Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread James Phillips
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:12:45 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated To: Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 20091210031245.3fd58187.free...@edvax.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 9 Dec

Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?

2009-12-10 Thread David Naylor
Hi, What are the pros and cons of building a stripped down kernel and loading all the missing parts via modules (such that you end up with the same functionality as generic kernel) vs having a kernel with all the modules built in? Also, is there anyway to detect if there are hardware without

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:04:28 -0800 (PST), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: The Detailed 8.0 release notes don't say anything about bootability: 2.2.5 File Systems “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported

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 son...@otenet.gr 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

Re: Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?

2009-12-10 Thread krad
2009/12/10 David Naylor naylor.b.da...@gmail.com Hi, What are the pros and cons of building a stripped down kernel and loading all the missing parts via modules (such that you end up with the same functionality as generic kernel) vs having a kernel with all the modules built in? Also,

Re: make delete-old question

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:54:19AM +0100, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Frank Shute wrote: Hi, Successfully upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0 but had my usual problem when jumping major versions with the make delete-old target. The problem being that it asks me to confirm deletion of each lib/file with

Re: Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?

2009-12-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Naylor wrote: Hi, What are the pros and cons of building a stripped down kernel and loading all the missing parts via modules (such that you end up with the same functionality as generic kernel) vs having a kernel with all the modules built in? Flexibility mainly. The default

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO, these are just 3rd

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 smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote:   On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek

mountroot prompt after hint.apic.0.disabled=1

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Don't know if that loader.conf change affected this server, I disabled APIC in loader.conf after finding it may be responsible for a slow clock on this VMware guest FreeBSD install. I rebooted for the changes to take affect and it goes now to a mountroot prompt, can't seem to load the root

How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Dimitar Trandov
Hi list, Yesterday I decided to upgrade my server, which currently running 7.1rel. p8. Do I have to first upgrade to 7.2 release and then to 8.0, or instead of this, directly do a safe step to 8.0 release ? Thanks in advance Dimitar, ___

CUPS laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network - one remaining problem

2009-12-10 Thread David Southwell
Hi All Thank you everyone for your help as a result of combined efforts I have finally succeeded in getting cups the server to communicate with the printer and print. HOWEVER!! One minor niggling problem remains. I cannot communicate with the cups management interface on http://localhost:631

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with X-. The choices are All, Reset, Developer, Kern-Developer,

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Removing X from the distributions is a right step IMO,

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Reed Loefgren
Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time (Can't blame them for that). Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it will also provide all essential default settings. If I might butt in: If the user-to-be wants a working system in 5

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Mike L
all I gotta say is I just spent 3 days compiling gnome2 for fbsd.. It shouldn't take that long or be that hard/complicated. Most of it was stupid crap that I would of thought should of been taken care of by now. Applications complaining about which version of python is installed, complaining about

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren rloefg...@forethought.netwrote: Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time (Can't blame them for that). Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it will also provide all essential

Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Root-exploit-for-FreeBSD-873352.html -- Anton

Re: How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 10/12/2009 10:36, Dimitar Trandov wrote: Hi list, Yesterday I decided to upgrade my server, which currently running 7.1rel. p8. Do I have to first upgrade to 7.2 release and then to 8.0, or instead of this, directly do a safe step to 8.0 release ? Thanks in advance Dimitar,

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Michael Butler
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-10 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:31:47 -0600 Corey J. Bukolt 0...@mail.ru wrote: Hello list, I have a FreeNAS box with a CF card for root, and 3 drives (soon to be 4) set up with encryption and raidz on top of them. A less than excellent detailed report of what I did is here: http://bit.ly/5BeZq8

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:41 AM 12/10/2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Reed Loefgren rloefg...@forethought.netwrote: Exactly. Most desktop users want a working system in the minimum of time (Can't blame them for that). Even with packages, we cannot beat an image-based distro, esp. since it

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example: comparatively, compared to what? Windows? Linux?

