problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread kenneth hatteland
Whenever I run portmaster -a it fails with several ports : The message I get is that someway cups interferes and the here it is : pkg_info: package cups-base-1.3.10_2 has no origin recorded If I use portmaster on single ports those who do not have any printing ability ( no cups dependancy I g

fortran in AMD64 FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE

2009-06-22 Thread Jason Barnes
I have recently migrated to FreeBSD 7. In doing so I realized that g77 is no longer provided with the OS (no jokes about Fortran use, plz ;) this is legacy code). The online resources that I've found suggest installing the "gfortran" port, however I don't see one in my ports tree for 7.2-

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:38:39 danny wrote: > At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. > The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to > check if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes > written in that file ? /usr

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 09:11:51 Francisco Cabrita wrote: > s/rc.cond/rc.conf :) > > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Francisco Cabrita < > > francisco.cabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I had the same problem here. > > > > Just install those ports and add them to rc.cond or rc.conf.local >

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:04:35AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: > Whenever I run portmaster -a it fails with several ports : The message I > get is that someway cups interferes and the here it is : pkg_info: > package cups-base-1.3.10_2 has no origin recorded > > > If I use portmaster on sin

Re: fortran in AMD64 FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:47:29AM -0700, Jason Barnes wrote: > I have recently migrated to FreeBSD 7. In doing so I realized > that g77 is no longer provided with the OS (no jokes about Fortran > use, plz ;) this is legacy code). The online resources that I've > found suggest installing

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:05:55PM -0400, Karl Vogel typed: > >> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:13:32 -0400, > >> Steve Bertrand said: > > S> I've got a couple of jails now that I use exclusively for Perl > S> development. As soon as I log into the box via SSH, my first command is > S> _always_ "cd dev

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:59:42AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: > There is no listed origin in this either. I am not sure what this means ;( > > kenneth > > [r...@phobos /usr/ports/print/cups-base]# pkg_info -xo cups > Information for cups-base-1.3.10_2: > > Origin: > I'd try to 1. portmas

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Leslie Jensen
> Whenever I run portmaster -a it fails with several ports : The message I > get is that someway cups interferes and the here it is : pkg_info: > package cups-base-1.3.10_2 has no origin recorded > > > If I use portmaster on single ports those who do not have any printing > ability ( no cups depe

slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/slowloris.pl) and, like others before me, found that the -httpready switch (which uses POST instead of GET) renders

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:12:28 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:59:42AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: > > There is no listed origin in this either. I am not sure what this > > means ;( > > > > kenneth > > > > [r...@phobos /usr/ports/print/cups-base]# pkg_info -xo cup

freebsd cups port, pdf virtual printer, and encryption

2009-06-22 Thread Dave
Hello, I've installed cups-base on freebsd 7.2. I've also installed cups-pdf for virtual pdf printing and set an appropriate output directory for files. In cupsd.conf i've added in a Listen option for the network interface attached to the local subnet and tried to add the pdf virtual printe

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to prad : > > > Sure, there's 10 things. Start by running a nmap scan from a > > different computer and see what ports are open. Investigate each > > program listening on those ports to ensure it's properly secured. > > ok this is really neat! > we did the scan and found what

RE: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Gatten
OK - this thread is scaring me. Anything that involves a "backdoor" threat is very concerning - I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure no one is sneaking up on me! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:01:21AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:23 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > one q, polyt. am i mis-reading the timestamp on your mail? > > it reads 05:24 which is getting pretty late. i admit to not > > sacking out until 04:09 this morning,

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Gary Gatten" : > OK - this thread is scaring me. Anything that involves a "backdoor" > threat is very concerning - I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure > no one is sneaking up on me! My job here is done ... In my experience, most people don't take the steps necessary to

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread alexus
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Gary Gatten" : > >> OK - this thread is scaring me.  Anything that involves a "backdoor" >> threat is very concerning - I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure >> no one is sneaking up on me! > > My job here is done ... > >

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Norbert Papke
On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD > requests? > > The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool > (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/slowloris.pl) and, like others before me, > found that the -httpready swit

