Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Volodymyr Kostyrko , 2011-09-17 14:33 (+0200): > You really like to wait for hours before fsck will finish checking for > your volume? While it's true that fsck on large filesystems takes ages soft updates and background fsck makes it a lot less bothersome than it used to be. -- http://hack.org

Re: Can't Download FreeBSD

2011-09-19 Thread alphachi
Or you can try BT: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ ___ 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"

LVS/DR load balancing via FreeBSD

2011-09-19 Thread Alexandr Matveev
Hi, We have two Linux servers doing LVS/DR load balancing (rewriting MAC addresses). Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD, so there won't be need for a Linux servers here? ( http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-DRouting.html ) There is a port net/ipvs but it's an old and (seemingly) unmai

Re: LVS/DR load balancing via FreeBSD

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/09/2011 11:44, Alexandr Matveev wrote: > We have two Linux servers doing LVS/DR load balancing (rewriting MAC > addresses). > Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD, so there won't be need for a Linux > servers here? > ( http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-DRouting.html ) > > There is a p

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/19/11 02:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:55 AM, <"Thomas Mueller wrote: Some more ideas on the new bsdinstaller cross my mind. Since the way the bsdinstaller would make partitions is unpredictable, at least to the uninitiated, and

OpenLDAP + CARP

2011-09-19 Thread Rafael NAVAZA
Hi guys, Is there a way to setup an OpenLDAP HA cluster (intersite multimaster) with CARP on FreeBSD ? Rafael. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Passing additional options to jail(8) via rc.conf

2011-09-19 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Hello, let's say I want to pass additional options like ip4=inherit to my jails configured via /etc/rc.conf. How do I get this to work? Apparently, setting jail_www_flags="-l -U root ip4=inherit" is the wrong order, because these parameters are expected after -c, which is apparently inserted by th

location of bsdinstall "welcome" dialog screen source

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
When installing 9.0 from cd or dvd the first screen bsdinstall shows is the bsdinstall welcome screen. I can not locate the source for this. Its not in /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/ Can someone please point it out? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Segmentation fault, _malloc_prefork () - debugging help needed

2011-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 18), Unga said: > I'm developing an multi-threaded application on FreeBSD. > > When it is running for sometime, it develops a Segmentation fault. > > The ddd debugger shows following: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > [Switching to Thread 296c6580 (

Enlightenment tips and tricks

2011-09-19 Thread Open Slate
After using Gnome for awhile I am giving Enlightenment a try. Loved it many years ago but it consumed a lot of resources, the current version does not appear to have that limitation. What other ports do Enlightenment fans recommend to extend its functionality? I have the gimp, Abi Word, Lyx, and B

Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Hi, I'm running RELENG_8_2 and I've been using packages instead of ports for most things, because they're so much quicker. But certain packages aren't compiled the way I need them to be-- postfix had no TLS or SASL support, for example, so I built it from the port. However, that is beginnin

limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread James Strother
Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a single IP address? I found the following website, which describes a variety of approaches: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Block_repeated_illegal_or_failed_SSH_logins But I am honestly not really happy with any of th

Re: location of bsdinstall "welcome" dialog screen source

2011-09-19 Thread Michel Talon
Fbsd8 wrote: > When installing 9.0 from cd or dvd the first screen bsdinstall shows is > the bsdinstall welcome screen. I can not locate the source for this. > Its not in > /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/ > > Can someone please point it out? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.s

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Григорьев Александр
If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? 19.09.2011, 23:05, "James Strother" : > Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts > from a single IP address? > > I found the following website, which describes a

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread James Strother
That's an interesting project, I hadn't realized port knocking had become so easy to use. Unfortunately, for this particular server, I need to be able to provide a simple way for (a very limited number of) users to login into the system remotely using a variety of OS platforms. So I don't think p

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Again if your goal is to protect against attacks, you might want to look at sshguard from the ports. Otherwise I believe there's a sshd_config directive to limit the number of concurrent connections from a single source IP On 19 Sep 2011, at 22:02, James Strother wrote: > That's an interestin

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Macdonald
2011/9/19 Григорьев Александр : If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? 19.09.2011, 23:05, "James Strother": Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a single IP address? Hi James, (not what yo

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I'd like to say it doesn't matter, but ... If you are using packages from the ti

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Григорьев Александр
Standard inetd(8) has many options including limiting connections based on IP-address. Can it help in this case? 20.09.2011, 00:02, "James Strother" : > That's an interesting project, I hadn't realized port knocking had > become so easy to use. > > Unfortunately, for this particular server, I nee

RE: System locking up.

