Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 02), Chetan Shukla said: > Thanks everyone for the guidance. I got the VERSION number as 5200408120 > Does it mean it has make-3.81? No, it means it has make version 5200408120. make-3.81 is GNU make, while FreeBSD uses BSD make. They are mostly compatible, but there ar

RE: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Chetan Shukla
Thanks everyone for the guidance. I got the VERSION number as 5200408120 Does it mean it has make-3.81? Also could someone provide guidance on How to run code(C C++) written for Linux/Solaris On FreeBSD machine without changing Makefiles? Thanks & Regards, Chetan -Original Message- From:

Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Paul B Mahol said: > On 10/1/10, Devin Teske wrote: > > On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla wrote: > >> > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v > >> > does not help here. > >> > What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? > >> > >> On Fri, 2010-10-01

Re: Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Jason
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Kurt Buff thus spake: Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and all, but 'freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see outp

Re: FreeBSD on Compaq mini CQ10 anyone?

2010-10-01 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
El 26/09/2010 01:32 p.m., BernardL escribió: Le 05/09/2010 06:04, Gonzalo Nemmi a écrit : I just got one and was wondering if anyone was running FreeBSD on it and how well does it work out of the box. All comments are welcome. I have one with FreeBSD 8.1. Some difficulties to install X11 (I ha

Freebsd-update not working for me

2010-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Weird little problem here... I've got a 7.1-RELEASE box I'm trying to get to 8.1-RELEASE. I was able to do 'freebsd-update -install' and get the security patches and all, but 'freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade' fails - see output below. Can anyone point me in the right direction to start trou

Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:44:43PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jon Radel wrote: > > On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >> Yes! changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my > >> server cleanly, thanks for the tip. I stil

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: [snip]. > > OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the UPDATING > file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine: > > 20100920: p1 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 > Fix an integer overflow in RLE length parsing when decompressing > corrupt bzip2 data. >

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/1/10, Devin Teske wrote: > On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla wrote: >> > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. >> > make -v does not help here. >> > What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? >> >> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> gmake. On serious side t

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:49:29 -0400 Jerry wrote: > OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the > UPDATING file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine: > > 20100920: p1 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 > Fix an integer overflow in RLE length parsing when > decomp

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:23:16 +0100 Bruce Cran articulated: > On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:00:16 -0700 > Jason wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: > > >On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 > > >Dan Nelson articulated: > > > > > >> You must have missed > > >> http://sec

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:00:16 -0700 Jason articulated: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: > >On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 > >Dan Nelson articulated: > > > >> You must have missed > >> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; > >> patches f

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:00:16 -0700 Jason wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: > >On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 > >Dan Nelson articulated: > > > >> You must have missed > >> http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; > >> patches for 6,

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Devin Teske
On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla wrote: > > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. > > make -v does not help here. > > What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? > > On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +, Paul B Mahol wrote: > gmake. On serious side there is no way to find version and > fr

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Devin Teske
On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla wrote: > > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. > > make -v does not help here. > > What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? > > On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +, Paul B Mahol wrote: > gmake. On serious side there is no way to find version and --

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jason
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Jerry thus spake: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson articulated: You must have missed http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has fixed binaries if y

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:14:20 -0500 Dan Nelson articulated: > You must have missed > http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2.asc ; > patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has > fixed binaries if you use that. Never saw it. So I am assuming that simp

Re: BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-01 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 10/01/2010 12:52 PM, Matthew wrote: > I would be grateful for any pointers on how to resolve this. I suspect > the error message may not be exactly descriptive of whats happening. Kinda. Here's a few points to keep in mind when working with bind in FreeBSD: * By default, named runs in a chro

dynamically generating install.cfg

2010-10-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hello all, I would like to dynamically generate various settings that will be placed into the install.cfg file before sysinstall executes. I am PXE booting and have a mfsroot that contains a install.cfg with variables that will be applicable to all installs. Inside the mfsroot is a script that

Re: FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I am working on some code porting activity that wants > Some code to be ported on FreeBSD. > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. > make -v does not help here. > What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? gmake. On serious si

BIND: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found

2010-10-01 Thread Matthew
Hello, I noticed my email client was taking just over two minutes to start up, with the mail folder being accessed from a share on an NFS server. After rebuilding my workstation (due to h/w heating problems), I deleted my 50,000 emails from freebsd-questions, and ipfw folders. Now the email

