Re: DIAL-IN TERMINAL SERVICE

On Monday 17 April 2006 07:22, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I have attached a modem to my freebsd box and trying to setup a simple > dial-in terminal service. > I have tried to follow the instructions in the freebsd handbook. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dialup.htm

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

* On 16/04/06 09:48 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: | I want a non-root user (I'm happy to limit it to wheel users), to be | able to mount smb shares and rip music, but I don't know how to do | this. Where can I find documentation on this? You already have the answer for the mounting part. For access

Problem compiling jdk13

Hi: I am trying to compile legacy jdk13 because it seems that developing for java card I need this. However, I get the following error: calvin# make ===> jdk-1.3.1p9_5 has known vulnerabilities: => jdk/jre -- Security Vulnerability With Java Plugin. Reference:

Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

* On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: | > | > real memory 268173312 (261888K by

usb-serial controller in 5.4?

i have a USB-Serial Controller by Prolific Technology, Inc. I tested to see if the device works on FreeBSD on FreeBSD6 machine. the serial controller works when i load ucom and uplcom modules. a ucom0 device is generated along with tty and cua devices. when i connect to a FreeBSD 5.4 machine wit

Re: usb-serial controller in 5.4? (NEVERMIND)

Sorry, folks. Nevermind, I'm an idiot... I just use ucom0 as the tty or cua device ha ha ha On 4/17/06, FreeBSD MailingLists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a USB-Serial Controller by Prolific Technology, Inc. > > I tested to see if the device works on FreeBSD on FreeBSD6 machine. > t

Solved: Problem compiling jdk13

Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to compile legacy jdk13 because it seems that developing for > java card I need this. However, I get the following error: > > calvin# make > ===> jdk-1.3.1p9_5 has known vulnerabilities: > => jdk/jre -- Security Vulnerability With Java Plugin. >Refe

RE: Proper Method of Time Sync? (added: time server choices)

Google for pool.ntp.org to find a set of NTP servers near you ... Also read this http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ For how not to do it !! mjt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2006 12:53 PM To:

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

On 2006-04-17 06:21, Brendan Grossman wrote: Beech Rintoul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 16 April 2006 12:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: It's not a good idea to put everything on the / filesystem. At a minimum I would have: / swap /var /usr Your users will not fill up /var unless you

Re: DIAL-IN TERMINAL SERVICE

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:22:18 +0900 "FreeBSD MailingLists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone help me with setting up my modem? Connect modem to PC and use some serial terminal software. Make connection to modem via appropriate COM port. Then type something like AT&F and hit Enter. If you se

wrired-wireless if_bridge question

The situation: A server with two wired Ethernet cards rl0 to the outside (ISP) rl1 to the local network (192.168.11.1) The server does routing NAT and DHCP; pf is enabled (quite a normal situation ;-) The NEW situation (802.11-to-ethernet bridge) I will add a wireless card to the server. This way

/tmp question

I think I may have a lost a file. I placed it in /tmp and rebooted the server. Now it is no longer there. Is the file recoverable at all??? I'm not on the list so please cc me. Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: On-Board video card configuration.

Enigma wrote: I am fairly new to FreeBSD, and I have been having problems with my IBM Aptiva 2196-24A in getting the on-board video card configured with freeBSD. So i can run X window system at a decent resolution. All i can get to work is Standard VGA driver at 640x800 at 8bit. I have had thi

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

Thank you, both of you, this should be useful, and I'll try it later when I get home. Thanks, -Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: /tmp question

> > I think I may have a lost a file. I placed it in /tmp and rebooted > the server. Now it is no longer there. Is the file recoverable at > all??? The chances are very slim. Only if the space has not been written over, which, in /tmp, is probably that it has, and then only a small chance of

sudo port

Hi I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list of users is located in: /etc/sudoers However i cannot locate this file in /etc/ or anywhere else for that matter. What file or where do i need to add a list of authorized users? Thanks Eoghan __

Re: sudo port

eoghan wrote: > I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list > of users is located in: > /etc/sudoers > However i cannot locate this file in /etc/ or anywhere else for that > matter. What file or where do i need to add a list of authorized users? as root you should do

Re: sudo port

albi wrote: eoghan wrote: I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list of users is located in: /etc/sudoers However i cannot locate this file in /etc/ or anywhere else for that matter. What file or where do i need to add a list of authorized users? as root you shou

