Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.comwrote: Thank you for the detailed description of what resource forks are. One more clue in this mystery is that appending .mov extension to it fixes the problem. That makes some sense, since without the resource fork some

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-29 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.orgwrote: There are several free public USENET text servers (no binary groups), granted it's nothing like the days when every ISP ran one but there are still several about (eternal-september.com is one of the biggest).

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.grwrote: Having svn-X.0 in the source tree, imported at great expense of time and effort, will provide exactly _zero_ benefits if the underlying format of the repository changes (like subversion likes doing really often).

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:37 PM, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.netwrote: You can use dump(8) to dump a SU-journaled filesystem; you just cannot create a snapshot. This implies that dump(8) will be run against the live and possibly changing filesystem, which can lead to issues with the

Re: FreeBSD on Acer C7 Chromebook?

2013-02-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote: A long time ago I swear NEVER ever buy ACER product, the bios is no standard, and they do not care about the clients. It's not meant to be standard. Despite appearances these are not normal laptops. They

Re: recommendation instead of portmanager

2013-01-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.comwrote: Hello! I am using portmanager for updating my ports. I love its -p switch. Is there any similar program with such option? I am asking because portmanager is gone from ports tree. -p or --pristineUpdates a

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-12-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: We have had good experience with pair.com and rootbsd.com. Both were used for websites. We never had any problems with either, so I can't report on their problem solving skills, but customer service from both was good

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:07:44 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Snip ... So how can I run rpd on the freebsd host running the virtualbox server system so I can access the configured vm? I this configuration even

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.comwrote: You can then easily use newfs with the -f parameter: newfs -U -f 4096 device This will make sure the proper fragment size will be applied upon formatting the created partitions. OK. Thanks. I am

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: It's also debatable if one of today's most prominent use of patents is fair: I tell you! I have patents! You are infringing! I'm not gonna tell you which patents about what, but I'll sue all your users! Of course, if such a

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: And the facts are: Lots of worktime were spent to make new C compiler from scratch and this resulted with thing 5 times larger, working at similar speed and producing similar code to GCC that is already

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of the non-enterprise variety can actually make reliability *worse*.

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I don't consider the ability to stay up for a few minutes when there's a brief blackout to be the most important function of a good UPS, even though that's kinda the reason the things were invented in the first place.  

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:23 AM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Only if they fully follow the spec. This is rather unlikely. Even today, there are still many broken DMI/SMBIOS tables out there that contain barely enough stuff for Windows to boot successfully. What makes you think

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Hello. 2012/06/14 00:23:25 +0400 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org: PV ot the least how could I see the 'real' size of each of those files, both  ~150M PV actulally, with

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a huge service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented people are being rejected on entirely arbitrary criteria that have little or no

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Thanks for that article, it's really sad. One of the main problems is (in my opinion) that GENERIC SKILLS aren't recognozed with the big importane they have. This applies to hiring as well as education. When they read a job

Re: how often to update ports?

2012-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've gleaned from this list and other BSD mailing lists that I'm on, is that some people don't update their port-installed packages nearly as frequently (security patches/updates aside). Some people go

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit files.  However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit to the shell.   The client in question has strong (and unyielding)

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: You have just now declared complete indifference to and alienated about 99% of the potential user base and their needs, those who could care less about compiling source and messing with compiler options. Maybe FreeBSD

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

2012-02-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Those address links need changing to graphic's, so that most address harvesting bots won't get anything usable. Mk1 eyeball can still see what's what, but if you have to use the info, you have to re-type it manually. I

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-21 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: it will not even boot if there is only a single slice with root and the rest on it if the background fsck cannot be run. I have to go to real remote locations once in a while where an USP is not of real

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this:        Partition scheme                [ ] all in one + swap            Create one partition containing all subtrees            plus one

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:54 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: Unfortunately, WP isn't exactly a well designed CMS form the untaring standpoint. Most aren't. TWiki is a nightmare to update, basically requiring you to copy your old content to a new install and then hand-merge the new

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-08 Thread David Brodbeck
2012/2/7 Ingo Hofmann ingo.hofm...@dont-panic.org: What helps me sometimes is wrapping it up: for i in *; do rm $i; done Won't that just expand the * and result in the same problem? It seems like you've just moved the problem from the rm statement to the for statement.

