>
> There are several kernel features that need to be implemented before an
> amd64 nVidia driver will work - see
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do
> want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done
> first.
I just sent nVidia an off
> > The previously configured directory list was fully populated, so
> > effectively there should have been no change as the previously
> > configured directories were untouched and I specified no
> > additional pathnames.
> > ...
> > Are you saying that by specifying "-v" I no longer satisfied the
On Wednesday 10 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> After upgrading xorg to 7.3, nedit has started scrolling funnily on my
> system. It used to work just fine, but after the upgrade scrolling
> down (that is moving the text cursor up) one line at a time using the
> arrow keys
Where can I get the FreeBSD conference/event schedule for 2008?
I think I am most interested in BSDCan, EuroBSDCon - they seem to be the
"best". Can anybody recommend any other?
Riaan Kruger
PS. Sorry for asking 2 questions in one email.
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On Thursday 11 October 2007 07:33:43 Bill Stwalley wrote:
> I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen
> servers with minimal efforts.
>
> As I gathered, I should run portaudit in cron jobs and then manually update
> the ports with vulnerabilities after reading UPDAT
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:09:10 +0200
Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > > If you encrypted / and /usr, you might actually make the system more
> > > vulnerable to a known-plaintext attack, because there are a lot of files
>
Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD
6.2-Release.
I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as
I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start
KDE, i use command "kdm" but I can only logon using the newly creat
On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD
> 6.2-Release.
> I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as
> I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start
> KDE, i us
On Thursday 11 October 2007 13:17:59 williamkow wrote:
> Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD
> 6.2-Release.
> I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as
> I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start
> KDE,
Hi,
FreeBSD is not Windows.
You cannot have another "root" in the system.
What you can do is the creation of the group "wheel" and put "william"
into this group.
Allow then all members of "wheel" to access the files needed by the
group "wheel".
I would not do this as it creates many secur
After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running
command "kdm".
Then I do some changes related to display, example :
a) 1024x768 to 800x600
b) fonts size for menu, wallpaper ...etc
but then after the computer have shutdown and restart and when I run the
"kdm" command, and I
On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running
> command "kdm".
> Then I do some changes related to display, example :
> a) 1024x768 to 800x600
> b) fonts size for menu, wallpaper ...etc
> but then after the computer have s
On Thursday 11 October 2007 14:26:53 Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running
> > command "kdm".
> > Then I do some changes related to display, example :
> > a) 1024x768 to 800x600
> > b) fon
Joshua Isom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I noticed the other that that in -STABLE that /usr/X11R6 was in front
> of /usr/local for libraries. This results in any port that uses a
> library from another port to look for /usr/X11R6 first, and then
> /usr/local. I don't know if this would cause an
Lisandro Grullon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have install samba version:3.0.26a from ports, the daemons appear to be
> working fine by enabling the apropiate parameters in rc.conf, yet I am
> speriencing the issue where SWAT is showing as the smbd and nmbd are not
> running nor will they re
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, williamkow wrote:
Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD
6.2-Release.
I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as I
do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start
KDE, i use command "kdm"
After seeing some of his other questions he should get a book on basic
sysadmin also.
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FreeBSD is not Windows.
>
> You cannot have another "root" in the system.
Yeah, you can. It's just a really bad idea. root and toor both have UID
and GID of 0 - giving them both superuser privileges. There is nothing
to p
Hello All,
Is this still a valid working port for a FreeBSD 6.2 box?
It looks as if it has not been touched since 2005.
Is there anything else that does this?
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On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:17 +0800, williamkow wrote:
> Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD
> 6.2-Release.
> I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as
> I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start
> KDE,
> In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME
> desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me.
I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root
account that I can't with one.
If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the foll
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FreeBSD is not Windows.
True statement - thank heaven.
>
> You cannot have another "root" in the system.
Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement.
You can create as many ids with a '0' U
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME
> > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me.
>
>
> I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root
> account that I
I currently have self-signed certificates on our mail server, but they are now
expired.
I have just received the CA-crt back from thawte. I have the webmail portion
completed with installing the certificates, but I am having some issues with
getting them installed on SMTP.
I tried to put them
The host that runs my internal DNS server is down for the count (I've
already replaced the power supply on it once, and I don't feel like
doing it again). Although I had other uses planned for that machine,
the only useful thing it was doing was DNS for a local net and DHCP,
the latter I'v
On Thursday 11 October 2007 17:55:20 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> The obvious answer would be to run two instances of bind, listening
> on different IPs (possibly using jails). But I don't have an IP
> address to spare on the DMZ. So is there a way to have bind
> listening on the only interface and
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
The host that runs my internal DNS server is down for the count (I've
already replaced the power supply on it once, and I don't feel like
doing it again). Although I had other uses planned for that machine,
the only useful thing it was doing was DNS for a local net and
Hello Jeff:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Goldberg
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:55 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Different DNS responses depending on query source
>
> The host that
> That's a heck of a lot of trouble to go to, considering someone would
> have to steal your drive, alter it and put it back without you knowing it!