RE: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Gatten
I guess you guys didn't get my humor in the "backdoor" threat? Geez, if funny jokes aren't funny when no one gets them, and this reference was marginal at best! -Original Message- From: alexus [mailto:ale...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:39 AM To: Bill Moran Cc: Gary Gatten

Re: questions on the "ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G"

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: > > > i found two at newegg.com. both are the "Eee PC"; both come with > > linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of > > fla

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Gary Gatten" : > I guess you guys didn't get my humor in the "backdoor" threat? Geez, if > funny jokes aren't funny when no one gets them, and this reference was > marginal at best! Well, _now_ I get it. And jokes are almost never funny when you don't get them ... -- Bill Mo

Re: questions on the "ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G"

2009-06-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, June 22, 2009 a las 08:45:47AM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: > > > > > i found two at newegg.com. both are the "Eee PC"; both come with >

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Norbert Papke typed: > On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD > > requests? > > > > The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool > > (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread prad
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:52:24 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > And jokes are almost never funny when you don't get them ... > quite true. furthermore, i have gotten some ideas from you, bill that had never occurred to me and i appreciate them very much. thanks to your wisdom as well we are examining ou

Re: questions on the "ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G"

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:23:37PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, June 22, 2009 a las 08:45:47AM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: > > > >

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread The Ghost
The Ghost wrote: Hello, I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. After a whole night from dusk till dawn of searching the Web like a furious spider, I got the following results: it can be done via either ISA or SMB, with one of the ports: lmmon, healthd, consolehm or mbmon, and ther

Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-22 Thread Paul van der Zwan
The last few days I see a dozens of Checksum mismatches when csup-ing src-all from cvsup.freebsd.org. No errors appear on ports-all. Is there a problem with the cvs repository ? The fact that all errors are on src-all and none on ports-all make me suspect it is not a local problem on my syst

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-22 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:12:20 +0200, >> Ruben de Groot said: R> No need for any external programs. The following shell script [accepts R> one key, no need to hit return] R> % more readkey.sh R> echo -n "Press any key: " R> stty cbreak -echo R> KEY=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null) R> stty -c

Inexpensive PCI-X SCSI Card

2009-06-22 Thread Jay Hall
I am looking for an inexpensive, but reliable, PCI-X SCSI card that will support an HP Autoloader. Any suggestions? Am I best to go with an HP card? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 danny : Hi list members , I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. At the moment I am focuing the

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using > ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten > about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it > was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u

Analog Inputs over Ethernet-WiFi-Cellular

2009-06-22 Thread Exemys
This is a message in multipart MIME format. Your mail client should not be displaying this. Consider upgrading your mail client to view this message correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using > ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten > about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it > was. I've upgraded ports just by doing 'portmanager -u

cups no origin problem SOLVED :)

2009-06-22 Thread kenneth hatteland
None of Antons solutions worked. I read the UPDATING file and didn`t get any smarter. After plodding through several older discussions on similar subjects I found this command given by Paul Chvostek may 2008 on the mail-archive.com : make all install clean FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=1 I executed it

CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread The Ghost
Hello, I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. After a whole night from dusk till dawn of searching the Web like a furious spider, I got the following results: it can be done via either ISA or SMB, with one of the ports: lmmon, healthd, consolehm or mbmon, and there are also few mo

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, The Ghost wrote: >> I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. If you have ACPI enabled, try: sysctl -a hw.acpi | grep temperature -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 13:48:02 PDT RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgra

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Norbert Papke typed: > > On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD > > > requests? > > > > > > The reason I ask is I was checking

Disk Quota Full Error

2009-06-22 Thread Karp
FreeBSD spark.ofloo.net 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Mon Jun 22 14:20:07 UTC 2009 of...@spark.ofloo.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ OFL amd64 - -(kar...@spark.ofloo.net)-(22:06:40) -(~)-> mkdir vor2 mkdir: vor2: Disc quota exceeded Any help appricated. Is this a problem on my end, o

you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
you guys aren't going to believe what i just found on the web for the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the "900"]. it was for the 9- and 10-inch screens. i was using konq which just segv'd so i am taking a break and thought i'd share this. last night, i could barely

