Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:44:03AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >iS there an easy way (by cmd-line) to erase a used DVD-RW? > >I tried K3B and can't figure out where to click! > > > >tia, > > > >gary > > > > > > > > Try something like > > dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 -blank >

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
iS there an easy way (by cmd-line) to erase a used DVD-RW? I tried K3B and can't figure out where to click! simply don't use "easy to use GUI" just use actual program which is growisofs and dvd+rw-format recording 0 bytes DVD will do the trick, i don't see explicit "cleaning" option in growi

Re: USB Hard disk with LUKS AES encryption regarding.

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i don't know what's "LUKS AES" but it sound like something proprietary, so unless LUKS AES software for FreeBSD exist you can't do it On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Garimella Srinivas wrote: Hi All, Iam new to FreeBSD coming from Debian. I have installed 7.0 and then upgraded base and ports to 7.1. Wh

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 February 2009 03:07:42 Paul Schmehl wrote: > > Sorry if I wasn't clear. > > I wasn't suggesting that the *users* chgrp the files. Keith would do that > as root. Then he sets the setgid bit to www (or whatever the web user is), > and from that point going forward any files created b

Re: USB Hard disk with LUKS AES encryption regarding.

2009-02-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:17:38 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > i don't know what's "LUKS AES" but it sound like something > proprietary, so unless LUKS AES software for FreeBSD exist you can't > do it I'd not heard of it either but apparently LUKS is the "Linux Unified Key Setup" (http://code

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:16:26 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > recording 0 bytes DVD will do the trick, i don't see explicit "cleaning" > option in growisofs now. The manpage of growisofs suggests this: Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blank- i

sysinstall

2009-02-12 Thread Matias Surdi
I'm automating a freebsd 7 installation with an install.cfg file for sysinstall. I would like to know if there is any possibility to let the user choose the device where he wants to install, and then automatically create the partitions an the labels without asking for it to the user. The pr

Apache/php

2009-02-12 Thread Fbsd1
I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to home page and this again gets counted. Is there any way to give the php counter routine intelligent so it will bypass bumping the counter on accesse

Help with high LA

2009-02-12 Thread scuba
Hi All, I need help for some strange problem with one of my servers, that can cost my job. It's a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5/amd64 running on a Dell PowerEdge III as a Virtual machine of VMware ESXi. There are only two VM in this box, and one of them (basicly a mail server) is running fine. Th

Re: Apache/php

2009-02-12 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Fbsd1 wrote: I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to home page and this again gets counted. This is one of many ways that counters can be wildly inaccurate and is am

Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-12 Thread n j
Hello, could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X libraries? The logcheck port lists the following build depends (output of pretty-print-build-depends-list): This port requires package(s) "compositeproto-0.

Iptables in FreeBSD

2009-02-12 Thread kashif imran
Hi all I am a new to FreeBsd, can someone translate these iptables rules for freebsd?   /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEP

Re: Apache/php

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: > I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from > the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to > home page and this again gets counted. > > Is there any way to give the php counter routine intelligent so it will > bypass bumping

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Powell
sc...@centroin.com.br wrote: > Hi All, > > I need help for some strange problem with one of my servers, that can cost > my job. > > It's a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5/amd64 running on a Dell PowerEdge III as a > Virtual machine of VMware ESXi. There are only two VM in this box, and one > of them (bas

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The manpage of growisofs suggests this: Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blank- ing. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'. which is exactly what i suggested - writi

Delivery Failure Report: Attachment Blocked

2009-02-12 Thread Infoservices
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Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > I realize I can fix this by setting the permissions on the "/home/shannon" > directory to 700. *However* then Apache (running as user "www") won't > display the documents in "/home/shannon/public_html" from > "http://ip-address/~shann

freebsd 7.1 and high avalalibity

2009-02-12 Thread gahn
Hi all: What kind of options do I have for HA software in terms of Freebsd 7.1? I have two servers that need to work in symphony so that in case one down then we have another replica to work with. Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: > Thanks Steve: > > the router that sending RA is juniper and the protocol router-advertisement > has been activated: > > g...@lab_1> show interfaces fe-0/0/3 > ... > > Logical interface fe-0/0/3.170 (Index 70) (SNMP ifIndex 59) > ... > Addresses, Flags: Is-Preferred >

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Keith Palmer
Paul, Thanks so much, this solution works really well! It doesn't lock users out of the entire system, but it does ensure that users can't view other user's files via SFTP/SSH, which is fantastic. The actual syntax for setting the setgid bit on directories is: find /path/to/directory -type d -ex

