Re: How to include header files in makefiles

2005-03-18 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:38:15PM +, Chuck Robey wrote: : 1) relative addressing means you have to be forever translating paths in : listings, and very often the number of include paths gets to be rather long. Okay, I can fix that easily. : The Make(1) man page doesn't show "include", the a

Re: calcru: negative runtime

2005-03-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Brian Curnow wrote: I am new to BSD and just downloaded BSD 5.3-RELEASE. I saw a few other posts on this issue but I didn't see any solutions. I am getting excessive calcru: negative runtime messages in the syslog (and the console). According to the FAQ the solution is to use sysctl and set kern.ti

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread em1897
-Original Message- From: Nick Pavlica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:45:44 -0700 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question :em1897, : I'm curious how you are testing. In my testing, the 5.4 pre IP

calcru: negative runtime

2005-03-18 Thread Brian Curnow
I am new to BSD and just downloaded BSD 5.3-RELEASE. I saw a few other posts on this issue but I didn't see any solutions. I am getting excessive calcru: negative runtime messages in the syslog (and the console). According to the FAQ the solution is to use sysctl and set kern.timecounter.method=

Re: How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Ryan J. Cavicchioni thusly... > > Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: ... > >I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: > > > >#!/bin/sh > > > >$0 & $0 & > > > >The system was unresponsive for a couple minutes but then FreeBSD > >killed the script and t

curious about da_quirk_table

2005-03-18 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, I have an usb flash disk which does not support cache synchronization. Usb vendor 0x1005. (The inscription on it says "Apacer HandySTENO"). On FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE it generates several of umass0: Phase Error, residue = 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x4, s

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Nick Pavlica
em1897, I'm curious how you are testing. In my testing, the 5.4 pre IP stack performed very well. I was able to get 100% more throughput than Linux (2.6.10 FC3) under heavy load on the exact same hardware. I was actually surprised at the difference because I have been a Linux Zellot for years

do i need to reinstall

2005-03-18 Thread jrrelay
i recently bought a new and larger hard drive for my computer. i put it the machine as '/dev/ad3'. while educating myself about this new drive, i installed freebsd 5.3 on one of the slices. i am ready to eliminate the old 'ad0' and want to move the new drive so it will become '/dev/ad0'. will

Re: How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I apologize, I did not mention what version I was running. Here it is: 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Hi, After reading this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=308, I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: #!/bin/sh $0 & $0

Re: PPP routing failure [fixed]

2005-03-18 Thread Peter C. Lai
Yes it was a sleep issue (and not the sleep(2) kind haha). *facepalm* Apparently the POP uses a 2 stage authentication process. First, you use unix/slip style authentication after which the POP then initiates CHAP. I had specified the inccorect password for CHAP but after the initial autentication

How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi, After reading this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=308, I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: #!/bin/sh $0 & $0 & The system was unresponsive for a couple minutes but then FreeBSD killed the script and the system was accessi

Permissions for Linux apps via LDAP

2005-03-18 Thread Michael Collette
I now have 2 different Linux applications that refuse to start because getpwuid_r() won't return a user ID. Both acroread7 and realplayer are dead in the water for me. I'm using pam_ldap authentication, which works great for all my native FreeBSD apps. How do I get the Linux apps to perform a si

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-18 Thread John A.
OK, lets see if this helps... dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROT

FreeBSD 5.3 gvinum and growfs

2005-03-18 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi, How do I make growfs actually grow a gvinum disk on FreeBSD 5.3? I've read the man pages, the Handbook, and done some searching with no luck. To help understand what I'm trying to accomplish here, I've created a filesystem that mounts to /export on a gvinum volume. The volume is configured

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread em1897
:Boris, : I would agree that my initial impression of 5.3 was that it was slow :compared to 4.x. After some tuning, I now have 5.3 running at an :acceptable performance level. You may want to start testing the newer :versions of 5 current. I have noticed improved performance on my test :server

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have had excellent results with Novell GroupWise. --Nick On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:44:36 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emanuel Strobl writes: > > > ??? Windows is a really good, well maintained standardized and secure piece > > of > > software compared to Exchange. I can

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Emanuel Strobl writes: > ??? Windows is a really good, well maintained standardized and secure piece of > software compared to Exchange. I can't imagine why someone is even > considering exchange when he knows about FreeBSD and it's programs. Exchange is the best choice for intra-organizational

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Christian Tischler writes: > I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing > to set up an MS box at all. Microsoft Exchange Server runs only on Windows server operating systems. > Any hints or suggenstions would be great. Buy a server version of Windows, or choose a dif

