Re: Anyone booting from RAID

2004-10-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004 20:30 schrieb Brent Wiese: > I have an Intel motherboard with onboard SATA raid. It uses the Adaptec > ICH5 chip, which appears to be supported in the very latest 5.3-beta6. > > However, on install, it sees the individual disks (ad4 & ad6) instead of > the mirror. It's

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Samuel > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:32 AM > To: Jonathon McKitrick > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kris Kennaway > Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? > > Here is a thought. > Why

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Kris and all, Sorry for the top post but would you quit feeding the trolls? Ted Mittelstaedt PS: TM, shut up and post some benchmarks proving your side of the argument. Not that we would believe them but you deserve to have to spend some time forging them up. > -Original Message- >

RE: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-07 Thread JohnsoBS
> -Original Message- > From: Dave McCammon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks > > > > --- Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Oct

Re: How to NOT load AGP?

2004-10-07 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 10:14, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Background: > > My computer likes to lock up sometimes in XFree86. This last time it was > All along I've been using the FreeBSD AGP. I'm thinking maybe I need to try > nvidia's (some people swear one way, some the other... if only there was >

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-07 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Dave McCammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following the advice from here: > http://isc.sans.org//diary.php?date=2004-09-11. > > What I did was to only allow access to one machine > through my firewall for the ssh connections (ipfw > limit). 2 per source ad

Re: How to NOT load AGP?

2004-10-07 Thread jason
Scott I. Remick wrote: Background: My computer likes to lock up sometimes in XFree86. This last time it was while doing an rsync between an internal drive and an external USB drive. But other times it's been random. Regardless, forced to do a reset, it then won't start XFree86. Sometimes unloading,

Re: moving from 5.2.1 to 5.3Beta?

2004-10-07 Thread hoe-waa
Thanks, I'll get right on it. Robert On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:10:43PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha > > I have a quick question. I am going to upgrade > one of my systems from 5.2.1P9 to 5.3Beta7. > > I have cvsup'd the source and when checking > UPDATING I came across this: > > 2

Re: moving from 5.2.1 to 5.3Beta?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:10:43PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha > > I have a quick question. I am going to upgrade > one of my systems from 5.2.1P9 to 5.3Beta7. > > I have cvsup'd the source and when checking > UPDATING I came across this: > > 20041001: > The following librari

moving from 5.2.1 to 5.3Beta?

2004-10-07 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha I have a quick question. I am going to upgrade one of my systems from 5.2.1P9 to 5.3Beta7. I have cvsup'd the source and when checking UPDATING I came across this: 20041001: The following libraries had their version number bumped up: /lib/libm.so.2 -> libm.so.3

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-07 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:15:25 -0700 (PDT) > Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are several script kiddies out there hitting > my SSH server > > every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force > their way in > > trying new logins every second

How to NOT load AGP?

2004-10-07 Thread Scott I. Remick
Background: My computer likes to lock up sometimes in XFree86. This last time it was while doing an rsync between an internal drive and an external USB drive. But other times it's been random. Regardless, forced to do a reset, it then won't start XFree86. Sometimes unloading, rebuilding, and reins

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-07 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server > every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in > trying new logins every second or so for hours at a time. Given > enough time, I fear they

benchmarking a process

2004-10-07 Thread Andrew Moran
This isn't specific to freebsd I suppose.. but does anyone know any good programs to measure how long a process took, how much memory it requested, and how much network traffic it send/received? I know for the time we can use 'time', but I'd like a utility that can tell me more than the time (m

Re: nmap'ing myself

2004-10-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:22:34PM +0100, Chris Howells wrote: > On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:56, Norm Vilmer wrote: > > Sorry about the ambiguity, i was referring to loosening my firewall rules > > and other settings to allow nmap to work properly. If it "should" work, > > No. Why would you wan

automount vs Solaris

2004-10-07 Thread Steve Watt
Greetings, I'm trying to bring a FreeBSD server up in a mostly Solaris environment, and am currently arguing with amd. The Solaris systems share an NIS map (auto.nfs) that looks like users host:/mountpoint/something/& which gets translated (somehow) by the Solaris automount to look like /nfs/use

Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi Greg and list! > > I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. Can you be more specific? > One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and > makes the usual noises, but then it stalls wi