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:39:18AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > Thanks so much, this solution works really well! It doesn't lock users out > of the entire system, but it does ensure that users can't view other > user's files via SFTP/SSH, which is fantastic. This solution enforces the switch of a

vm.pmap.shpgperproc or vm.pmap.pv_entry_max

2009-02-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I'm gettig an error on my console about 'Approaching the limit on PV entries', to which its giving me two choices as to how to deal with it ... Why would I use one over the other? Thx Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread gahn
Thanks Steve: We use fec0::... as global unique IPv6 address in the lab environment. the IPv6 routers in our lab uses fec0:0:5::/64 with eui-64 addressing scheme (for testing). >From the host "lab" (freebsd) machine, it clearly sees two link-local >addresses for two IPv6 routers via RA message

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Keith Palmer
Your other proposed solution results in the same situation, correct? No matter what, Apache needs read-access to any and all files, so no matter what PHP will have access to read any user's files. There's no way around that for a shared hosting situation that I know of... If you remove the groups

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: > Thanks Steve: > > We use fec0::... as global unique IPv6 address in the lab environment. the > IPv6 routers in our lab uses fec0:0:5::/64 with eui-64 addressing scheme (for > testing). > >>From the host "lab" (freebsd) machine, it clearly sees two link-local >>addresses for two I

X -config -> failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-02-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 8.0-current i386 with i845 chipset I gave up on agp and intel driver. I tried vesa and got failed to set mtrr: Invalid argument ^C failed to unset mtrr: No such file or directory # tail -5 /var/log/Xorg.0.log (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (==) VESA(0): Writ

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > Your other proposed solution results in the same situation, correct? No No, it doesn't. Let's assume shannon is in the login group users, her home directory would look like this: drwx-x 2 shannon users 512 Feb 12 17:19

/var/db/pkg/*/+INSTALL arguments

2009-02-12 Thread Rich Winkel
What are the proper arguments to pass to +INSTALL during package installation? Please don't tell me to use pkg_add, I want to rsync /usr/local/ and then run the needed post-install stuff. Thanks, Rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: freebsd 7.1 and high avalalibity

2009-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
gahn skrev: Hi all: What kind of options do I have for HA software in terms of Freebsd 7.1? I have two servers that need to work in symphony so that in case one down then we have another replica to work with. Thanks in advance ___ freebs

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Keith Palmer
Ahhh... well, that's a considerably more verbose solution than your first solution. The groups are not the default FreeBSD groups, as I thought you were using. I will definitely check that out, thanks! I looked into restricted shells and such, but I couldn't find any documentation or information

Re: Accessing the complete log (rlog)

2009-02-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Mel said: > On Tuesday 10 February 2009 22:13:09 Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc wrote: > > Is it possible that you CVS server does not support "rlog" because of > > recursion? Do you think it could be possible to enable rlog? > > Easy work-around: > hop over to /usr/share/examp

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:04:59 -0600 Keith Palmer wrote: Your other proposed solution results in the same situation, correct? No matter what, Apache needs read-access to any and all files, so no matter what PHP will have access to read any user's files. There's no way around that

Re: Accessing the complete log (rlog)

2009-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:10 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > Yet another option is to use the Subversion repository instead of CVS: > > svn log -v -r 1:HEAD svn://svn.freebsd.org/base > > will dump all commitlogs starting with the first. Probably not > recommended if you are going to scan through ev

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
gahn wrote: > What shall I do to accomplish this on FreeBSD? For clarification and completeness, here is exactly what I did: First, config the router (Cisco): interface FastEthernet0/0 ip address 192.168.3.2 255.255.255.0 duplex auto speed auto ipv6 address 2607:F118:A::1/64 ipv6 address F

Re: ipv6 and freebsd

2009-02-12 Thread gahn
Steve: Thanks for the help. well i find the problem: on the juniper routers, the configuration missed the statement of "prefix fec0::" under the clause of "router-advertisement". Once i set that right, it works as it should be. best --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Steve Bertrand wrote: > From: St

Re: Accessing the complete log (rlog)

2009-02-12 Thread Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
Thank you all for your kind and quick help! Indeed, I am really interested only in the commitlogs so I will probably try Dan's solution first, then if I need more data, I'll follow Mel or Giorgos's solutions! Cheers! Yann Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb

KDE4: How to make Home/End keys to work properly in the kde4-console?