Re: ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to host

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 23:42 schrieb Feroz F. Basir: > Hi, > > I compiled ipfilter option in my kernel. As usual > reboot my machine. When I run "ntpq -p" I got an error > "ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to > host". Before I compiled in ipfilter, it worked. My > /etc/ipf.rules c

ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to host

2005-03-18 Thread Feroz F. Basir
Hi, I compiled ipfilter option in my kernel. As usual reboot my machine. When I run "ntpq -p" I got an error "ntpq:write to localhost.domain failed: no route to host". Before I compiled in ipfilter, it worked. My /etc/ipf.rules contains "pass in all and pass out all" Anybody has any ideas let me

Re: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Bob Johnson
Ean Kingston wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would b

Re: Default mysql config file

2005-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > My /var will run out of space soon, I was told that changing mysql store > place was a good solution. But I can't find the default configuration file, > is it ok to create a new file with the only line indicating the store > position? I'm a newbie and more details would be apprecia

default ACL's permission problems

2005-03-18 Thread paul
hello, This applies to FreeBSD 5.3 Release: I've followed the examples on setting up default acl's located at this website: 'Working With ACLs in FreeBSD 5.x' http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200310/acl.html I'm having problems with this: % umask 027 % mkdir dir setfacl -m u::rwx,m::rwx,g::rx,o::r

Default mysql config file

2005-03-18 Thread KP
Hello, My /var will run out of space soon, I was told that changing mysql store place was a good solution. But I can't find the default configuration file, is it ok to create a new file with the only line indicating the store position? I'm a newbie and more details would be appreciated. Regards,

Re: ntpd core dumping on 5.3-p5

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > >John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Bill Moran wrote: > >> > >>>I'm experiencing a problem similar to the problem described in this thread: > >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/0781

NLB Network Load Balance

2005-03-18 Thread Sean Murphy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have dual NICs (Intel 1000/MT) in my FreeBSD 5.3 Server. I would like to use both NICs to send and receive traffic for NLB. Each currently has a different IP can some one point me in the right direction so that they can act together? Thanks - -- Sea

Re: Apache from the ports - default httpd.conf deleted (Solved)

2005-03-18 Thread Danny
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:36:06 -0900, Peter Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 11:18AM, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Could someone please help by supplying their httpd.conf for 1.3.33 or > >direct me to a place to download a full default httpd.conf? > > if y

Re: ntpd core dumping on 5.3-p5

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
John Pettitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > >I'm experiencing a problem similar to the problem described in this thread: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/078139.html > > > >My ntp.conf contains: > >server clock.psu.edu > >server fuzz.psc.

USB disk hang - 5.4PRE - gstripe

2005-03-18 Thread John Pettitt
I just upgraded a box to 5.4PRE and started experiencing regular system hangs at exactly 1AM - I traced it to BackupPC which was starting it's run at that time backing up to a gstripe set made from two 300GB USB disks. The first thing I assumed was that something in Samba or perl didn't like the

Re: script to save a particular mail file??

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just thought I'd ask the list if anyone has a script to > read /var/mail/ and grab a single file. I just > sub'd to a mailing list that is produced only in HTML. > I'd like to save it to /tmp, strip it, and have it ready > for

sysinstall/fdisk and the disk geometry

2005-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi at all. My question is simple. My laptop is a 1513lmi Acer, it has a TOSHIBA MK6025GAS disk with 117210240 LBA sectors. When I install Freebsd 5.3, Sysinstall, in the Fdisk submenu,state the geometry 116280/16/63 then translate automatically this geometry to 7296/255/63. But both when I use the

ntpd core dumping on 5.3-p5

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Moran
I'm experiencing a problem similar to the problem described in this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/078139.html My ntp.conf contains: server clock.psu.edu server fuzz.psc.edu prefer server ntp-1.ece.cmu.edu prefer server ntp-2.ece.cmu.edu prefer If I co

Re: Apache from the ports - default httpd.conf deleted

2005-03-18 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:17:49 -0500 Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD 4.7R (yah I know I need to update this) > > apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS > functionality > > I accidentally deleted the default ("out of the box") httpd.conf for > my Apache instal

Re: Apache from the ports - default httpd.conf deleted

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Giessel
On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 11:18AM, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Could someone please help by supplying their httpd.conf for 1.3.33 or >direct me to a place to download a full default httpd.conf? if you just cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 then "make" (not "make install"), you can find the def

Apache from the ports - default httpd.conf deleted

2005-03-18 Thread Danny
FreeBSD 4.7R (yah I know I need to update this) apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 The Apache 1.3 webserver with SSL/TLS functionality I accidentally deleted the default ("out of the box") httpd.conf for my Apache install. Could someone please help by supplying their httpd.conf for 1.3.33 or direct me

Re: x11 cookie expires after some time

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 14. November 2004 19:28 schrieb Emanuel Strobl: > Dear all, > > perhaps someone can explain me why I can't execute a x-program via a ssh > session after some time (some hours). When I log into the machine > everything is fine and xclock or any other x11 application is working fine. > Bu

Re: HDD idle shutdown.