Re: sudo port

eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list > of users is located in: > /etc/sudoers Docs coming with the port or docs on the web? > However i cannot locate this file in /etc/ or anywhere else for that > matter. What file or wher

Re: sudo port

Fabian Keil wrote: eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list of users is located in: /etc/sudoers Docs coming with the port or docs on the web? I checked here: http://www.freshports.org/security/sudo/ Commit history suggested

Re: sudo port

eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabian Keil wrote: > > eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list > >> of users is located in: > >> /etc/sudoers > > > > Docs coming with the port or docs on the web? > > I checked here

Re: sudo port

eoghan wrote: Hi I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed list of users is located in: /etc/sudoers That blasted penguin! Wonder if Colin Percival can depenguinate 3rd-party documentation? When you install from ports, stuff goes to /usr/local unless you've deliber

Re: sudo port

> "e" == eoghan writes: e> Hi e> I have installed sudo from ports, and the docs say that the allowed e> list of users is located in: e> /etc/sudoers e> However i cannot locate this file in /etc/ or anywhere else for that e> matter. What file or where do i need to add a list of authoriz

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:43:49PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > You should also take a look at the following rc.conf options then: > > tmpmfs="AUTO" # Set to YES to always create an mfs /tmp, NO > to never > tmpsize="20m" # Size of mfs /tmp if created > t

Re: mouse scroll up problem

I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and optical Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, USB native, plugged to PS/2 port via it's own USB->PS/2 adaptor. When I scroll my mouse wheel up in X11 it acts like "scroll up + left button one/double-click". For example, in Opera, Firefox. In MS Windows mouse works corr

Re: Newbie question - using sysinstall "Upgrade an existing system" - easy?

Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What actually happens when you use "Upgrade an existing system" in > sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning > as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? X doesn't get automatically updated by that path; just

Oidentd with 7-CURRENT

Good Afternoon, Firstly my apologies if this is the wrong list to post this to, but since it was just a query - thought it was the best one. I have recently built a test box which is currently running 7-CURRENT as of April 16th. Everything is working, bar one thing, oidentd from ports (/us

Surestore 230 settings on bacula running on FreeBSD5.4...?

Hi people. I want to test my tape device with bacula 1.38.5 running on FreeBSD 5.4-p10. My tape device is: *HP Surestore Ultrium 230 *Tape 200GB *SCSI card is one Adaptec 29160 My dmesg output say this: pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 pass0: Removable Sequential Acce

su to root not prompting for a password

I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not prompting for a password. I created a new account, and it does the same thing there. If the user is in the wheel group, it drops to the # prompt. If not, it echos the BAD SU attempt error message. I think it has something

getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)

Hi: I am trying to create a script, the idea is to host a number of web services, each running as a different process owned by a different user bound to a non privileged port on localhost. The point is that each service can be restarted without affecting other services and that any security compro

Re: su to root not prompting for a password

At 09:45 AM 4/17/2006, James Riendeau wrote: I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not prompting for a password. I created a new account, and it does the same thing there. If the user is in the wheel group, it drops to the # prompt. If not, it echos the BAD SU attempt er

RE: su to root not prompting for a password

On Monday, April 17, 2006 5:45 PM James Riendeau wrote: > > I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not > prompting for a password. I created a new account, and it does the > same thing there. If the user is in the wheel group, it > drops to the > # prompt. If not,

Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)

Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I am trying to create a script, the idea is to host a number of web services, each running as a different process owned by a different user bound to a non privileged port on localhost. The point is that each service can be restarted without affecting other services and

b column in vmstat includes NFS?

The 'b' column of vmstat shows pending transactions that require disk I/O. Does that include NFS connections? Have a machine with very high numbers in that column, yet when I do top and select 'm' to show disk activity, the numbers in top are fairly small. Wondering if the issue is the commun

Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)

On 4/17/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found "pw usershow user1" will return a line from the passwd > file, but that needs to be split chewed, and spit out. Seems awk can do > it but I have no clue. cut is probably about the cheapest way to split a line: pw usershow user1 |

Re: mouse scroll up problem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and optical Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, USB native, plugged to PS/2 port via it's own USB->PS/2 adaptor. When I scroll my mouse wheel up in X11 it acts like "scroll up + left button one/double-click". For example, in Opera, Firefox. In MS

Re: getting a user's home dir (sed/awk?)

