Re: Finally Converting From Bind 8 -> Bind 9

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 16:48, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am (ever so) slowly moving my domain from FBSD 4.x to 6.2. I am now at the point where I need to convert my Bind 8 configuration to Bind 9. In so doing, I like to finally separate my internal (non-routable) hosts so that th

Re: game advice

2007-07-07 Thread Andriy Babiy
> > Another machine has P-III and Matrox 8 Mb. Is > > there anything "peaceful" but dynamic enough for an older video card? Many thanks to everybody who provided their opinion and shared their experiences! Andriy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the firewall machine to a particular address, it just hangs and eventually times out. Verbose

adding password for root

2007-07-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Not sure how it came about but I just realized that my for new FBSD installation root user is without a password. When I log in remotely and want to use chpass to add a password for user root I am presented with vi editor in which I guess I could theoretically insert it. But this process wa

Re: An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing > non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private > network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the > firewall machine to a

Re: Safely mount OS X UFS filesystem?

2007-07-07 Thread nawcom
Oh god i apologize for the unacceptable asnwer; i was probably half-asleep when i responded previously :-P yes, theres no support as far as i know for darwin ufs for freebsd, from what i understand darwin ufs is gonna be the next filesystem for apple to ditch, and for 10.5 they will be using s

Re: adding password for root

2007-07-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:48:52 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Not sure how it came about but I just realized that my for new FBSD > installation root user is without a password. When I log in remotely and > want to use chpass to add a password for user root I

NTFS-3G: mount at boot

2007-07-07 Thread Jan Sebosik
Hi all how to mount NTFS partitions in Read/write mode with ntfs-3g at boot ? When I insert record inside /etc/fstab, it says that mount-ntfs-3g doesn`t exist. Best regards --- Jan Sebosik, Slovakia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

GCC 4.2.1: Replacing builtin compiler

2007-07-07 Thread Jan Sebosik
Hi how safe is it to compile FreeBSD-world without builtin GCC, and replace it with GCC 4.2.1 from ports ? Should I recompile world and kernel after installing new GCC with it ? Best regards -- Jan Sebosik, Slovakia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-q

Re: adding password for root

2007-07-07 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:48:52 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Not sure how it came about but I just realized that my for new FBSD > > installation root user is without a password.

Re: GCC 4.2.1: Replacing builtin compiler

2007-07-07 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jan Sebosik wrote: > Hi > > how safe is it to compile FreeBSD-world without builtin GCC, and replace > it with GCC 4.2.1 from ports ? > > Should I recompile world and kernel after installing new GCC with it ? > > Best regards > GCC from ports links against the GNU libs, unlike GCC in base, whi

Re: adding password for root

2007-07-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:26:30 +0400, Yuri Pankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:15:41AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:48:52 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Not sure how it came about but I

Re: adding password for root

2007-07-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
I am sorry for a previous post - I clicked the wrong button and it got sent. Just wanted to say that changing root password by booting in single user mode, issuing mount -a and then passwd worked great! Thank you! Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions

disable PCI interrupt sharing in 6.1?

2007-07-07 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list I have one PCMCIA slot unusable in 6.1 but is fine in 4.7 (when OLDCARD is being used). I am just guessing perhaps this has something to do with interrupt sharing. I cannot find in man page of 'pccard' enough information on how to tweak any option, looks there is no option for pccard(4).

Re: one server with two ip address

2007-07-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:21 PMJul 6, 2007, Daniel A. A. wrote: Ray wrote: Hello all, I have a production server with two network interfaces. The primary interface is up and running. (DHCP from the local Telco) The second interface is installed, but not yet active. It will run on a local net

Re: Safely mount OS X UFS filesystem?

2007-07-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Jul 6, 2007, at 9:37 PMJul 6, 2007, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: Can I, on a system running FreeBSD 6.2 or -current, safely mount a UFS filesystem created (and used) on Mac OS 10.4.10? These filesystems are UFS1 (at fslevel 3) with big-endian datastructures in the metadata, 4k blocks and

Re: one server with two ip address

2007-07-07 Thread Daniel A. A.
Eric Crist wrote: On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:21 PMJul 6, 2007, Daniel A. A. wrote: Ray wrote: Hello all, I have a production server with two network interfaces. The primary interface is up and running. (DHCP from the local Telco) The second interface is installed, but not yet active. It will run

Re: An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Simon Chang
OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to xx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22. What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same thing from, say, a cyg

Re: game advice

2007-07-07 Thread Momchil Ivanov
On Friday 06 July 2007 11:49:51 Peter Boosten wrote: > Momchil Ivanov wrote: > > You can try the mame emulator (it is in ports). There were a lot of games > > for 8 bit consoles when I was about 8 years old :) and believe me, they > > were and still are amaizing. There is no such experience as play

Re: game advice

2007-07-07 Thread Modulok
On 7/7/07, Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 06 July 2007 11:49:51 Peter Boosten wrote: > Momchil Ivanov wrote: > > You can try the mame emulator (it is in ports). There were a lot of games > > for 8 bit consoles when I was about 8 years old :) and believe me, they > > were and

RE: bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

2007-07-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
This is similar to PR kern/107850 maybe it should be added to it. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Hepworth > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:13 AM > To: Tek Bahadur Limbu > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re:

passwd file and user accounts

2007-07-07 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway... I have a Red Hat Linux system I need to get rid of. It is currently doing e-mail for approximately 700 users and is also doing radius authentication. I have setup a new FreeBSD computer to take it's place. I have everything set

Re: gimpshop howto start?

