Abt BSD installation

2004-09-24 Thread ramuK hsiraH
Hai after then if the loader is missing then what should i do for that in bsd loading Thnx bye --- Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd try to boot the installation cd, to interrupt > the boot countdown and > to switch into the command line mode of the boot > loader and to

Re: Advice: "The Right" authentication method

2004-09-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Al Johnson wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:37:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: There are several examples of doing this sort of thing within the ports system -- most are written in PHP, but check out devel/bugzilla and www/rt3 for perl based examples. Cheers, Matthew I'd be grat

Re: Help me please: I'm confused about remote log-in.

2004-09-24 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Good day!!! My home pc is obtaining an internet connection through a dial-up modem. And as for this, I'm using ppp. On my analysis, the ppp program residing in my pc is connecting to some sort of an authenticating server, am i right? Aside from the PPP, I've read the p

RE: 5.2.1-RELEASE ethernet troubles

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Krauth
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Stephen Krauth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:20 PM > > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: 5.2.1-RELEASE ethernet troubles > > > > > > > I would h

cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-24 Thread Saccheen Martin
Hi, I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I have a Pentium 3, 5oo IBM computer that I put two hard drives in. I added a 4.3G hard drive (master) and an 80G hard drive (slave). Initially, windows XP was installed on both hard drives. Last night, I decided to install FreeBSD 4.10 on the 4.3G hard drive and ke

Help me please: I'm confused about remote log-in.

2004-09-24 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day!!! My home pc is obtaining an internet connection through a dial-up modem. And as for this, I'm using ppp. On my analysis, the ppp program residing in my pc is connecting to some sort of an authenticating server, am i right? Aside from the PPP, I've read the portion in freebsd handbook

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread W. D.
At 23:11 9/24/2004, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: >On Friday 24 September 2004 06:32 pm, Chris wrote: >> W. D. wrote: >> > At 14:44 9/23/2004, Chris, wrote: >> You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it >> the Right Way(tm) ... >> >> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 24 September 2004 06:32 pm, Chris wrote: > W. D. wrote: > > At 14:44 9/23/2004, Chris, wrote: > You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it > the Right Way(tm) ... > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.htm > l > > An ex

Re: how can I browse the The freebsd-questions Archives tar files!

2004-09-24 Thread Huajian Luo
Thanks anyway, I'm current using pine to navigate freebsd-mail-archieves, thanks for your compliment to sun guys the same time huajian Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-09-24 16:51, Huajian Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: $ pine -i -f /d/mail/freebsd-questions/2004-0

USB Not Detaching Correctly

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Moyer
I have configured my computer and PDA so that I can HotSync correctly however after it completes the programs it runs should be stopped but they continue to run which prevents me from HotSyncing again without manually killing the processes in question. Following is my usbd.conf file. # Sony Clie

Re: XFree86 issue

2004-09-24 Thread doug
Sound like it might be a syntax error. Did you edit the file? Make sure each Section has an EndSection. Generate a new file with XFree86 -configure and diff that file with /etc/X11/XF86Config. On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, digish reshamwala wrote: > Hey, > > I installed the Xfree86 & KDE desktop in my

Re: Device polling performance

2004-09-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:47:52 EDT, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I thought I'd reword my question since no one seemed to understand the first >time. > >Is there a way to measure CPU kernel/interrupt usage when device polling is >enabled on 4.x systems? top and systat both show 100

Re: Advice: "The Right" authentication method

2004-09-24 Thread Jeff Hinrichs
Al Johnson wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:37:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Andy Holyer wrote: I'm working on writing the "Control Panel" scripts which subscribers to our ISP will use to set up their eMail accounts and web space. Here's the Server s

Upgrading Sendmail's DB

2004-09-24 Thread antenneX
Running FBSD-4.10p2/Sendmail-8.12.11 I want to upgrade the Sendmail's Berkley DB to 4.2x, but since Sendmail is part of my base OS, what is best way to recompile Sendmail with the new DB? BTW, I use sources if not evident. Do I need to recompile the whole OS which includes Sendmail or is there a

