On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:58:05 -0800 Yuri wrote:
> I guess that's a side effect of /compat/linux not being owned by root.
Yes, you've found the root of the problem. Chown it to root:wheel and
all should be fine.
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WBR, bsam
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Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a
remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx:
Looking up www.thought.org
Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org.
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.thought.org/
p6 0:03
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Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a
> remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx:
>
>
> Looking up www.thought.org
> Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org.
> Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.th
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a remote
> server, magnesium.net. Using lynx:
>
> Looking up www.thought.org
> Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org.
> Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>
> lyn
> but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a great
> evidence that some "botnets" are (again) tryng simple combination of
> uid/pwd.
/usr/ports/security/sshguard-*
randy
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Randi Harper wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> > > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7
> > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper
> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, No
Hi Gary
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Regarding the sage of the migration to a new server, I thought
> things were working when I went to bed. Turns out this was
> only because I had the old server going too. (I did some edit
> on my new web
Sorry if this is well-known. I have googled but came up with nothing. (I am
relatively new to FreeBSD.)
I am running 8.0-RELEASE. I am trying to build VLC with
# cd /usr/ports
# make install clean
But I get the message:
===> vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac.
*** Err
Polytropon skrev:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present.
Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config,
or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module?
You can alway check it with something like
> > Sorry if this is well-known. I have googled but came up with nothing. (I
> > am relatively new to FreeBSD.)
> >
> > I am running 8.0-RELEASE. I am trying to build VLC with
> >
> > # cd /usr/ports
>
> You mean ../multimedia/vlc ?
Yes, indeed. Sorry.
> > # make install clean
>
> I'm building
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:06 +0100
Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Richard Mace:
> > ===> vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac.
> > *** Error code 1
>
>
> > I tried a
> >
> > # make config
>
> Try make rmconfig
You also need to remove the dirac package if it's already instal
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Richard Mace wrote:
Sorry if this is well-known. I have googled but came up with nothing. (I am
relatively new to FreeBSD.)
I am running 8.0-RELEASE. I am trying to build VLC with
# cd /usr/ports
# make install clean
But I get the message:
===> vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked a
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:06 +0100
>
> Bernt Hansson wrote:
> > Richard Mace:
> > > ===> vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac.
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > >
> > > I tried a
> > >
> > > # make config
> >
> > Try make rmconfig
>
> You also need to remove the dirac pa
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:01:51 -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
> Well, yes, except this assumes one has access to the sysadmin...
Physical access.
It's hard to exploit a sysadmin by social engineering
because he hardly has any friends. :-)
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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:22 -0600, Paul Schmehl
wrote:
> --On Friday, December 11, 2009 07:59:00 -0600 Glen Barber
> wrote:
> >
> > I suppose this falls under the "works for me" category - I haven't
> > ever used HAL on FreeBSD.
> >
>
> I have, and I would say that it's not quite ready for pr
On Friday 11 December 2009 04:56:39 pm you wrote:
> Well, you now need to either select X during install or install
> it from ports after the installation.
>
> jerry
>
I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there
have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block
wrote:
> Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files.
If they intended to use another than default english keyboard
layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file as shown
in the handbook seemed to be the way to go.
In the p
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec
2009 23:52:50 +0200 > From: ly4uk Root
> Subject: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <1260568370.99298.49.ca...@localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> cleaning), but drive is still squeaking. Now I'm using
> fre
I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by
adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so,
it booted to the mountroot prompt and would not recognize my
ufs:/dev/da0s1a partition when tried. I went to FixIt and removed the
line from the loader.
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my
> config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop
> computer maybe do not have a "speaker". Only a sound card will produce
> sound in the speakers. An
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:24:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl
wrote:
> --On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon
> wrote:
> >
> > The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and
> > aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and
> > wisely chosen, so they usually don't cause
On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com)
wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out.
> I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4.
>
> When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist.
> It's just a script, so I copied
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:37:37 -0500, Steven Friedrich
wrote:
> I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there
> have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to manually select one or the
> other.
It is possible to run XFree86 - the X that "just works" (TM)?
I'm n
Hi to all;
Up to amd64 8-RC3, amdtemp correctly reported the temperature of my phenom
processor(s).
From 8-RELEASE on (i'm on STABLE now), the temperature readings starts at 37C,
dropping to 0 in about 2 minutes, and there it stays.
I had saved the /usr/src/sys/dev/amdtemp/amdtemp.c file from
I have successfully upgraded 7.1-RELEASE TO 8.0-RELEASE and have
successfully installed XFCE and Opera etc on VirtualBox 3.0.x... The
issue is that at time of FreeBSD installation, I forgot to set my
(Virtualbox) video card with 3D acceleration and with a good amount of
memory.
I have re-adjusted
2009/12/12 andrew clarke :
> On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com)
> wrote:
>
>> I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out.
>> I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4.
>>
>> When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist
2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman :
>> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +
>> From: Matthew Seaman
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
>>
>> Polytropon wrote:
>> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr."
