Can't get ZFS on GPT Root to work.

located, can't boot Is it missing a step? Maybe the zpool should have been exported at the end too? I'm using 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso on 64-bit VMs. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: Can't get ZFS on GPT Root to work.

had to use da0 not ad0. But otherwise, I followed the steps *to the letter*. And when I reboot, no ZFS Pool found. :( Did you select Freebsd 64-bit for the vm type? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: Can't get ZFS on GPT Root to work.

Manolis == Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr writes: Manolis Yes. And I used an IDE disk instead of the SCSI usually suggested by Manolis Vmware so it was ad0 for me. I doubt this makes any difference. Wow. Crap. Why does this hate me so? :( Lemme try again with IDE. -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Can't get ZFS on GPT Root to work.

? :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: Can't get ZFS on GPT Root to work.

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: krad == krad kra...@googlemail.com writes: krad make sure you dont export the pool after you have copied the zpool cache krad onto the zfs root fs, as that will break everything. Randal Hmm. But doesn't executing a shutdown

Re: Regular Expression Editor

. and * and ^ and $, the meanings may vary a bit, and the more exotic things are certainly going to vary. (For example, despite the name, Perl Compatible [sic] Regular Expressions are *not* Perl compatible.) What tool are you using your regexes with? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: Regular Expression Editor

? Awk? Sed? Java? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside

Re: Regular Expression Editor

in the initial message that I recall. But if that was already clear, I apologize for repeating my question. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

Ross == Ross Penner ross.pen...@gmail.com writes: Ross That seems to have been the problem. Yes, what I learned the hard way is that every single step there needs to be precisely followed, without deviation, even if you don't understand it or think it's important. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

), and it worked just fine. So, no, the bootloader will not import and especially not import -f. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc

Re: portupgrade, batch mode?

this description that I should be noticing these and reporting it to someone? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: portupgrade, batch mode?

that the upgrade has stopped. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk

Re: iso license

derivative distribution. Now, if that's opaque to you, hire a lawyer. Now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

fall back to a port build? I'm using portsnap to update things, so I don't think i can just delete the 5.8 port, because it will likely just get reinstalled. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

damn easy to give up the -P. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

, both for building from ports, and for installing packages that say they depend on that. How do I get there? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

. So make.conf doesn't matter. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

. I don't mind installing from ports once I've been notified that the package won't work because it wants perl5.8. What I want is a way to tell the port/package system that perl5.8 doesn't exist so that it *will* fail. How do I do that? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: Root on ZFS

) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

up, don't run ssh on port 22. I like 443, because corporate firewalls tend to pass that... :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

Jonathan == Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za writes: Jonathan pkg_info -D I like pkg_info -DL 'port*', because it also shows *where* things got installed... sometimes, I can't find the conf files. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

for an hour from hitting the low port. I presented this at a conference once. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets blocked for an hour from hitting the low port. I presented this at a conference once

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Tunneling_Protocol#Security_of_the_PPTP_protocol In short, you can't take anyone seriously who suggests PPTP when talking about security. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

That was just the quick summary. Google for PPTP security and you'll see a top link from Bruce Schneier who basically says no way to it. Sent from my iPhone, so blame Steve Jobs for any speeling misteaks. On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: ..wikipedia? that's

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

recommendation is to avoid MX altogether, and rely on split-horizon DNS and SMTP delivery reattempts. But a lot of people are still stuck in the old ways. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: make make install accept defaults

n in an unattended way? I do all the configs ahead of time. There are multiple ways to do that. make config-recursive if you're just using the raw Makefiles. portinstall -c PORTNAME if you're using Portinstall (my favorite). -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

nit on installation

SysInstall refers to VTY1 and VTY4. There's nothing I saw in the README that explained what that meant. I had to ask on the IRC just now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl

Re: ntpdate problem

RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: RW You can different servers like this: RW 0.ru.pool.ntp.org RW 1.ru.pool.ntp.org RW 2.ru.pool.ntp.org RW 3.ru.pool.ntp.org But really, why are you using ntpdate and not just ntpd? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: Elegant way to hack port source

, and Charlie there's no need to worry about updates quashing my changes. It also Charlie provides a quick-and-dirty way to see which ports I've modified. Isn't that also what /usr/ports/local is for? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

understands and plays well with things like content-filters, RBLs, dovecot (and others) for SSL. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

Ruben == Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org writes: Ruben I'm not making you use anything. Just commenting on your assessment that Ruben sendmail cannot do something, while I know it can. I never said it couldn't. So let's not be making something up here. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: amd64 8.0 with zfs root and raidz ?

intructions Gene raidz might be set up? You're not going to be raidz'ing your boot disk, which is why that doesn't address it there. Data disks can be raidz'ed just fine, using the normal documentation. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: OT: Programming perl, BerkeleyDB/MLDBM

prefer. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: How to make man pages

Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all Matthew like HTML. No, it's not. It's actually turing-complete. I did towers of hanoi in troff at one point. Can't do that with HTML. :) -- Randal L

Re: perl qstn...

