Re: Strange kernel log message

2007-11-27 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:58:41PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2007-11-26 09:58, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So I have this in my security run output: >>> kernel log messages: >>> +++ /tmp/security.h

Strange kernel log message

2007-11-26 Thread Ceri Davies
So I have this in my security run output: kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.hLYJI0kF Sun Nov 25 03:01:02 2007 +222>2>>>NNNMNMMIII M III SIISAS SAAA 3 303,020,0 ,, EE IEIIESSSAIAA S A f ff + + +f WTF now? I'm not sure if that's a real kernel message that got garbled or wheth

Re: man sysinstall

2007-02-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:49:39PM +1100, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 31/01/2007 3:05 PM, Jared Barneck wrote: > ... > >I found the answer for how to reboot in the code. To > >reboot add the following to the end of the > >install.cfg: > > > >shutdown > > > >I found it in this source file: > >/usr/src

Re: man sysinstall

2007-02-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:05:39PM -0800, Jared Barneck wrote: > I found the answer for how to reboot in the code. To > reboot add the following to the end of the > install.cfg: > > shutdown > > I found it in this source file: > /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dispatch.c > > This source file has

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:54:47PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I > > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. &g

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:28:39PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 + > Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > T

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-25 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: > Hello all, > > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. > > I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels > GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are

Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:32:38AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > Exactly! And not only my .sig which I do have control over whether > I add it or not, and also the [EMAIL PROTECTED] stupid corporate disclaimer > also > (over which I have no control) sigh Though you could presumably add an e

Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they > position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the > text. My editor also positions the cursor at the very top when I > reply to a message. Bu

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:41PM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > Unfortunately all Micro$lop 'standard' email clients and a few others > put the cursor at the top of the email, Actually, Entourage does not. While we're on the subject of etiquette, those insist on having this much crap at the bot

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:00:56PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:44, Christian Baer wrote: > > > The problem was not the authorized_keys file itself, it was my home > > directory. > > I don't think so. More likely, it was the .ssh directory itself. Why not? Group

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:40:22AM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > While I do agree that FreeBSD does need work, the big pebble in my shoe > right now is a journaling file system (try doing a fsck on a 1TB file > system) If you want journalling file system then the thing to do is to check out -curre

Re: want to unsubscribe from cvs:commit

2007-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:40:39AM +0530, prashant chavan wrote: > hi > > I want to unsubscribe from cvs:commit . plz let me know how to do it. Follow the instructions at the bottom of every message you receive. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:20:58PM -0800, Simon Gao wrote: > Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? As Bill said, you need to set WRKDIRPREFIX in /etc/make.conf; I generally use /var/tmp/port-builds. I also have a writeable share that consists of the port distf

Re: Ports: Starting over from scratch?

2006-12-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:05:08PM -0600, Drew wrote: > I'm running into some problems on a desktop box that I've not seen anywhere > else with upgrading multiple ports. The problem is so extensive, and a > solution not being forthcoming, I'm very tempted to make deinstall from > /usr/ports and the

Re: cvs

2006-10-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 06:12:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >You're wrong. It's the other way around: > > > >We are *forced* to use CVSup, because CVS is centralized, without > >any other good way to mirror changesets to a distributed network of > >m

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On 15/10/06 23:26, "William Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay. > > I've installed FreeBSD on my desktop. I got KDE working, and Amor is > running so I have a little daemon sitting on my window. I can mount my > USB card reader and open the pictures from my digital camera in Gimp. > I can b

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE : rm swapfile after swapoff can't release the disk space

2006-10-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:55:36PM +, Honest Qiao wrote: > Environment: FreeBSD www141.igogo8.com 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD > 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri May 12 12:12:17 CST 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/iGOGO8-PAE i386 > > Description: > Several months ago , I read the follow

Re: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE?

2006-09-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On 28/9/06 01:42, "Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Original Message - >> From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "FreeBSD Questions" >> Subject: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE? >> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 >> >> >> I felt I should ask this ques

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On 24/9/06 13:52, "Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? >> >> Ceri > > > Huh? > Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and > rolling.. Does it work with Sun Ray server? Ceri -- That m

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 23/9/06 20:05, "Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ceri Davies >> Sent: September 23, 2006 5:53 AM >> To: Robert Davi

Re: freebsd black-listed on dsbl...