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files and yet, ports like Drupal or

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means

Re: DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Are the keyboard and mouse USB devices?  A KVM should not disconnect them on switching, but maybe it does. In my experience, most inexpensive USB KVMs work by disconnecting the keyboard/mouse from one system and

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
It's worth noting, too, that most of the non-Unicode encoding systems predate the Internet. When computers weren't really talking to each other, there was no real emphasis on interoperability, and every OS tended to come up with their own way of encoding foreign languages. Languages like French,

Re: zfs file names (inodes) without files (ENOENT)

2011-11-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Martin von Gagern martin.vgag...@gmx.net wrote: Thought the same, and gave it a try. zpool claims there is no pool of that name. zpool -f doesn't help. Looking at the device nodes, it appears as though OI would only recognize 3 of my 4 HDDs, which seems really

Re: zfs file names (inodes) without files (ENOENT)

2011-11-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Martin von Gagern martin.vgag...@gmx.net wrote: Makes me wonder whether I'd be better off with either some OpenSolaris descendant (hoping that the problem only lies in the FreeBSD port of ZFS) or with Linux (and either btrfs or some more mature fs). Both of

Re: strange behavior of restore(8)

2011-10-21 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: Colleagues, I am trying to restore a UFS2 zero level dump sized about 51G. restore has created 6105 directories and no files at all, and now is waiting forever in the runnable state. I don't have any specific advice

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: So, systems that do what you want (and customers who want to pay on a per use basis) must be around for quite some time. Yeah, this was the normal way of doing things for many years on large systems, back when a large

Re: X on Xterminals but not on console

2011-10-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, October 05, 2011 a las 12:10:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert escribió: n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: FreeBSD-8.2 with Xorg: Is there a way one can specify that your never have X on the console

Re: [0.5 OT] Looking for recommendation on Unix shell account

2011-09-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos unixma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For reasons hard to explain I need to set-up a Unix (preferably FreeBSD) shell account that I can access from anywhere. Arbornet and PBS were the first names that came to my mind, but I'm open to other

Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
I don't think not asking the question is the right answer. Asking about the keyboard layout during installation is the right thing to do; working with the wrong one is difficult and not everyone has a standard US keyboard. I think the problem is that the keymap names are kind of obscure, making

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Not my experience.  Running my own DNS is simple and trouble free, plus it gives me much more scope to play with things like DNSSEC. I've done it before, but I don't anymore. Partly because it's very hard

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: I am looking into finally setting up a backup solution that's a little more sophisticated than a bunch of DVD-RWs.  I have two servers.  I'd like to make each a backup server for the other.  I'm considering using rsync.

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Lots.  The handbook has a chapter on backups which is worth reading, also True. Personally, I like dump/restore for disaster-recovery backups on FreeBSD. However, if you frequently need individual file recovery (e.g., Joe

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:10:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: If you are asking, Is there a FreeBSD command to cause the KVM switch to move to the next system? then the answer is

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:45 AM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: The USB switches generally emulate a generic USB keyboard and mouse, so drivers aren't a problem.  Sometimes they work by simulating a USB disconnect from the machine they're switching to, though, so you need good keyboard

ZFSv28+NFSv4 poor file creation performance, sync=disabled has no effect

2011-08-31 Thread David Brodbeck
I'm testing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA with an eye toward eventually using FreeBSD 9.0 to replace some existing OpenSolaris 2008.11 installations. I've found NFS file creation performance (as measured by Bonnie++) is equally slow for both with default settings. However, on OpenSolaris I disable the ZIL to

Re: Poll on server attacks

2011-08-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: There you go! How do you actually know if you've had actual breaches if you don't follow up on the logs and spend actual __hours__ doing that? How do you know your servers are not root-kitted? I had an experience with a

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz wrote: There is still a way to increase NFS performance in 9.0 (without a ZIL SSD) by setting zfs property sync=disabled, which will disable synchronous writes - comes with some risks, research it before switching it off. Also,

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a rule of thumb and for a serious server, I would recommend 1 SSD as dedicated cache and 2 SSD for a mirrored ZIL (you don't want to lose this data). However I think ppl posted about running intro trouble when using both

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I read the other replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For the last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of e-mailing PDF and other document files. Paperless is not only more

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: In the past, I've also used the hylafax port with a regular external serial modem, and it worked perfectly. I think the moden was an... Elsa? MicroLink something? Looked like a green toy, but worked very well. I've used it

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Geoff Roberts ge...@apro.com.au wrote: Was this easy to measure, and how did you measure this - dropped packets on the bridge interface? I don't remember. It's been too long since I last tried it. Dropped packets would be a good measure, though, assuming the

