Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure
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, but just like plain old UFS files may be truncated as the journal is replayed. For ext3, https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt explains the different modes, with 'ordered' being default: Data Mode - There are 3 different data modes: * writeback mode In data=writeback mode, ext3 does not journal data at all. This mode provides a similar level of journaling as that of XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS in its default mode - metadata journaling. A crash+recovery can cause incorrect data to appear in files which were written shortly before the crash. This mode will typically provide the best ext3 performance. * ordered mode In data=ordered mode, ext3 only officially journals metadata, but it logically groups metadata and data blocks into a single unit called a transaction. When it's time to write the new metadata out to disk, the associated data blocks are written first. In general, this mode performs slightly slower than writeback but significantly faster than journal mode. * journal mode data=journal mode provides full data and metadata journaling. All new data is written to the journal first, and then to its final location. In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it outperforms all other modes. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: SU+J Lost files after a power failure
On 10/14/2013 7:33 PM, CeDeROM wrote: Thank you for explaining :-) So it looks that it would be sensible to force filesystem check every n-th mount..? Or to do a filesystem check after crash..? Are there any flags like that to mark filesystem unclean and to force fsck after n-th mount? That would assume disabling journal and soft updates journaling I guess..? What would be the best option for best data integrity in case of crash? That would be helpful for development systems I guess :-) As I understand it UFS+J gives the same reliability as UFS with a normal fsck after a crash, so on a development system the only ways to improve the situation would be to mount with the 'sync' option, disable write caching on the disk or to switch to a different filesystem like ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres
On 07/01/2013 01:28 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on occasion. I could move to db5 or db6 OR MySQL, or even postgres. I use simple primary key files, most entries are added from a CLI or termcap/curses screen. Some programatically. With about the same number of sequential dumps vs indexed random reads. I have no experience with the c interface for postgres or mysql, but also, do not know how much the c interface has changed for sleepycat 5/6 compared to the c interface for db3, which I understand quite well. So I am prepared for a learning curve irrespective of which platform I select. Records do not exceed much more than 10-20,000, with key sizes not much wider than 16 bytes (ipv4), 13 (mac), 32 (ipv6). And various smaller key sizes. Suggestions would be very much appreciated. Jim, I'm a lazy bugger and what I'd do is knock together a small perl program using DBI and the DBD for Berkeley DB (sleepcat) and either MySQL or Postgres (pick your religion). You could grap the records out of one table and insert them into another as though they are the same db... LIke I say, I'm lazy. No, it's not shiney and new (may EVEN be deprecated) If you'd like assistance, I'll be happy to hold hands Bruce Ferrell ___ 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: List Spam Filtering
On 17/05/2013 11:42, Jerry wrote: Seriously? If some potential poster were so brain dead that he/she could not comprehend how to subscribe to the mailing list then I would seriously doubt that they would possess the necessary skills to install and run FreeBSD to begin with. Lets be honest here. All that the present system does is act as an enabler for Spam merchants and Trolls. Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post messages PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!, apparently not understanding how to manage their subscription? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: List Spam Filtering
On 11/05/2013 02:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Good question. I don't know why. I wish all were, it would keep spam out. There have been some discussions about this in the past. freebsd-questions doesn't require subscribing to avoid people who may be unfamiliar with mailing lists being put off posting to it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is fdisk broken?
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 mla_str...@att.net wrote: I recently bought a 4 TB usb disk drive and discovered that it reported a sector size of 4096 bytes instead of the traditional 512 bytes. This is apparently necessary because there may be a 32 bit sector number field somewhere in the usb mass storage protocols. It turns out that disk drive manufacturers have been producing disks with large sector sizes for some years now. The feature goes by the name Advanced Format and other things. Look it up in Wikipedia. FreeBSD seems to use the sector size information when interpreting MBR partition offsets and sizes. Unfortunately, when I try to use fdisk to print out the partition table on my new disk drive, fdisk just says fdisk: could not detect sector size. It has the following gratuitous breakage at 2K for its probe of the sector size: #define MAX_SEC_SIZE 2048 /* maximum section size that is supported */ #define MIN_SEC_SIZE 512/* the sector size to start sensing at */ I used 64K for the probe maximum limit when I fixed fsck_msdosfs (fsck_msdosfs doesn't has a probe and only supports sector sizes of 512 in -current). Most file systems in FreeBSD have gratuitous limits on the size in their probe for there superblock, but the limit is mostly larger than 4K. Most of them don't need to know the sector size and don't have a probe, but they read a fixed size that is larger than their superblock size, so they fail if this size is smaller than the the sector size. Otherwise the MBR partition table seems to work correctly and newfs seems to have done the right thing. (It made the file system fragment size a multiple of the sector size and I am not getting any weird error messages out of the disk driver.) It would be nice if fdisk also worked. I do have to share the disk with other operating systems that might not understand other partition table schemes. Is may analysis of what is going on essentially correct? Can fdisk be made happy again? (At least for a few more years?) Changing the above should fix fdisk for FreeBSD. A sector size of 4K gives a limit of 16TB for the partition table data structure, which is enough for a few more years with single disks. After that, double the sector size to 8K to work for another year or two. However, to share the disk you need all the other operating systems and BIOS to agree that _this_ partition table scheme (with units of 4K sectors) is what the partition table records. Bruce ___ 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: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?