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Thanks to everyone who responded to this. I'm working on synthesizing everything. I'm one step closer now. Alex On Sep 24, 2004, at 9:14 AM, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simpl

Re: Advice: "The Right" authentication method

2004-09-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:37:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Andy Holyer wrote: > > I'm working on writing the "Control Panel" scripts which subscribers to > > our ISP will use to set up their eMail accounts and web space. > > > > Here's the Server s

Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > I've manually set: > > atacontrol mode 0 UDMA33 UDMA33 > > and the problem has not recurred. That sort of hints that there's some issue with the cabling, as UDMA33 is the highest you can go on a 40wire IDE cable. Going beyond requires an 80wire cable

Re: ntpd problem freebsd 5.3

2004-09-24 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 September 2004 22:20, Dan Rue wrote: > Heyo, > > I have a dual xeon machine on 5.3 beta 5 - and I am getting these ntpd > messages in /var/log/messages non stop since I went up to 5.3: > > Sep 23 17:13:41 panther ntpd[467]: kernel time syn

make release question

2004-09-24 Thread David Rio Deiros
Hi, I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 machine. I want to create a release from that system to install FreeBSD on other machines. I have been reading the handbook about how to make a release and I have a question. As far as I understood, the way to create a relese could be: # cd /usr/src # make bu

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Chris
W. D. wrote: At 14:44 9/23/2004, Chris, wrote: You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it the Right Way(tm) ... http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html An excellent tutorial/article by Dru Lavigne Kevin Kinsey OK, after reading this tutorial, here is MY ne

FreeBSD won't install or boot on HP NX9110 notebook

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew Bird
G'day... I recently purchased a HP NX9110 Notebook - andit runs beautifully - anything except BSD... Windows & Gentoo both run fine. Anyway, when I try and boot from one of the BSD install Cd's, it gets to the bit after the Daemon menu, does the acpi.ko thing, and then shuts down. Nothing more.

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread W. D.
At 14:44 9/23/2004, Chris, wrote: >>> You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it the >>> Right Way(tm) ... >>> >>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html >>> >>> An excellent tutorial/article by Dru Lavigne >>> >>> Kevin Kinsey >>> >> OK, after reading th

XFree86 issue

2004-09-24 Thread digish reshamwala
Hey, I installed the Xfree86 & KDE desktop in my FreeBSD 5.2.1. But when I give startx command at the root promt to invoke Xfree I get the following message:- - XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 1

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: - "The new daemons unleashed" is missing an apostrophe ('): "The new daemon is unleashed" becomes "daemon's unleashed". Frankly, however, I'd suggest something like: "The new daemon: UNLEASHED!" It looked plural to me. Otherwise, yo

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-24 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: - "The new daemons unleashed" is missing an apostrophe ('): "The new daemon is unleashed" becomes "daemon's unleashed". Frankly, however, I'd suggest something like: "The new daemon: UNLEASHED!" It looked plural to me. Otherwise, you might as well just l

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 24 September 2004 04:35 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Oh, I must have had Donald's letter go into my bit bucket as I > only saw this message with his reply. > > (Donald, you reply, "Touché", as I was just joking.) > > Anyhow, I did do it Donald's "my way" and I just like this other > way be

Help/problems with fsck_ffs

2004-09-24 Thread Webster, Andrew
FreeBSD: 5.2.1-RELEASE, and 5.2.1-p10 Synopsis I have 2 identical systems with very large 1.3TB disk array (OS sees it as a single drive /dev/da1) On one system fsck /dev/da1s1d works fine, on the other fsck /dev/da1s1d fails with BAD SUPER BLOCK error. Description On the problem system,

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Oh, I must have had Donald's letter go into my bit bucket as I only saw this message with his reply. (Donald, you reply, "Touché", as I was just joking.) Anyhow, I did do it Donald's "my way" and I just like this other way better for some reason. Sorry Curtis On 23 Sep, 2004, at 22:42, Günt