2006-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 23/9/06 11:59, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey guys, > > dunno whether this is the correct list, but if there's > someone feeling responsible for that, please try to fix ;-) > >> In: MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=4342 >> Out: 521 Service unavailable; Se

Re: Sun X4200 FreeBSD 6.1 experience??

2006-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 19/9/06 03:20, "Bachilo Dmitry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > В сообщении от Понедельник 18 сентября 2006 21:20 ke han написал(a): >> Has anyone experienced FreeBSD 6.1 on a Sun X4200 ? Does everything >> work? ILOM? RAID-1 ? 2 sets of RAID-1 ?...any feedback would help me >> make a decision.

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 20/9/06 13:37, "Robert Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using thin > clients to connect to the main server to run apps. Are they any programms in > thr ports which allow a similar set-up using FreeBSD. I know you can do this >

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >>>Hello Ceri, > >>> > >>>Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > >>> &

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:23:01PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > >> > >> What kind of setup do you have where you can't get to single-user mode

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:21:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 17), Ceri Davies said: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, Ceri wrote: > > > > > I have a sy

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:11:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > Hello Ceri, > > > > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > > I

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:15:11PM +0200, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello Ceri, > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough > > for it to fail a preen fsck. > > > I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine,

Re: Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:58:03PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Hello Ceri, > > > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:55:08 PM, you wrote: > > > > > I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough > > > for it to fail a preen fsck. > > > > > I cannot easily get to sin

Wilfully dirtying a filesystem

2006-08-17 Thread Ceri Davies
I have a system on which /usr is slightly hosed, but not badly enough for it to fail a preen fsck. I cannot easily get to single-user on this machine, so is there a good way for me to dirty the filesystem just enough to force "fsck -p" to fail (yanking power also difficult)? "umount -f /usr; rebo

Re: 6.1 new sysinstall country panel?

2006-05-21 Thread Ceri Davies
On 17/5/06 18:08, "fbsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While installing fresh virgin 6.1 from cdrom, the first thing > I get is a new panel asking for me to select the country I am from. > > What is the purpose of this new country selection screen? > Why was it added to sysinstall in 6.1? It was

Re: when 5.5

2006-05-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11/5/06 16:26, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with new > ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this time? It was planned this time as an experiment. The current feeling is that it has worked qu

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 23:37, "martinko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ceri Davies wrote: >> On 9/5/06 15:57, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote: >>>> I have to agree with the original post

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:00:49PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > > > > >> I for one do not see an need to change the logo at all. > > > >That's no reason to tell lies. > > There's no reason to accuse people of telling lies without having any > evidence, either. Statements were made which are prov

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:51:10PM +, cpghost wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:40:01PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On 10/5/06 18:24, "cpghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:44:03PM +, Kep Woof wrote: > &g

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 18:24, "cpghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:44:03PM +, Kep Woof wrote: >>> This is free software man, if you don't like it, fix it >>> yourself. >> >> What is the procedure to fix a logo? > > use send-pr(1), of course! > > Since we're talking about lo

Re: 6.1_RELEASE Install Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 05:03, "bc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After make installworld I ran the final run thru of mergemaster and recived > this error: > > ERROR CODE 64 > FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'dc' into /usr/src/etc/ and install files to the > temproot environment. Did you cut and paste that, or copy it in

Re: vote for keeping "beastie" as official logo

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 15:53, "fbsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are as dissatisfied with the new official logo > as I am, then forward this email to the FreeBSD federation > board of directors at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear FreeBSD federation board of directors: > > I am upset with the manner in

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 15:15, "DAve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://pixelhammer.com/aw_jeez.jpg > > This has gone too far. Searching shows that the FreeBSD questions list > had mention of this over a year ago. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-February/076063. > html >

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 09:18, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Horne >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:23 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo >> >>

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 is now available for download