On 23/02/2013 23:17, Joshua Isom wrote: That also ties in with NIH syndrome. Gnu does that a lot just to make sure they can change to GPLv4 without problems, while Linux is still GPLv2. It's also not just Berkeley, but other people and organizations hold copyrights. From a quick glance, netatalk is by the University of Michigan. Mounting a cd using cd9660, which is still listed as Berkeley, is probably so tested and proven by now, that there would be no benefit to rewriting it other than to change the copyright. Other open source projects require contributors to sign copyright assignment agreements so all the code is under a single owner. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: SSH on FreeBSD
On 15/01/2013 10:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: That's all. sshd will restart automatically after any reboots. You should be able to log into any ordinary user account remotely using the account username and password. Note ordinary user account - sshd on FreeBSD disallows root logins by default. You can change that by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config . -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: SSH on FreeBSD
On 15/01/2013 12:51, Matthias Apitz wrote: Why it is more secure via inetd.conf? You can centralise access control via TCP Wrappers - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/tcpwrappers.html . -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
Boot of 9.1 under qemu-kvm 1.3 hangs at pci probing
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 in a Proxmox KVM, using qemu-kvm 1.3, but the boot process is hanging: pbib0: matched entry for 0.1 INTA pbib0: slot 1 INTA hardwired to IRQ 9 ioapic0: Changing polarity for pin 9 to low found - vendor=0x1013, dev=0x00b8, revid=0x00 domain=0, bus=0, slot=2, func=0 class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0103, statreg=0x, cachelnsz=0 (dwords) lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0ns) [hang] Has anyone come across this before and know of any workarounds? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Manually partitioning using gpart
On 25/11/2012 12:29, Polytropon wrote: Won't be wrong; my understanding of the rule was 2 * size of _possible_ RAM in the machine. But disk space is cheap, so 8 G should be fine. But again, the requirement for the swap partition depends on what you're doing with the machine and what you're expecting (e. g. will you want to save kernel dumps to the swap partition?). You probably want to stop following that rule some time before you get to 8 TB RAM (http://semiaccurate.com/2010/09/29/inphi-imbs-can-stuff-8tb-ram-system/) :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: VPS FreeBSD Hosting
On 25/11/2012 21:08, Jim Flowers wrote: Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? What part of the world are you in? In the US there's RootBSD; in Europe there are a few, including Goscomb. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
On 18/11/2012 05:21, Robert Simmons wrote: Yup: https://github.com/freebsd/ There's also git.freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm probably missing something here. ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing about checking for non-signed code. I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc. And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g. USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI specification iteself, but what different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot . -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:40, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: So this means I might not be able to boot freebsd at all on future ia64 boxes.. Ignore the FUD - there will be an option to disable it in the firmware/BIOS settings. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is there anything like strace for 64-bit Systems?
On 08/09/2012 18:14, Martin McCormick wrote: Is there anything like strace for AMD64 FreeBSD? See truss(1) - trace system calls. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: doc
On 17/08/2012 10:17, иван кузнецов wrote: how to open RU_FREEBSD_DOC_20111014.TBZ under windows? several program cant,i was attempt.7zip cant. why i not able read documentation BEFORE install? where it after install? second,you installer is not well, not very undersandingable for newbis.i mean user must hit tab in some dialogs,but he press enter - attempt please.it is not MISTAKE but look mysteriously,and user worry.you shoud do only one small step in order to do freebsd more frendly - publish full international docs on install dvd -- user only put dvd and see docs in browser.its simpler than rewriting os in order to div it more frendly.is it true flash work badly or after complex work? i cant write on my writemaster dvd drive with freebsd9 - brasero dont see drive.what you can say about it? with best regards,ivan,Russia,Moscow. You should be able to open it using 7-zip, but you'll need 2 steps - the first time you run extract you'll get a tar file. Then run extract on *that* file to get the documentation. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: fsck recoveries, configuration
On 18/08/2012 07:09, Polytropon wrote: A can only guess: It probably means that the button is fixed (mounted) in the machine, e. g. at the front panel. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface : ACPI-compliant systems interact with hardware through either a Function Fixed Hardware (FFH) Interface, or a platform-independent hardware programming model which relies on platform-specific ACPI Machine Language (AML) provided by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Function Fixed Hardware interfaces are platform-specific features, provided by platform manufacturers for the purposes of performance and failure recovery. Standard Intel-based PCs have a fixed function interface defined by Intel,[10] which provides a set of core functionality that reduces an ACPI-compliant system's need for full driver stacks for providing basic functionality during boot time or in the case of major system failure. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: compare zfs xfs and jfs o
On 09/08/2012 16:09, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: Beside in production one should run with ECC memory to eliminate the possibility of incorrect data from memory ECC doesn't detect all memory errors. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
On 22/07/2012 17:14, Polytropon wrote: Furthermore, in your example using Cygnwin's dd _on_ the disk Cygnwin is currently running from, and the Windows it runs on too, doesn't seem like a very good idea. I assume it will result in a bluescreen soon and a _partially_ erased disk. Sorry, I forgot the say that in this example Windows is booted from \\.\PhysicalDrive1 :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
