Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
pools located, can't boot Is it missing a step? Maybe the zpool should have been exported at the end too? I'm using 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso on 64-bit VMs. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Pe

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ges at all. Of course, for vmware, I had to use "da0" not "ad0". But otherwise, I followed the steps *to the letter*. And when I reboot, no ZFS Pool found. :( Did you select "Freebsd 64-bit" for the vm type? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services,

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Manolis" == Manolis Kiagias writes: Manolis> Yes. And I used an IDE disk instead of the SCSI usually suggested by Manolis> Vmware so it was ad0 for me. I doubt this makes any difference. Wow. Crap. Why does this hate me so? :( Lemme try again wi

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, how is there ever a clean shutdown? :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.co

Re: Can't get "ZFS on GPT Root" to work.

2010-01-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: >>>>> "krad" == krad writes: krad> make sure you dont export the pool after you have copied the zpool cache krad> onto the zfs root fs, as that will break everything. Randal> Hmm. But d

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
riented Programming, and Guido definitely doesn't get it. Obviously, other people have worked on both languages, but keep that in mind. I can present my evidence of how Guido doesn't get it in a longer post, if prompted. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
command as individual arguments. However, sometimes that expansion exceeds the maximum argument size, as you discovered. If you have perl, try this: perl -e 'unlink glob("*")' It uses Perl's internal glob() function, which can handle an unlimited number of files.

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
No need for the -1 there. Whenever ls is not going to the terminal, it defaults to classic -1 behavior. Compare: % ls with % ls | cat -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Techn

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
c rm -f {} + Might very well be a great option. Well, not for something that is also like -delete, but for other things that would have formerly required "-print0 | xargs -0"... this is apparently a fairly recent (and welcome!) modification to find. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge C

openssl from ports

2012-03-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
rt instead of the core libraries. Is it sufficient to restart the apps (apache in particular), or do I need to recompile things? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Maxim" == Maxim Khitrov writes: Maxim> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Randal L. Schwartz Maxim> wrote: >> >> I know openssl is in the core, but the version in FreeBSD 8.2 is >> vulnerable to some recent attacks.  (Hmm, I wonder why t

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
newer" @${ECHO_CMD} "version is installed by a port." @${ECHO_CMD} "Please deinstall the port or undefine WITH_OPENSSL_BASE." @${FALSE} .endif So it looks like modern FreeBSD will Do The Right Thing if I just

Re: openssl from ports

2012-03-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Simmons writes: Robert> I'm replying off-list. No need to reply this back onto the Robert> list. Eh? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
(everything under zpool, possibly with some sub-mounts, but I've left those out lately). Is there a way to transition my system to a form that beadm expects? I tried just running it, and it's upset that zpool/ROOT doesn't exist. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ing list vermaden> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions vermaden> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http:

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: >>>>> "vermaden" == vermaden writes: vermaden> # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Randal> and after reboot, "zfs set mountpoint=none zroot" would also see

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal> that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal> items? And worse, the things from the readme don&#x

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> This is FreeBSD 8.2. And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a "promote" in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Sto

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
gt; # chmod +x beadm vermaden> # ./beadm list vermaden> # ./beadm activate be vermaden> # reboot vermaden> Now You should have a working system with boot environments. OK, I'll give that a try. Thanks for being persistent with me. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
sd vermaden> } vermaden> mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be precise highlighting vermaden> of the second bracket of a pair at editors, nor VIM neither GEANY vermaden> highlight if/then/elif/else/fi unfortunately, seems that I will have vermaden> to live with that ;p Ema

Re: Write only directory.

2012-05-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
o re-fetch or even get a directory listing. scp is via ssh. with ssh, they get a complete command line. how are you going to prevent *that*? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting,

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
he month, and my uptime is 16 days right now, so I can't see the most recent reboot with last. YMMV, I guess. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. e

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
then. Are you sure you want to tell someone that a machine has been running for over 18 months? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
would change this, I'd Chuck> imagine Sure, but the question was likely involving a stock system, so yes, your mileage may vary, but let's consider a solution that works for a default system. "last reboot" isn't it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting S

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
in the clear and (b) it's trivial to spoof a MAC address. This. is. no. security. Please stop even trying. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, T

