Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Bruce Cran wrote: On 10/14/2013 6:16 PM, CeDeROM wrote: Isn't there Journal to prevent and reverse such damage? Unlike other journaling filesystems, UFS+J only protects the metadata, not the data itself - i.e. I think it ensures you won't have to run a manual fsck,

Re: Network Question

2013-09-14 Thread Daniel Nang
Aloha, Sounds like an interesting setup. Do you have one machine acting as a gateway? On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Eugene wrote: Hi Daniel, The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar) page of the router. They usually allow one to specify

Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? Thanks Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
Just read your mail. I will have to take some time, to look into what you have said, as I have not yet used the concepts that you spoke about. Another solution would be to install a new network card into both computers and assign static ip addresses to them, but I do not want to do that. Daniel

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang daniel.nan...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this: Internet

Re: FreeBSD Squid 3.2 Reverse Proxy with HTTPS

2013-09-05 Thread Daniel Duerr
Hi Dean, Just stumbled upon your post. I'm encountering the exact same issue as you with my freebsd 8.3 squid-3.2.13 server. Have you learned anything new on this issue? Best, Daniel -- daniel duerr | president | ouido.net d...@ouido.net | +1 (831) 531-2272 x103 Managed hosting

Re: Commercial Licensing

2013-08-10 Thread Daniel Feenberg
of the device inside your firm of GPL code without violating the GPL. This is often forgotten in discussion, and leads to unnecessary worry. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 2 lines

2013-07-29 Thread Daniel Feenberg
a year. daniel feenberg NBER Terje ___ 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: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Feenberg
with data, so it provides only partial protection against double failures. Daniel Feenberg NBER -- Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: your mail

2013-06-30 Thread Daniel Feenberg
See http://www.nber.org/prefs/ On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Upali Kulasekara wrote: Thank you very much for subscribing me for your mailing list. Upali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
to improved security, if it leads to programs and daemons that would otherwise run as nobody having to run with root priviledges. daniel feenberg I understand that launching a chmod 700 /root it's a matter of something between 1 and 3 seconds. I do also understand that I had /root closed for long

Restarting exports disturbs clients

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Feenberg
there there is an NFS shutdown procedure that we should be using? Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ 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: Restarting exports disturbs clients

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Fri, 3 May 2013, Graham Allan wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-05-03 12:49, Daniel Feenberg skrev: When we change the exportfs file on our FreeBSD 9.1 fileserver: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` That seems a bit harsh, try /etc/rc.d

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
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Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: The problem under discussion is that the kernel version does not change when a freebsd-update update does not include a kernel

Re: RSync exclusion

2013-04-18 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 18/04/2013 9:30 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: rsync -avrz -e ssh /files/ backupr@x.x.x.x:/vol1/FreeBSD/$DATE/ Just a thought, but have you looked at rsnapshot? http://www.rsnapshot.org/ http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rsnapshot/ It uses rsync, but manages a directory tree with hard links to

Re: Fwd: how access inside from outside when nat is done from inside to outside

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 4/04/2013 6:41 PM, s m wrote: request packets: src:192.168.2.1 dst: 192.168.1.1 reply packets: src: 192.168.2.50 dst:192.168.2.1 This sort of thing tends to happen when the the packets are not being sent via divert socket properly. Look carefully, step by step, at your ipfw

Re: Where's the metadata?

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 29/03/2013 12:29 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So what_is_ the best tool for just simply taking some sort of drive... like a USB flash drive, or any other kind of drive for that matter... and returning it to it's actual size? Did you try using fdisk? It is probably a standard MBR boot

Re: Copying memstick image to a USB (flash/thumb) drive

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 28/03/2013 8:10 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Question: Why exactly is conv=sync is there? I found this on http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/dd.1.asp If you specified conv=sync and this input block is smaller than the specified input block size, dd pads it to the specified

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 27/03/2013 4:18 AM, Joseph Olatt wrote: Any ideas/suggestions on this will be appreciated. Thanks, -- Doug A little while back I wrote a system to do a simple Two Factor Authentication and dynamic manipulation of PF (Packet Filter) Tables. I created it to prevent brute-force attacks on the

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 27/03/2013 10:37 AM, Michael Ross wrote: I'm happy to share a program I wrote which slows down the brute force attackers. It simply counts the SYN packets from a given IP and limits the rate per minute by dropping the packet if they are coming too fast. Uses ipfw divert sockets, so would

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 27/03/2013 12:59 PM, Michael Ross wrote: I'd like to be able to change the time window: http://gurder.ross.cx/misc/ratelimit.patch Neat. Thanks for that. Danny ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Remote IP to script over inetd

