Re: open-iscsi ?

2008-10-22 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does open-iscsi has been ported to FreeBSD at 7.x ? it doesn't seems to be at 6.x Seems to be a linux specific implementation of iscsi and gnu licenced so no we dont. However we have iscsi_initiator(4) in 7.x see the man pages for details. For a iscsi target

Re: documentation for sysctl MIB

2008-11-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Ole wrote: Hello maillist, I have to small question - Where i can get documentation for description some base sysctl variables? - And, what the diffrence between sysctl hw.machine hw.machine_arch ? try sysctl -d $oid for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (10:23:56 ~) 0 $ sysctl -d

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I have a quick question, I am trying to block a range of ip's for the sake of example they are 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 For the life of me I can't remember how to do that. What mechanism? null route, ipfw, ipf or pf I thought I could do it by using the

Re: inet hosts question

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Matthew Seaman wrote: Vincent Hoffman wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation is for that size of pool, I think it is a class B. 192.168.0.0/16 for your example. and yes this is a class B

Re: How can rsync with ssh be used on a non standard ssh port

2008-11-16 Thread Vincent Hoffman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use rsync for backup to another machine using a nonstandard port for ssh. 722. For example, when I test using my translation of the man pages: rsync [OPTION...] SRC... rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:PORT]/DEST I use: rsync -avz /almacen/testDir

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... bonnie++ is ok too. Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Marc Coyles wrote: Never had to do this so not sure where to start. Have googled and found some solutions but they don't particularly work (see below)... Someone has managed to inject php code into a PILE of php pages on my webserver... ?

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: snip IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization to

Re: Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Bernard Dugas wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: So you din't think that if all files are already in RAM on server, i will save the drive access time ? FreeBSD automatically use all free memory as cache. OK there is slowdown because network introduces slight delay, but few ms at most if

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
cpghost wrote: Hello, with MITM attacks [1] on the rise, I'm concerned about the integrity of local /usr/src, /usr/doc, and /usr/ports trees fetched through csup (and portsnap) from master or mirror servers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack There's already a

Re: zfs on i386 trauma :P

2009-01-16 Thread Vincent Hoffman
B. Cook wrote: Hello all, We had a raid card die in a dell box and reinstalled FreeBSD 7 and restored from backups.. the problem is amd64 didn't boot on the box and the person doing the restore wanted to 'help' and changed from ufs2 to zfs.. while being a noble effort, he was testing on

Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

2009-01-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions accepted in FreeBSD code base ? Specific case to consider would be: a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0 b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0 c. code

Re: Is there any tools can build a mirror of portsnap?

2009-01-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: simply do portsnap in one place and use rsync to mirror /var/db/portsnap On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Razor wrote: Hi, I want to build a mirror server of portsnap in my company. But I couldn't find any tools either in ports-mgmt or in google. So is there a tool can do

Re: Is there any tools can build a mirror of portsnap?

2009-01-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
tried this though. Vince On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: simply do portsnap in one place and use rsync to mirror /var/db/portsnap On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Razor wrote: Hi, I want to build a mirror server of portsnap in my company. But I couldn't find

Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

2009-01-22 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Saifi Khan wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions accepted in FreeBSD code base ? Specific case to consider would be: a. device driver code

Re: mysqld out of memory

2009-02-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 10/2/09 16:58, Ivan Voras wrote: Valentin Bud wrote: I noticed that it is already at 1GB. Now my problem is how can i avoid this in the future because on that production server mysql is crucial or in case it happens how ca I be the first to know of that problem? If you

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 14/2/09 06:28, Tim Judd wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:32 -0600, Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to

Re: Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server

2009-02-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/2/09 17:54, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote: Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure

Re: checknewver.sh

2009-03-18 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Dont know the script myself, but I would try running it in the directory of the port you want to check. Vince On 18/3/09 11:59, Peter Portin wrote: Tiss error is appears on two different computers running 6.4and 7.1. What is wrong? [r...@fritjof /usr/ports/Tools/scripts]# ./checknewver.sh

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-27 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 27/3/09 10:32, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:20:45 Tobias Rehbein wrote: Hi all. I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on FreeBSD. The Problem is the line: sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) After this line the

Re: SiI 3114 SATA150 controller the proper way to find if RAID is supported.

