On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.orgwrote:
On 14/01/2013 22:44, n j wrote:
One thing to think about would be the option of port maintainers
uploading
the pre-compiled package of the updated port (or if the size of the
upload
is an issue then just the hash
Hi,
One of my primary concerns when managing a system is its security. In the
interest of security, I usually hold to that patch early, patch often.
Ports are kept well up-to-date and with portmaster it is not a problem to
keep updating the ports. However, as Ivan [1] pointed out on his blog on
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Andrei Brezan andrei...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/14/2013 1:07 PM, n j wrote:
Hi,
One of my primary concerns when managing a system is its security. In the
interest of security, I usually hold to that patch early, patch often.
Ports are kept well up-to-date
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 14/01/2013 13:10, Andrei Brezan wrote:
I thing that it's good to wait for ports to compile and to be able to
chose your configure options for the packages you install. It's good to
know what options you need and
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Matthew Seaman
m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
On 14/01/2013 14:36, n j wrote:
The point of my question was exactly if it was possible to elaborate on
the
pre-compiled packages from FreeBSD official repositories part. Would it
be possible to have
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/2012 1:52 AM, Anonymous wrote:
We, the users of FreeBSD, *do hereby challenge* the FreeBSD project
to meet its future release dates.
Similarly, I'm a bit concerned that 9.0 loses support at the end of January,
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
...
Well ... does auditd provide a record of every command issued within a
script?
I was under the impression (and I may well be wrong) that it noted only
the name of the script being executed.
Even if you configured
Hello Justin,
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Justin Dorfman jdorf...@netdna.com wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering how our company can provide a mirror for the FreeBSD
project?
Thanks.
Have a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/article.html.
HTH,
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Nino
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:32:48 +0100
Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote:
I've been playing with poudriere and pkg as per
...
Btw, is there any chance poudriere (or sth like it) will one day work
on UFS, not just
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote:
Of course, this is explicit to rather serious production environments.
Desktop and casual usage ... ports may serve you better if you like to stay
I can't really say I understand the exact problem the OP has, but if
it's anything similar to asymmetrical/source-based routing problems I
was having some time ago, pf and reply-to is probably the best way to
do it. However, I'd also like to point out setfib(1), as it seems
no-one has brought it
Java works very well for me under FreeBSD; I have not had a single
problem with Java on FreeBSD.
To install java, you can either install a pre-compiled JDK (called
diablo-jdk) or compile all the JDK sources from scratch using the
ports system. If you compile yourself from ports, you can
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:13 AM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Why not now? (Or anytime this past year or more?):
Hmm, good point :-).
I was misled by the ports page (e.g.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=openjdkstype=all) which
used to have a different entry if a port had a
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Dean E. Weimer dwei...@dweimer.net wrote:
I have been doing some work with cleaning up my log files to make them
easier to read, and for the life of me can't figure out how to get my
IPFilter logs to stop going into the /var/log/messages log. I have a syslog
I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date.
We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD
kernel is possible.
How about looking at /proc or /mnt?
On a couple of my boxes that I checked, those files came up being the
oldest and probably
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Usman wajdan...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.ajkservers.co.uk
They support FreeBSD :)
FreeBSD is indeed listed as supported OS, but for every hosting plan,
the virtualization is stated as OpenVZ. To my understanding, you
can't run FreeBSD on OpenVZ.
BTW, in the
Hello,
I'm looking for inexpensive but reliable FreeBSD VPS hosting. Any
input coming from a positive personal experience will be most
appreciated.
So far the most likely candidate seems to be
http://www.nqhost.com/unmetered-xen-vds.html. If anyone ever dealt
with them, please share.
TIA,
--
Thanks for the input, I'll look into the suggested options:
http://arpnetworks.com/vps
http://www.rootbsd.net/virtual-hosting/
http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_bsd.html
If you know of any other FreeBSD VPS providers, please share.
Thanks,
--
Nino
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Hi all,
I was debugging some problems with an application and noticed some
strange behavior that I can only attribute to possible problems in
TCP/IP stack which OTOH I consider unlikely. I'd appreciate any
pointers towards why are there extra packets?
- in case of successful connection:
... What is the best way to restore the full system?
Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode?