On 19/07/2012 09:15, Wojciech Puchar wrote: no. for modern hard drives it was already proved that dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m is enough to make data unreadable. for very old drives it may not How about data stored in remapped sectors, or any flash cache? The Secure Erase command (https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase) may clear all that data too, but without any guarantees it's better to destroy the disk than risk leaving classified data on it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use windoze scandisk. I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll want to use chkdsk ( e.g. 'chkdsk /F C:' ). -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
On 15/07/2012 19:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: both do the same 'scandisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 08/07/2012 13:10, Warren Block wrote: bsdinstall(8) has a curses partition editor. There is probably a trick needed to use that outside of an install context. Just run bsdinstall partedit. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 09/07/2012 11:16, Polytropon wrote: If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call it a slice (slice == DOS primary partition). In this case, there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS file system here. You know that MS-DOS does not have support for partitioning. Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated' mode, containing nothing except the filesystem. The way you'd mount it would be: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/point You can do the same with a normal USB or other disk using: newfs /dev/da0 mount /dev/da0 /mnt/point The reason it's called 'dangerously dedicated' I think is that other systems - or even the same system months/years later if you forget and run the wrong tools - won't know there's a filesystem there and it's easy to think the disk's empty. If you're on an old system and run 'gpart show da0' and don't see a partition table it's quite easy to forget to check if da0 itself contains a filesystem. When using GPT what were called slices are now partitions, and instead of 'ada0s1a' (disk 0, slice 1, partition a) you just have 'ada0p1'. A partition table supports up to 4096 entries (gpart creates one supporting 128 by default) so there's no need for the freebsd container any more - you just create freebsd-boot, freebsd-ufs, freebsd-zfs, freebsd-swap entries e.g. 'gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 64g da0'. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 09/07/2012 13:17, Wojciech Puchar wrote: they use dangerously obsolete mode. nobody use them at all. A company I worked with were still distributing files on floppy disks as recently as 2009. They _are_ obsolete, but I suspect plenty of people still use them. unless it is a normal way of using it. That's right - I was thinking of my system where I destroyed all the data on a HDD because it didn't have a partition table. When I ran the FreeBSD installer and saw the disk was 'empty' I forgot it had a filesystem and reformatted it. Obviously people using floppy or USB disks would be more ready for there to be data on the disk without a partition table. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 09/07/2012 13:29, Wojciech Puchar wrote: only your fault, not FreeBSD. Why you connected your data disk at first place. I didn't say it was FreeBSD's fault. If I thought it was, I would have fixed it! -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: YASSDQ
On 09/07/2012 11:31, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with windoze. Apparently the Intel 320 SSDs use an 8KB page/block size. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Using smartctl to detect scan errors (like google tells me to do ...)
On 09/07/2012 16:12, Jason Usher wrote: What is a scan error, and which metric should I tell smartctl to check ? I think they mean a SMART scan, as in a self-test - http://www.twopenguins.it/2011/12/test-an-hard-disk-with-smartctl/ has details of how to run it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote: With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using the desired CLI tools. You don't go Now I have to remember which command to format the disk, you just format the disk, which means spaking to newfs. The more often you do it, the more obvious the tools are, and they won't change in look and feel (or options). That makes them superior. How do you format a FAT32 partition? newfs won't work. Is it newfs_vfat, newfs_fat32, newfs_msdos etc.? And how do you specify you want FAT32 instead of FAT12 or FAT16? With a good GUI tool like diskmgmt.msc in Windows 2008 you simply right-click the partition and click New Volume to create a new partition, or Format to format it - and then follow the prompts. Of course using diskpart is faster if you know the commands and parameters, but for an ordinary user adding a new disk maybe once a year it's most likely more efficient to just use the GUI. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
On 08/07/2012 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can you give me an example of pendrive that supports TRIM? LaCie FastKey (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-flash-drive,review-32174-5.html). -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: GUI for gpart
On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: GUI for gpart
On 07/07/2012 23:08, Bruce Cran wrote: On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. Sorry you're right - I've seen lots of people thinking gpart only supports GPT and didn't read it properly before replying. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 10/06/2012 16:09, Nomen Nescio wrote: The point is the WinTel Mafia's many years of collusion and screwing over the customer. Try to buy a commodity PC in any major store and it will come with Windows, and you have to pay for it. Does Intel control AMD too? Last I checked there are plenty of AMD machines in major stores and they come with Windows too. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)
