Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:17:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:

Re: Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 7, Message: 5 On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:25:33 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:37:55PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is it possible to suspend to disk (hibernate) when using geli for full disk > > encryption. > > A

Is it possible to suspend to disk with geli+Root on ZFS installation

2013-09-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 486, Issue 5, Message: 18 On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:37:55 +1000 yudi v wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to suspend to disk (hibernate) when using geli for full disk > encryption. My set-up is listed below. So I am going to have an encrypted > container and Z

Re: Potential Vulnerabilities list on US Cert

2013-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 483, Issue 2, Message: 1 On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 10:41:44 -0400 Jerry wrote: > I usually check the US Cert listing every week to see if anything > interesting is listed. > > I discovered that there are two listings

Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad W530

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:40:58 +0200, vermaden wrote: > Hi and thanks for reply ;) > > > Yay another FreeBSD laptop user! > > I use FreeBSD for dekstop/workstation for I do not remember how long: > http://vermaden.deviantart.com/art/CorporateBSD-FreeBSD-at-Work-190680188 > > > Please do th

Re: 9.2-RC1: Problem with Kernel

2013-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 479, Issue 8, Message: 10 On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:43:57 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:29:10 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:04:29 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: > >> This is 9.2-RC1 on amd64 (upgraded from 9.2

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST), Conny Andersson wrote: > Hi Devin, > > Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am > running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found > sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. I can'

Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 477, Issue 8, Message: 10 On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Conny Andersson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first disk, > ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three year > war

Re: Recipie for CPU souffle'

2013-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 461, Issue 6, Message: 1 (sorry about the threading) On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:12:17 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:59 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > See how the entire ioctl() interface for these device types is completely > > documented

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:00:44 -0400, Stephen Cook wrote: > On 4/1/2013 5:23 AM, Ian Smith wrote: Actually, I forwarded a message that Joe posted to -jail and -ports. Proper attribution is what this issue's all about. It's been pointed out to me privately that cross-posting is fro

Re: qjail fork attribution was Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Posted so people following -questions can gather what Joe Barbish is fishing for in the present thread regarding copyright and licensing. cheers, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:26:16 -0400 From: Fbsd8 To: Dirk Engling Cc: po...@freebsd.org, freebsd-j...@f

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique (fwd)

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
Joe, your mailer dropped -questions from the ccs on your response. Fixed, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:12:18 -0400 From: Fbsd8 To: freebsd-j...@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Smith , Dirk Engling Subject: Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:21:29 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:53:30 +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: [.. also chopping mercilessly ..] > > > # Copyright 2010, Qjail project. A

Re: Handbook Jail Chapter rewrite available for critique

2013-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:53:30 +0100, Dirk Engling wrote: > On 18.03.13 20:16, s...@tormail.org wrote: > > > to configure things themselves. In my experience, ezjail is a much better > > solution. I also see that you are the maintainer/author of qjail and like > > to shovel your opinion as the

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:28:30 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From smi...@nimnet.asn.au Mon Feb 11 13:49:38 2013 > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:41:31 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > From: paranormal > > Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M? >

Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M?

2013-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:41:31 GMT, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From: paranormal > Subject: Re: which X driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:23:40 +0200 > > I have t61p with mentioned card. > x11/nvidi

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 452, Issue 11, Message: 9 On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:45:05 -0500 Nick K wrote: > I am posting here hoping that a "Dan" from ZoneEdit.com still monitors this > mailing list. > I am in a very bad situation and my mail forwarding has been down for over > a week -- no r

Re: FreeBSD and snd_hdspe last-ditch attempt

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Cc: FreeBSD quest > Hi :) Hi Ralf, I've been following this saga for a while, with interest but no specific knowledge of your gear nor how you intend to use it. All I can comment on is the way you're going about reporting and debugging your issues

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 449, Issue 9, Message: 25 [ pardon loss of threading ] On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:56:24 -0800 wrote: > > From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] [..] > > > > There is no text mode web browser in the base system. > > > > Installing one is easy: As the HTML files

Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release

2013-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 448, Issue 3, Message: 24 - please pardon the loss of threading - On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:47:41 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote: > >> Is this command being phased out? pkg_ad

Re: shell script problem

2012-12-24 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 447, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:48:12 +0100 Dh?nin Jean-Jacques > 2012/12/23 Polytropon > > #!/bin/sh > > > > cat foo.txt | while read LINE1 > > do > > cat bar.txt | while read LINE2 > > do > > if [ "$LINE1

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 445, Issue 5, Message: 25 On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:52:53 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:51 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > > On 12/12/12 23:51, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > > >> Can anyone sugge

Re: audio playback with variable tempo

2012-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 445, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:27:16 -0700 Gary Aitken wrote: > Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary the > tempo? I've used audacity on win systems, but I don't see that in ports. You'll have found audacity

