Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade, clang question

2013-10-03 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
03.10.2013 17:36, dweimer wrote: When upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 using source, is there any benefit to rebuilding twice, due to the clang version change? So that the second buildworld/kernel is done from the updated clang 3.3, instead of the clang 3.1 that was in FreeBSD 9.1? During the buildwo

9.1 - 9.2 upgrade, clang question

2013-10-03 Thread dweimer
When upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 using source, is there any benefit to rebuilding twice, due to the clang version change? So that the second buildworld/kernel is done from the updated clang 3.3, instead of the clang 3.1 that was in FreeBSD 9.1? -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-14 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Bernt Hansson To: Bernt Hansson Cc: Julian H. Stacey ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 2013-09-14 15:41, Bernt Hansson wrote: > On 2013-09-14 11:05, Julian H. Stacey wr

Re: Network Question

2013-09-14 Thread Al Plant
dam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always pu

Re: Network Question

2013-09-14 Thread Daniel Nang
lly allow one to specify fixed IP and hostname for the >> DHCP clients based on the MAC addresses. >> >> Best wishes >> Eugene >> >> -Original Message- From: Daniel Nang >> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM >> To: Adam Vande More >&g

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Bernt Hansson > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:36:58 +0200 Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I have a setup with a diskless machine and working, but I can not log in > as root on the diskless. How to proceed? Log in as non root & see what /var/log shows

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Eugene
, September 13, 2013 10:28 PM To: Eugene Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Daniel Nang Subject: Re: Network Question Eugene wrote: Hi Daniel, The easiest way is to check the LAN Config (or similar) page of the router. They usually allow one to specify fixed IP and hostname for the DHCP clients

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Al Plant
, September 12, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@mac

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
e internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with each other e.g. via ssh? machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Eugene
, 2013 11:16 PM To: Adam Vande More Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Question That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@machine2.exampl

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > > There's the rub. How do you determine the IP address of the other machine? > Normally I look at /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases. Pretty much all of the home routers also have the information accessible on it's administration page. Really depends

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
m >> - DHCP -- DHCP - >> >> >> Both computers can access the internet with no problems. >> So far so good... >> >> My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access >> the net as in the given pict

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
- DHCP - >> >> >> Both computers can access the internet with no problems. >> So far so good... >> >> My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access >> the net as in the given picture

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
e internet with no problems. > So far so good... > > My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access > the net as in the given picture and also let them communicate with > each other e.g. via ssh? > machine1# ssh `ip of machine2` -- Adam Vande More __

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
t; | > >> machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com > >> - DHCP -- DHCP - > >> > >> > >> Both computers can access the internet with no problem

Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Nang
| | | machine1.example.com --- Router --- machine.2.example.com - DHCP -- DHCP - Both computers can access the internet with no problems. So far so good... My question is, if I can simultaneously have the computers access the net as in

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-12 Thread Pablo Carboni
Hi Damien (I'm sorry for delay) Thanks for your comments (specially for the tips / experience with your -STABLE boxes) Regards, Pablo Carboni. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so > the entry is added

Fw: ttys file question

2013-09-11 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
I have added the following entry to /etc/gettytab file test.std.115200:\ :ep:sp#4800:tc:Pc And also I have changed /etc/ttys file cuau3  "/usr/libexec/getty test.std.115200"    cons25  on secure I expect /dev/cuau3 device to use even parity and 4800 as speed, but when I check the device prop

Re: question

2013-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:41:31 +0200, Pawel Sulewski wrote: > How to recognize kernel panic and dump memory state onto USB device using C > language? The kernel has its own crash handling and will initiate the writing of the proper image automatically. It will be stored on the partition designated b

ttys file question

2013-09-11 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
I have added the following entry to /etc/gettytab file test.std.115200:\ :ep:sp#4800:tc:Pc And also I have changed /etc/ttys file cuau3 "/usr/libexec/getty test.std.115200"cons25 on secure I expect /dev/cuau3 device to use even parity and 4800 as speed, but when I check the device prope

question

2013-09-11 Thread Pawel Sulewski
Hello, I have read through documentation and didn't find answer for my issue. The issue is: How to recognize kernel panic and dump memory state onto USB device using C language? It would be great if I get the answer. Regards, cid:image001.png@01CE518C.41DEB9F0 Paweł Sulewsk

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 23:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Jack Mc Lauren wrote: > Thanks. Another question is how can I change the default values of e.g. > databits, stopbits and ... for the device? I can set the speed > in /etc/ttys. Look at the man pages for sio and stty - all the details