On 07/06/2012 23:56, Robert Bonomi wrote: Please provide the output from these two commands: ifconfig -a netstat -nr on both the router and on an 'inside' machine. (identifying which is which:) There is also a question of 'where' the /48 comes from -- and how traffic to those addresses is being routed from the outside world. The /48 came from my ISP, so it should be getting routed correctly. ifconfig -a (with ral0/lo0 removed): em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4219bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO ether [em0_MAC] inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::[em0_MAC]%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet6 [prefix]:a::b prefixlen 64 nd6 options=21PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active em1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4219bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO ether [em1_MAC] inet6 fe80::[em1_MAC]%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1492 options=8LINKSTATE inet6 fe80::[em0_MAC]%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xf inet [MYADDR] -- [HISADDR] netmask 0xff00 inet6 [prefix]:c::b prefixlen 64 nd6 options=21PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL Opened by PID 1092 Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default[HISADDR] UGS 0 2476 tun0 [MYADDR] link#15UHS 00lo0 [HISADDR] link#15UH 00 tun0 127.0.0.1 link#14UH 00lo0 192.168.2.0/24 link#1 U 0 3985em0 192.168.2.1link#1 UHS 00lo0 Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::/96 ::1 UGRSlo0 = default fe80::[em0_MAC]%tun0 UGS tun0 ::1 link#14 UH lo0 :::0.0.0.0/96 ::1 UGRSlo0 [prefix]:c::/64 link#15 U tun0 [prefix]:c::1 link#15 UHS lo0 [prefix]:a::/64 link#1 U em0 [prefix]:a::1 link#1 UHS lo0 fe80::/10 ::1 UGRSlo0 fe80::%em0/64 link#1 U em0 fe80::[em0_MAC]%em0 link#1UHS lo0 fe80::%em1/64 link#2 U em1 fe80::[em1_MAC]%em1 link#2UHS lo0 fe80::%lo0/64 link#14 U lo0 fe80::1%lo0 link#14 UHS lo0 fe80::%tun0/64link#15 US tun0 fe80::[em0_MAC]%tun0 link#15 UHS lo0 ff01::%em0/32 fe80::[em0_MAC]%em0 U em0 ff01::%em1/32 fe80::[em1_MAC]%em1 U em1 ff01::%lo0/32 ::1 U lo0 ff01::%tun0/32fe80::[em0_MAC]%tun0 US tun0 ff02::/16 ::1 UGRSlo0 ff02::%em0/32 fe80::[em0_MAC]%em0 U em0 ff02::%em1/32 fe80::[em1_MAC]%em1 U em1 ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 U lo0 ff02::%tun0/32fe80::[em0_MAC]%tun0 UGS tun0 rtadvd.conf contains: em0:\ :addrs#1:addr=[prefix]:a:::prefixlen#64;tc=ether:raflags=o: rc.conf contains: ifconfig_em0= inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_em0_ipv6= inet6 [prefix]:a::b ifconfig_em1=up pf_enable=YES gateway_enable=YES ppp_enable=YES ppp_nat=NO ppp_goscomb_mode=ddial ppp_goscomb_nat=NO ppp_profile=isp ipv6_gateway_enable=YES ipv6_network_interfaces=em0 em1 tun0 dhcpd_enable=YES dhcpd6_enable=NO dhcpd_flags=-q dhcpd6_flags=-q dhcpd_conf=/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf dhcpd6_conf=/usr/local/etc/dhcpd6.conf dhcpd_ifaces=em0 dhcpd6_ifaces=em0 dhcpd_withumask=022 dhcpd6_withumask=022 dhcpd_chuser_enable=YES dhcpd6_chuser_enable=YES dhcpd_withuser=dhcpd dhcpd6_withuser=dhcpd dhcpd_withgroup=dhcpd dhcpd6_withgroup=dhcpd dhcpd_chroot_enable=YES dhcpd6_chroot_enable=YES dhcpd_devfs_enable=YES dhcpd6_devfs_enable=YES dhcpd_rootdir=/var/db/dhcpd dhcpd6_rootdir=/var/db/dhcpd6 rtadvd_enable=NO rtadvd_interfaces=em0 I've tried configuring a machine with a static configuration, bypassing any issues with rtadvd/dhcpd6 so I'm fairly sure the problem is on the router. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd
Re: Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)
On 08/06/2012 06:59, Matthew Seaman wrote: Probably. The good news is that once you've got it running the IPv6 support in FreeBSD is rock solid and works like a charm. It turns out that PF was being too helpful and trying to NAT for both IPv4 and IPv6 - adding 'inet' to the nat on $ext_if... line fixed it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
Configuration problem with IPv6 router (cannot forward src)
I'm trying to set up a IPv6 router (running -current) on my home network. My ISP gives me a /128 via PPP and I have a /48 allocation, which I use to give em0 and tun0 public addresses in different subnets (tun0 is assigned the address via ppp.linkup). I've added all the IPv6 settings to rc.conf (ipv6_gateway_enable, ipv6_network_interfaces, rtadvd_enable etc.) and I can ping IPv6 sites from the router. The problem is that rtadvd continues advertising the default gateway as tun0's link-local address - and pinging from a machine on the network results in cannot forward src messages on the router (strangely, despite hisaddr being fe80::205:... in ppp.log, the kernel logs the address as fe80:f::205:...). Is there some extra configuration I've likely missed that's needed when using IPv6 via PPP? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 06/06/2012 08:32, Matthew Seaman wrote: On deeper thought though, the whole idea appears completely unworkable. It means that you will not be able to compile your own kernel or drivers unless you have access to a signing key. As building your own is pretty fundamental to the FreeBSD project, the logical consequence is that FreeBSD source should come with a signing key for anyone to use. It just means that anyone wishing to run their own kernels would either need to disable secure boot, or purchase/create their own certificate and install it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: They should have taken this into account a long time ago. In any case, we are talking $99 dollars total, not per user here for the certificate. If that is going to cause a problem, I'll donate the $99. It's not the $99 that'll be the problem, but the fact that it's Verisign (actually Symantec, since they bought Verisign) that you deal with. Whereas Globalsign accept applications from individuals, Verisign require company documents before they'll generate a certificate. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 06/06/2012 11:38, Bruce Cran wrote: It's not the $99 that'll be the problem, but the fact that it's Verisign (actually Symantec, since they bought Verisign) that you deal with. Whereas Globalsign accept applications from individuals, Verisign require company documents before they'll generate a certificate. I've just checked, and I'm wrong - they seem to have changed things and now allow signups from individuals. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 06/06/2012 20:27, Robert Bonomi wrote: Suppose I put up a web app that takes an executable as input, signs it with my key, and returns the signed filt to the submitter. I don't divulge the key to anyone, just use it on 'anything'. Anybody attempting to revoke on _that_ basis is asking for a lawsuit. To me it would be perfectly reasonable to revoke the key as soon as you signed the first piece of malware. And then anyone who has used the service is left with broken binaries, so the model fails. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 05/06/2012 19:27, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that should be unnecessary. It would only be a matter of time before someone breaks the M$ layer of poop that is supposed to prevent folks from booting other OSes other than Window$. They hit the panic button too soon IMHO. Press Delete/F1 during boot, select Advanced - Trusted Computing. Change TCG/TPM Support to No. But according to Cory Doctorow, that's far too finicky and highly technical (http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html)! By the way it's not Microsoft's stuff people would have to break, but UEFI. I think secure boot actually makes sense, but preventing users disabling it or installing their own keys on ARM platforms is totally wrong. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?
