Re: Security blocking question

2009-10-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Svante Kvarnstrom wrote: 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 now

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread krad
2009/10/10 牛粥 > 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 shou

conky calendar

2009-10-10 Thread PJ
I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the Net; it doesn't display quite correctly. It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out what is not functioning correctly: #!/bin/sh cal | awk 'NR>2' | sed -e 's/ //g' -e 's/[^ ] /& /g' -e 's/..*/

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread jhell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:46, kraduk@ wrote: 2009/10/10 ?? 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.. I

Re: conky calendar

2009-10-10 Thread jhell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:01, af.gourmet@ wrote: I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the Net; it doesn't display quite correctly. It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out what is not functioning correctly: #!/bin/sh cal | awk 'NR>2' | se

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:06:39 -0400 jhell wrote: [snip] > I will agree with that. And raise that its not a good idea to be part > of the early adopter club for commercial use. Somebody has got to go first. As so aptly stated by Robert Crandell, chairman of American Airlines in the late 1990's, "

Re: conky calendar

2009-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:01:34AM -0400, PJ wrote: > I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the > Net; it doesn't display quite correctly. > It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out > what is not functioning correctly: > > #!/bin/sh > cal

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Alexander Best
there's a project called binutils in p4 but i don't know anything about it (version, status, etc.). the problem with binutils from the portsdir is that even when it's installed gcc still uses the the base-binaries because gcc is statically linked. so in order to use the binutils from the ports dir

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:45:39 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best (alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de) replied: >there's a project called binutils in p4 but i don't know anything >about it (version, status, etc.). the problem with binutils from the >portsdir is that even when it's installed gcc still uses the

Re: conky calendar

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
>From: Roland Smith >Subject: Re: conky calendar >To: "PJ" >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 9:27 AM > >On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:01:34AM -0400, PJ wrote: >> I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I >> found on the Net; it doesn't display quit

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry writes: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:45:39 +0200 (CEST) > Alexander Best (alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de) replied: > >>there's a project called binutils in p4 but i don't know anything >>about it (version, status, etc.). the problem with binutils from the >>portsdir is that even when it's inst

VirtualBox build failure on 7.2-stable (amd64)

2009-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to build VirtualBox 3.0.51.r22902_2 on 7.2-stable amd64 and I keep getting the following failure: kBuild: Compiling RuntimeR0Drv - /usr/tmp/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox/work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/freebsd/assert-r0drv-freebsd.c In file included from /u

RE: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Marwan Sultan
Thank you all for your quick replies, I will go for 7.2 and will see the progress of 8. Above all, a special thanks to FreeBSD developers. Best resgards, Marwan Sultan. > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:06:39 -0400 > From: jh...@dataix.net > To: kra...@googlemail.com > CC: b...@izb.knu.a

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:53:35 -0400 Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org) replied: >Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. I was not aware of that. What is the problem? Perhaps, if it is not all ready available, the FreeBSD developers can devise some directive to pla

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Alex R
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. Wow. thats a great way to keep the operating system software up to date, use ancient versions of software to get around a stupid license agreement. What's being done to rectify that issue? ___

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:15:22PM +0100, RW wrote: > 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. >

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:53:35 -0400 Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org) replied: Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. I was not aware of that. What is the problem? Somewhere around binutils-2.17, it switched to using

Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny - Comments? anyone tried it? Kevin Kinsey

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:39:58PM -0700, 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 > experie

Re: postfix/amavids/sa/etc in FreeBSD jail?

2009-10-10 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:35:20 +0200, "Len Conrad" a écrit : > is a FreeBSD jail enough of a virtualized OS to run a full filtering > MX config setup exactly as on a native FreeBSD? Yes. Here I use one jail acting as a mail gateway and one for mail delivery. Works like a charm as it should. __

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:35:01 -0700 Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) replied: >On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Jerry wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:53:35 -0400 >> Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org) replied: >>> Unfortunately, it's under an unacceptable license. >> >> I was not aw

Re: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from > hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? > > -- > > $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow > > sendmail : KNOWN : allow > sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny > > -

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:08 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Someone mentioned giving the `home` directory its own partition. I think > a separate partition for /usr/home, mounted within /usr, is a great idea. > It would help substantially with system rebuilds, backups, and using > separate drives fo

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:55:25 -0400, Jerry wrote: > The only problem with that is that it would get over written when > updating 'world'. I am not sure if a user could exclude binutils from > being installed when building world. Maybe further problems arise when using freebsd-update which relies o

release listing available for freebsd-update(8)