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com wrote: There is no inbuilt reason why a L2 VPN is more easily saturated than a L3 VPN. I disagree slightly. With L2 you have broadcasts and non-routable protocols being sent over the wire. This is fortunately becoming less of an

Re: rox-fm

2011-05-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: I wish someone could clearly explain why the reply-to field should ONLY have the mailing-list address, or at least have as the default address and not the other way around as it is here! This is one of the all-time great

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:19 AM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: you can do this with a combination of openvpn (using tap, not tun) and if_bridge both ends. However I have found it to be flakey and not really worth the effort. Better to go with a routed solution. The problem I've always found with

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: No humor intended. I have read another post that might also describe why the network is being blacklisted. I firmly believe that a diligent SA (note the word diligent) could attempt to correct this problem. One of the

Re: remaining goal.. .

2011-04-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        simply that i'm looking for somebody  who know how to transfer pfsense        from a standalone system to this kit. I would suggest using Diagnostics/Backup/restore on the current system to save a copy of the

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: In the near future I'm probably going to have to implement a web mail system for times when my clients are travelling and don't have access to an IMAP capable client. If Roundcube isn't a decent solution, what is? I kind

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel,    that's the tachometer. It is supposed to point at zero if the    car is not started. The fuel

Re: FreeBSD mirror server on a Debian operating system?

2011-03-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: ... the list does not 'mail-back' your e-mail ... i.e. you do not see your own post until someone replies to it. ... unless you go to the subscription page and select the option to be

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: The problem is it'd have to be someone who's unemployed. ;)  Any software company is going to want to patent something that valuable; they'd be failing their shareholders if they didn't. Except a

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: The largest possible paying audience is generally everybody capable of using an open standard. Since we're talking about video, though, it's worth noting that there don't appear to *be* any truly open video compression

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It's certainly true that video is a bit of a sticky widget with regard to open standards.  The moment someone develops something that is verifiably free of patent encumbrances for video and doesn't just *suck*, I expect

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:31:32 -0600, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Apple produces the clusterfuck that is CUPS, I believe. Apple took over the CUPS project. They didn't write it. They're improving it a lot with every

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
I think now we know the real reason HAL was deprecated -- too many crusty old jokes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Simplest way to deny access to a class C

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Be careful of automated responses.  What if someone spoofs IP's of legit users / customers / whatever and your automated response blocks them?  Not good. Fortunately this is a relatively low risk with fail2ban, because to

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: While I found that generic UNIX knowledge was applicable everywhere, Linux knowledge was not, as you could see from file names and locations, procedures, and configuration statements which could not be transferred 1:1 between

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: I think it's because no concerted effort has been put into optimizing the boot time on FreeBSD. I tested a stripped-down kernel on my iBook G4 a while ago and it would boot in a couple of seconds - but that was without any

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get it up and going very quickly.  I want to use FreeBSD because all the other parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD servers.  

Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?

2011-03-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Another way to do this, but is quite rare, is to log in via serial console.  This requires you to configure serial logins to your server (quite easy, but you should test it first) and it requires the data center to somehow

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, but in the good ol' USA it's all about the money. They will not let me do anything like this unless I pay more to upgrade my service. The wierd thing is that once in a blue moon my IP address will change. Then I can

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Thus, if you *really* want a superuser account with bash as its default shell, you can always use toor for that purpose.  I don't much see the point in setting a superuser account to use bash anyway -- or any other

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash. Yeah, I try to avoid bash-specific syntax unless it's for one-off scripts. csh suffers the same kinds of problems; I only write csh code under extreme duress, like when

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Reality:  XP purchased with a Toshiba laptop runs native, but fails on  virtualbox, on the same laptop.  I believe XP is crippled to only  run on Toshiba, vbox presents too clean/generic an environment ;-) Sometimes

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

2011-02-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: I see the advantage, and that it offers higher levels of resiliency and if properly handled should cause no problems.  I just hate relying on humans to remember things and follow directions.  That's what computers are for.