2009-03-31 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 31/3/09 16:58, Dimiter Ivanov wrote: Hello, i have a Silicon Image SATA controler, which is identified as: SiI 3114 SATA150 controller It has 4 ports, and supports RAID. I configured the RAID trough the BIOS, but FreeBSD 7.1, does not see the RAID arrays, only 4 separate disks. I

Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?

2009-04-01 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 1/4/09 17:07, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. I run into a problem I can not solve. I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, but fetch does only retrieve data on file

Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?

2009-04-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 2/4/09 10:41, O. Hartmann wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: I run into a problem I can not solve. I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and

Re: Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 3/4/09 13:28, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, This question is not purely about FreeBSD itself, but about getting Symantec Netbackup (formerly Veritas) running under FreeBSD. First of all FreeBSD is supported directly; there's a native commandline client for FreeBSD that supports 7.0. I'm

Re: Symantec Netbackup under 7.1 - Undefined symbol

2009-04-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 3/4/09 20:39, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:08:50AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: This would lead me to think you need the port misc/compat5x installed. I havent any experience of netbackup though. I agree with this statement, since it's clearly listed as it was

Re: Executing command on USB connect

2009-04-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 4/4/09 21:13, Oliver Roeschke wrote: Hi folks, I'm using a HP Laserjet P1006 on a freebsd with cups to make the printer available on the network. Since this modell is one of the crapy-cheap-laserjets it has some firmware you have to upload, everytime the printer has lost power.

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/4/09 23:36, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that you're having. OK.

Re: Blocking a slow-burning SSH bruteforce

2010-01-01 Thread Vincent Hoffman
David Rawling wrote: On 2/01/2010 2:07 AM, J.D. Bronson wrote: Few options I can think of in random order...I use #1: 1. Run SSH on an obscure port. Seriously, thats one of the easiest things to do. Since I have done that, I have had ZERO attempts and it works perfectly as long as users know

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Vincent Hoffman
GPT booting is I believe only natively supported using an EFI BIOS. However if you wish to use GPT booting with FreeBSD its not too hard, you just cant install using sysinstall. The Examples section of the gpart manpage is what i used to configure the disk for my home server, a zotac ion atom

Re: sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 09/02/2010 23:16, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was trying to measure the file transfer rates between my home and my office boxes. Both are 9.0-current. At home I've wireless, TL-WN851N, using ath(4) driver. I used sftp(1), which I launch from the home box. I made files sized 10MB, 100MB

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two

Re: FreeBSD8.0 with AHCI

2010-02-18 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 18/02/2010 08:54, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an Intel server and I must activate AHCI from BIOS so I can use all the 6 HDDs. Can anybody tell me if FBSD8.0 is stable using AHCI. This is the first I have to use so I thought I'd ask the community opinion first. AHCI

Re: sftp server with speed throttling

2010-03-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/03/2010 13:53, Dan Naumov wrote: What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/03/2010 21:53, Mark Shroyer wrote: Until recently, the method for creating ezjail's basejail was to issue the ezjail-admin update command, which compiles the basejail from /usr/src. Just recently an ezjail-admin install command was added, which downloads binaries from a FreeBSD FTP

Re: sftp server with speed throttling

2010-03-22 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 22/03/2010 11:53, Ghirai wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:55:00 + Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 21/03/2010 13:53, Dan Naumov wrote: What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp

lighttpd in a jail says address is already in use (its not)

2010-03-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Hi all, I'm hoping i'm doing something silly. I have an 8.0-RELEASE machine with one jail that i'm intending to run lighttpd. I have nothing running on the host other than sendmail on 127.0.0.1 and sshd bound to the primary IP. The jail is also now running sshd fine. when i try and

Re: lighttpd in a jail says address is already in use (its not)

2010-03-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Sorry for noise, pebkac I had defined $SERVER[socket] == 192.168.10.221:80 { } but not server.bind bahh. Vince On 23/03/2010 17:21, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping i'm doing something silly. I have an 8.0-RELEASE machine with one jail that i'm intending to run

