Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 ipw WPA

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
I've entered PR kern/142766 for this. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...

cannot install apache22 on FBSD 8.0

2010-01-12 Thread PJ
Gentlemen, I am absolutely stupefied by apache22, php5, php5-extensions and phpmysql refusing to be updated or installed I did manage to do one installation on a freshly upgraded box from 7.2 to 8.0 but with very frustrating and time consuming efforts. I still don't know how I managed, but it seems

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread RW
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:51:00 -0800 Rob Farmer wrote: > I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on > little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian > and the OS chooses the mode. I'm not

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote: Looks like you're using postfix pretending to be sendmail.  Evidently postfix doesn't build aliases.db the same way.  You might try newaliases. I tried that, but it had an identical result. If you want to keep postfix, you'll have to figure it out separately.

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 18:11 -0500, Jim wrote: > >Yeah, that might work. I had troubles with aliases and the database > >and it didn't resolve itself until I ran newaliases. But newaliases > > is > >just a symlink to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. It calls > > /etc/mail/mail.con

Re: zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:57, krad wrote: 2010/1/12 Rolf Nielsen mailto:listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com>> Hi all, I just upgraded to a more recent version of 8.0-STABLE, and I noticed during boot that zfs had changed from version 13 to version 14. Is it safe to run zpool upgrade -a on a s

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Jim
>        Yeah, that might work.  I had troubles with aliases and the database >        and it didn't resolve itself until I ran newaliases.  But newaliases is >        just a symlink to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper.  It calls /etc/mail/mail.conf >        with newaliases which point to the *real* binary.  

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Jim
> Looks like you're using postfix pretending to be sendmail.  Evidently > postfix doesn't build aliases.db the same way.  You might try newaliases. > I tried that, but it had an identical result. -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block. I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. But even that filles my logs. What I meant was that if you want to block IPs or ranges of IPs

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob Farmer writes: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Lowell Gilbert > wrote: >> As the original poster observed, PowerPC, Sparc and IA64 are all capable >> of being used in either endian setting. >> >> I checked endian.h, and it looks as though FreeBSD uses Sparc as >> big-endian, IA64 as litt

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Kaya Saman writes: > >> David Kelly wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: >>> I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out ho

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: >> David Kelly wrote: >> >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > > [...] > >> >>I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which >> >>FreeBSD

Re: zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread krad
2010/1/12 Rolf Nielsen > Hi all, > > I just upgraded to a more recent version of 8.0-STABLE, and I noticed > during boot that zfs had changed from version 13 to version 14. Is it safe > to run zpool upgrade -a on a system while in multiuser, or will I have to > take some security measures, such a

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > David Kelly wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: [...] > >>I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which > >>FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. > > >i386 is little endia

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
On 2010-01-12 22:04, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endi

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kaya Saman writes: > David Kelly wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on >>> little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set >>> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc,

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Kaya Saman
David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian and the OS choo

RE: [PHP] RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping / Can't Build Port - FreeBSD 6.1

2010-01-12 Thread Don O'Neil
This is _exactly_ what I did, and as soon as I try a 'make all-depend-list' the error shows up. I don't even have the X11 system installed (it's a headless server, with no GUI). This is on a CLEAN 6.1 install, without any upgrades/patches, just straight off the ISO install and after a portsnap ins

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on > little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian > and the OS chooses the mode. I'm

Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Farmer
I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian and the OS chooses the mode. I'm not familiar with these platforms - I'm sure it has been answered s

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
2010/1/12 Rafał Jackiewicz : >>Thanks, could you do the same, but using 2 .eli vdevs mirrorred >>together in a zfs mirror? >> >>- Sincerely, >>Dan Naumov > > Hi, > > Proc: Intell Atom 330 (2x1.6Ghz) - 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 HTT threads > Chipset: Intel 82945G > Sys: 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RE

Re: [PHP] RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping / Can't Build Port - FreeBSD 6.1

