Re: "portmaster --list-origins" question

2011-12-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
Scott Bennett wrote: > have quite a few windowmaker-related ports installed. Only one of those > related ports appeared in the portmaster output, and windowmaker itself was > absent, so I looked at the numbers next. I think --list-origins lists only leaf packages and not dependencies. It is stra

Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Hey everyone. I've successfully setup a network bridge in /etc/rc.conf. However, I am only able to access the network if I dhcp on bridge0 *after* the bridge is configured. If I try to set a static IP on the bridge, things don't work. Here's my /etc/rc.conf: cloned_interfaces="bridge0 t

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/12/2011 07:48, ja...@colannino.org wrote: > bridge0 is configured with the IP 192.168.1.6, but I can't ping out. > However, once I run dhclient in bridge0, things magically work. Does > anyone know why the above won't work? Thanks! What's the error message you see when you fail to ping ou

Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

2011-12-29 Thread Peter Andreev
2011/12/29 Victor Sudakov : > Peter Andreev wrote: >> >> >> >> > Victor, we researched this topic and learned that response time highly >> >> > depends on distance between user and resolver, while cache influence >> >> > on this value is lesser. >> >> > So I advice you to keep all as is. >> >> >> >

Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

2011-12-29 Thread Victor Sudakov
Peter Andreev wrote: > >> >> > Victor, we researched this topic and learned that response time highly > >> >> > depends on distance between user and resolver, while cache influence > >> >> > on this value is lesser. > >> >> > So I advice you to keep all as is. > >> >> > >> >> Be it so. Thank you. >

OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Irk Ed
For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said customer's servers. Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be accountable for those servers. Is this that simple and clear cut? Assuming that I'll be asked to continue administering said servers, I guess I

Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

2011-12-29 Thread Peter Andreev
2011/12/29 Victor Sudakov : > Peter Andreev wrote: >> >> >> > Victor, we researched this topic and learned that response time >> >> >> > highly >> >> >> > depends on distance between user and resolver, while cache influence >> >> >> > on this value is lesser. >> >> >> > So I advice you to keep all

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said > customer's servers. Customer + root@server == !go; :-) > Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be > accountable for those servers. Fully correct. Ch

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/12/2011 09:01, Irk Ed wrote: > For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said > customer's servers. > > Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be > accountable for those servers. > > Is this that simple and clear cut? > > Assuming that I'll be as

Re: Need to know the compatibility

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, vijayamurugan.kalyanasunda...@emc.com wrote: Hi Team, Kindly let me know on the compatibility of " Intel X520 Dual Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adaptor Card " with Free BSD 8.2 OS. I didn't see any answer to this - but we are interested in ANY 10 GB ethernet card fo

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood paragraphs like individual-separated statements, that's why you did not fully understand my question (my horrible English helps too :-)). Let's see if I can explain mysel

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias < roque...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, unless I am missing some portupgrade option-feature, once > the port tree is updated I must compile all from source. The > opposite leads to dependencies issues. > portmaster -P Yes, this will likely

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:03:01PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > That is the price you pay for updated software on FreeBSD. > OK, Adam. That's almost as expected. > -- > Adam Vande More Thanks to all. Walter ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Quoting "Brian Seklecki (Mobile)" : Also, what MAC address does the DHCPREQUEST packet appear to be sourced from (from the view of your DHCP server, or on the wire somewhere between the two (SPAN PORT)) ~BAS How do I do that? :) James ___ fr

RE: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of ja...@colannino.org > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:21 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Static IP on a Bridge > > Quoting Matthew Seaman

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 29 December 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote: [snip] > "sudo su -" or "sudo sh" and the customer gets a native root shell > which does *not* log commands ! [snip] > Say the customer can sudo commands located in > /usr/local/libexec/CUSTOMER/ > > All he has to do is write a simple link to

RE: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:58 AM > To: Carl Johnson > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: Root access policy > > On Thu, 29

