Re: Restoring /usr from a remote tape

2003-01-07 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael C. Cambria wrote: > Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr > from a remote tape? > > I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or > boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing > the remote tape from both single u

Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:26:53PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > on 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > > > [...] > >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process > >> left

Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-07 Thread Kurt Bigler
on 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > [...] >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process >> left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had >> po

RE: LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute instead of year

2003-01-07 Thread Daniel Goepp
Please find the humor in this, I'm not at all trying to be a pain in the ass here...but since the OS is case sensitive, I chuckled when I read this, thinking 'LS -L' is not a command. Sorry...carry on... -Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Be

RE: Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-07 Thread Daniel Goepp
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 at 22:32:42 -0500, Daniel Goepp wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > I don't know why you're talking about cvsup; cvsup is not relevant > > to this; it is a method for downloading files, primarily from cvs > > archives. What you're looking for is changing the base system > > it

RE: POP Server with Secure Password Authentication

2003-01-07 Thread Kory Hamzeh
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Francesco > Casadei > The simplest solution is to keep using your POP3 server and > install stunnel to > create an SSL tunnel between the mail client and the POP server. > > Francesco Casadei Fr

Sendmail and NIS files

2003-01-07 Thread John Brooks
Does anyone know where I can find a complete list of all files specific to sendmail and nis, that exist in 4.7? -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Restoring /usr from a remote tape

2003-01-07 Thread Michael C. Cambria
Hi, Is it possible to restore a local filesystem such as / or /usr from a remote tape? I'm assuming that one would need to be in single user mode or boot from fixit floppy/CD. So I'm trying to test accessing the remote tape from both single user mode or fixit with no luck. I can get the LAN up

Re: tcpdump problem

2003-01-07 Thread Brendan Kosowski
Thanks, "pseudo-device bpfilter 2" in the kernel and making "/dev/bpf1" fixed my problem. I am running the dhcp server, so that explains why I could not use /dev/bpf0. Cheers... P.S. - I prefer not to upgrade my O.S. because down time is out of the question. Instead, I upgrade my server progs

iPaq IA1 + 5.0RC2 == panic

2003-01-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
Got my hardware issues straightend out (turns out my usb to ide adapter hated the HD I paired with it.) and am now running into problems with my limited (28MB) ram. Trying to compile a kernel I generate a kernel panic... panic: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 20463616 total allocatd I've

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread mattb
On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote: |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) Check out http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Matthew Bettinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

RE: dig command for reverse dsn check

2003-01-07 Thread John Brooks
another method ;-) use the 'host' command with either the domainname or the ip dle:demo:/etc {101} # host yahoo.com yahoo.com has address 66.218.71.198 yahoo.com has address 64.58.79.230 yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=1) by mx2.mail.yahoo.com yahoo.com mail is handled (pri=5) by mx4.mail.yahoo.co

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
Me personally, I use siege in the ports. MikeM wrote: On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote: |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) = If you have a windoze box available, this tool is very go

Re: X mouse pointer aim intermittently becomes incorrect...

2003-01-07 Thread Chris Hill
On 8 Jan 2003, Christopher J Phillips wrote: > During X sessions, my mouse pointer is fine (usually). Intermittently, > and without any "obvious" reason, the mouse pointer aim "shifts" > approximately 1.3cm to the right of where the actual pointer is acting. [snip] > A reboot is all that will g

Re: dig command for reverse dsn check

2003-01-07 Thread Brian Jackson
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 09:42 PM, JoeB wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, JoeB wrote: How do I check my ISP domain name to see if it's DNS server is configured correctly for email reverse DNS lookup? I'd use: dig -x ip.ad.dr.ess PTR [@name.server] the ANSWER SECTION shows what DNS thinks i

Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread yen-po wang
But there is no machine in 192.168.1.6 My gateway is in 192.168.6.254 other machines in 192.168.0.x 192.168.1.x .3.x .6.x .30.x so I can't use 255.255.255.0 --- Duncan Anker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:40, yen-po wang wrote: > > oh~ sorry... > > netmask is 255.255.0.0 n

RE: dig command for reverse dsn check

2003-01-07 Thread JoeB
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, JoeB wrote: > How do I check my ISP domain name to see if it's DNS server is > configured correctly for email reverse DNS lookup? I have used dig > isp-domain-name but I can not tell from what it displays what to look > for to verify it's configured correctly. The dig display i

Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-07 Thread Jim Mock
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 at 22:32:42 -0500, Daniel Goepp wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > I don't know why you're talking about cvsup; cvsup is not relevant > > to this; it is a method for downloading files, primarily from cvs > > archives. What you're looking for is changing the base system > > it

RE: LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute insteadof year

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > More info on problem. > I have files created by FBSD 4.5 before 6/19/02 that have the year > 2002 in the > year field. When in moved to 4.6 6/21/02 I have files created > during the rest > of 2002 that have dates with the time in the year

RE: LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute instead of year

2003-01-07 Thread JoeB
More info on problem. I have files created by FBSD 4.5 before 6/19/02 that have the year 2002 in the year field. When in moved to 4.6 6/21/02 I have files created during the rest of 2002 that have dates with the time in the year field. Now 1/5/03 I went to 4.7 and see the same problem. -Ori

dig command for reverse dsn check

2003-01-07 Thread JoeB
How do I check my ISP domain name to see if it's DNS server is configured correctly for email reverse DNS lookup? I have used dig isp-domain-name but I can not tell from what it displays what to look for to verify it's configured correctly. The dig display is lacking descriptive verbiage to ident

Re: LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute insteadof year

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > The LS -L command will display the long info about files > in a directory. FBSD 4.0 through 4.5 LS -L command would > display among other things the month/day/year the file > was created. FBSD versions 4.6 and 4.7 displays the > hour:minu

LS -L command, year created field contains hour:minute instead of year

2003-01-07 Thread JoeB
The LS -L command will display the long info about files in a directory. FBSD 4.0 through 4.5 LS -L command would display among other things the month/day/year the file was created. FBSD versions 4.6 and 4.7 displays the hour:minute the file was created in the year field instead of the year. To

Re: Apache stress testing tool ?

2003-01-07 Thread MikeM
On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote: |Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache |webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter) = If you have a windoze box available, this tool is very good: http://www.opensta.org/ To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: POP Server with Secure Password Authentication

2003-01-07 Thread MikeM
On 1/6/03 at 6:33 PM Kory Hamzeh wrote: |I need to setup a POP Server that supports Secure Password |Authentication. I have some MicroSoft Outlook users that need to |pull their mail, but they are coming in over the internet. I looked |through the ports collection, and didn't notice anything. Is

Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:40, yen-po wang wrote: > oh~ sorry... > netmask is 255.255.0.0 not 192.168.0.0 > > I mean netmask in 255.255.0.0 and got the message > arp: link address is broadcast for IP > address192.168.1.6! Ah, that's different. Well, is there anything else on your network using t

Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread yen-po wang
oh~ sorry... netmask is 255.255.0.0 not 192.168.0.0 I mean netmask in 255.255.0.0 and got the message arp: link address is broadcast for IP address192.168.1.6! --- Duncan Anker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:15, yen-po wang wrote: > > I get a lot of syslog messages(ever

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Brian
1.9 is such an odd total as well, I do not know what to think of that.. Bri - Original Message - From: "Nathan Kinkade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Older versions To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

X mouse pointer aim intermittently becomes incorrect...

2003-01-07 Thread Christopher J Phillips
Hello, I'd rather not post here but I have not been able to find anything similar to my problem on Google, or the FreeBSD archive (or I am REALLY bad @ searching - highly likely). During X sessions, my mouse pointer is fine (usually). Intermittently, and without any "obvious" reason, the mouse p

Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:15, yen-po wang wrote: > I get a lot of syslog messages(every day/every second) > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address > 192.168.1.6! > arp: link address is broadcast for IP address > 192.168.1.7! > > my private ip is 192.168.6.254 > netmask is 192.168.0.0 Netma

mount_smbfs sending parameters incorrectly?

2003-01-07 Thread Erik Sabowski
I have 2 machines running freebsd-4.7, one of which is a samba server. I am trying to mount a directory on the other machine (my desktop) from the samba server using mount_smbfs, but that doesn't work. I looked at the log files and it seemed that the parameters were being sent incorrectly: [2003/0

arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread yen-po wang
I get a lot of syslog messages(every day/every second) arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 192.168.1.6! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 192.168.1.7! my private ip is 192.168.6.254 netmask is 192.168.0.0 and what does this message mean? _

Warning: E-mail viruses detected

2003-01-07 Thread MailScanner
Our virus detector has just been triggered by a message you sent:- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail--"maxlength" Date: Tue Jan 7 19:56:19 2003 Any infected parts of the message have not been delivered. This message is simply to warn you that your computer system may have a virus

