Re: "arc4random: no preloaded entropy cache" printed once per CPU on startup

2018-10-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:38:00 -0600 Rebecca Cran wrote: > On a normal boot (not verbose) of -CURRENT from today's sources I'm > getting the following message printed once for each logical CPU: > > > arc4random: no preloaded entropy cache > > > Since other messages, including the same one in ra

Re: Reducing UFS corruption from unclean shutdowns?

2019-06-21 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:49:30 -0600 Alan Somers wrote: > I panic my development VM regularly. Each time, I need to fsck the > file system. I've found UFS on gjournal to be reliable. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.or

Re: freebsd-update install failed

2014-10-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:23:00 +0200 d...@gmx.com wrote: > Allan Jude wrote on 10/24/2014 18:29: > > Do you have a src tree installed? > > Obviously not. It's not at all obvious. > > caused by it trying to install the update to an > > empty src tree, so the contrib/tzdata parent directory does n

Re: default pager (csh)

2015-02-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:16:59 -0600 Mike Karels wrote: > Trivia: the version of more on BSD systems actually is derived from > less, not the original version of more. Actually, more is less $ md5 -r `which less ` `which more ` 50404f1beaa4e1261407190a88494b59 /usr/bin/less 50404f1beaa4e12614071

Re: default pager (csh)

2015-02-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:18:24 +1030 Shane Ambler wrote: > On 20/02/2015 01:22, RW wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:16:59 -0600 > > Mike Karels wrote: > > > > > >> Trivia: the version of more on BSD systems actually is derived from > &g

Re: Depreciate and remove gbde

2015-10-19 Thread RW
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:19:30 +0200 O. Hartmann wrote: > When I looked for FreeBSD's encryption, I stopped by GELI. Because of > it's easy-to-use AND the 'experimental' tag in the handbook! > > For me, I'd like to know what is the benefit/performance of each > technique and a clear preparation o

Re: HELP: Howtwo create a passwd-suitable hash for usage with psswd -H 0?

2016-02-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:16:24 +0100 O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello out there, > > I run into a problem and digging for a solution didn't work out. > > Problem: I need a string that reflects the hashed password for the > usage with > > passwd -H 0 Did you mean -h? > I think the procedure is using

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:38:35 +0100 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system > has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. > > My box has 8GB of memory. At the moment I'm copying 100s of gigabytes > from one file system to

Re: Oversight in /etc/defaults/rc.conf

2016-07-12 Thread RW
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:10:43 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > I'm not religious about it being turned off per se. More that it > should have a clearly defined on/off state shown in the defaults. > > I went for 'off' following the general principle that rc.conf items > should mostly be off by defau

Re: release name

2016-08-05 Thread RW
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:41:20 + (UTC) Kostya Berger wrote: > Could somebody, please, explain this: > Am I right to assume that CURRENT or "head" release number is now > 12.0?For in that case I'll have to reduild the ports in case of > upgrading my system to the current head, right?Because my cu

Re: A question about updating src & ports

2016-12-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:11:38 +0800 blubee blubeeme wrote: > Can I mix portsnap fetch update or should I just continue to use svn > update /usr/ports As a general rule don't mix methods in the same directory. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt

2013-09-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:14:29 +0800 Alastair Hogge wrote: > On 2013-09-16 Mon 19:21:39 +0200, Joel Dahl wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > I noticed the following during boot on a machine running HEAD from > > today: > > I have noticed this since the recent work to /sys/dev/random > > > Entropy harve

Re: claws-mail deadlocking in iconv

2013-10-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 18:34:46 +0200 Fabian Keil wrote: > After the iconv import claws-mail started to deadlock in iconv every > now and then on my system, which prevented claws-mail from rendering > windows or reacting to input. > ... > and I'm also a bit surprised by the lack of reports from > othe

Re: May you please add alias for nslookup?

2013-10-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:44:56 +0200 Ivan Voras wrote: > explaning the user what has happened and optionally invoking "host" > or "dig". Actually dig has gone and has been replaced by the unbound utility drill. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

2013-11-03 Thread RW
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:28:06 + Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Which is not always true, especially in heavily firewalled > > environments. > > I feel no obligation to do anything to encourage people that > deliberately break the DNS. They've made their bed, and now they have > to lie in it. In

Re: freebsd-update

2014-01-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:07:26 +0100 Lars Engels wrote: > > FWIW, the performance problems with proxies are limited to HTTP > > proxies which don't speak HTTP/1.1. > > Are you sure? > I just tried it manually with telnet: > ... > IIUC the proxy itself supports HTTP/1.1 but not the webserver behind

Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

2014-02-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:24:02 -0500 (EST) Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > > > What would really help is if the ports fetch-recursive-list target > > could extend to reliably include the distfiles for the runtime > > dependencies as well. But I'm not even

Re: Feature Proposal: Transparent upgrade of crypt() algorithms

2014-03-07 Thread RW
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:13:30 -0500 John Baldwin wrote: > I am assuming that an > administrator wants the transparent upgrade (which I think is useful) > because they are assuming that the hash algorithm is compromised or > inferior. I'd expect it to be done well in advance of that to give plenty o

Re: gnash broken

2014-03-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:07:32 + (UTC) Thomas Mueller wrote: > Maybe build and install wine and download 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin? > Wine only runs on i386 but can be run from amd64 using /compat/i386. The Linux Flash plugin still works for me. ___

Re: geli TRIM support

2014-03-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:34:04 + Mike C. wrote: > I was actually googling about this yesterday and found no more info > then the thread you posted. > > So its seems that nothing was done related to this so far? > > Which means using trim+geli is problematic. These days SSD devices have stat

Re: Ports with daemons on uninstall...

2013-07-15 Thread RW
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:34:05 -0500 Mark Felder wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013, at 14:49, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > Strongly agreed -- and it's what other operating systems do, either > > by policy or by convention. > > > > As long as this behavior only happens during pkg installs and never >

Re: ntpd as ntpd user question

2018-07-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:14:45 -0600 Ian Lepore wrote: > There's a "pre-world" stage of mergemaster (-Fp option I think) which > isn't needed often, but one of the times it is needed is apparently > when new user ids are added.   I wish mergemaster had an option to just add new users and groups, r

Re: ntpd as ntpd user question

2018-07-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:02:19 -0700 Cy Schubert wrote: >> I wish mergemaster had an option to just add new users and groups, >> rather than merging the files. > What's the difference? It would be automatic, so less hassle and no chance of getting the merge wrong. ___

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

2020-12-31 Thread RW
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:39:08 -0800 John-Mark Gurney wrote: > grarpamp wrote this message on Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 00:55 -0500: > > > signatures of the magnet links > > > > Signing torrent.asc, with stronger or even same hash as BT > > protocol, still serve purpose of authenticate torrent file ba

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

2021-01-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:25:08 -0500 grarpamp wrote: > > Is there any reason to think [bittorrent] insecure? > > Cost under $50k of compute to break sha-1, AFAIK you cannot break SHA-1 in the sense of creating data that matches a specific hash. What you can do is create a collision between two

Re: service -e doesn't really sort does it? the cool tip is slightly off

2021-01-16 Thread RW
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 23:28:48 + Dennis Clarke wrote: > Saw this pop up : > > rhea$ su - admsys > Password: > If you want to get a sorted list of all services that are started when > FreeBSD boots, > enter "service -e". > ... > > To which I thought "sorted? really?" > .. > Nope. That doesn't l