keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. --- I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p17 Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text file's contents in a real time? For example, I open ttyv1 and via some magic command :) I get my file's contents updating in real time if any modifications occured

Re: keep track of a text file

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On 30/09/2007, N.J. Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Laine wrote: > > > > Just wonder about one catch: is it possible to keep track of any text > file's > > contents in a real time? > > For example

Re: Dealing with portscans

2008-09-22 Thread Jeff Laine
2008/9/22 David Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Over the last few weeks I've been getting numerous ports scans, each from > unique hosts. The situation is more of an annoyance than anything else, > but I would prefer not seeing or having to deal with an extra 20-30K > entries in my logs as was the ca

Sound troubles with high res modes in console

2008-10-07 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, everybody! The system is ASUS "A3500L", old laptop on Intel Montara platform, running 7.1-PRERELEASE I have one trouble while listening music with console players. Sound became crippled when I have output to STDOUT or whenever I use text-scrolling in editors or switching between consol

Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

2008-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
Agreed with t-u-t. I tried new pc-bsd7 on my old laptop (Celeron 1,6GHz/1.5G RAM/15GB dedicated on HDD/Intel GME video) and it runs rather good (with almost all desctop effects disabled). Not so blazing fast of course, but still enough for doing everyday stuff. -- Best regards, Jeff _

Re: Tcpwrappers, sendmail, and unknown hosts...

2009-10-10 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,10-10-2009 [12:31:01], Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Seems like a lot of the spam we fight comes from > hosts with no DNS entries. What about using this? > > -- > > $grep sendmail /etc/hosts.allow > > sendmail : KNOWN : allow > sendmail : UNKNOWN : deny > > -

Re: How can I get >100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue,13-10-2009 [17:50:00], Michael Powell wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: > >> I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of > >> connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. > > > > That IP is pro

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed,14-10-2009 [23:48:26], Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block > wrote: > > All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the "mtrr" problem you're > > talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and > > 8-STABLE. > > I had an old-fa

Re: FreeBSD vs Russian's laws

2009-10-31 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,31-10-2009 [17:56:22], Vagner wrote: > Good day! I wanted to share with you the situation in Russia and hear > advice. In Russia introduced a law "On personal data" and the > corresponding standarts. In accordance with these standarts process > personal data (ie 80% of all data in the enterp

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-16 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,05-08-2011 [21:12:14], Christian Barthel wrote: > Hello, > > I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It > seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3. > > As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big > mistak

batch rename

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some shell-script? TIA -- --Jeff-- ___ freebsd-question

Re: batch rename

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff Laine
On 05/01/2008, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeff Laine wrote: > > Hi to all. > > > > My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize > > starting letters in

release or rc?

2008-01-17 Thread Jeff Laine
Hi to all. Stupid question here ) I've cvsup'ed recently from 6.1 to RELENG_6_3. All seems to works pretty well right now. There are plenty of new drivers and fixes that I needed so much! Many thanks to developers! But now "uname -a" says it's 6.3-RELEASE. I thought it would be 6.3-RC2 . Is it s

fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best rega

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,30-01-2010 [19:33:37], krad wrote: > On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > > I tried to use double quotes and backsla

Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

2010-03-23 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,22-03-2010 [17:41:16], Steve Franks wrote: > /usr/ports/www/xpi-noscript is another option, not without caveats... > > Steve > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yuri wrote: > > Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many > > few seconds,maybe ~20sec. >

cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-02 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, list. I'm trying to set up cyrus-imapd on my host running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but whenever I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or cyradm) cyrus goes nuts and spawns child processes in end

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:19:01PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Jeff Laine wrote: > >The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but > >whenever > >I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or > >cyradm)

Re: How to reset a connection stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:38:24PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I am runnig FlexNet license manager on FreeBSD (6.4), this is alinux > application, but it is running smoothly. > > The problem occurs sometime at stop time, it will not stop cleanly and > leave a connection in CLOSE_WAIT s

Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:53:38AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding > queries. A snippet of named.conf: > > acl clients { > localnets; > localhost; > ::1; > 10.45.12/19; > };

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,06/19/09 [17:31:49], Olivier Nicole wrote: > Nikos, > > > My list of priorities, with 1 being the most important. > > 1. Price > > 2. Stability > > As the price is the most important for you, buy any cheap switch. > > Now I have had satisfaction with Dlink and Compex, maybe not among the

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-20 Thread Jeff Laine
A vote for C-net devices. Pretty cheap and I can't recall any troubles caused by 'em. -- Best regards, Jeff | "Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ..." | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,06/22/09 [21:16:35], Daniel Underwood wrote: > On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), > I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I > use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't > set pf rules to filter by IP).

