Re: Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl

2006-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Can anyone define "exceptionally large" as noted in this statement?: > > > > "NOTE ALSO: The above patch reduces the functionality of libcrypto(3) by > > prohibiting th

moused insists on starting

2006-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: moused_enable="NO" yet the damn thing starts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: moused insists on starting

2006-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: > > 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has > > not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: > > moused_enable="NO" > > y

Re: moused insists on starting

2006-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PS: Is there any chance you can not use the 16-line .sig disclaimer...? Yes. I usually take the time to manually delete it when it doesn't apply, but (like any manual process) I sometimes forget. -- Bill Moran Collaborat

Re: Software before trying it

2006-09-29 Thread Bill Moran
to the Mac, because the systems are so similar. It's a lot easier than porting software to Windows. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-09-29 Thread Bill Moran
problem down, but for now, don't trust the onboard NICs to work reliably. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these > >units. I have some testing to do Mond

Re: how to block rj45 sockets.

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
t real switching hardware to replace those Belkins. Cisco and other switches will allow you to enable/disable ports on demand. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
such as NFS, can post their availability and willingness to do > contract work so companies willing to fund development in a particular area > can get in touch with the right people. Have you tried contacting the Foundation? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ It's my understanding that they

Re: dell poweregde 2900/2950 and FreeBSD

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --On September 29, 2006 2:31:03 PM -0400 Bill Moran > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 3) We're having intermittent problems with the onboard NICs on these > >units. I have some testing to do Mond

Re: how to block rj45 sockets.

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
think Cisco is worth the extra money. However, most manufactures who sell switches have a line of "managed" switches. I don't recommend Dells, but they do exist. 3Com has them -- just about anyone who's serious about selling networking equipment has them. -- Bill Moran MAL: H

Re: installing ports

2006-10-03 Thread Bill Moran
error message in it. Since you didn't provide those either, I can only make the wildest of guesses: Looks like you didn't specify a line like: *default release=cvs tag=. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: vr0: watchdog timeout FreeBSD 6.1-p10 Crashing my backups

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
cal for me. > > This is my second NIC. Don't know if this is related or not, but it may be: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028792.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: checksum mismatch

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Moran
dy :D Occasionally, a failed download will leave a corrupt file in /usr/ports/disfiles. Of course, part of the reason for the checksum mechanism is to detect this. Generally, the solution is to either delete the corrupt file so the make processs can re-fetch it, or manually fetch the file and

Re: strange DNS problem

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Moran
t then > reports servfail? I don't see that error when I try the same lookups. host -t a hermes01.mil.be hermes01.mil.be has address 194.7.21.40 hermes01.mil.be has address 193.191.219.40 I suspect the problem is in your resolver config and/or caches. -- Bill Moran Be calm.

Re: strange DNS problem

2006-10-06 Thread Bill Moran
;." in {type hint; file "root.cache";}; > zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "127";}; > > and then master and slaves domains definitions below. Just a theory: Do you possibly have recursive queries locked down too far, and does resolution of

iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE 08/18/2006 Initial vendor notification 10/06/2006 Initial vendor response 10/10/2006 Public disclosure -- Bill Moran Sometimes I think I'm stupid. The rest of the time I'm sure of it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged > > "bug" gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone > > know any details? > > Thi

Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD > ^^^ > > That was what

Re: "kernel: calcru: negative runtime of -604787 usec for pid 16 (yarrow)" messages..

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Moran
related to the following FAQ entry: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#LAPTOP-CLOCK-SKEW In spite of the fact that it mentions laptops, I've found this solution to work in almost all cases. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: Is 6.2(beta) running ok? 6.2 realease date ok?

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Moran
ers that are being diligently addressed. I don't know whether or not these have been identified as show-stoppers. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: VMWare

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
HTML at the end? Anyway, VMWare is a special case. It's got hooks deep into the Linux network drivers that (as far as I know) are a showstopper that prevents VMWare from running under the Linuxulator. If you learn differently, I'd love to hear it, but it'

Re: Not sure about...