2010-01-12 Thread hack988 hack988
1.add WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf 2.remove X11BASE="" from that file and 4.make all-depend-list 5.make clean all depend soft 6.make menuconfig set X11 disable 7.make &&make install 2010/1/12 Don O'Neil : > Ok.. just for grins I installed a new instance of 6.1, NO Patches, just > straight o

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Colin Albert
On 01/12/10 14:23, Colin Albert wrote: On 01/12/10 11:12, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block escribió: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I

cross compiler for x86_64 freebsd

2010-01-12 Thread john blair
I am trying to build a crosscompiler (gcc-4.1.2, binutils-2.15, freebsd-8.0) with target as x86_64-freebsd and host as i686-linux. Everything builds successfully but compiler-assist libraries (libgcc_s, libstdc++, etc.) are Linux library, not a FreeBSD one. $ file gcc-4.1.2/x86_64-freebsd8.0/lib/l

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:09:54AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote: > > >make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all > >the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since > >the last rebuild failed). > > Just tried it here

Re: Jails - Ethernet data vs IP data

2010-01-12 Thread Jamie Gritton
On 01/09/10 21:21, Tim Judd wrote: I bought a new SiliconDust HDHomeRun device which brings two Digital coaxial tuners to an ethernet network. From what I read and understand about the HDHomeRun ("HDHR"), is that it does have an IP address assigned to the system, but all packets of video are ac

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-12 Thread Knight Tiger
Hi, To update all, I followed Roland's suggestion and installed isomaster and just opened the iso file (1GB) and saved it again and it 'magically' shrank to 570 MB. The new ISO was burned and tested on a physical machine and it works fine. Thanks Roland ! I tried Ian's suggestion and copied fro

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Colin Albert
On 01/12/10 11:12, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block escribió: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flas

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, keneasson wrote: >> I did a pkg_delete for both libiconv and libxul in the hope that this would >> clear any stale depends from firefox2 days causing me these problems. >> > : >> #cd ../../devel/libtool22 >>

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d?a Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block escribi?: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and R

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2010-01-12 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, keneasson wrote: > I did a pkg_delete for both libiconv and libxul in the hope that this would > clear any stale depends from firefox2 days causing me these problems. > : > #cd ../../devel/libtool22 > local# make > ===> libtool-2.2.6b depends on file: /usr/local

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread keneasson
I did a pkg_delete for both libiconv and libxul in the hope that this would clear any stale depends from firefox2 days causing me these problems. local# cd /var/db/pkg/ local# ls | grep iconv php5-iconv-5.2.12 local# now the makefile on the other hand: local# cd /usr/ports/converters/libiconv lo

Re: 7.2 equiv for usbconfig on 8.0?

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Franks
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:53 PM 1/5/2010, Steve Franks wrote: >> >> How do I reset my usb on 7.2 when I insert a card in the internal >> flash reader?  usbconfig works great on 8, but I have systems I cannot >> upgrade at the moment... > > I dont think there is a r

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jim wrote: make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since the last rebuild failed). Just tried it here successfully, although I'd usually do newaliases. [r...@mail-jail /etc/mai

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Jim
>        What happens if you do a grep aliases in /etc/mail?  In my sensmail >        files I see references to aliases in the config *.cf and Makefile, >        and the aliases file itself. as in ls `/etc/mail | grep aliases` or `cat /etc/mail/* | grep aliases` The former shows the file 'aliases'

Re: top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 12, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Should the Active memory, as reported by top(1), be equal to the > sum of rss (the real memory (resident set) size of the process) > of all processes, as reported by ps(1)? No. They aren't measuring the same thing; in a system with pl

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 1/12/10, keneasson wrote: > Hi thanks for the reply. > I'm worried that changing WITH_GECKO will try and rebuild firefox2 which is > marked IGNORE. It took me a long time to get that resolved. > > Here is a bit of my portmaster -a log, it's pretty clear that there is a > dependency loop. >

Re: sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:00:03PM -0500, Jim wrote: > make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all > the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since > the last rebuild failed). What I am finding is that the command > "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -OAliasFi

Re: pkg_info fails with "leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''"

2010-01-12 Thread Henry Wong
Mike, Thanks for your response. Since originally writing that message, I had done some tests (there was a misconfiguration in mailer that my browser called on the system I was sending from so the message got sent out much later when it was corrected). I had tried running the exact same executab

zpool upgrade - is it safe?