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Shaun Dwyer
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), so maybe no need to backup it again. Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy the data to tape (

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Adam Maas
Slackware 2.x is another possibility. It'll run with 2MB off a alternate set of boot disks (Included in the install package.) --Adam - Original Message - From: "Andrew Prewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Older versions

test reverse dns of isp

2003-01-07 Thread JoeB
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Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks! > > lattera > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-q

Data vulnerability (Was: security vulnerability in dump)

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Normally the m

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 7 Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:00:02AM +0100, Andrew Prewett wrote: > > Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > > > > wondering

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-07T22:50:08Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, "umgekehrt", ideally / should be on a separate drive and /home, /var, > /usr on another drive(s). I mean, I wouldn't put my company database, > fileserver, etc. on a machine with only one drive. So, my wording was > maybe

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 7 Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > > > > > > > In <[E

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:00:02AM +0100, Andrew Prewett wrote: > Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > > > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, wh

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Ed Hall wrote: > > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron > (/var/backups), > > > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > > > > Were you joking? Surely you'r

Re: emacs

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
Not true. emacs20 and emacs21 are there too --> pwd /usr/ports/editors [beast] [hogsett] [/usr/ports/editors] --> ls -d emacs* emacs emacs20-dl emacs21 emacs20 emacs20-mule-devel [beast] [hogsett] [/usr/ports/editors] --> > How come emacs in th

emacs

2003-01-07 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
How come emacs in the ports is only version 19.34b when "pkg_add -r emacs" gets me a newer version? My ports are up2date. I run FreeBSD-4.7-R -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks! > > > > lattera > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:35:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Right. Restarting a single process is easy. It's finding all the ones > > that might need r

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:35:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Right. Restarting a single process is easy. It's finding all the ones > that might need restarting that's the problem. > > Note that "killall -1 sshd" will log ou

Re: patching

2003-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-07 12:51, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right at the top of the patch man page it says: > but usually just > patch > I missed the <, my bad although that is most nonintuitive, wtf ever > happened to command argument? If it needs to read a textfile then > have it read what I put in

/etc/opiekeys readable for others?

2003-01-07 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, I just tried opiepasswd. Now opiekeys is readable for all? Shouldn't it be hidden for others? (This is on a 4.6.2-Release system.) -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > > > > so maybe

squid offline_mode.

2003-01-07 Thread lewiz
Hi, This might be a bit off-topic (I know there are squid mailing lists, but I've as of yet been unsuccessful in signing up) but I'm hoping somebody might have an idea. I have been attempting to use the offline_mode (I have offline_mode on in my squid.conf) when my PPP connection is offline (

Quota problem.

2003-01-07 Thread Aleksey I. Yurlov
Have a nice time. A little question about quotas in 4.7-S I'll give output of commands, because it will be more natural by my opinion. There is a ordinary user "some" on my box with: # uname -a FreeBSD ZzZ 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 16 20:56:02 GMT 2002 root@ZzZ:/usr/obj/usr/sr

Re: lots of buffers, out of buffer space.

2003-01-07 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:33:07PM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > > > This is my netstat -m output: > > 142/352/6016 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): > > 131 mbufs allocated to data > > 11 mbufs allocated to packet headers > > 81/160

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > Wer

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: bridging question

2003-01-07 Thread randall ehren
> I have a -stable box that I would like to bridge ethernet across 2 of 3 > interfaces. If I read the man page correctly, all I have to do is set > net.link.ether.bridge to 1 and set net.link.ether.bridge_cfg to a comma- > seperated list of interfaces. Eg > sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=

Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread lattera
I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks! lattera To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

bridging question

2003-01-07 Thread Dean
Hello Question-ers, (Please cc me in replies) I have a -stable box that I would like to bridge ethernet across 2 of 3 interfaces. If I read the man page correctly, all I have to do is set net.link.ether.bridge to 1 and set net.link.ether.bridge_cfg to a comma- seperated list of int

Re: patching

2003-01-07 Thread John Mills
Freebies - On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brian wrote: > I downloaded the relevant patch and .asc files to /tmp this am, and then > execute > > patch /tmp/filedesc.patch >From 'man patch': = patch - apply a diff file to an orig

Re: dhclient - no DHCPOFFERS received.