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
.. int main(){ > 11.. struct sched_param lol; > 12.. lol.sched_priority = sched_get_priority_max(SCHED_FIFO); > 13.. sched_setscheduler(0,SCHED_FIFO,&lol); > 14.. for(;;){} > 15.. } > > ___ > freebsd-question

Re: Removing Giant from a driver

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Moran
___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran Many miles away, something crawls through the slime at the bottom

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
program to ensure that it isn't vulnerable. "absolute fool" seems a little extreme. -- Bill Moran Six men came to kill me one time, and the best of them carried this. It's a Callahan fullbore autolock, customized trigger and double cartridge thourough-gage. It's my very fav

Re: Sunday's newbie questions

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
ITIES=yes (in bourne shells) Then be sure to select the suhosin patch from the menu, as it plugs the current exploit. -- Bill Moran The presence of stale files in this directory can cause the dreaded unpredictable results, and therefore it is highly recommended that you delete them. _

Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
.. > > How do I get mod_php working again? (with Apache13) cd /usr/ports/lang/php4 make config (select the Apache module from the menu) rebuild/reinstall php. -- Bill Moran When I point out limitations of one technique as a motivation for another, I do so in the context of specific prob

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Bill Moran
ntly plugs the hole. Unfortunately, portaudit isn't aware of this and still reports the package as vulnerable. 2) The PHP folks haven't release the patch yet, although it's in their CVS. 3) Somebody _could_ generate a patchfile for the FreeBSD port -- don't know why nobody

Re: kick off a post boot job

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
esult to start > up > apache. You could just store your cert and key unencrypted. There are other ways as well. Apache supports plugins for this purpose, but that question would be better answered on one of the Apache mailing lists. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: php5 port

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
built: Mar 16 2006 03:15:52) March 16th isn't very recently. Looks like on March 16th, someone installed PHP in a non-standard way and it's picking up the wrong one. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This m

Re: having more than one process write to one log

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
. don't want to cause > problems. I don't think Windows would allow it. How about FBSD? That's what syslogd is for. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is

Re: rm command problem

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Moran
rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... >unlink file > > How can I delete it? rm \-exclude or rm '-exclude' -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: log rotation, one process doesn't know about it

2006-10-21 Thread Bill Moran
seperate files and configure newsyslog to rotate both of those files. If dovecot needs restarted in order to handle log rotation, be sure to put dovecot's PID file in the last column. Personally, I do #1 -- all my mail programs log to /var/log/maillog, but either will wo

Re: Question

2006-10-21 Thread Bill Moran
cd ? FreeSBIE has a set of scripts that allow you to do this. You can install it from the ports collection. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: log rotation, one process doesn't know about it

2006-10-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Do one of the following: > > 1) Configure both exim and dovecot to log through syslog with the same > > facility. Then configure syslogd to put

Re: Question

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > - Original Message - > From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:02:19 +0330 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> hi all dear in freebsd project > >> > &g

Re: What's using the disk so much?

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Moran
t's mostly one single process) is > using the disk so much? top says the CPU is mostly idle. In top, hit the 'm' key and it will switch to an IO view that shows per-process IO usage. This feature of top was added some time after 4.X.

Re: cvsup

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Moran
freebsd.org. E.g. cvsup.de.freebsd.org for > > Germany, cvsup.hu.freebsd.org, etc. > > Hi > Thanks, that works for me... but the others used to work all the > time... anyway updating now... Every cvsup server has a limit to how many concurrent users it will allow. You p

nice values outside the expected range ...

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Moran
s for nice were -20 to 20. Is this something new in the 6.x branch? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: help increase process/kernel memory please

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
> 536416256 bytes > > I'm depending on a solution to this and would be a really happy person > if someone could please guide me. What does 'ulimit -a' as the user running the process say? If the problem is apparent there, the associated docs should help. -- Bill

Port for gksudo?

