Re: Why /usr/local/etc???

2008-08-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: This may have been covered too-often before, buy why can't *everything* related to /etc hang off "/etc"? I can create a symlink in /etc to /usr/local/etc named "loc" or "local". Thing is, why this isn't done by default? Mostly historical reasons. The typ

Security problems, I think I have a hacker attacker.

2008-08-24 Thread Christopher Joyner
I think someone is attempting to get into my system. Here is my details: There are 2 login failuers on ttyv0, And also 2 login failers on ttyv0 root. I did not try login in on that terminal. Are they able to try to do it away from my computer, from a remote location? Can someone tell me how to

Re: Weird GEOM errors

2008-08-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
hunter morgan wrote: Hi. ive had a freebsd7 box running zfs on 5 500gb hard drives for months upon months now with mostly good stability but every couple of minutes in my logs i get errors such as: kernel: GEOM: ad2: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. kernel: GEOM: ad2: GPT rejected -- may not be

Re: which linux emulator?

2008-08-24 Thread Boris Samorodov
(one more try; the first one didn't find it's way to questions@) On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:54:19 -0700 prad wrote: > in ports there is fedora and gentoo. > any opinions on preferences? Ususally you just do a cd to the linux port you need (i.e. cd /usr/ports/print/acroread7) and do an installation.

Re: Security problems, I think I have a hacker attacker.

2008-08-24 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Christopher Joyner wrote: I think someone is attempting to get into my system. Here is my details: There are 2 login failuers on ttyv0, And also 2 login failers on ttyv0 root. I did not try login in on that terminal. Are they able to try to do it away from my computer, from a remote location?

Re: Unable to access certain sites from FreeBSD 6.2 (solved)

2008-08-24 Thread alasdair
Hi Norberto, It is solved but quite simply! But through no skill of mine. Installed tcpmssd, man page said to re-configure the kernel before diversion can be done. So I added this to the GENERIC config file: options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT options IPV6FIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options IPFIR

Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl

2008-08-24 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 15:16 -0700, Walt Pawley wrote: > At 10:01 AM +0100 8/23/08, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >Walt Pawley wrote: > >> > >> At the risk of beating this to death, I just happened to > >> stumble on a real world example of why one might want to use > >> Perl for sed-ly stuff. > >> ... s

Catch kernel notification in devd.conf

2008-08-24 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
Hi, I want my laptop to shutdown when the battery is critical low, but the ACPI Battery info warning only comes on at a battery level of 10, but I just noticed that the kernel logs: kernel: battery0: critically low charge! ..this happens at battery "life" 7. Better point of shutting down, this w

Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?

2008-08-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gurvich wrote: > Using Xfree86 is possible but may require much manual configuration. I > also have problems with firefox and claws-mail in windowmaker & icewm, > but not in kde3 or kde4. I suspect there is a library path issue. I was doing so

Cloning a gmirrored hard drive

2008-08-24 Thread Sasa Stupar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! My situation: I have a server with FBSD 7 installed with two 40 GB disks in RAID 1 (gmirror) config. Now I have noticed the lack of space on the drive so I am thinking to change these disks for two 160 GB. What is the best way to clone the main ha

Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread cpghost
Hello, I'm about to get an MSI K9A2GM-FIH mobo with an on-board Realtek RTL8111C GigE adapter (I've picked that because the on-board Radeon HD 3200 RS780 chip seems supported by the radeon(4x) xorg driver). Unfortunately, I (wrongly) assumed that the RTL8111C would be supported by the rl(4) or re

Re: Why /usr/local/etc???

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
You gave a very good explaination with many background information; there's just something I'd like to add. On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:18:41 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However there is no overriding reason to rearrange the filesystems. > Oh, there are arguments about "does the

Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:16:16 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that not having moused enabled made for slow switches to X with > xorg: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd-x11 > > Setting moused_enable="Y

Re: Security problems, I think I have a hacker attacker.

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:39:30 +, "Christopher Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think someone is attempting to get into my system. > > Here is my details: There are 2 login failuers on ttyv0, > And also 2 login failers on ttyv0 root. > > I did not try login in on that terminal. Are the

Re: FreeBSD-7.x vs pgp-6.5.8_1

2008-08-24 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Kris! Good to hear from you.., On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hello, > > Forgive me if this has already been covered., > > I'm preparing a replacement workstation where I currently have pgp-6.5.8_1 > > installed and in use, to a new machine. > >

MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread pete
I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. My ISP is cablevision IO. Not sure what they allow, ie: whether I can have my hosted dom

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. Running your own MTA is one of those sysadmin rights of passage. It's unfortu

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:22:34 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running your own MTA is one of those sysadmin rights of passage. It's > unfortunate that the general levels of spam and other nastyness around > the net make it so much harder than it should be nowadays. Things that

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread User Lenzi
I am very happy with: Sendmail (the one that comes with Freebsd...) and messagewall (in the ports). if you need, I can send you the 3 config files... that make it all happen. with this software you can: 1) receive email directly to your computer (provided that port 25 is open). 2) filter 99.

