Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE
El sábado 10 de marzo a las 02:45:23 CET, Brian J. Conway escribió: I'm trying to track down a watchdog timeout that shows on average once a day, usually at a random time when idle. The system has two 3c905C NICs and does ipfw+natd duty with a couple services, and spends most of its time idle, both CPU and bandwidth-wise. Nothing out of the ordinary happens when saturating my cable connection at ~8 Mbps, be it with HTTP or 100+ BitTorrent connections. However, I'll randomly see in the logs during quieter times: Mar 10 00:04:46 imogen kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout Mar 10 00:04:46 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to DOWN Mar 10 00:04:48 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to UP ( ) I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. Regards pgpn02GLQzaG6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode
On Friday 09 March 2007 22:56, Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:25:34PM +0100, Milan Knizek wrote:
A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode
to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the
printer worked normally.
ltpcontrol supports only connected (and powered on) printers, which is
usually not the case during boot, and it must be run with root
privileges.
My question: how do I set the default port mode to extended polling
instead of iterrupt driven during the boot process?
You have to add the setting to /boot/device.hints. See
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/#parport
Thank you, this helped.
Actually, I have also found a note in gutenprint FAQ that while using USB
connection, it may help to print to /dev/unlpt0 instead of /dev/ulpt0. I may
try later to confirm.
Regards,
--
Milan Knížek
http://milan-knizek.net/
e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz
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Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Aniruddha wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules Thanks at least now I found devfs.rules :-) . I adjusted it accordingly (and /etc/rc.conf) but still my Palm refuses to sync. Maybe this error message reveals something: # /etc/rc.d/devfs restart /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset number /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING: devfs_apply_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset *Part of devfs.rules which I edited:* # Devices typically needed to support logged-in users. # Requires: devfsrules_hide_all # [devfsrules_unhide_login=3] add path 'ptyp*' unhide add path 'ptyq*' unhide add path 'ptyr*' unhide add path 'ptys*' unhide add path 'ptyP*' unhide add path 'ptyQ*' unhide add path 'ptyR*' unhide add path 'ptyS*' unhide add path 'ttyp*' unhide add path 'ttyq*' unhide add path 'ttyr*' unhide add path 'ttys*' unhide add path 'ttyP*' unhide add path 'ttyQ*' unhide add path 'ttyR*' unhide add path 'ttyS*' unhide add path fd unhide add path 'fd/*' unhide add path stdin unhide add path stdout unhide add path stderr unhide add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 * My changes to /etc/rc.conf* # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Mar 8 17:55:42 2007 # Created: Thu Mar 8 17:55:42 2007 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname=freebsd.lan ifconfig_sk0=DHCP inetd_enable=NO ipv6_enable=YES keymap=us.iso linux_enable=YES sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES devfs_system_ruleset=system I think you misunderstood. /etc/defaults/devfs contains the defaults. you should remove the changes you made from there and create a new /etc/devfs.rules with the contents i specified. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question?
On 10/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it costs. does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. FreeBSD is great, just take some time to explore it and its possibilities. You might want to take a look at DesktopBSD, too. DesktopBSD is based on FreeBSD, but is geared towards Desktop users. The installer is different and you'll find many applications needed for everydays work preinstalled. You'll find information about DesktopBSD on http://www.desktopbsd.org thank you tom gunderman HTH Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logout from gnome panel stops responding.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:12:35 +0530 Anuj Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 while using gnome when i click on logout it (logout panel only) stops responding, and i need to Force quit, same thing is happening with my gaim. It crashes. Is anyone facing the same problem? How to trace/fix it? This problem causing me to use linux more. I want to use FreeBSD as main. But with Gnome crashing few utilities I am unable to use it all the time. With FreeBSD 6.1 I faced no such problem. thanks and regards anugunj anuj It's been my experience that GNOME, in general, works better and exhibits fewer quirks of the type you describe, if you enable rpcbind in /etc/rc.conf. This may or may not solve your particular problem, but it's worth a try, at least. HTH -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing
Hi everyone! My gnome-terminal has this annoying habit of jumping at the beginning of the same line when i'm entering a command and the cursor reaches a certain column (not the last column possible, there's always a quarter or so of the line left blank); it doesn't put the cursor on a new line but at the beginning of the same line, thus overwriting that line. and it gets worse when I try to edit a command line by going back with left cursor or Alt+b, then it jumps one line up overwriting that previous line and messing everything up. I have seen this on FreeBSD only, not on any GNOME installation on Linux before. Is this normal and/or can I change it? Thanks, Carsten. ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Carsten Fuchs wrote: Hi everyone! My gnome-terminal has this annoying habit of jumping at the beginning of the same line when i'm entering a command and the cursor reaches a certain column (not the last column possible, there's always a quarter or so of the line left blank); it doesn't put the cursor on a new line but at the beginning of the same line, thus overwriting that line. Sounds like a problem with the prompt string (iirc for bash users, that's remedied by escaping the chunk of text that doesn't print using \[ and \]). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