2006-11-01 Thread Bill Moran
he 85 E dependencies that empower requires. I figure I've already got all the Gnome dependencies, might as well use 'em. If there's an equivalent utility bundled with XFCE, I'd be interested to hear about it as well, but my Googling is coming up em

Re: Port for gksudo?

2006-11-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There doesn't seem to be a port for gksudo. Is there any port that > > includes this as a "bundle" or whatever? > > sysutils/gksu > &

Re: Port for gksudo?

2006-11-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:51:50 -0500 Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > There does

digression: There is no "ye" (was Re: what happened to groff?!!)

2006-11-04 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > This roff script is in a directory with ye-olden-English font, There is no word "ye", and there never was. Word origins is a hobby of mine, and I found it pretty difficult to figure out where "ye" c

Questions on first-time installation (Re: (no subject))

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
a lot of detail missing here. Have you gone through the handbook section on installation? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html If that doesn't help with your questions, you're going to have to provide more information. You say you have 3 - 73G dr

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
ems with the BIOS moving drives around, then FreeBSD can't figure out which drive it should be mounting off. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, all I'm saying is that it might not produce a long-term usable installation. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This

Re: freebsd help

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can this OS support Dual-CORE intel CPU?? Yes. We're using 6.2-PRERELEASE on dual-core units at my work. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intend

Re: access-lists and QoS implementation

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Moran
believe it will do everything you need. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the deliver

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I > pkg_add that. If you don't report these to the ports team, they're unlikely to get fixed. > Then, a little further here comes an x windows install, a > 31 mb download. I don't want that on my server. Put NO

Detailed questions about kernel operation (was Re: 'help')

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
ion of FreeBSD", which covers these in detail. And I suggest using a more descriptive subject line. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an

Re: cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
: only getting # You _are_ logged in. If your console is marked "secure" (which it obviously is, see /etc/ttys) then it doesn't ask for a password when forced to boot to single user mode. The most likely course to correct the problem now, is to do the following: fsck -p mount -a then

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
austed its filehandles would be interesting) If that's the case, you can update the amount of available filehandles using sysctl or by recompiling your kernel. We have some PostgreSQL servers that require the filehandle limit be raised to 5, for example. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc

FreeBSD UFS "vulnerability": Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a "corrupt" or "malicious" filesystem in order to exploit this "vulnerability". Yes, NIST claims there is no authentication required to exploit? Are new versions of FreeBSD sudde

Re: FreeBSD UFS "vulnerability": Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 > > > > Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a > > "corrupt" or > > "malicio

Re: net-snmp and 6.1 (confusion)

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
d show you what is listening on that port. net-snmpd starts a process called "snmpd", so you should be able to tell which one is running by the process name. If bsnmpd is still running, a "killall" should shut it down. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: T

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
? Based on your dmesg, I don't believe you have a dual-cored CPU. It looks as if it's hyperthreaded, which is different. Hyperthreading is disabled in FreeBSD by default because of possible security issues. It can be enabled by setting a sysctl ... I recommend you do a bit of reading on t

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
s when it's not causing panics. If you're not interested/capable in doing kernel debugging, you probably want to go with SCHED_4BSD. It would appear that some day SCHED_ULE will replace it, but not yet. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidenti

Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
of checks it can do, but it doesn't do all your nice to haves. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individu

Re: OS-BS replacement

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
he FreeBSD Porters Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ 2) Create a port for your program. 3) Submit a PR based on the guidelines in #1, be sure to note in the PR that this port supersedes the old os-bs port, so the committer can do the right thin

Re: TCP parameters

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:17:26 + Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the process of debugging a not-working-so-well TCP > application, I've been asked to provide: > > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem > > Which of course results in "No such file

Re: TCP parameters

2006-11-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Bob M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:17 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Window scaling is enabled by default. I'd assumed that there would be a > > sysctl to disable it, but I can't seem to find one. > > &g

Re: Where is that branch ???