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Wojciech" == Wojciech Puchar writes: Wojciech> I ignore performance issues completely for now. An ironic line, given your complaints about clang. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "IamTrying" == IamTrying writes: IamTrying> http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html Since that's a useless URL... do you have other links to the same information? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Andrew> routine? And for those of us using the binary upgrade, do I need to follow http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557&postcount=19 still? Or do nothing? Or do something else? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Vande More writes: Adam> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Randal L. Schwartz Adam> wrote: >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=94557&postcount=19 Adam> Well those are his modified upgrade instructions, they seem Adam&

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
that extra step. Please save me the trouble for 8.1 to 8.2. I have four VPSs that need to move from 8.1 to 8.2 remotely. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comed

Re: looking for rack hosting company

2011-03-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
t; need enough ram/storage to do some trial and error with Darren> different databases. So the vmware virtual servers and limited Darren> ram are out. How so? Take a look at arpnetworks.com/vps - you can get some pretty fat servers there. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consul

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> OK, so I'll appeal to the rest of freebsd-questions, since you can't Randal> answer with authority: Randal> can you upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 using freebsd-update booting from Randal> ZFS as

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Staal writes: Daniel> On Wed, March 16, 2011 2:36 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> Randal> SOMEONE here knows. Please help. >> >> So, nobody knows? >> >> Most of the other answers were about a source-code

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
want someone who actually hacks the ZFS boot code to help me out. How do I reach them? Is ZFS a first-class FS now in the binary builds, or not? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/

Re: FreeBSD-based hosting

2011-03-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
This question gets asked and answered repeatedly. :) I'll once again say how happy I am with <http://arpnetworks.com/vps>. Check them out. Tell 'em I sent ya. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smal

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Anton" == Anton Shterenlikht writes: Anton> Are you saying GCC doesn't comply with ISO standard(s)? Welcome to the GNU World. First time here? :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
s already been "infested", it's Matt> easier just to rebuild from scratch. That's one of the first things I do with a fresh system that will be only a server: echo "WITHOUT_X11=yes" >> /etc/make.conf And then *never* use packages. Only ports. --

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Dick" == Dick Hoogendijk writes: Dick> Are the quotes neccessary? No. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writ

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
al, almost every use of "#!/usr/bin/env XXX" as a solution is wrong. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See htt

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ng to do is pull their hand back, without hesitating. That's what we're trying to do for you. Why are you not getting it? You *will* get burned. Why do you not trust the community to notice that for you? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0

Re: Ekiga && FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
tely replace Skype, at least for point-to-point audio/video. (No SILK though... there's nothing that comes close, sadly.) I interviewed the lead developer for FLOSS Weekly a few weeks back... sounds quite promising. http://twit.tv/floss162 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Service

Re: Ekiga && FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
s and Skype is the best choice if you like it or not. Jitsi runs fine on Windows. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmes

Re: ZFS and cp -x

2011-06-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Eir" == Eir Nym writes: Eir> Does `cp -x` works correctly on ZFS? Is "cp -x" new? Not in my 8.1 manpages. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix c

Re: ZFS and cp -x

2011-06-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
iewer has got it wrong as well. I suspect "8.1" there means "8.1 just before 8.2", and not "8.1 release". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical wri

Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict

2011-06-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ded on 5.12 Perl, not the 5.10 Perl baked in to the default package. Do that, and all will be well. Yes, I had to learn this the hard way a year ago, so now I pass along that knowledge. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
you a really simple 'undo' Matthew> type functionality, so you can unwind accidental deletions and Matthew> other user mistakes. And with zxfer (in ports), very simple means to transfer those snapshots to another location. I'm using that now on multiple machines, and it&

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
t it perryh> there have the legal right to put it there? There's no tool that can do that, so I'm hoping you're joking now. I didn't see the smiley face. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Sm

Re: Why not add ZFS support on bsdinstaller? (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/RELEASE)

2011-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Alvaro" == Alvaro Castillo writes: Alvaro> The question... or maybe I'm wrong and will be included. There *is* ZFS support in the PC-BSD 8.2 installer. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge

Re: semi-OT: Looking for a hosting provider w/ FreeBSD root-servers

2011-08-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
s are Matthias> wellcome. If you don't mind the USA, I highly recommend arpnetworks.com, having been a happy customer with multiple live e-commerce boxes for 18 months. If you insist on Europe, I'm also a customer of ElasticHosts, and they seem to be decent at a similar pricepoint. --

