Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-03 Thread Leslie Jensen
You can read this tread: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html /Leslie > Hello, > Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I > can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed > machine (single disk) in a dual-

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-03 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > i'm finally trying to get my private scripts and binaries in > ~/bin in order. several of my perl scripts were meant to be > throwaway ... but a few seem to be more useful and i would have > to have informational or usa

Re: CyberShot DSC-S40 and FreeBSD

2010-04-03 Thread Mikle
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 02:48:11AM +0400, Mikle wrote: > Hello, list! > Is anyone here using CyberShot DSC-S40 with FreeBSD? > It's pretty old camera. When i plug it in my BSD desktop, nothing happens - > e.g., even no dmesg messages. Also, gphoto2 gui (gtkam) tells me 'no cameras > detected' whe

Re: On an iMac

2010-04-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
GUILLE Larrazabal wrote: Dears Sirs: I would like to ask you, wether I can install this OS on a Imac with Intel Core 2 duo 2,66 Proccesor, so that I can have this OS running. Another question I have is also I can install this FreeBSD on a Laptop,for example a HP Pavillion running Window 7.

FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-03 Thread S Roberts
Hello, Sorry if this has been asked before, but can some point me to where I can find info on installing FreeBSD-8 to a windows-7 pre-installed machine (single disk) in a dual-boot set up, please? Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks. Regards, S Roberts

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 02:17:06PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Gary" == Gary Kline 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

On an iMac

2010-04-03 Thread GUILLE Larrazabal
Dears Sirs: I would like to ask you, wether I can install this OS on a Imac with Intel Core 2 duo 2,66 Proccesor, so that I can have this OS running. Another question I have is also I can install this FreeBSD on a Laptop,for example a HP Pavillion running Window 7. I will be grateful if you c

CyberShot DSC-S40 and FreeBSD

2010-04-03 Thread Mikle
Hello, list! Is anyone here using CyberShot DSC-S40 with FreeBSD? It's pretty old camera. When i plug it in my BSD desktop, nothing happens - e.g., even no dmesg messages. Also, gphoto2 gui (gtkam) tells me 'no cameras detected' when i try to detect it. As i understand, i need some specific kerne

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Gary" == Gary Kline 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 Consulting

perl qstn...

2010-04-03 Thread Gary Kline
guys, i'm finally trying to get my private scripts and binaries in ~/bin in order. several of my perl scripts were meant to be throwaway ... but a few seem to be more useful and i would have to have informational or usage{} type messages. if a .pl script has to have at least one arg, is ther

Driver support for Supereal SR9600 USB-to-Ethernet chip?

2010-04-03 Thread Brett Glass
I just received a handful of USB Ethernet NICs whose primary chip says "SUPEREAL" on it. I've installed one on a Windows machine, and the computer identifies it as having the Supereal SR9600 chip on it. Is there support for this chip in FreeBSD? --Brett Glass _

Re: IPFW and Fail2Ban

2010-04-03 Thread Mike L
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Carmel NY wrote: > I am having an exceedingly hard time finding documentation on Fail2Ban > on FreeBSD. In fact, documentation on Fail2Ban seems rather sparse to > begin with. > > In any case, does Fail2Ban work with the IPFW firewall on FreeBSD? Does > it do it na

Re: IPFW and Fail2Ban

2010-04-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Carmel NY wrote: > > > Nothing at all, I am just exploring other avenues. Fail2Ban can > potentially block more attacks than denyhosts can though. > In what way? denyhosts can do more than simply ssh monitoring/blocking. It has a plugin system for extensibility.

Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-03 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 4/1/10, Peter Steele wrote: > We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works > well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at > the "mount root" step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root > partition. We use a labeled partition

Re: Freebsd-update issues

2010-04-03 Thread Jason
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:01:49PM +0100, Graeme Dargie thus spake: Hello All I have an issue with freebsd-update, I will back track a few steps to give you some background as to what I was doing prior to using freebsd-update. I have been trying to get half-life dedicated server working on

Re: IPFW and Fail2Ban

2010-04-03 Thread Carmel NY
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:49:33 -0600, Adam Vande More articulated: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Carmel NY > wrote: > > > I am having an exceedingly hard time finding documentation on > > Fail2Ban on FreeBSD. In fact, documentation on Fail2Ban seems > > rather sparse to begin with. > > > > In

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-03 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it >> result in reasonable performance penalty. > > Very pr

Re: IPFW and Fail2Ban

2010-04-03 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Carmel NY wrote: > I am having an exceedingly hard time finding documentation on Fail2Ban > on FreeBSD. In fact, documentation on Fail2Ban seems rather sparse to > begin with. > > In any case, does Fail2Ban work with the IPFW firewall on FreeBSD? Does > it do it na

IPFW and Fail2Ban

2010-04-03 Thread Carmel NY
I am having an exceedingly hard time finding documentation on Fail2Ban on FreeBSD. In fact, documentation on Fail2Ban seems rather sparse to begin with. In any case, does Fail2Ban work with the IPFW firewall on FreeBSD? Does it do it natively, or does it require a special configuration? I present

make delete-old question (removing old binaries)

2010-04-03 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Hi folks, I've rebuild my world with NO_MAIL (in src.conf) and a few other NO_ options however I noticed that related binaries are not removed entirely i.e. mailwrapper when I ran make delete-old / delete-old-libs. I can see that the old binaries have a timestamp older than the binaries rebuilt by

Re: Sendmail Five Second Greeting Delay

2010-04-03 Thread perryh
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Matthew Seaman writes: > > Ident queries like this will cause a delay if the other side > > doesn't respond respond to the ident query ... > I consider it polite for firewalls to actively refuse to open > the connection (TCP reset) rather than just dropping the request, >

Re: Fwd: mkuzip and/or geom_uzip changes? - SOLVED

2010-04-03 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/1/10, Tim Judd wrote: > On 4/1/10, Tim Judd wrote: >> On 4/1/10, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 6:32:09 pm Tim Judd wrote: Hi All, Just starting to see if I can find other reports. You all probably have had the "more than one pair of eyes looking at