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB). I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having recalled that the floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in dmesg

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Jerry said: > I have seen several notices on other forums regarding the update of bzip2 > to correct a potential security problem. From the bzip2 web site: > > > The current version is 1.0.6, released 20 Sept 2010. > > Version 1.0.6 removes a potential security vul

Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
I have seen several notices on other forums regarding the update of bzip2 to correct a potential security problem. From the bzip2 web site: The current version is 1.0.6, released 20 Sept 2010. Version 1.0.6 removes a potential security vulnerability, CVE-2010-0405, so all users are recommended t

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread krad
On 1 October 2010 15:34, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On 1 October 2010 10:16, Daniel Bye > wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > > >> Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built > >> into FreeBSD. Is there a facility in OpenBSD that is

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Daniel Bye < freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:02:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > > Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and > migrating. > > > > > > > > Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? > >

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 October 2010 10:16, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: >> Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built >> into FreeBSD. Is there a facility in OpenBSD that is "better" or is >> there something in 'audit' that is lackin

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:04:40 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB). > I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after > having recalled that the > floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On 1 October 2010 05:29, krad wrote: > > > In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is > > probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model > > (auditing) > > Krad, I was under th

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:02:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > Will migrate it to 8.x soon, by doing a new installation and migrating. > > > > > > Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? > > > > I'd go for 8.x as soon as possible. It'll be a while before 9 is ready for > > production, and whe

5.25" floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB). I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having recalled that the floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in dmesg (FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE). I can do a dd if=/dev/

FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-01 Thread Chetan Shukla
Hi All, I am working on some code porting activity that wants Some code to be ported on FreeBSD. I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v does not help here. What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? Thanks & Regards, Chetan "DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 October 2010 05:29, krad wrote: > In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is > probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model > (auditing) Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built into FreeBSD. Is there a

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Kobb
Both would probably be fine. However, I would recommend taking a look at pfsense if I were you. It is made to do what you want without as much of the overhead as a full blown *BSD install. It is easier to configure, update, the documentation is good, and you can get top notch paid support from

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread jorge espada
I can say that both of them are pretty good choice, in my personal experience I had the same configuration that you are planning to implement qith two servers on OpenBsd 4.6 + carp+ bgp as a router in a huge network , the only problem was some well know bug with carp and bgp..that for some reason s

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Daniel Bye < freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:13:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye < > > freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 0

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:13:28 +0300 Odhiambo Washington articulated: > Or should I wait for FreeBSD-9 ?? Or Freebsd-10.x perhaps! -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Mark Blackman
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) netstat -w 1 -i lo0 and netstat -w -l -i re0 for 1 second updates on each interface with packets/bytes in/out

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
> Try 'systat -if 1' or 'netstat -I re0 -w 1' / 'netstat -I lo0 -w 1'. > One of them is probably what you are thinking of. systat -if This is what I was looking for. Many, many thanks! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:07:56PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hi there, > > 2010/10/1 Fernando Apesteguía : > >> I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to > >> check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please > >> help? :) > > > > I use iftop[1]

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, 2010/10/1 Fernando Apesteguía : >> I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to >> check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please >> help? :) > > I use iftop[1] No, this one is built into the system. I havent't used it for some time and cann

Re: A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Dear all, > > I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to > check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please > help? :) I use iftop[1] Cheers! [1] http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/net-mgmt/ifto

A command to check network transfer

2010-10-01 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I cannot for the life of mine remember the command which allows me to check incoming and outgoing transfer on lo0 and re0. Can you please help? :) Thanks a lot! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:13:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye < > freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I am trying this out: > > > > > > #portupgrade -f 'a

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread krad
On 30 September 2010 23:19, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hi, > > We are in the process to replace two Cisco Pix firewalls and one Cisco > router with two servers running PF with carp. The network is large > (it is an University) and all will depend on this two machines. > > We have made some tests

Re: Upgrading autoconf

2010-10-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Bye < freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:50:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I am trying this out: > > > > #portupgrade -f 'autoconf*' 'automake*' > > Try upgrading the failing ports by hand. portupgrade tend

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-10-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for the responses! On 01/10/2010 02:52, Paul Wootton wrote: On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp