Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kurt Buff wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec > > > > > > I don't know what this means, though I suspect it cou

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:52:58 -0600 bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, > where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. > > Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the > repair dis

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:03:00 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/10/2, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: [..] > > > For the record. During the backup, the file system is dumped to a dir > > > on a USB driv

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by > rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, > removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:35PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007 07:06:35 Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: .. > > > I think log_in_vain can be used when configuring a firewall. > > > Just to see quickl

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2007 18:39:56 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > > Thank you for the clue! We are using log in vain as part of our > > security logging for this particular box, but this is the only message > > I've ever seen

Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've bought an USB->Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k > modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to > proceed from here. > > The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:17:12 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > David J Brooks wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. > > > > What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered > > the > > stan

Re: ipfw rule question ... all possible interfaces ?

2007-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:22:00 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:10:12 -0800 (PST) > Juri Mianovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to tell ipfw: > > > > "all interfaces currently configured on this system" ? > > > >... > > > > So if I have

Re: IPFW show format question...

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, everything I've read says that ipfw show displays rule number, > packets caught, bytes matched, and rule. The problem I'm having is > that it seems that the bytes, at least on some rules, is way out of > whack. I'm capturi

Re: OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:33:34 + Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running > OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a > UPS (I'm primarily looking at the APC Smart-UPS line). > > The req

One (FreeBSD?) Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:15:42 -0500 Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Have you read the articles on OLPC? > > They're made to run on very low power. They have batteries that can be > crank-charged quickly, or run off small solar panels. Somehow I don't > think they're sho

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > guys, one last thing before i call it a days; i just tried > > > kmidi and tried to configure the

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:33:26 -0200 "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/11/23, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > > > > em0 external world XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > > > > rl0 adm 192.168.1.80

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:22:37AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: [..] > > Which brings me to your earlier (unresolved?) question about missing > > sound on playing audio CDs .. f

Re: routing problem

2007-11-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ipfw works fine too for these sorts of network policy separation :) > > > So ipfilter is not recommended by you guyz? No I didn't mean that; u

Re: routing problem

2007-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any of them > > can handle what you've described. Bill suggested pf - lots of peop

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:03:30 -0600 "eBoundHost: Artur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Lets also remember that history is written by the victors, > >which means they LIE! > >neal. > > > Wow neal, that's very nice of you. are you saying that hitler didn't > do any of these things? I'm no

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:18:25 -0700 Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >Folks, > > > >IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto > >on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. > >The help from this group has been outst

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-11 Thread Ian Smith
Re-copying the various contributors .. On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:00:56 -0200 "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/11, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > out of curiosity, are you pinging from the 4-interfaced-connected BSD > > box, or some other workstati

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/12/12, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Should be 'defaultrouter', but then it's a route to an apparent local > > router, whereas your em0 appears to be your public internet connection? >

Re: Apache 1.3 Problems

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:48:48 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From a digest post, trimming a bit .. > >>> After 3 years, by apache 1.3 server quite working. It shows a > >>> PID, it's running, it can be stopped and restarted, and

Re: Apache 1.3 Problems

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:48:48 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > From a digest post, trimming a bit .. Tr

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:44:07 +1000 jonathan michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > jonathan michaels: > > > > > > > > Sep 26 13:26:46 hostid kernel: pci0: at device 4.3 (no driver > > > attached) > > > Sep 26 13:26:46 host

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:08:52 +0200 "DA Forsyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Oct 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about > "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 235, Issue 11": I'm replying to the digest too, so threading is doubly screwed :) > > No need to change log rotation software since t

Re: Problems moving my jails (mv: Operation not permitted)

2008-10-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Redd Vinylene wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:22 PM, George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Redd Vinylene writes: > > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:02 PM, George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > If you do an ls -lo /home/jail/box/usr/bin/c

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:35:25 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2008 10:38:40 pm Polytropon wrote: [..] Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok. > > I kn

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for > > you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
Gonzalo, please cc those to whom you are responding. I had to dig this out of the digest, which breaks the threading .. On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:35:36 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: mpd - lcp protocol rejects

2008-10-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:08:13 +0300 CK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running mpd 4.4 on 6.3-STABLE #4. Connecting with mpd to my ISP's > VPN server running poptop. Everything is ok for some time, and then all > of a sudden mpd starts throwing weird protocol rejects to log file