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
ctions, the cua >devices are for incoming connections. > >For more detail see sio(4), after all the detail about multi-port >serial cards and their master ports comes a couple of paragraphs >describing >the devices associated with each serial port in detail. > >-- >Steve O&

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread jb
Jack Mc Lauren yahoo.com> writes: > > Hi list > > I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, > I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: > > ttyu6   " std.115200" cons25  on secure > > But I can not connect to my se

Re: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 09:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Jack Mc Lauren wrote: > But I can not connect to my server with this configuration. But if I > change ttyu6 to cuau6, everything works fine! I don't understand the > difference, would you please explain the reason for me? In short the tty devices a

ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: ttyu6   " std.115200" cons25  on secure But I can not connect to my server with this configuration. But if I change ttyu6 t

Fw: ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: #Serial terminlas #The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyu6  "/usr/libexec/getty  std.115200" co

ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyu6  "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200"

ttys file question

2013-09-08 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi list I'm trying to connect to my server via a serial port which is named ttyu6 under FreeBSD. In order to do that, I've decided to change /etc/ttys file like this: # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyu6 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200"

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Patrick Dung
Thanks for the answer. That is cool and unique. From: Polytropon To: Patrick Dung Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

Re: Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 21:30:29 +0800 (SGT), Patrick Dung wrote: > I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. > > Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. > > Actually what do those numbers mean? Those numbers show you how many buffers have to be synced until the s

Question about those special (countdown numbers) at shutdown / sync

2013-09-05 Thread Patrick Dung
Hello! I am curious about the special (count down numbers) at shutdown / sync. Those nubmers is like 8 8 8 8 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0. Actually what do those numbers mean? Thanks and regards, Patrick Dung ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
However minor the issue seems, I think it warrants a PR, if at least so the entry is added for the next revision of 8.4-RELEASE. Regarding -STABLE, while I respect your decision to be conservative and run -RELEASE, I'd like to point out we've not run into any problem here, in over 3 years with ~4

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-04 Thread Pablo Carboni
Dear Damien, I use to install and update 'Releng' releases (plus patches, but not stable releases) in our production servers (Ok, I agree stable is fine, but my main reason is to be conservative under some circunstances). (BTW, You're right, on 8-STABLE branch, it appears the 'missing' line I w

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Note that, as opposed to you, I'm tracking 8-STABLE and not 8.4-RELEASE ! UPDATING: $FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.632.2.39 2013/08/23 15:21:39 svnexp Exp $ newvers.sh: # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.83.2.25 2013/08/07 08:26:07 svnexp Exp $ I'll check our clusters of firewalls to see if I

question about pkg

2013-09-03 Thread Waitman Gobble
Hi, by chance anyone know what's up with this.. could save me some troubleshooting time.. Here's a 9.2 machine. # uname -a FreeBSD do.burplex.com 9.2-BETA2 FreeBSD 9.2-BETA2 #0 r253773M: Mon Jul 29 14:22:34 PDT 2013 da3m0n8...@do.burplex.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KAGISO amd64 # sqlite3 /v

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-03 Thread Pablo Carboni
Hello Damien, (First at all, thanks for your response). I do not want to insist too much with this silly thing, but(just in case) I've updated my sources today from svn0.us-west.freebsd.org(base/releng/8.4), - previously to my first e-mail - and: (Argentina's current TZ is GMT-3) -rw-r--r-

Re: Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-03 Thread Damien Fleuriot
From: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75631 Aug 27 12:46 /usr/src/UPDATING 20130607: 8.4-RELEASE. On 3 September 2013 18:16, Pablo Carboni wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to > FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with n

Question about a possible missing line/entry for file UPDATING (from http://svnweb.freebsd.org) - 8.4-RELEASE plus branches

2013-09-03 Thread Pablo Carboni
Dear Sirs, Just for curious, today I was looking for the date/entry that belongs to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE inside UPDATING file, with no luck. Maybe I've made a mistake and I was looking inside a wrong file/url? It doesn't appear, neither http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/UPDATING?revisi

Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
- Original Message - > From: Tijl Coosemans > To: Quark > Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013 1:41 PM > Subject: Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 header not found > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:22:49 +0800 (SGT) Quark wr

Fwd: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Константин Беседин
AFAIK, the easiest way to get C++11 support in clang is to use libc++ (see http://blogs.freebsdish.org/theraven/2013/01/03/the-new-c-stack-in-9-1/). See also https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/2013-May/000841.html . 2013/8/27 Quark > % uname -a > FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBS

Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:22:49 +0800 (SGT) Quark wrote: > % uname -a > FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC > 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 > > % clang++ --version > FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 18350

Re: c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
list, please pardon my stupid mail client hung, giving me impression that e-mail was not sent. apologies for spam. - Original Message - > From: Quark > To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013 12:52 PM > Subject: c++11 question

c++11 and clang question

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
% uname -a FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.2 Thread model: posix

clang and c++11 question

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
% uname -a FreeBSD cobalt.corp.nai.org 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC   amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.2 Threa

c++11 question: clang++ 3.3 header not found

2013-08-27 Thread Quark
% uname -a FreeBSD cobalt 9.2-RC3 FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 #0 r254795: Sat Aug 24 20:25:04 UTC 2013     r...@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 % clang++ --version FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd9.2 Thread model: posix

Re: kern_jail_set() Error Scenario Question

2013-08-23 Thread James Gritton
On 08/22/13 17:46, Matt Miller wrote: > We ran into the following scenario in an application recently and were > wondering if the behavior of kern_jail_set() is as expected here. > > This was an application bug where we were in, say, the JID 1 context > and tried to call jailparam_set() with the fl

kern_jail_set() Error Scenario Question

2013-08-22 Thread Matt Miller
We ran into the following scenario in an application recently and were wondering if the behavior of kern_jail_set() is as expected here. This was an application bug where we were in, say, the JID 1 context and tried to call jailparam_set() with the flags (JAIL_CREATE | JAIL_UPDATE) and the "jid" p

RE: Pre-sales question

2013-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did +not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). > For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core pro

RE: Pre-sales question

2013-08-18 Thread petersontr
Sir: I would like to know if your freebsd OS 9.1 suite on CD(DVD) can be installed, and then run, on a Dell Inspiron 531S? I looked-over your website, and did not see a citation for that specific PC (though I did see it for others). For your reference, my PC has a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual core

Question about usbhid.h and dev/usb/usbhid.h

2013-08-09 Thread David Demelier
Hi, I'm currently writing a USB driver for the SFML framework. I'm reading the code of SDL and seen the usage of usbhid. However, /usr/include/usbhid.h and /usr/include/dev/usb/usbhid.h are different. But they have both some common functions and the same data definition. For instance, enum and s

Re: Control-M question

2013-08-08 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Ok thank you very much =) Regards / Saludos.- Leonardo Santagostini 2013/8/8 ill...@gmail.com > On 8 August 2013 17:15, Leonardo Santagostini > wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Im trying to install control-m agent on FreeBSD doing some searching i >

Re: Control-M question

2013-08-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 August 2013 17:15, Leonardo Santagostini wrote: > Hello list, > > Im trying to install control-m agent on FreeBSD doing some searching i > didnt find anything that point to me to a sucessfull installation. > > I would really appreciate if someone can give to me a clue or some recipe > or some

Control-M question

2013-08-08 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Hello list, Im trying to install control-m agent on FreeBSD doing some searching i didnt find anything that point to me to a sucessfull installation. I would really appreciate if someone can give to me a clue or some recipe or some howto !! Arquitecture is: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue D

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-07-23 18:07, Teske, Devin wrote: (opening a can of squiggly worms here) Well, then you can go fishing This is a A sidenotnote ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Teske, Devin
On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Pietro Paolini wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Fernando Apesteguía > wrote: > >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/&k=%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=Mr

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Pietro Paolini
On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/ Yep, thanks a lot ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Pietro Paolini wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, "Teske, Devin" > wrote: > > > env PACKAGESITE= > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-releases/Latest/pkg_add > -r vim-lite > > Thanks for the quick answer but I got the e

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Pietro Paolini
On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:36 PM, "Teske, Devin" wrote: > env > PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-9.0-releases/Latest/ > pkg_add -r vim-lite Thanks for the quick answer but I got the error: env PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-A

Re: Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Teske, Devin
On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Pietro Paolini wrote: > Hello all, > > I have to install in a probably not latest version BSD machine but when I try > to > > pkg_add -r vim-lite > Error: Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/vim-lite.tbz: > Fi

Newbye question VIM problem

2013-07-23 Thread Pietro Paolini
Hello all, I have to install in a probably not latest version BSD machine but when I try to pkg_add -r vim-lite Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/Latest/vim-lite.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fet

Re: question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune"

