Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote: I thought this URL http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html also shown above, answered that question. Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a good idea to me. However, instant reaction is that this is definitely *not* something that

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
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

isc-dhcpd - logging client transactions

2012-06-06 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've set up isc-dhcpd (/usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp42-server). The daemon runs, hands out IP-addresses however logging doesn't seem to work. Here's what I've got in the respective config-files: /etc/rc.conf: # dhcpd dhcpd_enable=YES dhcpd_conf=/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf dhcpd_ifaces=em0

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/06/2012 09:45, Bruce Cran wrote: 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

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 06/06/2012 09:45, Bruce Cran wrote: 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

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. I don't see how this MS

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:38:41 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 06/06/2012 09:45, Bruce Cran wrote: 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

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
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

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
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

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as many binaries as you want. Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the point is why should I have

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote: I thought this URL http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html also shown above, answered that question. Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a good idea to me. However, instant reaction is

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as many binaries as you want.

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as many binaries as you want. Having to pay Verisign instead

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 1:36 PM, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99 goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as many binaries as you

Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question

2012-06-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Not strictly FBSD, but ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh. Worse still both bar and bar.sh can exist with one linked to the other. Is there a simple way to determine which form bar or

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 9:32 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote: I thought this URL http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html also shown above, answered that question. Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a good idea to me. However, instant reaction is

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 1:19 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/06/2012 23:10, Jerry wrote: I thought this URL http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html also shown above, answered that question. Signing bootloaders and kernels etc. seems superficially like a

IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi everybody, Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed after every random days. I want to know the new address even when I'm not home. Like send an e-mail with the new IP, I already know how to do this,

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/5/12 9:12 PM, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says Desgined for Windows8. In other words

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 1:57 AM, Chris Hill wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, G?k?in Akdeniz wrote: For the time being only ARM platform is restricted. True, but I would be astonished if this restriction were not expanded by MS in the future. Just my opinion, but I believe their ultimate goal is to add

Unable to update virtualbox-ose-additions 4.1.16

2012-06-06 Thread Alexandre
Hi, I got a VM VirtualBox that use FreeBSD 9-STABLE (updated yesterday). Now I want to update my ports, but I can't update virtualbox-ose-additions 4.1.16 I use the command # portmaster -a -D --no-confirm to update ports with portmaster tool. The error is : [...] The failing command: @cc

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote: Hi I have had success on my hardware with this setting: # The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf # was dsabled. # # Section ServerLayout # Identifier X.org Configured #

Re: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, June 06, 2012 a las 02:06:48AM -0700, Dánielisz László escribió: Hi everybody, Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed after every random days. I want to know the new address

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 7

2012-06-06 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-06 13:36, kwel kwel skrev: Please remove my email from your database i don't want to receive any other mail from you plzz thanks ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Huff
Matthias Apitz writes: Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed after every random days. I want to know the new address even when I'm not home. Like send an e-mail with the new IP, I already

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-06 Thread Erich
Hi, On 06 June 2012 6:37:43 Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote: Hi I have had success on my hardware with this setting: # The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf # was dsabled. # # Section

Re: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, June 06, 2012 a las 09:17:47AM -0400, Robert Huff escribió: Run this in a cronjob: lynx -dump myip.nl | fgrep 'WAN IP' strore the result in a file and when it changes, trigger a mail; Or, using only tools in the base system: ifconfig | head | grep

Re: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
m From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 6 07:37:57 2012 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:06:48 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E1nielisz_L=E1szl=F3?= laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IP - e-mail Hi everybody, Let

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:36:24 -0400 Jerry wrote: In any event, it won't belong before some hacker comes up with a way to circumvent the entire process anyway, It sounds like Fedora already have. They say that they are only going to sign a thin shim that loads grub.

