On 17/02/2012 22:17, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
>>> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style
>>> default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1
>>> partition and swap.
> For a user/desktop machine, I prefer one
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:16:39 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote:
> > --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to
> > have said:
> >
> >> Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default
> >> with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:05:49 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote:
> It seems to me that partition and mount point are being confused to a
> degree. There is no reason what is mounted at /usr/home cannot be a
> separate partition as well as if it were mounted at root.
I thought of this fact as such a
On 02/18/12 20:22, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:05:49 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote:
It seems to me that partition and mount point are being confused to a
degree. There is no reason what is mounted at /usr/home cannot be a
separate partition as well as if it were mounted at root.
Good morning,
On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue
on a pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know
how to investgate...
Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS pool on an external 1TB
Maxstor USB drive.
The ZFS pool sees little or
On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
> Hiya,
[snip]
> We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as
> one wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We
> want to know if people would prefer the older style default with four
> partitions and swap w
On 2/17/12 11:40 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Robison, Dave
> wrote:
>> Hiya,
>>
>> A question has arisen with the implementation of bsdinstall in 9.x as
>> opposed to sysinstall in 8.x and previous versions of FreeBSD.
>>
>> It has always been FreeBSD's default to
On 2/18/12 12:57 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> To clarify, almost universally the opposition to the idea centers around
> the problems of users who enable this method, and then don't notice if
> something changes/breaks, resulting in a stale zone (or zones, depending
> on what you choose to slave).
On 18/02/2012 10:44, Da Rock wrote:
> I have yet to try ZFS (lack of resources really), but when I can I will
> setup a SAN and it will be interesting to see how this works and I
> probably will use a single partition. But for the general filesystem I
> doubt a single partition will cut it (I could
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:44:13 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> BTW I was intending to put across the concept of /usr being user related
> - anything a user may need or use; as opposed to / for the system
> related stuff that keeps it running. Maybe I wasn't as clear as I had
> thought... :)
There's lots
On 02/18/12 21:23, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 18/02/2012 10:44, Da Rock wrote:
I have yet to try ZFS (lack of resources really), but when I can I will
setup a SAN and it will be interesting to see how this works and I
probably will use a single partition. But for the general filesystem I
doubt a s
On 02/18/12 21:39, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:44:13 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
BTW I was intending to put across the concept of /usr being user related
- anything a user may need or use; as opposed to / for the system
related stuff that keeps it running. Maybe I wasn't as clear as I had
Hi,
I developed an encryption algorithm for freeBsd crypto module.
I want to add this algorithm to racoon ipsec-tools for freebsd that
it can recognize it
In it's config file and use it for encryption connections.
I use the 'des' algorithm as a sample and cr
Hi,
On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote:
>
> > I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under
> > /usr
> > though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone care to
> > enlighten me? Wha
On 02/17/12 20:24, Frank Shute wrote:
I'd recommend www/xpi-flashblock. You can whitelist sites such as
Youtube and the bbc whilst blocking the crappy flash adverts that are
a feature of too many sites on the web. Especially useful if you're on
a narrowband connection or metered. Regards,
Wh
On 02/18/12 01:44, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Try: find / -name 'ld-linux.so*' -print (including the single-quotes)
If you do _NOT_ get a listing from that, you didn't just delete the symlink,
you wiped out the actual shared library, and will have to re-install it.
I do get a listing.
I wrote in a
On 28 January 2012 19:54, Henry Olyer wrote:
> I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
>
> And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
> those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
> getting maxima and doing thin
On 02/18/12 23:03, sean wrote:
On 02/17/12 20:24, Frank Shute wrote:
I'd recommend www/xpi-flashblock. You can whitelist sites such as
Youtube and the bbc whilst blocking the crappy flash adverts that are
a feature of too many sites on the web. Especially useful if you're
on a narrowband conne
On 18/02/2012 11:36, Da Rock wrote:
> If I may, can I ask a quick question: My main misgivings about ZFS have
> been speed, ram use, and up till about a year ago or so relative 'youth'
> (at least on FreeBSD). What would be the minimum ram you would use for a
> high disk use? And what would be reco
On 02/18/12 23:39, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 18/02/2012 11:36, Da Rock wrote:
If I may, can I ask a quick question: My main misgivings about ZFS have
been speed, ram use, and up till about a year ago or so relative 'youth'
(at least on FreeBSD). What would be the minimum ram you would use for a
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On 18/02/2012 13:48, Da Rock wrote:
> I was thinking along the lines of continuous heavy load of writing (some
> read) rather large files (5G+ would be average - multiple!) - does that
> warrant caching or is it only lots of smaller files? That and lots of
> ~0.5G files (read mostly) is what define
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 01:59:53 2012
> From: Doug Hardie
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:54:36 -0800
> To: Robert Bonomi
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: One or Four?
>
>
> On 17 February 2012, at 23:21, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> >> From owner-freebsd-
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:10:00 -0800
Robison, Dave wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 15:55, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >
> > Yes. It works as intended even when /tmp is part of a single root
> > partition; although mounting /tmp as a RAM- or swap-based tmpfs
> > filesystem might be better for many situations.
>
>
On 02/19/12 00:28, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 18/02/2012 13:48, Da Rock wrote:
I was thinking along the lines of continuous heavy load of writing (some
read) rather large files (5G+ would be average - multiple!) - does that
warrant caching or is it only lots of smaller files? That and lots of
~0.5
Hi all,
Apologies if this has come up before but I can't see anything with a quick
google.