Vince wrote: I think you misunderstood. /etc/defaults/devfs contains the defaults. you should remove the changes you made from there and create a new /etc/devfs.rules with the contents i specified. Hey be gentle, I am new to FreeBSD :-P . This solved the error message but still my Palm doesn't sync. Here's my new devfs.rules: / [system=10] add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666 /No matter which port I try I can't get my Palm to sync, any help would be appreciated!: /$ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU0 --list/ / Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU0 Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU1 --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU1 Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU2 --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU2 Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU3 --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU3 Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU4 --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU4 Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU5 --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU5 Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU Please use --help for more information $ pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyU* --list Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyU* Please use --help for more information / ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xorg color depth problem
Hi all, I use to solve difficulties by myself but I'm a bit lost with this one. Without any special event appened, I noticed that pictures was strangly displayed. It's a bit difficult to explain but it's certainly due to a low color depth. I've same color problem with pictures and vids.and different WM (kde wmaker). Obviousli I've tested my hardware first. I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? = grep -i depth /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps) (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default = FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p5 xorg 6.9.0_6 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: logout from gnome panel stops responding.
hello, Thanks Conrad. I tried it but didn't worked. Your suggestion gave me an idea of few more settings, this problem was related to my firewall pfctl rules. when i flush all my firewall rules this problem disappears., (pfctl -Fa), I have to check my pfctl firewall rules. When I start my firewall I have same problem , it means I need to refine my /etc/pf.conf There was no loopback interface defined in my /etc/pf.conf , defined it lbk_if=lo0 pass in quick from $lbk_if to any keep state Thanks and regards anugunj anuj On 3/10/07, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:12:35 +0530 Anuj Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 while using gnome when i click on logout it (logout panel only) stops responding, and i need to Force quit, same thing is happening with my gaim. It crashes. Is anyone facing the same problem? How to trace/fix it? This problem causing me to use linux more. I want to use FreeBSD as main. But with Gnome crashing few utilities I am unable to use it all the time. With FreeBSD 6.1 I faced no such problem. thanks and regards anugunj anuj It's been my experience that GNOME, in general, works better and exhibits fewer quirks of the type you describe, if you enable rpcbind in /etc/rc.conf. This may or may not solve your particular problem, but it's worth a try, at least. HTH -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:58:51 -0500 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a problem with the prompt string (iirc for bash users, that's remedied by escaping the chunk of text that doesn't print using \[ and \]). That's it. I had escape sequences in the prompt for different colors... Thank you Thomas! ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Advice on IDS co.
Hello all, I would like to know what you guys think about chkrootkit, rkhunter and tripwire. I am considering adding them on my Server for some added Security. I am aware, the holy grail would be to really dive into Jails, and the macframework, but still i would like to have some opinions on those mentioned Tools. Also, if you have other neat tricks to add some security to a Server, do tell. Thank you very much and best regards, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where to get GENERIC file
I'm upgrading from 4.x to 5.5. I am at the step where I need to make a generic 5.x kernel, but my GENERIC file is for 4.x. When I did a 'make update' in /usr/src (which updated my source tree from cvspu), it didn't suck over /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC for 5.5. Where is this or how do I generate it? I was surprised this didn't come over when I sucked over 5.5 via cvsup. It raises question in my mind as to what else it didn't suck over. Michael Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where to get GENERIC file
On Sat, March 10, 2007 14:44, Michael Grant wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.x to 5.5. I am at the step where I need to make a generic 5.x kernel, but my GENERIC file is for 4.x. When I did a 'make update' in /usr/src (which updated my source tree from cvspu), it didn't suck over /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC for 5.5. Where is this or how do I generate it? I was surprised this didn't come over when I sucked over 5.5 via cvsup. It raises question in my mind as to what else it didn't suck over. Michael Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5.5 GERNERIC config attached. Are you sure your GENERIC isn't updated? (compare it to my file) If it isn't, then I would suggest removing your entire source tree and fetching it again. Regards, Martin GENERIC Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice on IDS co.