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/04/2010 10:01, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys 2. Normal users will still be able to use pam/keyboard-interactive Only by

Re: SSH root login with keys only

2010-04-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/04/2010 10:17, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 05/04/2010 10:01, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/04/2010 22:04:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met: 1. Root will be able to login only by using keys 2. Normal users

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/04/2010 18:03, Peter Steele wrote: We have a USB boot stick based cloning process that we're considering porting to a DVD based media. I'm not sure though that it's possible due to the restrictions I've seen in the mfsroot environment we'd have to use. For example, in our USB disk

Re: DJB and root ns server dnssec signing

2010-04-19 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 19/04/2010 12:12, krad wrote: Hi, Not strictly a freebsd question this but I'm feeling jittery about this as I cant afford it to go wrong. As you are probably aware the root zones are going to be signed soon. I run a number of heavily used dns caches (~ 600-900 queries / sec) running

Re: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS

2010-04-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Hi Jorge, While the term dummy has been used in the sense of basic or beginner (for instance the for dummies series of books,) The most common context means stupid, or silly and has negative connotations for the person referred to. Vince On 20/04/2010 20:48, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all.

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 with geom_journal and fsck

2010-04-22 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 22/04/2010 16:10, Paulo Fragoso wrote: Hi, Is realy necessary check fsck on boot for journaled file sistem? Yes, but it should be a very quick check, see these for some more details http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2008-August/003020.html

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 27/04/2010 20:31, John wrote: This seems to be working pretty well, and I'll eventually take the print statement out, but I'm not sure why I had to make /dev/pf public read/write in order to get the pfctl command to work. What is the best solution to be able to add to my spammers table in

Re: atheros 9285 wifi

2011-07-15 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 15/07/2011 03:15, freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On Thu 14/07/11 9:28 PM , Maciej Milewski wrote:On czwartek, 14 lipca 2011 04:25:59 Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:02:02 +1000, freebsd- wrote: So are you saying I can't just grab the ath module?

Re: Is the forum dead?

2011-08-17 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 17/08/2011 20:20, Evan Busch wrote: I have a confirmation link from the vBulletin software asking me to go to http://forums.freebsd.org/ Yet this host appears to be down and has been since last night. Who do I ask about this? Or is this an unannounced scheduled downtime?

Re: BHyve

2011-08-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 19/08/2011 16:01, Net Warrior wrote: Hi Does anyone know if there is any progress on this project or how can I track/test it? It was imported into svn http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/bhyve_ref/ so you could check it out and have a try ;) I'm hoping to hear that its being ported to

Re: Can carp(4) run daemons or scripts?

2011-08-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/08/2011 17:21, Pavel Timofeev wrote: Oh, thank you very much! I didn't know about ifstated. I'll try it. Also may be with devd How? What do you mean? devd is the freebsd device state change daemon, it will track device state changes and you can tell it to act on them. A quick google for

Re: Can carp(4) run daemons or scripts?

2011-08-24 Thread Vincent Hoffman
late :) I should have looked here first but i just did a quick Google. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-hast.html You could suggest on freebsd-dochttp://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-doc.html@ to have a link from the carp section though. Vince 2011/8/23 Vincent Hoffman vi

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 29/4/09 14:18, Alexander Popov wrote: Hi, Daniel, This is the output: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 Checking for passwordless accounts: Checking login.conf permissions: ***.home kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.G4QuXmuU

Re: Teaming NIC

2009-05-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 8/5/09 07:47, Daniels Vanags wrote: Hello, FreeBSD 6.3 has new device called lagg(4). Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface. With lagg we can easily bond two NIC interfaces together. But how we can do NIC teaming in FreeBSD 6.2? Please help. I would

Re: Snapshots

2009-05-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 8/5/09 12:36, Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:00 AM 5/5/2009, Johan Hendriks wrote: Are there no more snapshots of current? The last is from 02-2009 Regards, Johan I downloaded one from this month a couple days ago. You should see a May snapshot available. -Derek Also see

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line

Re: Remotely edit user disk quota

2009-05-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/5/09 15:04, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009 08:53:23 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: depends, between pentium I and core2 quad. what's a difference? Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever breaking 10% CPU usage. I'm of the opinion

