TPM could not be initialized - bge0 has disappeared ... WTF ?

2007-10-10 Thread Gore Jarold
I own a Dell Latitude X1. I installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on it. All is well. No problems. Have a nice day. However, suddenly, when I boot the system, I get a message: WARNING: The TPM could not be initialized I didn't know what TPM was, I didn't care, and I just booted up. Not my problem.

Append only directory ? Is this possible with unix permissions ?

2007-04-10 Thread Gore Jarold
Hello, I have a user whose home directory I would like to make "append only". That is to say, they cannot delete files, or delete information from files, but they _can_ create new files or append information to existing files. Or, if that is not possible, at the very least I wouldlike the abilit

freebsd version of 'data' for getting epoch time ... ?

2007-06-20 Thread Gore Jarold
If I have a arbitrary date/time and I want to convert that to epoch time, I do this with GNU date: date --date='1970-01-01 00:02:00 +' +%s Easy. Can someone tell me what the syntax is for FreeBSD date command ?

ipfw rules for all interfaces not working ...

2007-12-17 Thread Gore Jarold
My main goal is to lock down my ipfw rules so that when I run nmap, all I see is: Interesting ports on 192.168.0.10: Not shown: 1677 closed ports PORTSTATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh MAC Address: 00:12:D8:A2:23:C2 Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 9.791 seconds So that means