2005-03-18 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:22:29PM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 11:24 +0100] > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:21:17AM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote: > > > I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it > > > is needed again? > >

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Boris Spirialitious wrote: > >> > >>> --- Boris Spirialitious > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > --- Matthew Seaman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>

Re: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread pete wright
> > Don't you all want to at least mention Open Groupware? I was mentioned in the first reply i think: -- From: Ryan J. Cavicchioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:06:32 -0600 I really doubt that it is possible. I would look at OpenExhange: http://mirror.open-xchan

Re: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread pete wright
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:11:24 +0200, Chris Knipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't you all want to at least mention Open Groupware? > > > > http://www.opengroupware.org/ > > > > How about something that supports MySQL? > why use MySQL when it supports a much more robust solution like PostgreSQ

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I h

Re: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Chris Knipe
Don't you all want to at least mention Open Groupware? http://www.opengroupware.org/ How about something that supports MySQL? -- Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: Mounting DVD

2005-03-18 Thread Александр Деревянко
popbox wrote: Hello. There is no separated information about mounting DVD in manual man, FreeBSD Handbook and other documentation. Mounting it such as CD not gives result. For example, my variant: 1) #mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument 2) #mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cd

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported?

Re: adding a directory to a CD-image (.iso)

2005-03-18 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 at 15:02 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I donwloaded an .iso-image (Solaris 10, actually), which is about > 2.7Gb. > > Before burning it to a DVD, I'd like to add a directory to the > image. Is there a way to do it with tools available on FreeBSD -- > mkisofs, growisofs, etc?

Re: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:45:25AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing > >> to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware > >> virtual

saslauthd - memory

2005-03-18 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Is there anybody with experience from deploying saslauthd for authentication that could advise how stable it is on FreeBSD 5? I am implementing it for ldap authentication on a cyrus-imap mail server and saw that there is a -n option that "can solve leaks that occur in some deployments"

Bind Wierdness

2005-03-18 Thread Joshua Coombs
Hello. While trying to track down periodic radius failures, I discovered that Bind was periodically timing out, and even occasionally incorrectly responding with a failure. We orriginally were running 9.2.3 built from ports on FreeBSD 4.9p11, with a mem limit set at 900M, maint interval of 60 minu

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boris Spirialitious wrote: > > --- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>--- Matthew Seaman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris > >>>Spirialitious wrote: > >>> > When opter

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Re: sparc64 nfs client locking: Operation not supported

2005-03-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:41:38AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > Hello, > > I'm booting an UltraSparc machine with tftp over NFS. The boot server is > i386 running 5.4-PRERELEASE, the UltraSparc nfs root is 5.3-RELEASE. > > On the server, I'm running: > > mountd (-r) > nfsd (-u -t -n 4) > rpcb

re: strange behaviour : grep -i --colour ""

2005-03-18 Thread martinko
hi, i've just prepared a typescript for you, see below. note that the original generated file is 37984604 bytes. my system is: $ uname -a FreeBSD mb-aw1n-bsd 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #5: Mon Feb 14 19:45:04 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MB-AW1N i386 do you hav

Re: dvd iso with complete port collections

2005-03-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:48:25AM -0800, emil fakhruzi wrote: > hi.. can i ask for dvd iso for the next FreeBSD-Release with the latest > complete english port collections. The ports collection is included on the installation CD images. Are you really asking for the package collection? If so,

Re: adding a directory to a CD-image (.iso)

2005-03-18 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> > I donwloaded an .iso-image (Solaris 10, actually), which is about 2.7Gb. > > > > Before burning it to a DVD, I'd like to add a directory to the image. Is > > there a way to do it with tools available on FreeBSD -- mkisofs, > > growisofs, etc? > > > > I don't want to recreate the main image from

sparc64 nfs client locking: Operation not supported

2005-03-18 Thread Joshua Lokken
Hello, I'm booting an UltraSparc machine with tftp over NFS. The boot server is i386 running 5.4-PRERELEASE, the UltraSparc nfs root is 5.3-RELEASE. On the server, I'm running: mountd (-r) nfsd (-u -t -n 4) rpcbind rpc.statd rpc.lockd The Ultra will boot fine, however, whenever I attempt to c

