Re: utility to compare 2 dir trees

2012-12-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/01/2013 01:23, Fbsd8 wrote: I want to compare 2 different directory trees to each other to locate any differences in directories and files contained there in. Any suggestions? diff -ru directory1 directory2 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP

Re: Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.5.20 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2012-12-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
like poudriere or tinderbox[*]. Cheers, Matthew [*] You need tinderbox-devel for pkgng support, or the upcoming 4.0.0 release. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: ports and pbi

2012-12-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
fora will know though. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
files, or only in one or other of a pair of inputs, very easily. The only slight gotcha is that the input files have to be sorted. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: how to configure host login account to use jail?

2012-12-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
for the jail users -- each jail can have it's own passwd file etc. However, it can be useful to make sure that UID numbers for regular users in host and jails don't overlap. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: last not showing recent login activity

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
see the recent logins there? Which component does write data to utx.log - is this done via syslog or a lower level mechanism? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/168844 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: last not showing recent login activity

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/12/2012 21:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 17/12/2012 18:55, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hello, on one of my systems I just found out that last only shows some old login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
ports dir and something still insists on using /usr/ports, then that's a bug. Please report any such that you come across. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: aclocal-1.12: error: 'configure.ac'

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew [*] Note that LOCALBASE (where the ports looks for previously installed dependencies) is different to PREFIX (where the ports installs software to). Generally you'ld have both set to the same location, as anything else gets very unwieldy very quickly. About

Re: Question on how do I tell make to choose between static and shared versions of a library

2012-12-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
. If you wanted to use static linkage for one particular library out of all the libraries used by your program, then you'ld need a very different command line. But that, as they say, is left as an exercise for the student. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP

Re: pkgng

2012-12-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in the environment, which we can't do much about, but there are other cases which seemingly have a different etiology. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: pkgng

2012-12-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis doesn't work properly In case you don't already have them in your list: opnjdk7 libreoffice Thanks. Added

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
will send you some xrandr output. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 10/12/2012 00:31, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote: one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's

Re: 9.1 on FTP

2012-12-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
not being pushed through as efficiently as it might be. It is coming. Soon. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: netstat -i

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
traffic) -- switches often speak to each other like that. Generally it is not a problem unless it is affecting performance, at which point the answer is to segment the network into smaller broadcast domains by sub-netting and/or using VLANs. Cheers, Matthew

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
MB On 04/12/2012 07:17, Matthew Seaman wrote: It's clear that there is a flaw somewhere, but it's not where I first thought. I need to recheck things more thoroughly on my work machine which I believe was showing the same symptoms. Starting to doubt what I saw yesterday. I just committed

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/12/2012 20:42, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:15 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: I just committed a fix to the release-1.0 branch which will be in the next release. Was already fixed in master. Thanks! Does that fix 'pkg info' reporting zero size, or the 'pkg update

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/12/2012 20:48, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/12/2012 20:42, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:15 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: I just committed a fix to the release-1.0 branch which will be in the next release. Was already fixed in master. Thanks! Does that fix 'pkg info

Re: Issue with the pkgng repository

2012-12-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
. There are many more. Which is why it is standard to just punt and rebuild everything that requires bar-1.x. Tracking this sort of stuff manually is pretty tedious. Which is why things like poudriere and tinderbox exist; so you can automate. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
there is clearly a bug in calculating the change in disk space usage -- looks like it's added the 500MB flatsize of both package versions together rather than subtracting. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/12/2012 15:49, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 03/12/2012 15:34, Walter Hurry wrote: $ sudo pkg info -s -F gcc-4.6.4.20121102.txz gcc-4.6.4.20121102 flat size is: 0 B gcc-4.6.4.20121102 package size is: 0 B Ah. It turns out that querying any pkgng package directly for its installed size

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
sizes up to exabyte scales) and stored in sqlite columns equivalent in size to that. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
more thoroughly on my work machine which I believe was showing the same symptoms. Starting to doubt what I saw yesterday. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc

Re: pkg upgrade?

2012-12-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
info -s -F gcc-4.6.4.20121102.txz and pkg info -s -F gcc-4.6.4.20121123.txz please? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Is http://pkgbeta.freebsd.org/ down??

