Re: where to get the release notes for 9.2

2013-07-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/07/2013 02:27, Aryeh Friedman wrote: There is a specific feature I need to see if it is in 9.2 or just 10 where can I find the draft release notes for 9.2? http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html lists 9-stable release notes (http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/index.html) which

Re: poudriere keeps rebuilding apache22 on every run

2013-06-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/06/2013 16:45, Arthur Chance wrote: On 06/05/13 16:06, Vincent Hoffman wrote: I'm not certain if this is the best place to ask but I seem to be having issues with apache22 and poudriere. on every run I get Creating the reference jail... done Mounting system devices

poudriere keeps rebuilding apache22 on every run

2013-06-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
I'm not certain if this is the best place to ask but I seem to be having issues with apache22 and poudriere. on every run I get Creating the reference jail... done Mounting system devices for 8amd64-default Mounting ports/packages/distfiles Mounting packages from:

Re: Max top end computer for Freebsd to run on

2013-06-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 02/06/2013 21:34, Fbsd8 wrote: I'm a sub second speed freak. What is the max number of cpu's and memory size that Freebsd can handle? Can it handle 16 4ghz cpu's and 32gb of memory? I need a gaming server with some really big balls for hundreds of jails. Money is not a deciding factor here,

Re: Cdorked.A

2013-05-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 09/05/2013 23:12, pete wright wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/9/2013 12:19 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Is Apache on FreeBSD affected? Thanks, Technically, Apache isn't the problem. The hole's in cPanel probably, not Apache. The

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 18/01/2013 23:26, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to

Re: HELP: some process eat my /var

2012-11-05 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 05/11/2012 09:32, Eugen Konkov wrote: Здравствуйте, Robert. # du -h /var | sort -nr | head -n 25 976k/var/db/mysql/mysql 892k/var/mail/freeline.in.ua/luda 888M/var/log/radius/radacct/10.11.19.50 858M/var/crash 840k/var/mail/freeline.in.ua/luda/cur 836k

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 19/09/2012 06:53, dweimer wrote: I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running from my FreeNAS box. I got started, by first booting a 9.1-RC1 CD, into live CD, created a /tmp/iscsi.conf used kldload to load

Re: Where are the mechancs of config(8) descibed

2012-09-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/09/2012 01:30, Robert Bonomi wrote: (This is probably a bit techical for 'questions' -- I'd welcome a suggesstion of a more appopriae forum.) If you dont get any joy, try freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org Vince Is there a detailed description anywhere of the mechanics of *how* config(8)

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: 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-

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: 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

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

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: 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

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 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: 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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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

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: [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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Dual booting with OSX without bootcamp

2010-09-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Hi all, Work has kindly supplied a shiny new macbook pro (6,2) so I've re-partitioned it (OSX's grow/shrink partitions/filesystems online is handy) and now have an EFI partition (hidden,) OSX partition, FreeBSD / partition, ZFS partition for the rest and a swap partition. I've stuck

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 09/09/2010 22:02, Jules Gilbert wrote: About Java. Using java with freebsd/mozilla or another browser. Some questions: Is GNU java sufficient? I need to be able to run a browser with Java. No alternative -- and no I don't want to run windoz. I'm trying to do an 8.1 install. Looks

Re: Applying a patch to a port

2010-09-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 03/09/2010 08:53, bsd wrote: Hello, I have a patch for clamav that was submited by a developer of clamav. I don't know how to apply It to the source code of the port. What I would like to do: 1. Get the source code 2. cd to the source directory 3. Apply the patch 4. Recompile

Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-07-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote: I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network.

Re: gmultipath woes

2010-07-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/07/2010 08:17, Corey Smith wrote: Has anyone tried gmultipath under 8.1-RELEASE/amd64 yet? This is my first attempt at multipathing so it is possible I'm doing something wrong but anyways: # uname -a FreeBSD host 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/07/2010 10:08, krad wrote: Anyone tried using it yet? Not much info out there apart from the announcments it seems. In my quick play with it this morning, it didnt seem to be binding the ips to the jails. Not sure if you are supposed to have the ip bound to the box before you use the

Re: Clarification: Jail -vs- Chroot

2010-07-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 14/07/2010 00:30, Aiza wrote: Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm reading about jails and chroot, and I'm not clear about the differences so I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me. Here's what I think is correct: 1.) FreeBSD has both chroot capability as well as jail capability. 2.)

Re: sparse image

2010-06-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/06/2010 06:19, Aiza wrote: Thanks Vince this was very helpful. I was able to create a sparse image jail, but when I used cpio to duplicate the sparse file to other jails I lost the sparseness of the file. Is there a way to copy a sparse file and keep it intact? I havent tested but tar

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/06/2010 11:26, Aiza wrote: Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD? If you mean you would like to make a sparse file and attach it using mdconfg then dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/outfile bs=1M seek=1024 count=0 This will give you a sparse file that reports a gig in size, but

Re: Alternate method for fetching source

2010-06-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 04/06/2010 19:20, Ross Penner wrote: I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other method to grab the current source files? svn works

Re: Re : Possible to run Linux distro in a jail?