2009-02-12 Thread Yuri
I chose "Linux" in Settings->Edit Current Profile->Input. But Home/End keys bring the cursor to the beginning/end of line either only in 'vim', or only for commands typed into console. But not for both. If Home="\E[1~" and End="\E[4~" keys work in vim, but for the console commands instead of mo

Pallets-Videos of Warrior Systems

2009-02-12 Thread Action Engineering, Inc.
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Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 90

2009-02-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:58:44AM +0700, joko bodo wrote: > why i get mail with subject always "digest: You're probably subscribed to the digest version of the mailing list, where all the emails to the list over a given period of time are bundled together into a single message, rather than each e

Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Nikolaj Thygesen
Hi list, I've been experimenting and googling for hours w/ no luck. All I want to do is run dhcp and then replace the ip address of the interface with a new static ip afterwards. I've been looking at the /etc/dhclient.conf man pages, but they don't seem to help. I can do it from rc.conf li

Re: 7.4 -> X -configure gives No devices to configure

2009-02-12 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:42 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 made X unsuable on FBSD 7.1-stable i386. > I followed the UPDATE procedures, had no errors on build, > but on X -configure I get > > No devices to configure. Configuration failed. > > This is a Compaq Armada

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Adam Vandemore
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Hi list, I've been experimenting and googling for hours w/ no luck. All I want to do is run dhcp and then replace the ip address of the interface with a new static ip afterwards. I've been looking at the /etc/dhclient.conf man pages, but they don't seem to help. I c

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Tim Judd
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Hi list, I've been experimenting and googling for hours w/ no luck. All I want to do is run dhcp and then replace the ip address of the interface with a new static ip afterwards. I've been looking at the /etc/dhclient.conf man pages, but they don't seem to help. I c

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Tim Judd
Wojciech Puchar wrote: The manpage of growisofs suggests this: Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blank- ing. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'. which is exact

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Thursday 12 February 2009 6:00:04 pm Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been experimenting and googling for hours w/ no luck. All I > want to do is run dhcp and then replace the ip address of the interface > with a new static ip afterwards. I've been looking at the > /etc/dhclient.c

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Glen Barber
> > Could you plase configure your /etc/rc.conf file to something like this? > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0" > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" > > Where "defaultrouter" is the IP of your dhcp server and tell me what happens? > AFAIK, this should really be the default gatew

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Nikolaj Thygesen
Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2009 6:00:04 pm Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Could you plase configure your /etc/rc.conf file to something like this? ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" Where "defaultrouter" is the IP of your dhcp ser

accents in file names

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Leal
Hi. is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented words. Like "filé.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file with an accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply disappear. thanks, daniel ___ freebsd

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ifconfig_em0="inet 1.2.3.4" but then I loose all the other dhcp parameters like dns and stuff. Is it really that hard??? echo nameserver yourdns >/etc/resolv.conf and turn off dhclient of course ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:37:55 +0800 Fbsd1 wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio'

Re: accents in file names

2009-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote: is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented words. Like "filé.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file with an accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply disappear. UFS supports 8-bit chara

Re: accents in file names

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how and from what do you copy. UFS generally doesn't have any limits for filename characters. i do have files with polish letters on my disk - no problem On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Daniel Leal wrote: Hi. is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented words. Like "filé.txt"

Re: accents in file names

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply disappear. UFS supports 8-bit characters except for "/" and "\0", but you also need to run a terminal with UTF8 support and use a correct font to view such things. why? i use ISO-8859-2 UFS doesn't deal with encoding at all, just

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
which is exactly what i suggested - writing 0 byte disc that writes binary 0, the ASCII "NUL" character. /dev/zero is NOT a zero-size file. yes it is [woj...@wojtek ~/NOBACKUP]$ dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/null bs=1 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.37 secs (0 bytes/s

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:38:02PM +0100, Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > >On Thursday 12 February 2009 6:00:04 pm Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > > > >Could you plase configure your /etc/rc.conf file to something like this? > > > >ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255

Re: accents in file names

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/2/12 Chuck Swiger : > On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Leal wrote: >> >> is there a way to have a freebsd system with file names with accented >> words. Like "filé.txt" instead of "file.txt". Now if I copy a file with an >> accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply disap

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/2/12 Wojciech Puchar : >>> which is exactly what i suggested - writing 0 byte disc >> >> >> that writes binary 0, the ASCII "NUL" character. /dev/zero is NOT a >> zero-size file. > > yes it is > > [woj...@wojtek ~/NOBACKUP]$ dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/null bs=1 > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out

Re: accents in file names

2009-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: accented letter to my freebsd box, the accented letter simply disappear. UFS supports 8-bit characters except for "/" and "\0", but you also need to run a terminal with UTF8 support and use a correct font to view such things. why? i use

Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread John Almberg
Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into the box, and I can't even su to her account. $ su jessica Password: su: setusercontext: Invalid argument Doing some googling, I did find people with similar probl