RE: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:18 AM To: Matthias Apitz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP - e-mail Matthias Apitz writes:

Re: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:11:02 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Matthias, your lynx-based 'solution' does *NOT* solve the OP's question. Incorrect; it does solve his problem. He wants to know -when- his DHCP assigned address changes. Consider what happens if both the

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-04 16:10, Leslie Jensen skrev: 2012-06-04 15:54, Warren Block skrev: % printf \033];Funny Title\007 Works! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:36:24 -0400 Jerry wrote: In any event, it won't belong before some hacker comes up with a way to circumvent the entire process anyway, It sounds like Fedora already have. They say that they are only going to sign a thin shim

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own? Maybe a common marketing and sales model

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? Otherwise one of us would purchase a key for $99, then publish the key so we could all forever more compile boot our own kernels. But that would

upgrade from 7-stable to 8-stable

2012-06-06 Thread Brian W.
It is time to do the above for me. I have done several upgrades within the same major version but have not done a version hop yet. Aside from extra paranoia about backups and the need to rebuild all ports, are there other gotchas to watch out for? I am going to try it on a test VM system first.

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do not use the latest versions of most hardware, so it may be a while before its user base is even effected. I don't believe

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof. Otherwise one of us would purchase a

Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-06 Thread Simon
Hi, Can someone suggest an alternative/proper way to port forward using ipfw. Right now I have the following and some bad clients cause too many FIN_WAIT_2 state fwd IP,PORT2 tcp from any to me dst-port PORT1 keep-state This easily causes DoS for when too many FIN_WAIT_2 are created and IPFW

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 6:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited-liability company with no assets is

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Simon si...@optinet.com wrote: This easily causes DoS for when too many FIN_WAIT_2 are created and IPFW stops forwarding using the rule above because of too many dynamic rules Change the defaults for the fw.dyn sysctl MIB nodes to something like

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/6/12 7:23 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? Contract with _whom_? The party you pay money to -- Verisign --

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 06), Michael Sierchio said: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Simon si...@optinet.com wrote: This easily causes DoS for when too many FIN_WAIT_2 are created and IPFW stops forwarding using the rule above because of too many dynamic rules Change the defaults for

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do not use the latest versions of most hardware, so it may be a

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-06 Thread 文鳥
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:05:59 +0100 Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 06/06/2012 18:28, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Has the discussion on why change to clang been made available? Yes, endlessly. Mostly on lists like freebsd-hackers@... and at various conferences and developer summits.

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Gain
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:11 PM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:05:59 +0100 Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 06/06/2012 18:28, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Has the discussion on why change to clang been made available? You might be interested in this video:

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 6 13:46:43 2012 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:44:57 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? On 6/6/12 7:23 PM, Robert Bonomi

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:34:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: what I want to do is get as current as possible and then install 7.5. and stay there. 7.5 what? Do you mean Xorg? Please try and be specific.

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/6/12 6:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:44:57 -0500, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: If the key should be divulged, then the key may be revoked by the issuer. Revoked how? Wouldn't they have to issue a firmware update to actually revoke it? The UEFI firmware doesn't have network access

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Simmons
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own?

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Yes, let's all run ALPHA and MIPS hardware. I'll just jam my Nvidia card into one of the available slots and everything should work OK, right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:55:16 -0400 Robert Simmons articulated: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Daniel Staal
On 2012-06-06 15:05, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: I don't believe at this point FreeBSD has any intent one way or another, really. It's not an immediate problem for any platform supported by the FreeBSD project, at least for a technically-inclined

UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread grarpamp
Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? First, some sanity... Users could fully utilize the UEFI Secure Boot hardware by say: - Using

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 6 12:33:25 2012 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:28:19 -0700 From: Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why Clang Has the discussion on why change to clang been made available? I would like to know the

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dave U. Random anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the point is why should I have to pay

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 02:23:20PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: I agree with the whole post except that last bit about ICANN Matthew. The US already has enough dominance as is, without involving ICANN, a supposedly neutral body (yeah right...) any further. Indeed. The last thing we need

pulseaudio error message

2012-06-06 Thread Carmel
The message log on my machine is filling up with this error message: Jun 6 11:36:55 raven pulseaudio[6440]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink. Jun 6 11:36:58 raven pulseaudio[6440]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink. Jun 6

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: anyway NOBODY are forced to buy micro-soft software. That's almost correct but not quite. In 99% of the cases any Intel commodity mafiaware comes with a preinstalled Winblows. You're paying for it whether you want it or not. You can get a refund in