Re: how to do a live migration of a freebsd box to another box with rsync

2009-07-06 Thread Jeff Laine
> Hi, > I'm used to migrate GNU/Linux system from one box to another by booting the > second box with a liveCD (like systemrescueCD for example) and by copying > the "/" filesystem (using the ssh transport) with rsync. > I would like to do the same for BSD system but i have two issues: > - as the

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-10 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,08/07/09 [09:32:38], Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'd really love to see chromium ported over. ditto. But now I'm pretty happy with that new firefox-3.5 which seems pretty faster than previous version and still light enough for my old 1.6G celeron-powered laptop. -- Best regards, Jeff |

linux_base installation - missing rpm binary

2009-08-28 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, I've just installed the emulators/linux_base-f10 port in order to run some rpm-based applications. Various online manuals told me that one should not use the native freebsd rpm binary (archivers/rpm), but instead use the /compat/linux/bin/rpm. But there's no such rpm binary under /compa

Re: linux_base installation - missing rpm binary

2009-08-28 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri,28-08-2009 [14:57:04], Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:06:28 +0400 Jeff Laine wrote: > > > I've just installed the emulators/linux_base-f10 port in order to run some > > rpm-based applications. > > Various online manuals told me that one shou

Re: Opera 10.00 (native) & flash

2009-09-07 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,07-09-2009 [18:44:54], Tom Mende wrote: > Running on 7.2-RELEASE, Opera 10.00 build 4585 (native) and would like to > view flash enabled websites. Anyone with a howto? Have googled extensively > and followed a variety of methods all unsuccessful to date. Like to here from > someone who ha

Re: (no subject)

2008-12-12 Thread Jeff Laine
2008/12/12 abedini : > Hi all dear > > I have laptop acer 4220 and I need to install FreeBSD. > > This laptop have sata HDD how can install FreeBSD in this system. > > Hello. If you need a desktop environment you can try PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/), it's easy and fast to set-up. I believe it wi

Re: USB Flash Drives

2008-12-13 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:39:50PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > fixer writes: > > > FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 > > 11:05:30 UTC 2007 > > r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > > localhost# > > > > > > I just discovered flash drives.

Re: Canonical way for DHCP->IP->/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: > Dear mailing list, > > I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however > the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives > referrer errors for me. > > Pre-conditions. > Dualhomed fire

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:34:20AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2008 11:14:08 Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >>and exactly is needed on that group. it would be enough that > > > >> moderator's job will be just rem

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-18 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:08:10AM +0800, KHOO Guan Chen wrote: > Hi > > I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is > connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use > bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup > also

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. > > IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > Any suggestions, > > > Cheers, > > Gar

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > hi, > when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host is > up". > i don't understand how nessus can detect it... > does anyone know how it is done? > thanx > > rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > yes,but i dpn't know how... > it looks to me that all ports are closed > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael wrote: > > > > > > > Richard Yang wrote: > > > >> hi, > >> when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "

Re: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition

2008-12-20 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:16:38PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my > msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. > > Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk > > What tools do you sug

Cpu and memory clock tool

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello everybody. I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that I had no idea what frequency memory was running. So is there any tool to measure such things like FSB and memory clocks under FreeBSD? TIA. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\ __

Re: Cpu and memory clock tool

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:20:59PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Laine wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > > > I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that I > > had no idea what frequency memory was

Re: Cpu and memory clock tool

2008-12-22 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:10:28PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 22), Jeff Laine said: > > Hello everybody. > > > > I've been fiddling with some memory modules on my laptop and realized that > > I > > had no idea what frequency memory

Re: Really strange resolution problems on xorg with a laptop

2008-12-25 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 04:22:40PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:16:49 -0500, "Aryeh M. Friedman" > > wrote: > > > >> I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 and any "standard" xorg app like xterm or > >> anything else that comes with xorg seems to work fin

Re: Wine without X

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:12:17PM +, Barnaby Scott wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > >In response to Barnaby Scott : > > > >>I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I have tried elsewhere > >>and go no response. > >> > >>I want to install wine, but without X on the system. > > > >Why would

Re: UTF-8 file + console

2009-03-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:47:56AM +0200, Arek Czereszewski wrote: > Hi, > > I have php application in UTF-8 on server > (in files are 4 languages: PL, SK, CZ and EN). > > Is there any chance to edit this files on console? > Or should I edit files in Linux/Mac/Win editor with > UTF support and up

Re: UTF-8 file + console

2009-03-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Sorry, I missed that you need a console editor. bluefish requires X -- Best regards, Jeff | "Nobody wants to say how this works. | | Maybe nobody knows ..." | | Xorg.conf(5)| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:42:56PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello, > got a problem since yesterday after having done a lot of updates > (ports): on all of my FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes firefox does have > enormous high latencies when typing in or moving the mouse or popping up > the wind

6.0 to 6.4 upgrade - buildkernel fails

2009-05-08 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, everybody. I'm trying to source upgrade from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.4. I really need to update this system, because 6.0 has too many holes now. I cvsup'ed to RELENG_6_4 and buildworld went ok, but buildkernel fails ait this stage: [skipped] --

Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Jeff Laine
On 08/18/2010 10:58, Mark Stapper wrote: Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks doesn't work as the machine isn't alwa

freebsd.org maillist mx discard policy

2010-08-18 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello list, My question is regarding official maillist smtp servers. I'm trying to subscribe on "security-notifications", but (for some reasons) our outgoing MX has no PTR record and mx1.freebsd.org rejects my message: >Reporting-MTA: dns; xxx >Arrival-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:18:39 +0400 (