Re: UPS on FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Howells writes: > > 1) apcupsd does not currently support USB connections for > > FreeBSD. > > APC used to send out the serial equivalent for free, I guess they > still do... APC has PowerChute Personal Edition for Windows (and possible Mac) available on their website

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:35:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/7/04 4:06:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > Here's one benchmark, showing UDP packet/second generation > rate from userland on a dual xeon machine under various > target lo

Re: UPS on FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Howells
On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:43, Robert Huff wrote: > 1) apcupsd does not currently support USB connections for > FreeBSD. APC used to send out the serial equivalent for free, I guess they still do... -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishow

Re: nmap'ing myself

2004-10-07 Thread Chris Howells
On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:56, Norm Vilmer wrote: > Sorry about the ambiguity, i was referring to loosening my firewall rules > and other settings to allow nmap to work properly. If it "should" work, No. Why would you want to deliberately make it easy to make a port scan work? If you're a scr

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:01:45PM +0100, R. W. wrote: > On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:36, Gary Kline wrote: > > Both Gnome and KDE are nice front ends, but a bit heavy > > on the graphical interface side for a CLI hacker like > > me. Feedback welcome! > > > Try xfce4. > > XCFe started lif

Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-07 Thread Luke
There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server every day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in trying new logins every second or so for hours at a time. Given enough time, I fear they will eventually get in. Is there anything I can do to hinder them? I'd like to ba

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:05:21PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > But when he asked for a "pointer or reference", I was expecting > to see a URL which pointed to some additional benchmarks. I did > not notice any URL's in any of your replies in this thread. Did > you think that you had includ

Association Problem with Multiple APs

2004-10-07 Thread ta168000
Hello list, I am running the 4.9 release of FreeBSD on an embedded net4521 box and my problem is: Recently a wireless ISP put up an antenna in our apartment complex. Now for some reason, my 4521 (and my iBook with regular AirPort, also BSD based??) favor the wireless ISP's connection over my own

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/7/04 4:06:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's one benchmark, showing UDP packet/second generation rate from userland on a dual xeon machine under various target loads: Desired Optimal 5.x-UP 5.x-SMP 4.x-UP 4.x-SMP 5 5000

Re: Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

2004-10-07 Thread Mire, John
Thanks, guess it's time to use the work around, the env setting worked fine. -- "Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny" John Mire: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Network Administration 318-675-5434 LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport -Original Message-

latex2html problems

2004-10-07 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
Hello FreeBSD gurus! I have a question for you. I have installed FreeBS 5.2.1-RELEASEp9 in my computer. I also upgraded my ports, compiled and installed the following ports: latex2html-2002.2.1_3 Convert LaTeX documents to HTML teTeX-2.0.2_2 Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends

Re: nmap'ing myself

2004-10-07 Thread Norm Vilmer
Chuck Swiger wrote: Norm Vilmer wrote: [ ... ] My question is: from a "well" configured firewall, "Should" I be able to nmap the public interface using a console session on the firewall itself? Sure. nmap should return close to zero open ports. Will allowing this compromising security of the mac

UPS on FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Any thoughts and/or workaround to have UPS working on FreeBSD > especially via USB cable? Thanks! 1) apcupsd does not currently support USB connections for FreeBSD. 2) There is a _beta_ version - availiable at "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru

UPS on FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread login
Good afternoon, I have attached a UPS to FreeBSD host using USB cable provided by APC. Environment: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # # usbdevs addr 1: UHCI root

Re: nmap'ing myself

2004-10-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Norm Vilmer wrote: [ ... ] My question is: from a "well" configured firewall, "Should" I be able to nmap the public interface using a console session on the firewall itself? Sure. nmap should return close to zero open ports. Will allowing this compromising security of the machine? nmap doesn't co

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:36, Gary Kline wrote: > Both Gnome and KDE are nice front ends, but a bit heavy > on the graphical interface side for a CLI hacker like > me. Feedback welcome! Try xfce4. XCFe started life as a CDE clone, but the later versions are quite configurable, and it'

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:15 AM -0700 10/7/04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > why don't you post some of these impressive benchmarks to > > substantiate your seemingly flimsy position? On a single > > processor system please, for the 99% of us who don't use > > SMP. Ho

