Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: Try doing a release cross-build and compare it against a non-crossed release build; extract the built tarballs and send me a list of which ones aren't identical. I know

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-23 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/23/12 06:59, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/22/12 03:45, Christer Solskogen wrote: I just did, and the file list is the same. Or do you want me to do a md5 of every file? Yes, I meant to compare the contents

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
, and there are some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd

Re: freebsd-update and archs

2012-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/21/12 04:15, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote: We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. I found out that building

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-29 Thread Colin Percival
John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 26 March 2010 11:00:28 am Colin Percival wrote: I think the best approach towards having FreeBSD Update support for sparc64 is to get release cross-building working; that way we would be able to use amd64 hardware, which I think we can safely assume will continue

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-26 Thread Colin Percival
think we can safely assume will continue to be available in ever-increasing speeds. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd

Re: freebsd-update userland sources

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
-update builds are normally done before patches are committed to SVN, you won't get the updated SVN revision numbers or the new entries in UPDATING via freebsd-update -- but you will get all of the security/errata fixes.) -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-09 Thread Colin Percival
properly. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing adjusted. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups

FYI, portsnap problems

2009-01-05 Thread Colin Percival
.) -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org

2008-10-29 Thread Colin Percival
didn't realize that there were so many people with broken DNS resolution. I'll ask the FreeBSD DNS admins to add an A record for update.freebsd.org. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Colin Percival
fundraising drives of 2004, 2005, and 2006, with slightly over $40,000 in total. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 or 7.0 Release?

2007-12-22 Thread Colin Percival
by knowledge of where things are currently at and how these things usually go, is that we'll see 6.3-RELEASE some time in the first week of January, and 7.0-RELEASE two or three weeks later. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: script to upgrade 6.0 to 6.2

2007-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
you'll probably find useful when upgrading from 6.0. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portsnap question

2007-11-07 Thread Colin Percival
locally stored snapshot becomes corrupt (most often as a result of filesystem not being unmounted cleanly), deleting everything inside /var/db/portsnap will result in portsnap downloading a complete new snapshot the next time `portsnap fetch` is run. Colin Percival

Re: What is affected by FreeBSD-SA-07:08.openssl ?

2007-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
show up. But as for a deep analysis -- not that I'm aware of. We fixed this because there might be an application which used this function in a way which made this buffer overflow exploitable, not because we knew that such an application existed. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer

Re: Ports tree is already up to date.

2007-10-02 Thread Colin Percival
is already up to date. Portsnap builds were offline over the weekend due to a hardware failure, but this is now fixed and portsnap should now be able to update again. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-01 Thread Colin Percival
in major contrib code (e.g., sendmail, bind, openssl, openssh) ahead of time and is able to prepare before the issues become public, but this time we didn't get any advance warning. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-10 Thread Colin Percival
, but haven't managed to find time, unfortunately. Obviously if someone else wants to write such a chapter, I'd be overjoyed to review it and help get it committed. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Crypto missing after FreeBSD-Update to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
it to exclude files in a backup script. If you have a suggestion for nice alternative, please let me know :-) I removed the IDS option because I didn't think anyone used it. Since then I have heard from lots of people who used it, so I'm going to add the IDS option back soon. :-) Colin Percival

Re: New != Faster

2007-06-04 Thread Colin Percival
is that it takes 2x longer to compile code, but produces code which is 5% faster (as a result of working harder to find optimizations). FreeBSD 6.2 is faster than FreeBSD 4.11 for almost everything except compiling itself. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-02 Thread Colin Percival
a longer (albeit unwritten) list of project goals, with the effect that a smaller proportion of the development being done on FreeBSD is security-related; this may make it look like we care less about security, but it's really just a sign that FreeBSD is a larger project. Colin Percival

Re: freebsd-update and kernel

2007-05-30 Thread Colin Percival
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Well, after freebsd-update from my p4 system, uname continued showing p4 as well. Yes, this is because the update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5 didn't modify the kernel. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Fix this: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved.

2007-05-27 Thread Colin Percival
not a lawyer, etc.) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-24 Thread Colin Percival
of jdk1.4.2. Hmm. Maybe it was 9.5 which I last tried -- I ran into problems with the installer saying hey, you're running FreeBSD. I have no idea what that is, so I'm going to refuse to install. I'll have to try this again some day and come bug you if I still can't get it to work. :-) Colin

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Colin Percival
Sandy Rutherford wrote: I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with the exception of the help command. Wow, this is news to me. Did the Maple 10 installer work, or did you have to use linux to

Re: [FreeBSD 7.0-CUR/gcc 4.2/portsnap]: portsnap fetch reports illegal portsnap tag!

