On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these rules[*],
use
of technologies like SPF and DKIM can discourage but not entirely prevent the
spammers from joe-jobbing you.
I just started getting these bouncebacks en masse this week.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jakub T wrote:
Good day people,
I'm trying to get wireless Internet access for my laptop and to use this
wireless router as a switch for my FreeBSD box at the same time. This
wireless router has one Internet plug and for Ethernet plugs for wired
boxes. Now I have this si
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jakub T wrote:
2008/11/15 Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Port-forwarding through two NATs is something I've never had any success
with. I have a few suggestions that have worked for me and my friends with
this setup.
A) Disable NAT on the ADSL router.
This weekend I upgraded a desktop system from 6.2 to 7-STABLE using
source. I removed and rebuilt all my ports using the ports system, and so
far I haven't noticed any problems with them.
When I attempted to rebuild some software outside the ports system, I ran
into problems. I like to use
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Luke Dean wrote:
This weekend I upgraded a desktop system from 6.2 to 7-STABLE using source.
I removed and rebuilt all my ports using the ports system, and so far I
haven't noticed any problems with them.
When I attempted to rebuild some software outside the ports s
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to limit the bandwidth available to some connections and I'm not
sure FreeBSD can handle this. Maybe some of you can help. Here's what I need
to have exactly.
No matter what the number of connections, each connection should have at
m
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Duong wrote:
I'm planning to redoing my home network. I currently have one server
(Opteron 170) that is currently a NAS, Email, and DNS server (btw, the main
OS is FreeBSD). I was thinking of purchasing an Alix2c3/Soekris 5501 and use
it as a Email + DNS server. T
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Chad Perrin wrote:
I have two questions. First:
Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at
least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software
installed, and have both installed and uninstalled a lot of software over
tha
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
Hello,
I would like to implement traffic shaping using pf. I know I need to
recompile kernel to be able to achieve this but I have a more general
question. I used to have pf with traffic shaping on a Pentium III 866
before and as soon as I activat
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Zane C.B. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:50:06 +0100
Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Doug Hardie wrote:
FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls: IPF, IPFW, and PF. Some time ago
(perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more
of those was better maintained
On Sun, 11 May 2008, cuongvt wrote:
Hi all!
full explanation:
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386)
uid=1001(mak) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),69(network)
installed:
jdk-1.6.0.3p4_1
diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_10
javavmwrapper-2.3.2
I'm using zsh so I set JAVA_HOME and PATH of java into in my .zshrc.
java
I'm running FreeBSD on a Soekris net4801. It boots from a read-only flash
card, and has no permanent writable storage media - only memory disks. It
runs several critical network services for me like DNS, and a firewall.
One important service that it does not currently run is a DHCP server.
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Christopher Cowart wrote:
David Kelly wrote:
Its PC commodity-grade. Not all that unusual even for stuff sold
claiming to be a "server". This is in no small part why ntpd exists.
nptd calculates a correction coefficient and (under FreeBSD) stores it
in /var/db/ntpd.drift
I'm trying to use nanobsd to build a small kernel for an embedded system
on FreeBSD 7.
In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all
the devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel
KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't int
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Luke Dean wrote:
In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all the
devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel
KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't interested in.
This no longer w
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Luke Dean wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2008, Luke Dean wrote:
In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all the
devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel
KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I
understand that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is
working, but I'm not sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should.
During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system
across the network
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I understand
that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is working, but I'm not
sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should.
During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system
across the network
I've recently acquired an Asus Eee PC 1201HAB netbook with GMA500
"Poulsbo" video. My research and experiments show that this hardware is
not supported by the usual mainstream Intel driver. The only driver that
I seem to have any luck with at all under FreeBSD is vesa, but even vesa
has pro
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
In my ongoing quest to figure out why my machine keeps locking up since I
upgraded from 5.4 to 6.0, I came across this interesting passage in man
(5) pf.conf:
BUGS
Due to a lock order reversal (LOR) with the socket layer, the use of the
group and user filter parameter in conjuction with a
Ever since FreeBSD switched to OpenBSD's dhclient, I've had a serious
problem. I'm running 6-STABLE as of earlier this week, but the problem
has existed ever since we switched dhclients.
Whenever I take the system offline long enough for the lease to expire, it
will never get a new lease.
I'm one of those masochists who insists on manually building all my
pakages from the ports collection without using automating software like
portmanager.
Typically I upgrade my ports collection with
cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/supfile-that-I-made-for-ports
then run
pkg_version -v -L '='
to get a list
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives
and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how
people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational
problems with them. I'm just wonderin
Hi, how can i know what the dependencies are for a particular port?
try:
# make pretty-print-run-depends-list
- or -
# make pretty-print-build-depends-list
Where do you guys find these interesting and useful make targets?
I've searched the manpages for make and make.conf and the Makefiles
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently noticed if I update a package from ports, the package manager
looses the dependency data for the package. eg: updating old version of
gettext
# pkg_info -R gett*
Information for gettext-0.14.5_1:
Required by:
libgpg-error-1.1
libgcry
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Thomas Hill wrote:
However, I was previously using the web browser Opera under Linux
emulation because it supports lots of the browser plugins But now
when installing linux-opera from the ports collection it complains
about libX11.so.6, which I know is a common X11 librar
you're trying to do.
A little over a year ago, I had to split up a drive to solve the same
problem you're having, but I went the "small /" route instead, so you
might be running into a problem I didn't have.
Luke Dean
___
I synchronized my sources to RELENG_6 built the world, built the kernel,
and installed the kernel.
When I run mergemaster, it always dies with the following message. It's
trying to use a "-l" option with cap_mkdb and that's not a legal switch.
I can't find any documentation on that switch eit
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote:
I synchronized my sources to RELENG_6 built the world, built the kernel, and
installed the kernel.
When I run mergemaster, it always dies with the following message. It's
trying to use a "-l" option with cap_mkdb and that's n
I've recently upgraded to version 6, and I'm using the new dhclient.
It seems to be working happily, but I've noticed that
/var/db/dhclient.leases.rl0 just keeps growing and growing, with new
leases being added to the end. Leases that expired several hours ago
remain in the file.
According
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Luke Dean wrote:
I've recently upgraded to version 6, and I'm using the new dhclient.
It seems to be working happily, but I've noticed that
/var/db/dhclient.leases.rl0 just keeps growing and growing, with new leases
being added to the end. Leases that
Since I upgraded to version 6, my server has frozen under heavy network
traffic three times. It ran happily for months on various versions of
5. Same hardware, same configuration.
There was never anything in /var/log/messages until this last time. This
time I found:
kernel: rl0: watchdog
I run a headless machine that has sporadic lockup problems, and I need
some advice on what I can do to gather enough information to give me some
idea of what's causing it.
The machine acts as a router, DNS, web server, mail server, nfs server,
firewall, and lots of other services. These pro
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote:
I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a
number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected
to one another using Samba.
What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I
just want
I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen"
utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach
from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going.
I'm wondering if there's a tool I can use that would allow me to do that
with GUI applicati
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote:
I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen" utility
with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it,
and then reattach to it later to see how it
I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8.
The ports collection only has 2.6.
Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and
attempt to compile it on my system or should I ask the port maintainer?
___
freebsd-q
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote:
I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8.
The ports collection only has 2.6.
Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and
attempt to compile it on my syst
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sun 09 Sep 2007 21:09, Luke Dean wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote:
I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8.
The ports collection only has 2.6.
Do you thi
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Neal Nelson wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:49 +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sun 09 Sep 2007 21:09, Luke Dean wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote:
On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote:
I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPytho
The latest version of Opera claims to be faster by taking advantage of
"shared X memory" if I set the sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed.
I don't like to change sysctls from their default settings unless I
understand the consequences. I've been unable to find a manpage that
describes this se
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1.
My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg:
pcm0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem
0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: primary codec not ready!
pcm0:
My sound driver is compiled into the kernel:
device sou
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1.
My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg:
pcm0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem
0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on
pci0
pcm0: pr
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, bob self wrote:
5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 20 15:33:58 EDT 2005
I have a 19" LCD monitor and usually run in console mode. My screen
resolution is 80x25,
but I'd like to get something like 120 x 60 if possible. I've played with
vidcontrol, but so far can't
"reuse" parameter on the call
that binds the listening port, and it's defaulting to "false". I bet if
I explicitly set it to "true" that I'll get the behavior I want (or break
the whole thing...)
Open Source is fun. :)
Luke Dean
__
I have a minor problem regarding my network configuration,
specifically that the external interface on my router gets it's IP via
DHCP from the ISP, so in rc.conf
ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"
is set. This leads to the single entry in resolv.conf that I want to
be there, namely
nameserver 127.0.0.1
being re
I have read the manpage on pf but I am still stumped. I get some error
messages when starting up that say something like 'rule expands to no
possible valid combination' or something to that effect. If someone can tell
me how I can find out what the error messages are when I boot I will post
Parse your rules without actually loading them:
pfctl -n -f /etc/pf.conf
Flush the old rules and load the new ones without rebooting:
pfctl -F -f /etc/pf.conf
Gah! I knew that didn't look right...
pfctl -F all -f /etc/pf.conf
Or check out "man pfctl" for other options.
