Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread John Smith
On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When was this corrected? Is 6.2 going to be faster than 6.1? As I said earlier, some of the most important changes that went into 6.0 were fixing performance problems in 5.x. Since then it's been a process of polishing and improving, inste

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some > simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: One other noise reduction method which is really easy to implement is to use pf and write arule set which to uses the overload

Re: FreeBSD UFS "vulnerability": Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-13 Thread Colin Percival
Bill Moran wrote: > http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 > > Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a "corrupt" > or > "malicious" filesystem in order to exploit this "vulnerability". > > Yes, NIST claims there is no authentication required to exploit? Ar

CARP: trouble or feature

2006-11-13 Thread Prokofiev S.P.
Excuse I has made a mistake in the last letter... corrected: Hello ALL! I have a problem with CARP on FreeBSD 6.2 in the following scheme: +--+ +---++-+ | A| | B|| C | |

Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:27:47AM +0300, John Smith wrote: > On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:51:49PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > >> Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to > >> ensure full update-ness? > > > >Shouldn't

Re: changing swap size

2006-11-13 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Lun 13 Nov 2006 06:34, Zbigniew Szalbot escribió: > If I increase RAM to, say, 1GB, would I need to change the swap size to 2GB? I think not. ¿Are your computer still swaping? > If so, is it a safe process (I assume this can be done using FIPS)? FIPS only works in patitions with FAT16 or FAT

Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread John Smith
On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:51:49PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to > ensure full update-ness? Shouldn't really matter, the relevant changes were in the kernel. Kris When was t

Re: USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Here is the actual dmesg entry: ugen0: Cisco-Linksys Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 The model number of the device is WUSB54GC. As indicated, it is made by Linksys, and looks just like an ordinary USB jump drive, but bigger. ok... it seems it uses the Ralink 2570

[OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-13 Thread jekillen
Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReill¥ books on networking that had one interface with one assigned inet address and also aliased with a

Re: choosing the cputype for core 2 duo?

2006-11-13 Thread Josh Carroll
So the „server" has a conroe core 2 duo processor. What would be the best choice in make.conf as a CPUTYPE paramater for this processor (other make.conf related recommendations also welcome). I have had only experience installing freebsd on a bit older amd machines where the choise was obvious.

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Chuck Remes
On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Lorin Lund wrote: The biggest problem with MacOS X is that a lot of UNIX software that runs on FreeBSD and such, is not ported to MacOSX, and it's very difficult to compile on MacOSX. This is completely wrong. Take a look at macports [1] (formerly darwinport

Re: USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:34:52 -0800 Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> correctly identified in the dmesg under ugen0." > >> > > > > can you show the exact info shown please? and more info about the card > > itself.. (model,etc) > > > > thx > > > > > > Here is the actua

[OT] A+ for Mac (was Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?)

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Lorin Lund wrote: The biggest problem with MacOS X is that a lot of UNIX software that runs on FreeBSD and such, is not ported to MacOSX, and it's very difficult to compile on MacOSX. >>> This is completely wrong.

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Thoenen
> > What do they mean by this ? > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/schedule.html > > that schedule is the perfect world schedule. things have slipped. This has bothered me and has done so since I first started tracking this site back around 5.1 .. why is it the FBSD RELENG team can't take 5

Re: USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
correctly identified in the dmesg under ugen0." can you show the exact info shown please? and more info about the card itself.. (model,etc) thx Here is the actual dmesg entry: ugen0: Cisco-Linksys Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 The model number of the d

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorin Lund wrote: > >> >>> The biggest problem with MacOS X is that a lot of UNIX software that >>> runs on FreeBSD and such, is not ported to MacOSX, and it's very >>> difficult to compile on MacOSX. >> >> This is completely wrong. Take a look at mac

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Joe
Chris wrote: Joe wrote: Peo Nilsson wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Where did you get the information that it shouldn't be out before mid december? This page says "Mid-December 2006". It also says "