Deleting /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11

2004-10-07 Thread Mark Edwards
I decided to remove XFree86 from my server since I don't really use it and its just taking up space. So I removed all gui ports, including all of gnome and XFree86. Done. Now, I'm wondering if there is any reason I shouldn't just delete /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11? Aren't they just taking up sp

Re: disk geometry confussion

2004-10-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:30:51PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? > > First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. > Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an > op

nmap'ing myself

2004-10-07 Thread Norm Vilmer
If there a better forum for discussing IPFW, please direct me there. I have a firewall machine running FreeBSD 4.10 connected between my DSL modem and my office switch. It does nat and has a basic set of IPFW rules. It is somewhat locked down (kern_securelevel = 1, other recommendations typical for

Re: disk geometry confussion

2004-10-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please enlighten me. What way I should follow? First, make sure you've updated your machine to the most recent BIOS. Next, check the BIOS config about your disk drives, and if there exists an option to allow you to choose LBA mode rather than C/H/S, use LBA mode. NeXT,

Does anybody...

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
Hi Does anybody know whether the 3Ware 9500 Series work with FreeBSD with RAID 5 - I am considering buying one and the manual page for twe only mentions the 8000 series and RAID 0/1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:10:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/7/04 1:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:41:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 10/7/04 10:17:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, obscu

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/7/04 1:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:41:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/7/04 10:17:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, obscurity Kris > writes: > Well, it's vast :) > Kris > We're waiting..5.3 is

[OT] DNS Administration

2004-10-07 Thread Adam Bayless
Is anybody using web based DNS zone administration for their users? I've found several projects out there, but they either seem to be early betas, or only in french, or much too complex/flexible for the average virtual hosting type customer to understand. Before I roll my own I figured it would

Re: exiftran or jpegtran for FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:09:48PM -0400, stan wrote: > I'm wanting to rotate some jpegs that I;ve got. It has been sugested that I > use either exiftran, or jpegtran to do this, in order to avoid loosing > quality. > > I can't seem to find either of these in ports. > > Can anyone point me to a p

Re: gbde misconfiguration ?

2004-10-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:51:17AM -0700, Balakumar Velmurugan wrote: > Hi, >I updated my kernel and built it from CURRENT. Everything went fine. > When I rebooted the machine after mergemaster, I was prompted to enter > passphrase for Disk Encryption, as below. > > Configuring Disk Encrypti

Re: Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

2004-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:45:46AM -0500, Mire, John wrote: > I'm still getting this error after a cvsup+buildworld, a make fetchindex and > I have deleted /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and rebuilt it, what's the patch?: > > test# uname -v > FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 #12: Wed Oct 6 17:13:13 CDT 2004 > [EM

Re: exiftran or jpegtran for FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Johnson
you want jpegtran from graphics/jpeg On Oct 7, 2004, at 1:09 PM, stan wrote: I'm wanting to rotate some jpegs that I;ve got. It has been sugested that I use either exiftran, or jpegtran to do this, in order to avoid loosing quality. I can't seem to find either of these in ports. Can anyone point

Re: gbde misconfiguration ?

2004-10-07 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2004.10.07 09:51:17 -0700, Balakumar Velmurugan wrote: > Hi, >I updated my kernel and built it from CURRENT. Everything went fine. > When I rebooted the machine after mergemaster, I was prompted to enter > passphrase for Disk Encryption, as below. > > Configuring Disk Encryption for NO. >

Re: Tape xfers topping out at 10K per transaction?

2004-10-07 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:13:46AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > Blocksize is determined when you write the tape. If you print a > document on Letter-size paper, a person reading it can't request it in > A4-sized chunks :) :) Well, duh! I guess I was just hooked on the idea that if I were to write

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:41:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/7/04 10:17:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, obscurity Kris > writes: > Well, it's vast :) > Kris > We're waiting..5.3 is in beta and ready for your tests. Other benchmarks > show very good results compared to

Re: exiftran or jpegtran for FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 07), stan said: > I'm wanting to rotate some jpegs that I;ve got. It has been sugested that I > use either exiftran, or jpegtran to do this, in order to avoid loosing > quality. Install the graphics/jpeg port. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

exiftran or jpegtran for FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread stan
I'm wanting to rotate some jpegs that I;ve got. It has been sugested that I use either exiftran, or jpegtran to do this, in order to avoid loosing quality. I can't seem to find either of these in ports. Can anyone point me to a place to get source code for these that will compile on FreeBSD? --

gbde misconfiguration ?