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Well,

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Boris Spirialitious
--- Boris Spirialitious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris > > Spirialitious wrote: > > > When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have > > 4.9. > > > is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. >

Re: adding a directory to a CD-image (.iso)

2005-03-18 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:02:18PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I donwloaded an .iso-image (Solaris 10, actually), which is about 2.7Gb. > > Before burning it to a DVD, I'd like to add a directory to the image. Is > there > a way to do it with tools available on FreeBSD -- mkisofs

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2005-03-18 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

2005-03-18 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: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Tom Trelvik
That is truly one of the most disturbing things I've ever read (about technology, anyway). Must be careful not to frighten small children, or all but the most experienced sysamins, with that one. Tom Ean Kingston wrote: As someone who has inhereted an Exchange server I have a few hints for you

[OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Ean Kingston
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing >> to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware >> virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would >> be stabl

Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic)

2005-03-18 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have had odd behavior like you are describing with cheap motherboards. I ran all of the memory tests etc, and everything passed with flying colors. Despite passing all of the tests I could throw at the hardware, windows 2000 was very unstable. We ultimately ended up replacing the board. On Th

Re: How to include header files in makefiles

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a build system for a small project and I want to use included makefiles. I have a base.mk that looks like this: I will answer here, but be aware that you're getting all of my prejudices too, so take things with a grain of salt. First item deals wi

Re: password length default install

2005-03-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: What is the password lenght one may use at login? I didn't change the defaults on my fbsd-4.11 (login passwd md5 ??) I remember linux had as default some eight chars or so. I want to use more chars for some accounts. Can I safely use 10-12 chars? # man passwd (4.x) T

Re: Kylix or libborqt

2005-03-18 Thread Rod Person
On Thursday 17 March 2005 3:40 pm, John wrote: > Hey, folks! > My problem is that, of course, it is only compiled for MS-Windows > and Linux. That's OK, I have Linux compatibility installed so that > I can run acroread. What makes matters worse is that it was built > using something called Kylix

Re: sbp, camcontrol, and Tagged Queuing

2005-03-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 3/17/2005 8:23 PM Bob Johnson wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:08 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I posted this a while back and am still having the same problem. Can anyone offer any insight as to if the sbp man page suggestion about tagged queuing is something I should try? Is there any risk

Re: password length default install

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the password lenght one may use at login? I didn't change the > defaults on my fbsd-4.11 (login passwd md5 ??) > > I remember linux had as default some eight chars or so. I want to use > more chars for some accounts. Can I safely use 10-12 cha

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 18. März 2005 14:06 schrieb Christian Tischler: > Hi, > I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing > to set up an MS box at all. ??? Windows is a really good, well maintained standardized and secure piece of software compared to Exchange. I can't imagine wh

Re: strange behaviour : grep -i --colour ""

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > i've just found out that while 'grep -i ""' and 'grep --colour ""' > behave as expected (by myself), running 'grep -i --colour ""' results > in very strange behaviour - grep consumes all available cpu and, based > on its input and terminal type, i

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 18 Mar Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I would li

password length default install

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
What is the password lenght one may use at login? I didn't change the defaults on my fbsd-4.11 (login passwd md5 ??) I remember linux had as default some eight chars or so. I want to use more chars for some accounts. Can I safely use 10-12 chars? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F8

Re: Make buildworld and UPDATING

2005-03-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:11:27AM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: > While reading updating I see this: > > 20050227: > The default "world" build no longer supports running on an > 80386 CPU. In order to build a world for an 80386 CPU, one > needs to set CPUTYPE=i386 in /etc/make

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 18 Mar Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > >I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ > >ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this > >windows machine? > >I would like to be able to login to my hom

Make buildworld and UPDATING

2005-03-18 Thread CHris Rich
While reading updating I see this: 20050227: The default "world" build no longer supports running on an 80386 CPU. In order to build a world for an 80386 CPU, one needs to set CPUTYPE=i386 in /etc/make.conf. does this mean that 80486's and above don't need to set it? or d

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
Mike Jeays wrote: ... Basically, if you have to hold your nose to run Exchange, you may as well hold it a little tighter and run Windows. If not, look at FreeBSD/Sendmail-or-Postfix/Evolution as a very reliable mail service. Indeed. Anyway, if you're running VMWare with Windows inside it, you *ar

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > >> So, lets leave this topic at that. Either the > >> ultra-anti-beastie or ultra-pro-beastie movements will destroy > >> themselves. > >> > > > > The ultra-pro-beastie movement is defined as the status quo, so it's > > impossible for it to destroy itself (except perhaps by apathy) > So be