On 05/06/2012 20:12, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says Desgined for Windows8. In other words those devices can not boot another os except Windows 8 due to secure boot option enabled by default. Not quite. As I understand it, on ARM secure boot will be enabled by default and users won't have any option of disabling it or adding their own keys. On x86 secure boot will be enabled by default too, but with the option of disabling it or adding custom keys. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR
I'm planning to install FreeBSD alongside a whole range of Windows builds for testing. In 8.x it's possible to tell the installer not to bother updating the MBR so you can use something like EasyBCD to boot it via the Windows bootloader instead. Is it still possible on 9.0-RC2 using bsdinstall? I don't seem to remember seeing any option to avoid writing out the new boot code. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf
On 06/11/2011 04:10, Zantgo wrote: Without wanting to erase all contents of / etc / rc.conf, by running echo slim_enable = YES / etc / rc.conf. Please help!. You could have used the following: echo slim_enable = YES /etc/rc.conf The appends the line instead of replacing the existing contents. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Breakin attempt
On 22/10/2011 14:43, Admin ValhallaProjectet wrote: Apparently, I'm under some kind of attack, for the last 3 days. Lots of attempts to ssh in as root from many different IP addresses. No bruteforce attempts. Appreciate all ideas of how to proceed with this mather. Keep calm and carry on? I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Breakin attempt
On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. Is there _any_ reason why moving from port 22 to something different is _not_ a solution? If you run some sort of shell server, or where many people need to login using ssh, you'll have a bit of a support problem telling people to select the non-default port. Also, some might consider it security through obscurity, which is often said to be a bad thing. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?
On 29/08/2011 18:24, Brett Glass wrote: With hyperthreading, the FreeBSD scheduler simply acts as if there are 4 CPUs. Each CPU gets clock interrupts (which add overhead), and the scheduler is naive about the fact that two of the CPUs are not separate chips and could be held up if its mate has a heavy load. I do not know if the supposed higher utilization of the resources on each chip (including executing one thread while the CPU waits for data for another) is worth it. What has your experience been? Actually, the ULE scheduler does know about HyperThreading and the topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
postgresql-libpqxx
Hi, I have installed postgresql-libpqxx and included it in a test program and get the following error: main.cpp:1:21: error: pqxx/pqxx: No such file or directory. Thanks for any help you can offer. Bruce Meier ___ 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: Alternative windowmanagers
On 05/08/2011 20:12, Christian Barthel wrote: Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? When I'm not running KDE I like using Window Maker. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
On 23/07/2011 22:58, Chad Perrin wrote: Do you realize that MS Windows has nothing equivalent to rc.conf or /etc/network/interfaces? It does: it's in the registry. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces contains a list of interfaces and their settings. %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc contains several BSD configuration files for DNS settings, protocols etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
On 21/07/2011 15:15, Chad Perrin wrote: It may not be anything so exotic. On a per-release basis, the MS Windows ABIs and APIs change far more dramatically than the Linux kernel, and are far less transparent to developers; they must in many cases be discovered by experimentation, being closed source software. Over a given period of time, the changes to Linux may be greater in number and magnitude (I'm not a kernel hacker, so I wouldn't know for sure), but they're spread out over time rather than bundled in a major collection of changes with a new marketing campaign. This might make it much more difficult to target the MS Windows ABIs and APIs. I'm just speculating, though. As I said, I'm not a kernel hacker. On Windows, the APIs don't change that much (there are new functions for NUMA support in Windows 7 for example), but certain ABIs change with each service pack. However, since a lot of drivers built for Windows XP can still install on Windows 7, an effort appears to be made to maintain a stable public ABI - Microsoft recommends using the build environment for the earliest version of Windows that you want to target. On Linux, the API/ABI issue is far worse, since you have a different ABI between different builds of the same kernel. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?
On 21/07/2011 18:00, Chad Perrin wrote: I suspect those drivers are the drivers that have *survived*. I saw hardware suddenly stop working because of driver issues just between SP1 and SP2 of XP -- including, in one case, the hard drive that had the OS on it. The system would start booting, then unload the driver because it was not compatible, thus losing contact with the very hard drive from which it was loading the OS. Maybe I was just lucky, though. Obviously Microsoft does introduce new driver technologies with new OS releases: there was a new video architecture in Vista, for example. However, they do seem rather good at supporting older technologies such as TDI, and I suspect those drivers that fail aren't very well written. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: build ports from not a root user?