128 Bucket?

2006-11-13 Thread Chris
I can't find a definition for 128 Bucket. I set up a monitor to measure if any vmstat -z stats go to zero on the Free Count and this does more often than not. Does anyone know if this is a problem or how I'd find out. This is a 6.2 PR AMD64 Tyan S4882 that gives me hangs occasionally. Thank you,

Re: USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:34:12 -0800 Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > correctly identified in the dmesg under ugen0." can you show the exact info shown please? and more info about the card itself.. (model,etc) thx _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Windows: "Where

D-Link 610 wLan card

2006-11-13 Thread Frozen
While searching over the previous posted messages, i found several things but non of them actually worked on me.. i can enable the device, while doing an ifconfig it looks ok, but while i scan for wireless access points i get nothing. Also, sometimes while keep scanning continiusly i see somethi

FreeBSD UFS "vulnerability": Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a "corrupt" or "malicious" filesystem in order to exploit this "vulnerability". Yes, NIST claims there is no authentication required to exploit? Are new versions of FreeBSD sudde

dhcpd with wi and base system dhclient stopped working

2006-11-13 Thread John Nielsen
I have a FreeBSD 6.x machine with an ath interface that serves as a wireless access point, dhcp server, router and gateway for my network. I have a FreeBSD 6.x laptop with an older wi interface that until recently was working just fine, using the base system dhclient. However, the other day whe

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Lorin Lund
The biggest problem with MacOS X is that a lot of UNIX software that runs on FreeBSD and such, is not ported to MacOSX, and it's very difficult to compile on MacOSX. This is completely wrong. Take a look at macports [1] (formerly darwinports) for a large repository of UNIX software that com

RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 17:13 > To: Mark > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA > > > >> Could someone tell me whether I can use the > >> APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.

Re: cap_mkdb & login.conf.db

2006-11-13 Thread Kelly D. Grills
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:01:17PM -0800, T. Fields wrote: > > So sorry to bother. But I have been looking through the extensive > documentation provided with freeBSD and can't find the answer, so I thought > I would ask for help. > > I am trying to set the path variable upon boot-up. I have al

Re: hands-on experience on 6.1 amd64 vs. i386

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:32:45PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > > this is nothing professional, just my personal experience. > > same machine, two sata, one is amd64, the other i386. > > while doing portupgrade due to gtk upgrade on

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:19:27PM +0600, Bachilo Dmitry wrote: > ? ? ?? ??? 13 ?? 2006 12:05 Leo L. Schwab ???(a): > > I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an > > installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I > > had di

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:57:00PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > On 11/11/2006 01:28, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: > >>On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > >>>On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Joe
Peo Nilsson wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Where did you get the information that it shouldn't be out before mid december? This page says "Mid-December 2006". It also says "Release dates are appro

Re: hands-on experience on 6.1 amd64 vs. i386

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:32:45PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > this is nothing professional, just my personal experience. > same machine, two sata, one is amd64, the other i386. > while doing portupgrade due to gtk upgrade on amd64, it reboot a few times, > never > finished the job, and i can't s

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:53:05PM -0800, Joe wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: > >>A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see > >>that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. > >> > >>Are FreeBSD releases put out "

cap_mkdb & login.conf.db

2006-11-13 Thread T. Fields
Greetings, So sorry to bother. But I have been looking through the extensive documentation provided with freeBSD and can't find the answer, so I thought I would ask for help. I am trying to set the path variable upon boot-up. I have altered the /etc/login.conf as well as the global /etc/pro

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Joe
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're ready" or is there a set schedule that is adhered to?