RE: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Gatten
How fast is it though? Fast enough, or will the r/w/access times make everything slow? Not all SSD is created equal. There's a "new" SD format too - up to 2TB Prolly within a couple years, or maybe someone will get some federal stimulus funds and manufacture it sooner! After all, it could h

Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel Underwood
On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by IP). I will always, however, use the same laptop to connect to t

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), > I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I > use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't > set pf rules to filter by IP). I w

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Moti
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Benjamin Lee wrote: > On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), > > I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I > > use it from some locations that are behind

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread TJ Varghese
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Benjamin Lee wrote: > On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: >> On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), >> I run an SSH server.  I am the only person who uses the server, but I >> use it from some locations that are behind a dy

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:21:33PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > How fast is it though? Fast enough, or will the r/w/access times make > everything slow? Not all SSD is created equal. Ah, yes, that was the key to this site, then. it said that with their newer, faster speed--i thi

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread The Ghost
Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, The Ghost wrote: I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. If you have ACPI enabled, try: sysctl -a hw.acpi | grep temperature I also tried, and sysctl -a |grep temp returns nothing - I don't know why or what should I try to do

Need somw further help on ipfw rules

2009-06-22 Thread Anton
Hello freebsd-questions, Finally, I ve got to work my ipfw firewall with two NATs (one for local resources, provided by ISP, one for VPN - which leads me to Internet= ). But I need further help on it :-( Here is my rules: #!/bin/sh ipfw='/sbin/ipfw -q' mynet='192

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Earl E. Gay III
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), > I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I > use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't > set pf rules to filter by

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:17:40PM +0200, Paul van der Zwan wrote: > > The last few days I see a dozens of Checksum mismatches when csup-ing > src-all from cvsup.freebsd.org. > No errors appear on ports-all. > Is there a problem with the cvs repository ? Most people will use a local mirror as li

Help with Mini HP 1000

2009-06-22 Thread Al Plant
Aloha Gurus, I run FreeBSD servers and desktops and now I have an HP Mini 1000 netbook with Ubuntu OS. I know some of you have worked with Linux. There are little or no manuals or on HP site instructions. I even called HP support and I knew more than they did. Gary Klein on our FreeBSD list g

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/22/09, Daniel Underwood wrote: > On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), > I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I > use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't > set pf rules to filter by IP). I will always,

cannot find -lltdl

2009-06-22 Thread kalin m
hi all.. this is a bit awkward i'm building php 5.2.10 from source on freebsd 7.0. using: ./configure --with-layout=GNU --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php --disable-all --enable-libxml --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local --enable-reflection --program-prefix= --disable-cgi --with-a

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread prad
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:16:35 -0400 Daniel Underwood wrote: > Due to the speed and location of the > connection, it's a relatively high-risk target. > why does the speed of a connection make it a higher risk? is it because bruteforce techniques can capitalize on the speed? -- In friendship, prad

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by IP). I will always, however, use the s

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Jeff Laine
On Mon,06/22/09 [21:16:35], Daniel Underwood wrote: > On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), > I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I > use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't > set pf rules to filter by IP).

Re: Disk Quota Full Error

2009-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OFL amd64 - -(kar...@spark.ofloo.net)-(22:06:40) -(~)-> mkdir vor2 mkdir: vor2: Disc quota exceeded Any help appricated. Is this a problem on my end, or server side? ___ you've got the exact message. why you don't read them? __

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
connection, it's a relatively high-risk target. What are some good practices for securing this SSH server. Is using a stored key safer than a password in this instance? I have no If your password is not trivial, then it is secure. using RSA/DSA keys is as good, if you are sure nobody will get

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If for some reason you would prefer to use password authentication, I would recommend that you look into automatic brute force detection. There are a number of utilities in ports available for this purpose, including security/sshguard and security/denyhosts. good, but not really important with p