2007-05-22 Thread Colin Percival
bug being invoked when portsnap calls openssl to verify a signature. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's up with portsnap?

2007-05-22 Thread Colin Percival
to Mon Apr 16 10:17:39 EDT 2007. That's really strange. And it doesn't happen for me. Is it possible that you have a misbehaving proxy which is caching a month-old snapshot? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Xorg 7.2.0 Release

2007-05-19 Thread Colin Percival
of flz's commit. The rest should be available via portsnap in approximately 45 minutes. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Security Patches using freebsd-update(8)

2007-05-15 Thread Colin Percival
to do this towards the end of the summer. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-update and locally modfied files

2007-05-15 Thread Colin Percival
. Anyway, how do I update the system (and keep changes to /etc/rc.d/jail (if any))? The easiest solution is to remove /etc/ from the UpdateIfUnmodified line in /etc/freebsd-update.conf and run freebsd-update again. Make sure that you add /etc/ back afterwards. Colin Percival

Re: CVS tags

2007-05-06 Thread Colin Percival
should never not install all available security and critical errata fixes. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: freebsd-update question

2007-05-02 Thread Colin Percival
. That's done at the server side, as part of the process of building the updates. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Colin Percival
linking. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread Colin Percival
explain how they're using it (there are several methods for performing full disk encryption using a block cipher; some are better than others). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Protsnap won't fetch updates

2007-03-19 Thread Colin Percival
version of portsnap. Uninstall portsnap and install the version from the ports tree which you downloaded. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread Colin Percival
are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... I recommend FreeBSD. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: error fetching signatures

2007-01-24 Thread Colin Percival
` say? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error fetching signatures

2007-01-24 Thread Colin Percival
the port (pkg_delete freebsd-update-\*). I am ashamed but I do not recall typing any commands. Have inspected crontab but not seeing any entries there either. Have you looked in /var/cron/tabs/root ? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-update

2007-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
in the ports tree. If you upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2, you can use the version of FreeBSD Update which it contains (for which amd64 updates are being built). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Problem upgrading from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-19 Thread Colin Percival
-- but the internet being as unreliable as it is, it's entirely possible. FWIW, no files are installed until after everything is fetched, so if the downloading fails, you can always try again. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?

2007-01-16 Thread Colin Percival
is much better. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Colin Percival
money? Colin Percival PS. http://www.freebsd.org/donations/ PPS. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?

2006-11-30 Thread Colin Percival
have 802.11 hardware, I'd also suggest applying wirecutters to the power cable. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'seq' at a BSD-like OS?

2006-11-24 Thread Colin Percival
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: If I'm at a Linux machine, I can use 'seq'. (Okay, everyone knows it.) But when I'm at a BSD-like OS, I can't find 'seq' from the coreutils. The program you're looking for is called jot. I have no idea why Linux distributions get the name wrong. Colin Percival

Re: FreeBSD UFS vulnerability: Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-13 Thread Colin Percival
than any other kernel bug, and in fact this bug seems far less important than most. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portsnap mirrors not being updated (?)

2006-11-12 Thread Colin Percival
to the administrator of this server asking him to investigate. Until it starts updating again (most likely a matter of hours), you can force portsnap to use the other mirror: # portsnap -s portsnap2.freebsd.org fetch Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-update vs. make buildworld

2006-10-26 Thread Colin Percival
is now in the base system (starting with 6.2-BETA1) supports upgrading the world, kernel, and source code separately, so on systems with custom kernel configurations you'll be able to use FreeBSD Update to update the world + source code and then only rebuild the kernel. Colin Percival

Re: clean old portsnap snapshots?

2006-10-25 Thread Colin Percival
Joe Auty wrote: What is the best mechanism for deleting old portsnap shots to free up some space? Or, is this supposed to be handled automatically? It should be handled automatically. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Using external USB2.0 HDD for backup

2006-10-11 Thread Colin Percival
it's certainly good enough for backups. More details: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-01-28-vantex-nexstar3.html Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Colin Percival
potential for (a) privilege escalation, (b) disclosure of potentially sensitive information, or (c) denial of service by a non-authenticated attacker, we would have issued a security advisory. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Colin Percival
Bill Moran wrote: Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD ^^^ That was what I expected. Section III seems to hint that it could be used by an unprivilidged user to crash or lock

Re: Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl

2006-09-28 Thread Colin Percival
is limited to 16400 or 4112 bits depending upon whether the public exponent is less or more than 72 bits. I wouldn't have allowed this change into the security branches if I was not very very confident that no applications would be affected by this. Colin Percival