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-13 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 12 November 2006 15:23, Miles wrote: > Hi, > Running 6.1 installed from the most recent .iso CD and sync'd > ports through CVS, I wish to have the Ventrilo port start up as a > daemon upon reboot, however, I'm not having any success in having > this happen. I did some searching with Goog

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jay Chandler wrote: On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You forgot to mention what version you're running, but if it's up-to-date 6.2 there's a sysctl for using an alternate reboot method which is necessary on certain machines. Kris Sorry, this is 6.1 PL10. I wasn't aware th

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 13 November 2006 14:48, Peo Nilsson wrote: > > > > A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. > > > > Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. > > Where did you get the information that it shouldn't be out before > mid december? http://www.freebsd.org/r

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially)

hands-on experience on 6.1 amd64 vs. i386

2006-11-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
this is nothing professional, just my personal experience. same machine, two sata, one is amd64, the other i386. while doing portupgrade due to gtk upgrade on amd64, it reboot a few times, never finished the job, and i can't say why. but on i386, portupgrade -fa due to no maintenance for a couple

Re: networking question.

2006-11-13 Thread Gelsema, P \(Patrick\) - FreeBSD
This is more a windows problem and specific more a WINS/NETBios/name resolution problem. Do you got a dns server? Some kind of domain? What I understand from your story the following happens: Client queries on netbios level; who is \\computername to the masterbrowser list, can't find on local subn

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Jay Chandler
On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You forgot to mention what version you're running, but if it's up-to-date 6.2 there's a sysctl for using an alternate reboot method which is necessary on certain machines. Kris Sorry, this is 6.1 PL10. I wasn't aware that 6.2 was out of bet

Re: Sendmail Smarthost Auth

2006-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-11-11 21:42, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well Giorgos, > For starters the advice in that section is wrong for 2 reasons: Noted. Thank you Ted, for the helpful comments :) > pwcheck_method: passwd does not work on sasl2 and FreeBSD 6.X > You don't want to use sasl1 fo

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Rachel Florentine
7575- Original Message From: Nils Vogels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What you put between the brackets [], is passed to make ans should be > options that make recognizes. > > A small example: > > MAKE_ARGS = { > 'www/squid' => 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-delay-pools > --enable-snmp --enab

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-13 Thread Miles Cannon
I will try the forcestart option when I get home. I do know that the start option has not worked for me, though, and I am not sure what I am doing incorrectly. In any case, I'll let you know the results of this. Thank you, Miles On 11/13/06, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Miles <[EM

Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:51:49PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to > ensure full update-ness? Shouldn't really matter, the relevant changes were in the kernel. Kris pgptUG0zqiPwb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: > Howdy. > > Have a box that won't restart after I cvsup it and rebuild the OS. > When the 'reboot' command is given, the machine hangs after the > uptime announcement. > > Nothing built on the box other than OpenSSH and cvs-witho

Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Jeff Mohler
Fair to say that those tools should be recompiled on a 6 system to ensure full update-ness? On 11/13/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients > that my php/m

Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Jay Chandler
Howdy. Have a box that won't restart after I cvsup it and rebuild the OS. When the 'reboot' command is given, the machine hangs after the uptime announcement. Nothing built on the box other than OpenSSH and cvs-without-gui. The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with dual 3.0 gh

networking question.

2006-11-13 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Gurus, 192.168.0.1 is the internet server dialer (winXP) ---> switch --> 192.168.0.2 FreeBSD 6.1 NAT 192.168.1.1 clients are 192.168.1.xxx everything works great, Internet goes to clients from the fbsd server all IPs can ping each other.. 192.168.1.5 can ping 192.168.0.1 To here

Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:16AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients > that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous > version (5.XX). > > I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the pe

Re: Maximum amount of ram?

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:14:28PM -0500, Reuben A. Popp wrote: > Good afternoon everyone, > > Can someone please tell me what is the maximum amount of physical ram that > the > i386 branch of fbsd can handle? We're looking at purchasing a really beefy > machine here and I would like to make s

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Rachel Florentine wrote on 13-11-2006 19:40: > That would set up the environment, and might actually be correct as written > ;) I'm a whole lot less confident of the following: > > MAKE_ARGS = { > '/usr/ports/net/openldap23-server'=> [ > '--localstatedir=/var/run/slapd', > '--enable-

Maximum amount of ram?