2012-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/11/2012 15:49, C. L. Martinez wrote: Is this server down?? Yes. Is being reinstalled. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
to be the officially blessed method for non-developers to keep up to date. Although anyone will still be able to use SVN if they want to. You'll need to tweak /etc/freebsd-update.conf slightly to get just the system sources. It's pretty obvious what to do. Cheers, Matthew

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2012 19:17, Warren Block wrote: It can be downloaded with 'make fetchindex', or built in place with 'make index' (slow--I think Mr. Seaman has a Perl version that's probably much faster). That's Dr Seaman if you're going to insist on being formal. Most people call me Matthew

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
updates to your ports tree, ever. This is all explained quite clearly in the portsnap(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: error message

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
the particulars of your systems in order to provide correct advice. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
and centre. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Another question about pkgng

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
' first? That would be consistent with the way 'pkg upgrade' and 'pkg install' behave, so personally I think that would be a yes. Can you open an issue on Github so this point does not get forgotten please? https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/issues Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
it with pkg_tools. Cheers, Matthew ___ 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: pkgng usage

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
, the autoremove flags will get set to more sane values and that feature will become more useful. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
packages. (The first of those commands is more aimed at human readable output, the second for scripting usage.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
and versions and how much data you'll need to download and not a lot else. Use the repo catalogue. It can tell you almost anything you might want to know about the available packages in the repo. Cheers, Matthew [*] Note: the default URL uses an SRV record in the DNS, which typical

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
to publish the packages, or you can just use a file:// URL and no HTTP server at all if you're creating packages to be used on the same machine. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Build a Distro using FreeBSD?

2012-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: Home Server

2012-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
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confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Pope
in a jail, for a non-commercial site? With this configuration I can revert after breaking something as an over-eager, semi-qualified system administrator. Cheers, Matthew (in Toronto) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Full system update.

2012-10-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
. This, however, is a trap for the newbies and leads to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Especially if you try and mix stuff you compiled yourself and the pre-compiled packages. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: mfi driver at FreeBSD 8.2

2012-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
might need to play with some of the other fields in that form in order to find exactly the right PR. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pkgng and the old pkg_* programs

2012-10-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
. But that's the last thing you'll ever need pkg_tools for... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 'svn up' problem on amd64

2012-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
, this puts you in an editor showing the conflicting merge results, and requires you to edit things into what the result of the mmerge should have been.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: `pkg_add -r mongodb` failed

2012-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: `pkg_add -r mongodb` failed

2012-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
be hard to miss. No such complaining has been observed. In short: something is wrong in the password database on your system specifically, which is causing the installation of databases/mongodb to throw errors. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: pkgng and the old pkg_* programs

2012-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
adequate testing on a pkg_tools-free setup, so it is not entirely outside the bounds of possibility that you might run into some odd problems. If you do, please report what happens, as that's definitely a bug that needs fixing. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: FreeBSD 9x - PHP and MySQL

2012-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
. For MySQL, it's not so vital, but the latest release should be your default choice. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Graphiz broke because of swig

2012-10-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
run into is not unique to you, and that someone will know exactly what to do to sort you out. We need to see all the details though if we're going to be able to offer you effective advice. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: blackend from svn

2012-10-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
with changes over the last several months I don't know if that is still possible, but if it is, then that would probably be more suitable if all you want is to have a reference copy of the docs to hand. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Graphiz broke because of swig

2012-10-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
using whatever your favourite ports management tools are. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: New User to FreeBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-- that's a good sign: it usually means that committers are taking your ideas seriously but want you to improve the implementation before it can be committed. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Port update hosed entire system

2012-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
your original command managed to hose the base system. Did it fill up the disks? Is it possible that the problem is actually hardware failure? Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: svn checkout head or stable

2012-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: make print-index error: Generating INDEX-9 - please wait..perl: not found

2012-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
discrepancies are mere annoyances rather than real obstacles. And, indeed, you can build and install ports very happily without any sort of INDEX on your system at all. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc

Re: How to use subversion to keep source, system and doc files up to date?

2012-09-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
, but no idea what state that project is in, nor if that would be added to base once it achieves sufficient maturity. Cheers, Matthew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: PR 161548

2012-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/09/2012 07:27, Kevin Lo wrote: On 2012/09/25 14:03, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2012 22:29, Jerry wrote: Is there any specific reason that this PR: 161548 is still marked as open? o 2011/10/13 bin/161548 [patch] getent(1) inconsistent treatment of IPv6 host data It simply hasn't

Re: PR 161548

2012-09-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
' or 'logical partitions' or any of that malarkey. I believe you could create partitions inside partitions recursively to your heart's content but never cared enough to try that out -- I think the device names would come out like 'da0p3p1' but I could be wrong. Cheers, Matthew

Re: What are negative permissions?

2012-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
not what happens. Permissions like that mean 'everyone *except* members of group bar can read and execute this. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
for differences between old and new copies of a filesystem is 'rsync -avx -n ...' Also, sum and cksum have way too small a key size for this to be reliable, since you can't tell a true result from a hash collision. Use md5 or sha1 or sha256 for best results. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/12/12 08:12, Jonathan McKeown wrote: Generally I find the best test for differences between old and new copies of a filesystem is 'rsync -avx -n ...' Wouldn't suitable applications of mtree(8) also do what's wanted? TIMTOWTDI. Cheers, Matthew

Re: FreeBsd modules

2012-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
some assistance. Keeps asking good questions and you'll get useful answers. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Use of 'mergemaster -F' is recommended. Et voilĂ . Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [solved]: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
option with ports. On 03/09/2012 17:29, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I'm not sure whether there's any equivalent to tracking RELENG_9 (as opposed to tracking RELENG_9_1) under the branching scheme being used with subversion. stable/9 is the SVN equivalent of RELENG_9 Cheers, Matthew

Re: [solved]: to move csup 90 to subversion 91rc

2012-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
you seem so enamoured of is base -- the system sources. Get that clear in your head, and you will have a much better time of it. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Wrong version of sources?