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Oh, I must have had Donald's letter go into my bit bucket as I only saw this message with his reply. (Donald, you reply, "Touché", as I was just joking.) Anyhow, I did do it Donald's "my way" and I just like this other way better for some reason. Sorry Curtis On 23 Sep, 2004, at 22:42, Günt

ntpd problem freebsd 5.3

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Rue
Heyo, I have a dual xeon machine on 5.3 beta 5 - and I am getting these ntpd messages in /var/log/messages non stop since I went up to 5.3: Sep 23 17:13:41 panther ntpd[467]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Sep 23 21:29:44 panther ntpd[467]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Sep 23 21:46:48 panther nt

RE: Very very slow

2004-09-24 Thread Sheets, Jason (OZ CEEDR)
What type of SCSI controller are you using, was performance always very slow or has it just started recently, there isn't a lot of information in your message but it sounds a lot like a hardware issue to me though it could also be misconfiguration. Check /var/log and see if there are any error mes

Boot manager problems

2004-09-24 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Hello guys! I have 2 partitions on my hard drive (ad0) one with Windows XP, the other one with FreeBSD 5.0. Like usual I had problems with windows and I had to format the first partition and reinstall windows. But as you know the instalation deleted the FreeBSD boot manager. I rebooted with a Fr

Boot manager problem

2004-09-24 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Hello guys! I have 2 partitions on my hard drive (ad0) one with Windows XP, the other one with FreeBSD 5.0. Like usual I had problems with windows and I had to format the first partition and reinstall windows. But as you know the instalation deleted the FreeBSD boot manager. I rebooted with a Fr

Re: Official wallpapers

2004-09-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
BartÅomiej Rutkowski wrote: http://zeik.wns.amu.edu.pl/~r/freebsd53.png Hey, I think it's pretty cool. I'm still going to make suggestions, though: - add just a touch of very deep, glowing red to Beastie; enough that the black of the irises of the eyes and the typical grin have enough contrast to

Re:

2004-09-24 Thread Ezequiel O. Block
vola wrote: I have a question. Not long ago i have download the FreeBsd 4.10 operetion system. By the installation i have problems. I put the cd into the cd-rom and I restarted the computer. The computer boot from the cd and the installation began. It looks all ok - the computer was loading. Bu

Re: please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread Norm Vilmer
Gregor Mosheh wrote: I was looking at my top output and was surprised to see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, since the server really has fairly little running. It's not a problem, but I was wanting some clarification on where this memory was being used, for my own education. The or

FreeBSD 5.x SMP--> QUAD XEON SCALABILITY QUESTION

2004-09-24 Thread jromero
Posted to freebsd-smp but didn't get too many replies, so I apologize for cross posting ahead of time. Need to configure groupware server and multiprotocol wireless proxy for aproximatly 2500 accounts. Application is heavily multi threaded and willrequire alot of CPU power. The OS will be FreeBSD

Re: Problem with spamass-milter and libmilter sendmail-8.13.1

2004-09-24 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: > Nope -- spamass-milter & spamd works just fine for me with > sendmail-8.13.1 Make that two. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Netscape navigator for FreeBSD5.1

2004-09-24 Thread Virupaksh Honnur
> > Hello, > > > > I have a PC installed with FreeBSD5.1 and I would like to install > > netscape on it but can't find a suitable netscape version that can run > > on FreeBSD5.1. > > > > > > I downloaded communicator-v476-us.x86-u

problems getting packets thru on router/wireless access point

2004-09-24 Thread dub20
I have a freebsd router [5.2.1] setup at home running ipf/ipnat. everything seems to be working fine for getting out to the internet, and accessing the box from the outside. I'm trying to also make this system a wireless access point. Following the steps in the handbook, i installed a wi0 card, and

Re: Problem with spamass-milter and libmilter sendmail-8.13.1

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:47:13PM +0400, ?.?. wrote: > May be problem in libmilter of senmail 8.13.1? > > I have mail server with senmail 8.12.11 and > spamass-milter and spamassiassin - work without promlem! Nope -- spamass-milter & spamd works just fine for me with sendmail-8.13.1 A