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:46:39 -0500 "Ne'Bahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, I was reading the handbook for the -STABLE branch, but no answer, > the actual realeases are -CURRENT and -PRODUCTION; I don't see any -STABLE > on site, I should assume that -PRODUCTION is the stable branch ??? Am

Problems with openldap version conflict (was Re: upgrade packages)

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
nldap23-client openldap-client-2.2.30 will replace the 2.2 version with the 2.3 version. I've done this on a few systems without problems. You can then install packages that require the 2.3 verison without hassel. -- Bill Moran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: PowerEdgeTM 1950

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
; have to rebuild world and kernel. And you must save those source code > files, because you'll need them every time you have to update world or > kernel due to security patches. Another option is to wait a month or two for 6.2, which already incorporates these fixes. You can tr

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Moran
My comments are based both on the packet dump here and the source code you posted earlier ... On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:20:33 + Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the tcpdump output below, the src machine is sending data to the > bsd machine. At one point during this test, the bsd machine i

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-11-19 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:42:31 + Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Bill writes: > > Bill> My guess would be that your process blocked on stdout. > Bill> You don't mention what you're doing with stdout from the program, are > Bill> you just letting it scroll on the terminal, or redirec

Re: Does disk encryption causes a performance penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc

2006-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
till able to encrypt faster than the disk can write the data. The result would be that you won't notice the penalty unless you've got other CPU-intensive tasks running that reduce the amount of CPU available to the encryption process. HTH -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IM

Re: IPFW & NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
using 'ipfw show', and by inserting "log" statements into your ruleset to get more useful feedback. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:45:19 +0100 VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/23/06, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And how can one into the System by booting from a CD if it still > > > requires the Password even in Single User mode? > > > > Booting from CD, floppy or hard dis

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:56:23 +0100 VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, does it mean that Windows 2003 Server provides more Password Level > Security with Unauthorized Access? Where is this presumption coming from? Windows OS suffer from the same difficulty protecting from physical intrusio

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:08:18 +0100 VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/23/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:45:19 +0100 > > VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 11/23/06, Olivier Nicole &l

Re: not enough free resources

2006-11-25 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:22:16 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > getting such things under high load > > Nov 25 18:20:20 3miasto named[996]: client 193.220.192.36#36674: error > sending response: not enough free resources > > > sometimes even ping doesn't work well. > > w

Re: Mail on freebsd.org

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
e dreamed to have a mail box on > freebsd.org. Can you give him a mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail accounts on freebsd.org are reserved for committers. He would have to earn the address by getting a commit bit with the project. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: FreeBSD systems

2007-07-17 Thread Bill Moran
good experience with them around 2002 or so. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: logging system load

2007-07-25 Thread Bill Moran
tion. If you want longer-term monitoring, something like MRTG or Cacti might fit you better. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Having bad performance issues

2007-07-25 Thread Bill Moran
there's a lot of IO, but memory isn't being used, then the memory is being wasted. Start with shared_buffers, and see if bumping that up helps (start with 1/3 of available RAM). -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-ques

Re: SSA_ENEWS: Cancellation

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Moran
/dominor.com > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Nothing happens with Qemu

2007-07-29 Thread Bill Moran
ding > uncommenting the console entry in /etc/tty and trying). No luck. > > Any ideas what could be going wrong? I figure it must be something to do > with me not having X and not compiling Qemu with SDL/ X support ... is > that the case? Have you tried using the vnc option an

Re: hi this is test message

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for testing purposes. That's the reason it exists, and it avoids spamming 1000s of subscribers. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: getting fair share of CPU for processes

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
to either streamline your configuration so it's less resource intensive, or add hardware. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: getting fair share of CPU for processes

2007-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
but I doubt that's an issue. An area where high spike loads may be a concern is (for example) and e- commerce web site. If you've suddenly got a really popular product, the last thing you want is for your online shopping cart system to get slow right when people are the most eager

Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
t see the usage. One way to tell would be to reboot the system. If it comes up with du and df agreeing, then this problem is occurring somewhere. The trickier step may be to figure out what program is causing it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-04 Thread Bill Moran
password, but I was surprised to have the confirmed by some peculiar > stty message. > > Enlightenment, beyond calling me a doofus, on this would be appreciated Did you select the "insult" option when you installed sudo? I find i