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and that

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Agreed. I posted my short experience of using an SSD as a workstation drive and I'd be interested in hearing the experience of any other users. Problems? Praise? Let's hear it. While not quite a workstation application, in

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both ntpd_enable=YES and ntpd_sync_on_start=YES. ntpd has a sanity check -- if the

Re: Partial DNS tree

2011-02-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Bastien Semene bsem...@cyanide-studio.com wrote: Hi everyone, This is not the preferred mailing list to ask this question, but I think people here can easily answer. I've seen in the past that DNS servers can resolve some FQDNs while forwarding (or caching)

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: Also, I'm having trouble understanding how people like that get grants to do work like that.  On the one hand, they obviously know enough about cryptography to make improvements.  On the other hand, they can't seem to

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.com wrote: I have heard that Debian project has replaced the Linux kernel in their distribution with FreeBSD kernel and have released Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Since this version, they will release Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as a stable

Re: Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

2011-01-31 Thread David Brodbeck
I ran into a similar issue upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3. Here's the thread where I worked it out; it might be helpful in your case: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-July/218443.html My eventual solution was here, if you don't want to read through the whole thread:

Re: Emulators to test non-x86 FreeBSD ports?

2011-01-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Hello list, are there any emulators out there that can run the non-x86 versions of FreeBSD on a FreeBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64 host? I'm especially interested in trying FreeBSD/sparc64 port, but I'd also like to test the

Re: Could any port be sucking up bandwidth?

2011-01-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Before the 11th of January I was streaming both audio and video streams with little to zero wait time.  In other words, I could stream about 50 minutes of audio with only a second or two of pause time delay [[AKA

Re: which syslog??? (rsyslog? syslog-ng? or default?)

2011-01-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:52 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: Ive used syslog-ng for central logging in the past. It support tcp, encryption and logging to a db. To be honest though the most useful feature was that you can expand log files paths to include the date and hostname. This makes

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com wrote: There could be reasons you aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase

Re: Half a Mirror Backup

2011-01-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: Is using one half of a mirror as a backup a good/bad idea? I was thinking of rotating drives on a periodic basis as a back up method.  You'd get the backup instantly, but rebuilding the mirror with the incoming drive

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I think you're where I was at a while ago, and a little investigation will change your mind. FWIW Xen is a hypervisor, and platforms need to be

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Those look backwards to me.  It's extremely rare for me to upgrade everything that a given port depends on (-R), but common to upgrade a port and everything that depends on it (-r). I've used -R before to correct

Re: Does anybody know a PeerGuardian like app?

2010-12-29 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:04 AM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: Are there any programs blocking ip, and has frequently updated lists, like the peerguardian on windows? I'm not entirely sure what services you're trying to protect, but I find /usr/ports/security/denyhosts works pretty

Re: cpio misunderstanding?

2010-12-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joe Kraft jvk-l...@thekrafts.org wrote: OK, now I know what's going on.  I just don't know why.  The immutable flag was set on all these files, if you clear it cpio will happily copy them to the new directory. Does cpio attempt to preserve flags? Since the

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:51 AM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2010 22:20, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Anyway, SeLinux ain't 100% popular over there I noticed. Maybe it is just a matter

Re: ssh interactive session, through intermediate hosts ... problems ...

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Josh Suid joshs...@yahoo.com wrote: First, where on the ssh client command line (see above) can I specify a more liberal timeout value ?  Since my interactive session has three or more layers of host between it, the whole thing falls apart if even one link slows

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: As a last gasp effort, I gave my LJ4+ a thorough cleaning and replaced the rollers for the output feed in the back.  And hey, it seems to be working now!  The way it had been sounding, I was sure I'd broken something

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:22 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone has USB so should install using that instead of floppies. Not true on a

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks for suggesting the jetdirect cards, guys.  I vaguely remembered seeing something like that, but I assumed that if any still existed in operating condition, they were inside a printer and not available for

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Anyway, SeLinux ain't 100% popular over there I noticed. Maybe it is just a matter of getting used to it.  I got tired of reading the posts on it, so haven't figured out if they were substantive or just whiney. The

Re: next question....

2010-12-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: When sudo'ing, pass 'sudo su -' (same principle applies, but you don't need to to be in wheel to use this command) Is the end result of 'sudo su - ' any different from the simpler command 'sudo -i'?

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:38:05 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: My old HP Laserjet 4+ is broken and I'm thinking about buying a new printer. In case you have been happy with your 4+, consider getting a used

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-12-01 Thread David Brodbeck
You might also try sending a message from the exchange server to another email account of yours, so you can examine the headers on the outgoing message for anything strange. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: A few people have mentioned labelling the drives. Its a good thing to do, but take it a step further. Before you put the drives in the system, physically label them with something identifiable (colored sticker, number whatever).

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread David Brodbeck
One problem I ran into is that the file sharing technologies in FreeBSD have not kept up; I consider NFSv4 a requirement for sanely sharing ZFS over a network, and FreeBSD's NFSv4 server is still under heavy development and not yet production-ready. That may not matter for a backup server,

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