I experienced such a situation just 2 weeks ago. My primary problem
was that I had to do restore over the network (no attached tape
drives, no external HDDs). I wanted to use ssh to grab
I was just wondering if someone could give me a quick advice on how
(or at least confirm it's possible) to start sshd in fixit console
i.e. how to boot FreeBSD off the CD1 (6.4-RELEASE) and enable SSH
access to it.
What I have tried (unsuccessfully) so far is:
1) copying sshd startup script (and
I'd like to use this opportunity to generally support this and any
other ideas taking direction of making binary installs and upgrades
easier and more manageable. I recognize the need for people to
configure custom options and compile from ports (that is why any new
system *must* be compatible
Hey Greg,
perhaps you might want to know about this. Sorry for using the list
for unicast mail, but (as seen below) I obviously can't contact you
directly.
Regards,
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...
The mail system
i...@sourcehosting.net: host
Hi Greg,
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote:
I'm the maintainer of security/logcheck, and I apologize for not
catching up with my inbox sooner. I just saw your message, and the same
issue was reported by someone else a couple of weeks ago.
sorry if the
The Makefile says:
...
So I'll bet some money that it's docbook.
Correct.
Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf:
...
No, the result is exactly the same.
# finddep.php security/logcheck x11/xorg-libraries
/usr/ports/textproc/docbook-to-man: /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries
(sorry for the previous mail)
The Makefile says:
...
So I'll bet some money that it's docbook.
Correct.
Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf:
...
No, the result is exactly the same.
# finddep.php security/logcheck x11/xorg-libraries
/usr/ports/textproc/docbook-to-man:
Hello,
could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which
logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X
libraries?
The logcheck port lists the following build depends (output of
pretty-print-build-depends-list):
This port requires package(s)
Or you can try Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
(http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) to get the best(?) of both
worlds - FreeBSD kernel and GNU userland (aka use apt to install deb
packages).
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Nino
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Linus Torvalds on KDE4...
[quote]
Q: Another open source project that underwent a big change was KDE
with version 4.0. They released a lot of fundamental architectural
changes with 4.0 and it received some negative reviews. As a KDE user
how has this impacted you?
A: I used to be a KDE user. I
versions. The packages for a particular branch tend to lag the updates by up
to a couple of weeks although they are built continually. If you want to stay
really up to date you need to keep your tree updated with portsnap or csup
(part of the base system) and compile them yourself. Another
I'd like to have a clarification about the forward command in ipfw.
From what I read in the man, I understand that on hitting a fwd rule, the
lookup in the routing table will be done according to the IP address in the
fwd rule, and not according to the IP destination address of the packet.
Hello all,
I resolved my earlier problem (ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid
argument when trying ipfw add nat) by upgrading to 7.1-BETA which
includes ipfw_nat as a kernel module; however, it still doesn't seem
to work.
When I'm directly ping'ing another box, I can see packets arriving at
the
This is no longer true; he did indeed find firewall_nat_enable
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. The knob seems to have first appeared
in February in HEAD and I'm guessing it cues the system to use a
new kernel-based nat rather than natd(8), but I've not read anything
further about this, as my
however, there is a kernel module called ipdivert.ko
Is it still necessary to recompile the kernel in order to use nat with
ipfw? Or, to put it another way, is there a possibility to use nat and
keep the generic kernel?
You can choose to use the modules or make it static by recompile the
Hello everyone,
I have a quick question regarding the setup of nat with ipfw.
According to the handbook:
The following options must be in the kernel configuration file:
options IPFIREWALL
options IPDIVERT
however, there is a kernel module called ipdivert.ko similar to
ipfw.ko for the firewall.
I would like to know seek any advices from all people here about any free
tools for analyzing netflow data which can generate nice management report
(chart, graph) like SolarWinds/any commercial products, that can be run
either or Windows or FreeBSD (prefer).
Not sure if that's what you're
What are you using for apr? The one that comes with apache itself, or the
devel/apr port?
AFAICT, the one that comes with Apache itself.
It would seem that mod_authnz_ldap required mod_ldap to be compiled in
Apache to work. Having little or no experience at all with Apache +
LDAP combination
If this is a fixed dependency, then it's a bug in the port's Makefile. If it's
not set in stone (i.e.: mod_authnz_ldap could also work with
mod_fictional_3rdparty_ldap), then applying the logic you suggest, would kill
the option to use mod_fictional_3rdparty_ldap.
