Re: Authentication with auto replication

2006-03-12 Thread Nagilum
S does? I'm not entirely sure but I think ldap should do the trick (pam_ldap + nss_ldap). Good luck, Nagilum. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEFGiyAKWN2UY+sLwRA901AJ0a0pqCZ9+Pv82Z04VW4pCbQfthRQC

Re: Natd with Multiple DSL Connections

2006-03-12 Thread Nagilum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 How about interface bonding/aggregation ? Check ng_fec(4) for details. Hope this helps, Nagilum. Ramiz Sardar wrote: > Dears, I am using freebsd machine in office as a gateway and using > ipfw+natd for internet sharing. I have t

Re: Resolved: Need Assistance Upgrading Ethereal-0.10.13_3 to 0.10.14

2006-01-07 Thread Nagilum
Hi Bob, It seems you caught the port in a unstable moment where the patch could not be applied for some reason. This was probably only a very brief moment so the next cvsup/portsnap update fixed the problem. Kind regards, Robert H. Perry wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Nee

Re: Crypt::RSA perl coredump on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-23 Thread Nagilum
Mike Friedman wrote: I installed the perl Crypt::RSA port the other day on my 5.4-RELEASE system. When I try to run a small perl script just to generate an RSA keypair, I get a perl core dump. There are a lot of prereqs that get installed with Crypt::RSA, so no doubt there's much opportunity

Re: reassigning boot drive

2005-08-21 Thread Nagilum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried reassigning the boot disk from ad1 to ad0? What pitfalls are there? You have to adjust your /etc/fstab to reflect the change, if you don't, you will get a nasty looking error when booting (which can be worked out, I just don't remember if you have t

Graphics Card memory as swap dev?

2005-08-21 Thread Nagilum
Hi, after reading http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html I was wondering if this would be possible with FreeBSD? I have a Soekris 4801 box which has way too less memory and no room for more so I was thinking if I could use a graphics card to mitigate the problem a bit.. T

Re: Postfix / Fetchmail Question

2005-08-21 Thread Nagilum
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, There are a couple of things that I would like to achieve with my running Fetchmail / Postfix combo ; 1) When a mail comes in for a specific local user it is immediately forwarded to another external address. This is for when some staff work from home occasionall

Re: bash script

2005-08-21 Thread Nagilum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My knowledge in bash scripting is about medium not very advanced and all so I am not attempting to make a connection limiter but what I want to make is a script that checks the irc connections off a certain user and takes some actions, mostly of this I know how to do but

Re: Rewinding tapes

2005-06-12 Thread Nagilum
Jonathan Belson wrote: Hiya I've written a small script that backs up data to a tape, rewinds it, then reads back the data that was stored as a test. The problem I've run into is that 'mt rewind' is asynchronous, and subsequent tape operations will fail until the rewind operation has finis

Re: increasing swap activity

2005-02-06 Thread Nagilum
Michael Hines wrote: I've written a remote-memory system for a thesis of mine. As a result, I'm able to setup a diskless client that swaps to remote memory instead of a remote disk. The specifics, reasons, and design of the system are a long story However - this system allows for much faste

Re: Network monitoring software

2005-01-15 Thread Nagilum
Try: systat -if for a start, regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any success stories I would like to hear about any of

Re: Dmesg truncated

2004-12-15 Thread Nagilum
I don't know the answer to your question, but if you're looking the bootmessages, have a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot . I hope this helps, Kind regards, Alex. David Erickson wrote: I've been having this problem for quite a whlie but it's never bothered me too much until I had some free time on my

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-22 Thread Nagilum
The idea behind the speedups by using n>number of CPUs is that you use unused CPU cycles during disk activity. Obviously this works only on systems which use 'low CPU usage storage' such as SCSI, firewire or more prominently NFS for the sources. Of cause this also assumes you don't have any per

pf qlimit ignored?