Re: portsdb -Uu

2006-09-15 Thread Colin Percival
ports update/upgrade procedure is: portsnap fetch portsnap update pkg_version -vIL= # this is equivalent to portversion -vL= portupgrade -a Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Automatic Script for /usr/src security updates

2006-09-09 Thread Colin Percival
security advisories; but it sounds to me like you're really looking for FreeBSD Update. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: RSSreader: Recommendations Sought

2006-09-09 Thread Colin Percival
Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, what port is this in? :( I just searched all the kde ones I know about, and can't find it ... I think Jonathan probably meant akregator, which is part of kdepim. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-06 Thread Colin Percival
have to upgrade those to 6.1. Given that you've now upgraded your world to 6.1, I don't know if it will be safe to revert back to a 6.0 kernel in order to re-run the upgrade script, though, so I'm not sure exactly what to recommend. Colin Percival

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-05 Thread Colin Percival
still need to go back to 6.0 and run upgrade.sh? You're probably ok, but there's a chance that you managed to not upgrade all the binaries on the system. I recommend running `freebsd-update IDS`; this will tell you which files, if any, don't match the versions shipped with the release. Colin

Re: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
running out of disk space on /var ? Second, please run 'portsnap --debug fetch' and send me the output; this will give me a chance of identifying the problem. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
are definitely intact. Are you using an HTTP proxy? It's possible that it might have cached a broken version of those files. Could you look in /var/db/portsnap and tell me how large those two files are? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portsnap oddities

2006-08-04 Thread Colin Percival
/ directory. Just clearing the cache for the proxy didn't seem to solve the problem btw. It's possible that your cache gets confused by pipelined HTTP. It wouldn't be the first time that has happened... Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: **SPAM** binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
. We're moving in that direction. Everything starts out by being experimental before becoming officially supported and endorsed. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
Oops, I forgot to edit the subject line before hitting 'Send' -- for some reason, SpamAssassin thought that John's original email needed to be marked as **SPAM**. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
here, but I'd suggest 1. mv /boot/kernel /boot/kernel.new 2. mv /boot/kernel.old /boot/kernel 3. reboot (back into 6.0-RELEASE) 4. Run the script again and hope that it manages to finish installing everything this time. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread Colin Percival
User Freebsd wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being kept updated on systems which send HTTP requests to portsnap*.freebsd.org. Of these, about 4300 are running FreeBSD 6.0

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread Colin Percival
to normal, since many systems were not being updated over the Christmas holiday, and then suddenly needed to catch up in early January (and since they were downloading several weeks of updates, they each looked like several machines). Colin Percival

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread Colin Percival
the portsnap port won't install if portsnap is already part of the FreeBSD base system). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: after i upgraded 6.0 to 6.1, do i need to rebuild all of the ports i installed?

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
could instead use the binary upgrade script which I posted to freebsd-stable about earlier today: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FBSD 4 series

2006-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
Bill Moran wrote: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://security.freebsd.org/ You should be transitioning to 6.x now/soon. ??? 4.11 will be supported for another 18 months. Last time I looked at my calendar, January 31st, 2007 was only 7 months away. Colin Percival

Re: FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail : sendmail/src/mime.c:106: error: number of arguments doesn't match prototype

2006-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
: on line 106. It looks like you haven't applied the patch from FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail yet. You have to apply that patch before you can apply the patch from this latest advisory. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Colin Percival
(until I added another 16 MB), and FreeBSD 6.1 will need at least as much. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transfer speed of USB on a Dell PE2650

2006-05-30 Thread Colin Percival
-attached hard drive on a Dell laptop, so at least some Dell hardware works. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kern.ngroups == num. process groups ?

2006-05-23 Thread Colin Percival
at the same time. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Colin Percival
://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006. Thanks, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Find the Date a Port Was Installed

2006-05-17 Thread Colin Percival
. # stat -f %Sm %N /var/db/pkg/*/+COMMENT | cut -f 1,5 -d / | tr -d / Replace %Sm with %m if you want the install dates as seconds-since-epoch. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD-Update and 6.1

2006-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
Matt Bostock wrote: Understood; but Colin Percival (freebsd-update's author) does publish upgrade guides on his website for upgrading from one version to another (daemonology.net). I will be publishing a similar guide (and maybe a shell script which automates some of it...) for upgrading 6.0

Re: Estimated EoL for 6.1-Release

2006-05-12 Thread Colin Percival
Release Type Release Date Estimated EoL RELENG_6_1 6.1-RELEASE Normal May 9, 2006 May 31, 2008 Once the web site rebuilds, it will be correctly listed as an Extended release. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-06 Thread Colin Percival
Peggy Wilkins wrote: On 5/4/06, Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a .portsnap.INDEX file in your ports tree? Yes; I don't know if it was there before I ran portsnap today, though. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1230186 May 4 16:39 .portsnap.INDEX Does 'portsnap update

Re: portupgrade

2006-05-06 Thread Colin Percival
format:dbm_hash in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-0 +435) You probably recently upgraded from FreeBSD 5.x to FreeBSD 6.x: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-04-14-portupgrade-errors.html Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why do I have to keep doing portsnap extract?