2006-11-13 Thread Reuben A. Popp
Good afternoon everyone, Can someone please tell me what is the maximum amount of physical ram that the i386 branch of fbsd can handle? We're looking at purchasing a really beefy machine here and I would like to make sure that it can utilize the amount of ram that will be installed. Thanks in

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
Rachel Florentine wrote on 13-11-2006 19:40: > That would set up the environment, and might actually be correct as written > ;) I'm a whole lot less confident of the following: > > MAKE_ARGS = { > '/usr/ports/net/openldap23-server'=> [ > '--localstatedir=/var/run/slapd', > '--enable-

Re: Boot from CD (this time in ASCII :) )

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-11-2006 16:28: > Now my question is this: how do the kernel know where to search the fstab > (considered that the fstab says where to find the /etc)? I mean: I suppose > I have to put on the CDROM an exact /etc/fstab for that installation?? Or > this could be avoided?

Re: Boot from CD (this time in ASCII :) )

2006-11-13 Thread Nils Vogels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-11-2006 16:28: > Now my question is this: how do the kernel know where to search the fstab > (considered that the fstab says where to find the /etc)? I mean: I suppose > I have to put on the CDROM an exact /etc/fstab for that installation?? Or > this could be avoided?

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Peo Nilsson
> > > A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see > > > that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Where did you get the information that it shouldn't be out before mid december? -- /Cheers Peo -- Registered Linux User #432116, get counted at http://counter.li.o

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Vlad GURDIGA wrote: >> So, is it possible to have bpf apart from kernel? > > Not sure if it's possible or not, but someone is bound to know on one of > the freebsd lists.. Does look possible to me... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software e

Re: USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
As you can no doubt see, I have been going round and round with trying to get an old Compaq Presario connected via wireless. The original Belkin card that came with the laptop does not seem to be supported. At least it does not show up in the handbook under supported devices. Further, it d

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially)

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Brian the SARE Stock rules (and others) from www.rulesemporium.com are equally good at catching this stuff, and a lot lot lighter on CPU cycles. -- Martin On 11/13/06, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since ther

Boot from CD

2006-11-13 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
Hello everybody. I'm working on a thing I never tried before. I did some googling but I don't think I haven't found any correlated to this. The situation is pretty simple: I'm configuring a FreeBSD (6.1) server to boot from a SAN thru a QLogic 2340 Fiber Channel card. This in general is not

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Leo L. Schwab wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-) ), I thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat d

USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
As you can no doubt see, I have been going round and round with trying to get an old Compaq Presario connected via wireless. The original Belkin card that came with the laptop does not seem to be supported. At least it does not show up in the handbook under supported devices. Further, it doe

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running 6.1 installed from the most recent .iso CD and sync'd ports > through CVS, I wish to have the Ventrilo port start up as a daemon > upon reboot, however, I'm not having any success in having this > happen. I did some searching with Google and found little

using ipfw for NAT mapping in a 1:1 fake:real IPs for VPN

2006-11-13 Thread James Bakner
Hi, I have a pretty complicated setup currently and am trying to figure out exactly how to implement it. I'm pretty unfamiliar with freebsd, the last incarnation I used was 4.3 and I only used it for a few months before moving to linux. I have a VPN setup for an IP range 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.255

Re: pkg_cutleaves listing needed ports as leaf nodes.....

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/13/06 09:35, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I use `pkg_cutleaves -l` to list leaf nodes. It is listing things I know are required by other apps. These aren't build dependencies. For example, it lists g-wrap, and libpcap. If I remove g-wrap, my gnuc

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Eric
Peo Nilsson wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:55 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1163208958-311e

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I >>> am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / fi

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Peo Nilsson
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:55 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: > > A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see > > that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. > > > > Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're read

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I >> am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. >> >> For some odd reason every couple days

v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Jim Pazarena
When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous version (5.XX). I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the performance hit is being commented about by my (few) mysql/php clients.