Re: dump -L

2007-08-06 Thread Bill Moran
wasn't. The only time I have had that happen was when the > media (tape) couldn't be read properly. Usually then you also get > other errors. Ok, but using -L causes dump to create a filesystem snapshot, which is read- only, meaning that nobody can delete a file from

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Moran
ficant stuff with computers, you're going to have to understand WTF they're saying when they talk. If you're willing to take on those responsibilities, then FreeBSD is an excellent platform to allow you to pursue cool computer stuff. If you want someth

Sending test messages (was Re: don't read it)

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Moran
reeBSD mailing list. So there is no reason to ever send test messages to anything other than freebsd-test. I'm not saying this to berate you, Jean-Pierre. My purpose is to clarify this for anyone who may be reading, or may in the future read the mail archives for this list. Understanding th

Re: How do I make install clean a port in the background

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Moran
reen. First off, I recommend directing to a file instead of /dev/null. That way if it fails, you have the output to review. Secondly, redirect both standard out and standard error. In bourne shells: make install clean >~/buildlog.txt 2>&1 & -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtec

Re: server was hacked

2007-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
y. Note that tripwire isn't the only option. There's also Aide and Samhain. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Network Monitor?

2007-08-12 Thread Bill Moran
quot;traffic type" like in windows. Have a look at the ntop port. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Looking for powerful machines that runs FreeBSD on it

2007-08-14 Thread Bill Moran
ion) > It don't recognize my dell usb keyboard and my SATA DVD Rom drive was not > detected at all. I have an Dell Optiplex GX520 here at work that runs FreeBSD 6.2 just fine. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ fre

Re: Major Bug

2007-08-14 Thread Bill Moran
" could mean any one of a bazillion things, many of which are not _supposed_ to work. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Moran
monitor, > and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know > what the best software to use for this would be? You have lots of choices: MRTG, Cacti, SmokePing, ntop are some that I've used that come to mind. Which one is "best" reall

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
t; ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity > ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts > UNREF FILE I=2049026 OWNER=slimserv MODE=100600 > SIZE=0 MTIME=Aug 18 16:44 2007 > CLEAR? no > > UNREF FILE I=2049029 OWNER=slimserv MODE=100600 > SIZE

FreeBSD 6.2 on a Dell Inspiron 531s

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
I'm looking at purchasing a Dell Inspiron 531s to use as a low- end workstation. The price is _really_ reasonable. Anyone have FreeBSD running successfully on these units? Any problems getting FreeBSD to recognize/work with the hardware? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtec

Re: problems with networking...

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
e ifconfig, routing table, and nat rules from the router machine. > ...again, this is straight out of a fresh install (which I did because I had > the exact same problem with the last install). Well, obviously, you did it the same both times, and are getting the same result. > On 8/18/0

Re: problems with networking...

2007-08-19 Thread Bill Moran
x27;ve got an underlying network issue. Also (for the second time) keep the mailing list in the loop. In particular, I'll be leaving shortly and won't have access to email for several days. > > On 8/18/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Test on FreeBSD site

2007-08-24 Thread Bill Moran
and age, with the spam scourge and all the alleged "solutions" that everyone's mail servers use, anything less than 10 minutes for a delivery should be considered successful. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

2007-08-24 Thread Bill Moran
the same motherboard and chipset and that these > also have the same BIOS version. Derek triggered a thought ... I believe the 2950s have the ability to do "RAM RAID1", to increase RAM reliability. If that belief is correct, it could be that you've got 4G physically in the machi

Re: How to block 200K ip addresses?

2007-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
s long as you're using a relatively recent version of FreeBSD, you'll have pf as an option. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: time issue

2007-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
cussions on this topic, search the list archives for "calcru" or check out this FAQ entry: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#LAPTOP-CLOCK-SKEW -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-ques

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