Re: nested labels

On 2006 Sep 28 , at 01:08, Jeffrey Katz wrote: Adam Martin's discussion of nested partitions was very enlightening and useful. A nice thing about the approach is that it can be used on a "dangerously dedicated" hard drive. Well, it merely takes advantage of GEOM. You can even nest GPTs, a

Re: Sync files locally?

Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 17:04:39 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could use rsync to do this, but It'd probably be easier to get your remote rsync to drop the files in the right directory in the first place. Hmmm...maybe I don't fully understand rs

PortUpgrade multiple packages?

Is it safe to portupgrade several packages in parallel? Open several root consoles and do a portupgrade in each one at the same time? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: PortUpgrade multiple packages?

Bob wrote: > > Is it safe to portupgrade several packages in parallel? Open several root > consoles and do a portupgrade in each one at the same time? That might cause problems if the programs have the same dependencies (fetch conflict or even worse, build conflict) However you can tell portupg

Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

I want to use a PC to telnet to the freeBSD server and login as root but it won't let me! Can you help? I can login as a normal user just not as root, I can't key in su to get in as superuser either. Jim. Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studio

Re: PortUpgrade multiple packages?

On Thursday 28 September 2006 04:23, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > That might cause problems if the programs have the same dependencies > (fetch conflict or even worse, build conflict) Likely they do; Mozilla, Seamonkey, Opera, and Firefox. (all flagged in my security audit) Was hoping to do them a

Re: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

Jim Borland wrote: I want to use a PC to telnet to the freeBSD server and login as root but it won't let me! Can you help? I can login as a normal user just not as root, I can't key in su to get in as superuser either. 1) Don't use telnet, use ssh, for security. 2) Are you in the wheel group?

Re: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE?

On 28/9/06 01:42, "Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Original Message - >> From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "FreeBSD Questions" >> Subject: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE? >> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 >> >> >> I felt I should ask this ques

RE: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

Jim Borland Unit 2 Wallace Studios 27 Wallace Avenue LisburnBT27 4AE mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: www.meridiansystems.co.uk tel: +44 (0)28 9260 5060 fax: +44 (0)28 9264 0700 mob:

Does mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) support IPv6?

Hi, all: I want to know whether mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) could possibly support IPv6. When I want to establish a PPTP connection with a PPTP server running mpd, could I use IPv6CP instead of IPv4CP to set up the PPP? If it supports, how could I configure the related parameters in the confi

Re: pdf editor

How about PDFEdit? http://pdfedit.petricek.net/pdfedit.index_e Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

OT General, RAID and Drives

Hi, This is just about the best mailing list that I'm subscribed to for this discussion, and I believe this was in some extend covered before (SCSI vs. SATA). I'm looking at getting some storage put together. At the moment, I have about 800GB of Fiber Channels in a JBOD configuration (Posted

ACPI on Install Problem

Me again. :-( After we'd realised that we were hitting our heads off the wall, and that the answer was in the mount points, we rushed upstairs to get an install underway. First diskette in ... second diskette then it asked for the boot diskette again (boot.flp). Guess what

growfs HELP

Hi everyone, First of all, glad to still be running FBSD after all these years. I tried following some docs I found online in order to make my /usr partition bigger and made it all the way to growfs -s, which is where I got stuck. First of all, here was my original dilema, what I did, then a

Out of Office Auto Reply:

I will be travelling from 28th to 30th September. I will have limited access to mail during this period. Please expect a delay in response to the mails. Thanks -Prasanth Sekharan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

RE: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Borland Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:22 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen. --

Re: Creating New Users over Telnet/SSH

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 18:10, John Cruz wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:29, Derek Ragona wrote: > > [snip] > > No, you can force a default shell without modifications. > > Check out login.conf(5) and shell variable. > > > > However, the original post im

Re: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:22:23AM -0500, Dustin Coates wrote: > -Original Message- > > From: Erik Norgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 September 2006 09:42 > To: Jim Borland > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console scre

Re: Does mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) support IPv6?

