Re: FreeBSD & IBM Thinkpad - What Model to Choose?

2009-08-03 Thread Martin Smith
herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I bet there are FreeBSD-on-Thinkpad users out there. I need some help.. At the moment I search for a laptop, a used model from auction sites, preferably an IBM Thinkpad. There is a huge number of different models, even a Wiki with all the specs. But all the

NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD <-> NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a FreeBSD 7.2 box (HP C-class Blade - AMD dual core Opteron (x64), 4GB RAM, Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706) that should be connected to a NetApp 3170 filer via NFS. Out of the box, with nothing tuned (no special parameters for mount_nfs, no kernel tuning), performance is very sluggish

"ioctl (SIOCIPFL6): input/output error." when start ipfilter at freebsd 7.2 x64

2009-08-03 Thread sailer
This is my freebsd 7.2: [code] FreeBSD fbsd.test.com 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 3 06:40:56 UTC 2009 r...@vfbsd.shstorm.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/kernel_IPF amd64 [/code] In kenrel_IPF, I add these lines: [code] options IPFILTER options IPFILTER_LOG [/code] Add these l

printing to password protected network printer

2009-08-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've Canon iRC5185i network printer in my department, which is accessed with a username and a password. After reading chapter 9, printing, of the handbook, I still cannot see how passing a username and a password to a network printer can be done. Any advice? many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Ro

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Riegler
Has anyone tested Arora? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re[2]: Analyze load of the channel to Internet

2009-08-03 Thread Anton
Hello Gary, Due to what I've read about ntop - it is not really what I need. I dont have any Cisco routers, nor switches with port-mirroring - so I c= ould not collect any traffic. I have only 2 freebsd routers - and need to k= now - when the outgoing channel of first gets overflo

Partially SOLVED: Re: printing to password protected network printer

2009-08-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:50:39AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've Canon iRC5185i network printer in my department, > which is accessed with a username and a password. > After reading chapter 9, printing, of the handbook, > I still cannot see how passing a username and a password > to a net

ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
I'm looking into running ftps for my webhosting server. But the ftpd of BSD seems incapable of doing so. Are there plans to implement this, or am I overlooking something? I'm aware of the fact that I can run a ftp server from ports to do this, but I would like to keep it as simple as possible.

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: > What is ftps? # grep ftps /etc/services ftps-data 989/tcp# ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL ftps-data 989/udp ftps990/tcp# ftp protocol, control, over TLS/SSL ftps990/udp ___ freebsd-qu

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk < frederi...@isafeelin.org> wrote: > Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: > > What is ftps? > > # grep ftps /etc/services > ftps-data 989/tcp# ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL > ftps-data 989/udp > ftps990/tcp# ftp protocol, cont

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk < frederi...@isafeelin.org> wrote: > I'm looking into running ftps for my webhosting server. But the ftpd of > BSD seems incapable of doing so. > > Are there plans to implement this, or am I overlooking something? > > I'm aware of the fact that I

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Cristiano Deana
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > I'm looking into running ftps for my webhosting server. But the ftpd of > BSD seems incapable of doing so. you can use sftp (ftp over ssh): sshd_config(5) sftp(1) -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group http://www.gufi.

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン : > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk < > frederi...@isafeelin.org> wrote: > >> Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: >> > What is ftps? >> >> # grep ftps /etc/services >> ftps-data 989/tcp# ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL >> ftps-data 989/udp >> ftps

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Neal Hogan wrote: > I was curious about the OP's use of 'ftps" too. Perhaps, he could > explain what plain-old-ftp doesn't do and what he wants it to do. Encryption! -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Reko Turja
pure-ftpd supports TLS/SSL. I am wondering if it can do this. I was curious about the OP's use of 'ftps" too. Perhaps, he could explain what plain-old-ftp doesn't do and what he wants it to do. Plain old FTP transfers username/password pairs in plaintext over the internet, as well as the act

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:36 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:15:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Firefox even seems to lack a key to quit the program. :-) That's easy. Just press + and it'll close Firefox immediately. Negative for

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Neal Hogan wrote: >> I was curious about the OP's use of 'ftps" too. Perhaps, he could >> explain what plain-old-ftp doesn't do and what he wants it to do. > > > Encryption! OK! (If I just said that I wanted to run something like 'xyzs',