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:16:11PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: Hi, I am not expert on all this, but can give a couple of impressions. > Hello, > > I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. Welcome to FreeBSD. It is a good system. > I've searched a lot in google, mailing list, for

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: >> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said >> customer's servers. > > Customer + root@server == !go; :-) > > > >> Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot contin

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:31 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > >> Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be > >> accountable for those servers. > > > > Fully correct. Check the cont

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. Greetings and welcome... > In a RELEASE fresh install, after updating the ports using i.e. > portsnap, the packages downloaded with pkp_add -r are older > versions respect their port counter

Re: "portmaster --list-origins" question

2011-12-29 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: >     Did I misunderstand something about the --list-origins option?  Or have > I run into a bug?  Any suggestions of how to proceed would be welcome. No, not a bug. portmaster --list-origins | wc -l 58 pkg_info | wc -l 207 list-origins

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Irk Ed wrote: > For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said > customer's servers. Are we talking about jail(8)- or server-level root access? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Need to know the compatibility

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Blackman
On 29 Dec 2011, at 15:45, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, vijayamurugan.kalyanasunda...@emc.com wrote: > >> Hi Team, >> >> Kindly let me know on the compatibility of " Intel X520 Dual Port 10 Gigabit >> Ethernet PCIe Adaptor Card " with Free BSD 8.2 OS. >> > > I didn't se

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:15:45 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Damien Fleuriot writes: > > > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: > >>> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said > >>> customer's servers. > >> > > >

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
Also, what MAC address does the DHCPREQUEST packet appear to be sourced from (from the view of your DHCP server, or on the wire somewhere between the two (SPAN PORT)) ~BAS This sounds familar. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
Hello, I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. I've searched a lot in google, mailing list, forums, freebsd handbook and I am still not clear about the following. In a RELEASE fresh install, after updating the ports using i.e. portsnap, the packages downloaded with pkp_add -r are older versions

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread Carl Johnson
Damien Fleuriot writes: > On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: >>> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said >>> customer's servers. >> >>> Assuming that I'll be asked to continue administering said servers, I g

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:16:11 +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > Hello, > > I am giving my firsts steps with FreeBSD. > I've searched a lot in google, mailing list, forums, freebsd > handbook and I am still not clear about the following. > > In a RELEASE fresh install, after updating the po

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread mikel king
On Dec 29, 2011, at 4:01 AM, Irk Ed wrote: > For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said > customer's servers. > > Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be > accountable for those servers. > > Is this that simple and clear cut? > > Assuming that

Re: Intel EMGD driver on FreeBSD?

2011-12-29 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Mark Felder wrote: Are you sure that the problem isn't just that the current releases of FreeBSD don't have GEM/KMS support which the newer Intel drivers require? I'm running a test build on my Google CR48 and have OpenGL acceleration without any major hiccups except not

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Quoting Matthew Seaman : What's the error message you see when you fail to ping out? ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure What does the routing table (netstat -r) look like before and after DHCP? Before DHCP: Routing tables Internet: DestinationGateway

Re: ZFS upgrade path

2011-12-29 Thread James Edwards
On Wed, December 28, 2011 12:18, James Edwards wrote: > There are four disks, all in a single storage pool - tank. > > Here is the naming convention I planned on following after 9.0 is > released: > > tank/9.0 > tank/9.0/usr > tank/9.0/var > tank/9.0/tmp > and so on > > This way, in theory at leas

Host Dynamic DNS configuration for 8.2-RELEASE

2011-12-29 Thread akshay sreeramoju
Hi, What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it to publish its name in a dynamic dns supported network? LINUX: For a Linux host with name x.y.z.com I had to do the following: = # echo "DHCP_HOSTNAME=x;" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # echo "PEERDNS

Re: Host Dynamic DNS configuration for 8.2-RELEASE

2011-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/12/2011 20:11, akshay sreeramoju wrote: > What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it to > publish its name in a dynamic dns supported network? Something like this in /etc/dhclient.conf: interface "em0" { send host-name "foo.example.com"; } See dhclient.