2004-10-07 Thread Balakumar Velmurugan
Hi, I updated my kernel and built it from CURRENT. Everything went fine. When I rebooted the machine after mergemaster, I was prompted to enter passphrase for Disk Encryption, as below. Configuring Disk Encryption for NO. Enter passphrase:< When I hit ENTER g

gbde misconfiguration ?

2004-10-07 Thread Balakumar Velmurugan
Hi, I updated my kernel and built it from CURRENT. Everything went fine. When I rebooted the machine after mergemaster, I was prompted to enter passphrase for Disk Encryption, as below. Configuring Disk Encryption for NO. Enter passphrase:< When I hit ENTER gbd

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/7/04 10:17:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, obscurity Kris writes: Well, it's vast :) Kris We're waiting..5.3 is in beta and ready for your tests. Other benchmarks show very good results compared to 4.x. Kris -- Quite a bunch of scienti

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:33:21AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > The xterms can be sized using .Xdefaults in your home directory. Read the man > page for xterm. This should, but not always, set the size of your xterm > independent of the window manger you are running, KDE, Gnome, FVWM

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:57:56AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > >Perhaps you are behind some sort of stateful firewall > >that drops dynamic rules after a certain period of idle time? > > > Nathan, > > Good call! I got ipfw in there just last week. Time to RTFM. (Yeah,

RE: Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Andrew Moran
The reason that works on Linux and not on FreeBSD is that on Linux "sh" is really bash. On FreeBSD, sh is the bourne shell and bash is bash. Bash will run all sh scripts, but sh will not run all bash scripts. Bash extends the sh language. That script is a bash script, not a sh script. --A

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:27:02AM -0400, epilogue wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:36:59 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [[ ... ]] > > > hello gary, > > i hope that you don't take this the wrong way... i think that gnome.org > and any of their forums/mailing lists would

Re: Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-07 09:01, Andrew Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Oct 7, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: >> Hello, it's me again. This time I'm trying to do some shell scripting >> but I'm running into a problem with a randomization script that I found >> on the web. The script I'm try

VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid

2004-10-07 Thread Paul Everlund
Hi Greg and list! I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. One disk crashed, and is not found during boot. It starts up and makes the usual noises, but then it stalls with a katjing, katjing and so on. It seems like either the steering electronics, or the read/write-heads mec

RE: Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Pratt, Benjamin E.
Sorry, I was using "sh test.sh" to execute the script and getting the error: test.sh: 28: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") When I use "./test.sh" to run it things work fine. Sorry for the clutter. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Andrew Moran
That script works fine for me on my box and I'm also running FreeBSD 5.3-BETA with bash2. What kind of error are you getting? What is the output of "bash -x " (filling in the script name of course). --Andy On Oct 7, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote: Hello, it's me again. This time

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Danny Howard
Nathan Kinkade wrote: Perhaps you are behind some sort of stateful firewall that drops dynamic rules after a certain period of idle time? Nathan, Good call! I got ipfw in there just last week. Time to RTFM. (Yeah, this is kind of like a crappy NAT ...) And yes, I discovered the sessions are sti

Re: How-to capture error messages from ... recent

2004-10-07 Thread David Armour
Hello Toomas, Thanks a lot for your reply! > Before starting the installation, issue this command: > script /var/tmp/portinstall.log > After finishing the installation ... > exit That worked perfectly. There's a number of "Error code 1"s in there. But at least I can read up on 'em

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:31:26AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > This last problem has started to happen only lately. > > I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote > machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave > the session for a while and

RE: Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

2004-10-07 Thread Mire, John
I'm still getting this error after a cvsup+buildworld, a make fetchindex and I have deleted /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and rebuilt it, what's the patch?: test# uname -v FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 #12: Wed Oct 6 17:13:13 CDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TEST test# cd /usr/ports test# make

RE: Reduce effects of DDoS attack ...