Gary == Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: Gary if a .pl script has to have at least one arg, is there an easy Gary way to do that? Dare I say, there's more than one way to do it? :) See the Getopt:: family in the CPAN. My favorite is Getopt::Long. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: perl qstn...

be seen as self-pimping. :) But if you look at http://learn.perl.org/ you'll see a number of other resources, including free tutorials online. print Just another Perl hacker,; # the original -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: perl qstn...

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Even simpler: Randal if (@ARGV) { Randal print No args\n; Randal } else { Randal print arg is $ARGV[0]\n; Randal } Augh. I hit send just as I realized that's backwards. Need more caffiene. Swap the true

Re: perl qstn...

up with monstrosities like: PRINT a IF a % 3 = 2 FOR a = b TO b+7 FOR b = 0 TO 90 STEP 10; Thankfully, Larry limited Perl's statement modifiers to precisely one level. :) Just another old geezer, -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: perl qstn...

in the code. If you don't like all this freedom, there's always Python. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: perl qstn...

, join(' ', (@ARGV))); Which, when you're not speaking Perl with a C accent, expressed more natively as: @ARGV or die No args: at least one filename expected; print @ARGV\n; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: perl qstn...

, and some that aren't. You may not appreciate that freedom. Others do. With freedom comes responsibility. If that's not for you, Perl's not for you. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: perl qstn...

agree. The difference with Perl is that there are often many equally good ways to choose. If that's too much repsonsibility for you, please don't use Perl. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: perl qstn...

. :-) :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: perl qstn...

Alejandro == Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org writes: Alejandro did you mean unless? ;-) Did you read this: Augh.  I hit send just as I realized that's backwards.  Need more caffiene.  Swap the true and false blocks there. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: perl links

that :) that no matter where you install Perl, you always link/symlink /usr/bin/perl so that scripts can safely use shebang. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing

Re: perl links

parv == parv p...@pair.com writes: parv So, you are the guilty one. By that logic, every software should parv assume some location, so that people can have fun with link farm parv maintainance. Keep in mind, the scene has changed in 20 years. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: Auto update

. tail -f /var/log/authlog | while read aline; do; ... ; done The code in the middle will get executed as each line appears in the file. This even survives authlog renaming when you logroll. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: GNUs port

GNUS by hand. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

keywords, so it won't get stop during normal shutdown. That must happen later. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Kill via Cron...

THE BINARY because the program is badly behaved! Don't use kill -9. Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy up the flower pot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl

Re: Kill via Cron...

arguments won't show up so the arguments to grep won't generate a false positive. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

or two later, or legit mail will get unnecessarily delayed. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?

at $LARGE_ISPs to deal with this. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

of us using the binary upgrade, do I need to follow http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557postcount=19 still? Or do nothing? Or do something else? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

Adam == Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: Adam On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Randal L. Schwartz Adam mer...@stonehenge.comwrote: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557postcount=19 Adam Well those are his modified upgrade instructions, they seem Adam relatively sound

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

for 8.1 to 8.2. I have four VPSs that need to move from 8.1 to 8.2 remotely. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: looking for rack hosting company

some trial and error with Darren different databases. So the vmware virtual servers and limited Darren ram are out. How so? Take a look at arpnetworks.com/vps - you can get some pretty fat servers there. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal OK, so I'll appeal to the rest of freebsd-questions, since you can't Randal answer with authority: Randal can you upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 using freebsd-update booting from Randal ZFS as described at http://wiki.freebsd.org

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

Daniel == Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net writes: Daniel On Wed, March 16, 2011 2:36 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Randal SOMEONE here knows. Please help. So, nobody knows? Most of the other answers were about a source-code upgrade, not a binary upgrade. Daniel I thought Matthew Seamans

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

code to help me out. How do I reach them? Is ZFS a first-class FS now in the binary builds, or not? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: FreeBSD-based hosting

repeatedly. :) I'll once again say how happy I am with http://arpnetworks.com/vps. Check them out. Tell 'em I sent ya. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting

Re: gcc

Anton == Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: Anton Are you saying GCC doesn't comply with ISO standard(s)? Welcome to the GNU World. First time here? :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: Port dependencies

easier just to rebuild from scratch. That's one of the first things I do with a fresh system that will be only a server: echo WITHOUT_X11=yes /etc/make.conf And then *never* use packages. Only ports. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: Port dependencies