What I want to do is setup a bridge between my wireless network and a wired
one. Hostap I hear everyone cry but I don't think that will work because I
don't want to create a wireless network - I want to
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:56:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> /usr/local/libexec is used by the programs usually initiated by users.
> As per the man /libexec contains sub programs for those in /bin or /sbin.
>
> The programs are usually run by users, or run as a user themselves
> (multiuser mode).
Daem
I know this is a bit off topic from CentOS itself, but are there any DNS
experts that would be able to e-mail me on the side and assist with some
questions I have regarding TXT/SPF records? I want to ensure my mail
doesn't bounce.
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I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are
SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different
"opinion" of what should be included and what should not be included.
Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help
me out.
My d
On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, "Jonathan Vomacka" wrote:
>
> I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are
SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different
"opinion" of what should be included and what should not be included.
>
> Let me give you a scenario of
On 2/18/2012 12:18 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Feb 18, 2012 8:53 AM, "Jonathan Vomacka" mailto:juvi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there
are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different
"opinion" of what should b
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:34:09 -0500
Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
> teamwarfare.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:mail.teamwarfare.com
> a:mail2.teamwarfare.com ip4:66.90.73.80 ip4:216.250.250.148 ~all"
>
> I wouldn't need an "include:" or "ptr" statement in this right? I
> would told "include:" was to inclu
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:16:34PM -0500, Daniel Staal wrote:
> --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have
> said:
>
> >Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default
> >with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_
> >default style for sep
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>
>
> On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
> > Hiya,
> [snip]
> > We realize that one can use bsdinstall to create as many partitions as
> > one wants. However, the new default is for one partition and swap. We
> > want to kno
man hier
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Denis Fortin wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> On a small system using FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, ZFS is reporting an issue on a
> pool, that I am not certain is really an issue, but I don't know how to
> investgate...
>
> Here is the situation: I have created a ZFS pool on an
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> man hier
>
man 7 hier makes no mention of /home or /usr/home at all ...
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--As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
have said:
man hier
--As for the rest, it is mine.
...Doesn't mention /home (or /usr/home) once. ;)
Pointing people to the docs which answers their question is good. But
please make sure it actually answers their
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Staal wrote:
> --As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
> have said:
>
>> man hier
True, but /usr/... was a typical place to find users' home
directories, since /usr is mounted when the system goes to
multiuser mode.
/
On 02/18/2012 03:23, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>
> On 2/18/12 12:57 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
>>
>> To clarify, almost universally the opposition to the idea centers around
>> the problems of users who enable this method, and then don't notice if
>> something changes/breaks, resulting in a stale zone (o
Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote:
On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote:
I have not seen any action in 2 days.
There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail
server logs for errors?
I noticed the same thing. The missing mails
I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check
things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain
things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a
fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same
thing in 9.0, but when I get to
Robert Simmons wrote:
> I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check
> things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain
> things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a
> fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same
Hi Al,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 07:15:00 Al Plant wrote:
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >
> Aloha Eric,
>
> My missing mail finally come down the pipe over night too. Strange but
> it has happened before.
>
> Thanks for your support. Where are you located? Here in Hawaii we have
> military inst
Dear kind folks,
I am getting more and more as to what is needed to keeping a system
running in optimum conditions(updating ports & userland too). I was
just updating ports, but neglecting the new userland tools & kernels.
I have successfully run make buildworld & make installworld, and the
steps
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> Antonio,
> The 'upgrade' from _P5_ to P6 did not touch the kernel, hence the kernel ID
> did not change.
>
> Going from P3 you should have seen a kernel update.
>
> what do you see if you do "strings /boot/kernel/kernel |grep 8"
It is
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> >
> > So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
> > suggest just t
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
ask for some help :)
I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a
FreeBSD server (8.2): 1 cx88, 2 DiVico dual tuners (that totals 4
am
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>
> >
>
> So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
> suggest just two choices.
>
yes, three options is ok.
> [ ] all in one + swap
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Da Rock <
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
> determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
> ask for some help :)
>
> I have (I believe I have mentioned
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 09:30:55 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> > >
> > > So,
On 02/19/12 13:16, Robert Bonomi wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 20:42:50 2012
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +1000
From: Da Rock
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: webcamd and device numbering
I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
determined
Erich Dollansky writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>>
>> >
>>
>> So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
>> suggest just two choices.
>>
> yes, three opti
To follow-up, testkernel mounted fine using the procedure from
loader.4th(8):
set kernel=testkernel
unload
boot-conf
And the OS upgrade is now done, after a few more tweaks have been ironed
out (the most interesting of them is a difference between /boot/testkernel
and /boot/kernel, which were sup
Hi,
On Sunday 19 February 2012 11:40:22 Carl Johnson wrote:
> Erich Dollansky writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >> So, Polytropon's three choice pattern
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Da Rock <
freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> On 02/19/12 13:16, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
>> From
>> owner-freebsd-questions@**freebsd.org
>> Sat Feb 18 20:42:50 2012
>>> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:32:42 +1000
>>> From: Da
>>> Rock
>>> >
>>> To:
On 2/18/2012 8:03 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even
suggest just two choices.
A normal user will use the first
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