I want to know whether mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) could possibly support IPv6. When I want to establish a PPTP connection with a PPTP server running mpd, could I use IPv6CP instead of IPv4CP to set up the PPP? If it supports, how could I configure the related parameters in the configuration files

Reading .pub's

Hello. Anything in the port tree can read MsPublisher files? bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl

Can anyone define "exceptionally large" as noted in this statement?: "NOTE ALSO: The above patch reduces the functionality of libcrypto(3) by prohibiting the use of exceptionally large public keys. It is believed that no existing applications legitimately use such key lengths as would be affecte

Re: Reading .pub's

In response to Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello. > Anything in the port tree can read MsPublisher files? Have you looked at Scribus? I don't know for a fact that it can use MSPub files, but it's probably the best thing to check. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl

Bill Moran wrote: > Can anyone define "exceptionally large" as noted in this statement?: > > "NOTE ALSO: The above patch reduces the functionality of libcrypto(3) by > prohibiting the use of exceptionally large public keys. It is believed > that no existing applications legitimately use such key

Re: Fw: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl

In response to Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Can anyone define "exceptionally large" as noted in this statement?: > > > > "NOTE ALSO: The above patch reduces the functionality of libcrypto(3) by > > prohibiting the use of exceptionally large public keys. It is belie

Re: Need help, some thing goes with wrong with Bridge-networking

steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Sir: >Those days i tried build an in-line firewall, I take freebsd > as a good operation system because it is safety and stabilty, but i > came with trouble when i follow the handbook to bridge the two > Ethernet Card, the > book(http://www.freebsd

Re: Replace worksation, now can't ssh to older machine

stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My trusty lon suffering FreeBSD workstation at work died (hardware), and I > am in the process of replacig it. > > The current iss I have is that I have several older HP-UX achines that I > need to be able to ssh to. I can't remeber exactly how I set these machin

Re: PortUpgrade multiple packages?

Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 04:23, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > >> That might cause problems if the programs have the same dependencies >> (fetch conflict or even worse, build conflict) > > Likely they do; Mozilla, Seamonkey, Opera, and Firefox. (all flagged in my

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Thanks for the pointers. As an aside, are you worried about the legality > of > VMWare images in VMPlayer? I don't think they're an issue (at least with You can freely download VMware server from VMWare. ... no FreeBSD port :-( ___

Re: Kopete MSN + Cam

Warren Liddell wrote: Is or will there ever be support to allow the viewing of Webcams from others or is it simply not possible ? Webcam support still isn't fully functional in any of the opensource projects I think; gaim is the closest to getting a working prototype though, through the gaim-vv

Re: growfs HELP

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:26:27AM -0500, Kristopher Yates wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First of all, glad to still be running FBSD after all these years. > > I tried following some docs I found online in order to make my /usr > partition bigger and made it all the way to growfs -s, which is where

denyhosts problems

I'm trying to get denyhosts-2.5 to work in 6.0 and have inserted a line in hosts.allow ALL: xxx.myoffice.com : allow sshd: /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny ALL: ALL : allow but am finding that this causes my home ip to be denied even though I log in with a pre-shared key. The /etc/hosts.deniedss

Re: Kopete MSN + Cam

2006/9/28, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Warren Liddell wrote: > Is or will there ever be support to allow the viewing of Webcams from others > or is it simply not possible ? Webcam support still isn't fully functional in any of the opensource projects I think; gaim is the closest to getti

moused insists on starting

6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: moused_enable="NO" yet the damn thing starts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Thread libraries and Perl

I use a Perl program that uses GTK2 for its display. This means that it uses the p5-Gtk2 port. Many GTK2 routines are threaded, and when they are called, the rtld fails to resolve the symbol "pthread_getschedparam" and the program exists. I know that normally the inclusion of the threading librari

Re: moused insists on starting

On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: > 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has > not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: > moused_enable="NO" > yet the damn thing starts. Assuming you have a USB mouse, this is controlled by /etc/devd.conf (or /etc/u

Re: moused insists on starting

In response to John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: > > 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has > > not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: > > moused_enable="NO" > > yet the damn thing starts. > > Assuming you ha

Re: moused insists on starting

On 9/28/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: moused_enable="NO" yet the damn thing starts. USB mouse? Becuase those seem to be handled automagically somewhere by usbd. usbd.con

Re: moused insists on starting

Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] I hate to be a whiner, but shouldn't this respect the moused_enable setting in rc.conf? I find this a violation of POLA. I would agree that a USB mouse should respect moused_enable; I gather this means the USB daemon needs to become smarter... -- -Chuck PS: Is the

Re: moused insists on starting

In response to Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PS: Is there any chance you can not use the 16-line .sig disclaimer...? Yes. I usually take the time to manually delete it when it doesn't apply, but (like any manual process) I sometimes forget. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___