Re: please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Gregor Mosheh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at my top output and was surprised to > see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, > since the server really has fairly little running. > It's not a problem, but I was wanting some > clarifi

Re: Xorg and ATI Rage-Mobility

2004-09-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:22:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have tried the default xorg.conf (from Xorg -configure), one that I edited, > All do the same thing - give a black screen, Me, too. > Xorg.0.log has no error messages. Me, too. > vendor = 'ATI Technologies' > de

info on kernel modules

2004-09-24 Thread Robert Huff
I'm looking for a brief (1-2 page) introduction to kernel modules - what they are, how they work, trade-off vs complied-in devices, etc.. (Looked in the Handbook and FAQ, searched the website and found nothing in the top 100 responses.) Thanks, R

please educate me on memory usage

2004-09-24 Thread Gregor Mosheh
I was looking at my top output and was surprised to see that the bulk of my 512 MB of memory was in use, since the server really has fairly little running. It's not a problem, but I was wanting some clarification on where this memory was being used, for my own education. The original goal was that

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-09-24 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-09-24 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

Re: TeXmacs port

2004-09-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
: Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:29:16 -0600 : From: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Subject: Re: TeXmacs port : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, I didn't even remember having posted in this thread anymore! _

Re: serial ATA interface

2004-09-24 Thread David Kelly
On May 14, 2003, at 5:00 AM, Ceri Davies wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:02:47PM -0700, David Bear wrote: I just learned of the new hardware serial ata standard -- much faster throughput, different form factor, etc. does freebsd support it now or does it look enough like standard ata that freebs

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

2004-09-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Mike, I'll pay back your effort in replying to this long thing by > >working up a patch for the "disklabel" manpage (at least) and, if you > >want, I'll CC you so you can veto

Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc.

2004-09-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > As to the issue of BIOSes disliking DD modes, there have been a few > different reasons suggested. I had a dual xeon BIOS that had "anti-virus" code. If the boot block didn't have the write MBR on it, it rewrote the first 63 sectors, c

Re: [Samba] Re: Samba public directory on FreeBSD

2004-09-24 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:41, W. D. wrote: > > Thanks for the info. > > I looked into this a little closer. In 'FreeBSD Unleashed', on page > 38 it says: "/home This is where the users' home directories are > located. It is often located under the /usr partition. If you are > going to have a l

Re: creating user dirs

2004-09-24 Thread Chris
Karl Vogel wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:44:53 +0200, Lauri Laupmaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: L> Is there a simple solution for creating all user directories under L> /home? So, I have clean /home filesystem and hundreds of users in L> /etc/*passwd. Hopefully there is some simple command or scrip

Re: Slow page loading in firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Choy Kho Yee
On 2004/09/24, at 13:15, Choy Kho Yee wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 5.3BETA5. I haven't do anything to the kernel or anything system-related. I installed firefox 0.9.3. It takes more than 10 seconds to load mozilla's homepage. Of course other accessing to other sites gave the same results. T

Re: SSH TCP forwarding: works with v1, not with v2 ssh

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Kabaev
> I feel like a newbie, but I can't tell how to rebuild just the openssh > contributed src, rather than the entire OS. Doing a basic make in the > dir fails You should run make in /usr/secure/lib/libssh, /usr/secure/usr.bin/ssh and /usr/secure/usr.sbin/sshd. Or just rebuild and install everythin

chroot

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Sharp
I installed ( or so I thought ) a chroot env last night and ran into some difficulties. Could someone very familiar with openssh/chroot glance over http://probsd.ws/chroot.txt and tell me what I did wrong please? chroot.txt is an EXTREMELY detailed example of what I did, and script output of th

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo "2.9 vs 3.0.2?"