2004-10-07 Thread Bigelow, Andrea L.
Marc, usually the best answer to this is to have your net-facing device be a router (not a switch!) with enough juice to run a comprehensive ACL that keeps out martians, spoofed packets, and other stuff that doesn't belong on your network. Your second line of defense should be a good firewall, si

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk14 - native or not? problems with build..

2004-10-07 Thread Matt Navarre
On Thursday 07 October 2004 01:59, Volker Eckert wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:30, Volker Eckert wrote: > >> anyway, i am getting this while trying to build that very port > >> (jdk14): > >> > >> ../../../../src/share/classes/javax/rmi/PortableRe

Re: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-07 Thread Danny Howard
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Recently this doesn't work any more: We can type in our login names, but there won't be any password prompt. Even locally from the server's terminal itself nothing happens. What happens when you try to ssh? It is good to describe what "error" you are seeing beyond "it d

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Danny Howard
Danny Howard wrote: This last problem has started to happen only lately. I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave the session for a while and come back and the session is locked up. I can't ex

Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Danny Howard
This last problem has started to happen only lately. I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave the session for a while and come back and the session is locked up. I can't exit or anything. I k

Re: problem installing firefox

2004-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I'm having trouble installing firefox on freebsd-4.10. When i try to install it it > > gives me this error: > > > > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXcursor > > gmake[2]: *** [libgtkxtbin.so] Error 1 > > gmake[2]: Leaving Directory

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:16:49PM +0100, Walker, Michael wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway > Sent: 07 October 2004 15:10 > To: Bigelow, Andrea L. > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kris Kennaway' > Subj

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:04:10AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:55:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 10/6/04 6:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote:

RE: FTP Proxies and Ports

2004-10-07 Thread Bigelow, Andrea L.
Remko, I really appreciate the suggestion. I gave it a go, and it doesn't seem to work with my style of proxy. I think I'll consult with our security folks here and see what they have to say. -Original Message- From: Remko Lodder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 20

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Walker, Michael
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: 07 October 2004 15:10 To: Bigelow, Andrea L. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kris Kennaway' Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:04:59AM

Re: Tape xfers topping out at 10K per transaction?

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 07), Kevin A. Pieckiel said: > I hit the same 10K limit when I use something like this: > > # dd if=/dev/nsa0 of=/dev/null bs=64k > > Is that because tar wrote to the tape with a 10k bock size that even > dd can't read larger blocks? That doesn't seem likely to me, but >

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:04:59AM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote: > Can anyone speak to performance improvement if the debug flags are removed? Well, it's vast :) 5.3 (i.e. the RELENG_5 branch) has them turned off already in preparation for the release. Kris pgpBqbH2Kp87m.pgp Description: P

Shell script error

2004-10-07 Thread Pratt, Benjamin E.
Hello, it's me again. This time I'm trying to do some shell scripting but I'm running into a problem with a randomization script that I found on the web. The script I'm trying to run can be found at: http://www.bsdbooks.net/shells/scripting/randomvar.html#PICKCARD. Everything runs fine on diff

RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Bigelow, Andrea L.
Can anyone speak to performance improvement if the debug flags are removed? -Original Message- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yah

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:55:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/6/04 6:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote: > > Where's the documentation? I'd like to see this for myself. > >

Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

2004-10-07 Thread TM4525
In a message dated 10/6/04 6:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote: > Where's the documentation? I'd like to see this for myself. There is none, because Mr./Ms. TM4525 is making up his/her "facts" to suit the

Re: GNOME questions

2004-10-07 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello The xterms can be sized using .Xdefaults in your home directory. Read the man page for xterm. This should, but not always, set the size of your xterm independent of the window manger you are running, KDE, Gnome, FVWM,. On Thursday 07 October 2004 01:36, Gary Kline wrote: > To the

Re: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Ulrich Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Have you ensured that it doesn't work from other locations? > Yes, I tried three machines on our lan and the server itself. Okay, that's a very convenient place to start. From the server itself, you must have been using a different ssh client (

Re: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! We are using Putty to log into our FreeBSD 4.10 Samba Server for administration. Recently this doesn't work any more: We can type in our login names, but there won't be any password prompt. Even locally from th