Re: growfs HELP

Anyone else have any suggestions? I was thinking I could rewrite my partition table to what it was originally, then growfs using the empty partionable space.. but I dont exactly know how. I just had some docs I found online (URL is below). Before I did fdisk -s, the 2.888GB was an empty part

Re: denyhosts problems

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:22:43PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote: > I'm trying to get denyhosts-2.5 to work in 6.0 and have inserted a line in > hosts.allow > > > ALL: xxx.myoffice.com : allow > sshd: /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny > ALL: ALL : allow > > but am finding that this causes my home ip to b

Re: growfs HELP

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:54:26PM -0500, Kristopher Yates wrote: > Anyone else have any suggestions? > > I was thinking I could rewrite my partition table to what it was > originally, then growfs using the empty partionable space.. but I dont > exactly know how. I just had some docs I found on

IPFW & protected sites

With my ipfw firewall I can't surf the protected sites (I think by means of the ssl protocol), those with the closed locker in the frame of the browser. How can I enable this sites from my freebsd 6.1 box? Ciao Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

konqueror & protected sites

I cannot access protected sites (such as those of internet banking, credit card and so on) with konqueror under kde because "the process died unexpectedly") while I can smoothly surf them with other browsers like mozilla. What should I do? Vittorio ___

Re: moused insists on starting

Bill Moran wrote: > In response to John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: >>> 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has >>> not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: >>> moused_enable="NO" >>> yet the damn thing start

compling php4 with pcre, the session extension

Hi there, does anybody know how to compile php4 with pcre and the session extension? I am unable to find those options in the 'make config' menu? Looks like I need them. cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: compling php4 with pcre, the session extension

Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > does anybody know how to compile php4 with pcre and the session > extension? I am unable to find those options in the 'make config' menu? > > Looks like I need them. Just install the devel/php4-pcre and www/php4-session ports. Easy. Matthew -- Dr Matthew

mouse problem in

hi i am new about freebsd . currently i am running 6.2-PRERELEASE(?) in one of my machine . other 2 are FC5 and xp . i am using common one set of keyboard , mouse and monitor for every cpu through KVM (model REX-420 ) cpu changer . the problem is whenever i change to other os then go back to fr

Re: IPFW & protected sites

vittorio wrote: > With my ipfw firewall I can't surf the protected sites (I think by means of > the ssl protocol), those with the closed locker in the frame of the browser. > > How can I enable this sites from my freebsd 6.1 box? HTTPS uses port 443. You need to open up access to any host port

Re: linux recovery tool

Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: ... One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker Yes, it does .. thanks -- Robin Becker ___

Re: denyhosts problems

Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:22:43PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to get denyhosts-2.5 to work in 6.0 and have inserted a line in hosts.allow ALL: xxx.myoffice.com : allow sshd: /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny ALL: ALL : allow but am finding that this causes my home ip t

Re: linux recovery tool

Robin Becker wrote: Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: ... One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker Yes, it does .. thanks That is if the

portupgrade: ruby state=swread

Hello, i'm actually updating my installed ports with portupgrade -a over a remote ssh session. Before i have done a cvsup and a portsdb -Fu There are only 3 ports needing an update, one of this port is ruby. pkg_info means i have ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 installed and under /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby is

RE: portupgrade: ruby state=swread

HI, I've founded this atm: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=ruby1 8 what are my options? The PC has only 80M RAM ... :( Thanks Pascal Bleyler > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Pascal Bleyler > S

Re: portupgrade: ruby state=swread

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:30:45AM +0200, Pascal Bleyler wrote: > HI, > > I've founded this atm: > > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=ruby1 > 8 > > what are my options? The PC has only 80M RAM ... :( Wait it out, add more RAM, or use a tool that requires less m

Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions

Hi, i would like to do a raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions and not with a entire disk. For example: I've a two SCSI drivers with 68Gb. I want to make a two partitions or slices in two disks, first with 10G and other with 58Gb, this in two disks, and make a raid strip "virtual disk" with

Re: growfs HELP

It takes some knowledge to grow peanuts. If you want help, don't throw ignorance stones. Hey dude, You threw the first stone. I'm not Jesus. I'll throw one right back 'atcha, old man. > > >By the way, those are pretty small drives. I don't see any > >on the market nowdays less that 18