2004-11-20 Thread Nagilum
Hi, Playing around with pf I noticed that my queues are still only 50 packets large, although my pf.conf says: altq on $ext_if priq bandwidth 090Kb qlimit 100 queue { q_def, q_pri q_mid } Did I miss something? Kind regards, Alex, pfctl -v -v -s queue: queue q_pri priority 7 priq( red ecn ) [ pk

Re: OT: Powerbook Problem.

2004-11-20 Thread Nagilum
Reboot the machine, before the OS loads press the 'c' key to boot from CD-Rom or press the option key to have Openfirmware scan for bootable devices and then you can select from which to boot via mouse. See: http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Mac_Keys.htm for more.. pixiedave wrote: Hope someone can help!

Re: 5.3 rc2 kernel install problems

2004-11-01 Thread Nagilum
Did you do a "make buildkernel" before? Aaron P. Martinez wrote: I just got the new 5.3 rc2 cvsuped the sources (not much was updated that i could see) and proceeded to do a make buildworld and make buildkernel. When i tried to make installkernel it got the following error. --

ppp startup problem

2004-11-01 Thread Nagilum
Hi, I just updated to 5.3-STABLE and noticed that /etc/rc.d/ppp-user depends on ldconfig because the pppd needs some libs to start, so I had to modify /etc/rc.d/ppp-user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > diff -Naur /usr/src/etc/rc.d/ppp-user /etc/rc.d/ppp-user --- /usr/src/etc/rc.d/ppp-user Mon Oct 11 08:10:

Re: swap partition encryption

2004-11-01 Thread Nagilum
The partition itself is encrypted so it doesn't matter whether the partition contains a regular filesystem, swapfs or is used as database storage device. It's encrypted one layer below. Kind regards, Alex. Robert Storey wrote: Dear All, I've succeeded in creating an encrypted partition using gbd

Re: postfix + cron problem

2004-10-29 Thread Nagilum
Oles Hnatkevych wrote: Hello all! There's a FreeBSD box with manually installed postfix-2.1.0. It works, except that cron can not send execution logs by email. The "running" user receives a message This is the Postfix program at host ... I'm sorry to have to inform you that your mess

Re: mac os X

2004-10-29 Thread Nagilum
Hi, In short the BSD licence grants everyone to do whatever he or she pleases to do with it under two conditions (IAMNAL!): 1. Keep the Author(s) name(s) in the file 2. Don't hold the Author(s) liable for the code So it's perfectly ok for Apple to use FreeBSD code in MacOS-X or Microsoft to use O

Re: nat or ......?

2004-10-01 Thread Nagilum
..use a proxy like squid (/usr/ports/www/squid) . probably easier than setting up NAT and sufficient if you only need http(s)/ftp(s). Kind regards, Alex. metallarch wrote: I made the ppp connection from windows to freebsd(tun0), and from freebsd to internet (tun2)"at the same time"! I have 2 mode

FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 RPC/rcorder

2004-09-30 Thread Nagilum
Hi i just updated from FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 to BETA6 unfortunately I'm having some problems now, during boot I see this: Sep 30 17:04:00 cakebox mountd[357]: can't register UDP RPCMNT_VER1 service Sep 30 17:04:00 cakebox mountd[357]: can't register UDP RPCMNT_VER3 service Sep 30 17:04:00 cakebox mou

Re: Filesystem replication?

2004-09-24 Thread Nagilum
Are you sure a NFS shared fs wouldn't do the trick? Or maybe an hourly unison sync process? Brian McCann wrote: Does anyone know of something that will allow me to have 2 file servers and have their file systems be always in sync automatically? Basically, I'm looking for a rsync type program/s

Re: beta4-beta5 diff

2004-09-24 Thread Nagilum
Sorry dude, that's (nearly) impossible, although your sources are BETA4, that doesn't tell anyone when exactly you checked them out. Changes are incorporated (theoretically) every minute so just from knowing BETA4 it's not possible to create a proper diff. You may consider using CTM, which offer

Re: ssh/pam/postgres

2004-09-21 Thread Nagilum
What you probably could do is install nss_ldap (net/nss_ldap) and use your pgsql server as ldap backend db. If the burden of setting up a ldap server is too much, you could also use net/libnss-mysql, but that's MySQL not PostgreSQL.. Kind regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know