Re: Analyze load of the channel to Internet

2009-08-03 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Anton wrote: >Hello Gary, > >Due to what I've read about ntop - it is not really what I need. > >I dont have any Cisco routers, nor switches with port-mirroring - so I >c=uld not collect any traffic. I have only 2 freebsd routers - and >need to k=ow - when the outgoing channel

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:22:37 +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: > I've added the following to the default sendmail mc file: > > MASQUERADE_AS(`mypublicdomain.com')dnl > FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl > MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(beasie.lan)dnl > > Recompiled the cf files and restarted sendmail. > > Here is the k

Re: Re[2]: Analyze load of the channel to Internet

2009-08-03 Thread Gary Gatten
If you simply want ingress/egress "load", nTop provides much more detail than I think you need, but in your case you would run it directly on your BSD routers. It will load libpcap and capture/analyze/graph the traffic flowing through your routers. From: Anton

Re: NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD <-> NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Merhaba Ewald, You can read http://communities.netapp.com/thread/39 thread. There is special mount options for Linux and also for FreeBSD give it a try. Regards. Monday, August 3, 2009, 11:55:16 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > I've got a FreeBSD 7.2 box (HP C-class Blade - AMD dual core Opteron > (x64

upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

2009-08-03 Thread PJ
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that files will not be overwritten? -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." - Phil J

ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-03 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of way, but the impression I got is that support for ZFS partitions is coming to the installer

Re: Sony PRS-505 Reader and camcontrol load problem

2009-08-03 Thread James Phillips
I like to blame things like that on DRM. Proving it is the tricky part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicGate The Wikipedia article says the Sony Portable e-Reader PRS-500 did not support MagicGate, but future support is possible through a firmware update. Regards, James > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2

Microvision ROV scanner and FreeBSD

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I just purchased one of the units mentioned in the subject line (http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html), and want to use it under FreeBSD. See this link: http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html I've found a couple of packages that might work, but either don't

Re: Microvision ROV scanner and FreeBSD

2009-08-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:29:23AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > All, > > I just purchased one of the units mentioned in the subject line > (http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html), and want to > use it under FreeBSD. According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BarcodeReaders it can

Re: NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD <-> NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Steven Kreuzer
On Aug 3, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I've got a FreeBSD 7.2 box (HP C-class Blade - AMD dual core Opteron (x64), 4GB RAM, Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706) that should be connected to a NetApp 3170 filer via NFS. Out of the box, with nothing tuned (no special parameters for mount

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-03 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, >> Steve Bertrand said: S> I'm looking for a new editor. [...] In the last few weeks, I've been S> leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome S> your feedback. If you're a VIM fan, here are a few examples of what you can do

Re: Manual Installations on Flash Media

2009-08-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen wrote: > I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via a > USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the use of > an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. > > 1.Would a device alphabetical order (as use

Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

2009-08-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ wrote: > Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would > overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that > files will not be overwritten? I'm not sure how to explain. It's possible that sysinstall recreated the slices a

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Re: Microvision ROV scanner and FreeBSD

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:54, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:29:23AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> >> I just purchased one of the units mentioned in the subject line >> (http://www.microvision.com/store/ROV-Scanner-p-1.html), and want to >> use it under FreeBSD. > > According

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-08-03 Thread Doug Barton
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >>> The fact that the error occurs AT ALL is the bug and what is >>> counterintuitive, and many people would not think to try typing "make" >>> again, and instead would just assume the

Weird networking issue

2009-08-03 Thread Joel Dahl
Yesterday I noticed something weird with one of my mail servers (FreeBSD 7.2), which is located far away from me. At first I thought it was my mail client that was misbehaving since a couple of mails that I retrieved from the server looked...odd. Characters were missing, and the mail headers w

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote: > 2009/8/3 Odhiambo $B%o%7%s%H%s(B : > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk < > > > > frederi...@isafeelin.org> wrote: > >> Odhiambo $B%o%7%s%H%s(B wrote: > >> > What is ftps? > >> > >> # grep ftps /etc/services > >> ftps-dat

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 03 August 2009 03:28:15 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > I'm looking into running ftps for my webhosting server. But the ftpd of > BSD seems incapable of doing so. > > Are there plans to implement this, or am I overlooking something? > > I'm aware of the fact that I can run a ftp server from

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote: >> 2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン : >> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk < >> > >> > frederi...@isafeelin.org> wrote: >> >> Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: >> >> > What is ftps? >> >> >> >> #

FIONREAD behavior possible on uhid?

