Randi Harper wrote:
I was thinking that a more acceptable default layout (leaving swap at it's
current default size) would be:
/ = 1GB
/var = 2GB
/tmp = 2GB
One thing to remember is that these are just suggested defaults. Most
experienced users are going to use a custom layout when setting up
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Jon Radel wrote:
> I believe it's been years since I didn't bump up the sizes on an install,
> otherwise I just end up with all this space where it's least likely to save
> me from a filled disk in the future. While I am actually running some
> hardware that is o
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:24:48 -0400 Pierre-Luc Drouin
wrote:
>Could someone explain me in which cases it is useful to enable
>hyperthreading on a machine running FreeBSD 8.0 and in which other cases
>it is not a good idea? Is that possible that hyperthreading is
>disadvantageous unless the
El día Friday, October 09, 2009 a las 01:52:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson escribió:
> > I know the unlink(2) sys call, but what does this --unlink flag in tar(1)
> > on restore (-x)?
>
> It's the same as the -U option, provided for gnutar compatibility.
Dan,
Thanks for your helping answer. Maybe someon
Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), and so forth. Why does
this fail to
cuongvt wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> full explanation:
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386)
> uid=1001(mak) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),69(network)
>
> installed:
> jdk-1.6.0.3p4_1
> diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_10
> javavmwrapper-2.3.2
>
> I'm using zsh so I set JAVA_HOME and PATH of java into in my .zshrc.
>
Gary Kline wrote:
Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), and so forth. Why does
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), an
On 10/9/09, Alex R wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Is there any news on when the version of binutils that ships as part of
> the base system will be updated? The version that ships with 7.x etc is
> about 5 years old now.
>
> It creates problems on amd64 when compiling mplayer (assembly language
> directive
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
> hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), and so for
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > Den 9. okt. 2009 kl. 05.25 skrev "Aryeh M. Friedman"
> > :
> >
> > > Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
> > > (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ever (I can't
> > > tell it is devfs o
Randi Harper wrote:
> 1.) Look at the PR database and search for sysinstall. See all those open
> reports, some from 8 years ago? sysinstall needs some babying.
It doesn't need babying, it needs killing. :-)
Quotes from the sysinstall(8) manpage:
"This product is currently at the end of its li
> Then my answer would be missing MBR or boot blocks, an
> active
> partition alone won't make a system boot. it's just a
> flag to say
> which partition is bootable, but doesn't mean that the boot
> flag
> itself makes the partition boot.
>
>
> fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) -- see the -B option to b
Hello list!
I'm getting the messages below far one machine and I can't
remeber how managed to do that. I want that for my other machines
as well, but can not remeber how to activate it.
Checking for a current audit database:
Database created: Wed Oct 7 03:55:02 CEST 2009
Checking for package
> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:31:56 +0200
> From: be...@bah.homeip.net
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: security run output
>
> Hello list!
>
> I'm getting the messages below far one machine and I can't
> remeber how managed to do that. I want that for my other machines
> as well,
Lars Eighner wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>>
>> Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
>> text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
>> used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
>> hex back into ', ",
Good morning,
The problem I'm having is that "startx" gives a garbage-filled screen and locks
up the console. When I run it through ssh from another computer I can see that
it complains:
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/X: Undefined symbol "shmctl"
before dying and leaving the main display
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
> hex back int
> From: Randi Harper
> I was thinking that a more acceptable default layout
> (leaving swap at it's current default size) would be:
>
> / = 1GB
> /var = 2GB
> /tmp = 2GB
Similar enough to what I use for general systems that I vote YES.
I'd love to add one more - on a drive bigger than, say, 40
Hi;
I have a python script that automatically writes another script. I need to
be able to automatically chmod the script so that it will execute. Also, it
appears that's not enough, because when I manually chmod the script (775),
it throws this error:
fopen: Permission denied
TIA,
V
___
>From: Victor Subervi
>Subject: Automatic chmod
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 10:19 AM
>
>Hi;
>I have a python script that automatically writes another script. I need to
>be able to automatically chmod the script so that it will execute. Also, it
>appears that'
Hi there.