Reprieve [was: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available... (fwd)]

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Smith
Folks, Seems that those (like me) concerned about 9.1 release branch activity not having been exported to CVS, requiring moving to SVN and abandoning c*sup source updating 'all of a sudden', can relax migration schedules a bit, for now .. though it's been a good 'gee-up' for me, at least. Prob

Re: kinternet alternative in FreeBSD

2012-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 432, Issue 6, Message: 15 On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:26:57 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:05:03 +0200, suseuse...@lajt.hu wrote: > > Matthias, Polytropon: [..] > > Thank you for your answers. > > I am using KDE 3.5.10. I would like to use FreeBSD

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:54:14 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > Having run for a couple of days now without problems, > I'm guardedly optimistic I've solved this problem. > It appears the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking. > The solution was to disable memory mapping in BIOS, > whose pu

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X

2012-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 428, Issue 7, Message: 4 On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:51:07 -0600 Gary Aitken wrote: > On 08/16/12 00:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 16/08/2012 05:45, Gary Aitken wrote: > ... > >> Running 9.0 release on an amd 64 box, standard kernel, 16GB, SSD (/, > >> /usr, /va

Re: weird problem with 9.0 Release and ed0

2012-08-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 427, Issue 6, Message: 16 On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:39:36 +0200 "Christoph P.U. Kukulies" wrote: > Am 10.08.2012 11:40, schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies: > > Am 10.08.2012 11:28, schrieb Christoph P.U. Kukulies: > >> The problem need not to be confined to 9.0. It s

Re: Waking system up from suspend-to-ram at specified time.

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 425, Issue 13, Message: 13 On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:37:48 +0200 Piotr Czachur wrote: > Dear users, > > Does FreeBSD support waking system up from S3 (suspend to RAM) state > at specified time? On Linux, it can be achieved using rtcwake command > that uses RTC s

Re[2]: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:13:47 +0300, Eugen Konkov wrote: > , Ian. > ?? ?? 23 2012 ?., 8:27:50: > IS> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 > IS> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov > wrote: > IS> Hi Eugen, > > >> I use ipfw tables to

Re: ipfw counters for tables

2012-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 424, Issue 10, Message: 10 On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:55:46 +0300 Eugen Konkov wrote: Hi Eugen, > I use ipfw tables to allow host to access to internet. > is there counter for matched packets/bytes for table entry like for > ipfw rule? > > #ipfw show 901 > ru

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: > > In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. > > The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to > newfs to enab

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 422, Issue 10, Message: 29 On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 07:41:59 -0400 Carmel wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:36:36 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block articulated: > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: > > > > > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:43:35 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > > Well, there is devel/ar

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I thought I saw something somewhere (maybe just wishful thinking) about > > FreeBSD on the Arduino, which normally runs a sort of embedded Linux, > > that c

Re: OT: Robotics or embedded or hardware programming... what is this called?

2012-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 420, Issue 10, Message: 17 On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:54:27 -0600 Modulok wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic post. There are a lot of technically adept people on > this list, so I thought I'd try my luck here: On recent volcanic form, this scarcely measures on the OT

Re: hwpstate0 set frequency err 6

2012-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 419, Issue 9, Message: 2 On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:33:49 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > This is the fourth time I have installed FreeBSD while learning the in's and > out's. I have a new mainboard this time (ASUS M5A97 EVO + AMD FX 8120.) > I have set

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:18:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Bill" == Bill Yuan writes: > Bill> I want to create a white list MAC address, Only the machine which > it's MAC > Bill> in the white list will be allowed, all others will be blocked. > > Bad idea. Since (a) every MAC

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 19, Message: 23 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:56:49 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:26 +0200 > Julian H. Stacey articulated: [..] > >As a start here's : http://berklix.org/uefi/ > > > >URLs welcome. Contact names welcome. Volunteers welcome

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 18, Message: 1 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:39 +0800 Bill Yuan wrote: > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > currently i set the rule like below > > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any > 2 deny all from any to

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 10, Message: 7 On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:31:24 -0400 "Simon" wrote: > Can someone suggest an alternative/proper way to port forward using ipfw. > Right > now I have the following and some bad clients cause too many FIN_WAIT_2 state > > fwd IP,PORT2

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 417, Issue 4, Message: 26 On Wed, 30 May 2012 06:31:38 -0400 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: [Matthew Seaman wrote:] > > freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list >

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)

2012-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
esile) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 05:03:23 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Jos Chrispijn Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:53 +0200 Jos Chrispijn

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:30:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 21/05/2012 14:50, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > > > can anyone sug

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonald wrote: > can anyone suggest what i'm doing wrong here. > > Desired:drop everything from 180.0.0.0 to 180.255.255.255 > > ipfw -q add 137 deny all from 180.0.0.0/8 to any t23# i