Re: Frustration: the only thing mounting with NFS client :-)

2004-09-21 Thread Nagilum
Hi, I don't know what the problem in your case is, but just a few thoughts: - make sure your linux box isn't providing NFSv4, as FreeBSD does only support for v2 and 3, - to test and whether the nfs server is receiving you use "showmount -e lg", it's quicker - yes, you need a portmapper running

Re: Regarding Boot failure

2004-09-19 Thread Nagilum
then Harish --- Nagilum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Could it be that you forgot to remove the mfsroot floppy from the diskdrive when you rebooted? Regards, Alex. ramuK hsiraH wrote: Hai every body Recently i have installed FreeBSD5.3 the i

Re: Regarding Boot failure

2004-09-18 Thread Nagilum
Hi, Could it be that you forgot to remove the mfsroot floppy from the diskdrive when you rebooted? Regards, Alex. ramuK hsiraH wrote: Hai every body Recently i have installed FreeBSD5.3 the installation process is quiet nice when the system reboots it prompts

Re: php4 + mhash

2004-09-18 Thread Nagilum
Try this: cd /usr/ports/security/php4-mhash && make install and don't forget to make sure you have something like extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php/20020429/" in your /usr/local/etc/php.ini (must point to the directory where your mhash.so is located) Regards, Alex. fbsd_user wrote: how do I t

Re: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded, error

2004-09-18 Thread Nagilum
Hi Puna, This looks like there occured a looping recursion, there is definately something wrong with your ports. Maybe try to reinstall the dependencies forcefully after bringing your ports tree up-to-date (if that alone does not already help) Kind regards, Alex. Puna Tannehill wrote: On a fres

Re: Request

2004-09-11 Thread Nagilum
Uhh? There is plenty of information on the web just google for FreeBSD vs Linux like this one: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php If the Mexican mirror doesn't work go to the main site: http://www.freebsd.org/ there are plenty of links and information.. You're wel

Re: something fishy with this network

2004-09-10 Thread Nagilum
Thanks Charles, You really saved my day! I had a "set MRU 1448" in my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, I changed it to the default size of 1492 which even though it's even larger, solved the problem?! Thanks a lot again! Charles Swiger wrote: On Sep 10, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Nagilum wrote: Everyt

something fishy with this network

2004-09-10 Thread Nagilum
Hi, I have a really strange network problem and no idea what's the cause, maybe someone else can enlighten me..so here it comes: I have a FreeBSD5.3b3 gateway, this machine is NAT gateway, Webserver, DHCP and nameserver for the LAN, Mailserver, Samba, et al.. In my LAN I have a PC and a Powerbook

Re: Tar pitting automated attacks

2004-09-10 Thread Nagilum
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Mike Galvez wrote: Is there a method to make this more expensive to the attacker, such as tar-pitting? Put in a ipfw block on the netblock/country. At the very least it will make it pretty slow for the initial TCP handshake. Che

Re: cvsup, SetAttrs, I've read the FAQ

2004-09-08 Thread Nagilum
How about a "grep -v SetAttr" ? Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: Hi, I would like to get rid of the 'SetAttrs' lines in the cvsup logs. Of course I found the FAQ at http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#setattrs ; I have umask=2 defined in my supfile, always run as root and after removing the checkout files, th

Re: hi

2004-09-08 Thread Nagilum
Hi A W Your computer shouldn't reboot after reading from the mfsroot, try booting the kernel with ACPI disabled. Have fun! Alex. A W wrote: Hello FreeBsd I have this problem with the boot floppies, everytime i boot the kern.flp then it asks me to push in mfsroot.flp. I follow the inst

Re: Can I NAT incoming connections?

2004-08-28 Thread Nagilum
Hi Stan, if you use ipnat to do the NAT you need something like that in your ipnat.conf: rdr tun0 0/0 port 2000-2010 -> 192.168.1.20 port 2000 This would redirect the ports 2000-2010 on your gateway to the same ports on the machine 192.168.1.20 in your LAN. If you use pf it's pretty much the s

Re: Sharing?