I want to be the translator from English to Russian in freebsd.com.
I see, that in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/
there is written:
Copyright
[http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/LEGALNOTICE.html]
© 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 200
>>From: Victor Subervi
>>Subject: Automatic chmod
>>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>>Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 10:19 AM
>>
>>Hi;
>>I have a python script that automatically writes another script. I need to
>>be able to automatically chmod the script so that it will execute. Also, it
>>appe
User? I only have one user on this shared server. Here's the code:
#!/usr/local/bin/python
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import MySQLdb
import cgi
import sys,os
sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
from login import login
user, passwd, db, host = login()
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
picid = int(form['id'].val
In the last episode (Oct 09), Matthias Apitz said:
> El día Friday, October 09, 2009 a las 01:52:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson escribió:
> > > I know the unlink(2) sys call, but what does this --unlink flag in
> > > tar(1) on restore (-x)?
> >
> > It's the same as the -U option, provided for gnutar compa
Randi Harper wrote:
> / = 1GB
> /var = 2GB
> /tmp = 2GB
Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also
be a memory disk by default. I do that on all of my
machines. I never have /tmp physically on disk anywhere.
Best regards
Oliver
--
Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Mark
I should have mentioned the import of the login works for other scripts, so
that is not the issue.
V
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Victor Subervi wrote:
> User? I only have one user on this shared server. Here's the code:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
> import MySQ
2009/10/9 Oliver Fromme
> Randi Harper wrote:
> > / = 1GB
> > /var = 2GB
> > /tmp = 2GB
>
> Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also
> be a memory disk by default. I do that on all of my
> machines. I never have /tmp physically on disk anywhere.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
>
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:18:46AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:25:12PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> >
> >> Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
> >> (specifically in my case /dev/fuse*) how do I tell what ev
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> > > Den 9. okt. 2009 kl. 05.25 skrev "Aryeh M. Friedman"
> > > :
> > >
> > > > Since certain currently unused devices are not created in /dev
> > > > (specifically in my
I'm trying to fight with ipfw and unfortunately unsuccessfully...
I created following rules
ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1Mbit/s
ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any src-port www
ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any dst-port www
yet I see peaks of my traffic is way higher them 1Mbit/s
i have fo
Владимир Романов wrote:
Hi there.
I want to be the translator from English to Russian in freebsd.com.
ITYM freebsd.org ?
I see, that in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/
there is written:
Copyright
[http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/LEGALNOTICE.html]
Roland Smith wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Quote from the manpage:
> > "The devfs.rules file provides an easy way to create and apply
> > devfs(8) rules, even for devices that are not available at boot."
> >
> > The rules take effect whenever a new node (devide) appears,
> > even after
I tried booting up with ACPI disabled, and suddenly the network
connections worked like a charm.
Thanks,
Renee Gehlbach
> Today I updated a server from 6.4 to 7.2. I cvsup'ed, built world, built
> kernel, installed kernel, installed world, mergemastered, and rebooted.
> And sat there, while ntp
alexus wrote:
I'm trying to fight with ipfw and unfortunately unsuccessfully...
I created following rules
ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1Mbit/s
ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any src-port www
ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any dst-port www
yet I see peaks of my traffic is way higher them 1
Warren Block wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> > > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> > > used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
> > > hex back into
I have run into a need to capture netflows from the internal interface
of my FreeBSD 6 server. The internal interface is em0 and the
external interface is em1.
I am using the following to setup the netflows.
/usr/sbin/ngctl -f- << SEQ
mkpeer em0: netflow lower iface0
name: e
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brent Bloxam wrote:
> alexus wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to fight with ipfw and unfortunately unsuccessfully...
>>
>> I created following rules
>>
>> ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1Mbit/s
>> ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any src-port www
>> ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, alexus wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brent Bloxam wrote:
>> alexus wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to fight with ipfw and unfortunately unsuccessfully...