Re: SAN FreeBSD Server

2009-06-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 8/6/09 12:10, Friedrich Locke wrote: Dear gentleman, i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? Indeed it is, although as yet

Re: eSATA and/or Firewire 800|400 card, cardbus or expresscard 54mm

2009-06-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/6/09 14:42, p...@pair.com wrote: In message 20090624121036.ga3...@holstein.holy.cow on -mobile list[0], I asked for suggestions for a firewire or eSATA card to be put in Thinkpad T61 PCMCIA or EtherExpress slot, while most likely running FreeBSD 7. After about 6 days getting no replies

Re: source code licensing questions

2009-07-27 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Jonathan Chen wrote: 4.Suppose the answer for 1-3 is no, s there any other reason why I need to open the code. Only if you feel like it. I'd make that, Only if you feel like it or would like the warm glow of giving back to the community (and of course all those extra eyes to audit and

Re: documentation for gpart(8)/GPT?

2009-07-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Robert Huff wrote: Is there anything - official, or unofficial but reliable - about working with gpart/GPT?I've read the man page, and am still a little wobbly. I found http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2009-April/003440.html reasonably informative. Vince

Re: Analyze load of the channel to Internet

2009-08-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Anton wrote: Hello Gary, Due to what I've read about ntop - it is not really what I need. I dont have any Cisco routers, nor switches with port-mirroring - so I c=uld not collect any traffic. I have only 2 freebsd routers - and need to k=ow - when the outgoing channel of

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Hi, Opera is indeed already in the ports (and packages) and has been since November 5th 2000 according to the Makefile in ports/www/opera. and it appears the port is maintained by one of the staff at opera MAINTAINER= freebsd-maintai...@opera.com Keep up the good work :) Vince

Re: net-mgmt/flowd - broken ?

2009-08-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Kalle Møller wrote: Damn have no clue how to build fix or anything with plist ... Except it seemd to be a list of the files used ?? Pretty much, the porters handbook has a decent section on it if your interested. Any installed files except man pages and documentation (which are specified in

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Identry wrote: Well, the bad day has come... My primary server won't boot. I have backups of databases and user directories, but I need to try to get this server back up again. During the boot sequence, it freezes at the statement: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/10/2011 06:53, Albert Shih wrote: Le 27/10/2011 à 13:34:50-0400, David Magda a écrit On Thu, October 27, 2011 11:32, Albert Shih wrote: I also recommend LSI 9200-8E or new 9205-8E with the IT firmware based on past experience Do you known if the LSI-9205-8E HBA or the LSI-9202-16E HBA

nfs client speed lower than expected.

2011-11-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
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 nfs server that i get from a 8-stable FreeBSD client. representative results

Re: nfs client speed lower than expected.

2011-11-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Hoffman Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 6:52 PM To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: nfs client speed lower than expected. Hi all, What kind

Re: nfs client speed lower than expected.

2011-11-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
, Michael Sierchio wrote: Mount via tcp. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk 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

Re: Request for Reproduction Rights (Oxford University Press Spain)

2011-11-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 07/11/2011 11:30, Noelia.Sacristán wrote: Dear = Sir, We are a = Spanish Publishing House, Oxford University Press Spain, that publishes = textbooks for Spanish primary and secondary school. We are interested in = including, in a textbook of secondary education of

sed vs gnu sed

2011-11-09 Thread Vincent Hoffman
'Hi all, I'm trying to move a script from a linux box to a freebsd box. All going well as its just a bash script and bash is bash, however there is one line I'm unable to use directly, as bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]) appends a newline when writing to standard

Re: sed vs gnu sed

2011-11-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 10/11/2011 07:00, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Vincent Hoffmanvi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]) appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt. The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from

Re: ath0 + wlan0 + spa + Apple Airport Extreme = No Joy

2011-12-12 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/12/2011 19:31, Christopher Hilton wrote: Good day, I'm trying to get FreeBSD going on a soekris box with an atheros based D-Link PCI wifi card. I intend to use this combination to bridge a difficult network back to ethernet but right now I'm just trying to get the soekris associated