2006-05-04 Thread Colin Percival
. Then the ports tree sat there on my disk untouched for a couple of weeks until I ran portsnap fetch update today. For some reason it insisted that I needed to run extract when as far as I can tell that shouldn't have been necessary. Do you have a .portsnap.INDEX file in your ports tree? Colin Percival

Re: portsnap question

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Percival
| comm -3 - /usr/ports/.portsnap.INDEX | cut -f 1 -d '|' should output the files/directories being added and removed in the 1st and 2nd columns respectively. (Something which is modified will appear in both columns, of course.) Colin Percival

Re: When 5.5-stable?

2006-04-24 Thread Colin Percival
/ Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

2006-04-16 Thread Colin Percival
execution; for example, it is still possible to execute scripts which reside on a noexec mounted partition. Mounting /tmp as noexec causes perfectly good code to gratuitously fail, while providing no real security improvement. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security

Re: portsnap DOESN'T WORK

2006-04-12 Thread Colin Percival
. What does portsnap --debug fetch report? Are you using a proxy? Which part is timing out, downloading the initial snapshot tarball or downloading lots of patches? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Noise On Screen

2006-04-12 Thread Colin Percival
running cups, could you switch through consoles ttyv0 -- ttyv7 and see if there's anything similarly garbaged on them? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: portsnap DOESN'T WORK

2006-04-11 Thread Colin Percival
. it fetched all data first and then got the same exactly what's wrong? What does portsnap --debug fetch report? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: pow function working unexpectedly

2006-04-11 Thread Colin Percival
they are used. (Obviously this doesn't happen in your program, but the compiler isn't smart enough to figure that out.) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: portsnap FAILS! (why?!)

2006-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
Wojciech Puchar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap2.FreeBSD.org. Fetching public key... failed. Usually this is due to network problems. If you run # portsnap --debug fetch it will probably show you what the problem is. Colin

Re: Small Laser Printers

2006-03-29 Thread Colin Percival
. Now that I've written down the instructions for setting it up, I have no hesitation in recommending this printer. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: sendmail patches

2006-03-22 Thread Colin Percival
. ftp.freebsd.org mirrors from ftp-master.freebsd.org; the files are on ftp-master, but they apparently haven't been mirrored yet. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - SMP Generic Kernels via freebsd-update

2006-03-12 Thread Colin Percival
/pipermail/freebsd-security/2005-June/002975.html Yes. Starting with 6.1-RELEASE, this sort of ugly hack should be unnecessary, since SMP kernels are going to be distributed as part of the release. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to upgrade portsnap in freebsd 6.0?

2006-02-26 Thread Colin Percival
fetch update As the error message indicates, portsnap is now contained in the base system. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: portsnap failing

2006-02-24 Thread Colin Percival
f1777c019669546744ef448c17531bdd125884253a6bf4b73f6e77001d7a0b12.gz: No such file or directory Go on, humour me and run that bad boy with -x! sh -x /usr/sbin/portsnap fetch Even better, throw in the --debug flag as well: sh -x /usr/sbin/portsnap --debug fetch Colin Percival

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Colin Percival
will overwrite the INDEX files with new versions it builds, while portsnap will (as usual) ignore the INDEX.db file entirely. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Portsnap

2006-01-28 Thread Colin Percival
/bsdiff port should update that one, too. *cough* For now, people using the portsnap port can get the same performance as the version in the base system provides by passing the undocumented -x option to portsnap. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions

Re: portsnap: corrupt snapshot?

2006-01-05 Thread Colin Percival
need to handle problems like this better!) I've manually copied the missing files into the appropriate places and everything should be working again now. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Kernel forces machdep.hlt_cpus, how to change?

2006-01-05 Thread Colin Percival
/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc and then, if you don't have any local untrusted users, consider setting machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 in /boot/loader.conf. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Obtaining an @freebsd.org email address.

2005-12-30 Thread Colin Percival
, but are not using your @FreeBSD.org email address, just change your email to @FreeBSD.org, subscribe, then change it back again. I have no idea what this quote is trying to say, so I don't think I can clarify it for you. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions

Re: pkgdb format

2005-12-29 Thread Colin Percival
to try this and see if it helps. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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