>>>
>>> I created following rules
>>>
>>> ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1Mbit/s
>>> ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> > > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> > > used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or scrip
Warren Block wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Warren Block wrote:
> > > Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> > > > > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> > > > > used. I'm
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Quote from the manpage:
> > "The devfs.rules file provides an easy way to create and apply
> > devfs(8) rules, even for devices that are not available at boot."
> >
> > The rules take effect whenever a new node (devide) ap
is a FreeBSD jail enough of a virtualized OS to run a full filtering MX config
setup exactly as on a native FreeBSD?
Len
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Hello Gurus,
Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a charm for
many years.
But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php, mysql..
anything i should be aware of?
Advices?
Thank yo
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote:
>
> Hello Gurus,
>
>
>
> Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a charm
> for many years.
>
> But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
>
> This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php, mysql..
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or
Jay Hall wrote:
> I have run into a need to capture netflows from the internal interface
> of my FreeBSD 6 server. The internal interface is em0 and the
> external interface is em1.
>
> I am using the following to setup the netflows.
>
> /usr/sbin/ngctl -f- << SEQ
> mkpeer em0: netflow lower i
On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote:
Hello Gurus,
Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a
charm for many years.
But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php,
mysql..
anythin
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Roland Smith wrote:
> > > But one has to run '/etc/rc.d/devfs restart' for newly added rules to
> > > take
> > > effect! (or reboot the system, which is overkill).
> >
> > Yes, of course. I thought that was obvious.
> >
> > > Maybe I
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
>
> Certainly \x will not help in sed; sed doesn't have it.
Right, that's an annoying flaw in sed (it doesn't even
support the \0 syntax for octal values, which is more
standard than \x).
From my perspective, sed is a tiny, gooey cen
Oliver Fromme wrote:
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Roland Smith wrote:
> > > But one has to run '/etc/rc.d/devfs restart' for newly added rules to
take
> > > effect! (or reboot the system, which is overkill).
> >
> > Yes, of course. I thought that was obvious.
> >
Oliver Fromme wrote:
This isn't about regular expressions at all. This is
about replacing fixed strings.
Fixed strings are regular expressions. Pretty unexciting ones,
but perfectly valid none the less.
This has been your daily pedantry minute.
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matth
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King wrote:
> Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or
> two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and
> rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the time.
So you would not recommend 8 (as RC1
Lars Eighner wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote:
That's twice now people have suggested sed instead of perl. Why? For
many uses, perl is a better sed than sed. The regex engine is far
more powerful and escapes are much simpler.
Because sed is stable and perl is getting all OO
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:28 -, dead_line@ wrote:
Hello Gurus,
Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a charm for
many years.
But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php, mysql..
anything i s
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote:
>
> Hello Gurus,
>
>
>
> Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a charm
> for many years.
>
> But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
>
> This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php, mysql.
>
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:28:09 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Randi Harper wrote:
> > / = 1GB
> > /var = 2GB
> > /tmp = 2GB
>
> Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also
> be a memory disk by default.
I don't see why it should depend on the amount of RAM, since it would
norm
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King wrote:
Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or
two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and
rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the time.
So y
2009/10/9 Polytropon :
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King wrote:
>> Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or
>> two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and
>> rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the time.
>
> So you wou
Hi,
The production server that has a public IP address has SSH enabled. This server
is continuously under dictionary attack:
Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32248]: Invalid user europa from 83.65.199.91
Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32250]: Invalid user hacked from 83.65.199.91
Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> Hi,
> The production server that has a public IP address has SSH enabled. This
> server is continuously under dictionary attack:
> Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32248]: Invalid user europa from 83.65.199.91
> Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32250
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:45:51PM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
[...]
> Is there a way that I could configure the server so that if there are for
> example X attempts from an IP address then for the next Y hours all the SSH
> requests would be ignored from that IP address?