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 17:54, "Daniel Bye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:28:34AM -0400, fbsd wrote: >> This is just a short note to inform all the list readers that 6.1 is >> available. > > We know. We read announce@ Thanks, that's funny! Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't

Re: New freeBSD logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 16:42, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Does anyone else think its a logo get over it? When was the last time an >> IT admin went I installed Win 2k3 becuase it has that cool logo thing >> that I like for a screensaver? > > > I think it's a bigger problem than that. Whe

Re: New freeBSD logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 15:25, "fbsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your negtave comments are foundless. > A public vote is not an logistical near-impossibility. > Hell just creating a special list to submit an email > to as your yes or not vote is a simple solution and other > solutions could be found one way

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/5/06 13:13, "fbsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a long time reader of this list I did not see any > announcement of it here. Only after selection of the > new logo was made was it talked about on this list > People were very up set with it them and the ground > swell over this has only

Re: Mirroring GNATS locally - /usr/ports/databases/gnats marked as forbidden

2006-05-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On 9/5/06 15:06, "Frank Steinborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to mirror the FreeBSD-GNATS db at home, as shown in the > Committers Guide. However, gnats in Ports is marked as forbidden. Can > I safely use GNATS4 instead? Is it compatible to GNATS3 databases? Nope. I just run

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On 9/5/06 10:52, "Kep Woof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I guess this is the wrong list, but I just looked at freebsd.org and > saw the new logo. I really think it looks terrible. Everyone that > I've spoken to agrees. It looks like some kind of sextoy/spacehopper, > and not becomming

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On 9/5/06 11:56, "cpghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Semi-seriously, www@: how about offering people a chance to individually > customize that logo away? It's not really THAT important, but setting > up a transparent proxy just to filter that banner out is kind of silly > waste of time. Spe

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-09 Thread Ceri Davies
On 9/5/06 15:57, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:01 AM 5/9/2006, you wrote: >> I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so >> is the font they've started to use since the announcement of >> FreeBSD6.1-RELEASE. At > > Me Too. At first I thought it was

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:44:15AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 10:55, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On 8/5/06 15:39, "Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday...

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE !!

2006-05-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On 8/5/06 15:39, "Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on a dev box, did a cvsup and buildworld yesterday... and now my kernel > says 6.1 stable! > > fbsd60-2# uname -a > FreeBSD fbsd60-2.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May > 7 18:33:48 CDT 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/us

Re: DCSSI Authorisation for Free BSD Software

2006-05-06 Thread Ceri Davies
Bethan, On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > ExportControls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Additionally, because FreeBSD contains what is considered "strong > > cryptography", French authorities (the "DCSSI") requires that an > > authorisation is obtained for the item i

Re: BSD equiv of /proc?

2006-05-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On 5/5/06 15:44, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff. > > On 05/05/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:07:03 -0400 >> "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to >>> linux,

Re: Log or Journal Filesystem

2006-04-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On 28/4/06 19:35, "Alexandre Biancalana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > Has some news about a log or journal filesystem for FreeBSD ?? > > I've looked at gjournal (http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/gjournal) > but it not seen to be a complete solution. There has been some othe

Re: bind and multiple a records

2006-04-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On 23/4/06 07:24, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On FreeBSD 6.0 with bind9, if I define a host to have multiple A > records, such that some IP addresses are listed more than once, for > example: > > . > . > . > www 600 IN A 192.168.1.1 > 600 IN A 192.168.1.2 > 60

Re: Firewall log unlimited - How to?