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:58 +0100 Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every > > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Richard Smith wrote: > > > > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have > > to set the clock every > > > > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does > > freebsd use the > > > > CMOS clock? > > > > > > An idea would to use NTP to get the exact time from > > y

Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Smith
I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence. Running Apache 1.3.27, using a fairly extensive access.conf to beat off the most rapacious robots and such, using mostly BrowserMatch[NoCase] and SetEnvIf to moderate access to several virtual hosts. No problem. OR condit

Re: Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence. > > > > Running Apache 1.3.27, using a fairly extensive access.conf to beat off >

[SOLVED] Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:24:16PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > I know this isn't FreeBSD

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: >I think this is a bug in ipfw because after change the rule order, the >problem persists: >0056626 3090 deny ip from 221.192.199.36 to any >65330 2018 983473 allow tcp from any to any established >65535 00

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > > > > >I think this is a bug in ipfw because after change the rule order, the > > >problem persists: > > >005662

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:14:44 +0700 "Pongthep Kulkrisada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Firstly, I'm sorry for late reply. For simplicity to your responses, I shall > ask question by question... > > * Manolis Kiagias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > There are at least two way

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: > Hi all, > > > I didn't touch /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, which has been working for 5 years > > since FBSD5.0R. Even if I go back to GENERIC kernel. I could not dial out > > to ISP in any ways. I didn't know what I do wrong even if > > I did read many

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: [..] > read many docs. Yesterday I decided to re-install FBSD7.0R from CDs > again. That causes late reply, I'm sorry. :-( No worries .. it's not like we were just hanging out waiting :) > I now have gateway_enable="YES" and firewall_enable="YES

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. > Creating an ipfw rule and testing it from the command line works > (connects out from master address, not alias) > > From website on alias address, the firew

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: > Hi all, > > > set log phase chat connect carrier link ipcp ccp ID0 TUN command > I still can't dial using this configuration... Yes sorry, that was from a really old system, from backups. > # ppp -background isp > Loading /lib/libalias_cuse

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. > > > Creating an ipfw ru

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: > > > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > &g

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 4, Message 2 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq > >> NX5000, 2MB

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
PJ, having (in this case at least) the luxury of reading freebsd-questions as a digest, I'm going to quote a few of your extracts from several messages, largely without surounding context, as it's all incredibly repetitive, masively overquoted and mostly just "grasping for ambiguity" as Warren

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 282, Issue 14, Message 14 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:54 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed > > ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 283, Issue 2, Message: 4 On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:04:31 -0800 (PST) Dánielisz László wrote: > Sorry, I misspell it, (192.168.1.1) at 00:13:8f:86:2f:64 on rl1 > permanent [ethernet] <- actually this is my rl1 interface on BSD Ok. Chomping heavily .. I've just rev

Re: Does hybernate/wakeup work?

2009-11-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 283, Issue 5, Message 13 On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:56:24 -0800 Yuri wrote: > Paul B Mahol wrote: > > On 10/23/09, Yuri wrote: > > > >> I tried to make system hybernate with 'acpiconf -s4' on my laptop. > >> It quickly turned off, but when I press the power bu

Re: Does hybernate/wakeup work?

2009-11-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Yuri wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > As Paul said, hibernation only works if the machine's BIOS supports it > > (hw.acpi.s4bios = 1) AND you've already prepared a suitable disk area, > > usually a separate slice (DOS partition) or as a file

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 2, Message 2 On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700 David Allen wrote: > Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE > drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 3, Message 28 On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:16:27 +0100 Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:43:31PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:58 +0100 > > Roland Smith wrote: > > > > > Install the smartmontools port, and check t

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > [ ... ] > > For instance, I've got two Fujitsu 5400rpm 2.5" drives in two laptops, > > one MHV2040AH with near 19,000 hours on it, and a much newer MHV2120AH, > > 40 a

login accounts with no sendmail access

2009-11-18 Thread Ian Smith
Hi all, I hope you'll forgive a sendmail question that's not FreeBSD specific - immediate application is for a Debian Linux system running sendmail 8.13 - but I assume it's most likely applicable to a similar FreeBSD system. We need to (re)create a number of user accounts for Samba to service a