Re: portupgrade: ruby state=swread

Pascal Bleyler wrote: There are only 3 ports needing an update, one of this port is ruby. pkg_info means i have ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 installed and under /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby is ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz (i think it's the update version) All ran fine but since 1hour top shows me the following: l

Re: Kopete MSN + Cam

Forró A Hunor wrote: 2006/9/28, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Warren Liddell wrote: > Is or will there ever be support to allow the viewing of Webcams from others > or is it simply not possible ? Webcam support still isn't fully functional in any of the opensource projects I think; gaim i

IP address impersonation

We have a remotely hosted 6.0 server that has apparently been impersonated by a colocated server. The provider allows root access and we have set up our server from a base 6.0 installation. We were allocated an ip address and mostly we have had a good experience with this setup. However, twice

Re: IP address impersonation

Taking over an IP is a known way to inspect traffic. Essentially if done well the spoofing server will act like a proxy server, inspecting the data and sending it along to the correct server. Another way, particularly at a data center is to setup a server running the NIC in promiscuous mode so

buildworld upgrading advise please.

Hello Gurus Im on FreeBSD 6.1-R decided to upgrade the src tree and for security reasons only so i did the following cvsup srcall and ports (RELENG_6_1) changed /etc/make.conf to CFLAGS= -O -pipe NO_PROFILE= cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # reboot the fo

Re: Sync files locally?

--On September 28, 2006 9:33:39 AM +0200 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) rsync changes behaviour depending on whether or not you include a trailing / from the man-page: rsync -av /src/foo /dest rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo That I know. works the same way, (and s

Re: buildworld upgrading advise please.

> - Original Message - > From: "Marwan Sultan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: buildworld upgrading advise please. > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:29:01 + > > > Hello Gurus > > Im on FreeBSD 6.1-R decided to upgrade the src tree and for > security r

Re: linux recovery tool

> - Original Message - > From: "Garrett Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: linux recovery tool > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:03:45 -0700 > > > Robin Becker wrote: > > Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: > > ... > >>> > >>> One of my hosters says they pr

Re: Raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:35:10PM +, m3 BSD wrote: > Hi, i would like to do a raid strip with freebsd slices or partitions > and not with a entire disk. For example: I've a two SCSI drivers with > 68Gb. I want to make a two partitions or slices in two disks, first > with 10G and other with 58G

BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. As several have noticed, the OpenBSD numbers have been increasing quite steadily, but looking at the RAW urls coming in, 99% of those #s were from a c

Re: Dual Monitor problems

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:24:58 -0400 Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I didn't get much input here. How about if I generalize it > a little bit? > > Is *anyone* currently running a late model ATI card with dual monitors? > If so, could you post or email me your xorg.conf? > > --

Can't Update With freebsd-update

I have been using freebsd-update to fetch binary security related updates since I started using FreeBSD this time last year. However, when I ran it tonight and paid attention to the initial output, I saw the following: The following files are affected by security fixes, but have not been updated

Re: Can't Update With freebsd-update

Jeff Cross wrote: > I have been using freebsd-update to fetch binary security related > updates since I started using FreeBSD this time last year. However, > when I ran it tonight and paid attention to the initial output, I saw > the following: > > The following files are affected by security > f

sctp configuration under FreeBSD 6.1

Hi, Is there any document for configuring sctp under FreeBSD 6.1 Regards, Prafulla Kumar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED

NT loader still boot first FreeBSD slice, it could not boot second or another slice

Hi all, I wanted to make my system dual or multiboot. I decided to loadding os NT loader from Windows XP. I have read this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADE R My situation: 1. partion ... wxp /dev/ad4s1 2. partion ... ntfs data partition /dev/ad

adding other login class to login.conf in case one is already there

Hi all, could somebody looks at this PR ? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103794 It began with my mail to LI Xin. He agreed that I attach our mail´s correspondence. Here it is: > -Original Message- > From: LI Xin [

Anyone used this mobo with 6.1 ??

ASUS P5LD2-VM-DH/C Onboard Audio, VGA, 1*GLAN, 1*PCI-E, 2*PCI, 4*DDRII, 4*SATAII (RAID 0,1), mATX --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/o

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I've increased the size of the IDTOKEN to 32 from 16, since I've been > noticing alot of duplicates when two hosts submit at close to the same > time ... Ummm... that's actually really bad. That means that the RNG used by OpenSSL (hence SSH and others) is not actually p