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
E, never mind BETA? Mine has been running on STABLE, first 8.1 >>> and then 8.2. >> Me! Because "if it works, don't break it.". Duane> Me too. Been running FreeBSD release versions on servers for Duane> years. me too -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consu

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
d with portupgrade, and am now firmly in the portmaster camp. I think this is a "vi vs emacs" or "perl vs python" argument. Just religious. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ot;openssl rand -base64 6" to get an 8-char password from a fairly large set of sensible characters. Each multiple of 3 results in 4 characters in the output. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
useless and give you a false sense of having "increased" security. The real security is disable plaintext passwords. Then no amount of bruteforce will ever get in. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merly

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
is for I run sshd on 443 (for firewall-bending reasons), and the only connections I see there are people trying to break into the web. Never an actual sshd hit. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix

Re: About suidperl in FreeBSD

2011-09-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Alberto" == Alberto Mijares writes: Alberto> Hi, Alberto> I'm using 8.2-RELEASE Alberto> I need suidperl for openwebmail. I include If openwebmail requires it, openwebmail is the problem. suidperl made sense long before sudo came around. Now t

Re: what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in vi]?

2011-10-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Kline writes: Gary> several months ago i asked this list if there were any =easier= text Gary> editors than vi[m] that had the abbrev ability. GNU Emacs is easier for me than vim is. And it has abbrev mode. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Ston

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Lowell" == Lowell Gilbert >>>>> writes: Lowell> Connecting from behind other people's paranoid firewalls gets difficult Lowell> on other ports. That's why mine's on 443. Doubly useful when I want to connect to it

painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
with "ret ret ret dd dd dd ret dd : wq ret", I'm really frustrated, because I made a mistake and now apparently have to start over. Why doesn't the freebsd-update command invoke mergemaster with -F? Or is there some step that I'm leaving out? -- Randal L. Schwartz -

Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
t the only one using freebsd-update. Does everyone else put up with this, or is there some additional tool I'm missing? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comed

Re: FreeBSD 8 LiveFS - How To Start SSHD?

2011-12-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
and Jeff> environment, out of root privileges. Press the -d the second Jeff> time, and you are disconnected from your server. Or better yet, install sudo, which doesn't require you to share the root password with a group of people, reducing auditability. I haven't used "su&

pkg_add -r and a local package repo

2012-01-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
I get it to search and install dependencies somehow? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.poster

Re: pkg_add -r and a local package repo

2012-01-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Helfman writes: Jason> Why not just point the PACKAGESITE to the Latest directory of the tree you Jason> want to install? I am, but it has zsh-4.3.15.tbz and not zsh.tbz, so I have to pkg_add -r "zsh-4.3.15", and that

Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
file with the FreeBSD Foundation? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discuss

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
en to every exporter, knowing or unknowing, willing or unwilling? Seems like an onerous burden. Is it well-documented? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, e

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
eBSD integrator be made well aware of this restriction. It hadn't occurred to *me* for example to think that FreeBSD might be restricted. And I hadn't seen any prominent disclaimers. Why rely on a very very buried notice? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services,

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
uld be removed from this software entirely. Burying it is irresponsible. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Farmer writes: Rob> Making the license more visible may be a good idea, but doesn't Rob> materially change the situation any. I agree, it doesn't change it materially. But for the casual integrator, making it very visible would h

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
t; restrictions. Exactly my point. Either it's crypto, and the whole distro is tainted and should be marked as such UP FRONT, or it's not, and the paragraph should be removed, if possible. Or a third alternative... use the ACPI implementation from OpenBSD, which doesn't have such a r

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
it's use the right boilerplate when you include something into the distro. Otherwise, smart people will react to license notices because yes indeed, THESE MATTER. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ld dynamically discover same, like maybe a convention that a license file is always called LICENSE or something? *That* would be helpful. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
too early to fix the tortured english... I hope you get the point.) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See htt

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
rhaps Chad> something like a filesystem integrity auditing system? How would that external tool work to (a) detect the bad block during its access to prevent bad data from being returned to the user and (b) enable the swapping of bad data with a good spare copy if available? Nope... it's g

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
od... clearly, the suits can do whatever they want whenever they want as long as it's in the shareholders interest, but the VirtualBox guys are getting assurance from on high that they'll be left mostly alone. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 00

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Coleman writes: Ryan> Really... I have a finger for that. I *HATE* bottom posting. It Ryan> makes quick checking of email impossible. Only when people don't properly trim... another necessary item in posting, whether top *or* bottom.