On 21/07/2011 19:31, Daniel Staal wrote: On Thu, July 21, 2011 2:26 pm, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Oh Daniel want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 14:01:04 -0400 Daniel Staaldst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS Ok, then I've already answered your question several emails ago. The DS ports system will do this automatically with a simple 'make', 'make DS install', or 'make depends; make install'. And you said you knew about No it doesn't. 'all' target includes 'depends' target. 'depends' target includes performing 'make install' on the dependencies which I'd like to avoid. This can be avoided if a some tool like the portupgrade has did them already. It can do it that same way, too: build as a non-root user and then install as a root user. That way the 'make depends' can be done as a non-root user as it's a no-op additional check. So you want to install software without installing it's dependencies first? Or build software without installing it's build dependencies first? The easiest way to build ports under a non-privileged user is probably to use portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster): it has a PM_SU_CMD which is normally set to /usr/local/bin/sudo which it uses whenever it needs to elevate to root. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
On 07/18/2011 01:32 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On July 18, 2011 2:44:15 PM -0500 Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: snip I've always been curious why Linux seemed to take off so fast when other FOSS / non Winblow$ OS's were available for some time with not much traction; OS/2, BeOS, *nix with X11, etc. Not just on the desktop, but servers as well. Supported versions of Linux such as RHEL, Suse, etc. seem to have made more headway into the enterprise computing environment in the last ten years than *BSD did in the last 30. From my personal experience - which is relatively limited - it seems applications just work on Linux? When I need to compile an app, it takes a few mins on Linux - but may take me a few weeks on FBSD. Granted someone more knowledgeable with FBSD, Compilers, etc. could do it much faster than I. Anyway, if someone has a brief explanation of why Linux has apparently triumphed (in so far as installed base, desktop penetration, etc.) where so many others have failed (including IBM with OS/2) I'd be interested in hearing those thoughts. I'll hazard a guess. Linux was new and shiny and all the rage when computer science really took off in the higher ed field. So geeks wanted to use it, but to do so at that time you had to be a bit of a coder. So the number of people hacking on it and submitting changes ballooned. Basically, anyone who wanted to submit a change could, but Linux kept the base kernel code management to prevent major mistakes. Then all their friends wanted it too, but they couldn't code. So the push for ease of use began. That was the genesis of projects such as kde and gnome and the drive behind getting things like flash and cutting edge drivers working in Linux. Meanwhile, the *BSDs were those old stogdy OSes that nobody was using any more, so there was no great incentive for geeks to check it out and use it. Remember the old saw, Unix is user friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are.? So Linux was becoming more user friendly and gaining all sorts of GUI crud that made it easier for non-geeks to be admins while the BSDs were still rolling down the tried and true path of development that required that you actually understand the innards if you really wanted to be an admin. Linux hasn't triumphed, BTW, it's merely in ascendancy right now. It could well go by the wayside if a major problem erupts and doesn't get resolved quickly. In short, some people chase the newest shiniest thing. Others prefer to stick with what works. Often, the newest shiniest folks, after they've gained some wisdom, move to the other camp. So you could well see a resurgence of BSD as Linux admins who've grown tired of its quirks but have gained some unix skills start moving back toward the BSD side. This isn't a guess. Back in the olden days of 1991, in the days was 386BSD was a glimmer of articles in Dr Dobbs I and a lot of other *IX enthusiasts dutifully compiled what was given us. Among us there was a young Finnish student who want to contribute... And wasn't allowed. SO he went on to create this new thing that accepted contributions from anyone just so the code hung together. He called it Linux as a sort of pun on the then prevelent training system called MINIX. Because it accept contributions from anyone who could code or test, it gained enormous popularity. It wasn't exclusive. *BSD to this day still suffers from it's exclusive attitude to this very day. You can find the attitude in it's developers as evidenced by fairly recent posting from lead developers says (or words to this effect) BSD is for developers and we don't care what the desktop users want. This isn't intended as a flame, just a historical recounting. If you want to know what's wrong (and in my opinion Lennert is every bit as wrong in the same exact way) look inward. ___ 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: ghghg
On 15/07/2011 00:13, Gary Kline wrote: Apologies to everyone. i've ben trying to get mail going between here to -questions fr 11 days and NOTHING seemd to ork i really didnt think this ould work. speciallly after ail to -test bouncedd: not available The last email in the freebsd-test archives is from May 2010, so I think it's broken - which is rather unfortunate. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: {SPAM} New games for you
On 19/06/2011 12:38, Jerry wrote: Interestingly enough, WOThttp://www.mywot.com/ rates that site very poor and displays a warning when it is visited. I suspect some people like reporting sites as bad. Mine was reported as not safe: has the trojan virus and I had to ask Norton to re-check it before it marked it as OK. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: finding kernel 'r' number
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:16:45 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: For some time now, people have been referring to what build they're using by the 'r' number, which I believe to be part of svn. How would one go about determining this value for the installed kernel? I'm not sure you can: the revision only shows up if you have svn installed (devel/subversion-freebsd) and have built the kernel from code checked out from the svn server. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
On Tue, 03 May 2011 20:48:55 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: Basically, as far as I can tell, 9 and/or 8.3 will come out when they come out. No sooner and no later. I think the plan for 9.0 is some time this summer. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:08:21 +0200 Denis Fortin for...@acm.org wrote: So, is there a way to mark the inode bad and then launch an fsck ? How can I turn offset=-574217714356717568 into a usable piece of information? It looks like something is causing geom to try and read way past the end of the disk? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: gpart questions
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:10:48 -0500 CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: # gpart add -b 63 -s 1048500 -t freebsd md0 You could simplify it by using: gpart add -b 63 -t freebsd md0 # gpart add -b 16 -s 1048484 -t freebsd-ufs md0s1 Likewise: gpart add -b 16 -t freebsd-ufs md0s1 Or, if you want to specify a size, you can use -s 512m -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Password theft from memory?