Disabling geom_journal

2011-12-13 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Hi all, I'm sure I have seen this come up before but a google doesnt help. I am trying to disable gjournal on a disk so i can move to suj as part of moving on to the 9.x series, I have umounted the FS but when i try to stop the journal it automatically starts it on the gtpid of the device

Re: Disabling geom_journal

2011-12-13 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 13/12/2011 19:34, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 12/13/2011 5:59 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Hi all, I'm sure I have seen this come up before but a google doesnt help. I am trying to disable gjournal on a disk so i can move to suj as part of moving on to the 9.x series, I have

Re: BWN Driver

2011-12-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/12/2011 00:26, Chris Brennan wrote: I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. [root@blackdragon ~]# kldstat | grep bwn 141 0x82035000 28a9abwn_v4_ucode.ko 191

Re: Where to send bugs?

2012-01-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 14/01/2012 15:02, Коньков Евгений wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. What is better: 1. Send PR to freebsd-current 2. Send PR via site or I must to send to both? Normally I ask on the relevant mailing list first in case its simple enough to get it resolved that way and to raise a little

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

2012-02-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine. My question is: will dump / (root) make a dump of *ALL* other directories? Dump

Re: where is linux-f10-flashplugin ?

2012-02-22 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 22/02/2012 20:16, Chuck Bacon wrote: Looks like FreeBSD mirrors have been hacked; more than one has an empty pub/FreeBSD directory, and those which have a ports/distfiles directory don't have an linux directory at all. I've faithfully followed the FreeBSD handbook for 8.2, and it says the

Occassional permission denied in the middle of a large transfer over NFS

2012-06-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
I seem to have run into the problems described in this old thread. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-April/044927.html tl:dr mountd may give incorrect permission denied errors when it is refreshing the exports list, /sbin/mount has code that sends SIGHUP to mountd on any

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-25 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 25/06/2012 13:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: C++ libraries can be limiting, but... wasn't replaced. If it would be truly about removing GPLv3 code that hurts, replacing libstdc++ would be first thing to do. I assume you mean like the new libc++? http://wiki.freebsd.org/NewC%2B%2BStack For

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

2012-06-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/06/2012 21:39, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:59, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: We use dump to backup ext4 filesystems on linux (Centos6) at work You can find a version of dump for Linux that supports ext4. What I have been completely unable to find

for loops with /bin/sh on command line.

2012-07-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
I'm sure I'm being dim, but why cant I do a for loop on the command line using /bin/sh ? am I suffering from too much use of bash and as such shouldnt expect it to work? banshee# for foo in 1 2 3 ; do echo $foo ; done for: Command not found. foo: Undefined variable. banshee# echo 'for foo in 1 2

Re: for loops with /bin/sh on command line.

2012-07-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 08/07/2012 17:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: banshee# for foo in 1 2 3 ; do echo $foo ; done for: Command not found. foo: Undefined variable. banshee# echo 'for foo in 1 2 3; do echo $foo ; done' bahh.sh banshee# sh bahh.sh 1 2 3 banshee# echo $SHELL is it /bin/sh really? Doh, yes

Re: encrypted ZFS root and encrypted swap OOTB?

2012-07-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/07/2012 16:25, Joseph Lenox wrote: On 07/09/2012 06:55 PM, David Christensen wrote: I wrote: https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/2012/05/06/full-disk-encryption-with-zfs-root-for-freebsd-9-x/ On 07/09/2012 09:43 AM, Colin Barnabas wrote: Perhaps this will help-

anyone here use poudriere ?

2012-07-13 Thread Vincent Hoffman
I've been playing with poudriere and pkg as per http://fossil.etoilebsd.net/poudriere/doc/trunk/doc/pkgng_repos.wiki in the hope that it will be an easier way to maintain a custom internal package repository for work not I'va managed to get a few FreeBSD boxes into service there. I'm liking it

Re: anyone here use poudriere ?