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Kevin Wilcox
2009/12/10 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: From my information security manager:        FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a        (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:        

Re: HP USB 2.0 Tape Drive

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:50:04PM -0800, Doug Sampson wrote: Hi, I'm looking to buy a tape drive and am currently looking at USB 2.0 DAT tape drives from HP. I searched the hardware compatibility list and cannot locate any information tape drives except the disclaimer that SCSI tape drives

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:41:41 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. In comparison to what it is supposed to have a poor security record? Most recently, for example:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread joe
Fire the noob you have working for you and hire someone with a clue. Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:08:16AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:33:17 +0100, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it may cause other systems not to recognise the disk. Primarily, it's

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: It is dedicated because only FreeBSD can talk to it. Is this correct? What about {Net, Open, DregonFly}BSD, or Linux? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Alexandre L.
I think you wrong. I read the Official Announce for FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html You can find this sentence : Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade as follows: You can upgrade directly from 7.1 to 8.0 with the

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:43:37AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: It is dedicated because only FreeBSD can talk to it. Is this correct? What about {Net, Open, DregonFly}BSD, or Linux? Not Linux without some programming, but maybe some of the other BSDs.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently,

Re: How to upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
On 10/12/2009 15:50, Alexandre L. wrote: I think you wrong. I read the Official Announce for FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html You can find this sentence : Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade as follows: You can

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Chargen
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I had to fight a long battle, well.. I had some support from other academics, to have a linux

8.0: OpenSSL stat()'s NLS 500+ times causing extreme system load

2009-12-10 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
We have a Nagios server (ports/net-mgmt/nagios) that has a lot of check_nrpe2 (ports/net-mgmt/nrpe2) checks. We recently upgraded the server it runs on to 8.0-STABLE (r199975). The performance has never been great, but now it's really atrocious and I'm trying to figure out what's going on. The

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 10, 2009 08:41:41 -0600 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Jason
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld.asc On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:05:16AM -0600, Paul Schmehl thus spake: --On Thursday, December 10, 2009 08:41:41 -0600 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chargen wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I had to fight a long battle,

Re: HP USB 2.0 Tape Drive

2009-12-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:50:04PM -0800, Doug Sampson wrote: Does anyone have had positive or negative experience using these USB-based DAT tape drives? Specifically, I am looking at the HP (Hewlett-Packard) StorageWorks Q1581SB DAT 160 Tape Drive. If there are other branded USB 2.0-based

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:21:50 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I had to fight a long battle, well.. I had some support from other academics, to have a linux class in my Faculty. Here the opposition wasn't so much security, as why would any undegraduate need linux, as if MS

can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-10 Thread Len Conrad
fbsd 7.2 amd64 kernel developer install Here's a successful install du du -d1 -h / 2.0K/.snap 2.0K/dev 1.8G/usr 1.6G/var 1.7M/etc 2.0K/cdrom 2.0K/dist 1.1M/bin 206M/boot 6.7M/lib 396K/libexec 2.0K/media 2.0K/mnt 2.0K/proc 4.0M/rescue

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread J Sisson
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.ukwrote: Perhaps I should start putting together some statistics to make my case more forcefully. I fought the same battle at the Univ. I attended (as a student). They were an M$ shop as well and had issues with me running

fdisk/bsdlabel/disklabel: Class not found?

2009-12-10 Thread Nick Dalsheimer
Hello all! I've found many references to this error on Google: fdisk: Class not found, bsdlabel: Class not found but none explain what this error *means*. Could someone explain this error and possible remedies? I'm using a custom 8.0-RELEASE-p1 kernel. I don't even need to edit the label in order

Re: CUPS laserjet 2200dn with Jetdirect 610N on network - one remaining problem

2009-12-10 Thread David Southwell
I have had a posting on the Cups list from Michael Sweet msw...@apple.com who has suggested the problem is something to do with my pam configuration. Thanks in advance for further guidance: Thanks Michael - it looks as though you may have put your finger on the problem -- but I am not certain

Re: fdisk/bsdlabel/disklabel: Class not found?

2009-12-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
bsdlabel: Class not found re-edit the label? [y]: You cant edit it. You can only say N and it exits w/o saving any changes. This is very annoying, because you cannot do anything with the label unlike the old days.. I had to mount an older drive and then I was able to edit the bsdlabel on the

FreeBSD and ACHI driver

2009-12-10 Thread Graeme Dargie
Hello List Having upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0 everything is running fine, I decided to try the ahci_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf The first machine was fine after a reboot, zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: scrub completed after 0h14m with 0 errors on Thu Dec 10

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Fortuantely, I had no problem setting up a black FreeBSD box to preserve my sanity. A tip for those threatened with no BSD box at work: FreeBSD runs fine _inside_ a box that looks like a multi sheet scanner. OK, slow, but invisible to managers who require MS only. These scanners often lie

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Al Plant
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: However, I do not see any distributions listed that are prefixed with X-. The choices are All, Reset,

Re: SMP and ALTQ_NOPCC

2009-12-10 Thread Morgan Wesström
APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, With the improvements in SMP in FreeBSD 8.0, is the ALTQ_NOPCC option still required? In the handbook and other older documentation, it says ALTQ_NOPCC is in fact required on SMP systems because the TSC is unstable. I was wondering if this is still the case after

Re: Get the cwd of a process?