On Monday 17 April 2006 19:48, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to create a script, the idea is to host a number of web > services, each running as a different process owned by a different user > bound to a non privileged port on localhost. The point is that each > service can be restarte

Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:52:30AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking

Re: su to root not prompting for a password

Thanks! I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead for not thinking of that. I'm accustomed to being prompted for the user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I guess). I must have clobbered only the root pass

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with > various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year > now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it on a solid NFS serv

Re: su to root not prompting for a password

In the last episode (Apr 17), James Riendeau said: > Thanks! I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead > for not thinking of that. I'm accustomed to being prompted for the > user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been > spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

Chris Shenton wrote: robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it

Copying a disk.

Hi All, I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so thats not an issue. I hav

Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

Verify your BIOS settings that the 4 GB of RAM is configured as all 4 GB useable by the system. -Derek At 02:18 PM 4/16/2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is wh

Re: bge0 problem on 6.1-PR

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:01:51PM +0900, SungGON Yi. wrote: > I am using 6.x on Tyan S2885ANRF board and add one more NIC. > Device names are bge0 (board lan) and bge1 (additional NIC). > > These worked well on FreeBSD 6.0-amd64 stable. > But when I updated to 6.1-PRERELEASE version, I had below

Re: rsh but no rcp as root

In /etc/pam.d/rsh, in the auth line with pam_rhosts.so, make sure you have "allow_root" as on option, like this: authrequiredpam_rhosts.so no_warn allow_root On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Roger Williams wrote: I have a machine using FreeBSD 6.0 which wont let me rcp as r

WAP webmail

Hi all, Any sugestion for a webmail solution that works with mobile devices (Cellphones, PDAs, etc.)? Thank you, - Marcelo Souza ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: Copying a disk.

It really depends on your setup, but you should be able to run sysinstall to partition the disk (See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ handbook/install-steps.html ) Then, run something like: mount /dev/ad4s1a /mnt dump -L -0 -f- / | (cd /mnt; restore -r -v -f-) mount /dev/ad4s1b /mnt/var dump -L -

server hardware

Hi all, I'm looking to move my bsd box to a 1u rack (running out of room under the desk) The least expensive one I came across at dell is 900, can someone suggest , a more cost effective alternative? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International

Re: server hardware

Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to move my bsd box to a 1u rack (running out of room under the desk) The least expensive one I came across at dell is 900, can someone suggest , a more cost effective alternative? Cost. Specs needed parts you can put in yourself. Need more info.

Re: Copying a disk.

Grant Peel wrote: Hi All, I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so thats no

SOLVED: On-board video card config

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:35:56 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: On-Board video card configuration. To: Enigma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Enigm

X11 and virtual consoles....

Hello, [hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.] Is there a way to run X via startx and prevent someone from switching back to the console that started it and pressing Ctrl-C, without using DontVTSwitch in my xorg.conf file? I would like to be able to use multiple vir

IPFW Problems

Hi, I have a system with a 4.11 Kernel. Unless I'm doing something very wrong, there seems to be something odd with ipfw. Take the following rules: ipfw add 00280 allow tcp from any to any 22 out via bge0 setup keep- state ipfw add 00299 deny log all from any to any out via bge0 ipfw add

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

> Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's what I'm planning on doing... Disk is 73gb scsi... / 500mb swap4gb /var4gb /usr4gb /home remainder (about 60gb) then /var/db/mysql -> /home/mysql

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Monday 17 April 2006 16:29, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's > what I'm planning on doing... > > Disk is 73gb scsi... > > / 500mb > swap 4gb > /var 4gb > /usr 4gb

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

> > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, > > here's what I'm planning on doing... > > > > Disk is 73gb scsi... > > > > / 500mb > > swap4gb > > /var4gb > > /usr4gb > > /home

Re: Copying a disk.

> > Hi All, > > I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). > > I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. > > i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another > identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so > thats n

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

> > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, here's > what I'm planning on doing... > > Disk is 73gb scsi... > > / 500mb > swap 4gb > /var 4gb > /usr 4gb > /home remainder (about 60gb) > > then /var/db

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Monday 17 April 2006 16:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > > > > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, > > > here's what I'm planning on doing... > > > > > > Disk is 73gb scsi... > > > > > > / 500mb > > > sw

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Monday 17 April 2006 13:59, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > > > > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After some thought, > > > here's what I'm planning on doing... > > > > > > Disk is 73gb scsi... > > > > > > / 500mb > > > sw

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:21:55 +0930 > From: "Brendan Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: /boot at beginning of drive > To: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Where they use that quota is anyone's guess. > > > > > > > User's te

password in proxy

Hello every body I'm trying to install a port in my freebsd 6.0 stable server, but to get out to internet from the network is necesary use a proxy. I try to do using pkg_add -r and sysinstall, but no work any one. My /etc/make.conf is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/make.conf

How do I change hostname in freebsd?

