freebsd-update through proxy with auth

2008-12-03 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya How do I get freebsd-update to fetch through a proxy that requires authentication? I cannot find any options in the man pages. -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.2531

2008-12-03 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi people, I can't use my maxtor basic 640gb external harddrive on Freebsd amd64 running 7.0 because when I try to load fusefs with this command, kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko I get the following error: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error Adding

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:58:52 +0200, Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your help! some additional questions: 1) is there any way to give the root password once? i tried this: #!/bin/sh su root -c \ xterm -geometry 80x25 -title 'App 1' -e 'app1' xterm -geometry 80x25

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-03 Thread Albert Shih
Le 02/12/2008 à 22:58:28+0100, Wojciech Puchar a écrit To come back to FreeBSD, I'm using FreeBSD since 10 years, UFS is very slow, and when UFS2 is release I'm very happy to switch to UFS2. simply turn on softupdates and turn off atime Yes I known that. But event that UFS2 UFS1

Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-03 Thread Leslie Jensen
Mel skrev: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 08:38:02 Leslie Jensen wrote: How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to remove the kde3 meta-port first. cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 for dep in `make -V RUN_DEPENDS`; do

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-03 Thread Eugene Pimenov
01.12.2008, в 15:52, Mel написал(а): Can't check telnet... there's no telnet demon around. inetd: $ grep telnet /etc/inetd.conf #telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd #telnet stream tcp6nowait root/usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd Quick setup:

Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-03 Thread Leslie Jensen
Leslie Jensen skrev: Mel skrev: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 08:38:02 Leslie Jensen wrote: How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to remove the kde3 meta-port first. cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 for dep in `make -V

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.253

2008-12-03 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 12/3/08, Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, I can't use my maxtor basic 640gb external harddrive on Freebsd amd64 running 7.0 because when I try to load fusefs with this command, kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko I get the following error: kldload: can't load

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.253

2008-12-03 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 12/3/08, Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/08, Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, I can't use my maxtor basic 640gb external harddrive on Freebsd amd64 running 7.0 because when I try to load fusefs with this command, kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko I get

Urgent assistance with Building Qt4-sql

2008-12-03 Thread Warren Liddell
Just updated my ports via csup and i need qt4-sql installed as a dependency for KDE4.1.3, but it refuses to let me compile it with the following error reguardless if i use the little-endian or big-endian trigger, the result is the same... ==

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-03 Thread michael
Bruce Cran wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:04:51 -0500 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: 2. Do an SMB mount of remote directories onto the desktop or your home directory. Open any application and access files in that directory as easily as when they are on the local

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-03 Thread Eugene Pimenov
Didn't found on lists.freebsd.org, so I resend it On 1 дек, 05:03, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was curious about your situation and set up a couple of tests. Noting you mentioned iTerm, I thought I might be able to recreate it on a Mac (OS-X 10.4 with 1.4.3 (100) version Terminal, I had

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:57:58 -0800, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization, speed, stability, etc... So, my question is this... If you were

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:58:52 +0200, Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some additional questions: 1) is there any way to give the root password once? i tried this: #!/bin/sh su root -c \ xterm -geometry 80x25 -title 'App 1' -e 'app1' xterm -geometry 80x25 -title 'App 2' -e 'app2'\

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what file system would you choose? What options are out there besides UFS and ZFS? What FS's are least likely to have corruption issues when there are power hits? May be UFS + gjournal. I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart enough to not write

Basic Tulip questions

2008-12-03 Thread Kelly Jones
I just installed Tulip on my FreeBSD server. The server has X11 installed, but isn't running it. I asked the questions below to the Tulip list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier, but got no reply, so I was hoping someone here was familiar w/ it and could help me. Does Tulip have a command-line mode?

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: what file system would you choose? What options are out there besides UFS and ZFS? What FS's are least likely to have corruption issues when there are power hits? May be UFS + gjournal. I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart

sniffit requires config file?

2008-12-03 Thread Kelly Jones
Whenever I use sniffit on a new machine, I have to create this conf file: select both mhosts 0 select both mhosts 1 select both mhosts 2 select both mhosts 3 select both mhosts 4 select both mhosts 5 select both mhosts 6 select both mhosts 7 select both mhosts 8 select both mhosts 9 Not a huge

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart enough to not write everything twice or am i wrong? It writes everything twice :) (but every journaling system has to write something twice) there is a big difference between something (metadata, short data

which version for an eee pc 901?