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes: Charlie> OK, I'll play: Charlie> Gnome vs KDE Charlie> Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's) Charlie> GPL vs BSDL Charlie> C vs any other programming language Perl vs Readability :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz -

Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e sync, even though there aren't any console messages. I imagine something high-up in the kernel is asking the ZFS for the first block of a file, and only at that point does all the paperwork processing for consistency check come into play, so there are no messages, just a pause. -- R

Re: regex question....

2010-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Gimer writes: Joshua> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >> I have tried :1,$/s/[0-9]][0-9][0-9]/foo/g Joshua> Why not just %s/[0-9]*/foo/g Because that would turn a line of "fred" into "foofred&

Re: regex question....

2010-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Kline writes: Gary> %s/[1-0][0-9]*/foo/g Except 1-0 is an empty set. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writ

Re: ZFS

2010-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to zroot) Gabor> Fixit# cd /dist/8.0-* no such directory Gabor> Fixit# cd /dist/8.1-* no such directory What did you boot? I used a full release disk, and it worked fine. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>

Re: Can I run a 32-bit jail (or software) on a 64-bit server?

2010-12-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Devin" == Devin Teske writes: Devin> sudo cd /usr/repos This is pretty useless. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writ

Re: do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
a bad idea if you expect that any of your visitors are coming from behind most corporate firewalls, because the proxy "CONNECT" command is almost always limited to port 443 as a "security feature". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 77

Re: Portupgrade status

2010-12-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
gt; portmaster and fixed this problem less than 48 hours after it Rob> appeared. Hence my recommendation to switch. I switched to portmaster a few months ago after being firmly in the portupgrade camp, and have not regretted it in the slightest. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consultin

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
mend arpnetworks.com. I've had 4 boxes with them for a year, and am very pleased with the services offered and the resulting price. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consu

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Cran writes: Bruce> I can't see any mention of it on their site - do you know if they have Bruce> datacentres other than in Los Angeles? Being based in Europe it's too Bruce> far away. Arp is only LA for now. -- Randal L. Sc

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Giorgos" == Giorgos Keramidas writes: Giorgos> Edit it's 'Makefile'. Look for an assignment of the form: Minor nit... that's "its" not "it's". If you can't say "it is" or "it has" in pl

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
3 as well, although I can't find it on the prebuilt AMI pages yet. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsa

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: Randal> There are rumors of a FreeBSD AMI for Amazon S3 as well, although I Randal> can't find it on the prebuilt AMI pages yet. And by that I mean Amazon EC2, not S3. {sigh} -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Co

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
am> functionally equivalent. If you're actually interested in Adam> learning more, Randal L. Schwartz posted a great interview with Adam> some Virtualbox devs awhile ago that gave detailed technical info. VirtualBox: http://twit.tv/floss130 Xen: http://twit.tv/floss67 Check'em

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou writes: Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla And yet, you still have the "Useless Use of Cat". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/m

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e out the actual rule, translating that into a program is generally rather mechanical. Hence the irony of such questions. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulti

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out of the box. (And reasonably named too!) -- Randal L. Sc

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
reated by the author of Postfix (Wietse Venema) (SATAN, TCP Wrappers, Coroner's Toolkit), I'd say that postfix was *also* designed from the start as a secure MTA. It certainly looks that way. I've met Wietse in person... he's an upstanding guy. -- Randal L. Schwartz - S

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
he only good thing they seem *not* to have screwed with is VirtualBox. Maybe they haven't discovered they own it yet. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing,

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ckages long ago. Learn. To. Compile. Embrace your local cc. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsan

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
emd is Linux-only by design, as it relies upon features such as cgroups and fanotify.[6] Debian is avoiding the adoption of systemd due to this issue.[7] -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e "it has all the history". SVN is already worse because it has a single local backup copy for every live file, 2x right there. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/

Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
license available), I think you owe us a better explanation. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.poste

Re: high performance server design approach

2012-11-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Friedrich" == Friedrich Locke writes: Friedrich> The http server is just an excuse, ok? Happy now? So why lie to us, then? Not very nice to lie to people from whom you want help and answers and advice... FOR FREE. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consul

Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

2012-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
rom FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? Andreas> Yes, it is. Can I go from 8.3 directly to 9.1, or should I stop over at 9.0 first? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smallt

Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
been three?). All booting from ZFS as /. Fun. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsan

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