. I'm not that much into the FreeBSD kernel code. However, isn't this affecting the kernel image? regards - Michael On 07.10.2011 13:33, n dhert wrote: &

New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Michael Starr
ck. I would try another fresh install, but currently I can't do anything. Could someone please direct me to a solution? I hope I did not irrevocably alter my BIOS. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thank you. Computer: HP dvr6 2150us (laptop) -- Michael Star

Re: System randomly not logging complete bi-directional traffic.

2011-10-09 Thread Michael Sierchio
Sorry to have missed your prior post - please include the entire ruleset. Thanks. On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM, wrote: > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > # > # > # FreeBSD_7-4 RELEASE > # Our hardware is pristine > # > # What is described herein are regular, yet random occurrences; we need he

Wifi Scanner Gnome

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Starr
Hey, I use multiple wireless networks on a daily basis and they are different each day. Is there a simple gnome wifi scanner that allows me to easily connect my laptop to the available network? I have been looking... This would be very helpful. I want one similar to the one in Ubuntu where it lis

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Michael M
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Alessandro Spinella wrote: > >> On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> >> +1 >>> >>> FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. >>> >>> >> agree_counter++; >> > > agreed. > > > -- > RMA. > >

Re: www.clubrunner.ca

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Powell
Mike Jeays wrote: > I find weird behaviour with this site. It works fine on Windows systems, > but Firefox on FreeBSD (and also Firefox, Opera and Chrome on Ubuntu) > fails to connect. It immediately tries to retrieve www.clubrunner.ca/Home, > but then the connection hangs. > > Does anyone have a

Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-20 Thread Michael M
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* > /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1:.An Dennis Ritchie > /usr/src/contrib/ntp/util/**ansi2knr.1:ansi2knr \- convert ANSI C to > Kernighan & Ritchie C > /usr/src/contrib/tcpdump/**print-rx.c: * Sigh. This is gross. > Ri

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Galati, Michael
g the same version of FreeBSD on all systems - You use the same CPU arch. on all systems - You do not need ports build with different options on some systems - You are not using any conflicting packages Unfortunately, there's no good way of upgrading packages

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're >> running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in >> attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. > > Is there _any_ r

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Polytropon wrote: > Is there _any_ reason why moving from port 22 to something > different is _not_ a solution? > > Reason why I'm asking: Moving SSH away from its default port > seems to be a relatively good solution as break-in attempts > concentrate on default

Re: Configuring IPFW

2011-10-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, RW wrote: > Normally if the rules are stateless you would allow established tcp > packets, but would deny them with stateful rules. In the latter case, > established traffic would be passed by the check-state You need to pay attention to direction as well. Suppo

Re: Configuring IPFW

2011-10-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > Similarly, for udp rules, be sure to include the keep-state (but not > setup) keyword. > RIght - if you're just protecting a single host, for example, your ruleset might be something like ipfw add 1000 allow ip from any to any via

Re: GEOM after system update

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
You could edit the label and make it cover the unit, then run growfs (assuming you have backups), but for the most part this can safely be ignored. 2011/10/24 Sergei Vyshenski : > Hi, > > Is it safe to ignore a sting in gmesg: > > GEOM: ad10s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).

IPsec woes in 8.2

2011-10-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
I've been trying to upgrade a client firewall to 8.2, but have an odd problem. The current config, based on 7.4, has the firewall as an IPsec endpoint for other offices, but also is doing 1:1 NAT and passing L2TP traffic to a VPN endpoint inside the firewall. The upgrade to 8.2 breaks the L2TP tr

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:45:44 -0300, Zantgo wrote: >> then, as the system must be configured?, I thought as I was >> was perfect. I have a laptop with intel core i5. > > The ports should work without any further configuration > change, no matter if you've installed via Internet

Re: Make buildworld don't run

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Powell
Zantgo wrote: > I write "make buildworld", this is the answer: > > #make buildworld > make: don't know how to make buildworld. Stop Since this works just fine for all those who have learned how to use FreeBSD I can only assume this indicates you do not know what you are doing. > PS: I use Fre

Re: Make buildworld don't run

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Powell
Zantgo wrote: > > El 02-11-2011, a las 17:00, Michael Powell > escribió: > >> If your only exposure to date with computers has been with Windows and >> you are looking to expand your reach, you will first find that the *Nix >> world is heavy on reading documentat

Re: DNS config help

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
It depends... some VPNs push routes, including default routes, and nameservers and search paths, but it's up to the client on how to handle it. Some of these will set /etc/resolv.conf, etc. What *kind* of VPN are you talking about? OpenVPN? PPTP? L2TP? I generally prefer dnscache to BIND, an

Re: How to remove ACPI from boot ?

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
in /boot/loader.conf (see /boot/defaults/loader.conf) acpi_load="NO" On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Al Plant wrote: > Aloha, > > I have a box that wont shut down with ACPI setting activated. Anyone point > me to a how to on keeping ACPI from being set to on at boot. > > Thanks . > > ## Please

Re: nfs client speed lower than expected.

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Sierchio
Mount via tcp. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Hi all, >        What kind of speed should I be expecting over an NFS mount from > a linux box using a gig interface (igb)? I'm seeing linux clients > getting approx 2 or 3 times the throughput rsyncing files from a linux > n

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Sierchio
It will work fine - it won't attempt to update the kernel. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:49 AM, masayoshi wrote: > I would like to know about freebsd-update command. > It is rumoured that freebsd-update command does not work well with custom > kernel. > First question is the following : > >> su - > #

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jason Helfman wrote: > I does work fine with a custom kernel, as long as you are running and > maintaining the actual update server that distributes. I don't think that's relevant. It works fine with the public servers. ___

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Sierchio
This is simply not the case. freebsd-update works on the basis of cryptographic hashes on the binaries. It is, after all, a binary update program. If it detects a custom kernel, it will not update the kernel, but updates userland programs. It doesn't *care* what your kernel config name is, it re

Re: -Stable periodic updates

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Ross
in English. The spanish translation is lacking the parts he asks about, and then some. Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: -Stable periodic updates

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Ross
Am 05.11.2011, 15:36 Uhr, schrieb Zantgo : I will say my question clear. If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that tells me how to do this._

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
I just use tar for this. ( cd /path/to/src ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /path/to/obj ; tar xf - ) - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chris wrote: > I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to > USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names > wh

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
Are you running a firewall? Do you have a ppp connection? This happens when there is a dependency that is not expressed in the /etc/rc.d scripts. - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Robert Simmons wrote: > Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working > before running ntpdat

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
Oh, and what kind of filesystem is on the USB device? - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Chris writes: > >> The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux, >> so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having >> problems thou

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris wrote: > I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: > ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd > /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) Show, don't tell. What does tar report when you run it? ___

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
The keywords in /etc/rc.d/ntpdate have # PROVIDE: ntpdate # REQUIRE: NETWORKING syslogd named # KEYWORD: nojail which means that networking must be up first. The question in your case is why name resolution is failing. See what happens if you pick some public stratum 1 or stratum 2 servers for

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Polytropon wrote: > However, if you _can_, solve the _cause_ of your > problem, i. e. educate those who create that > kind of trouble-carrying file and directory names > _not_ to use spaces! Amen, Brother. Just because you *can*, doesn't mean you should. I blame

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