2008-12-03 Thread Alun Eyre
Hi, I have been following the progress (well done so far everyone involved!) on the Asus EEE PC Wiki pages, but had a quick question: All the drivers committed/in development/done so far, will they be included in Rel 7_1? Or would I need to keep tracking 7 stable, or even, current (8.0?)

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.2531

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dino Vliet wrote: Hi people, kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error What does $file /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko say, and do you have Linux support built and enabled? Kevin Kinsey -- A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

IPSec + vpn + multicast

2008-12-03 Thread nrml nrml
Hello, I followed the handbook instructions and the ipsec(4) man page to setup vpn-over-ipsec for our company's site-to-site connection via our dedicated T1. Anyway I have it working but I found that I need to make sure that multicast traffic can traverse through the two subnets. I have the

cvs stupid question

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i try export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs checkout -rRELENG_7 src waited over an hour, no files got fetched what i'm doing wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

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 rule and testing it from the command line works (connects out from

loader.conf issues

2008-12-03 Thread Weldon S Godfrey 3
I did a quick search for this and didn't see anyone seeing this. I am running 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 This is my loader.conf: vm.kmem_size_max=16106127360 vm.kmem_size=1073741824 kern.maxvnodes=80 However, this is what happens after reboot: store1# sysctl -a | grep kmem vm.kmem_size_scale:

mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Running X without a videocard

2008-12-03 Thread (-K JohnNy
DISPLAY variable must point to display like IP-number:0 (or non-zero if you have more than 1 display :) Shouldn't that be IP-number:0.0 ? Olivier Only in case there are multiple screens on the specified server. (The first number, which is mandatory, IIRC, specifies the server and the

restore superblock

2008-12-03 Thread PJ
I have been googling for superblock restore and things are a bit confusing. Some of the commands don't seem to match current fsck parameters (notably -b doesn't exist. Apparently I should be able to reconstruct the superblock(s) on my /usr partition (slice ?) as my searches found that there are

Re: /usr/ports/net/freeradius2 port broken

2008-12-03 Thread matt donovan
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Marcel Grandemange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else aware that the freeradius2 port is broken? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net/freeradius2]# make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Found saved configuration for freeradius-2.0.5

Re: mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Steve Polyack
Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger Any options passed to mount(8)may be added (comma separated) to the Options section in /etc/fstab. For

Re: mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Steve Polyack skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger Any options passed to mount(8)may be added (comma separated) to the Options

Re: restore superblock

2008-12-03 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: I have been googling for superblock restore and things are a bit confusing. Some of the commands don't seem to match current fsck parameters (notably -b doesn't exist. Apparently I should be able to reconstruct the superblock(s) on my /usr partition (slice ?) as my searches found

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.253

2008-12-03 Thread Dino Vliet
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.253 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.2531

2008-12-03 Thread Dino Vliet
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.2531 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 3:56 PM

Re: 5 TB server

2008-12-03 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:45:40 +0200, Valentin Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: V I perfectly agree with you and yes there might be monsters out there V in the ZFS on FreeBSD but the fact that us (the community) embrace V the change and apply it makes the development of it possible and even V faster.

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:21:19 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart enough to not write everything twice or am i wrong? It writes everything twice :) (but every journaling system has to

Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2. I have several partitions/filesystems in my computer and I would like to have full access to all of them. I've mounted the NTFS partition without problems (though it is read-only, it's enough for me) I've compiled the kernel with the EXT2FS option. I can

Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Monceaux
FreeBSD Fans, I think I've just about talked myself into coming back for another try. I've been a Linux user since the 1.x kernel days. I've tried switching my home desktop box to FreeBSD a couple of times now. The first time around was mainly to give ZFS a try. After getting tired of ZFS

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:45:23 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I enter the mount point and do ls, I get: ls: /mnt/linux: Bad file descriptor What am I doing wrong? Do you get the same error when the Linux partition is not mounted? I'm asking because I have a

Re: restore superblock

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
fsck_ffs -b An alternate super block is usually located at block 32 for UFS1, and block 160 for UFS2. On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, PJ wrote: I have been googling for superblock restore and things are a bit confusing. Some of the commands don't seem to match current fsck parameters

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't know how Gjournal works, but it works below the filesystem (so ^^ next lines shows you actually know. thanks for answer, for me it's definitely not worth using, i would prefer waiting for fsck every few months or less than to have much slower writes i think

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Josh Carroll
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2. I have several partitions/filesystems in my computer and I would like to have full access to all of them. I've mounted the NTFS partition without problems (though it is

Re: Introduction

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.12.02 13:49:57 +0100: unfortunately i was too unaware of *BSD systems and used linux, until it got so unusable with time i started to actively seek something else. What became unusable? Kernel or the userland?