Re: Poor throughput with natd

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 4, Message 16 On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:12 -0800 James Long wrote: > Please copy me on replies. > > I am testing ipfw and natd on a gateway machine running FreeBSD > 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Oct 27 00:12:39 PDT 2009 with the generic > kernel. ipfw.ko a

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) > <48225...@razorfever.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the >

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Ian Smith wrote: > One more thing, while I remember .. seeing the USB stick is here ad0a, > isn't that the old 'dangerously dedicated mode' now dropped from 8.0? That's da0a of course. ___ freebsd-que

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Derek (freebsd lists) wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > Options / Rescan Devices fixed it for me. Maybe it will for Derek > > and/or maybe provide another clue? > > Indeed this works for me. I've added a follow-up to the PR. >

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Nicky Chorley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I downloaded the DVD ISO for FreeBSD 8.0 (i386) and verified the MD5 > > checksum before burning. With regards to choosing distributions

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Randi Harper wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7 > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper wrote: > >  > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (fre

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 289, Issue 4, Message 14 On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:32:07 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > ariatotle is offline; i'm exclusively on my new server. will > somebody please do a digg thought.org and see if they see what i see? > > hope i get this. At this moment

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 290, Issue 11, Message: 1 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:53:49 +0700 "Anh Ky Huynh" wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:33:14 + > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used > > to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I k

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > >>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > >>>at first I'm lookings for a "cots" (commericial, off-the-shelf) > > >>>

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: [..] > > > Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-) --I just tried > > spkrtes

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2009-12-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed First up, you'd be better off using a non-Windows charset here, as they use weird characters just for ordinary things like q

fpc on FreeBSD?

2009-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
Hi to .. any old Turbo Pascal hackers out there, who've used fpc on FreeBSD. I have some astronomy and sound related code from last century that I want to resume working on. Mostly lots of float number-crunching and file processing, no gui stuff till the underlying processing all goes. I've t

Re: fpc on FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:35:05 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: > > > Is fpc's IDE usable, like good ol' TP6 and 7, never mind Delphi? > > Usable. Thanks for confirmation, Boris, 'usable' and 'working

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 3, Message: 10 On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:42:28 + Matthew Seaman wrote: > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:02 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: > >> Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > >>> I am running my own small mail-server,

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith > wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1 > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 wrote: [..] > > All of these, at least from DOS 3 (c

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 8, Message: 13 On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:52:59 + Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 > Da Rock wrote: > > > Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now. > > > > I have revived an old laptop which has

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 14, Message: 12 On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:41:24 -0800 Knight Tiger wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a custom ISO image of FreeBSD 6.4. The only > difference between the release ISO and this custom image is a modified > driver (amdsmb.ko). I did n

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:16:12 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 16), Razmig K said: > > With IPFW enabled in the kernel, I'd like to use the NAT functionality of > > user-ppp instead of natd. Do I need the IPDIVERT option in the kernel and > > the special a

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:20:12 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> what's wrong in userland natd? > > > > Performance. With userland natd, every packet that passes through natd > > must pass from kernel to userland (causing one context switch) and back > > again (

Re: ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 2 On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:29:04 -0600 Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would this be ARP(4) spoofing, or is it just me? How would I > > > confirm it? > > > > > > arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on em1 > > > This

Re: mpd pptp server?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:43:58 +0100 Jon Theil Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried some different ways to make a working VPN server on FreeBSD 7.0. > The main goal is to make it possible for Windows clients to access their > Samba home shares. I'm not sure if mpd is the best solu

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 18, Message: 6 On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:54:36 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have > figured it out quickly without the help from the list. > > It seems that FreeBSD default

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:41:02 +0100 Patsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC), I am running Apache 2.2.6_2 > and hosting a small website with a few relatively small (500kB-900kB) > photographs. I am doing so from a home ADSL connection in t

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 211, Issue 1 On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (quoting 2 separate messages, one of the occasional joys of digests :) > ADSL modems (at least this used by polish telecom) tend to choke when > upload bandwidth is near max. delays get

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:05:47 +0100 (BST) Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # block some known-bad ports without logging > # > block return-rst in quick on $ext_if1 proto tcp from any to any port { > 111, 445, 1080, 6000, 6667 } > block return-icmp in quick on $ext_if1 proto udp from any