2010-01-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hi all, I just upgraded to a more recent version of 8.0-STABLE, and I noticed during boot that zfs had changed from version 13 to version 14. Is it safe to run zpool upgrade -a on a system while in multiuser, or will I have to take some security measures, such as creating a complete backup an

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread keneasson
Hi thanks for the reply. I'm worried that changing WITH_GECKO will try and rebuild firefox2 which is marked IGNORE. It took me a long time to get that resolved. Here is a bit of my portmaster -a log, it's pretty clear that there is a dependency loop. portmaster -a > pormasterbuild.log /libexec

sendmail issues - make fails to create aliases.db in /etc/mail

2010-01-12 Thread Jim
make in /etc/mail fails (silently) to create aliases.db. I touched all the source files I modified to make sure they would be rebuilt (since the last rebuild failed). What I am finding is that the command "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -OAliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases" is not creating aliases.db, nor is it c

E-commerce Gateway

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Arshi
  E-commerce Payment Gateway Solution: (E-commerce Gateway Solution for United States and Canadian Merchants)   Federated Payments- USA Merchant Accounts MSI Canada- Canadian Merchant Accounts     About Us Federated Payments / MSI Canada is a credit card payment processor in the United S

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 1/12/10, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:45:35PM +0600, keneasson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Forgive cross posting, i have an unusable system and an not sure where to > post. > > This follows up a more lengthy post, but i've got some new info so again. > > > > libxul req

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block escribió: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based > >desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. > >some tools like Fire

So, did I mis-file this PR? [bin/141175: New cpio(1) in FreeBSD 8 regressed and left out a previous option: -V (dots) [regression]]

2010-01-12 Thread Philip Kizer
When FreeBSD-8 came out, it came with a newly rewritten cpio(1) that no longer offered an option I originally started using with SunOS/Solaris, but came to expect on FreeBSD and Linux as well. Since it was pretty trivial to add it back, I did so and offered the patch in PR bin/141175:

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Colin Albert
On 01/12/10 10:48, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. I'm al

Re: can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:45:35PM +0600, keneasson wrote: > Hello, > > Forgive cross posting, i have an unusable system and an not sure where to > post. > This follows up a more lengthy post, but i've got some new info so again. > > libxul requiers libiconv > libiconv requires libxul libicon

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to wa

can't update system.

2010-01-12 Thread keneasson
Hello, Forgive cross posting, i have an unusable system and an not sure where to post. This follows up a more lengthy post, but i've got some new info so again. libxul requiers libiconv libiconv requires libxul i have WITH_GECKO=libxul in make.conf i'm using FreeBSD 8.0-stable. thanks. ken __

top/ps: is Active Memory = sum(resident set size)?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This has probably been discussed before, so apology for asking the same question again. Should the Active memory, as reported by top(1), be equal to the sum of rss (the real memory (resident set) size of the process) of all processes, as reported by ps(1)? The sum of ps(1) rss fields is probably t

bsdar/netstat issue

2010-01-12 Thread Maxim Ianoglo
Hello, Got an issue. On FreBSD amd64 bsdsar dows not works properly because of netstat -b -i -n shows one extra column "Idrop" $ uname -m amd64 $ netstat -b -i -n NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll bge0 1500 00:00:1

Re: Setup of Router machine with FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread nvidican
Paul, The key thing you need to look at is enabling routing on the machine you want to act as a gateway. Given the dual-homed nature of the machine it's routing table will already contain each of the interfaces on the two networks, and as such the router machine will 'know' how to connect

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
> Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based >> desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. >> some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. >> I'm always forced to launch a VM w

Re: Buld echo

2010-01-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/12/2010 12:21 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have 35 log files that I want to flush once a day. In order to keep them exist I now do an 'echo > logfile.log' How can I do such in one command having the same effect on all log files? You could use truncate(1). Something like: truncate -s 0 file1

Re: Catastrophic Installation Failure now!