Re: problems with networking and route command

2012-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 6, Message: 1 On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:07:16 -0400 David Banning wrote: > > > It is machines that connect and receive via DHCP 192.168.1.2 and above > > > that > > > can't connect to the internet though the server. I don't know a whole > > > lot abo

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:53 +0200 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > At midnight (00.00) I run this cronjob from my crontab: > > Crontab: > 00 * * * * rootnewsyslog By 'my' crontab, do you mean the syst

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: > > Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network > > profiles for such as wireless vs wire

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 11, Message: 21 On Sat, 5 May 2012 19:26:00 -0400 (EDT) Chris Hill wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Anton Shterenlikht wrote; > > [snip] > > >> ...I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrable. (If > >>

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 May 2012 21:03:07 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [..] > wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe > inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > nd6 options=29 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 05/01/12 20:01, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 > > On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chance > > wrote: > > > > > Every once in a while the nigh

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > Every once in a while the nightly periodic security checks tell me I've > got a kernel message > > Limiting closed port RST response from N to 200 packets/sec > > where N >

Re: Postfix + Courier IMAP local email problems

2012-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 410, Issue 12, Message: 2 On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:51:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: | Ron wrote: > > OK, I found the problem. It was the hostname not being set correctly. > > What threw me was that it was correct in the rc.conf file, but I did not > >

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 409, Issue 5, Message: 3 On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:03:11 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "ill...@gmail.com" wrote: > > > (there is an executable named /usr/bin/jobs, but . . . > > well run "cat /usr/bin/jobs" & see for yourself). > > Whoa! Does /usr/bin

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 408, Issue 10, Message: 5 On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:05:00 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > On Saturday 31 March 2012 20:26:14 Julian H. Stacey wrote: [..] > > Da Rock wrote: > > > On 03/31/12 17:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: [..] > > > > schu...@ime.usp.br wrote: >

Re: IPFW transparent VS dummynet rules

2012-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, budsz wrote: > Hi folks, > > I already found the mistake of my ruleset sequence on my box, for ex: > > ${fwcmd} add 30 fwd ${ipproxy},${portproxy} tcp from ${ipclproxy} to > any dst-port ${porthttp} in via ${ifint0} > > ${fwcmd} add 52 pipe 2 ip from any to ${ipclient

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 10, Message: 25 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:44:53 -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/04/2011 01:04 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > > For one, google 'icmp redirect attack' > &

Re: ipfw And ping

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 391, Issue 9, Message: 9 On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:35:45 -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 12/01/2011 05:45 PM, Jon Radel wrote: > > > > On 12/1/11 6:25 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > > >> ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any > >> > >> It does work but, two quest

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:40:45 -0500, William Bulley wrote: > According to Ian Smith on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29: > > > > Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a > > Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore -

Re: 9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 1, Message: 18 On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:47:27 + Bruce Cran wrote: > I'm planning to install FreeBSD alongside a whole range of Windows > builds for testing. In 8.x it's possible to tell the installer not to > bother updating the MBR so you can use

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

2011-11-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 389, Issue 8, Message: 6 On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:08:22 -0500 William Bulley wrote: > According to Edward Martinez on Fri, 11/18/11 at > 19:53: > > > >Have you tried installing with "ACPI" disabled. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinst

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 387, Issue 10, Message: 34 On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:49:29 -0400 Chris wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris wrote: > >> I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: > >> ( cd /

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 386, Issue 9, Message: 5 On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:28:24 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi articulated: > > > Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and > > denying them the 'freedom of choi

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Unga wrote: > On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Does anybody successfully use the "ipfw fwd"? If so > > > in which FreeBSD version? > > > Not I, but many do.  On the face of it the rule looks > > correct.  Do you &g

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 14 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Unga wrote: > --- On Mon, 7/4/11, Unga wrote: > > > From: Unga > > Subject: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Monday, July 4, 2011

Re: mount /unmount

2011-07-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 19 On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:43:23 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/07/2011 15:53, tethys ocean wrote: > >> If a partition was not unmounted cleanly (eg. the machine crashed, or > >> > the power was cut off suddenly) then fsck(8) should b

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

2011-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, umage wrote: > Some points: > 1) I did use the handbook as reference, and my ruleset mimics the layout used > there. Excuse the late response, I've been away. The best reference, apart from ipfw(8), is /etc/rc.firewall. 'Nuff said. > 2) Handbook uses divert natd, whic

Re: ipfw nat inbound keep-state with net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=0

2011-06-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 368, Issue 6, Message: 21 On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:16:32 +0200 umage wrote: > Hi, I'm an ipfw user that finally got the opportunity to set up NAT on > an interface with a public IP. I was doing some multi-homing experiments > using ipfw fwd combined with outbound