very small "workgroup" network

2011-12-29 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
I feel really inferior to the community here, but I have to ask because I simply don't know: What do I need to do to create a small (3 PC-BSD) home network? I could do this in no time in Windows, but I don't know how to find, configure, and enable the files necessary to make these machines talk

Re: Host Dynamic DNS configuration for 8.2-RELEASE

2011-12-29 Thread akshay sreeramoju
Thanks Matthew. It works. Akshay On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 29/12/2011 20:11, akshay sreeramoju wrote: > > What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it > to > > publish its name in a dynamic dns suppor

Re: very small "workgroup" network

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:06:17 -0600 Jeffrey McFadden wrote: > I feel really inferior to the community here, but I have to ask because I > simply don't know: > > What do I need to do to create a small (3 PC-BSD) home network? I could do > this in no time in Windows, but I don't know how to find,

Re: very small "workgroup" network

2011-12-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 29 Dec 2011, at 22:06, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: > I feel really inferior to the community here, but I have to ask because I > simply don't know: > > What do I need to do to create a small (3 PC-BSD) home network? I could do > this in no time in Windows, but I don't know how to find, configur

Re: Host Dynamic DNS configuration for 8.2-RELEASE

2011-12-29 Thread Da Rock
On 12/30/11 08:06, akshay sreeramoju wrote: Thanks Matthew. It works. Akshay On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Seaman< m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: On 29/12/2011 20:11, akshay sreeramoju wrote: What is the required configuration in a FreeBSD 8.2 release host for it to pu

Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

2011-12-29 Thread Da Rock
On 12/29/11 12:45, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:26 PM, "Victor Sudakov" wrote: And the reason for the whole thread. One of the customers told me that 8.8.8.8 is faster than our own DNS servers which are located on the same 100 MBit/s LAN with them. I was shocked but it seems true, at

Re: very small "workgroup" network

2011-12-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:06:17PM -0600, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: > I feel really inferior to the community here, but I have to ask because I > simply don't know: > > What do I need to do to create a small (3 PC-BSD) home network? I could do > this in no time in Windows, but I don't know how to f

FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-29 Thread David Jackson
I have had an interest in studying the FreeBSD kernel and getting to know its internals better. After all, in Open source projects, they say, community contributions are important. However, My finding is that due to poor documentation, the FreeBSD kernel is nearly impenetrable to an outsider. I ha

RE: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Quoting Devin Teske : Add the following line (exactly as it appears) to /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" That line's been there the whole time. Hasn't helped :( James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Dec 29 21:46:36 2011 > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:43:16 -0500 > From: David Jackson > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation > > I have had an interest in studying the FreeBSD kernel and getting to know > i

RE: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread james
Quoting Devin Teske : Add the following line (exactly as it appears) to /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" I should probably re-port my original configuration: cloned_interfaces="bridge0 tap0 tap1" ifconfig_bridge0="addm re0 addm tap0 addm tap1 up inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.25

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2011-12-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:43:16 -0500, David Jackson wrote: > However, My finding is that due to poor documentation, [...] That kind of statement doesn't fit well to FreeBSD which is known for its excellent documentation, often considered superior to other open source projects. > [...] the FreeBSD

Re: Static IP on a Bridge

2011-12-29 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 12/29/2011 09:21 AM, ja...@colannino.org wrote: > Quoting Matthew Seaman : > >> What's the error message you see when you fail to ping out? > > ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure It seems that you are currently receiving your resolver from DHCP as well, you should stati

Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-29 Thread UFS User
I have run a lot of different FreeBSD systems off (fileservers, firewalls, routers, etc.) off of compact flash cards[1] and have never had a CF part fail. Most of these were read-only mode, but some of them were left mounted 'rw' for years (with no swapping, of course).  The bottom line is, they