2004-09-24 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:00:55 -0800 (PST) Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > prompt$ pkg_info | grep -i openssh > openssh-3.0.2 OpenBSD's secure shell client and server (remote > login prog > > I just upgraded (or tried to upgrade) openssh on my FreeBSD > 4.5-RELEASE box using /stand

Re: chroot

2004-09-24 Thread Tony Landells
How very interesting... For a start, you can't copy devices with "cp"--you need something smarter like "tar", "cpio", ... Pretty much anything that could be used for backups should understand the niceties of copying a device. As an alternative you could use "mknod" to create them. Here is how to

Re: Sshd fix

2004-09-24 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:52:40PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > For the sshd fix, could't I just strip the base openssh from the system and > install the updated openssh-3.4 from the ports? > > If so, what is the best method to disable/eliminate openssh from the base > system? This is what I di

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

2004-09-24 Thread CARTER Anthony
Nope. pkgdb -F fixes the package database and removes old entries... Anthony On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:55, David Bear wrote: > I've been searching the handbook and can't seem to find what I'm > looking for regarding upgrading a port. I know there is > portupgrade... which I'd like to avoid beca

Re: restoring accounts

2004-09-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:40:31PM -0700, David Bear typed: > I'm wondering, if I have a copy of /etc/master.password, is it better > to just copy that over the default installed version? or to try write > some kind of script to read it, and recreate accounts from it using > pw? Try: pwd_mkdb /

Re: max group name length

2004-09-24 Thread David Landgren
David Bear wrote: was just trying to determine the maximum string length of a group name. found struct group { char*gr_name; /* group name */ but no size. any pointers (with limits)? Hmm, I had a browse through the kernel source for a while but didn't find anything definit

Re: error in gnughostscript make

2004-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:37:08PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > any advice? Probably one of the ports upon which ghostscript depends is out-of-date. Use a tool like portupgrade to upgrade all dependent ports in the correct order. Kris pgpY4K4MC8rTR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: batchmode adding user accounts

2004-09-24 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:28:36PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > I have migrated a linux box to freebsd. I would like to add all the > user accounts from linux to bsd but the format of /etc/passwd vs > master.password is problematic. > > what I would like to try is pull out the user id from my old

Re: serial ATA interface

2004-09-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:02:47PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > I just learned of the new hardware serial ata standard -- much faster > throughput, different form factor, etc. does freebsd support it now > or does it look enough like standard ata that freebsd doesn't care? sos already committed sup

Re: scsi tape curiousity

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 28), David Bear said: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (May 27), David Bear said: > > > I called the cybernetics people (maker of the tape unit) and > > > their recommendation was to put the tape unit on a separate scsi >

Re: scsi tape curiousity

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 27), David Bear said: > Now the question is, when I upgraded my second server, I had to change > scsi hardware to an adaptec 29160 as my older buslogix/mylex card was > not supported under freebsd. I had to go with a wide scsi controller > becuase my tape unit is an extern

Re: afpl vs gnu ghostscript

2004-09-24 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote David Bear thusly... > > can anyone tell me the difference between afpl ghostscript and gnu > ghostscript in the ports collection. afplghostscript is at v8, while > gnu ghostscript is a lowever number.. > > other than the license (gpl vs ?) are there function

Re: batchmode adding user accounts

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 23), David Bear said: > I have migrated a linux box to freebsd. I would like to add all the > user accounts from linux to bsd but the format of /etc/passwd vs > master.password is problematic. > > what I would like to try is pull out the user id from my old passwd > file

Re: samba from ports

2004-09-24 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:45:25AM -0700, David Bear wrote: > I cvsup today my ports collection and made samba. > > now the samba deamon says its 2.2.8a which I thought was vulnerable. > Is this not fixed in the ports collection? or, if so, how can I tell > if I have a fixed samba. the vunlerab

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

2004-09-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Of course, this method does not work if there are any packages/ports > depending on the port you are upggrading. The pkg_deinstall will fail > because of the dependencies. I believe a pkg_deinstall -f will forcibly > remove the pa

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew Smith
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 12:56, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > I do have cvsup installed, and can run cvsup to update my ports > > collection. My question is if I already have a package installed, > > running cvsup, the make install again for a p

Re: pkg_upgrade ?