Re: Query about FreeBSD and primary partitions requirements

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 366, Issue 8, Message: 5 On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:23:48 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 11/06/2011 08:18, Bret Busby wrote: > > > the current FreeBSD Handbook ... states > > > "FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partiti

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 359, Issue 7, Message: 1 On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:27:13 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Jerry wrote: > > > > > Actually yes. Ignoring for a moment the reply you sent me > > > > directly, conveniently bypassing the

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:34:32 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700 > per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: > > > Jerry wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500 > > > Martin McCormick articulated: > > > > ... our entire network is on the blacklist ... > > >

Re: ipdivert.ko

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 357, Issue 3, Message: 8 On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:58:50 +0930 Sebastian Ramadan wrote: > I wish to cause ipdivert.ko to load at boot time. Currently, ipfw.ko loads > correctly at boot time with ipfw_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, but > ipdivert.ko does not load

Re: Bridge, dpcpd, sshd

2011-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 355, Issue 4, Message: 33 On Wed 23 Mar 2011 22:20:06 + (GMT) Chris wrote: > I have a server machine that I use as DHCP server, sshd login etc, > and since I have multiple Ethernet interfaces on it, I would like to > use two of those for the internal netw

Re: Shell script termination with exit function in backquotes

2011-03-20 Thread Ian Smith
in freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 354, Issue 10, Message: 4 On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:15:26 -0400 Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Here's another, but related, problem that I just ran into. The man page > reads: > > Commands may be grouped by writing either >(list) > or >

Re: logging to dmesg from userland

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 354, Issue 1, Message: 15 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:08:20 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > I am looking for a way to write into the kernel message buffer -- > the one that dmesg prints out -- from a userland program, to help > in relating kernel printf messages

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 353, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:57:03 + Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 06:49 -0500, ajtiM wrote: > > In the last week I got four emails like this one today: > > > > From: mailto:br...@cran.org.uk";>br...@cran.org.uk > > To: mai

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 353, Issue 5, Message: 21 On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:02:57 -0500 pe...@vfemail.net wrote: > At 03:06 PM 3/9/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> > >> I was looking at my Web log this morning, and a bunch of nonsensical > >> entries like these caught my attention: > >>

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Eitan Adler wrote: > Nice Script! > I intend to steal parts of it for my own use. It's great when you can plunder without robbing anyone :) > > P.S. Maybe I ought to expand it to IPv6 considering that the IPv4 > > address space has [reportedly] finally ran out (is that t

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 349, Issue 8, Message: 15 On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:53 -0800 Devin Teske wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've > developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest > of the world. > >

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [..] > > Last I knew having a file open, even for writing, was no protection > > against its last link being removed. The _inode_ won't go away > > until the last handle is

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Swe, I suspect the reason you can't just delete these files is > > likely because something has them open for writing, and the system > > won't let you remove such files, naturally

Re: httpd-modsec2_debug.log: Operation not permitted

2011-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 345, Issue 9, Message: 10 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:35:26 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:08:33 +0100, Swe Gill wrote: > > That is the problem. One file sizes upto 50GB and other 3 GB... > > > > 52872944 -rw-rw 1 root wheel 50G Jan

Re: Which php??

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 345, Issue 7, Message: 11 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:13:02 + Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 13/01/2011 00:18, Gary Kline wrote: > > autoconf: required version 2.68 not found > some stuff here to try for autoconf issues > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for > > installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs > > commands if you want). I found I ha

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote > > > Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 > > are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you > > used 'W&#x

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what > > should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector: > &g

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14 On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou > > > writes: > > > > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | gr

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > [.. trimming ccs, selec

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
I've offended some gods? > Well, the irony here, the failing drive is *ALSO* 8.1, I can slap > that back in and fire it up, it still boots and works, I just didn't > want to take the risk of the drive's cheese sliding off it's cracker. How hard is it to re

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N > > where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it? Argh .. that should be seek=N, not skip. Up way too late .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:22:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:13:57 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around > > with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success. > > What I tried was to just set

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned, > > specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the > > b

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan > > wrote

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many > > slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you >

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell > wrote: > > > Try zeroing out the mbr: > > > > Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: > > > > sysctl kern.geom.debugf

Re: what process is sending this packet?

2010-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 3, Message: 10 On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:30:05 -0800 S Mathias wrote: > I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: > > Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 > DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:50:45 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Probably should be easy, but from trying to parse that and lang.l I > > get the vague impression (at best) that Rob's original should have > > work

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:29:47 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Arguably unforgiving parsing and/or imprecise description. Try eg: > > > > nooptions NFSCLIENT, NFSSERVER, NFSLOCKD, NFS_ROOT > > > >

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 342, Issue 9, Message: 1 On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:38:08 -0800 Rob wrote: > I read the guidelines in the man pages of config(5) on how to make a > customized > kernel config file: > > nooption name [, name [...]] > nooptions name [, name [...]] >

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