2009-12-10 Thread Morgan Wesström
patrick wrote: I've made some headway... perl supports sitecustomize.pl which can be used to execute code when any perl script is run. It doesn't seem to be enabled by default, so I had to add the following line to /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/Makefile's CONFIGURE_ARGS:

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:21:26 +0100 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com replied: Fortuantely, I had no problem setting up a black FreeBSD box to preserve my sanity. A tip for those threatened with no BSD box at work: FreeBSD runs fine _inside_ a box that looks like a multi sheet scanner. OK,

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Kevin Wilcox
2009/12/10 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I was just stressed after being forced by him to explain why I wanted firewall exceptions for two ports to my FreeBSD portscluster nodes. I explained the reasons and that was settled. Anton, I don't know about the UK, Great Britain or

Re: Monolithic vs Modular Kernel?

2009-12-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:39:03AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: snip Also, is there anyway to detect if there are hardware without drivers (such as a sound card without any snd_ loaded) and to detect the type of device (e.g. network, usb, sound, graphics)? pciconf -lv|less Every device name

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread David Southwell
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:21:26 +0100 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com replied: Fortuantely, I had no problem setting up a black FreeBSD box to preserve my sanity. A tip for those threatened with no BSD box at work: FreeBSD runs fine _inside_ a box that looks like a multi sheet scanner.

uath under FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2009-12-10 Thread Steven Friedrich
I installed FreeBSD8.0-RELEASE so I could see if it's compatible with my Netgear WG111T (this is newly supported in 8.0). Not surprising, uath (the new driver) is not in GENERIC (oopps, yes it is), so I copied GENERIC to LAPTOP3 and commented out most of the drivers, since I don't need them.

dcons_crom in FreeBSD8.0-RELEASE

2009-12-10 Thread Steven Friedrich
I figured the world and the kernel are in sync on the DVD, so I tried to rebuild just the kernel. Is this assumption valid? It failed to link due to symbols like dcons_crom. So I commented dcons_crom out of my kernel config. Is this actually a bug or do I need to buildworld/installworld?

Re: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-10 Thread Corey J. Bukolt
RW wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:31:47 -0600 Corey J. Bukolt 0...@mail.ru wrote: Hello list, I have a FreeNAS box with a CF card for root, and 3 drives (soon to be 4) set up with encryption and raidz on top of them. A less than excellent detailed report of what I did is here:

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering what's required and what's not to

error when updating ports in 8.0

2009-12-10 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, Just update to release 8.0 a few days ago, then when update ports by csup, error occurs: Fatal error 'kse_create() failed ' at line 469 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c (errno = 0) what should I do? thank you!! TFC ___

FreeBSD and automountMap

2009-12-10 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction in regard to getting automounts working via LDAP-distributed automountMap-style maps? We are already using automountMap-style maps distributed via LDAP for a few thousand Linux, Mac and SunOS clients and I'd like to be able to

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Root-exploit-for-FreeBSD-873352.html Are you trying to make your infosec guy look like an

googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Yuri
Hi, I am getting this fatal error: Unable to create symlink for lock '/home/yuri/.googleearth/instance-running-lock'. File exists. google-earth-5.1.3509.4636 8.0-STABLE Thanks, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Hi, I am getting this fatal error: Unable to create symlink for lock '/home/yuri/.googleearth/instance-running-lock'.  File exists. Remove the file? Or rename it? -- Glen Barber ___

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Yuri
Glen Barber wrote: Remove the file? Or rename it? I wouldn't ask this question if it was that easy. There is even no such directory: /home/yuri/.googleearth Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Remove the file?  Or rename it? I wouldn't ask this question if it was that easy. There is even no such directory: /home/yuri/.googleearth Could you provide possibly important information such as this in future

FIXED: idled not disconnecting idle users on 7.2

2009-12-10 Thread Scott Schappell
I enabled UseLogin in sshd_config. Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Yuri
Glen Barber wrote: Have you tried creating the directory? Creating it doesn't help. But I solved the problem: when it talks about /home/yuri/~.googleearth it actually means /compat/linux/home/yuri/.googleearth/ Deleting file there fixes the problem. I guess it's a good idea to have a

Re: fdisk/bsdlabel/disklabel: Class not found?