> There are only
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
> Hi,
> The production server that has a public IP address has SSH enabled. This
> server is continuously under dictionary attack:
> Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32248]: Invalid user europa from 83.65.199.91
> Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[3225
I might also add, if it's only a handful that have legitimate access
requirements, maybe black hole all ip's from locations (countries, etc.)
they'll never be in. We see a lot of bad traffic from well, certain
countries and we simply null route them. Or if I feel like playing a
bit I'll route the
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
Hi,
The production server that has a public IP address has SSH enabled. This server
is continuously under dictionary attack:
Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32248]: Invalid user europa from 83.65.199.91
Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32250]: Invalid user hacked from 83.65.199.91
Running AMD64 7.2-STABLE src & kernel upto date an trying to get ports
updated when encountering the below issue which is now affecting a lot
of programs..
cd
"/usr/ports/devel/dbus-qt4/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.2/./tools/qdbus/qdbus"
make first
c++ -c -O2 -
- Original Message
> From: Gary Gatten
> To: Adam Vande More ; Aflatoon Aflatooni
>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Sent: Fri, October 9, 2009 5:53:10 PM
> Subject: RE: Security blocking question
>
> I might also add, if it's only a handful that have legitimate access
> requi
On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King
wrote:
Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or
two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and
rebuild the world to the current version of 8.x at the ti
Dear list,
in order to do something that I haven't done for many years,
I'd like to have some suggestions or pointers if I do it
right. It's a strange, but still typical idea. :-)
Here's the problem:
A FreeBSD workstation should run X for a specified user
after system startup. If the user logs o
2009/10/9 Mikel King
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Polytropon wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:04:42 -0400, Mikel King
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Recommend sticking with 7.x branch until 8.0 has been through one or
>>> two solid releases. Then you should be able to perform a csup and
>>> rebuild the w
Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>>
>>> Gary Kline wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
>>> > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char
>>> to be
>>> >
I had a contractor uppgrade a freebsd machine a while back. Now I am
finding things that did not get done corectly.
The latest is that I have some other machines that create text files copy
them over to this machine, and put them iin the webservers space. Looks
like in the past, these files were p
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:19:54 -0400, stan wrote:
> Can anyone sugest either where I can find this utlity, or what I might use
> as an alternative? The text files to process are very simple reports of
> system statistics.
Maybe this is usable for you:
Port: txt2html-2.45
Path: /usr/ports/textpr
On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
plus you'll need to add a cron job to clear old entries out of the
ssh-bruteforce
table after a suitable amount of time has passed. Use expiretable
to do
that.
I believe that security/expiretable is superfluous nowadays since
pfctl su
>> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:39:58 -0700,
>> Randi Harper said:
R> I was thinking that a more acceptable default layout (leaving swap at
R> it's current default size) would be:
R> / = 1GB
R> /var = 2GB
R> /tmp = 2GB
I usually create something like this:
/ = 200M
/usr = 8G
/var = 2
Marwan Sultan wrote:
Im planing to move out of my FreeBSD 4.8-R! which served me like a charm for
many years.
But not sure if I should go for 6.3 or 7.2
This server will be a DNS server, apache, shell accounts..php, mysql..
IMHO, i think that you should wait until 8.0-R out.
Sincere
>From: Victor Subervi
>Subject: Re: Automatic chmod
>To: mahle...@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 11:20 AM
>
>User? I only have one user on this shared server. Here's the code:
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/python
>import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
>import MySQLdb
>import
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of stan
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 6:20 PM
To: Free BSD Questions list
Subject: text2html ?
I had a contractor uppgrade a freebsd machine a while back. Now I am
finding t
My 2 cents, as far as I know 7.1 will be maintained longer than 7.2
according to the freebsd.org website. That is, security fixes will be
rolled out for 7.1 a while after 7.2 reaches End Of Life. That made
me decide to go with 7.1 when I had to make the switch from 7.0 a few
months ago. 8.0 was
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