Set in stone would
Hello,
did anyone experience any problems trying to install mod_authnz_ldap
with Apache 2.2.8 on FreeBSD 6.3?
I ran into the following trouble:
mod_authnz_ldap.c:41:2: #error mod_authnz_ldap requires APR-util to
have LDAP support built in. To fix add --with-ldap to ./configure
which caused Stop
Yep, it's definitely a NMI (interleaved from several CPUs at once) which
most likely means hardware failure.
Hello Kris,
thanks for confirming my doubts!
Regards,
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Hello everyone,
I hope someone can help me. I have started to experience seemingly
random crashes causing FreeBSD to shutdown and power off the machine.
The only trace I can find as far as the reason for the crash is
concerned are the following excerpts from /var/log/messages:
Mar 23 11:52:36
I hope someone can help me. I have started to experience
seemingly random crashes causing FreeBSD to shutdown and
power off the machine. The only trace I can find as far as
the reason for the crash is concerned are the following
excerpts from /var/log/messages:
Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname
I suspect you're going to have to get crash dumps in order to get
any real answers:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
I already started digging through this part of handbook, though I'm
not sure I'll be able to read anything useful from the
Even if it doesn't help you, it will provide details that you can post
with your question so that people can help you more effectively.
True. In the meantime, I've started reading the temperature sensors
with freeipmi and graphing them with munin. On a side note, the
hardware in question is
Yes you did! Interesting enough thought, I would like to see how one
might config apt-get to be used w/FreeBSD and the packages (I assume?).
You might want to have a look at Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
(http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/).
Regards,
--
Nino
how do i start a program at boot time?
I found the following threads helpful:
script to be executed on system startup
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=116+0+archive/2008/freebsd-questions/20080210.freebsd-questions
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user
Who is working on FreeBSD update? Maybe I can make a feature request.
Or, even better, make a patch - FreeBSD is open source, everyone can work on it!
Sorry, couldn't resist :-). I know the above remark is generally not
very helpful for an average user; however, I was surprised to find out
Hello everyone,
just a short question regarding truss - I did some googling and found
a reference to a conversation with proposed (working?) patch to
eliminate dependency on procfs. That was in April 2007:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-April/070574.html
Does anybody
Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c
Just to point out that adduser is a shell script, as witnessed by:
# file /usr/sbin/adduser
/usr/sbin/adduser: Bourne shell script text executable
and the response to the original question - how does the system
generate new
Just to wrap this thread up, as I was out of town last couple of days:
According to shutdown(8) there should be a message in the log stating
when the system went down, who did it and why.
There should be... but there isn't :-). The only thing that went to
/var/log/messages is syslogd exiting
Hello,
my FreeBSD (6.2 release) box shut down at approximately 3 AM with no
apparent reason whatsoever. I'm looking for any hints/pointers that
would help me detect why the box decided to shutdown. Perhaps someone
with similar experience?
This is from 'last' command:
shutdown ~
Does it happened before, or does it happened everyday at 3 am, or is this the
first time your box shutdown without explaination?
No, this is the first time this has occurred, that is what makes it
completely unexpected.
If this is the first time, I would say there are many possibilities. Say
Hello Randy, Roland, Gary,
This is all ancedotal since I don't have any hard evidence to point
to exactly one thing since I also swapped out a fan and reinserted
connectors in the process. My feeling is that it was hard
drive heat-related so my suggestion is to do some poking around for hot
add 10510 allow icmp from any to any out via oif() keep-state
I don't think ICMP is stateful :)
You need both in and out rules for ICMP because the logical responses to
packets can't be reliably connected into a single communication.
Actually, I disagree. True, ICMP is not a stateful
Hello,
this question is somewhat related to my earlier question regarding
gstripe during install where the common conclusion was to gmirror the
root partition and gstripe the rest as you can't boot from a gstripe'd
volume (which I later confirmed in
John,
thank you very much for your detailed input.
If it were me, I would a small (for some definition of small considering
your disk space and software needs) partition on the first disk and install
everything to that. After the system is up, create an identical partition
on the second disk
Hello,
I have a machine which has 2 (identical) hard disks. I would like to
create RAID-0 GEOM stripe (gstripe(8)) to merge these 2 disks into 1
disk with larger capacity and install FreeBSD on it. There is this
article (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html)
which shows
awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv
Yup, those blank lines will kill it for sure. A sed filter to
remove blank lines ahead of the awk statement should allow it to
work properly.