2013-06-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:48:38 -0400, Rev Herbert Miller wrote: > I was trying to use the content management system for our website. > I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the > following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know > if this is something I can fix. In

question, following error Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune"

2013-06-29 Thread Rev Herbert Miller
I was trying to use the content management system for our website. I needed to restart on terminal but I keep coming up with the following error: I don't know programing at all, so don't know if this is something I can fix. Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "fortune" Neither t

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread jb
Julian H. Stacey berklix.com> writes: > > jb.1234abcd gmail.com 's ref to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578470 > relates to Linux upgrade procedures & /root > I don't see it affects how we should perceive an idealised Unix. > The upgrade was a canary that told the user t

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Polytropon writes: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> ( I'd guess OpenBSD might go for a tighter /root though, as they're >> supposedly keen on security. ) > > Currently I've got no OpenBSD installation at hand to verify, > but I _assume_ they still have the same d

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:44 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Before we might ask (via send-pr) for it to be commited, > we should various of us run > chmod 750 /root;chown root:wheel /root > & give it a couple of months to see if problems. Done years ago: drwxr-x--- 7 root wheel 512 201

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
's in there. If > > > > this is not desired, change to rwx/---/---, or rwx/r-x/--- > > > > if you want to allow (trusted) users of the "wheel" group > > > > to read and execute stuff from that directory (maybe homemade > > > > admin s

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
pically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To summarize the answer for your question: It's just the default. :-) I'll play Devil's advocate for a moment ;-) One reason not to tighten ~root is because one might want ~root/htt

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-28 Thread ASV
ant to allow (trusted) users of the "wheel" group > > > to read and execute stuff from that directory (maybe homemade > > > admin scripts in /root/bin that should not be "public"). > > > > > > There are few things that touch /root content. Sy

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread jb
ASV inhio.eu> writes: > > Mine > is just a concern about these permission defaults which look to me a bit > too relaxed and cannot find yet a reason why not to restrict it. > After all I believe having good default settings may make the difference > in some circumstances and/or save time. I thi

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
f > > this is not desired, change to rwx/---/---, or rwx/r-x/--- > > if you want to allow (trusted) users of the "wheel" group > > to read and execute stuff from that directory (maybe homemade > > admin scripts in /root/bin that should not be "public").

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-27 Thread ASV
;). > > There are few things that touch /root content. System updating > might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and > even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are > no problem. > > To summarize the answer for your question: It's just t

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Polytropon
e homemade admin scripts in /root/bin that should not be "public"). There are few things that touch /root content. System updating might be one of them, but as it is typically run as root (and even in SUM), restrictive permissions above the default are no problem. To su

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ASV writes: > This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a > while now so I gotta ask. > > There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root > directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases > 8.0

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 06/26/13 15:47, Ayan George wrote: > ASV: >> This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a >> while now so I gotta ask. >> >> There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root >> directory permissions b

Re: A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread Ayan George
ASV: > This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a > while now so I gotta ask. > > There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root > directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases > 8.0/8.1/9.

A very 'trivial' question about /root

2013-06-26 Thread ASV
This is a very 'trivial' question but it's bugging me since quite a while now so I gotta ask. There's any reason (and should be a fairly good one) why the /root directory permissions by default are set to 755 (for sure on releases 8.0/8.1/9.0/9.1)???

Re: mouse configuration question

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:21:45 +0200 > Subject: Re: mouse configuration question > From: Xavier > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 02:09:13PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > I have a ps/2 mouse attached to a HP mini-tower running FreeBSD 8.3, >

mouse configuration question

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
I have a ps/2 mouse attached to a HP mini-tower running FreeBSD 8.3, with a stripped-down kernel (no loadable modules). I've apparently removed something necessary for standard mouse functionality, but I have no clue as to -what- is missing. Gory details: 1) '/dev/psm0' exists and +is+ the m

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 19. 19:41 napon Warren Block írta: > There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a > quick point: > > Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of > trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on FreeBSD and > get t

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Block
There have been some excellent responses, and I just wanted to add a quick point: Virtual machines with VirtualBox work very well and avoid the problem of trying to make compatible partition layouts. Enable sshd on FreeBSD and get to the files with rsync or scp or some FUSE module on the othe

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:20 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: > 2013. június 18. 19:49 napon Michael Sierchio írta: > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote: > > > ... > > > How can I do this in FreeBSD? > > > Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? > > >

Re: Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
You can simply newfs the device itself, without a volume label, slice, or partition. That's the normal thing to do with malloc devices, or additional disks. If the disk doesn't require a boot loader, isn't the root device, etc. that may be the best thing to do. Your caution about EXT* is spot-in