2009-12-10 Thread Nick Dalsheimer
So we are saying, that bsdlabel and fdisk are broken? This is *very* disappointing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

XFCE4 Errors on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE

2009-12-10 Thread Diego Montalvo
Have upgraded my 7.1 RELEASE clean install (no ports) to 8.0 RELEASE using freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE and everything installed correctly and works fine. Updated the Ports tree using portsnap and then tried to Install usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 but to no avail... I get the following

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jerry wrote: Out of pure morbid curiosity, would you please answer this question for me. You work for a corporation that specifically requires the use of a specific OS, the OS itself is not material to this question. It also forbids the use of any unauthorized OS or equipment on the

upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread mpd
I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but I'm about to drop it due to this. This is horrible. Please respond directly. I dropped this list in the '90s. peace, -mpd

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but I'm about to drop it due to this. This is horrible. Since you

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:57:44 -0500, Mike L jackoro...@gmail.com wrote: all I gotta say is I just spent 3 days compiling gnome2 for fbsd.. It shouldn't take that long or be that hard/complicated. I recognized increased compiling times since FreeBSD 7. I was told that this is due to much more

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread mpd
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:19:43PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but

Re: HP USB 2.0 Tape Drive

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:56 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I don't think you will have a problem using a USB2 interface. But, I really cannot recommend DAT. That type of system seems to have been pushed beyond its ability.The tapes fail frequently. What about Ultrium

Re: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys?

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:54:11 +, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: It's fairly trivial to write an rc.d script that pauses the boot process and waits for devices, but sshd runs after LOGIN, and nfs runs before, so you can't easily reorder then without maintaining modified rc.d scripts.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 10, 2009 2:11:31 PM -0600 Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/10 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I was just stressed after being forced by him to explain why I wanted firewall exceptions for two ports to my FreeBSD portscluster nodes. I explained the

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but I'm about to drop it due

Re: XFCE4 Errors on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE

2009-12-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Diego Montalvo wrote: Have upgraded my 7.1 RELEASE clean install (no ports) to 8.0 RELEASE using freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE and everything installed correctly and works fine. Updated the Ports tree using portsnap and then tried to Install usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Randy Bush
FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a (comparatively) poor security record. unlike linux or windoze, rofl randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: error when updating ports in 8.0

2009-12-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:44:16PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, Just update to release 8.0 a few days ago, then when update ports by csup, error occurs: Fatal error 'kse_create() failed ' at line 469 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c (errno = 0) At a guess, your

Downloading and Burning Free BSD

2009-12-10 Thread Roger Agraviador
I clicked the ISO link and I was brought to a directory, this to be exact ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/) Once I have downloaded all Iso Images do I burn the 'boot only.iso' file on one DVD or CD only? or do I burn that along with 'disc1.iso', and how do I go

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Please see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 § 5 states: You will have to

Re: Downloading and Burning Free BSD

2009-12-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:46:38PM -0800, Roger Agraviador wrote: I clicked the ISO link and I was brought to a directory, this to be exact ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/) Once I have downloaded all Iso Images do I burn the 'boot only.iso' file on one DVD

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-10 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
Can someone give me a clue what went wrong in so described upgrade and what made Kernel 8.0 REL not to see either disklabel nor even partition of my gmirror? I need some advice prior starting upgrade process of the rest of my servers. As you see in my previous posts the problem is NOT in DD mode!

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Yuri wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Remove the file? Or rename it? I wouldn't ask this question if it was that easy. There is even no such directory: /home/yuri/.googleearth Check /compat/linux/home/yuri/ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

OT: XML newbie

2009-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually learning XML... our main application is to insert XML directly into XHTML documents and use either CSS

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Ivo Karabojkov
I think democracy is a choice of freedom. Freedom what to use, AND, in such cases - freedom where to work! If you are marketing specialist probably you should NOT touch much of your computer's control gear. If you are an IT specialist or support such treatment is similar to treat you as a cattle.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: From my information security manager:       FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a       (comparatively) poor security record.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
From my information security manager: FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) I sometimes wonder the validity of such statements, since we use it on 99% of our servers, the work-stations run Linux. Then again, we are concidered a more theoretical than practical

Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-10 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:44:26 + Matthew Seaman wrote: Yuri wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Remove the file? Or rename it? I wouldn't ask this question if it was that easy. There is even no such directory: /home/yuri/.googleearth Check /compat/linux/home/yuri/ ...and remove