2006-03-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On 20/3/06 14:57, "Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was configuring the Firewall when I got this message: > > Mar 20 11:16:08 bsd-net kernel: ipfw: limit 100 reached on entry 835 > >And the firewall stoped to create log messages after this message. >

Re: Mistake in FreeBSD manual

2006-03-20 Thread Ceri Davies
On 20/3/06 10:13, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/20/06, Grant Moritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Hey, >>In the FreeBSD manual >>([1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- >>inetd.html) under the section "25.2.5 Security" at th

Re: BSD License "Innocence" Clause Proposal

2006-03-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On 19/3/06 22:16, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if I should start advocating the idea here. > Some people must've had this thought before I ever > did, I hope they will support me. > > We need a special clause in the license we release > our work under. I'm not a l

Re: docs/94587: Error in ftpusers(5) manpage

2006-03-19 Thread Ceri Davies
Whoops, wrong list. Ceri On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:43:32PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On 19/3/06 18:40, "Ceri Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All of the man pages belonging to NetBSD's FTP daemon should be renamed so > > that they don't

Re: docs/94587: Error in ftpusers(5) manpage

2006-03-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On 19/3/06 18:40, "Ceri Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of the man pages belonging to NetBSD's FTP daemon should be renamed so > that they don't conflict, because this is too confusing. I recommend that > this PR get assigned to whoever does the im

Re: Daily chksetuid script - how to ignore certain dirs/filesystems?

2006-03-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:25:04AM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: > On 3/19/06, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19/3/06 10:58, "Pat Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a backup script that runs every night, backing up everythi

Re: Daily chksetuid script - how to ignore certain dirs/filesystems?

2006-03-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On 19/3/06 10:58, "Pat Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a backup script that runs every night, backing up everything to > a backup drive. When the security script runs, it finds a bunch of > setuid files at /backup - I'd like to ignore those files, so I don't > have to wade through the

Re: need help

2006-03-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On 17/3/06 12:30, "Michael S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superblocks. If you used the default parameters when creating the filesystem then "newfs -N /dev/ad0s1a" should tell you where the alternate superblocks are and you may be ab

Re: mounting nfs share

2006-03-17 Thread Ceri Davies
On 17/3/06 11:24, "Imran Imtiaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the command to mount NFS share? See the mount_nfs manpage. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere ___ fre

Re: How to figure out who shutdown box (Kelly D. Grills)

2006-03-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:22:08PM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:24:17AM -0500, Jon Poland wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I operate a colo box running FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY. Yesterday the box > >> shutdown and powered off. I didn't execute shutdown or halt, and I'm > >the > >>

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:19:28AM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > > >On 6/3/06 14:56, "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Ceri Davies wrote: > > >On 6/3/06 14:56, "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo. > >>

Re: Release 6.0 386 kernel config file

2006-03-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On 6/3/06 19:26, "Steve P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone please give me a url to a text listing of this file? I > don't have access to fbsd right now. http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC - click "download" Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at a

Re: New logo, new look

2006-03-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On 6/3/06 14:56, "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So a little red ball with 2 little pointed ears is the new logo. > It sucks big time. > > When you have a contest and none of the entrees are any good > you do not have to pick any of then, you could have just > closed the contest with no

Re: Terminal Not Providing login: Prompt

2006-03-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On 4/3/06 23:37, "Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn Dawson wrote: >> At 03:04 PM 3/4/2006, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> When I use 'tip' I seem to bee connected, but I get no login prompt. >>> >>> $ tip sio0 >>> connected >>> >>> and nothing else. >> >> Did you enable ttyd0 in /et

Re: New Logo

2006-03-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On 3/3/06 18:01, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ansar Mohammed wrote: >> Does anyone know where I can get apparel with the new FreeBSD Logos? >> >> >> > On a related note: > What's the status of the winner of the logo contest? > Is it encumbered, is it free to use? Copyright

Re: We want tu use your company name and logo

2006-03-03 Thread Ceri Davies
On 3/3/06 15:54, "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't see the point in all this FreeBSD, Linux wars just give the man an >> answer and walk away he wants to sell FreeBSD Daemon logos, the Penguin >> Logos, and the slackwar

Re: does buildkernel rerun config

2006-03-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On 1/3/06 07:53, "Steel City Phantom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > say you are running buildkernel with a config file. you realize you > made a mistake and ctl-c the build. change the config file and restart > buildkernel. does make buildkernel re-run the config to update the code > configurati

Re: password change in memberships reminder

2006-03-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On 1/3/06 06:06, "Ashok Shrestha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received my monthly "freebsd.org mailing list memberships > reminder." But some of my passwords were changed. Is that normal? > > I can't check my previous ones because I already deleted them. Is it possible that you never set

Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing

2006-02-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On 26/2/06 09:24, "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ACPI APIC Table: Ha ha - does that stand for what I think it stands for? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere __

Re: portsnap failing

2006-02-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On 23/2/06 11:33, "Ashley Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to update my ports tree on a 6.0-RELEASE/amd64 machine. I get this > error: > > Updating from Wed Feb 15 08:30:17 GMT 2006 to Thu Feb 23 10:20:03 GMT 2006. > Fetching 3 metadata patches.. done. > Applying metadata patches..