2003-01-07 Thread lewiz
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:05:03PM -0600, Robin Damm wrote: > I'm assuming the client eventually obtains a lease. Actually, this was the odd thing. It didn't obtain a new lease at bootup -- it actually used a cached lease (ie, couldn't contact the DHCP server but fell back to what it usually used

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-07T20:13:51Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If /etc and /var are on the same HD, then it's not a production machine or > the setup is simly wrong. So you don't backup machines with more than one drive? I'm confused. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

Re: patching

2003-01-07 Thread Brian
Right at the top of the patch man page it says: but usually just patch Freebies - > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brian wrote: > > > I downloaded the relevant patch and .asc files to /tmp this am, and then > > execute > > > > patch /tmp/filedesc.patch > > >From 'man patch': >

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Kenzo
I put sshd_config back the way it was and rebooted and still got the same thing. "Server Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22 " is that suppose to be this? what else can I do? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mike Meyer wrote: > [Context lost to top posting.] > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed > > address already in use. > > so I edit th

Re: patching

2003-01-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:21:23PM -0800, Brian wrote: > I know I am missing something totally obvious, but am stumped. > > I downloaded the relevant patch and .asc files to /tmp this am, and then > execute > > patch /tmp/filedesc.patch > > It just sits there, I let it sit for a good 20 minutes,

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Ed Hall
> Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > > Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need

patching

2003-01-07 Thread Brian
I know I am missing something totally obvious, but am stumped. I downloaded the relevant patch and .asc files to /tmp this am, and then execute patch /tmp/filedesc.patch It just sits there, I let it sit for a good 20 minutes, it really shouldnt take that long. I also tried it with the -p switch

cyrus imap auth problems

2003-01-07 Thread jonathan giles
Hi: I have been looking around for the answer to this, and have not found it. I am running... 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD with... cyrus-imapd-2.1.10 cyrus-sasl-2.1.9_1 installed as ports. Compilation and installation seems fine but... I trying to authenticate with the standard shadow password, but ke

cyrus imap auth problems

2003-01-07 Thread jonathan giles
Hi: I have been looking around for the answer to this, and have not found it. I am running... 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD with... cyrus-imapd-2.1.10 cyrus-sasl-2.1.9_1 installed as ports. Compilation and installation seems fine but... I trying to authenticate with the standard shadow password, but ke

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > > > looking in the auth.log file, it sais "

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I put sshd_config back the way it was and rebooted and still got the same > thing. > "Server Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22 " > is that suppose to be this? > what else can I do? You're supposed to get that message. What are you doing that's

How to get detailed information on the RAM in the system?

2003-01-07 Thread Pranav A. Desai
Hi! Is there a way to find out how many memory modules are in a machine e.g. whether it is 2*1G=2G or 4*512M=2G of RAM. I dont have physical access to the machine. Thank you for your time -Pranav *** Pranav A. Desai To

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >typed: > > > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > > >

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Kenzo
OMFG. It's only about 2:00 PM here and I'm already having a long day. everything works fine. I disconected the cable before so that all E-mails would get routed to the second mail server instead of this one. Of course I forgot to plug it back in. man I need a smoke. Thanks alot for all your help

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > so maybe no need to backup it again. Were you joking? Surely you're not implying that there's no need to copy the data to tape (which is the most co

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lowell Gilbert wrote: [ ... ] This is silly. Just set umask properly, and you'll be all set. This should not be something for individual programs (like dump) to worry about. Disagree. Most individual programs do not create world-readable files containing root's view of the filesystem data.

Re: console framebuffer

2003-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Friedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to freebsd, coming from linux. > In linux I use a 1600x1200 framebuffer console, is it possible to set up > something like this in freebsd? I am not talking about X Windows, but > increasing the size of the default 80x25 console. vidcontrol(1

Re: creating user dirs

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lauri Laupmaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hi > > Is there a simple solution for creating all user directories under > /home ? > So, I have clean /home filesystem and hundreds of users in /etc/*passwd > Hopefully there is some simple command or script :) You can get the

Re: MP Architecture simulators

2003-01-07 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:44:48 -0500 Aniruddha Bohra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > I was looking for some x86 based SMP Architecture simulators that > > run on > FreeBSD. Ideally I would like it to be able to boot a custom kernel - > > Any pointers? emulators/bochs can emulate S

Re: console framebuffer

2003-01-07 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Andrew Friedley wrote: > I'm new to freebsd, coming from linux. > In linux I use a 1600x1200 framebuffer console, is it possible to set up > something like this in freebsd? I am not talking about X Windows, but > increasing the size of the default 80x25 console. Probably one