? -- Matt K. Rajca Software Engineer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IPFW Problems?

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:29:13PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > ... > [ ...redirected to freebsd-questions... ] Thanks for doing that! > ... > You don't have a check-state rule anywhere, so you either need to add > one or a rule to pass established traffic to and from port 22. I thought che

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

Type hostname to set it, modify rc.conf and hosts file. On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 17:41 -0500, Matt Rajca wrote: > ? > > -- > Matt K. Rajca > Software Engineer > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

Matt Rajca wrote: ? -- Matt K. Rajca Software Engineer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" In rc.conf : hostname

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

On Monday 17 April 2006 17:41, Matt Rajca wrote: > ? In /rtc/rc.conf add a line like this: hostname="host.network.net" If you are running network services such as DNS, etc. you may need to change it in those configuration files as well. HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

Hi Matt, As root, type "hostname ", and the hostname will be changed immediately. To make this change permanent across reboots, edit the file '/etc/rc.conf', and add the following line: hostname="new.host.name" The '/etc/rc.conf' file is described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.

Groups

I recently tried using the newgrp command (just for kicks) and it aborted killing the window in which I invoked it. I couldn't find a man page for newgrp (though I did find it in O'Reilly's "UNIX in a Nutshell"). This has led me to question how groups are used in UNIX .

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

Matt Rajca wrote: ? -- Matt K. Rajca Software Engineer See hostname(1). Also, see init(8) and rc(8). Generally, to persist across reboots, you set something like hostname="hostname.domain.tld" in /etc/rc.conf. Kevin Kinsey -- A stitch in time saves nine. __

Re: Groups

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently tried using the newgrp command (just for kicks) and it aborted killing the window in which I invoked it. I couldn't find a man page for newgrp (though I did find it in O'Reilly's "UNIX in a Nutshell"). This has led me to question how groups a

rc.local

in my freebsd 6.0 there is no "rc.local" , how i can get rc.local ?? thanks. -- ___ Get your free email from http://mymail.bsdmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: IPFW Problems?

David Wolfskill wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:29:13PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: [ ...redirected to freebsd-questions... ] Thanks for doing that! It seemed appropriate. :) [ ... ] You don't have a check-state rule anywhere, so you either need to add one or a rule to pass establishe

Re: IPFW Problems?

I tried it with: "ipfw add 00015 check-state" I still get locked out :( This is the "standard" firewall from the openbsd manual (on the website.) I don't understand why it wouldn't work "as is". Thanks, -N On Apr 17, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: David Wolfskill wrote: On Mon,

Re: IPFW Problems

--On April 17, 2006 2:29:23 PM -0700 Noah Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a system with a 4.11 Kernel. Unless I'm doing something very wrong, there seems to be something odd with ipfw. Take the following rules: ipfw add 00280 allow tcp from any to any 22 out via bge0 setup keep- s

Re: IPFW Problems

Hi, I doing this over an SSH connection, so I can't see console. If I do it wrong, I get locked out and have to initiate a remote reboot. Fun! Thanks! -N On Apr 17, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On April 17, 2006 2:29:23 PM -0700 Noah Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

from Mongolia

Dear, Sir I want to ask some questions. is supermicro motherboard X6DH8-G2+ , X6DH8-G2 supportable FreeBsd? is motherboard X7DB8 suppotable FreeBsd?, What is Dual -core mainboard suppotable freeBsd? I'm waiting your email. Rgsd Azaraa _

Re: rc.local

riko saputra wrote: in my freebsd 6.0 there is no "rc.local" , how i can get rc.local ?? thanks. riko; "man 8 rc" should have the information you're looking for. patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

> > > > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > > > > > > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After > some thought, > > > > here's what I'm planning on doing... > > > > > > > > Disk is 73gb scsi... > > > > > > > > / 500mb > > > > swap4gb > > > > /var

Re: IPFW Problems

--On April 17, 2006 5:20:27 PM -0700 Noah Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I doing this over an SSH connection, so I can't see console. If I do it wrong, I get locked out and have to initiate a remote reboot. Fun! Once you've ssh'd in to the box. Can you ssh out? And what does ip

Re: IPFW Problems

On Monday 17 April 2006 22:29, Noah Silverman wrote: > ipfw add 0430 allow log tcp from any to me 22 in via bge0 setup limit > src-addr 2 > ipfw add 00499 deny log all from any to any in via bge0 > > In theory, this should allow in SSH and nothing else. > What happens when you replace "limit src

Re: IPFW Problems?

