Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

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

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

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

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

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

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

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

Re: -Stable periodic updates

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

Re: -Stable periodic updates

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

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

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

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

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

Re: freebsd-update (custom kernel)

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

Re: nfs client speed lower than expected.

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

Re: How to remove ACPI from boot ?

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

Re: DNS config help

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

Re: Make buildworld don't run

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

Re: Make buildworld don't run

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

Re: The ports are really funcional?

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

IPsec woes in 8.2

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

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-24 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/24/11 13:24, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:30:39 -0500 "Michael D. Norwick" wrote: On 10/23/11 19:25, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:38:29 -0500 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: No, it seems that there's a severe level of &

Re: GEOM after system update

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

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
[rw]... uhub7: 4 ports with 3 removable, self powered ugen5.3: at usbus5 drm0: on vgapci0 info: [drm] MSI enabled 1 message(s) info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 256MB info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 I haven't had much luck searching freebsd-multimedia@ either. Bug report time? T

Re: Configuring IPFW

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

Re: Configuring IPFW

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

Re: Breakin attempt

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

Re: Breakin attempt

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

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-21 Thread Michael D. Norwick
fo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Please see my posts on this list as well as on freebsd-multimedia under the subject 'can't access a music cd'. I appear to be experiencing the

Re: which ports require dialog during update

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

Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

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

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-19 Thread Michael D. Norwick
-a FreeBSD ..net 9.0-RC1 FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 #1: Wed Oct 19 05:37:43 CDT 2011 michael@..net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_101811 amd64 and the following cd devices in /dev; $ ls -l cd* crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator0, 105 Oct 19 19:08 cd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel8 Oct 19

Re: www.clubrunner.ca

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

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

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

Wifi Scanner Gnome

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

alternative for user immutable flag on ZFS

2011-10-13 Thread Michael
Hello, I have some important files in my home directory and I want to make sure that they are not changed/removed by my mistake. So I'm looking for something that prevents all programs (like rm) from changing these files even if I tell them to do so. But then on some rare occasions I really

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/12/11 18:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Michael D. Norwick" writes: A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc You're not supposed to mount an audio disk. There's even a FAQ entry titled "Why can I not mount an audio CD?" http

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/10/11 05:44, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:47:40AM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: < snip > This looks like it's playing. Is the CD/DVD drive acti

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to play a music cd with the dvd writer on this laptop. It is a Dell Latitude D630. I have built several new

Can't access a music CD

2011-10-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
access) deviceses# SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE) $uname -a FreeBSD ..net 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #0: Sat Oct 8 19:48:29 CDT 2011 michael@..net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_100811 amd64 This kernel was built after a recent csup and portsnap

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

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

New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

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

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

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

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

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

Re: updating 8.1 release

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

filesystem type in new installer

2011-10-02 Thread Michael
documentation? It's in the news that it supports geli, zfs and others but I don't see any of these options in the installer. Where should I look? Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/26/11 06:43, Mike Clarke wrote: On Monday 26 September 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Still no joy trying to build from source via ports or installing the binary from tenable.com on FreeBSD 9. nessusd is installed but errors out with 'libz.so.5 not found. I have; $ ls -l /lib

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/25/11 10:08, Trond Endrestøl wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:24+0200, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 23/09/2011 23:31, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The

Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
a statement in rc.conf or loader.conf to activate more bpf devices? Am I editing the right file the wrong way? The proper handbook chapter escapes me right now. Previous to trying to build nessus from ports I built a new kernel with - device bpf ena

Reading DLT tapes with very large block sizes.

2011-09-21 Thread Michael C Voorhis
Hi all, I've been given a set of DLT tapes written with data in fixed 8Mb blocks. I have been unable to convince any OS to read these tapes, and yet I need to read them. Most tape drivers refuse to work with block sizes that are even a fraction of this blocksize. The tapes were created on a Li

FreeBSD 9-BETA2 on a Dell Latitude D630

2011-09-21 Thread Michael D. Norwick
#0: Wed Sep 21 17:08:56 CDT 2011 michael@*.*.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_092111 amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz (1994.48-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6fd Family = 6 Model = f Stepping = 13 Features=0xbfebfbff Featur

Re: apache 2.2.21 - back to 2.2.20 ?