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:29:08 +0100 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The reason I thought that heap memory isn't zeroed is from the discussion of pre-zeroed pages in this article: There's an idlezero task that runs by default (via the vm.idlezero_enable sysctl), zeroing unused pages, but malloc itself doesn't zero memory on demand by default. If you enable the 'Z' malloc.conf(3) option it does, though: ZEach byte of new memory allocated by malloc(), realloc() or reallocf() will be initialized to 0. Note that this initializa- tion only happens once for each byte, so realloc() and reallocf() calls do not zero memory that was previously allocated. This is intended for debugging and will impact performance negatively. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:52:44 -0700 Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Looks like `--hline' is not supported anymore. Thinking this should either be patched or documented in ERRATA/UPGRADING. I think you mean UPDATING :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:41:46 + Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64 A new version of dialog was imported a few days ago - maybe something broke? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: pkg_add problem
Your firewall may be the problem. ___ 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: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:15:11 +0200 Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote: You seem to miss one crucial fact: Not all the people who write to this list are subscribed to it. They will not see any replies directed only to the list. It is for their benefit that that rule exists. I don't know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the mailing list each day. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: 8-CURRENT: where is my memory?
On Thursday 07 Apr 2011 11:58:50 Matthias Apitz wrote: VMware memory control driver initialized Could this have removed a block of memory for its own use outside of the normal VM subsystem? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: GEOM warning in dmesg
On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 17:58:21 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a solution more clearly please? There's no problem. Maybe MS-DOS or Windows 95 would have problems with such a layout, but modern operating systems don't. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: am i back up....???
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:04:39 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Recently I've sent tests to a couple of our subscribers that I know personally since the tests never came back. Thanks for the heads up as to why. Any chance of getting it fixed? I told the admin about it last year and it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: allBSD Japan servers ?
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:53:59 +0200 Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net wrote: works just fine here (im in south africa) so maybe a routing issue ??? It seems to have been fixed in the time between the original message and your reply :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: allBSD Japan servers ?
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 03:41:52 +0900 Kouichiro Iwao m...@club.kyutech.ac.jp wrote: It have been recovered from hardware failure on Mar 28th. There's something strange going on with IPv6 connectivity to the server (not new - it's been happening for over a year) - over IPv4 it's quite fast but IPv6 is really slow - I only get around 12 kB/s from the UK. From looking at things at my end it looks like a problem with a machine somewhere between the USA and Japan, but I don't know if the path's symmetric. It's been suggested that it might be a TCP windowing problem on one of the links though. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: console based sound control
On 03/04/2011 14:59, Alokat wrote: I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer) but for oss. Does someone know one? Have you tried mixer(8)? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixerapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASEformat=html -- Bruce Cran
Re: am i back up....???
On 02/04/2011 21:54, David Chanters wrote: You could have just sent yourself an email. But yes, here you are. I was going to suggest Gary should have used the freebsd-test mailing list but then I realised it's been broken since May last year. -- Bruce Cran
Re: searching for a good IDE
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:41:28 +0200 Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++, python, rails, php Can someone advise one? And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-) KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) 4 is quite good. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: allBSD Japan servers ?
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:59:19 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Anybody know what happened to the http; or ftp servers for allbsd.org japan? Did the Tsumnami put them down? The machine's there but is refusing connections: ping6 pub.allbsd.org PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1 -- 2001:2f0:104:e001::34 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=269.213 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=268.705 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=2 -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: spam?
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 06:49 -0500, ajtiM wrote: In the last week I got four emails like this one today: From: a href=mailto:br...@cran.org.uk;br...@cran.org.uk/abr/ To: a href=mailto:per...@pluto.rain.com;per...@pluto.rain.com/abr/ CC: a href=mailto:free...@edvax.de;free...@edvax.de/a, a href=mailto:lum...@gmail.com;lum...@gmail.com/a, a href=mailto:freebsd- questi...@freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org That's not from me - it's from a company called ParkLogic who are forging emails. See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2010-12/msg00591.html for more details. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:29:44 -0500 Brian Waters brianmwat...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following sound-related device files: dspX dspX.Y (among others) I'm having some trouble getting my sound to work (Dell Inspiron E1705/Inspiron 9400 with Sigmatel STAC9220 codec). I've read the manpages for snd and snd_hda (which is the appropriate driver), and increased the verbosity of the drivers and read the kernel log and /dev/sndstat, but I still can't quite wrap my head around everything. If the driver appears to load, then /dev/dsp should be created automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random /dev/dsp). -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Is it safe to run tcpdump?
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:47:19 -0700 Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean by 'safe'? As in secure? http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 23:10 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Why FreeBSD is so slower than Linux to boot the kernel? 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 network card, USB support etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: portmaster -afv -no-confirm --clean-distfiles-all command - too much automation???