Re: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
Peter Ulrich Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > We are using Putty to log into our FreeBSD 4.10 Samba Server for > administration. > > Recently this doesn't work any more: > We can type in our login names, but there won't be any password > prompt. > Even locally from the server's termi

sleep in startup script never wakes up

2004-10-07 Thread Robert Dormer
Hello all, I have a shell script that I've put in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory of a box to do some fscking when needed. The script is straightforward, there are not any complicated control structures or anything like that. However, at one point it had a sleep statement in it that would go t

Re: Planning a Upgrade (5.2.1 --> 5.3)

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
"Walker, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know of any utilities that I can use to read through my existing > /etc/master.passwd file and dump usernames and plain text passwords to a > file? It's one-way. You could use something like John to defeat the password encryption, but it could

RE: networking problem? maybe

2004-10-07 Thread Bigelow, Andrea L.
If you have more than one computer available, try linking up a switch to your second Ethernet card and running a test between two machines that should not touch the gateway. What's your internal LAN speed when the gateway is not involved? That will tell you whether it's the gateway you need to loo

Re: KDE 3.3 upgrade and Sound

2004-10-07 Thread Martin Hudec
On Thursday 07 October 2004 14:27, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:26:32AM +0200, Martin Hudec wrote: > > same problem with me. I have installed fresh kde 3.3 with all > > packages but I do not have any sound output at all. > > Do you have sound (playing a mp3 with mpla

Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! We are using Putty to log into our FreeBSD 4.10 Samba Server for administration. Recently this doesn't work any more: We can type in our login names, but there won't be any password prompt. Even locally from the server's terminal itself nothing happens. Everything else (pinging the machine,

Re: KDE 3.3 upgrade and Sound

2004-10-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Hi, On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:26:32AM +0200, Martin Hudec wrote: > same problem with me. I have installed fresh kde 3.3 with all packages > but I do not have any sound output at all. Do you have sound (playing a mp3 with mplayer) before you start KDE at the console? If not then: Is the whole

spppcontrol

2004-10-07 Thread Rosario Pingaro
did you get the connection to work? I'm experiencing the same problem you had in may! may you help lease? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PRO

Re: Having a problem running quake3 on my system running 5.2.1 FreeBSD

2004-10-07 Thread Volker Eckert
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Artem Kazakov wrote: Devesh Shah wrote: The installation seems to be OK but game would not start because of the the following error. Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg. Do I need to have pak0.pk3 zip file from CD as I don't find any documentation regarding default.cfg for q

Re: Cannot update XFree86-4

2004-10-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:54:09AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the help. I went ahead yesterday and hacked away for awhile, and > worked around the problem. The reason I was nervous about those portupgrade > flags is that in the past portupgrade has made a mess of things, doing too

Re: Tape xfers topping out at 10K per transaction?

2004-10-07 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:24:16PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 06), Kevin A. Pieckiel said: > > I've got an Exabyte M2 connected to my system. I'm running version > > 5.2.1 and have seen this drive do 64K transfers with "systat -vm" > > before (although that was under versi

acpi_cpu1 attach returned 6 on single cpu system

2004-10-07 Thread Mipam
Hi, I am running 5.2.1-p11 on a p3 system. I commented options SMP in the kernel config. However, i still get: acpi_cpu1: on acpi0 device_probe_and_attach: acpi_cpu1 attach returned 6 In dmesg. I didnt comment APIC #optionsSMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk14 - native or not? problems with build..

2004-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:59:57AM +0200, Volker Eckert wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: > >Did you try building the jdk before you had linprocfs mounted? If so, blow > >away /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work and start over. > i only mounted linprocfs after the first error showed up. it

make.conf and ntpd

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi I've to compile ntp in /usr/src/contrib/ntp with --enable-NMEA. It works fine. But I want to add this configure option permanently. So that it'll also work after a cvsup src upgrade. Can I put this option into /etc/make.conf? If yes what exactly I've to add? regards Thomas Vogt _

Re: /usr/ports/java/jdk14 - native or not? problems with build..

2004-10-07 Thread Volker Eckert
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:30, Volker Eckert wrote: anyway, i am getting this while trying to build that very port (jdk14): ../../../../src/share/classes/javax/rmi/PortableRemoteObject.java:22: cannot access java.rmi.RemoteException bad class file: /a/jdk1

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