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:59:42 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues? From ports: sysutils/e2fsprogs? I don't have a Linux partition here so I cannot check / confirm. Maybe you could use ext3.fsck from this port to check the file system before mounting it? -- Polytropon

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: FreeBSD Fans, I think I've just about talked myself into coming back for another try. snip First, to ZFS or not to ZFS, that is the question. While I like some of the features ZFS has to offer, I realize it may be overkill

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-03 Thread Nerius Landys
FreeBSD 7.0. I am having a problem when ntpd starts at bootup. It continues to have 2 processes running, the process which does the DNS lookup fails to exit, and ntpd fails to adjust the clock even after days of running. Immediately after bootup and several hours or days later this is what

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2. I have several partitions/filesystems in my computer and I would like to have full access to all of them.

hp dv2225nr laptop optical drive random ejects

2008-12-03 Thread michael
has anyone ever seen this happen? system is 8.0-current, drive is not being used and it will just eject while sitting on a table. the only error is from ata stating that the command was frozen or some sort. error isn't repeatable by user. I'm waiting for it to happen again so i can paste

Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.253 SOLVED

2008-12-03 Thread Dino Vliet
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko: Exec format error fusefs-ntfs-1.253 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Josh Carroll
Hi josh, Exactly, it is 256. So according to you, I can't use the mounted filesystem, right? Could you please explain in more detail, what the problem is? Thanks in advance. I believe around e2fsprogs version 1.40.5 or so, they changed the default inode size from 128 to 256. The current

Installation medium undetected / Initial network setup

2008-12-03 Thread Edward Pollock
I am working with the Disc 1 ISO of 7-RELEASE. I am having difficulty when selecting the installation medium. When I choose CD/DVD, it returns Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist. Input / Output error 5. I have already set up the partition, and used the auto mode to create slices. I also tried the

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-03 Thread Christopher Cowart
Olivier Nicole wrote: I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). [...] Is there any solution that exists? I looked at pfSense, but captive portal does not work on bridged interfaces; it's one or the other.

Re: Mounting ext3fs partition

2008-12-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi josh, Exactly, it is 256. So according to you, I can't use the mounted filesystem, right? Could you please explain in more detail, what the problem is? Thanks in advance. I believe around e2fsprogs version 1.40.5

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-03 Thread Nerius Landys
FreeBSD 7.0. I am having a problem when ntpd starts at bootup. It continues to have 2 processes running, the process which does the DNS lookup fails to exit, and ntpd fails to adjust the clock even after days of running. Immediately after bootup and several hours or days later this is what

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-03 Thread Nerius Landys
I don't know why those processes are hung after boot, but in order to troubleshoot the problem, I suggest that you modify the /etc/rc.d/ntpd script to invoke ntpd from truss and log the output to a file, e.g. /tmp/truss.log.$$. Once you've rebooted, kill the processes and post the the log

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-03 Thread Nerius Landys
When ntpd first starts up, it forks a child process to perform DNS resolution of the timeservers listed in its config. If that fails, that generally indicates that DNS was not working at the time, or something else was going wrong with the network. [ See ntpd/ntp_config.c, search for fork()

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Roland Smith wrote: Application crashed can also be due to bad hardware, especially memory. Make sure that you rule out hardware troubles before diving into the software. I don't think it was hardware related, but it's a possibility. Jogging my memory a bit more I think

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: [ ... ] Does anyone know why I'm getting 2 ntpd processes running after bootup (and ntpd fails to adjust the clock as a result)? Any suggested fix would be appreciated. When ntpd first starts up, it forks a child process to perform DNS

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-03 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nerius Landys wrote: FreeBSD 7.0. I am having a problem when ntpd starts at bootup. It continues to have 2 processes running, the process which does the DNS lookup fails to exit, and ntpd fails to adjust the clock even after days of running.