Re: creating user dirs

2003-01-07 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Lauri Laupmaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030107 19:47]: > Hopefully there is some simple command or script :) mkdir `cat /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f 6` this assumes that the home_dir field of users is correctly set qvb -- pica To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There may be a lot more files one wishes not to be world-readable. :) And > excluding them all from the dump may not be the answer. Especially since it > would be very little trouble to adjust dump's code in such a way that it > writes chmod 600 to begin with. T

MP Architecture simulators

2003-01-07 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
Hi I was looking for some x86 based SMP Architecture simulators that run on FreeBSD. Ideally I would like it to be able to boot a custom kernel - Any pointers? Thanks Aniruddha To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messag

creating user dirs

2003-01-07 Thread Lauri Laupmaa
Hi Is there a simple solution for creating all user directories under /home ? So, I have clean /home filesystem and hundreds of users in /etc/*passwd Hopefully there is some simple command or script :) TIA L. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions"

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
[Context lost to top posting.] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed > address already in use. > so I edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ListenA

Re: I can't receive my own mail from the list

2003-01-07 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-07 18:57:03 +0100: > On Dec. 19 I send a mail to the list from another address. I didn't > received but I think that > pearhaps it was the politic of the mail server, don't send the msg to > the sender by default. > > > I've checked the mail archives and my message

Re: promiscuous mode / strange ethernet packets duplication problem

2003-01-07 Thread Cliff Sarginson
This is a simle question That has generated a lot of well-meaning but very complicated replies. You can only have one default gateway. This is an easy thing to set up. If you need to define spcific routes, then its a bit more complicted. But not rocket science. One day someone will write a book abo

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Meyer
Hi Mark, > When dumping to a file, dump writes this file chmod 644. When the > root-partition is being backed-up, this leaves the dump-file vulnerable > to scanning by unprivileged users for the duration of the dump. This is an important issue you've found in dump. Please submit a PR with the sen

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Kenzo
Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed address already in use. so I edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to ListenAddress 10.25.2.60 ( the server's address ) then restart. in auth.log, it says " Server Listening

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Prewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:06 PM Subject: Re: security vulnerability in dump > Today Mark wrote: > > > I believe I have found a security vulnerability in dump, which, under > > the right conditio

console framebuffer

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Friedley
I'm new to freebsd, coming from linux. In linux I use a 1600x1200 framebuffer console, is it possible to set up something like this in freebsd? I am not talking about X Windows, but increasing the size of the default 80x25 console. Thanks, Andrew Friedley To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

RE: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread John Brooks
you need to stop and restart mysql usually: /usr/local/etc/rd.d/mysql-server.sh stop /usr/local/etc/rd.d/mysql-server.sh start ymmv -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brent Bailey > Sent: Tuesday,

Re: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:27:05PM -0500, Brent Bailey wrote: > Awesomethanx for your help... i have one other one for ya ...if your > up to it .. > for whatever reason ...a file that was in the /tmp dir is missing its a > file that mysql used called "mysql.sock=" it had permissions like > sr

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Goedeke Michels
There is a tool supposed to be able to do this: /usr/ports/sysutils/ffsrecov However, it does not work for me, complaining about some missing magic. Maybe you have more luck. There is also an undelete (2) routine, however, I am not aware of any program that uses it. In case you have any success

Re: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread Brent Bailey
ehhehe i hear ya ... its all good I appreciate your help much Brent > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:52:19 +0100 > Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> t is the sticky bit, it means that files and directories created >> inside/tmp are owned by whoever creates them. See man 8 sticky for >> d

Re: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Brent Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:03 PM Subject: permissions issue help ?!?! > however im not sure how to get the "t" on the permissions back chmod 1777 There, all done. :) > (im not even sure what

Re: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread Brent Bailey
Awesomethanx for your help... i have one other one for ya ...if your up to it .. for whatever reason ...a file that was in the /tmp dir is missing its a file that mysql used called "mysql.sock=" it had permissions like srwxrwxrwx mysql wheelmysql.sock= any thoughts ?? Im sure i need thi

Re: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Brent Bailey wrote: > Hello, Im using FBSD 4.6 R i recently installed something (i dont > know what ) that changed the permissions on my /tmp directory.making > things like mysql & php and other programs not function correctly. > > as things are now on the broken box the permissions a

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