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:57:14 -0800 Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think that's a little too much automation, or do you think that would be pretty safe to run without screwing things up? I think portmaster's documentation explicitly advises against using -af to rebuild all ports. See the man page for details. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:21 +0100, David Demelier wrote: But I can still hear the noise every 10 seconds, I think atacontrol does not totally close the APM feature of the device. atacontrol's spindown setting doesn't change anything in the disk itself: it just controls a timer in the ad(4) driver which sends a spindown command when it expires. You'll need to keep using ataidle to fix the APM value. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: I'm wondering why you would prefere atacontrol? I think everyone's been looking for an official solution. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: using gpart(8) to slice a disk
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:52:44 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I've read the man page of gpart(8) but do not see clearly what I did wrong with the above sequence and esp. what would have set the missing boot flag? gpart set -a active -i 1 ad4 -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: android
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:45:47 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with # fdisk da4 gpart show da4 is the modern way of doing this. Even if the disk was originally sliced and partitioned using fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8)? I think so - it's just a partition table and bsdlabel. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: delay in boot: ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:01:58 + Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: simply add options ATA_CAM to your kernel conf and your good to go after building installing the new kernel. To get the benefits of AHCI I think it's better to use the ahci(4) driver instead of the CAM-ATA wrapper. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: android
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can check the partitioning of the da4 device with # fdisk da4 gpart show da4 is the modern way of doing this. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD and SSD drives
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:38:01 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: Despite all of the rubbish the FOSS community has spewed for over 10 years, OpenOffice is nothing more than a poor clone of Office 97. The newly released libreoffice might be usable someday; however, it is now only in its infancy. There is no way it can be compared to a full blown MS Office 10 suite. For some, Office is unusable due to the new Ribbon interface and libreoffice is the usable office suite due to its familiar menus. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD and SSD drives
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:58:05 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: New, as in four years old? That is one of the worst straw man arguments I have heard in a while. In any case, In 2008 OpenOffice.org started the project Renaissance to improve the user interface of OpenOffice. So far the prototypes of the project are frequently seen as similar to the ribbon interface. Obviously, the use and customization of any software is a personal experience. However, if the use of the ribbon is beyond your abilities, and I am assuming that you are aware that the ribbon can be hidden, modified and that there are many add-ons available that can be used to manage it, then so be it. I would rather work with an application with a minor annoyance, and I do not find the ribbon to be one, then to use a less robust application. Again, it is up to the end user to ascertain their requirements and find the tool that is best fitted to that job. In any case, I am quite confident that your condemnation of the ribbon is totally based on your reading of Slashdot and other similar documents and not from any personal experience. Obviously I'm not talking about myself having problems with it since I've used all sorts of different UIs over the years and can learn new interfaces quickly. You seem to be forgetting that most people don't upgrade very frequently: I wouldn't be surprised if lots were still running Office 2000. I worked in an RD environment and even there people were steadfastly ignoring Vista and even 64-bit Windows even 3 years after it was released - I had to keep running 32-bit XP. The problem is that less technically-literate people have problems with _certain_ operations which were simple in the past - printing for example now takes several clicks during which the screen changes each time. For people who get confused when icons move on the screen the context-sensitive nature of it can be rather difficult to learn. With large screens and people who don't have the baggage of expecting things to work a certain way I do think Ribbon is better: for example I recently started using Access 2010 and found it rather easy to find how to do things like exporting to SQL Server 2008, which would previously have been buried. Also, the way traditional sub-menus work in Windows is really awful for people who don't have accurate mouse skills - move the mouse outside the menu and it disappears. The Ribbon solves this problem. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD and SSD drives
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:42:54 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: There's no use pretending MS Windows never has issues with the efficacy of its autoconfiguration. Most of us have used that OS quite a lot, and know that problems arise -- and that, unlike with open source OSes, it's actually fairly common to have no recourse at all when something does not work. A good example is the need to edit the registry to improve network performance - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321098 . Another is that in order to disable auto-run you need to know to type gpedit.msc in the Run window to load the Group Policy Editor and navigate to the settings. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0100 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... It wasn't supposed to be attached - try http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Bad hard driver [SOLVED]
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:59:37 +0200 Daniel Zhelev dan...@zhelev.biz wrote: The last worrying thing is the 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 189 000Old_age Offline - 3 Which according to the Internet is some mysterious value that none knows what it stands for, so is 3 of that mystery good? Look at the first 3 results from http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Multi+Zone+Error+Rate -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:51:46 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I haven't heard anything about somebody picking up the idea on integrating Debian Linux and FreeBSD, so unless Zeus stabbed hisself in the back while about to hurl a lightening bolt, don't worry. http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Tracing packets - asterisk issues
On 01/24/2011 11:13 PM, Da Rock wrote: I have been trying to get some pointers on my asterisk issues and I've only been hearing crickets chirping (Asterisk list and here). I need a pointer or two so I can fix this issue, so I'll try another angle. How do I trace IP packets across the network (pf firewall included)? And would it be possible to read it visually (human readable)? Cheers Use tcpdump to do a capture file. something like this: tcpdump -i eth0 -n -s 1500 -w sip.cap then feed sip.cap to wireshark filter for SIP and observe the SIP conversation It's also possible to decode the RTP stream ___ 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: putting /tmp to memory
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: tmpfs is nominally experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more memory efficient than md devices. But it doesn't work well with ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: putting /tmp to memory
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:09:05 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: I had not heard about that. What problems does its use exhibit when used in conjunction with ZFS? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/060867.html -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: putting /tmp to memory
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:42:55 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: FreeBSD, at least from what I can ascertain, really does not have good support for ZFS anyway. I question whether releasing a product of dubious functionality is an intelligent thing to do. The old axiom of only getting one chance to make a good first impression would seem to be apropos to the situation. From what I can ascertain and having actually used it, ZFS has great support on FreeBSD. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: documentation OF FreeBSD
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:04:58 +0200 Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: All of the above is accomplished using a Mail User Agent (MUA) application,... there are litterally thousands to choose from so it is HIGHLY unlikely that any open source OS will include this in the manual... You mean something like http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail-agents.html ? :) -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: harddrive encryption
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:30:39 +0100 Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation manually? The FreeBSD installer (sysinstall) doesn't support anything other than plain UFS but PCBSD's (pc-sysinstall) supports encryption, ZFS etc. - and it can do a plain FreeBSD installation as well as PCBSD. You can get it from http://www.pcbsd.org . -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Master: ad4 WDC WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0/11.01A11 SATA revision 2.x As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable this, what could I do? Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the green ones. These have a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle and the -P switch. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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