Essentially, what I'm looking for is thus:
- someone breaks into my always-locked equipment room
- someone steals the box(es) in question, which obv
I am used to using cups via the web interface... well a user
accidentally printed 1000 jobs and I have had to shut the printer down
until they are all canceled... the question is how can I do this
without clicking "cancel job" 1000 times
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>>> As you can see only /home is encrypted because the rest doesn't hold
>>> data worth encrypting.
>> Well, on mine it will.
>
> I was talking about my system. Yours will of course be different. :-)
I know. I was not trying to be sarcastic in any way. Sorry if it seemed
that way :)
> You can ev
brad davison wrote:
I currently have self-signed certificates on our mail server, but they are now
expired.
I have just received the CA-crt back from thawte. I have the webmail portion
completed with installing the certificates, but I am having some issues with
getting them installed on SMTP
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:33:43 -0400 Bill Stwalley wrote:
> I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen
> servers with minimal efforts.
> As I gathered, I should run portaudit in cron jobs and then manually update
> the ports with vulnerabilities after reading UPDATING
B. Cook wrote:
Hello All,
Is this still a valid working port for a FreeBSD 6.2 box?
It looks as if it has not been touched since 2005.
Check security/lockdown, and read the WWW sites mentioned
in the Makefile there.
The Makefile date is April 2007, but I've not done any other
investigation.
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:58:33 +
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am used to using cups via the web interface... well a user
> accidentally printed 1000 jobs and I have had to shut the printer down
> until they are all canceled... the question is how can I do this
> without cl
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:08 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME
> > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me.
>
>
> I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root
> account tha
Hello,
On 10/11/07, Timothy Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD
Yes, it is called Freesbie: http://www.freesbie.org/
Regards
Rabius
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Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD so that I can test the
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coriolinus wrote:
> I'm new to kernel building, so I followed the handbook's advice: cd to
> /usr/src, then make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL.
>
> The kernel build process is failing mysteriously. The file it claims
> not to be able to find, /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c, is
> sitting
On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Yuri Pankov wrote:
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
So is there a way to have bind listening on the only interface and
IP address the host can have give different answers depending on
where the query comes from?
You can use BIND's "view" statement:
http://www.isc.or
Timothy Klaver wrote:
Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD so that I can test the
OS and see whether or not I will enjoy it before actually installing?
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
I am used to using cups via the web interface... well a user
accidentally printed 1000 jobs and I have had to shut the printer down
until they are all canceled... the question is how can I do this
without clicking "cancel job" 1000 times
On 2007-10-11 14:02, Timothy Klaver wrote:
> Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD so that I can test the OS and
> see whether or not I will enjoy it before actually installing?
http://www.freesbie.org/
That's a LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It works quite well.
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* Mel [ Oct 10, 2007 (18:37 )]:
Well, it's weird that fixed it for you, because kdegraphics needs
to be
patched. Here's the work-around:
[..]
This issue should be fixed with my commit from yesterday.
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h
hi. I have a question regarding NFS-exports.
/etc/exports
/diskless/ro-ro -maproot=root leia
/diskless/kernels leia
/diskless/rw leia
/usr-ro -alldirs leia
/home -alldirs leia
/etc-ro -alldirs -maproot=root leia
but mountd only recognize /diskless/ro - /usr - /home/ and /etc
(sh
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:23 +0200, mr. phreak wrote:
> hi. I have a question regarding NFS-exports.
>
> /etc/exports
> /diskless/ro-ro -maproot=root leia
> /diskless/kernels leia
> /diskless/rw leia
> /usr-ro -alldirs leia
> /home -alldirs leia
> /etc-ro -alldirs -maproot=root lei
Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it
whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I
just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg.
Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any
suggestions as to how to recover from this? I have ot
James wrote:
Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it
whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I
just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg.
Before I type anything to damage things further, does anyone have any
suggestions as to how to recover from
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> James wrote:
> > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it
> > whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I
> > just did an rm -r /var/lib/pkg.
> >
> > Before I type anything to damage
On 10/11/07, Timothy Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD so that I can test the
> OS and see whether or not I will enjoy it before actually installing?