2013-03-25 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
Hi Radek, On 25/03/2013 10:09 PM, Radek Krejc(a wrote: #!/bin/sh echo $REMOTEHOST getpeername() info is not available in Bourne shell directly. You need to use perl or C or So you can do something like this: -- #!/usr/bin/perl # Example code from

Re: Client Authentication

2013-03-24 Thread Daniel Feenberg
expense is a hardship for them. Can you filter outgoing mail with Spamassassin? How about refusing to relay mail from addresses in a good DNSBL? Do you rate-limit outgoing mail? Can you just refuse to relay mail from other continents, using a geolocation service? daniel feenberg -- Doug

Re: route BGP

2013-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
Hi, On 22/03/2013 12:28 PM, just man man wrote: do you have configuration routing BGP in freebsd ? thank you I use quagga, because that's what I have been using for the last 10 years. http://www.freshports.org/net/quagga-re/ http://www.freshports.org/net/quagga/ You might also like to try

Re: Dumb down a Netgear Smart Switch

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, port negotiation, etc) but I am confident that none are set in the factory default configuration. (Stick a pin in the hole while power cycling). daniel feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Leaking disk space

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 21/03/2013 3:55 AM, Dan Thomas wrote: Stopping Postgres doesn't fix it, but rebooting does which points at Have you used fstat to identify the big growing file which is taking up the space, and which process has the file open? A file which has been unlinked from all directories won't be seen

Re: Revoke a DHCP lease early?

2013-03-09 Thread Daniel Feenberg
the entry in the dhcpd.conf file and restarted dhcpd that the client would be assigned (and use) a new address the next time it tried to renew (which is typically when half the lease has been used up). My view tends to be confirmed here - http://www.cites.illinois.edu/ipam/leases.html daniel

Re: Jail question

2013-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
Bernt Hansson wrote: I would like to install an old version of freebsd let's say 4.6 in a jail. Is that possible. Host is 8.3-stable amd64 Things like ps won't run, but you can copy static binaries from host:/rescue to jail:/{bin,sbin} as appropriate and that helps a lot. I just installed a

Re: I made a mess. libc

2013-02-22 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 22/02/2013 4:44 PM, Shane Ambler wrote: You missed the earlier suggestion - at the single user prompt for a shell don't just hit enter - type in /rescue/sh This suggestion was gold for me, but in a different way. I have for years lamented the passing of static binaries in /bin and /sbin.

Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel Feenberg
is incorrect. The lack of a domain should not be a problem. daniel feenberg ___ 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: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
On 21/02/2013 9:09 AM, Armando Palax wrote: sorry as I can access my localhost from my phpmyadmin, what happens is that I need to create a database and I can not enter because the strip http://localhost/phpmyadmin error. would help me thanks More information is needed. What error do you get?

amd64 and COMPAT_AOUT

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
I'm migrating a lot of services to a new server running 9.1 amd64. I have a VMWare FreeBSD 3.3 server I want to decommission, which is running a client's website with a shopping cart system in an a.out binary (source code lost long ago). I have just tried to build a new kernel on the

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
of the server is? Mission-critical or low cost? Those two tends to be mutually exclusive... Surely the presence of SATA drives shows that low cost is essential. Mirroring and ZFS provide very important advantages. HW raid seems to fill a much needed gap (apologies to Brian Kernigan). daniel feenberg

Re: Problems with diskless/nfs

2013-01-20 Thread Daniel Feenberg
client and see if the kernel is available to it. I suspect the kernel isn't world-readable and executable. It may also be that tftpd isn't available beyond localhost - did you edit hosts.allow? See http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html for our experiences with diskless boot. daniel

Re: recommendation instead of portmanager

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Staal
. As of when? I still see it. (And I'm dreading it ever going away: It's the only port update tool I've tried that's never broken my system, and the only one that can handle errors in any sensible way, in my opinion.) Daniel T. Staal

Gamin/IMAP issue

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
getting are: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-daniel/fam- Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch (daniel) Error: Input/output error Check for proper operation and configuration of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd). ('daniel' of course being the name of my user.) I'm using courier-IMAP

Re: Gamin/IMAP issue

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
my priority list very fast. ;) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
back and change your options for the handbook port if you want as well - one of the other options is to install it in plain text format, either as well or instead. (Other formats there are options for include PDF, Postscript, and a couple of HTML options.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
.) Until then, building from source is secure and trusted - and is the only way to get up-to-date ports for *either* 9.0 or 9.1. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed

Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?

2012-12-04 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts? In the last paragraph of our description of PXE booting FreeBSD: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jim Flowers wrote: I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Feenberg
on vendors, and it can not become widely used if it starts insisting on standards prematurely. daniel feenberg -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Anybody use the Dell 3010??