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote: > Hi, > I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing > to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware > virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would > be stable (so

Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Re all that stuff about Iraq and oil, etc that I nuked, many times in world history, self serving campaigners have made suckers of the unwashed masses and been able to claim them in a majority. That is not the same as the minority seizing power because of the way our system is constructed. It is

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:53 AM To: "Marco Greene (ML)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid ASCII loader prompt Well, by no

RE: PPP routing failure

2005-03-18 Thread bob
Check out the install guide at http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.php it has the best step by step instructions for using userppp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter C. Lai Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:37 PM To: f

network: not found messages

2005-03-18 Thread Timothy Radigan
Hey all, I've been running into some issues booting up and starting certain services. During boot up, I see a lot of "network: not found" messages. Also, when I try to start samba, I get that message and even though smbd starts, nmbd does not start and gives me the error described above. I al

Re: dvd iso with complete port collections

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
emil fakhruzi wrote: hi.. can i ask for dvd iso for the next FreeBSD-Release with the latest complete english port collections. Sure, you can ask, but the complete port collection simply won't fit on a DVD. [ The total size is somewhere around 25-30 GB at present... ] -- -Chuck ___

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I really doubt that it is possible. I would look at OpenExhange: http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual s

Re: HDD idle shutdown.

2005-03-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 11:24 +0100] > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:21:17AM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote: > > I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it > > is needed again? > > I am using FreeBSD 5.x. > > /usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle Note that, while

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 07:39:43AM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > If someone puts a keystroke logger on your windows machine, they will > get the password. > > If they put a hardware logger on your computer, they will get the data. > > If they are watching over your shoulder just as you missty

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
Abu Khaled wrote: ... Am I the only one interested in this topic? Where is the rest of our lovely community? Come on guys let's scratch those gray cells and help John out. Although progress is being made on getting detail, it's still insufficient (and, not entirely consistent? if the connection in

MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Christian Tischler
Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would be stable (sopken in terms of windows stability). The next consideration woul

Re: dd cd image

2005-03-18 Thread Kevin Kobb
Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > Hi people > I am trying to do an iso image of DATA CD and i am using this command line > > %dd if=/dev/acd0 of=cd.iso > and this is the error > > dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.000304 secs (0 bytes/sec) >

Re: Ethernet issue: works one way but not another

2005-03-18 Thread Abu Khaled
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:43:15 -0500, John A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No problem with the english, if you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have known. > > I can ping FBSD from M$, can't ping anything from FBSD. > > M$ box works when plugged into hub and directly into radio. > > All systems are o

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm using this

Re: dd cd image

2005-03-18 Thread Darksidex
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Osmany Guirola Cruz escribió: | Hi people | I am trying to do an iso image of DATA CD and i am using this command line | | %dd if=/dev/acd0 of=cd.iso | and this is the error | | dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument | 0+0 records in | 0+0 records out | 0 byt

dd cd image

2005-03-18 Thread Osmany Guirola Cruz
Hi people I am trying to do an iso image of DATA CD and i am using this command line %dd if=/dev/acd0 of=cd.iso and this is the error dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000304 secs (0 bytes/sec) How can i made and iso image of a data cd ? _

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread José Nicolás Castellano
Stian Øvrevåge wrote: Another problem is the Man-in-the-Middle problem, where you are led to believe that you are communicating with your home-computer, but your session is relayed on through a decrypting/encrypting gateway which is under someone else's controll. Of course exists the man-in-the

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Stian Øvrevåge
Another problem is the Man-in-the-Middle problem, where you are led to believe that you are communicating with your home-computer, but your session is relayed on through a decrypting/encrypting gateway which is under someone else's controll. To counteract this, you should obtain your home-computer

Re: Problems with USB HD

2005-03-18 Thread Alistair Sutton
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:14:42 +0100, Darksidex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > When I conect my external HD I get this message: > > | umass0: Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 > | umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (S

PCMCIA Network card not recognized during install

2005-03-18 Thread TN
I have a 560E Thinkpad with a floppy and no CD Drive, with a 3CCE589ET pccard nic (supported by ep(4)). I know that everything is fully functional because all components work when booted from tom's root boot linux floppy (www.toms.net/rb/). I want to do a FTP install from a floppy boot, but sysinst

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread José Nicolás Castellano
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm using this windows machine at work? Can

Re: ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 12:23 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ > ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows > machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be > *monitored* by someone while I

ssh security

2005-03-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be *monitored* by someone while I'm using this windows machine at work? Can the keystrokes that I u

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