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:42, Chuck Swiger wrote: > David Wolfskill wrote: > > I thought check-state was fairly optional; ref: > > > > These dynamic rules, which have a limited lifetime, are checked at > > the first occurrence of a check-state, keep-state or limit rule, and are > > typ- ica

Re: where/under what do I look for relaxing the privlege requirements for mounting/accessing devices?

Works great so far, except I get the following error when trying to mount SMB files still: mount_smbfs: can not setup kernel iconv table (ISO8859-1:tolower): syserr = Operation not permitted Also, I still have to manually do a root 'kldload smbfs' before mounting samba, I tried adding these two

Re: IPFW Problems?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Charles Swiger wrote: Add: options IPFW2 ...to your kernel config file and rebuild the kernel (and world also, probably). Yes, you need to rebuild the userland too, which means you also need IPFW2=true in /etc/make.conf before you build world. -- Tod _

usb-serial and apcupsd

I have a usb-serial controller attached to my freebsd 5.4 box it is loaded as ucom0. I have connect the serial cable from the UPC to it. when it first starts I have no problems but after a while I get an error message saying that the serial connection to the UPS is lost. The message repeats about

Re: /boot at beginning of drive

On Monday 17 April 2006 14:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > > > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > > > > > > > > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After > > > > some thought, > > > > > > > here's what I'm planning on doing... > > > > > > > > > > Disk is 73gb

RE: /boot at beginning of drive

> On Monday 17 April 2006 14:38, Brendan Grossman wrote: > > > > > > > Databases are stored in /var/db for security reasons > > > > > > > > > > > > Just curious... What are the security reasons? After > > > > > > some thought, > > > > > > > > > here's what I'm planning on doing... > > > > > > > > >

Re: X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, [hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.] Is there a way to run X via startx and prevent someone from switching back to the console that started it and pressing Ctrl-C, without using DontVTSwitch in my xorg.conf file? I would like to be abl

Problem Restoring Dump Via Fixit Environment in FreeBSD 6.0 Release Boot Cdrom

Hello I'm having a problem restoring my backup of my FreeBSD installation. I recently upgraded hardrives in my laptop and made backups of my Gentoo and FreeBSD partitions. Gentoo restored with no troubles BSD however... I have made a dump of my filesystems and copied them onto an Ext2fs USB dri

CPUTYPE Optimizations

Gathering information as I begin building my optimized make.conf, I collected from my sysctl output that I'm running on an Intel Pentium(R) 4 2.53 GHz processor. I was wondering what architecture would be best applied to the CPUTYPE flag. Thanks, -Brad ___

Re: CPUTYPE Optimizations

Bradford Fisher wrote: Gathering information as I begin building my optimized make.conf, I collected from my sysctl output that I'm running on an Intel Pentium(R) 4 2.53 GHz processor. I was wondering what architecture would be best applied to the CPUTYPE flag. Thanks, -Brad __

Re: server hardware

On Apr 17, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to move my bsd box to a 1u rack (running out of room under the desk) The least expensive one I came across at dell is 900, can someone suggest , a more cost effective alternative? You can build your own for less

Checksum mismatch patch 010 "bash-3.1.16"

Hello, I am trying to upgrade my version of bash ---> Upgrading 'bash-3.1.10_1' to 'bash-3.1.16' (shells/bash) I have a checksum mismatch for patch 010 of the package : => MD5 Checksum mismatch for bash/bash31-010. => SHA256 Checksum mismatch for bash/bash31-010. ** Listing the failed pac

Re: FreeBSD-questions

I experienced the same problem. Just now it started working again and I downloaded 100+ messages. If you or anyone knows why or what was broken please let me know as I'd like to prevent it from happening again. :S Chuck Swiger wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: For whatever reason, I am not re