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Charles Trevor
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Palmer Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 16:28 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the FreeBSD p

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greetings All, > > I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my > inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. > > I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I > think is VERY good and

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:11:11AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > > >Add yourself to the "operator" group. Just edit /etc/group. > > > > > Bingo! Haven't checked recently but in the past any darn fool could Control-Alt-Delete reboot from the console keyboard. Caused a bit of a pain when a machi

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: > A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see > that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. > > Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're ready" or is there a set > schedule that is adhered to? > > > I onl

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread George Fazio
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and a

Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Rachel Florentine
Hi; Would someone kindly simply edit the following, if that's possible (if I'm not too far off how it should be done) so that I can have an example of how to build OpenLDAP with the options and env I want? Here's what I have so far. I don't know if it's correct or not... 1. Edit /usr/local/etc/

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem o

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: That is very true, and I understand why this is by design, but in this case the ONLY user of the machine is me. It really is no big deal, but I am trying to understand just what is going on here. As I said, on my desktop I am able to shut down as user, and can't remember

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 13 November 2006 10:11, Frank Staals wrote: > The point is it isn't security through obscurity: as allready pointed > out, FreeBSD & sshd can withstand those brute force attacks without much > of a problem so there is no security problem, the only thing is those > brute force attacks are

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Joe Holden wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;) That is very

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to > shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know > that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have > that problem

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;) _

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to > shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know > that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have > that problem

Developer needed for a project (FreeBSD and Java)

2006-11-13 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, While we are in the middle of evaluating various project software and also while I am trying to learn more about FreeBSD as it relates to our goals, we have come across a need to locate a developer that has skills with FreeBSD and also Java. We are working on migrating a project ov

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. Whatever is shutting down the system would either need to be setuid (chmod u+s), or would need to use sudo (if you have the sudo port and your user is properly

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Josh Carroll
Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. Whatever is shutting down the system would either need to be setuid (chmod u+s), or would need to use sudo (if you have the sudo port and your user is properly se

uhci.ko keeps showing up

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've commented out device uhci in my kernel config, but I keep getting uhci.ko loaded on boot. I'm not using usb at all. I understand that I should be able to disable usb in my bios, but it's difficult to get to, as the server is remote. Is there anything I can do to prevent the uhci.ko from being

Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on my desktop, but I'm pretty new to all of this and would appreciate

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Armin Arh
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:17:58 -0800 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ugh, I'm running a 6.2 prerelease. The package doesn't exist, so I > build the port, or try to. The tiff port wont build, so I pkg_add > that. It gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I > pkg_add that.

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-13 Thread Christian Walther
Sorry... I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3 Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768. On 13/11/06, Christian Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy with it. Since the beginning I've a probl

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:20AM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could get the Darwin 8.1 cdrom

Re: delete iface tun

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Igoryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to remove the interface tunN, creations ppp demon? In general, you don't. If you unload the if_tun module, that will delete all of them. See the manual for tun(4). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

problems with serverraid 8i on an ibm x260

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua Frugé
Hello, I am running freebsd 6.1 (amd64) on an ibm x260 and getting these errors: dmesg: g_vfs_done():aacd0s1a[WRITE(offset=16567468032, length=16384)]error = 5 aacd0: hard error cmd=write 1673028351-1673028382 and in messages : Nov 12 23:59:14 nms kernel: aac0: COMMAND 0x8bd3b2c0

Re: ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

2006-11-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 13 November 2006 9:57 am, Michael Knoll wrote: > I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started > getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are > occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long > enough for it to spin up? Ever

deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

2006-11-13 Thread Koen de Wijs
Hello everybody, I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I can write a cronjob that checks every minute. But isn't there another solution; Can't I just write a C program that liste

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 13, 2006, at 01:28, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Apple also doesen't use the UNIX security model. As near as I can tell their core security model is an ACL model not a user/group model. Once again this is something that's handled elsewhere. The user-group security model is alive and the h

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