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IPv6-only FreeBSD test images

Posted on June 6th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announce IPv6-only test images of FreeBSD and PC-BSD.

New commiter: Julien Laffaye (ports)

Posted on June 6th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

New committer: Aleksandr Rybalko (src)

Posted on May 25th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

Puppet – How to list facts in facter in Puppet

Posted on May 20th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Was messing around puppet and trying to get a list of "facts". Google & searching on puppet labs didn't return any luck. Most of the search result points to bug reports.

With no luck at all, I gotta skim through the docs to find the list of facts for my new toy (puppet). Stumble this link that actually points where

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Puppet – How to list facts in facter in Puppet

Posted on May 20th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

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New committer: Ben Laurie (src)

Posted on May 18th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

New Port Manager

Posted on May 12th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

The Ports Management Team is pleased to announce Baptiste Daroussin as a new member.

ssh ‘connection reset by peer’ issue

Posted on May 6th, 2011 by "kevin foo (chfl4gs_)" from "bsd.m3th.org » FreeBSD"

OpenSSH
I have been plagued by ssh problem since openssh 5.8p1 on OpenSuSE 11.4. Without any warning, even debug level is set to 3, ssh connection to older router/server is dropped silently. I have issue ssh’ing to AMD64 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE which comes with OpenSSH 5.4p1.

chflags@zeus:~> ssh -v 10.0.48.61 -l kevin OpenSSH_5.8p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0c 2 Dec 2010 debug1: Reading configuration data

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FreeBSD – CPU code in dmesg meanings

Posted on April 29th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Platform :
FreeBSD

Objective :
What are those CPU features flags means in "dmesg", e.g.

Features=0xfebfbff&ltFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,
PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS&gt
Features2=0x82982203&ltSSE3,PCLMULQDQ,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,
AESNI,&ltb31&gt&gt
AMD Features=0x28100000&ltNX,RDTSCP,LM&gt
AMD Features2=0x1&ltLAHF&gt

FreeBSD – CPU code in dmesg meanings

Posted on April 29th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Platform :
FreeBSD

Objective :
What are those CPU features flags means in "dmesg", e.g.

Features=0xfebfbff&ltFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,
PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS&gt
Features2=0x82982203&ltSSE3,PCLMULQDQ,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,
AESNI,&ltb31&gt&gt
AMD Features=0x28100000&ltNX,RDTSCP,LM&gt
AMD Features2=0x1&ltLAHF&gt

January-March, 2011 Status Report

Posted on April 27th, 2011 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

The January-March, 2011 Status Report is now available with 34 entries.

Summer of Code DragonFly projects announced

Posted on April 26th, 2011 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

Google’s announced the accepted projects for 2011. DragonFly has 6 slots!

We had a large number of interesting project proposals; far more than than the slots available. If you’re one of the students who did not get in, please consider working on your project as time allows. I know it won’t be lucrative, but I’d still like to see them

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Exim – How to force deliver email from exim mail queue

Posted on April 25th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Platform :
FreeBSD

Mail Server :
Exim

Purpose :
Make Exim to start deliver all frozen messages.
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Exim – How to force deliver email from exim mail queue

Posted on April 25th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Platform :
FreeBSD

Mail Server :
Exim

Purpose :
Make Exim to start deliver all frozen messages.
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Mysql – Error about packet too big while importing sql database

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Q : While importing database in mysql, an error message pops out "ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 232: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes"
E.g.

$ mysql5 -u db_user -p db_table < db_table.sql 
Enter password: 
ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 232: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

A : The file importing contains a statement that's probably

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Mysql – Error about packet too big while importing sql database

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Q : While importing database in mysql, an error message pops out "ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 232: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes"
E.g.

$ mysql5 -u db_user -p db_table < db_table.sql 
Enter password: 
ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line 232: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

A : The file importing contains a statement that's probably

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Subversion – Branching and merging to release, stable or something else

Posted on April 18th, 2011 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

Previously, we talk about the basic stuff of Subversion. This is still basic stuff :p

Is about managing source codes by branching. Branching is a way to have 2 or more sets of source code with each has it's own development, but eventually, merging them into the main trunk.

Example, in most development, we normally have "development" & "release"

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