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the point is why should I have to pay anything to

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/06/2012 09:11, Leslie Jensen wrote: My initial wish for some information about the build progress is still very much on the table. Try the attached patch. It essentially adds the progress info that is being put in the TERM title to the in-line printout of the dependency trail that was

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/06/2012 15:06, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 09:11, Leslie Jensen wrote: My initial wish for some information about the build progress is still very much on the table. Try the attached patch. Actually try this one instead. :) -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Cran
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

Blank page after log in to phpmyadmin

2012-06-06 Thread betts
I have a blank white page after I log into phpmyadmin. I have upgraded to php 5.4.3 along with the extensions. Also upgraded to current phpmyadmin. Have checked the error logs and nothing is showing in the logs. Any idea what happended. phpmyadmin was working before upgrade.

Re: Blank page after log in to phpmyadmin

2012-06-06 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/6/12 7:16 PM, be...@norden1.com wrote: I have a blank white page after I log into phpmyadmin. I have upgraded to php 5.4.3 along with the extensions. Also upgraded to current phpmyadmin. Have checked the error logs and nothing is showing in

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof. There's set up running costs (time money), other exposure http://berklix.com/~jhs/mecc/ltd_gmbh.html Easiest done by those who have done it before, One would

Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-06 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3 motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host, desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC). Can this be done with FreeBSD; if so, which distribution and ports/packages do I need?

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Thank you for this. I didn't realize that a simple (somewhat technical) question asked in all innocence would generate so much flammage. Kurt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear that

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 6 18:13:09 2012 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:09:54 +0100 From: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: [ ... ] It may seem reasonable to you, but is there -legal- basis to do so? Go ask your lawyer. freebsd-questions isn't qualified to provide you with legal advice. Regards, -- -Chuck ___

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 6 19:01:14 2012 From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:59:36 -0700 To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be

bug in /usr/bin/calendar: Thu+1 doesn't match on 7th or December

2012-06-06 Thread Winston
Bug report for /usr/bin/calendar SUMMARY: calendar does not match Thu+1 or Mon+1 in some months. With one exception, it looks like calendar file dates such as Thu+1 and Mon+1 are failing to match in two cases: (1) the 7th of Jan-Nov, and (2) December. DETAILS/EXAMPLES: FreeBSD crystal

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
(cf. EULA) that you accept those licensing of hardware. Also, I think you'll find that such actions are already illegal certainly in the UK, and I believe EU wide. Yes illegal for English law (England Scotland have different contract laws). Contract terms given after money changes hands

Re: bug in /usr/bin/calendar: Thu+1 doesn't match on 7th or December

2012-06-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Please report bugs with send-pr (cos bug reports to mail list get lost) See man send-pr If you can attach a patch to fix it, so much the better Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: Yes, let's all run ALPHA and MIPS hardware. I'll just jam my Nvidia card into one of the available slots and everything should work OK, right? Dear Numbskull, It's co-dependent hostages like you who enable Intel Mafiaware. According to your logic we should

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to replicate the

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Nomen Nescio
Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dave U. Random anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference:

Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3?

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
- Original Message - From: David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com I have a new computer with an Intel i7-2600S processor and DQ67SWB3 motherboard that I'd like to run with ZFS, virtual machine host, desktop, Samba, and terminal server (on second NIC). Can this be done with

Re: Somewhat OT - A Makefile Question

2012-06-06 Thread Parv
in message 4fcf48af@tundraware.com, wrote Tim Daneliuk thusly... ... Within a makefile, I need to assign the name of a program as in: FOO = bar. The problem is that 'bar' may also be know as, say, bar.sh. ... Is there a simple way to determine which form bar or bar.sh on on a given

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 03:05:00PM -0400, Jerry wrote: I don't know of any user personally who purchased a new PC and then threw FreeBSD on it. Most users that I have come into contact with use 2+ year old units that have been replaced by shiny new Windows units. I don't see that changing

mount failure

2012-06-06 Thread Gary Aitken
Running under X with xfce, just did this: gpart show -l da0 gpart delete -i 1 da0 gpart destroy da0 gpart create -s GPT da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 gpart add -t