2004-08-25 Thread Nagilum
Sure, go ahead, maybe try to get the latest (stable) version first though (5.3beta is out).. Regards, Alex. ro sa wrote: Hi "FreeBSD" I have a question. I'm I aloud to share FreeBSD (e.x. 5.0) in like For example DC direkt connect or kazaa or anything like that ?? And another question Can

Re: ALTQ@5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 ?

2004-08-25 Thread Nagilum
Yes, they apply cleanly. Regards, Alex. Hugo Silva wrote: Hey, I wanted to know if the patches available for ALTQ on FreeBSD 5.x work on 5.2.1. I can't test this myself because the only 5.2.1 server I have is a production server and I'd like to be 100% sure it will work first. I don't know if the p

Re: switching NAT: ipf to pf not working

2004-08-23 Thread Nagilum
Hi, Try it with this: ext_if="xl0" nat on $ext_if inet from ! ($ext_if) to any -> ($ext_if) Kind regards, Alex. Jorge Mario G. wrote: Hello there I'm trying to switch the nat from ipf to pf our lan is pretty simple INTERNET (pf)--- 192.168.0.0/24 LAN1 | | |--- 192.16

Re: irc resuming through natd

2004-08-06 Thread Nagilum
I'm not completely sure what you mean, but if your client does not reconnect after a disconnect maybe you could try another client? I found irssi to be a good replacement for ircII in that regard.. Kind regards, Alex. cedrick.gaillard wrote: hi, it's impossible for me to do irc resuming through

Re: mss_* problems during 5.2.1 install

2004-07-13 Thread Nagilum
Hi Dan, There is a lot you can try, loading without ACPI, explicitly unloading unneccesary drivers, trying older versions.. After the machine got stuck you may still be able to scroll back by pressing the scroll key and then the cursor keys... I hope this helps, Alex. Dan Harris wrote: I just p

Re: start order on 5.2.1

2004-07-13 Thread Nagilum
Hi J.D. The runorder of the rc scripts in /etc/rc.d is determined by the dependencies of these scripts, There is a utility called rcorder(8) (read the manpage!) which returns the names in the order they can be executed. It uses special comments in order to do so. So you probably just have to ad

Re: Upgrading openssh

2004-06-17 Thread Nagilum
Hi Eric, The base version of openssh is updated frequently (especially if any vulnerabilities are discovered), so why bother with the port? Kind regards, Alex. Eric Crist wrote: After figuring out perl (with the help of Matthew, I was wondering what the proper way to install/upgrade openssh. I

Re: OT: web serving

2004-06-14 Thread Nagilum
Hi John, The simpliest solution would probably be to let your gateway machine not just forward port 80 to your fbsd machine, but also let it forward another port (eg. 81) to your .net machine and configure IIS to serve also via this port. If that is not an option you might be able to set up som

Re: pf

2004-06-07 Thread Nagilum
Not just CURRENT, you can have pf on STABLE too: http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ ALTQ is not ready for all interfaces but the apart from that it's fully functional. Have fun, Alex. Reed L. O'Brien wrote: I thought I read in the CURRENT docs somewhere that pf was going to be the default packet

Re: dump backup question

2004-06-05 Thread Nagilum
Hi, I assume you could script something using expect, but maybe you should consider using a real backup program like for example bacula. Kind regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 and I'm trying to backup= a filesystem which is quite large with many files. I

Re:FreeBSD & G3

2003-10-16 Thread Nagilum
I'd assume NetBSD is more mature than Darwin, so I'd go with NetBSD instead.. Kind regards, Alex. Quoting Rod Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:44 pm, lawrencejr johnson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm would like to install BSD on my old G3 Powerbook Laptop. Whare can I > f

Re: devel/imake-4 errors out on mkhtmlindex

2003-10-06 Thread Nagilum
Hi Johan, I just stumbled over the same problem, it turned out to be a perl problem. After installing perl from the ports one should do something like # use.perl ports this creates some symlinks to make perl apps run with the new perl. Apparently one of these links was missing and use.perl did not