2004-09-24 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I do have cvsup installed, and can run cvsup to update my ports > collection. My question is if I already have a package installed, > running cvsup, the make install again for a preexisting port will mess > up the pkg-data base right?

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2004-09-24 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 13:17, David Bear wrote: > The problem is that I am running snort and its creating hundreds of > entries in /var/log/snort -- one directory for each alert generated by > an IP address. then specific info on that alert in a file under each > directory. So -- aside from the s

Re: Sshd fix

2004-09-24 Thread FreeBSD user
cd /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable && make -DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE install distclean On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > For the sshd fix, could't I just strip the base openssh from the system and > install the updated openssh-3.4 from the ports? > > If so, what is the best method

Re: creating user dirs

2004-09-24 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:44:53 +0200, >> Lauri Laupmaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: L> Is there a simple solution for creating all user directories under L> /home? So, I have clean /home filesystem and hundreds of users in L> /etc/*passwd. Hopefully there is some simple command or script :) Cre

Re: to make or add a package

2004-09-24 Thread Mike Meyer
[Text formatting corrected.] In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I'm very impressed with the ports collection. [Pat jkh on the back, though it's a long reach from here.] > I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or > the make. I was wonderin

Re: chroot

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:22:59PM -0400, Michael Sharp wrote: > I installed ( or so I thought ) a chroot env last night and ran into some > difficulties. Could someone very familiar with openssh/chroot glance > over http://probsd.ws/chroot.txt and tell me what I did wrong please? > > chroot.tx

Re: Locate revealing contents of root:wheel 700 directories

2004-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:27:14PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hi, I noticed that in freeBSD 4.5, locate shows the contents of all > folders, even in my previously root:wheel 700 directory, /mnt/var/log. Only if you run the locate.updatedb utility as root (i.e. in a non-default way).

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo "2.9 vs 3.0.2?"

2004-09-24 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:00:55AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > prompt$ pkg_info | grep -i openssh > openssh-3.0.2 OpenBSD's secure shell client and server (remote login prog > > I just upgraded (or tried to upgrade) openssh on my FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE > box using /stand/sysinstall but I get

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo "2.9 vs 3.0.2?" [cjc]

2004-09-24 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: [snip] > PL> My question was regarding ssh, not sshd. > Then I shall reprhase: Are you actually running the ssh(1) in /usr/local/bin/ssh or > the old one in /usr/bin/ssh? > Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http

Re: `pkg_info | grep -i openssh` ; echo "2.9 vs 3.0.2?" [cjc]

2004-09-24 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:35:16AM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > [snip] > > PL> My question was regarding ssh, not sshd. > > Then I shall reprhase: Are you actually running the ssh(1) in /usr/local/bin/ssh > > or the old one in /usr/bin/ssh? > > Crist J

Re: setuid on nethack?

2004-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:07:42PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Alas! This does not make me feel warm and fuzzy! It's a good thing I'm not > installing this at a bank. If you're going to run software written by Joe Random Coder, there's always an element of risk. There's nothing about the

Re: USB Network access

2004-09-24 Thread David Pick
> I want to introduce a paralell network structure to our LAN, to administer > our servers (eg Webmin, SNMP, Mrtg). > To do so I want to use the USB Port because my Servers have only > one PCI connector (they are so called "pizza box" Server). > > Does anyone know if there is a IP over USB or PPP

Re: too many dynamic rules

2004-09-24 Thread Axel Scheepers
Hello, The man page of ipfw says: net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets: 256 net.inet.ip.fw.curr_dyn_buckets: 256 The configured and current size of the hash table used to hold dynamic rules. This must be a power of 2. The table can only be resized whe

Re: file permission question

2004-09-24 Thread f.johan.beisser
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, default wrote: > Hi, > > I am allowing a couple of ppl to have a shell account on one of my machines, > and I am making a few changes to disallow them from using certain things... > like chmoding the 'ps' command to 550 etc... > > I wanted to ask, is there any reason why one

Re: file permission question

2004-09-24 Thread David Kirchner
/etc/passwd (probably really /etc/pwd.db) are used for several user-land programs including 'ls'. It's highly recommended that /etc/passwd stay readable to the world. Btw, the output of 'ps' can be easily reconstructed via access to the /proc filesystem. You can unmount this partition, but ps will

Re: Logins without full password!