Re: torrents.freebsd.org

2006-02-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 20/2/06 23:34, "Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > torrents.freebsd.org (216.136.204.113:8080) does not seem to be > accepting any connections. Neither ctorrent nor rtorrent will connect > to it, nor will a manual telnet connection. > > torrents.freebsd.org:8080 is the tracker specifie

Re: Odd file created in /

2006-02-18 Thread Ceri Davies
On 18/2/06 10:27, "Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a file in / called -P. It is a socket file I believe I created by > mistake while trying to get mysql, spamassassin, or something similar to > work. > > How can I check for sure to make sure it isn't something important? Ch

Re: Odd daily run output

2006-02-15 Thread Ceri Davies
On 15 Feb 2006, at 13:26, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jimmie James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I know there's 8% reserved for softupdates, but how is it possible that there's _extra_ space on /tmp ? What am I missing? This is the first time I've seen this. This is a FAQ. In fact, it's listed in

Re: More tomcat wierdness

2006-02-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On 13 Feb 2006, at 13:00, Ashley Moran wrote: I've reinstalled Tomcat (now in www/tomcat55) because it was going mental (100% CPU) and now the stop/start isn't working through the rc.d script. Tomcat starts and records the PID in /var/run/tomcat55.pid. But when I call the script with st

Re: Long list of stale dependencies for tomcat55 port

2006-02-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On 13 Feb 2006, at 11:28, Ashley Moran wrote: Does anyone know how my Tomcat installation on a 5.4 box has ended up including the following as tomcat dependencies? atk-1.10.3 libXft-2.1.7 xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 desktop-file-utils-0.10_3 pango-1.10.3 glib-2.8.6 cairo-1.0.2_1 gtk-2.8.12 mo

Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11 Feb 2006, at 04:30, Christopher Cowart wrote: On a not-a-show-stopper note, is there any way to get around specifying the hostname and/or net device? I'd rather not specify the hostname so that I can have one generic script for many machines. Further, what if a some other machine has a

Re: Mount changing mount point rights?

2006-02-11 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11 Feb 2006, at 08:44, Norberto Meijome wrote: thanks for the pointer. After mounting it, I did sudo chown betom: mnt_fld cd mnt_fld ls -la drwx-- 16 betom wheel512 Feb 11 12:07 . drwxr-x--- 50 betom betom 3072 Feb 11 11:47 .. [...] which looks ok to me.. but as soon

Re: Mount changing mount point rights?

2006-02-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 9 Feb 2006, at 12:52, Norberto Meijome wrote: hi all, I'm mounting a GELI encrypted, file backed vnode on ~/mount_folder. I am member of wheel. I start with Home directory: drwxr-x--- 51 betom betom 3072 Feb 9 23:38 betom file and folder which i want to mount in. drwxrwx--

Re: Proper mail headers

2006-02-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:57:30AM +0900, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > I reply to emails using the "reply to all" feature of my mail client. It > replies (not unreasonably, I think) to the list (as specified by List-ID), > the To, From, and CC. It seems to eliminate any duplicates as well as my

Re: Proper mail headers

2006-02-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On 30 Jan 2006, at 18:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I just let let my reply go to the person named in Reply-To or should

Re: what am I doing wrong with edquota ?