Or awk only i.e. no sed:
awk '!(/^$/) { print $(NF-1) }' user.csv
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Nino
Hello,
while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
...
No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6.
However, uname -a reveals:
FreeBSD my.hostname.here
The cause for this confusion is the fact that patches 5 and 6 were for a
userland utility (file) and a library (libarchive), not for the kernel.
So for these patches, the kernel (which contains the release-level
string) isn't rebuilt and so it isn't updated.
1) change the update mechanism to
On 6/18/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a simple question. Does sftp, the one that comes with
FreeBSD 6.2's openssh, do tab completion? I've read that it could, but
Use lftp (/usr/ports/ftp/lftp).
Lftp supports sftp protocol and does tab completion.
Regards,
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Nino
I guess if everyone here on this list gives his/her two cents to this
topic we're having a nice java advocacy flame war. ;-)
The main characteristic of a flame war is to disparage other people's
arguments while maintaining that your arguments are the best, no?
That's why I'm not going to try
I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is
just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk
frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a
good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about
java as the
Hello,
does anybody know is it possible with Postfix to route e-mail based
on either the inet interface message came from or the sender of a
message? I'm using Postfix v.2.3.8 on a multihomed machine and have
two smtpd's defined in master.cf. What I would like is that mail
submitted through
Hello Oliver,
Would it help to pimp your transport map?
#In the case of delivery via SMTP, one may specify host-
#name:service instead of just a host:
#
# example.com smtp:bar.example:2025
You can replace bar.example with the IP address of the other
You would probably get better assistance if you asked this question on
the Postfix forum.
True. However, I did google through a lot of Postfix resources
(documentation, forums, mailing lists...) and didn't find what I was
looking for. I posted this question here hoping that someone already
ran
Hopefully that helps answer some of your questions. Overall, I find the
FreeBSD ports system to be more flexible, but an acceptable runner-up
for purposes of binary package-based OSes in my opinion is Debian.
Just to add my .02$ to this topic, speaking from a perspective of a
FreeBSD lover in
Hello,
first off, I'm looking for a ports upgrading solution on my box, not
trying to start a religious debate over which one is better. I'm
interested in hearing what other FreeBSD admins are using and, if
possible, why they prefer one over the other. I have some experience
with portupgrade
Hello,
I have observed the following behavior in IPFW (note the asterisks):
ipfw add 1000 allow tcp from 10.1.2.3 to 10.3.2.1 ** in
gets added to the rule list as:
01000 allow tcp from 10.1.2.3 to 10.3.2.1 *dst-port * in?
Why does IPFW convert my to dst-port and
Is there any plan to port Sun JDK 1.6 to FreeBSD?
FYI,
I'm running JDK6 in Linux compatibility mode for an application that
uses RMI, JDBC, threads and runs as a daemon (24/7) and I had no
problems so far, the setup looks very stable.
Hope it helps,
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Nino
What would be the best sizes for the
disk partitions so that I don't run out of space on any of them while also
leaving the maximum amount of space possible for the future software to be
installed?
While I'd certainly go with a single partition as a solution for your
setup, if you really
Hello,
I have a question regarding the various knobs one can set while
building a port. The problem as I see it is that the user usually has
to be a makefile lingo expert (okay, not an expert, but you catch my
drift) to decipher all the various options and set perhaps only the
one he really
One is to enable FreeBSD's Linux Compatibility and use Letgato's Linux
client (I suppose they have one?)
I actually tried this. And the client actually works. However, I
haven't found a way to escape Linux compatibility chroot - i.e.
backing up /usr actually backs up /compat/linux/usr. Of
6.0.2 Legato client that used(?) to be in the ports works fine for me
on a 6.1 box, while 5.5.2 works fine on my 4.9 box. I'm quite certain
we are using current 7.x Legato server. As far as security is
concerned, local users are not a problem, while firewall takes care of
remote problems. Of
Hello everyone,
I'd like to inspect the flows in and out of my fbsd boxes. In order to
closely simulate a true netflow-capable router, I found out I need
three components: flow sensors, flow collector and flow analyzer.
There are quite a few solutions for collecting and analyzing flows,
even
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