2011-09-19 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Staal Sent: 18 September 2011 22:59 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: System locking up. --As of September 18, 2011 2:29:20 PM +0100, Graeme Dargi

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread James Strother
Wow, I'm glad I asked. This has been very helpful. @Григорьев Александр Thanks for the tip on inetd, that looks like it might just do the trick. @Paul Macdonald My main reason for looking into this was glancing through the logs on a server I just put online and seeing large numbers of unauthoriz

Re: location of bsdinstall "welcome" dialog screen source

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
Michel Talon wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: When installing 9.0 from cd or dvd the first screen bsdinstall shows is the bsdinstall welcome screen. I can not locate the source for this. Its not in /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/ Can someone please point it out? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.c

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 9/19/2011 2:05 PM, James Strother wrote: Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts from a single IP address? I found the following website, which describes a variety of approaches: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Block_repeated_illegal_or_failed_SSH_logins But

RE: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
Moving ssh to another port has solved the problem for me. I had used sshguard in the past, but was always leery of locking myself out. Regards, Matt Emmerton -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of James Stroth

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread suxor
> Does anyone know a good way of limiting the number of ssh attempts > from a single IP address? > > I found the following website, which describes a variety of approaches: > > http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Block_repeated_illegal_or_failed_SSH_logins > > > But I am honestly not really h

Re: 9.0 bata2 & keymap

2011-09-19 Thread Fbsd8
Now I must point out that I tested hitting the cancel button in the kbdmap command. It worked in that no keymap= statement was inserted into /etc/rc.conf but it must also make some other changes some where else in the system because if you do select an entry from the kbdmap database and them

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Григорьев" == Григорьев Александр writes: Григорьев> If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords Григорьев> from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? Portknocking adds only a dozen bits or so to your password. Do you really think it helps to go from a 1024-bit key t

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Paul" == Paul Macdonald writes: Paul> in my experience running ssh on a high port cuts the amount of unwanted ssh Paul> connections to approximately zero, in fact i got a surprise when seeing a sec Paul> log from a box which i hadn't done this for I run sshd on 443 (for firewall-bending

Re: 9.0 bata2 & keymap

2011-09-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
> > I continued to research this problem and found the cause. > The content of 9.0 /etc/ttys has changed, (IE; cons25 is now xtern). > I have some changes in ttys on 8.2 and I just copied that file over to 9.0 > without looking at the content. The block of 9 keys above the arrow keys now > work cor

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Григорьев" == Григорьев Александр writes: > > Григорьев> If your target is protect freebsd box from bruting passwords > Григорьев> from inet maybe security/knockd will help you? > > Portknocking adds only a dozen bits o

Re: Cannot remove filesystem ACLs

2011-09-19 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > I don't understand why I cannot completely remove the ACLs from a > directory. Please look: [dd] > > Why are the "+" sign and the mask entry still there? How do I get rid > of them completely? It may seem a bit radical but it does the job: find /some/dir | xargs rme

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Sep 19 19:12:32 2011 > From: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) > To: Paul Macdonald > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:12:14 -0700 > Cc: James Strother , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: limit number of ssh connections > > > "Paul"

Re: Need an audio multicasting solution

2011-09-19 Thread Victor Sudakov
RW wrote: > > > > You can use videolan / vlc. It allows you to multicast video too. > > > In September 2011 BSD Magazine you have some examples about that. > > > > I like vlc on Linux/Windows machines. But installing it to a streaming > > server is a pain. Even if you disable all options in "make

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I noticed only recently that there are no

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. Doh, I just read the handbook. http://

Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I've installed Firefox36 from ports, it installed without a problem but it does not launch. In other words, there's no firefox file on my system. Had it installed before and working, then to clean out the system with unnecessary ports, I removed all ports and reinstalled only what is nece

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, I've installed Firefox36 from ports, it installed without a problem but it does not launch. In other words, there's no firefox file on my system. Had it installed before and working, then to clean out the system with unnecessary ports, I remov