Re: Odd routing issue...

2010-05-11 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 12 of May 2010 06:07, Glenn Sieb wrote: I'm getting a route added upon reboot with the hostname of the box, going to lo0. It's preventing things like, pinging itself. I can manually delete the route, but.. where is it being set to begin with?! well, that behaviour is what i would

Re: Auto update

2010-04-11 Thread Ed Jobs
On Sunday 11 of April 2010 12:32, Jos Chrispijn wrote: In order to find out if someone logged in, I should then first copy auth.log to auth2.log, and do a compare and then do the tail trick. Have to cron that every half a minute. I would like to know if there is something that is alterted on

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-10 Thread Ed Jobs
On Thursday 11 of March 2010 03:36, mailinglist wrote: The question is, can it use that wireless card to act as a access point instead of a client (how the card is intended to be used)? you can run the hostapd daemon to configure a card as an access point. I did this on an openbsd box, so i'm

Re: .zshrc

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Jobs
On Tuesday 02 of February 2010 20:41, Polytropon wrote: I've taken your .zshrc content and installed zsh, but whenever I started it, echo $SHELL tells me it is /bin/csh... so I'm much more clueless now... :-) the $SHELL variable does not change when you run a subshell. but the shell is

Re: .zshrc

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Jobs
On Tuesday 02 of February 2010 22:59, Dánielisz László wrote: alias vi vim use: alias vi=vim -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: /etc/hosts.deniedssh

2010-01-18 Thread Ed Jobs
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:39, David Southwell wrote: Examples from hosts.deniedssh I seem to be on the receiving end of a concerted series of unsuccessful break in attacks on one of our systems. One small part of the attack has resulted in over 2000 entries in our hosts.deniedssh file

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 00:50, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I had already tried that, but AFAIK mail reads from /var/mail/andrea and that file is not there (in spite of the above message). In my box, there is the ~/mbox file that has the messages in it. you can check out if it exists... --

Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-21 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 21 December 2009 12:48, Eric Le Goff wrote: My understanding from a previous post in this list (Around december 18th) was that VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run was specifically tied to the Linux kernel This also what I experimented. i read it again, but what i get from the older post is

Re: How to make VirtualBox have higher (full screen) resolution?

2009-12-20 Thread Ed Jobs
On Sunday 20 December 2009 12:24, Yuri wrote: Oleg Ginzburg wrote: You need for Install Guest Additional How do I do this? I have VBOXADDITIONS_3. CDROM image in the virtual Linux. But how to install it? mount it in the guest (linux) system and there is a file callled

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Ed Jobs
On Saturday 19 December 2009 16:42, Victor Lyapunov wrote: Hi everybody, Sorry for asking dumb questions, but is there any chance zfs becoming default FS in FreeBSD? If so, how soon might this happen? Cheers, Victor. As seen in http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD9 under Other Kernel: ZFS as

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Ed Jobs
On Saturday 19 December 2009 22:26, Pieter de Goeje wrote: Don't spread FUD please. If you had read the WIKI you would know it talks about sysinstall support for ZFS, not about removing UFS. i'm sorry if my mail was misleading. we have no idea how it will be implemented. my guess is that both

Re: Confusion About FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox

2009-12-18 Thread Ed Jobs
On Friday 18 December 2009 06:39, Ryan Ware wrote: Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment. In the press release for 8.0 it says, FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox. I understand what the host mode support is with the VirtualBox port. What I don't

Re: Native PDF viewer

2009-12-16 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 05:04, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hi all, Since I don't have Linux compat layer activated, and I have no need for it, I'd like to ask if anyone can suggest a native PDF viewer (I'm not fond of the idea of installing a compat layer for just one application). Currently

Re: ZFS pools gone?

2009-11-25 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 18:14, cali clarke wrote: I just did a clean install of 8.0-RELEASE. I am _CERTAIN_ that the drives with ZFS on them were not touched by the installer. Having booted the system (with zfs enabled in rc.conf): did you try zpool import ? -- Real programmers

Re: Bootcamp?

2009-11-19 Thread Ed Jobs
On Friday 20 November 2009 02:17, David Rawling wrote: Hi Juan and welcome to the FreeBSD community. You might try VirtualBox, which is similar to VMWare Workstation but free and part of the ports tree. There's probably a package for it - try: pkg_add -r virtualbox However, you may

Re: Bootcamp?

2009-11-19 Thread Ed Jobs
On Friday 20 November 2009 03:35, Matt Szubrycht wrote: I am not aware of any emulators/virtual machine software capable of running OS X, but would be VERY interested in doing that as well. There is a vmware image of OS X Leopard in quite a few bittorrent trackers. But the really

weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Ed Jobs
Greetings. Yesterday, i noticed a very weird behaviour on my computer (which is running 8.0-RC3 btw. The shells were not responding and the load was insane, and constantly going up. At the time i managed to lock myself out, the load was 84 and growing (i have a screenshot if anyone is

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:12, Mel Flynn wrote: Did the operator uid change or perhaps shared with another uid? Check both `id operator` and `id 2`. Secondly, why did this stop? Seems like a weird question to ask, but since this script is supposed to run every 11 minutes, there should

Re: weird save-entropy behaviour

2009-11-15 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 16 November 2009 00:58, Mel Flynn wrote: Does the cron log (/var/log/cron) show that it was run as operator around the time it started? /usr/sbin/cron[47350]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Even if it wasn't, I don't see a reason for such a buildup. Unlesssince

Re: Daily run reports

2009-10-07 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 16:05, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am wondering what process generates the following reports: security run output daily run output monthly run output In my FreeBSD 6.3 I had these reports emailed to root, but I haven't recieved them in my new installation

Re: Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-08-30 Thread Ed Jobs
On Sunday 30 August 2009 04:16, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with trying to boot from a RAIDZ on 8.0-BETA3 (amd64). The environment is VMware. I've been googling and reading what I can on this procedure, which sounds possible, but I have been unable to successfully get a

Re: enquiry

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Jobs
On Friday 21 August 2009 07:32, keith cak wrote: Dear Sir, May i know how to change the IP address in freeBSD . Thank you. depends on what you are using. dhcp/static ip configuration? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.