2010-05-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/05/2010 08:10, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/05/2010 22:15:37, Alexandre L. wrote: I have this link to a French Blog : http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Emprisonner_une_debian_dans_un_FreeBSD This describe how to jail a Linux Debian in FreeBSD. I hope this will help you. I haven't used

Re: real time files mirroring ?

2010-05-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/05/2010 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a software that could perform some kind of real time mirroring between two (or more) freebsd servers. My meaning is to keep up to date some files ( flat and db maps ) used by Postfix on our MX servers and propagate every

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: 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: [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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: is there a newer write up on BIND than '04?

2009-12-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Gary Kline wrote: Anybody know if there is a new FBSD writeup on BIND than what is listed near the top in google's output? Seems like the folks at ISC changed the bind/named stuff from /etc to /var sometime after 2005. gary PS: I'll share everything

Re: Problems with wifi and macbook

2009-12-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
FW wrote: I have successfully installed freebsd on my macbook (yay!), but I can't figure out how to make the wifi work. Wired networking works great. I am following the directions here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html, but I have only got up to section

Re: FreeBSD only on MacBook? Having problems...

2009-11-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
w s wrote: (x posted to http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8827, my apologies, but no one seems interested there...) I am trying to follow the steps to install FreeBSD 8.0 on my MacBook. I don't want to dual boot or anything, so I am following along here:

Re: pf nuttyness

2009-11-25 Thread Vincent Hoffman
krad wrote: 2009/11/24 Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a ruleset loaded, that is long and complicated...but I've shortened to to a pass all rule. The box has 4 interfaces, one for pfsync, one for me to connect to it, and two bridged

freebsd.org problems?

2009-11-24 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Is www.freebsd.org haiving problems? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.freebsd.org seems to indicate a general problem. (not that I cant just use a mirror but I'm curious) Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/11/20 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Chris Rees writes: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no amd64 driver. There was a posting within the last

ssh-agent and ordering of keys

2009-11-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Hi all, I've a bit of an annoying problem that hopefully someone here has delt with before. I have a large(ish) number of ssh keys as i like to keep things nicely seperated, I also use longish passphrases. To deal with long pass phrases I have started to use ssh-agent, which is

Re: about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT

2009-11-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
PstreeM China wrote: hi , everyone : some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2 and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945 wlan card .. after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is not work . i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ???

Re: 'make release' on ZFS filesystem fails: chflags: operation not permitted

2009-11-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
O. Hartmann wrote: I followed the steps making a release on FreeBSD 8.0-RC2/AMD64 on my box, the target CHROOTDIR is located on a ZFS volume. I searched the list for a solution, but did not find any. sysctl kern.securelevel shows kern.securelevel: -1 Is there any solution? I guess those

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
George Sanders wrote: - Original Message From: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com To: George Sanders gosand1...@yahoo.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 11:01:35 AM Subject: RE: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ? Maybe

Re: /tmp on mfs

2009-10-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Christopher Hilton wrote: Reading the list yesterday I came across a little controversy about swap backed /tmp filesystems. I've been using this in my /etc/rc.conf tmpmfs=YES# Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO to never tmpsize=1g# Size of mfs /tmp if created

Re: scalable FreeBSD based LNS (with L2TPv2)

2009-10-19 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Rogelio wrote: Has anyone created/used/found/seen a FreeBSD based LNS that supports thousands L2TPv2 tunnels? Right now, the only solution I see that scales to this level is Redback, and if not a Redback box, then lots of Cisco 7200 boxes. I understand MPD (ports/net/mpd5) is used in

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Vincent Hoffman
PJ wrote: michael wrote: PJ wrote: Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole system: for instance, let's look

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:17:29 +0100, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: yes. this makes a ufs label which you can access via /dev/ufs for example (my home system) jh...@ostracod (23:08:34 ~) 0 $ ls /dev/ufs SCRATCH SSDROOT SSDUSR SSDVAR

Re: All in one printer?

2009-10-16 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Hello, I'm looking for an all in one printer (scanner + printer). Do you know some models well supported by our favorit OS (8.0) (and a cheep one of course)? I've had 2 HP cheap printer/scanners that have both worked well using the hplip port with cups and sane.

Re: gmirror, gjournal and glabel - which order?

2009-10-13 Thread Vincent Hoffman
krad wrote: 2009/10/13 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:08:46AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new

Re: Capturing netflows

2009-10-09 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Jay Hall wrote: I have run into a need to capture netflows from the internal interface of my FreeBSD 6 server. The internal interface is em0 and the external interface is em1. I am using the following to setup the netflows. /usr/sbin/ngctl -f- SEQ mkpeer em0: netflow lower iface0

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support it.

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Identry wrote: Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1 and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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