2004-09-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:15:22AM -0500, default wrote: > Is this normal? It's the expected behaviour for legacy DES passwords (only useful if you need to share the same password file with other UNIX systems, which isn't likely) > How does one disable this? There's a login capability for setti

Device polling performance

2004-09-24 Thread TM4525
I thought I'd reword my question since no one seemed to understand the first time. Is there a way to measure CPU kernel/interrupt usage when device polling is enabled on 4.x systems? top and systat both show 100% idle all of the time. TM ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: Problem with spamass-milter and libmilter sendmail-8.13.1

2004-09-24 Thread Ярошенко С.Ю.
>You need to make sure that spamass-milter and spamd are both running, >or you\'ll get this error. Actually, because of the order in which Yes, spamass-milter and spamd are both running, but I got error >sendmail and the various milters are started up, you might see this >occasionally during reb

Re: Ipfw accept rule

2004-09-24 Thread Jon Simola
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Bikrant Neupane wrote: > > > Well, I have no problem with the MAC filtering rules. > > > Only problem that I am having is that the pkts hit the matching rule > > > twice as a result I get only half of the b/w than that specified in ipfw > > > pipe command. Yes, the packets wi

Re: Problem with spamass-milter and libmilter sendmail-8.13.1

2004-09-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:52:21PM +0400, ?.?. wrote: > But when I send testing mail, I got error in maillog: > Sep 24 18:11:12 imhouse sm-mta[70048]: i8OEBCJX070048: > Milter (spamassassin): error connecting to filter: > Connection refused by /var/run/spamass-milter.sock > Sep 24 18:11:

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Steve, > > Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. I'm not clear on the use of > allow-transfer. Reading the manpage for named.conf(5), I'm tempted to > leave it out. But, I'm not fully understanding the use of it. The > manpage says, > > allow-transfer >Specifies which hosts are allowed to re

Re: Linux program and serial port (5.2.1)

2004-09-24 Thread Peter Risdon
Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: Hello, On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:25:47 +0100, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: I have a little program , linux native, that I've managed to run thanks to the Linux compat layer. However, this program opens the serial port ttyS1,

Problem with spamass-milter and libmilter sendmail-8.13.1

2004-09-24 Thread Ярошенко С.Ю.
Hi! I have promblem with spamass-milter and libmilter sendmail-8.13.1 . My test server run under FreeBSD-5.3 Beta5, I install spamassassin-2.64 and spamass-milter, added in config file of sendmail line : \"INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin\', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread Simon Barner
mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: > I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've > found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small > office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside > network among the machines and hides it from the greater int

Re: Linux program and serial port (5.2.1)

2004-09-24 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hello, On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:25:47 +0100, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > > > > I have a little program , linux native, that I've managed to run > > thanks to the Linux compat layer. However, this program opens > > the serial port ttyS1, which doesn't

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Steve, Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. I'm not clear on the use of allow-transfer. Reading the manpage for named.conf(5), I'm tempted to leave it out. But, I'm not fully understanding the use of it. The manpage says, allow-transfer Specifies which hosts are allowed to receive zone tran

RE: DEVICE_POLLING in 5.3

2004-09-24 Thread Yaraghchi, Stephan
> -Original Message- > From: Alex de Kruijff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:20 AM > To: Yaraghchi, Stephan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DEVICE_POLLING in 5.3 > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:27:22PM +0200, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote: > > Hi fellows,

Very very slow

2004-09-24 Thread Albert Shih
Hi I've very strange problem: On a bi-pro Xeon 2.4 Ghz, 2 Go Ram, 36 SCSI-3 disk. With Linux RH 9 everything work fine. But with FreeBSD 5.2.1 the server is very very very slow. For example make buildworld use ~10 hours I've another server with approx same hardware (same motherboard

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