2007-07-07 Thread Philipp Ost
David Southwell wrote: I posted this to the gimp mailing list but the list seems to have a v. low activity and few postings. There is no reply so far. So hopefully there is someone here who can point me in the right direction. This type of question rather belongs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've CC'd

Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks :-) Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts my employees use to do things such as add a new radius user, restart

Re: game advice

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Boosten
Momchil Ivanov wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2007 11:49:51 Peter Boosten wrote: >> Momchil Ivanov wrote: >>> You can try the mame emulator (it is in ports). There were a lot of games >>> for 8 bit consoles when I was about 8 years old :) and believe me, they >>> were and still are amaizing. There is

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Peter Boosten
Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks > :-) > > Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this > before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts > my employees use to do things such as

Re: An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the firew

Re: An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Simon Chang wrote: OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to xx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22. What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same th

Re: passwd file and user accounts

2007-07-07 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway... I have a Red Hat Linux system I need to get rid of. It is currently doing e-mail for approximately 700 users and is also doing radius authentication. I have setup a new FreeBSD computer to

Re: passwd file and user accounts

2007-07-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway... > > I have a Red Hat Linux system I need to get rid of. It is currently > doing e-mail for approximately 700 users and is also doing radius > authentication.

Re: Lost SSH X1 Forwarding with Xorg 7.2

2007-07-07 Thread Norbert Papke
On July 5, 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: > A nice *feature* that I just noticed, I apologize if it has been > mentionned earlier. > > xorg 7.2 tends to install all the components in /usr/loca insteal of > the traditional /usr/X11R6. > > But sshd is still expecting xauth to be in /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth;

cannot log in via console, cannot su(1), only as root

2007-07-07 Thread martinko
hello list, i was updating sw configuration of my old computer and towards the end i noticed i couldn't log in on local console other than root. i tried remote ssh using public keys which worked but i found out su(1) to any user except root does not work either. i've no idea how i could pos

gnome logout problem

2007-07-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
I am really confused about this one, and don't know where to start. I have gnome 2.18.3 compiled from ports (also gnome power tools and gnome fifth toe) Today, for the first time I used the lock screen option in the System menu to leave my desktop unattended for a few minutes. I then entered my pas

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:35 AM 7/7/2007, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks :-) Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts my employees use to do things

Re: parental control with squid and dansguardian

2007-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:33 PM, RW wrote: If this box is not the gateway, there is no point in doing anything about this because they can simply turn-off proxying and go direct to the internet. However, on your gateway you can specify that only the proxy box is allowed to connect to the web. Tha

Re: An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Simon Chang wrote: Nevermind - it was total pilot error on my part involving being up way too late and not using my noggin' ... sorry to disturb... carry on ;) -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTE

Re: parental control with squid and dansguardian

2007-07-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:33 PM, RW wrote: >> If this box is not the gateway, there is no point in doing anything >> about this because they can simply turn-off proxying and go direct to >> the internet. > > However, on your gateway you can specify that only the proxy box is >

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: It's more obvious to put local scripts in /usr/local/bin, IMHO. Let me add to this (as someone who recently moved from linux to FreeBSD). Unlike Linux, FreeBSD isn't just a kernel, but a complete operating system. So the things in /bin an

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Derek Ragona wrote: At 11:35 AM 7/7/2007, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks :-) Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts my emp

Re: An ssh Question

2007-07-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:59:28AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Jonathan Chen wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >>I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing > >>non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private

Re: cannot log in via console, cannot su(1), only as root

2007-07-07 Thread martinko
martinko wrote: hello list, i was updating sw configuration of my old computer and towards the end i noticed i couldn't log in on local console other than root. i tried remote ssh using public keys which worked but i found out su(1) to any user except root does not work either. i've no idea

RE: NTFS-3G: mount at boot

2007-07-07 Thread Novembre
I have the same problem. A little search got me to http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewtopic.php?t=292 where a solution is posted. It seems that using /etc/fstab to mount the NTFS partition at boot time is not working since the mount command is being executed before the 'fuse' kernel module is loaded. Ho

Correct way to use dump to backup a Samba share

2007-07-07 Thread L Goodwin
I have a Samba share on a software RAID 1 array (using gmirror) that I need to backup. I want to create a shell script that does a level 0 backup every time to (alternately) one of two USB drives. I plan to have only ONE USB drive connected at a time. I want the script to mount the drive, perform

Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
System is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. I've added this to /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty dial.115200"unknown on insecure And this to gettytabs: dial.115200:\ :np:to#30:hw:sp#115200:pp=/etc/ppp/pppserv But when I 'kill -HUP 1' no getty process on ttyd0 shows up in the ps lis

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-06-17 - 2007-07-07

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: Enabling A Serial Port On 6.2

2007-07-07 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Tim Daneliuk wrote: System is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. I've added this to /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty dial.115200"unknown on insecure And this to gettytabs: dial.115200:\ :np:to#30:hw:sp#115200:pp=/etc/ppp/pppserv But when I 'kill -HUP 1' no getty process on ttyd0 s

disaster - restore data from corrupted archive

2007-07-07 Thread Lubomir Matousek
Hello all, Today I destroyed /usr/home directory. I have a bzip2 dump backup of entire /usr directory (level0). But some of data in bzip2 file are corrupted. I verified it by bzip2 -vv. Finally, I used bzip2recover, I've decompressed about 800 files with no error message. Is there safe way to res

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:20:53 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > It's more obvious to put local scripts in /usr/local/bin, IMHO. > > Let me add to this (as someone who recently moved from linux to > FreeBSD). Unlike Linux, FreeBSD isn't