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote: Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into the box, and I can't even su to her account. $ su jessica Password: su: setusercontext: Invalid argument Does g

recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread David Newman
What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? thanks dn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote: > What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD > 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? How about fsck jerry > > thanks > > dn > > > ___ > f

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread David Newman
On 2/12/09 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote: > >> What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD >> 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? > > How about fsck Right. I'm asking procedurally how th

Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW

2009-02-12 Thread Tim Judd
Wojciech Puchar wrote: which is exactly what i suggested - writing 0 byte disc that writes binary 0, the ASCII "NUL" character. /dev/zero is NOT a zero-size file. yes it is [woj...@wojtek ~/NOBACKUP]$ dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/null bs=1 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Tim Judd
David Newman wrote: On 2/12/09 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote: What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? How about fsck Right.

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: > Hi list, > >I've been experimenting and googling for hours w/ no luck. All I want > to do is run dhcp and then replace the ip address of the interface with > a new static ip afterwards. I've been following this thread all day, but I still don't understand exactly wh

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread prad
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:45:18 -0800 David Newman wrote: > do I need to > boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how, > what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on. > i thought it happens in the background anyway. i don't recall having to do anything other than listen t

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread A. Wright
[ deletia introducing discussion of fsck ] On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Tim Judd wrote: It's part of the bootup scripts now. It runs in the background 60 seconds after the login prompt shows up (not exactly, but close to 60 secs) it's the background_fsck option that defaults to YES in /etc

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Thursday 12 February 2009 7:33:31 pm Glen Barber wrote: > > Could you plase configure your /etc/rc.conf file to something like this? > > > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" > > > > Where "defaultrouter" is the IP of your dhcp server and te

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Jamie
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, David Newman wrote: On 2/12/09 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote: What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? How about fsck

Re: Assigning static ip address

2009-02-12 Thread Jamie
No, it isn't that hard...you could set up rc.conf to get a dynamic IP when the machine starts, and then you could write a startup script and place it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that sleeps for however long you want the dynamic IP to be active, and then runs ifconfig to reconfigure your IP add

Wordpress Port Question

2009-02-12 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I have a question regarding Wordpress and Wordpress-mu ports. I want to install wordpress on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). I have several virtual hosts all with legitimate individual domain names. IE, www.mydomain.com, www.anotherdomain.com, www.yetanotherdomain.co

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread John Almberg
On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote: Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into the box, and I can't even su to her account. $ su jessica Pas

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:16:53PM -0800, prad wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:45:18 -0800 > David Newman wrote: > > > do I need to > > boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how, > > what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on. > > > i thought it happens in the back

Re: Wordpress Port Question

2009-02-12 Thread Horus Lee
Hi, Darryl Hoar wrote: | I want to install wordpress on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). Do you want to blog alone? If yes, WP fits you well. And you don't need to worry about the vhosts. (It seems to me you want to use one for your WP...) Regards, H signature.asc Description:

Re: Wordpress Port Question

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Darryl Hoar wrote: > Greetings, > I have a question regarding Wordpress and Wordpress-mu ports. I want to > install wordpress > on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). I have several virtual > hosts all with > legitimate individual domain names. IE, www.mydomain.com, > www.anotherdom

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: > > > do I need to > > > boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how, > > > what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on. > > > > > i thought it happens in the background anyway. i don't recall having to > > do anything other than listen t

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote: > On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote: > >> Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user > >> account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Da Rock wrote: I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this mitigated by using other authentication methods (ie kerberos, ldap, etc)? There's a compile-time limit of the releva

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:37 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Da Rock wrote: > > I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD > > logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this > > mitigated > > by using other authentication methods

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote: With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally isn't reason or need for a user to be in so many groups. For the exceptional cases, switching to using a full ACL sy

Re: Old user can't log in

2009-02-12 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:52 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote: > >> With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid > >> binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally > >> isn't reason or need for a user to be in so man

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread Bill Moran
David Newman wrote: > > What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD > 7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage? Wait. The system will automatically detect a dirty shutdown and check the disks during the boot process. If the disks are only mildly scrambled by

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:15:21 Paul Schmehl wrote: > If you set the world readable bit, you break the entire schema.  To make it > work, world must have no access - not even directory search access.  So you > set u=rwx,g=srx,o-rwx (or 2750), for homedirs and u=rw,g=sr,o-rwx (or 2640) > for f

Re: Wordpress Port Question

2009-02-12 Thread Adam Vande More
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a question regarding Wordpress and Wordpress-mu ports. I want to install wordpress on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). I have several virtual hosts all with legitimate individual domain names. IE, www.mydomain.com, www.anotherdomain.com, ww