install 6.4 on Dell OPTIPLEX 755 panics

2008-12-03 Thread Jin Guojun
Install 6.4 from DVD on DELL Optiplex 755 (Core 2 DUE E6550 CPU with 2GB memory) always panic at last stage of boot. Is this a hardware specific (this machine only) issue? or is it a known hardware problem for DELL Optiplex 755? Disable ACPI does not help. Also noticed that 6.4 did not detect

what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-03 Thread Derek Ragona
I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to make this change. I

Unix domain socket tunnel to TCP on other machine

2008-12-03 Thread Kelly Jones
For mimedefang/clamav purposes, I'm trying to setup a Unix domain socket that tunnels to a TCP port on another machine. For example, if I telnet -u /var/spool/mysock on machine X, I want it to be just like doing telnet Y 25. I've poked around with stunnel and ssh's port forwarding/ControlMaster

mount_smbfs and Kerberos

2008-12-03 Thread Ansar Mohammed
mount_smbfs on OSX seems to have Kerberos support, does mount_smbfs on FreeBSD support Kerberos? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
It's not a big issue, but I'm wondering if there is a DNSBl that lists IPs that are engaging in brute force ssh attacks. And if there is such a list, is there a way to integrate that information into a firewall or sshd. As I've said this really isn't a big issue for me, as the brute force

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-03 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk: A = Use Entire

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-03 Thread Robert Huff
Da Rock writes: Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions. 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk? Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else. 2) Does using dedicated mode increase the space available to use? Partitioning normally takes

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can be set NOT to delete these files. Can someone point me where I need to

Re: Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:43:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: It's not a big issue, but I'm wondering if there is a DNSBl that lists IPs that are engaging in brute force ssh attacks. And if there is such a list, is there a way to integrate that information into a firewall or sshd.

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:24:48 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Roland Smith wrote: Application crashed can also be due to bad hardware, especially memory. Make sure that you rule out hardware troubles before diving into the software. I don't think it

Re: hp dv2225nr laptop optical drive random ejects

2008-12-03 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
has anyone ever seen this happen? system is 8.0-current, drive is not being used and it will just eject while sitting on a table. Yes, I did. It was hardware-related. It was the CD/DVD ribbon connector getting all wrinkles and apparently something resetting just out of even the smallest

ipfw and bridged interface

2008-12-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I remember that I read, many years ago, something about the way ipfw interacts with the IP stack. AFAIR, ipfw would be called on layer 2, where only certain rules would be applied, then on the IP layer where other rules would apply. Is it still the case? Where can I find th description? Best

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Chris, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the users, that really just introduces needless complexity that could be avoided with

Re: mx1.freebsd.org

2008-12-03 Thread Sahil Tandon
Ebbe Hjorth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My postfix mail servers shows to messages in the queue saying (host mx1.FreeBSD.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [86.58.167.132] (in reply to RCPT TO command)) But when i do a lookup or a reverse

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: For what it's worth, I've been reading newsgroups with more than 5000 messages in Gnus, a newsreader that runs inside GNU Emacs, and its memory usage has *never* reached 512 MB, I doubt I'd have a problem with newsgroups that small with either

arpwatch and isc-dhcp-relay

2008-12-03 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, When I install arpwatch and isc-dhcp-*relay* to listen on the same interface, the latter won't work, while on another machine arpwatch and isc-dhcp-*server* don't seem to bite on another. Anyone knows why? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-03 Thread Mel
On Thursday 04 December 2008 04:12:04 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:24:48 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Roland Smith wrote: Application crashed can also be due to bad hardware, especially memory. Make sure that you rule out

Re: freebsd-update through proxy with auth

2008-12-03 Thread DA Forsyth
On 3 Dec 2008 , RW entreated about Re: freebsd-update through proxy with auth: On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:36:29 +0200 DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya How do I get freebsd-update to fetch through a proxy that requires authentication? I cannot find any options in the man pages.

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-03 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is from a script running from periodic and can

Re: Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:43:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: It's not a big issue, but I'm wondering if there is a DNSBl that lists IPs that are engaging in brute force ssh attacks. And if there is such a list, is

Re: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805

2008-12-03 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chris Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue installing FreeBSD 7 AMD64 on a Dell Poweredge R805. The system starts to boot, throws several mpt_cam_event 0x12 and 0x16 errors, presents the boot menu, and then crashes with a Fatal trap 12: page

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-03 Thread Andrew
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the users, that really just introduces needless complexity that could