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 31 May 2008 13:29:26 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then: > >> > >> # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6 > >> mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument > > mount_msdosfs ? Maybe. But then it'd likely be /dev/da0s1 .. Even if it's UFS, you wouldn't want to

Re: change the file date and time

2008-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:25:41 +0300 Georgi Tyuliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. How to mount Sony Ericsson k750i mobile phone with FreeBSD 7.0 ? No idea. > 2. How to change automatically the file attributes (for example 'date') > of large number of files? For modification and/or access ti

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 408, Issue 10, Message: 5 On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:05:00 +0700 Erich Dollansky wrote: > On Saturday 31 March 2012 20:26:14 Julian H. Stacey wrote: [..] > > Da Rock wrote: > > > On 03/31/12 17:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: [..] > > > > schu...@ime.usp.br wrote: >

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 409, Issue 5, Message: 3 On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:03:11 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "ill...@gmail.com" wrote: > > > (there is an executable named /usr/bin/jobs, but . . . > > well run "cat /usr/bin/jobs" & see for yourself). > > Whoa! Does /usr/bin

Re: Postfix + Courier IMAP local email problems

2012-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 410, Issue 12, Message: 2 On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:51:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: | Ron wrote: > > OK, I found the problem. It was the hostname not being set correctly. > > What threw me was that it was correct in the rc.conf file, but I did not > >

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > Every once in a while the nightly periodic security checks tell me I've > got a kernel message > > Limiting closed port RST response from N to 200 packets/sec > > where N >

Re: Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 05/01/12 20:01, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 4, Message: 7 > > On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:59:36 +0100 Arthur Chance > > wrote: > > > > > Every once in a while the nigh

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 May 2012 21:03:07 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [..] > wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > ether 00:c0:49:58:00:fe > inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > nd6 options=29 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 413, Issue 11, Message: 21 On Sat, 5 May 2012 19:26:00 -0400 (EDT) Chris Hill wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Anton Shterenlikht wrote; > > [snip] > > >> ...I still find the whole networking area perfectly impenetrable. (If > >>

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 414, Issue 1, Message: 13 On Sun, 06 May 2012 21:48:19 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: > > Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network > > profiles for such as wireless vs wire

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty?

2012-05-18 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:53 +0200 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > At midnight (00.00) I run this cronjob from my crontab: > > Crontab: > 00 * * * * rootnewsyslog By 'my' crontab, do you mean the syst

Re: problems with networking and route command

2012-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 6, Message: 1 On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:07:16 -0400 David Banning wrote: > > > It is machines that connect and receive via DHCP 192.168.1.2 and above > > > that > > > can't connect to the internet though the server. I don't know a whole > > > lot abo

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonald wrote: > can anyone suggest what i'm doing wrong here. > > Desired:drop everything from 180.0.0.0 to 180.255.255.255 > > ipfw -q add 137 deny all from 180.0.0.0/8 to any t23# i

Re: ipfw subnetting

2012-05-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:30:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 21/05/2012 14:50, Ian Smith wrote: > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 416, Issue 1, Message: 26 > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:06:12 +0100 Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > > > can anyone sug

Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)

2012-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
esile) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 05:03:23 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Jos Chrispijn Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:53 +0200 Jos Chrispijn

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 417, Issue 4, Message: 26 On Wed, 30 May 2012 06:31:38 -0400 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: [Matthew Seaman wrote:] > > freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list >

Re: Proper Port Forwarding

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 10, Message: 7 On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:31:24 -0400 "Simon" wrote: > Can someone suggest an alternative/proper way to port forward using ipfw. > Right > now I have the following and some bad clients cause too many FIN_WAIT_2 state > > fwd IP,PORT2

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 18, Message: 1 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:43:39 +0800 Bill Yuan wrote: > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > currently i set the rule like below > > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any to > 1 allow ip from any to any MAC any > 2 deny all from any to

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 19, Message: 23 On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:56:49 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:26 +0200 > Julian H. Stacey articulated: [..] > >As a start here's : http://berklix.org/uefi/ > > > >URLs welcome. Contact names welcome. Volunteers welcome

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:18:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Bill" == Bill Yuan writes: > Bill> I want to create a white list MAC address, Only the machine which > it's MAC > Bill> in the white list will be allowed, all others will be blocked. > > Bad idea. Since (a) every MAC

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