Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew Wright
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, A. Wright wrote: Not a cache issue; clearing/restarting has no effect, and I have seen the issue on several machines/browsers (FBSD/links, Mac/Firefox, Mac/Safari). I'm wondering about firewall/proxy -- I'll give it a whirl when off-site later today. Still nothing when

Re: pf suggestions for paced attack

2010-05-03 Thread Andrew Wright
On Mon, 3 May 2010, John wrote: The script kiddies have apparently figured out that we use some time-window sensitivity in our adaptive filtering. From sshd, I've [ ... deletia ... ] Anybody got any superior suggestions? I've been running a script using tail -F to watch

Re: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Marc Coyles wrote: I've got a script that dumps various filesystems to tape for me, but I've always had an issue whenever I've used the -L option... see below: /usr/bin/mt rewind /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 / dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: and other online reviews. But I also wanted to see if any of you folks have personal recommendations. I had an unpleasant experience with Maxtor/Seagate support this year. I had one of their OneTouch III's pack up after 6 mo, and the warranty

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-03 Thread Andrew Wright
Hello Oliver; On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there known issue with the port of Xdvi (/usr/ports/print/xdvi) on 6.4 amd64? I suspect there is a problem with the size of the int/short/long as Xdvi detects wrong number of bits in some font files, while these same font files are

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-03-31 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from using cvs for my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subversion. I'm trying to hunt down a web page that might give a set of rules to help moving things. I've It appears that

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Wright
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or another, place to download application source to? Presumably you don't want it mixed Not dumb at all. There are

Re: Is NFS Locking Reliable?

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Konrad Heuer wrote: I'd like to ask for your experiences with NFS locking in larger environments. Our experiences are not so satisfying. Our NFS servers for user home This matches my historical experience, especially if you add in periodically wedged and ignored lock

Re: priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread Andrew Wright
Regarding the order of rc scripts, On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, fred wrote: I need resin to be started when apache is starting, how can I do that? I can?t find any documentation on priority or order for startup scripts. The rcorder(8) page will help you out. Note the PROVIDE and REQUIRE keywords.

Re: Running with a readonly root partition

2008-06-13 Thread Andrew Wright
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Mister Olli wrote: do you have some kind of installation/setup manual? that would be really interesting to see your steps, and try that myself. There aren't very many steps: - install as per normal, but with the following on separate partitions: /,

Re: OpenBSD - FreeBSD migration

2008-04-21 Thread Andrew Wright
Ivan Voras wrote: Andrew Wright wrote: If both of these are true, I can simply install FreeBSD over top of the OpenBSD /, /var and /usr partitions, and then be able to mount the old /home. Is this something people do? If you delete everything from all directories except /home

OpenBSD - FreeBSD migration

2008-04-20 Thread Andrew Wright
Hi All; I want to migrate a system from OpenBSD 4.2 (ie; the current version) to FreeBSD (7.0). I have poked around on the archives a little to determine how best to do this, and I want to make sure that my understanding (summarized below) is indeed correct. If I am asking these questions on