Re: Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Jun 18 13:47:50 2013 > Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_FreeBSD_slice/partiton_setup_?= > =?UTF-8?Q?question?= > From: =?UTF-8?Q?Istvan_Gabor?= > To: =?UTF-8?Q?FreeBSD_Questions?=, > =?UTF-8?Q?Michael_Sierchio?=, > =?UTF-8?Q?Michael_S

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
2013. június 18. 19:49 napon Michael Sierchio írta: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote: > > ... > > How can I do this in FreeBSD? > > Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? > > > > Can I do something like the following: > > > > /dev/ad0s1a / > >

Re: FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote: > ... > How can I do this in FreeBSD? > Can I have slices with only one partition occupying the whole slice? > > Can I do something like the following: > > /dev/ad0s1a / > /dev/ad0s2e /home > /dev/ad0s3e /usr/local > /dev/ad0s5b swap > /dev/ad0

FreeBSD slice/partiton setup question

2013-06-18 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I have a question regarding FreeBSD slices/partitions. I have a disk with linux partitions with the following layout: /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home /dev/sda3 /usr/local /dev/sda5 swap /dev/sda6 /home/user1 /dev/sda7 /home/user2 etc. sda1, sda2, and sda3 are primary partitions, sda5 and

Re: easy question about logcheck

2013-06-17 Thread Pol Hallen
> If you include logcheck in a cron job (hourly, daily, etc.), the cron > system will send the email with its output. After installed logcheck I didn't done any changes to cron... but I've notify mails from logcheck Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: easy question about logcheck

2013-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/13 4:16 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > I just configurated logcheck and everything is perfect :-) > > A question: where is the script that handle to send email? > > I check also with pkg_info -L but I didn'

easy question about logcheck

2013-06-17 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) I just configurated logcheck and everything is perfect :-) A question: where is the script that handle to send email? I check also with pkg_info -L but I didn't see any script that send email thanks for help! Pol ___ freebsd-ques

Re: question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
On May 9, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > I don't have a /usr/local/share/man/ directory at all, and have 7300 files in > /usr/local/man/man?/ , so I'd say /usr/local/man/ is the correct location :) I wish it were that simple here. /etc/manpath.config is unmodified so I have no idea how

Re: question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 09), Paul Beard said: > Where should site-specific, ie local, man pages live? > > For instance, I have: > > /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz > /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3597 May 6 00:38 /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 ro

question on manpages/hier(7)

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Beard
Where should site-specific, ie local, man pages live? For instance, I have: /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3597 May 6 00:38 /usr/local/man/man1/php.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3383 Dec 20 19:54 /usr/local/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

Re: question installing 9.1

2013-05-06 Thread doug
On Mon, 6 May 2013, doug wrote: I installed 9.1-release amd 64 from the DVD. I intended to leave the obligatory windows 7. I shrunk the primary windows partition and installed FreeBSD. I never got an option to install the multi-partition boot record. Rather the install overwrote the MBR with

question installing 9.1

2013-05-06 Thread doug
I installed 9.1-release amd 64 from the DVD. I intended to leave the obligatory windows 7. I shrunk the primary windows partition and installed FreeBSD. I never got an option to install the multi-partition boot record. Rather the install overwrote the MBR with a boot record to boot FreeBSD. Whil

freebsd-update question

2013-05-04 Thread doug
en it got to rc.conf. The message was something like, "deleting file hosts.allow no longer in 8.3". Happily aborting the process left the system unchanged. Aside from, what could I have done wrong? My question is should we be able to trust freebsd-update on expired systems if it says

Re: pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 03/05/2013 21:26, Walter Hurry wrote: > Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: > > 20130502: > AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ > tinderbox > AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org > > This only affects

pkg question

2013-05-03 Thread Walter Hurry
Quoting from /usr/ports/UPDATING: 20130502: AFFECTS: users of ports-mgmt/pkg, ports-mgmt/poudriere, ports-mgmt/ tinderbox AUTHOR: bdrew...@freebsd.org This only affects people who are _building_ binary packages for pkgng. If

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-27 Thread Bernt Hansson
2013-04-25 16:03, krad skrev: type id from your user account and paste the results back here uid=1001(bernt) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody),0(wheel) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Arthur Chance To: Bernt Hansson Cc: questions FreeBSD Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 04/24/13 13:45, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2013-04-24 13:21, Arthur Chance skrev: >> On 04/24/13 11:55

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