2010-01-12 Thread jaymax
The problem was caused by a permission change in the mysql data directory, in my case /disk02/db/mysql/DATA - why and how is beyond my comprehension. It would be a good tactic for developers to to include a troubleshooting script to check directory permissions in installations, as this is such a

Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based > desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. > some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. > I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to wa

Re: Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-12 Thread krad
2010/1/12 Michael Powell > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Michael Powell wrote: > >> Greetings everyone: > [snip] > >> > >> Thanks in advance for the wielding of any clue sticks. :-) > > > > This sort of process /is/ possible, but it is a lot more involved than > > you're anticipating. Unless you'

Re: Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-12 Thread krad
2010/1/11 Steve Bertrand > All, > > I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can > import/mount the pool properly. > > However, I designed this box originally so that it mounts / from > zfs:storage after booting from a USB stick. > > After the upgrade of the disks, I'm st

watching WebEx session on FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch such sessions and it would be goo

Re: Buld echo

2010-01-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I have 35 log files that I want to flush once a day. > In order to keep them exist I now do an 'echo > logfile.log' > How can I do such in one command having the same effect on all log files? You could have a look at newsyslog: it would purge and recreate the files for you, including the right o

Buld echo

2010-01-12 Thread Jos Chrispijn
I have 35 log files that I want to flush once a day. In order to keep them exist I now do an 'echo > logfile.log' How can I do such in one command having the same effect on all log files? Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: pkg_info fails with "leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''"

2010-01-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Henry Wong wrote: > I'm seeing the same problem with pkg_info on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. > However, I also found that even when running as the root user, if > I'm in a chroot jail, it does not fail. Sometime after experiencing this problem I discovered that my ports ha

Solved: Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports

2010-01-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 02 January 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: > After successfully moving from 6.4 to 8.0 by doing a clean install > I've embarked on the task of rebuilding OpenOffice from ports :-( > > I'm getting a confusing error in the config stage: > > --

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which > > I get brute force ssh attacks. > > This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning > answer: > > - why not let your firew

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning answer: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block.

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-12 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Allow me to continue this thread with a question about a method to erase a disk that has bad sectors. I bought a 1TB hard disk and will do the recoverdisk job soon. Then the disk, a Seagate which is still under warranty until 2013 as my local distributor told me, will go back and hopefully I'll

installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced to stick with UFS2 for the root partition (the actual data pool will be ZFS using traditional SATA disks). I am probably going to use GPT partitioning and have t

Re: Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Michael Powell wrote: >> Greetings everyone: [snip] >> >> Thanks in advance for the wielding of any clue sticks. :-) > > This sort of process /is/ possible, but it is a lot more involved than > you're anticipating. Unless you're the sort of person that likes doing > ter

post midnight and still live....

2010-01-12 Thread Gary Kline
it's the 12th and my link thru qwest is still up. for now. maybe the tech from comcast saw how things were wired and fixed it. maybe he is a laid ofif ph.d. philosophy prof never know , given the economy. anyhow, I hope things still work over the next several days... -g -- Gary Klin

Re: Setup of Router machine with FreeBSD

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Shi
Nathan, Thank you very much for your reply. I have tried out your suggestion and experienced some problem. Hope you could kindly shed some light on them and I really appreciate it. First, I experienced connection problem from server machine(192.168.2.1) to router interface (192.168.2.2). I conne