2012-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
. You will still be able to use cvsup to track RELENG_9 aka. 9.1-STABLE aka. stable/9. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

2012-08-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/08/2012 06:39, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? Because named chroots into /var/named in the default configuration. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
enable/disable compiling additional bits of software or adding/removing various files from the resulting packages, but those files could just as easily be supplied as a sub-package. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: Few queries FreeBSD upgrade

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
moving to newer disk hardware is a good way to dodge potential problems there. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/17/12 14:44, Warren Block wrote: If that stops the lockups, then you could try setting each in turn to a non-zero value (minutes). Leave everything at zero except for the

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
for your graphics display. If you can turn them off as a test, and the machine then survives for an extended period of idleness, you'll have gone a long way towards isolating the problem. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: partial sendmail breakage

2012-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
a better idea of what SASL is trying to do. Add a line log_level: N where N is an integer, bigger meaning more verbose logging. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: kernel panic

2012-08-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
instances of silent corruption. What it can't do is take a filesystem containing random errors and reconstruct a pristine version from it. But then what filesystem can? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Openresolv Config

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
always want to use your own nameservers irrespective of what network you're connecting to. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
HI, I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old USB drive. There were several IO errors while dd was copying the disk, so I think

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre navarre.matt...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what file says about the file: mnavarre@pcbsd-1810] /# file /mnt/ada1_backup /mnt/ada1_backup: x86 boot sector; partition

Re: Introducing new ports - best practises

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
several ports into one PR is not a complete no-no, but usually you'ld need some special justification. Something like a pair od ports with a master-slave relationship perhaps. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote: I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical disk. I've read

Re: Partnership query

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
://www.freebsdfoundation.org/contact.shtml Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an

Re: Problem with sendmail update

2012-08-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
, the second is the configuration version, which you can easily change by modifying the DZ8.14.5 line in sendmail.cf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: installing rt40 from ports

2012-08-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
' by following the instructions in /etc/syslog.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
, Matthew [*] It's important that the workers believe this. It helps keep them in line. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: calculating difference of times

2012-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
for the student. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
a FreeBSD box clean and also protect a whole network-full of Windows clients that access it as a server from most avenues of infection. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP

Re: setting up an openssl client/server

2012-07-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
: security/tinyca) to be simple and easy to use for setting up a personal certification authority. Just remember not to fill in the e-mail field when creating a HTTPS server cert if you want the filename of the cert to be based on the site URL. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

2012-07-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
of the fileio broken down by user. Note that on a busy server, system accounting can generate a *large* amount of data, and it is likely to affect performance, so use with care. See lastcomm(1), sa(8), accton(8), acct(5) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
/freebsd-9-amd64/latest See http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: power failure, boot, and fsck

2012-07-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
cleanly. However, fsck cannot fix all of the problems a filesystem can experience without risk of loss of data. In those cases, there is no option but to stop and ask the operator to intervene. Your best bet is to avoid an unclean shutdown entirely. Buy a UPS. Cheers, Matthew

Re: Jailed slapd process not visible with ps within a jail

2012-07-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fop What I am doing wrong? Did I miss some important fact? What does # ps -uxp 6255 show, from within the jail? (if you've restarted slapd since, substitute the current PID, obviously.) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http

Re: Networking IP Address Issues : NetBSD on Xen VM

2012-07-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew PS. FreeBSD runs well as a Xen domU (ie guest) instance, both on generic Xen and on Amazon EC2. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen FreeBSD doesn't have Xen dom0 (ie host) support yet. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk

Re: how to update the revision information

2012-07-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
, Matthew [*] J. Random Blackhat could fake you into thinking the system was patched and up to date when in fact it was still vulnerable to exploitation. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
things like Summer of Code and sponsoring various collaborations. See for instance https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/ for a project with a great deal of involvement by both Google and FreeBSD developers. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP

Re: adding new cipher support to kernel

2012-07-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
an interest in that area and draw their attention to your PRs. Don't be downhearted if they critique your contributions quite stringently: that means they see potential in them. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey

Re: portmaster embarrassingly simple question (y- option)

2012-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
even if it is up to date. ie. the standard default action of portmaster is to do exactly what you want. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: question about prblem with raid 1 for freeBSD

2012-06-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
of the system should be arranged through some other means: there are many programs available to do the job in the base system or the ports -- personally I like tarsnap, which will backup your data to the cloud (Amazon flavoured cloud, that is) for a very reasonable rate. Cheers, Matthew

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