Last year I played with RoFreeSBIE, and was quite impressed. See
http://www.rofreesbie.org/
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:07:37PM -0600, James wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>
> > James wrote:
> > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it
> > > whatever you want (and I imagine I'll hear a few different ones), but I
> > > just d
J65nko wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Timothy Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is there any BSD version that provides a LiveCD so that I can test the
>> OS and see whether or not I will enjoy it before actually installing?
>>
You can also set up a virtual machine and test it that way (on wind
James wrote:
Yes, you're right. On all counts, I'm afraid.
But, yes, ultimately. And the more I'm reading man pages, the more I'm
thinking that the only solution here will be to reinstall everything. I
was wondering if portmaster or something similar might be able to solve
this, but it looks
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:13 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:07:37PM -0600, James wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:53 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> >
> > > James wrote:
> > > > Call it a moment of sheer stupidity, call it a misremembering, call it
> > > > whatever you wa
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 at 17:12 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:
You can also set up a virtual machine and test it that way (on windows
you can get a trial copy of vmware to do this)
VMWare Server is free and has the same functionality. However, it is over
a 200 meg download.
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On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:03 +0200, mr. phreak wrote:
> James wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 22:36 +0200, mr. phreak wrote:
> >> James wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 21:23 +0200, mr. phreak wrote:
> >> >> hi. I have a question regarding NFS-exports.
> >> >>
> >> >> /etc/exports
I have a question regarding ipf and ipnat. I have a firewall with two
public IP addresses. One of the IP addresses is for incoming Internet
traffic only and the other is for incoming e-mail. I'm not sure why my
ISP has done, this, but they have.
In otherwords, all incoming http traffic (port 80
James writes:
> What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in
> /usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about
> a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall
> everything that exists there.
Having been in almost the identical situation for
Hello,
When I install textproc/py-libxml2 from the port tree, it installs
py24-libxml2.
I want to install py25-libxml2 while keeping py24-libxml2.
lib/%%PYTHON_VERSION%%/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
lib/%%PYTHON_VERSION%%/site-packages/drv_libxml2.pyc
lib/%%PYTHON_VERSION%%/site-packages/drv_l
On Thursday 11 October 2007 23:29:05 James wrote:
> What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in /usr/ports/distfiles.
> I'm going to think for a little bit about a script that can move
> through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall everything that exists there.
Well, if you figure out what p
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:14 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> James writes:
>
> > What has happened, though, is I've never ran rm in
> > /usr/ports/distfiles. I'm going to think for a little bit about
> > a script that can move through /usr/ports/distfiles and reinstall
> > everything that exists
Hi,
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
FreeBSD is not Windows.
True statement - thank heaven.
You cannot have another "root" in the system.
Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement.
You can create as ma
Does anyone out there have one?
If so, which connector is identified as em0 - upper or lower?
Robert Huff
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((A parenthetical note):
In prep for this posting I finished (or expanded) my
mail-strip program that eliminates most of the cruft and
leaves the body. )
So I'll look at bigsister, conky, nagios, monit, and Ksysguard.
(Mel, if you have a cheatsheet
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:32:36PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there have one?
> If so, which connector is identified as em0 - upper or lower?
>
>
> Robert Huff
We have a fair number of those. The upper port registers as em0.
Josef
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:00 -0400
Naoyuki Tai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I install textproc/py-libxml2 from the port tree, it installs
> py24-libxml2.
> I want to install py25-libxml2 while keeping py24-libxml2.
>
> lib/%%PYTHON_VERSION%%/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
> lib/%%
Would anyone be able to either offer a link, or explain the differences between
NetBSD/DragonflyBSD's pkgsrc and FreeBSD/OpenBSD's ports systems? Google
searches such as 'pkgsrc vs ports' have yielded nothing satisfying.
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Thanks to the many who have responded.
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Hi all,
I had a freebsd 6.2server , I want this m/c to be serve iso images , so users
of my webportal have the the facility to download iso images , each iso about
650
MB size ,
I heard about Bittorrent so I installed this through FreeBSd ports
tree , the installation is complete .( I
Hello,
With each (daily) log rotation I get this in /var/log/messages file.
szalbot.homedns.org kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.BfIqepKO Fri Oct
12 03:08:35 2007
+pid 82543 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
+pid 82542 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
+pid 82541 (httpd), uid 80: ex
Quoting Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Does anyone out there have one?
If so, which connector is identified as em0 - upper or lower?
Robert Huff
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2007/10/12, Mak Kolybabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Would anyone be able to either offer a link, or explain the differences
> between
> NetBSD/DragonflyBSD's pkgsrc and FreeBSD/OpenBSD's ports systems? Google
> searches such as 'pkgsrc vs ports' have yielded nothing satisfying.
>
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