2009-08-03 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, I recently picked up a Velleman K8055, which is basically a Digital and analog I/O board that connects to a PC via a USB connection. So far, its worked fine w/FreeBSD, the uhid driver picks it up, and a simple cat < /dev/uhid0 will start pulling the 8 bytes that represent the inputs an

Re: freebsd-update & userland sources

2009-08-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 02 August 2009 16:10:37 Tom Mende wrote: > Is there a way to get freebsd-update to keep userland sources up to > date? Since it is for binary upgrades, it doesn't make much sense, but ... > By way of background, I am trying not to use csup / cvsup and like > processes as their past, adm

Re: freebsd-update & userland sources

2009-08-03 Thread Colin Percival
On Sunday 02 August 2009 16:10:37 Tom Mende wrote: Is there a way to get freebsd-update to keep userland sources up to date? Yes. If you have source code installed (for the right version of FreeBSD) in /usr/src, then freebsd-update will keep it updated. (Slight complication: Because freebsd-u

BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER vs. machdep.enable_panic_key=1

2009-08-03 Thread Alexander Best
just wanted to ask what the difference between the following ways of enabling the panic key is: options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER (kernelconf) machdep.enable_panic_key=1 (sysctl) i first thought having BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER in the kernelconf would change the default setting of machdep.enable_panic_key from

Re: Weird networking issue

2009-08-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Joel Dahl wrote: > Yesterday I noticed something weird with one of my mail servers (FreeBSD > 7.2), which is located far away from me.  At first I thought it was my mail > client that was misbehaving since a couple of mails that I retrieved from > the server looked..

Re: Weird networking issue

2009-08-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > I have 2: > 1.) Bad NIC > 2.) Bad CPU > > A while back, I found out I had a bad CPU after replacing everything > else on the machine -- I would still receive CRC mismatch errors with > portsnap(8). > > The NIC is more probable IMHO, but both sh

Re: gmirror on different disks

2009-08-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 31 July 2009 02:24:31 Grzegorz Danecki wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I'm just wondering, I had gmirror with two disks: > > Master: ad0 Serial ATA II > Master: ad2 Serial ATA II > > unfortunately ad0 failed today, leaving me with degraded array and ad0 > offline. > > I did > > # gmirro

Re: Windows 2008 + AD + PF + bridge = problems?

2009-08-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 31 July 2009 10:15:56 markham roan wrote: > A packet capture revealed a number of anomalies. Once the server starts > trying to join the domain, we get all sorts of TCP transmission errors, > retries, duplicate ACKs etc. In some cases, the public side of the > firewall will send an ICM

Re: Windows 2008 + AD + PF + bridge = problems?

2009-08-03 Thread mojo fms
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Mel Flynn < mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net > wrote: > On Friday 31 July 2009 10:15:56 markham roan wrote: > > > A packet capture revealed a number of anomalies. Once the server starts > > trying to join the domain, we get all sorts of TCP transmissio

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:11:28 +1000, Danny Carroll wrote: > Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: >> I found the answer to your problem here: >> >> http://www.grok.org.uk/docs/smroot.html >> >> The file that is being included which has the >> >> EXPOSED_USER(`root') >> >> line lives at >> >> /usr/share/sendm

Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Modulok
I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing something... There seems to be a lot of superstition about entropy. People have come up with quite creative ways at generating passwords using everything from dic

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
Modulok wrote: > > I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all > about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing > something... You could just use apg ... it's in the ports. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Modulok wrote: > I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all > about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing > something... Have a look at jot(1). -- Glen Barber ___ freebs

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 19:28, Modulok wrote: > I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all > about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing > something... Gah. Define "secure". What is your use case? Does it involve humans remembering them, or not? W

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Berry
On 3-Aug-09, at 10:28 PM, Modulok wrote: I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing something... Take a look at pwgen (it's in ports). If you're really needing *very* secure passwords, it makes more

Re: Manual Installations on Flash Media

2009-08-03 Thread David Allen
On 8/3/09, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:21:02 -0700, David Allen > wrote: > > I need to create a FreeBSD installation on an SSD drive (connected via > > a USB adaptor), and would like to do so manually so as to avoid the > > use of an installation CD, PXE or sysinstall. > > > > 1. W

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 03 August 2009 18:28:52 Modulok wrote: > I wrote a python script which uses /dev/random, and hashes the output > with sha256. I then truncate the output to the desired length. > Blasphemy! According to the superstitious password crowd my passwords > are not very secure ... maybe. They a