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:43:06 +0100 Polytropon articulated: Allow me

Re: 9.1 permissions in the / directory

2012-11-15 Thread Daniel Bye
mtree to modify any objects that don't match the specification, and the -e flag tells it not to warn about files it finds on disk but not in the specification file. Dan -- Daniel Bye

Re: GELI+ZFS failed disk issue

2012-10-04 Thread Daniel Staal
in an unencrypted form, otherwise it would have been unable to boot at all. Depending on how the disk failed, there's a chance that (relatively small) section of the disk survived, and could be recoverable by a disk-recovery service. But that's my only thought to a hope... Daniel T. Staal

Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Staal
, but you'd have to check that. Note that replacing it with a generic mini-PCI wireless card may not work: Lenovo has been known to have their BIOS only recognize 'official' replacement parts. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Feenberg
over the existing windows install. It will work fine and won't cost you anything. daniel feenberg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: How to refresh network card buffer?

2012-08-10 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Cos wrote: Hi all The background is I have around 100pcs router-like products. they all have a fixed IP address 192.168.1.100 and of course different MAC address. I need to connect them one by one to configure. The trouble is while I disconnect one unit and change to

Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Daniel Staal
on *actually following* the NFS spec, and not taking some shortcuts that are common elsewhere...) Not that I have tested that, even on my NFS server. (Which runs ZFS - there are other excellent reasons to use it, and speed isn't a major concern for that particular box.) Daniel T. Staal

On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
two days ago) [2]: https://www.sunwfrk.com/2009/04/19/zfs-with-on-access-virus-scan/ -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
where I specifically talk about our corporate IT policy. All desktops/workstations (that is, all of them, every single one), must have AV software running on them. There will be no exceptions, on pain of dismissal. I don't want to lose my job, because you said I didn't need AV software. -- Daniel Bye

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:19:45AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:51:04PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Are there any current options available to support on-access antivirus scanning on FreeBSD? FreeBSD doesn't need

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:51:04PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Are there any current options available to support on-access antivirus scanning on FreeBSD? FreeBSD doesn't need this as there are no viruses on that system. Well, thanks. And yes

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:23:36PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:00:19 +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: All desktops/workstations (that is, all of them, every single one), must have AV software running on them. There will be no exceptions, on pain of dismissal. Why is the AV

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:52:16PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: FUSE ClamFS Ah, thanks for that. I'll check it out. But then, FUSE... ew... I know. But, if it gets me my workstation... ;-) Dan -- Daniel Bye

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:15:29PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:47:29 +0100 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:19:45AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:02:26AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 27, 2012 11:43:08 AM +0100 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org wrote: Are there any current options available to support on-access antivirus scanning on FreeBSD? Clamav. I use it on my home mail server

Re: Question about install from ports

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Bye
mirror site, and will only go to the MASTER_SITE in a port's Makefile if the FreeBSD site doesn't have the required file. This is sometimes faster than going to the MASTER_SITE first. Or, as RW suggested, try setting RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES. Dan -- Daniel Bye

Re: Question about install from ports

2012-07-23 Thread Daniel Bye
mentioned fr.rpmfind.net was enough to send me off down the wrong path... Sorry for making things more complicated than they needed to be! Dan - Original Message - From: Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-19 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar articulated: 1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing higher than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically= destroyed before leving the secure area. no. for

Re: power failure, boot, and fsck

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/07/2012 04:22, Patrick Donnelly wrote: UFS: /dev/ad10s3f (/usr) Automatic file system check failed, help! error aborting boo (sending sigtem to parent)! init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode. enter full

Question about missing posix shared mutex

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Ylitalo
on this and if we will see it in 9.1? Or should i abandon freebsd for our sphinxhosts? :( Best regards Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

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

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Staal
you'll need to recompile and reinstall. Rebuilding everything is a bit overkill, but it beats missing one that needed to be rebuilt. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Staal
.) My one note to the above would be to advise against using it for swap - unless you have enough RAM to make sure you never swap. It doesn't do well in that role, in my experience. (Though that was under a slightly earlier version.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-14 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, and the flashing light is an indication that power is still required to complete the write to non-volitile memory? Futhermore, are we sure that umount even waits for a sync? There is no mention of that in the man page and I don't recall any long waits for umount to return. daniel feenberg

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-10 Thread Daniel Feenberg
dates in the filesystem itself isn't feasible. daniel feenberg ___ 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: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Staal
Intel HD 2000 integrated graphics? That's Sandy Bridge, and is supported as of 9.0. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote: I thought this URL http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html also shown above, answered that question. Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a good idea to me. However, instant reaction is

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Staal
sins, I work at one of these...) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof. Otherwise one of us would purchase a

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/6/12 6:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-06 15:05, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: I don't believe at this point FreeBSD has any intent one way or another, really. It's not an immediate problem for any platform supported by the FreeBSD project, at least for a technically-inclined