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

Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Volodymyr Kostyrko , 2011-09-17 14:33 (+0200): > You really like to wait for hours before fsck will finish checking for > your volume? While it's true that fsck on large filesystems takes ages soft updates and background fsck makes it a lot less bothersome than it used to be. -- http://hack.org

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

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

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Victor Sudakov , 2011-09-09 08:21 (+0200): > I need a solution to read sound from a soundcard (/dev/dsp) and > multicast it into the network, for the multicast audio stream to be > played on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows workstations. Does the old LBL vat tool still work on modern system? http:/

Re: traffic shaping freebsd

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

Re: traffic shaping freebsd

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

Re: traffic shaping freebsd

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

Re: Samba question

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

Re: A quality operating system

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

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

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

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

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

Re: random generated password

2011-09-02 Thread Michael
7;testuser1' is: P5RrhmUl4Np2 0(ich10)# Perfect, exactly what I was looking for, thank you. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

RE: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

2011-09-02 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hi Alejandro: I'm not aware of a pfSense book, but if you want a book on PF, there is: The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book Editor: Jeremy C. Reed Publisher: Reed Media Services ISBN: 978-0-9790342-0-6 Regards, Mike -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GSEC, GISP Chief Technical Officer - A

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

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

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

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

Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

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

Re: Resetting bootloader on a CF

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

Re: random generated password

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

Re: random generated password

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

Re: random generated password

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

Re: random generated password

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

random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Michael
Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password. But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users? Preferably in a non-interactive and scriptable way. Is it possible with the base system tools? Michael

Re: Dvorak keyboard (Spanish)

2011-08-24 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Alvaro Castillo , 2011-08-25 02:25 (+0200): > Can add Dvorak spanish variant for syscons? > > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Teclado_Dvorak_Español.png Copy /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.dvorak.kbd to your home directory. Start the editor of your choice and edit the file to add the ke

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-24 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Christian Barthel , 2011-08-05 21:12 (+0200): > What is your window manager? Obviously, I use x11-wm/mcwm. More about it here, including a screenshot: http://hack.org/mc/hacks/mcwm/ Be sure to update your ports tree before installing so you get the latest version. Or download the latest tarb

Re: A quality operating system

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

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Michael Sierchio
same conclusion as I did, having spent several minutes pondering the matter while popping pimples." Regards (very slight), Michael Sierchio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ISO images

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

Re: ISO images

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

Re: Group permissions are broken?

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

Re: unprivledged users (for a service)

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

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

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

Re: pdo_mysql.so

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

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

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

Re: Uarduno driver compile fault?

2011-08-08 Thread Michael
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Re: semi-OT: Looking for a hosting provider w/ FreeBSD root-servers

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

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

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

Re: Arduino UNO - upload not working

2011-07-30 Thread Michael
ell me what versions of arduino (IDE), uarduno and avrdude you are using? Is it vanilla ports or did you have to apply any extra patches? Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Arduino UNO - upload not working

2011-07-29 Thread Michael
ied both versions 1.00 and 1.02a) and avrdude (tried both vanilla ports and with a www.mrp3.com/uarduno.html patch). Run out of ideas and switching back to Windows kills my productivity (and fun!). If it works for you then at least please let me know t

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Chad Perrin , 2011-07-21 18:58 (+0200): > Unless and until I get a full-power OS (preferably a real BSD Unix) on > a tablet, no amount of peripherals, ubiquitous network connection, and > internal power will make up for the simple fact it's just a damned > toy. Same here. Not a tablet, but I've b

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
"Mike." , 2011-07-19 20:52 (+0200): > Perhaps the real question should be - how much longer will the desktop > be relevant? I think it depends on what you mean by desktop. Traditional heavy PCs might begin to disappear but people using mobile devices such as smartphones might want to connect thei

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Gary Gatten , 2011-07-18 21:44 (+0200): > I've always been curious why "Linux" seemed to take off so fast when > other FOSS / non Winblow$ OS's were available for some time with not > much traction; OS/2, BeOS, *nix with X11, etc. I'm not sure what you mean by "fast" here. It took a few years, at

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-22 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:15:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/22/2011 4:10 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > > > 3.65 419155.4 > > Thats 400Mb/s no ? Whats the CPU in this thing ? Also your NIC version > was 7.1.9. RELENG_8 has 7.2.3. Can you try

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-22 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:46:06PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/22/2011 3:08 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > Basically the same. I don't think it's disk. > > Are you able to saturate the ethernet ? Try something like > > > /usr/src/tools/too

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-22 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:06:23PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/22/2011 1:50 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > At 17:12 21/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:01:57PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > >> > > >> > Have you tried

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

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

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

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

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:01:57PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > Have you tried other protocols? Http, rsync... It maybe a problem at > client side, some ftp clients can set a maximun ftp transfer, like > filezilla, winscp, FTP and NFSv3 both have similar results. ==ml -

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:32:27PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 21:16 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > >It's at gigabit: > > > >em0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > > > >options=219b > >ether 00:15:17:31:c8:fe > >

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:19:47PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/20/2011 12:04 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP > > or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigabi

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-20 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:12:27PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 18:04 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP > >or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigab

em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-20 Thread Michael W. Lucas
I've tried disabling TSO. No change. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any suggestions? At the moment, the boss is complaining that his Windows Home Server is doing better than this machine, and that's a technological direction I really don't want to go in. Thanks, =

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

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

Re: options used to compile packages

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

Re: Droid fonts

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

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