Re: space char shell script problem

2008-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:19 AM 8/23/2008, David Banning wrote: I am running into a problem with the space character in filenames. For instance, If I want to run the script; for x in `ls` do echo $x done then filenames that have a space in them ie: "john smith.jpg" are processed by my script as two names, "john"

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:06 PM 8/24/2008, pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. My ISP is cablevision IO. Not sure what they allow, ie: wh

ftpd and sshd logging of domain names

2008-08-24 Thread Len Conrad
Are there are any flags or tricks to get these two daemons to log IP addresses of failed login attempts, rather than PTR hostnames? man ftpd man sshd ... show nothing, afaics. thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 24, 2008, at 1:06 PM, pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup I have my email hosted by fastmail.fm. I am extremely happy with them. (They really understand IMAP and the needs to "power" email users). and

Re: ftpd and sshd logging of domain names

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:32:56 -0500, Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there are any flags or tricks to get these two daemons to log IP > addresses of failed login attempts, rather than PTR hostnames? > > man ftpd > man sshd > > ... show nothing, afaics. At least for ftpd I think there

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:06:25PM -0400, pete wrote: > I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I > am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. > Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. > > My ISP is cablevision IO. Not s

Re: ftpd and sshd logging of domain names

2008-08-24 Thread Len Conrad
At least for ftpd I think there is a solution: 1. Edit /etc/inetd.conf ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -ll ftp stream tcp6nowait root/usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -ll with -ll, ftpd still logs failures as auth.log as Aug 24 1

Re: ftpd and sshd logging of domain names

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:18:55 -0500, Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with -ll, ftpd still logs failures as auth.log as > same in ftpd.log > [The IPs] they are not logged. I did the three steps I mentioned and have failures with IPs logged in /var/log/ftpd.log, for example: connecti

Re: Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread Popof Popof
Hi, If you can use a 6.3 version, realtek has release some drivers. Unfortunately, those drivers aren't working with the version 7 (I test it with FreeNAS under FreeBSD version 6.3 and 7). With version 7 the driver recognize the NIC but its unusable (can't assign an IP address). Here is a link to

Re: ftpd and sshd logging of domain names

2008-08-24 Thread Len Conrad
> with -ll, ftpd still logs failures as auth.log as > same in ftpd.log > [The IPs] they are not logged. I did the three steps I mentioned and have failures with IPs logged in /var/log/ftpd.log, for example: connection from 79.165.190.70 (79.165.190.70) FTP LOGIN FAILED FROM 79.

Re: Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread Andrew Falanga
cpghost wrote: Hello, I'm about to get an MSI K9A2GM-FIH mobo with an on-board Realtek RTL8111C GigE adapter (I've picked that because the on-board Radeon HD 3200 RS780 chip seems supported by the radeon(4x) xorg driver). Unfortunately, I (wrongly) assumed that the RTL8111C would be supported b

Re: Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:58:19AM +0200, Popof Popof wrote: > 2008/8/24 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Hello, >> >> I'm about to get an MSI K9A2GM-FIH mobo with an on-board Realtek >> RTL8111C GigE adapter (I've picked that because the on-board Radeon HD >> 3200 RS780 chip seems supported by the

Re: Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 06:02:13PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm about to get an MSI K9A2GM-FIH mobo with an on-board Realtek > > RTL8111C GigE adapter (I've picked that because the on-board Radeon HD > > 3200 RS780 chip seems supported by the radeon(4x) xorg

Panic on boot

2008-08-24 Thread Meaghan Hayes
When I try to boot FreeBSD, it cycles through all of my hardware etc. as with a regular boot then says: panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x7fef16d0 not found and tells me that it's rebooting, and just keeps doing this. I was told that it was most likely a USB issue, especially if I had recently added

Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?

2008-08-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:16:16 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found that not having moused enabled made for slow switches to X with xorg: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd

Re: Panic on boot

2008-08-24 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Meaghan Hayes wrote: > When I try to boot FreeBSD, it cycles through all of my hardware etc. > as with a regular boot then says: > > panic: ohci_add_done: addr 0x7fef16d0 not found > > and tells me that it's rebooting, and just keeps doing this. > >

Government funds available

2008-08-24 Thread Fred
Press Release 5:46:05 PM The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains valuable information with more than 1800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the United States federal government. It also includes over 700 financin

MTA...

2008-08-24 Thread User Lenzi
Em Dom, 2008-08-24 às 14:06 -0400, pete escreveu: > I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I > am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. > Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. > > My ISP is cablevision IO. Not

Government funds available

2008-08-24 Thread Fred
Press Release 5:46:05 PM The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains valuable information with more than 1800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the United States federal government. It also includes over 700 financin

Re: Panic on boot

2008-08-24 Thread David Gurvich
What modules are loaded from loader.conf? I had two distinct issues on one machine that were entirely due to module loading. One was sound, using snd_driver instead of a specific sound driver caused the machine to reboot. The other issue was nvidia. The binary nvidia driver caused an instant

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Receiving mail directly will be more possible, but tricky. You will need to use a dynamic DNS system. Also do consider uptime and reliability. In the old days, if one MTA couldn't reach another it would hold stuff in its queue for four or five days. Now, most MTAs

Re: Supported External SATA to USB Hard Drive Enclosures

2008-08-24 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model of external SATA to > USB external hard drive enclosures? I've not had luck with the > devices I pick up off-the-shelf at my local big-box consumer > electronics st