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
the way down to the userland binaries, then users of FreeBSD will have to turn off secure boot in CMOS, and it will lose a few users. But I can't tell from the discussions mentioned above. Either way, I don't think it will destroy FreeBSD, or Linux, but I would be interested anyway. Daniel Feenberg

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg articulated: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel Staal
sets there is no other file system out there at the moment that's as flexible, or as useful, in my opinion. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Daniel Feenberg
http://www.osnews.com/story/22423/Should_ZFS_Have_a_fsck_Tool_ The link to the emotional posting by Jeff Bomwick is broken, but the original is available at: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-October/022324.html daniel feenberg nber

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Staal
if you are running an upgraded 9, ignore me. ;) (But check the page linked above: There are other suggestions to try.) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit

Re: Network Cards Compatibility

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, but is $35. It supports PXE booting, which we do a lot. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD Server

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, but you can download an ISO also. iXSystems have TrueNAS, which is costly. My understanding is that FreeNAS is a subset of TrueNAS. See: http://www.ixsystems.com/storage/ix/truenas/ for more information. Daniel Feenberg ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD X?

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 17, 2012 8:36:38 PM -0400, Vance Siemens is alleged to have said: http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-x-berkeley-unix-apple-quality.ht Um, wasn't April 1st *last* month? Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Staal
of mail. My solution has just been to call the ISP and get a 'business' line, with a static IP, though forwarding to their mail relay would work as well. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Staal
by humans. You just need to define - and stick to - which pieces of information will be in there in what order. (For instance, I'd prefer '9.0-p0' to '9.0' Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted

bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
from the Ports system and install everything manually? (Or - likely at that point - find a different OS to work on. It'd be less hassle to switch OSes than to try to make sure *nothing* using Perl is installed from the Ports.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
-* (CPAN) module install process, or a way to get portmanager to ignore modules installed via that process. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
portmanager - it then goes on to collect installed port data, and notes but skips a couple that I had already put in to be ignored. The error I'm having appears to occur before that step - and interferes with the proper collection of installed port data.) Daniel T. Staal

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
it.) It might take a bit longer, but instead of fixing it for *me* *this week,* you'd fix it for *everyone* for quite a bit longer. I'm hoping someone on this list knows some of where that might be, or might even be the person to talk to in order to get it fixed. Daniel T. Staal

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and @comment ORIGIN:

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
actually install the client), so `cpanp` is a `cpan` installed module... (And yes, this is after reinstalling them.) So it looks like it's getting me partway there, but not all the way. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright

Re: how often to update ports?

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Staal
in portaudit. I find it easier to keep roughly up to date, and that's a convient timeframe. It's also how often I go on call at work, so I have a reminder. ;) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Daniel Toschläger
Daniel Am 30.03.2012 17:38, schrieb Karel Miklav: Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser 6500 looks nice, but I can

Many SATA disks

2012-03-31 Thread Daniel Feenberg
, but portability of the partitions to other systems is necessary. Daniel Feenberg NBER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

2012-03-17 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I have a 1024MB Club 3D GeForce GT 520 Low Profile and it works like a charm. with the drivers in the ports. cheers -- Daniel Dowse \\|// (o o) -ooO-(_)-Ooo- - Der hoechste Genuss besteht in der

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-08 Thread Daniel Staal
, it is mine. No idea, but as someone who recently had to trim one of his mail folders (same setup) as it was having trouble with over 210,000 messages, I'd be interested in your results. ;) Daniel T. STaal --- This email copyright

Re: USB Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision

2012-03-01 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
webcamd. may help, it worked on my Logitech Business Pro Cam cheers -- Daniel Dowse \\|// (o o) -ooO-(_)-Ooo- - Jim, Wahnsinn dient keinem Zweck

Re: Email issues, relay failure, perhaps Jails is causing it.

2012-02-26 Thread Daniel Staal
/rc.d/postfix stop`) Then run `nc -l 25`. This will echo anything that comes in on port 25 direct to your terminal. Then try telneting to it. If it works, the problem is postfix. If it doesn't, restart postfix and ignore it: It's not the problem. Daniel T. Staal

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
arguing with people. daniel feenberg feenb...@nber.org ___ 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: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

2012-02-23 Thread Daniel Staal
. constraints etc delay me ). Sounds like it's working as a decent spam filter to me. What setting to I have to change to make it do that again? ;) Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-19 Thread Daniel Staal
not an invalid one. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years

Mail

2012-02-19 Thread Daniel Lewis
I just install free bsd 8.2 and i can send mail out but cant recieve. From recipient end its combining the hostname and domain name. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Fwd: Mail

2012-02-19 Thread Daniel Lewis
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Lewis innervisionnetw...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM Subject: Mail To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I just install free bsd 8.2 and i can send mail out but cant recieve. From recipient end its combining the hostname

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