Both are must-haves for tin
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ryan Winograd wrote:
Charles Swiger wrote:
On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote:
I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up is
running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i do to
solve/investigate this problem? What
I downloaded the three floppy images for 5.3-RELEASE and dd'ed them on the
disks. Then I booted the installation and tried to partition my hard drive.
To my surprise, the partition table shown by the installation was complete
nonsense. I figured it probably had something to do with the fact tha
I was using 5.4-RC1 until today.
Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode
without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work
in progress in that ata-raid driver right now.
I'm using a Promise FastTrack S150 TX2Plus, and it's not happy with t
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Luke Dean wrote:
I was using 5.4-RC1 until today.
Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode
without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work in
progress in that ata-raid driver right now.
I'm using a Pr
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:55:56PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote:
I was using 5.4-RC1 until today.
Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode
without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work
in p
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring sho
After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high
temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring the
temperature of some of my systems.
I've got two FreeBSD systems running 5.4. Both use acpi, and several acpi
sysctl variables are present, but the hw
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 31), Luke Dean said:
After having a router literally melt during a period of record-high
temperatures last week, I've become interested in remotely monitoring
the temperature of some of my systems.
I've got two FreeB
This isn't really a question, just a testimonial and a thank you to the
people who make this work.
I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD
fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive
mirror. One of the drives has been sending me inte
This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to
research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm
describing.
When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut down X
with Control+Alt+Backspace became a non-default option. The solut
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Luke Dean wrote:
This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to
research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm
describing.
When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the his
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, RW wrote:
Can anyone explain this:
# find /etc/ -name 'named.conf'
# ls -l /etc/namedb/named.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3715 Nov 13 17:35 /etc/namedb/named.conf
named.conf is not found, but as a sanity check a similar search for ppp.conf
succeeds
# find /et
On Wed, 10 May 2006, bc wrote:
Ceri Davies wrote:
On 10/5/06 05:03, "bc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After make installworld I ran the final run thru of mergemaster and
recived
this error:
ERROR CODE 64
FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'dc' into /usr/src/etc/ and install files to the
temproot environ
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash
card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems. I installed grub from
ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card.
Booting on a
The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source
today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386
7-STABLE
My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote:
Luke Dean wrote:
The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source
today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386
7-STABLE
My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure&q
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
Hi,
Today I upgraded my system (ports) so I got x.org 7.4 installed.
Given the various entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING about the recent
updates for xorg I wonder what the correct settings/combinations are
for my installation:
I've got hald running as
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Alain G. Fabry wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:18:10PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote:
Luke Dean wrote:
The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source
today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the &q
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a soekris 4801 with an image built by nanobsd.
It's a small piece of headless hardware that boots from a compact flash
drive - no moving parts.
I wanted to update the operating system to 7.1 and install some more
packages on it, so I built a new image with nanobsd
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a soekris 4801 with an image built by nanobsd.
It's a small piece of headless hardware that boots from a compact flash drive
- no moving parts.
I wanted to update the operating system to 7.1 and install some more packages
on it, so I built a new image with nanobsd
I just upgraded my old laptop from an older 7.1 release to the
latest 7-STABLE for i386, and I started getting a lot of new
GEOM_LABEL noise during the boot process.
It says it's removing and adding labels every time it does the
filesystem checks.
What's that all about?
Should I be concerned?
Th
I'm following 7-STABLE with my laptop. As soon as ath_hal appeared, I
started having trouble with my wireless connection dropping every few
hours.
+ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 11 (2462 Mhz, flags 0x480 hal
flags 0xc0), hal status 3
The ath manpage documents this error as:
ath
Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story.
The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that
dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had
effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into changing my logging
policies.
So, to corr
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Luke Dean wrote:
I ended up rebooting the box.
Was there any other possible solution I could've tried?
You have to restart the service that was holding the log file(s) open.
The system does not release the space while an application is &
Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via
the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos
and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so
I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my s
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Pedro Alves wrote:
Hello
I have a serious problem with windowmaker.
Every time I configure .xinitrc to launch wmaker, the server aborts
here what I get:
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
xnit: connection to X server lost.
wmaker warning: got signal1-
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Neil Short wrote:
I just mem-wiped my laptop and am in the process of installing
everything after.
I have several issues (linux-firefox with linux-flash plugin crashes on
sites with flash), not the least of which is aterm doesn't seem to
behave very well.
When I run
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Jeff Molofee wrote:
Can anyone tell me why, how to fix, or even what is happening on my machine.
I ran the 169.x driver for a long time with no issues at all. I decided to
upgrade to 173, and noticed instantly that any time I run an OpenGL
application X crashes instantl
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