Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-09 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 09/03/2010 12:21, Programmer In Training wrote: Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). may not be a standalone client, but h

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread perryh
Angelin Lalev wrote: > So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. > These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot > defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared > information is needed - key fingerprint. What happened to Diffi

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
> What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was > to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping > and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship > (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret). What stops the server and > client from establishi

freebsd-update & IDS

2010-03-09 Thread daniele
Hi ! I have a question about using freebsd-update && IDS command. what is the correct way to specify 'the "known good" index of the installed release' ? I would like to compare an installed system with the(its) original released CD. Thanks d Ref: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fre

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-09 Thread krad
On 9 March 2010 06:10, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > oscar Seo writes: > > > I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. > > I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my > home > > address in my school. > > I got error messag

Re: freebsd-update & IDS

2010-03-09 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
daniele writes: > Hi ! > > I have a question about using freebsd-update && IDS command. > what is the correct way to specify 'the "known good" index of the > installed release' ? > I would like to compare an installed system with the(its) original > released CD. Although not an avid freebsd-upda

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/09/10 01:14, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I wonder if this can be done in FreeBSD? > > http://www.technixupdate.com/install-tweetdeck-on-ubuntu-linux/ I've been working on that, but AIR chokes for one reason or another (see previous emails in this thread). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Emmanuel Opio wrote: > Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our > server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not > download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. They're obviously ha

Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread Emmanuel Opio
Hi, Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. I was just requesting then if there is a HTTP site with zipped freeBS

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/09/10 08:58, Emmanuel Opio wrote: > Hi, > Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our > server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not > download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. > I was just requesti

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread George Liaskos
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Emmanuel Opio wrote: > Hi, >      Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our > server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not > download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. >  I was j

warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry
Since updating to FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE, I am having problems with my mail server. I have Postfix (2.7-20100117) installed. When sending, this warning message appears in the mail log: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer When I posted

unzip fails to extract password protected archive

2010-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This is on FreeBSD ia64 9.0-CURRENT #0 r203484M: I've zip-3.0 and unzip-6.0 installed from ports. When I try to add files to an archive with encryption, I cannot then extract them back: > ls -al > try > zip -e try.zip try Enter password: Verify password: adding: try (deflated 42%) > rm try >

Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org

Fwd: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:58:45 +0300 Emmanuel Opio wrote: > Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our > server administrators blocked "ftp" and filtered out images, so we can not > download any image file You could try downloading it with a BitTorrent client. htt

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: > Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, > I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. This is good. > I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... [ ...Colin Percival is the owner of this, so I won'

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:07:34 +0700 Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: > Hi Folk, > > Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, > I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. > > I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... > # freebsd-update fetch > Lookin up update.Free

Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
I know the usual way of loading the linux module and configuring it in rc.conf, but can it be compiled directly into the kernel? If so, what would the line for it look like? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Trying run a php script from cron

2010-03-09 Thread Darrell Betts
I am trying to run a php script from the cron tab and these are the errors I receive: /usr/local/bin/php php -q /home//ripper.php result Could not open input file: php /usr/local/bin/php php -/home//ripper.php result Could not open input file: php /usr/local/bin/php -/home//ripp

Re: Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jason Garrett wrote: > I know the usual way of loading the linux module and configuring it in > rc.conf, but can it be compiled directly into the kernel? > > If so, what would the line for it look like? options COMPAT_LINUX or if you are on amd64 options COMPAT_L

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote: > If you track RELENG_8, you get -STABLE system from a build cycle. If you > track RELENG_8_0, you are tracking the security branch and get your own > "official" -RELEASE system from the build cycle. > > http://www.freebsd.org/security/ says: > > "Supported

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote: > that should be RELENG_8_0 Sorry for typo, but actually I only appended to the existing supfile. Thing goes well. > Stable is a stable development branch, if you want to use > freebsd-update you need to use a proper release security branch. Does that mea

Re: Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:41, Rob Farmer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jason Garrett wrote: > > I know the usual way of loading the linux module and configuring it in > > rc.conf, but can it be compiled directly into the kernel? > > > > If so, what would the line for it look like? > >

Re: Trying run a php script from cron

2010-03-09 Thread Nerius Landys
> I am trying to run a php script from the cron tab and these are the errors I > receive: > > > /usr/local/bin/php php -q /home//ripper.php result > Could not open input file: php > /usr/local/bin/php php -/home//ripper.php result > > Could not open input file: php > > /usr/local/bin/php -

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Jerry wrote: > Since updating to FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE, I am having problems with my > mail server. I have Postfix (2.7-20100117) installed. When sending, this > warning message appears in the mail log: > > warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes fr

"tao" suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live non-server. The KVM switch was mis-installed so I can't KVM over to my DNS server. Does this happen often with Dells? What sh

Re: unzip fails to extract password protected archive

2010-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht writes: > This is on FreeBSD ia64 9.0-CURRENT #0 r203484M: > I've zip-3.0 and unzip-6.0 installed from ports. > > When I try to add files to an archive with encryption, > I cannot then extract them back: > >> ls -al > try >> zip -e try.zip try > Enter password: > Verify passw

Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-09 Thread David Rawling
On 8/03/2010 9:47 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: Is powerd finally considered stable and safe to use on 8.0? At least on 7.2, it consistently caused panics when used on Atom systems with Hyper-Threading enabled, but I recall that Attilio Rao was looking into it. I can confirm I've been running it on an A

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:36:31 -0600 Noel Jones articulated: > Maybe you didn't have TLS enabled before? > > Anyway, this message caused by the other end disconnecting abruptly. > If you just get it once in a while, it can be safely ignored. If you > get it on every connection, your TLS is broken.

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:45:22PM +0900, oscar Seo wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. > I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home > address in my school. > I got error message from this > [ > /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminate

Re: "tao" suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live non-server. The KVM switch was mis-installed so I can't KVM over to my DNS server. Does this happen often

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was > > to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping > > and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship > > (e.g. any sort of pre-sh

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
Add your client IP to the postfix debug peer list and follow up o the postfix users list On Mar 9, 2010 5:02 PM, "Jerry" wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:36:31 -0600 Noel Jones articulated: > Maybe you didn't have TLS enabled before? > > Anyway, this message caused by the other end disco... Hi No

Re: "tao" suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:11:54PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. > >It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few > >minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live > >non-server. The KVM switch was mis-ins

Re: The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. > I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0 > stable kernel here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ar9285_stabl

Re: "tao" suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >Aloha Al and thanks for responding. {god this has been a >long day... . } > >Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a >power surge. I did not realize that my printer was also off >

Re: The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 22:00, Jason Garrett wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. >> I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0 >> stabl

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread perryh
Olivier Nicole wrote: > > What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole > > point was to enable secure communication, protected from both > > eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior > > trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret) ... > > I am not expe

Re: "tao" suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2010 03:34:52, Gary Kline wrote: > Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a > power surge. I did not realize that my printer was also off > until hours later. A friend helped me trace the problem and >

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 10/03/10 07:16, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: but logic tends to tell me that is I have no prior knowledge about the person I am about to talk to, anybody (MIM) could pretend to be that person. True. Cryptography by it self does not solve the identity problem. The pre-shared information ne