Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:35:52 -0400 Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Anyway, if you can think of *any* solution to this issue, it'd be much appreciated. For the record, the following are my Plesk Control Panel offerings for SSH login: Hi Michael, you hadn't mentioned you

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Williams
No, I don't necessarily need Plesk; although we will be selling hosting. It simply came with the default configuration for the server. My plan is to manage most everything from the Unix shell. I just figured I might find a morsel inside Plesk somewhere for enabling root access. FYI,

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't necessarily need Plesk; although we will be selling hosting. It simply came with the default configuration for the server. My plan is to manage most everything from the Unix shell. I just figured I might find a morsel

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation - it is) and the KDM still

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-16 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 7/16/07, Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Jonathan Dama wrote: From Erwin Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:59:50AM +0200: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:05:30PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: Is there a port index file that corresponds to the

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Attree
Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree

make struct timeval posix compliant ?

2007-07-16 Thread Matthieu Michaud
hello, on RELENG_6 sys/_timeval.h defines (struct timeval).tv_sec as long. posix wants it to be a time_t. this seems to have been corrected a long time ago in HEAD (see [1]). i took time to 'make universe' in a RELENG_6 tree with the HEAD src/sys/sys/_timeval.h. i've found similar

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-15 16:59:33 -0700, Jonathan Dama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strictly speaking the EOL means that the base has been abandoned by the security officer and the ports collection, not that it is abandoned entirely. The ports tree is not branched. (The reasons for this can be found in the

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Williams
Tom, Again, Plesk just came with the server config we asked for. We didn't ask for Plesk, we *asked* for the specific hardware. Plesk was free. *rolls eyes* Regards, Michael On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Tom Samplonius wrote: - Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Williams
Also, if you follow the thread, you'll note that we've asked for root several times. Yet, they keep asking us for the root password so that they can make changes. A lot of canned responses, etc. Regards, Michael On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Tom Samplonius wrote: - Michael Williams

em(4) interface freezing on 6.2

2007-07-16 Thread Michal Mertl
Hello, I have got Dell PowerEdge 750 with on-board em(4) network cards and I use it as a router. The interface em0 stops forwarding traffic from time to time. Resetting the interface with ifconfig down up fixes the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0: class=0x02 card=0x01651028 chip=0x10758086

Re: BPF question

2007-07-16 Thread Bill Vermillion
After replacing Richard Tector with a small shell script on Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 17:56 , the following appeared on stdout: Bill Vermillion wrote: I have been setting the bpf parameter in the kernel configuration file to 10 [I forget which program needed that]. Prior to that I had usually run

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:52:28 -0400 Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if you follow the thread, you'll note that we've asked for root several times. Yet, they keep asking us for the root password so that they can make changes. A lot of canned responses, etc. ack - added

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:52:28AM -0400, Michael Williams wrote: Also, if you follow the thread, you'll note that we've asked for root several times. Yet, they keep asking us for the root password so that they can make changes. A lot of canned responses, etc. Again, no offence, but

Re: make struct timeval posix compliant ?

2007-07-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:10:46PM +0200, Matthieu Michaud wrote: hello, on RELENG_6 sys/_timeval.h defines (struct timeval).tv_sec as long. posix wants it to be a time_t. this seems to have been corrected a long time ago in HEAD (see [1]). i took time to 'make universe' in a RELENG_6

clarification before buying a internet static IP address

2007-07-16 Thread vuthecuong
I need from you advice before doign things. Up to now, I have a home web server using free DynamicDNS service of dyndns.org. With it, I can access directly to my home web server from ouside through Internet. Now for some reason, I not want to use DynamicDNS service anymore. So I tend to buy

Rob Crommentuijn/Adimec is out of the office.

2007-07-16 Thread Rob Crommentuijn
I will be out of the office starting 16-07-2007 and will not return until 06-08-2007. I will respond to your message when I return. In the mean time contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrade from python 2.4 to 2.5

2007-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did anyone already upgrade from python 2.4 to 2.5? Yes. It is in the ports tree and has been for quite a while. It is not fully backward-compatible, though, so it is not yet the default version. How can I upgrade to python 2.5 using portupgrade?