2012-07-13 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 13/07/2012 16:04, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:32:48 +0100, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk a écrit : I've been playing with poudriere and pkg as per http://fossil.etoilebsd.net/poudriere/doc/trunk/doc/pkgng_repos.wiki in the hope that it will be an easier way

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/10/2010 15:25, Christopher Illies wrote: 2010-10-28 14:49, Christopher Illies: To send email from my computer at work I need to send through a smarthost. In the past I had added the line: define(`SMART_HOST', `[smpt.ki.se]') Brackets are only needed for ipaddresses. What happens when

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 29/10/2010 11:19, Christopher Illies wrote: I added U:smmsp and M:PLAIN to my /etc/mail/auth/client-info file, but that did not change anything. When I left out the square brackets around the server name in that file, I got another error message in /val/log/maillog: Oct 29 12:05:22 muck

Re: Sendmail as client via smarthost and ssl

2010-10-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 29/10/2010 14:49, Christopher Illies wrote: Thanks for your explanations, Vince. It got me one step further (I think). ... Ok, when I use telnet, this happens: telnet send.ki.se 587 Trying 130.xxx.xxx.26... Connected to send.ki.se. Escape character is '^]'. 220 KIMSX09.user.ki.se

Re: Continuing problem with portsnap

2010-11-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 02/11/2010 11:34, Jerry wrote: Since portsnap' has been failing on my system, I tried a different approach and decided to rebuild the port entirely rather than just download an updated snapshot. This is the result of just such a venture: portsnap fetch extract Looking up

Re: Continuing problem with portsnap

2010-11-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 02/11/2010 13:37, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:32:44 -0700 Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net articulated: This is a separate issue due to bad DNS - the list of mirrors is obtained from: host -t srv _http._tcp.portsnap.freebsd.org and falls back to just portsnap.freebsd.org if

Re: Continuing problem with portsnap

2010-11-02 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 02/11/2010 14:33, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:48:12 + Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk articulated: Sounds like DNS to me. what output do you get from dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org $ dig +trace portsnap.freebsd.org ; DiG 9.6.2-P2 +trace portsnap.freebsd.org

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-17 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 17/12/2010 15:27, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:14:22AM -0500, Outback Dingo wrote: SeBSD is a FreeBSD project for security enhancement... ACLs and stuff... its part of FreeBSD Something like SeLinux those other guys use??? Good job that wasnt FBI sponsored, those NSA

Re: Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Marc Coyles wrote: Am running freebsd-update following instructions at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.htm l I did similar recently, although I went from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7 (almost certainly not necessary though.) It’s decided that it can’t

Re: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

2008-07-24 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Chocas, Connie S wrote: I could not find anything referencing export controls for FreeBSD. You may find the following link for Apache Software Foundation products helpful. This is the type is information that is needed to determine what is required to legally export software. If FreeBSD

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-07-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Troy Kocher wrote: Listers, For some reason my kernel setting aren't being recognized. . tao# more loader.conf geom_vinum_load=YES kern.ipc.semmni=256 kern.ipc.semmns=512 kern.ipc.semmnu=256 kern.ipc.semmap=256 kern.ipc.shmall=32768 kern.ipc.shmmax=1 On reboot shmall shmmax have to

Re: pxeboot

2008-07-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
David Collins wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this is the correct list to post this to, and if it isn't please could you point me to where it should go. I have recently turned to freeBSD and so far I love it. I have a small laptop that I use for playing around and general fiddling. I was using the

Re: Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Marc Coyles wrote: Righty - now that I'm back from my wanderings I've managed to complete the upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0-RELEASE, but am still getting issues with named not starting. For reference, I pulled down a clean 7.0-R version of named.conf and dropped it in as /etc/named.conf

Re: reminder email notification utility

2008-08-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Jim Pazarena wrote: Is there a utility available which can take a database of dates events and email out a reminder? I know that I could create something using at, but seems to me that I saw a utility already designed for this. I have missed one too many birthdays calendar and cron ? a

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:33:20PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:19:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I kep track on the load on my main server, and it is rarely above 0.20. If the load is a poor metric of power use, what is

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:56:12AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: the datasheets for the 40G drives are lost lost. Oh, come now! If you still know what make and model the drives are, the datasheets

Re: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-08-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Warren Liddell wrote: The easiest way to do the upgrade (if you are using a GENERIC kernel) is to use Freebsd-update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/) It's a pretty powerful tool which allows you to do binary updates for FreeBSD. To upgrade between major versions you would want to

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