>> > wrote:
>> >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the
On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com)
wrote:
> pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf
> kern.ipc.semmni=32
> kern.ipc.semmns=512
> hint.apic.0.disabled=1
According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format:
kern.ipc.semmni="32"
kern.ipc.semmns="5
--On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon
wrote:
The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and
aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and
wisely chosen, so they usually don't cause problems, because
they don't assume something stupid, like "The user will wa
On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by
adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it
booted to the mountroot prompt and would
On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote:
On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com)
wrote:
pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf
kern.ipc.semmni=32
kern.ipc.semmns=512
hint.apic.0.disabled=1
According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in th
I use this function to retrieve a list of network interfaces on a system. This
works well enough with one exception--here seems to be multiple entries for
each of the interfaces, and the data in the duplicate entries isn't the same.
What is the proper way to filter the list of structures returne
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block
wrote:
Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files.
If they intended to use another than default english keyboard
layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file as shown
in the hand
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by
>>> adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /bo
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Diego Montalvo wrote:
I have successfully upgraded 7.1-RELEASE TO 8.0-RELEASE and have
successfully installed XFCE and Opera etc on VirtualBox 3.0.x... The
issue is that at time of FreeBSD installation, I forgot to set my
(Virtualbox) video card with 3D acceleration and wit
On Saturday 12 December 2009 01:28:59 Steven Friedrich wrote:
> My SMB share, a 320GB WD NetCenter, fails to mount because the rl ethernet
> isn't up yet. I dual-boot 7.2 and 8.0.
Try changing ifconfig_xxx="DHCP" to "SYNCDHCP", or add
synchronous_dhclient="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.
- Pieter
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Ulf Zimmermann writes:
Just go to Fry's Electronic. Most of their systems are still
MS-Dos with Novell for network, running text based
inventory/quote/sales app.
Ca _lot_ of small businesses have something similar.
And why no
Hi,
7.1-PRERELEASE. I'd like Mutt to use zlib compression when connecting to pop3s.
openssl in base doesn't support zlib. I installed openssl port from package
(in the port zlib in on by default), wrote in make.conf:
WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes
and `portupgrade -f mutt`. However, Mutt still uses opens
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block
wrote:
> I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already
> too long. Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards. Maybe
> there's a mechanism in hal to detect preferred keyboard layout from the
> LANG setting.
B
2009/12/12 Polytropon :
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block
> wrote:
>> I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already
>> too long. Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards. Maybe
>> there's a mechanism in hal to detect preferred keyboard layout
> 2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman :
> >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +
> >> From: Matthew Seaman
> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
> >>
> >> Polytropon wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, "Sam Fourman Jr."
wrote:
> >> >> I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:21:15 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>>> Using lynx:
>>>
>>> Looking up www.thought.org
>>> Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org.
>>> Alert!:
In message: <20091210095122.a164bf95.wmo...@potentialtech.com>
Bill Moran writes:
: In response to Anton Shterenlikht :
:
: > >From my information security manager:
: >
: > FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a
: > (comparatively) poor securit
>
> Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record?
I found this for loose reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditing
I will say that even though on the surface OpenBSD appears to have a
better track record security wise
I tend to use FreeBSD for my desktop needs b
When I am in FreeBSD I have to be always aware that I have to check
these files before upgrading the system. And I need to do some custom
things myself.
When I am in Ubuntu apt-get just does everything by itself without
manual intervention.
Why FreeBSD doesn't automate things that are in UPDAT
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:46:27 +0200 l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote:
>7.1-PRERELEASE. I'd like Mutt to use zlib compression when connecting to pop3s.
>openssl in base doesn't support zlib. I installed openssl port from package
>(in the port zlib in on by default), wrote in make.conf:
>
>WITH_OPENSSL_PO
Robert Fitzpatrick writes:
> On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote:
>> On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com)
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf
>>> kern.ipc.semmni=32
>>> kern.ipc.semmns=512
>>> hint.apic.0.disabled=1
>>>
>> Ac
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record?
I found this for loose reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditing
I will say that even though on the surface OpenBSD appears to have a
better track record security wise
I tend to use FreeBSD
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Rolf Nielsen
wrote:
> Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record?
>>
>>
>> I found this for loose reference.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditin
On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the
> makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm
> eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum
> post (I don't have the address h
Mario Lobo wrote:
On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote:
Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the
makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm
eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum
post (I don't have
When I try to build a kernel, make buildkernel, it complains that several
directories are missing, i.e., axe, ums, umass, etc.
I'm doing a make update and my file says src-all, so how could there be
missing directories?
I'm using csup. I tried to go back and use cvsup, but it appears it's been
James Phillips wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Dec
> 2009 23:52:50 +0200 > From: ly4uk Root
>> Subject: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD
[snip]
>
> Now, this post is interesting. I'm sure many people with a software
> background may be tempted to write this report off as completely
> i
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:25:43 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:29:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> You have some serious DNS issues with your current setup. I think you
>> should start by:
>>
>> 1) *Removing* from the NS records of your domain the name servers that
>>
At 11:50 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote:
>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
I could be mistaken, but that sounds like an awfully big /var and
/usr. Are you sure this is a vanilla install that no one has touched?
-- randi
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Len Conrad wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote:
>>fbsd 7.2
>>amd64
>>"kernel developer" install
>>
>>Here's a
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