Dick == Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl writes: Dick Are the quotes neccessary? No. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

as a solution is wrong. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

not getting it? You *will* get burned. Why do you not trust the community to notice that for you? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: Ekiga FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

audio/video. (No SILK though... there's nothing that comes close, sadly.) I interviewed the lead developer for FLOSS Weekly a few weeks back... sounds quite promising. http://twit.tv/floss162 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: Ekiga FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

like it or not. Jitsi runs fine on Windows. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com

Re: ZFS and cp -x

Eir == Eir Nym eir...@gmail.com writes: Eir Does `cp -x` works correctly on ZFS? Is cp -x new? Not in my 8.1 manpages. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting

Re: ZFS and cp -x

suspect 8.1 there means 8.1 just before 8.2, and not 8.1 release. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

Perl baked in to the default package. Do that, and all will be well. Yes, I had to learn this the hard way a year ago, so now I pass along that knowledge. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn

Re: ZFS on root backup

'undo' Matthew type functionality, so you can unwind accidental deletions and Matthew other user mistakes. And with zxfer (in ports), very simple means to transfer those snapshots to another location. I'm using that now on multiple machines, and it's nearly flawless. -- Randal L

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

to put it there? There's no tool that can do that, so I'm hoping you're joking now. I didn't see the smiley face. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical

Re: Why not add ZFS support on bsdinstaller? (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/RELEASE)

Alvaro == Alvaro Castillo gobl...@gmail.com writes: Alvaro The question... or maybe I'm wrong and will be included. There *is* ZFS support in the PC-BSD 8.2 installer. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: semi-OT: Looking for a hosting provider w/ FreeBSD root-servers

don't mind the USA, I highly recommend arpnetworks.com, having been a happy customer with multiple live e-commerce boxes for 18 months. If you insist on Europe, I'm also a customer of ElasticHosts, and they seem to be decent at a similar pricepoint. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

in the portmaster camp. I think this is a vi vs emacs or perl vs python argument. Just religious. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: random generated password

a fairly large set of sensible characters. Each multiple of 3 results in 4 characters in the output. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: limit number of ssh connections

. The real security is disable plaintext passwords. Then no amount of bruteforce will ever get in. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc

Re: limit number of ssh connections

-bending reasons), and the only connections I see there are people trying to break into the web. Never an actual sshd hit. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting

Re: About suidperl in FreeBSD

it! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in vi]?

Gary == Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: Gary several months ago i asked this list if there were any =easier= text Gary editors than vi[m] that had the abbrev ability. GNU Emacs is easier for me than vim is. And it has abbrev mode. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services

Re: Breakin attempt

. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

of these with ret ret ret dd dd dd ret dd : wq ret, I'm really frustrated, because I made a mistake and now apparently have to start over. Why doesn't the freebsd-update command invoke mergemaster with -F? Or is there some step that I'm leaving out? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

with this, or is there some additional tool I'm missing? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: FreeBSD 8 LiveFS - How To Start SSHD?

. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

pkg_add -r and a local package repo

dependencies somehow? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: pkg_add -r and a local package repo

Jason == Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com writes: Jason Why not just point the PACKAGESITE to the Latest directory of the tree you Jason want to install? I am, but it has zsh-4.3.15.tbz and not zsh.tbz, so I have to pkg_add -r zsh-4.3.15, and that's the annoying part. -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

, and Guido definitely doesn't get it. Obviously, other people have worked on both languages, but keep that in mind. I can present my evidence of how Guido doesn't get it in a longer post, if prompted. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

argument size, as you discovered. If you have perl, try this: perl -e 'unlink glob(*)' It uses Perl's internal glob() function, which can handle an unlimited number of files. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

for the -1 there. Whenever ls is not going to the terminal, it defaults to classic -1 behavior. Compare: % ls with % ls | cat -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

option. Well, not for something that is also like -delete, but for other things that would have formerly required -print0 | xargs -0... this is apparently a fairly recent (and welcome!) modification to find. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

openssl from ports

of the core libraries. Is it sufficient to restart the apps (apache in particular), or do I need to recompile things? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting

Re: openssl from ports

Maxim == Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com writes: Maxim On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Randal L. Schwartz Maxim mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: I know openssl is in the core, but the version in FreeBSD 8.2 is vulnerable to some recent attacks.  (Hmm, I wonder why there hasn't been an 8.2 update

Re: openssl from ports

the port or undefine WITH_OPENSSL_BASE. @${FALSE} .endif So it looks like modern FreeBSD will Do The Right Thing if I just recompile the apache22 port. Once I knew what to look for, I found it with a bit of grepping. Thanks! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: openssl from ports

Robert == Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com writes: Robert I'm replying off-list. No need to reply this back onto the Robert list. Eh? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Randal and after reboot, zfs set mountpoint=none zroot would also seem to Randal clean that up. Oh wait, it looks

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal items? And worse, the things from the readme don't work: locohost# ./beadm create

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