Re: clarification before buying a internet static IP address

2007-07-16 Thread vuthecuong
Tnx for quick response. I would like to confirm as below: You said that: You don't want to buy a domain (or at least not in the first place). The thing you need is a static IP address, first, and that's not being 'sold' by a domain reseller / registrar. If I don't buy a domain being 'sold' by a

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Vince
For most versions of plesk i've come across (I look after a load of linux servers with it installed,) if you have the plesk admin then you have root. Look for the modules option, then look for the add modules, this should let you upload a shell script which is then run as root (horribly insecure

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Williams
First, the output of the grep is: root:*:0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin . . .that said, the Plesk Module Loader only allows for .tgz and .tbz files and is anal about them being of a

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Vince
Amusing to hear they are more secure on FreeBSD than linux although its a shame that didnt work for you. They didnt enable you to use sudo instead of su or something like that did they? I'm afraid i cant recommend any FreeBSD hosting companies though personal experience, (work only does

Promotion Acomba 3 pour 1*

2007-07-16 Thread Acomba
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Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16/07/07, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Likewise, there's no rule that says you must build third-party software using the ports system. You are free to maintain third-party software using its native configuration mechanisms. For a drop-in replacement

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-16 Thread Jonathan Dama
Mark: Thanks for some helpful comments. make-20050524 Berkeley make, back-ported to FreeBSD 4.x Everyone: installing devel/make before running make index did indeed allow me to get a proper index file. You'll need to make sure to use the resulting /usr/local/bin/make

Re: clarification before buying a internet static IP address

2007-07-16 Thread Chris H.
Quoting vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tnx for quick response. I would like to confirm as below: You said that: You don't want to buy a domain (or at least not in the first place). The thing you need is a static IP address, first, and that's not being 'sold' by a domain reseller / registrar.

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Mike, I had an 'exec bash' in my $HOME/.profile and removing this allowed me to run ./Xsession default and push me into KDE ! KDM though - still refuses to pass to KDE I'm reluctant to give up on the shell angle already - can you try

Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Nottebrock
I finally updated my desktop from 5.5-RELEASE to 6-STABLE. This got me a new named.conf, which I modified to run named as a local resolver, like I had before: listen-on { 127.0.0.1; }; listen-on-v6{ ::1; }; forward only; forwarders { 192.168.8.1; }; Everything else is default.

GlidePoint trackpad not detected

2007-07-16 Thread Tim McCormick
Hey guys, I wonder if any of you could help shed some light on a problem I'm having under 6.2-STABLE. Until recently, my laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-F680) was running 6.1-p4, and everything was well. However, upon updating the machine to STABLE (as of today, 16th July 2007), I've found that the

Re: GlidePoint trackpad not detected

2007-07-16 Thread Howard Goldstein
Tim McCormick wrote: However, upon updating the machine to STABLE (as of today, 16th July 2007), I've found that the trackpad isn't being detected anymore, so I'm having to resort to a USB mouse. 6.1 detected the trackpad as follows: psm0: PS/2 Mouse flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0:

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:25:28 -0400 Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to call one more time today. If I get no better assistance, I will seek out a different company. If you all have any recommendations let me know. we still have some (linux) servers with ThePlanet,

rwhod / ntpdate don't work ... amd64/-STABLE ...

2007-07-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just looking over one of our AMD64 servers, and rwhod / syslog / ntpdate won't work on that server, although its running the same date/version ... I checked securelevel, and they are both running the same ... rwhod generates no errors when I try

Re: rwhod / ntpdate don't work ... amd64/-STABLE ...

2007-07-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Figured it out ... not sure *how* it happened, but on my last upgrade, I must have somehow screwed up my mergmaster, and actually wiped out /etc/services ... just ran mergemaster on a whim, and the file was totally recreated, and all services now

Re: rwhod / ntpdate don't work ... amd64/-STABLE ...

2007-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Marc G. Fournier said: Figured it out ... - --On Monday, July 16, 2007 21:48:15 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] rwhod generates no errors when I try to run it, and truss doesn't show anything since it does a fork:

Re: Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

2007-07-16 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: I finally updated my desktop from 5.5-RELEASE to 6-STABLE. This got me a new named.conf, which I modified to run named as a local resolver, like I had before: listen-on { 127.0.0.1; }; listen-on-v6{ ::1; };