2009-10-10 Thread hulibyaka hulibyaka
Whether there is a method of reception of the list of the releases accessible to updating through freebsd-update(8)? For example, if open http://update5.freebsd.org catalogs "to-N.M-RELEASE\*" are visible - where it is possible to be updated. But it well thanking for Indexes options on the WEB serv

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Sat, 10/10/09, Polytropon wrote: > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation > To: "Chad Perrin" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 2:04 PM > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:08 -0600, > Chad Perrin > wrote: > > Someone m

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Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:44:04PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > 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 wit

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > I agree completely. I also go a step farther and put most other > things that I consider user data in there. Like Subversion > repositories and non-user-specific Samba shares (E.g. "public" > type shares). Historically, ther

gpart mbr scheme

2009-10-10 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want to create a new MBR scheme it always complains: -> gpart create -s mbr da0 gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument The GPT scheme works fine: -> gpart create -s gpt da0 da0 created -> gpart show da0 => 34 8027645 d

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Nerius Landys
>> 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

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:40:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > But allow me a follow-up question: Is 8.0-RC1 already recommendable > for a home desktop, or would 7.2 be the version of choice? I'm asking > this because of the many improvements especially the USB subsystem has > gotten in 8 which would be i

Re: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:08:42 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: >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

Re: binutils

2009-10-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Jerry wrote: That's not a bad idea, although you can likely export PREFIX=/usr and install the binutils port, and get the desired result. The only problem with that is that it would get over written when updating 'world'. I am not sure if a user could exclude binut

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:00:53 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein > wrote: > > I agree completely. I also go a step farther and put most other > > things that I consider user data in there. Like Subversion > > repositories and non-user-specific

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:27:31 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:15:22PM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:28:09 +0200 (CEST) > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Depending on the size of installed RAM, /tmp could also > > > be a memory disk by default. > > > > I don't se

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
> From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation > Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 4:00 PM > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:08 -0700 > (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein > wrote: > According to your suggestion: > > > Drive > 16 and < 40 GB = > > / = 1 GB > > swap = 1.5x RAM

Re: No buffer space available

2009-10-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiago ... What version of kernel did you end up going back to? - --On Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:15:48 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm seeing the same effect (haven't tried older ke

Re: text2html ?

2009-10-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:50:22PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [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 ? > >

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > The only time I can > really think I'd want /tmp to be in RAM is if I already had too much > RAM for the needs of the box - otherwise, just give me the RAM... But it wouldn't actually be a ram disk, that's just just a misnomer

Re: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeff Laine wrote: On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? -- $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow sendmail : KNOWN : allow sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny

ASUS M4A78T-E Motherboard

2009-10-10 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Hi, I am in the process of building a new PC and I am building this machine (one of three... second will be OpenBSD Firewall for FreeBSD and a third one for Windows.. you know games and all that stuff) and I am wondering if I will have any problems with this motherboard amd its chipset. North Brid

RE: best FBSD version for commercial use.

2009-10-10 Thread Marwan Sultan
> From: keram...@ceid.upatras.gr > To: ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za > CC: dead_l...@hotmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: best FBSD version for commercial use. > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:41:26 +0300 > > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:08:42 +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: > >On Fri, Oct

ASUS M4A78T-E Motherboard

2009-10-10 Thread Robert Huff
Bryan Cassidy writes: > ... I am wondering if I will have any problems with this > motherboard amd its chipset. North Bridge is AMD 790GX and South > Bridge is AMD SB750. it comes with a VIA VT1708S onboard > soundcard and the handbook states the VIA VT1708 is supported so > I am hoping it is

ASUS M4A78T-E Motherboard

2009-10-10 Thread Robert Huff
Robert Huff writes: > The machine on which I am composing this has a different > motherboard (ASrock AOD290GX) s/AOD290GX/AOD790GX/ Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Sat, 10/10/09, RW wrote: >From: RW >Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 8:43 PM > >On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:28:08 -0700 (PDT) >Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > >> The only time I can >> really think I'd

Re: conky calendar

2009-10-10 Thread Karl Vogel
You can use the terminal standout codes to highlight today's date, but you need either the Linux compatibility stuff or a recent version of ncurses installed: #!/bin/ksh PATH=/usr/compat/linux/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin export PATH DAY=$(date +%d | sed 's/0\([123456789]\)/ \1/')

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > --- On Sat, 10/10/09, RW wrote: > > >But it wouldn't actually be a ram disk, that's just just a misnomer > >that people, who ought to know better, are throwing around. It > >would probably be tmpfs. > > Correction (or at lea