2006-02-04 Thread Ceri Davies
On 29 Jan 2006, at 22:56, Ensel Sharon wrote: edquota -u -e /mnt/fs1:810:900:81:90 test200 Looks fine. Things to check: Do any other quotas work? Is the filesystem mounted with the appropriate quota options? Do you have QUOTA support in your kernel? Does /mnt/fs1/quota.user

Re: inetd and security

2006-01-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On 25 Jan 2006, at 01:09, Playnet wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, What better for security reasons? Inetd, xinetd, standalone? As sample -- vsftpd. As i know, inetd insecure and deprecated. But what better, xinetd or standalone? There's nothing inherently insecure about inetd, and I think

Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?

2006-01-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:24:00AM -0700, Tyler T wrote: > > > I still get this error > > > when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy > > > > > > http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif > > > That depends if you rolled your own crunchgen configuration or not. > > Are you following a standard d

Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?

2006-01-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On 23 Jan 2006, at 21:27, Tyler T wrote: I posted about this earlier but no replies. Since then I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled FreeBSD 6 from scratch. I still get this error when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif Should I go ahead and subm

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On 18 Jan 2006, at 17:17, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/17/06, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The computer is currently without keyboard, mouse or monitor. I am adding applications to the computer via ssh while I work. As soon as I get openbox and tightvnc installed, I'll switc

Re: information about distribution

2006-01-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On 19 Jan 2006, at 15:20, Martin Rolinec wrote: Hello. I would like to make a web page on which I would like to sale Linux distibution to people, who don´t have an opportunity to download it from internet. So I have few questions about a licence: 1. I would like to ask, if I can downloa

Re: urgent, agir vite

2006-01-22 Thread Ceri Davies
On 18 Jan 2006, at 10:47, Roland Romero wrote: on dirait qu'il y a un bug là : http://www.fr.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi? max=25&source=www&words=TurboGX&submit=Rechercher ça affiche tout le code perl ! Rol, My French has withered to nothing since I studied it 12 years ago, so I hope you ca

Re: OS use rate

2006-01-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On 14 Jan 2006, at 13:33, n-n wrote: OS use rate in my project. 2005/01/10 - 2006/01/10 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES3.0 - 3947 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3.0 - 1287 Sun Solaris 9 - 583 *BSD - 0 What project is that then? If you can't be bothered to tell us what you are talking about, then don't

Re: Setquota on FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On 14 Jan 2006, at 10:53, Don O'Neil wrote: I'm having problems getting the port 'setquota' to work on my FBSD 4.11 box... When I type: setquota -g -f /array01 -bh51200K root I get setquota : /array01 does not have quotas enabled. Or when I type: setquota -u -f /array01 -bh51200K root

Re: It is old.

2006-01-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On 14 Jan 2006, at 13:22, n-n wrote: Everyone says that FreeBSD is old. Hereafter, many people will say that Linux and OpenSolaris are good. I'm sorry, what are you talking about? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.

Re: Getting latest files with cvsweb for a given tag

2006-01-14 Thread Ceri Davies
On 14 Jan 2006, at 01:42, RW wrote: Is there a cvsweb URL that will give me the latest version of a given file, given a specific tag? ie without specifying a explicit revision. What I am trying to do is write a script that will download the latest version of src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for R

Re: NIC bonding/teaming

2006-01-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On 13 Jan 2006, at 20:22, jim feldman wrote: Does 6.x have a nic bonding/teaming/failover feature like the linux bond (rnd robin, failover, ld bal, trunking)? I'm thinking multiple nics, one server, same lan/vlan. I've read up on CARP and one2many, but they don't seem to do what bond doe

Re: defaultroute not loading

2006-01-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On 13 Jan 2006, at 12:49, Ceri Davies wrote: On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote: I just updated a i386 gateway to 6.0-STABLE - using my backed-up versions [from 5.1] of: rc.conf rc.firewall rc.resume rc.sendmail rc.shutdown rc.subr rc.suspend resolv.conf

Re: defaultroute not loading

2006-01-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On 13 Jan 2006, at 14:16, Stijn Hoop wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:49:07PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On 12 Jan 2006, at 23:37, Michael Zimmer wrote: hostname="#.com" defaultrouter=1.2.3.4 # previously "1.2.3.4"; removed Could you post

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