Any contribution from a company like Verisign needs to be carefully
scrutinized. I also don't think it wise to allow them to take a
leadership role of any type.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Powell wrote:
> Brett Glass wrote:
>
>> All:
>>
>> It's good to see corporate support of BSD, b
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Polytropon wrote:
>> With GPT, there is no reason to use BSD disklabels at all.
>
> And most modern computers do not have any problem booting it.
> The old MBR approach (as well as dedicated) will probably only
> be needed in niche applications and exceptions. You
The update is a delta from what is already on your system. When you
updated the older box, you pulled in lots of changes to get it
current. The newer box needed fewer updates to get current.
Or something is wrong. You can always delete the contents of /ports
and the database in /var/db/portsnap. T
There are a few lines in the output of sockstat related to sshd and
pflogd that all have ??:
admin1 sshd 942 4 stream -> ??
root sshd 939 5 stream -> ??
_pflogd pflogd 552 5 stream -> ??
root pflogd 548 4 stream -> ??
Are these normal? Why the ??
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Those who want to use git can use it, right now. Honest.
Yup:
https://github.com/freebsd/
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I've run into a totally reproducible freeze in 9.0. There are a
number of variables involved, but I'm able to reproduce this freeze
100% of the time.
I'm installing very small servers in a Xen HVM virtualization
environment. Each instance has 128M memory and 4G of disk space.
There is 384M of sw
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:34:44AM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:34:44 -0400
>> From: Robert Simmons
>> Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?
>> To: freebsd-questions@fr
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:14:52PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:52 -0400
>> From: Robert Simmons
>> Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?
>> To: freebsd-questions@fr
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> it is easy to cvs or cvsup ports and get a whole slew of ports in
> /usr/ports/distfiles, but too often, using portmaster [or another
> tool], I'll have only one of two ports that fail because they are
> either 1) broken, or 2) out of date. is
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400
> Daniel Staal articulated:
>
>>On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote:
>>
>>> The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what
>>> FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do
>>> n
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether
>> "free" or not. Money too, often.
>>
>> Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a
>> tremendous amount of
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> lpeth wrote:
>>
>> FreeBSD
>> Dear Sirs;
>> I have a 8core, 32 GB ram server I built myself. AMD cpu, with
>> Supermicro motherboard. I want to use FreeNAS as a database system, and
>> I'm wondering what it will cost to use FreeBSD with Fr
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:41:13 -0500
> Robert Simmons articulated:
>
>> Oops. Sorry, my mail reader must have recently changed the behavior
>> of the reply button to always reply all. I meant that to be off-list.
>
> Thank
Oops. Sorry, my mail reader must have recently changed the behavior
of the reply button to always reply all. I meant that to be off-list.
I apologize.
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One more thing. An easy contribution that could be made is to replace
the old version of openssl with the new in the src tree of CURRENT.
Then build world and see what breaks. Try to fix what has broken.
Contribute patches up to the point that you don't understand the next
step or you have build
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:49:18 +
> Matthew Seaman articulated:
>
>> Unfortunately I can't answer that. I'm not in any position to decide
>> such things.
>>
>> However I can hazard a guess at some of the possible reasons:
>>
>> * openssl API chan
During the new installer for 9.0, what is the default value for DESTDIR?
The reason I'm asking is I setup my partitions manually in the shell
provided for doing this, and I want to know where I need to leave them
mounted before I exit the shell to continue installation.
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I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check
things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain
things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a
fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same
thing in 9.0, but when I get to
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> If you compile your own kernel, then freebsd-update will patch the
> kernel sources, but leave you to rebuild and reinstall your customized
> kernel.
>
> I don't know about the -p4 update. By rights it should have involved
> updating the ke
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> My apologies to all for this, specially to those who already know about this
> and those who think too little of it.
>
> I am really worried about this:
>
> http://americancensorship.org/
>
> If these rootless people get control of what goes thr
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Peter Harrison
wrote:
> Can anyone advise me the appropriate Samba port to install - the handbook
> refers to samba34, but I see samba35 and samba36 in in ports. This is for a
> home server, so I'm not necessarily looking for production standard, but
> something
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> Now the updates for -p4 certainly should have touched the kernel, and
> certainly should have resulted in an updated uname string[*]. There
> should also be a note about -p4 in /usr/src/UPDATING. Starting to
> wonder if the -p4 patches are
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> Judging by the output you showed, you've certainly managed to download
> the -p4 binary patch set. The 'No updates needed' message is just
> telling you you've already got all the necessary update patchsets
> downloaded. The next step is
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
> I'm trying to get the php5-pgsql module to work with postgresql 9.1.1,
> the current version in ports. It seems that when I install php5-pgsql
> from ports it depends on postgresql 8.4.9. I don't see anything in
> th
I'm trying to get the php5-pgsql module to work with postgresql 9.1.1,
the current version in ports. It seems that when I install php5-pgsql
from ports it depends on postgresql 8.4.9. I don't see anything in
the Makefile that allows me to change this.
How do I get the php5-pgsql port to see that
I'm getting the following error on a new install with NFS:
kernel: Starting rpcbind.
kernel: NFS access cache time=60
kernel: rpc.umntall:
kernel: fileserver: MOUNTPROG: RPC: Program not registered
kernel:
kernel: rpc.umntall:
kernel: localhost: MOUNTPROG: RPC: Program not registered
kernel:
kerne
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Zantgo wrote:
> Without wanting to erase all contents of / etc / rc.conf, by running "echo"
> slim_enable = "YES" "> / etc / rc.conf". Please help!.
Well, the absolute basics would be:
hostname=""
ifconfig_"="inet netmask "
defaultrouter=""
You may also have ha
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> netwait_enable="YES"
> netwait_ip="192.168.1.1" # IP address to ping to verify network is up
> netwait_if="em0" # interface to use
>
>
> Also there's netwait_timeout, which defaults to 60 in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
I've finally got a combinatio
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> crontabs have this handy '@reboot' syntax... It's all explained in
> crontab(5).
Thanks!
> However, you would be well advised to run ntpd(8) rather than bodging
> the clock with ntpdate at intervals. ntpdate is deprecated by the ntp
> pro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working
>> before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address?
> Yes, it is. FreeBSD 8-STABLE and 9 have
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab:
>
> 0 10 * * */2 /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart
I have something similar in my crontab which is not exactly what I
need. I want to make sure that the
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Are you running a firewall? Do you have a ppp connection?
I'm not running a firewall on the machine in question. I am behind a
firewall, if that's what you mean. I don't have a ppp connection.
The box is a server that is running on bare
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working
before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address?
After setting ntpdate_enable="YES" in rc.conf, I get the following
error on boot:
Setting date via ntp.
Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known
5 Nov 17
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working
before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address?
After setting ntpdate_enable="YES" in rc.conf, I get the following
error on boot:
Setting date via ntp.
Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known
5 Nov 17
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Is portsnap installed? I was going with the effed up installer route. :)
>
> This works - I tried it when I wrote up the directions.
I assume that if the machine boots into the OS, that base is installed
and portsnap is in base.
_
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Distributions, by nature, shouldn't be on the disc... they are outdated the
> moment they are made into an ISO.
>
> run these commands:
>
> These are written assuming you are in as root.
>
> # ftp ftp://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/port
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Grant Walter wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I burned a CD of the LiveFS image and my installation failed. I then tried
> installing from the Disk 1 image and the install succeeded.
>
> My problem is that there are no "Ditstributions" on the disk. I don't even
> have bash
On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isom wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for
> the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from
> patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the
> idea is to just minimize hard drive t
On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote:
> I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves
> anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only
> makes it difficult for others like myself who read the lists online and
> only post occasionally.
Why not take this discussion to freebsd-chat?
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On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy.
>
> Traffic too heavy in fact, & a mess of themes,
>Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or
>current@ or other more specialist lists
Also, one place
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> I'm against merging chat@ & questions@, & don't believe it will happen
> Lists for different purposes, but even if questions@ people
> might come to a consensus in favour of merging, lots of
> people on other lists hav
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 07:44:16 AM Jerry wrote:
> You have voiced a concern that has been voiced here several times in
> the past. Unfortunately, this is an "open" list; ie, anyone subscribed
> or not can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this
> forum. I have tried contacti
Who is the admin for freebsd-quesitons and freebsd-security? There seems to
be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming
it periodically, or in the case of freebsd-security actually don't exist and
have a broken mailserver that sends a reponse back to the list.
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:31:19 PM Reko Turja wrote:
> In that fictional world MySQL needed a fork and some GPL'd programs
> have been retroactively made completely closed source, forking denied
> after taking the issue into court...
I thought that Sun reversed that decision in 2008. Can you
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:47:32 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> This will require some efforts from Open Group. Does FreeBSD Foundation pay
> for that?
Not necessary. FreeBSD does not use (want to use/need to use) the UNIX
trademark and according to the USL vs. BSDi court case, FreeBSD does not
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:29:42 AM Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> There should be a difference recognized between "own a Unix trademark" by
> http://www.unix.org/trademark.html and "ownership of the Unix copyrights"
> by http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 where I'm
> pass.
On Thursday, June 16, 2011 09:22:43 AM Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 16/06/2011 13:52, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> > You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions!
> > 2011/06/15 17:08:31 -0400 Chris Brennan => To
> > Thomas Hansen : CB> FreeBSD is a UNIX-like clone, which is indeed free,
> > wher
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Rob wrote:
> Has anyone tried using an SATA SSD card (SATA add-on card that is a SSD
> drive) in FreeBSD? I was looking at an OCZ RevoDrive and was wondering if
> anyone had tried using one of those specifically, or any SATA SSD card in
> general.
I have not use
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands for "Tom's Window
> Manager" because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware
> back around X11R1.
Stood for, you mean. It evolved to Tab Window Manager, and no
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>
> I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both
> 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds
> for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on the console
> always being:
>
>
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:35 AM, wrote:
> Robert Simmons wrote:>
>> > How do I wipe the whole thing in one go so that I can start
>> > afresh?
>> >
>> > gpart destroy ad4 ??
>>
>> Yes, but first you must delete all of the slices/partitions.
&
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 08:03, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
>> > follo
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:59:44 AM Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 06:40:22 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
> > following sequence:
> >
> > # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR
> >
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 12:40:22 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Since some time I'm as well using gpart(8) to setup new systems with the
> following sequence:
>
> # gpart create -s mbr ad4 # Init the disk with an MBR
> # gpart add -t freebsd ad4# Create a BSD container
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> There's a sample in the second half of my disk setup article:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
Looks good. I have a few critiques:
1) Linux and FreeBSD do not have alignment requirements, as far as I
know. So you
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> I just realized how many years ago I haven't been partitioning any disks ..
> this system is so stable :) So, now I see I have gpart as alternative to
> fdisk/bsdlabel.
gpart(8) from my experience is far superior to all the older tools.
>
>
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> - or any problems (problems as in I've never tried that before) - using
> gpart instead of the "old" scheme?
Sorry for the double post, but the only problem that I've encountered
is after creating a encrypted provider with geli(8), that provi
Sorry, I didn't mention why. You need use -DD if you don't want that
to happen, and you want it to follow installed packages as well.
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On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> # Papi/root [23:28:52]
> [~]>portsclean -D
>
> Detecting unreferenced distfiles... <-- !!
>
> Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE/akonadi-1.5.2.tar.bz2
> Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE/kdeaccessibility-4.6.2.tar.bz2
> Delete /usr/ports/distfiles/K
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:26 AM, wrote:
> For NIS, yes, if correctly configured. Each server can have its
> own set of local users in addition to those authenticated via NIS.
> Dunno about K5.
Yes, by using .k5users and .k5login you can administrate which k5
principles can access which accounts
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:17 AM, pepe wrote:
> I have two FreeBSD 8 servers running. Server A is for shell access and
> server B for www pages. On B there is only scp/sftp access and no shell
> login.
> Now I'm looking for solution for people to be able to change password for
> server B from insid
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that
> root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of
> address...
Was the root account on the box actually used, or did someone spoof
email coming
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 24 May 2011 18:09, C. P. Ghost wrote:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was
>>> using was gone from the ports tree. Why?
>>
>> I noticed t
Also, unless my friends all change from Skype or Skype becomes intolerable
with SIP, I'm stuck with Skype.
Also, we should wait and see what ms does with Skype before we condemn them.
On May 22, 2011 7:20 PM, "ajtiM" wrote:
On Sunday 22 May 2011 12:44:50 Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> paid) PSTN-
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Lamaiziere
wrote:
> Le Sun, 22 May 2011 10:09:37 -0400,
> Robert Simmons a écrit :
>
>> > Since Xfce 4.8 the trash applet does not work : "Can't connect to
>> > the trash".
>> >
>> > I&#x
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Patrick Lamaiziere
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since Xfce 4.8 the trash applet does not work : "Can't connect to the
> trash".
>
> I've googled a bit but can't find any solution (Thunar, dbus and hal are
> running). This is a fresh install and not an update.
Have you trie
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Questions@ started as a catch all fallback address for simple beginners
> questions from the newly installed, who didn't know / hadn't yet read
> http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8
I have begun receiving ipv6 spam from this mailing list, and I was
wondering how to determine who the owner of a particular ipv6 address
is.
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I recently upgraded a hard drive to an SSD drive. Initially I bought
a cheap(er) Microcenter house branded SATA II drive (after looking
around online it turns out it is really an A-Data that was rebranded).
It was recognized by the BIOS, but not by FreeBSD. I decided to
return it and try a name
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Maciej Milewski wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer!
>> I am trying out gpart.
>> On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and
>> FreeBSD-8.2.
>> I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM, n dhert wrote:
> I have a running FreeBSD-8.2-amd system,
> FreeBSD was installed in jan 2009 (then FreeBSD 7.0), which a fisk disk of
> 200 GB
> for /, swap /usr /var /tmp.
> Later that month, I added a 9 TB disk using /sbin/gpt
> (since sysinstall uses bsdlabel/
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:38:37 AM you wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:44:42 -0400
> > From: Robert Simmons
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: boot question
> >
> > How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a d
Perhaps my earlier question was too complex and specific. I will rephrase
it a bit:
How do I boot from a kernel that is in a non-standard location on a disk
that is partitioned with the GPT scheme?
How do I tell that kernel the location of /etc/fstab?
As a followup to my earlier question, are there plans for a geli aware boot0
so /boot does not need to be unencrypted? I know that this functionality
can be done with TrueCrypt with FreeBSD running inside a TrueCrypt system,
but having it part of FreeBSD would be great!
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I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on an encrypted volume and I've
run into an annoying problem. Before I describe the problem, let me explain
what I have done so far.
first I used gpart to make GPT partitions: one freebsd-boot, two
freebsd-ufs. The freebsd-boot is 64k and the following
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