Hello David, I've been using chkrootkit and it's fairly simple. Aide is a more free version of Tripwire and you might want to look at Snort. Both are in the ports tree. I suppose you have a firewall like IPFilter or PF already? I've been keeping an eye out for a really slick syslogfile analyzer, I'd be grateful for any tips on something in that direction. Good luck! David Schulz skrev: Hello all, I would like to know what you guys think about chkrootkit, rkhunter and tripwire. I am considering adding them on my Server for some added Security. I am aware, the holy grail would be to really dive into Jails, and the macframework, but still i would like to have some opinions on those mentioned Tools. Also, if you have other neat tricks to add some security to a Server, do tell. Thank you very much and best regards, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.8/716 - Release Date: 2007-03-09 18:53 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some questions from a newcomer
Mike Jakubik wrote: Daniel Mouritsen wrote: You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I would recommend you choose the basic user option instead. Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with portsnap, but dear lord it was slow :D I tried googling for European mirrors close to me, but i haven't had much success, any help with finding a faster portsnap server would be much appreciated You may want to try cvsup instead. net/cvsup-without-gui is probably the port you'd want to use. Check out /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile for some useful examples. Copy this file to another location and edit it to include your list of cvs mirrors (see below) and other options. You can also look in the above directory for other supfile examples, dealing with src tree, docs, etc. Also, check out the following URL from the FreeBSD Handbook (a very valuable resource) for a list of worldwide mirrors: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-MIRRORS For a means of finding the 'fastest' cvs mirror, try installing sysutils/fastest_cvsup Depending on your Internet connection, you can control the amount of connections cvsup uses. For example, if you have a fast (e.g. broadband) connection, you can do: cvsup -P m /path/to/supfile This will multiplex the connections and usually afford better performance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh login as root
Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE
I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I was not on 4.x. I'll give that a try next time it happens. I would have hoped the motherboard would be up to par (Intel D845GVSR with the latest BIOS - http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D845GVSR/index.htm), but maybe not. Thanks. (Sorry for the bad threading, I'm off list and copying off the web archive.) Brian J. Conway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
You must specify to allow root in your sshd_config. noone will ever recommend that you do that though. On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some questions from a newcomer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:35:57AM -0500, Chris Slothouber wrote: Mike Jakubik wrote: Daniel Mouritsen wrote: You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I would recommend you choose the basic user option instead. Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with portsnap, but dear lord it was slow :D I tried googling for European mirrors close to me, but i haven't had much success, any help with finding a faster portsnap server would be much appreciated You may want to try cvsup instead. net/cvsup-without-gui is probably the port you'd want to use. Check out A rewrite in C of the cvsup program, called 'csup' is in the base system in 6.2, so you don't really need this port. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpB9R6XmM0Pk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ssh login as root
On 3/10/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Its generally not a good idea (hence, why it is turned off by default). You can login as a user and su to root. see sshd_config for how to turn it on. jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg color depth problem
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Sebastien wrote: Hi all, I use to solve difficulties by myself but I'm a bit lost with this one. Without any special event appened, I noticed that pictures was strangly displayed. It's a bit difficult to explain but it's certainly due to a low color depth. I've same color problem with pictures and vids.and different WM (kde wmaker). Obviousli I've tested my hardware first. I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your xorg.conf and let us know what kind of graphics card you use. Greetings, Uli. = grep -i depth /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps) (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default = FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p5 xorg 6.9.0_6 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg color depth problem
Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 17:25 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your xorg.conf and let us know what kind of graphics card you use. *** /etc/X11/xorg.conf *** Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbLayout ch(fr) EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 370 230 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName LPL ModelName0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Philips_43100 VendorName Philips ModelName26PF4310 # VertRefresh 47-85 # HorizSync31-80 # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 1200x1024 @ 75 Hz, 50 kHz hsync # ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync # ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Unknown Board BusID PCI:1:0:0 ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional # Option NoAccel# [bool] # Option SWcursor # [bool] # Option Dac6Bit# [bool] # Option Dac8Bit# [bool] # Option BusType# [str] # Option CPPIOMode # [bool] # Option CPusecTimeout # i Option AGPMode8 # i Option AGPFastWrite True # [bool] # Option AGPSize# i # Option GARTSize # i # Option RingSize # i # Option BufferSize # i # Option EnableDepthMoves # [bool] # Option EnablePageFlip # [bool] # Option NoBackBuffer # [bool] # Option PanelOff # [bool] # Option DDCModeTrue # [bool] #Option MonitorLayout LVDS, LVDS# [str] # Option IgnoreEDID # [bool] # Option UseFBDev # [bool] # Option VideoKey # i #Option MergedFB True # [bool] #Option CRT2HSync 31-80 # [str] #Option CRT2VRefresh 47-85 # [str] # Option CRT2Position Clone # [str] # Option MetaModes 1024x768 # [str] # Option MergedDPI # [str] # Option NoMergedXinerama # [bool] # Option MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0# [bool] # Option DisplayPriority# [str] # Option PanelSize # [str] # Option ForceMinDotClock # freq Option RenderAccel True # [bool] Option SubPixelOrder RGB# [str] # Option ShowCache # [bool] # Option DynamicClocks # [bool] Option ReverseDDC True # [bool] Option OverlayOnCRTC2 True # [bool] EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0
Re: ssh login as root
Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. On 3/10/07, Guido Demmenie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default setting is that root can not login via ssh (and that's how you want it). You can use su(1) to gain root privileges when loged in on your box with a normal user if needed (if you are in the group wheel). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:55:54 +0200 Dima Sorkin wrote: It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? One should never login (local or remote) as root. Use an ordinary login and then su/sudo only at a short period when you really need it. Anyway, you may do man sshd_config and /RootLogin to _read_ how to allow root login via ssh. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:43:43 +0200 Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? man pw (but this one is quite a read) You can also edit /etc/group directly, see man 5 group -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
Hi, man pw here is a nice tutorial - http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/ beginners/manage_users_pw.php Bye, David On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. On 3/10/07, Guido Demmenie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default setting is that root can not login via ssh (and that's how you want it). You can use su(1) to gain root privileges when loged in on your box with a normal user if needed (if you are in the group wheel). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
Hi. I've read some pages about 'kern.maxusers', 'kern.maxdsize'. I have questions: 1) After I reduce 'maxusers' to some reasonable amount for that computer (say 10), and enlarge 'maxdsize', will a user process be able to allocate arrays that are considerably bigger than the physical memory size ? This is what I really need. I run processes in which it can come to 1.5x-2x ratio. 2) Following the http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID1/40543.html#1 Should I put maxdsize == phys mem size, or should I put it lower (by how much) ? 3) On Intel pentium 4 machine with 2GB phys memory, during installation where almost all options were taken as defaults, should I worry that kernel is not configured to use PAE ? Installation program by default allocated 4GB swap, so totally it is 6GB. How do I check this ? Thanks, Dima. On 3/9/07, Derek Ragona wrote: Dima, Not all the settings there are tuneable. In 6.X the allowable memory is somewhat automatic based on the max users. Your kernel is set to 384. You can try changing that. You can also make some kernel settings in: /boot/loader.conf You can see the possible variables to set in: /boot/defaults/loader.conf I think the one variable you may want to change is: kern.maxdsiz=to your actual real memory size Don't make this larger than the real memory, in my experience that will cause the system to not boot properly into multi-user. -Derek ... On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg color depth problem
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Sebastien wrote: Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 17:25 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your xorg.conf and let us know what kind of graphics card you use. Your xorg.conf looks unsuspicious to me. There are some graphic chips that need additional kernel modules loaded (For example mine needs an entry agp_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf) . Did you google for something like that? Regards, Uli. *** /etc/X11/xorg.conf *** Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load freetype Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbLayout ch(fr) EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 370 230 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName LPL ModelName0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Philips_43100 VendorName Philips ModelName26PF4310 # VertRefresh 47-85 # HorizSync31-80 # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 1200x1024 @ 75 Hz, 50 kHz hsync # ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync # ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Unknown Board BusID PCI:1:0:0 ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional # Option NoAccel# [bool] # Option SWcursor # [bool] # Option Dac6Bit# [bool] # Option Dac8Bit# [bool] # Option BusType# [str] # Option CPPIOMode # [bool] # Option CPusecTimeout # i Option AGPMode8 # i Option AGPFastWrite True # [bool] # Option AGPSize# i # Option GARTSize # i # Option RingSize # i # Option BufferSize # i # Option EnableDepthMoves # [bool] # Option EnablePageFlip # [bool] # Option NoBackBuffer # [bool] # Option PanelOff # [bool] # Option DDCModeTrue # [bool] #Option MonitorLayout LVDS, LVDS# [str] # Option IgnoreEDID # [bool] # Option UseFBDev # [bool] # Option VideoKey # i #Option MergedFB True # [bool] #Option CRT2HSync 31-80 # [str] #Option CRT2VRefresh 47-85 # [str] # Option CRT2Position Clone # [str] # Option MetaModes 1024x768 # [str] # Option MergedDPI # [str] # Option NoMergedXinerama # [bool] # Option MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0# [bool] # Option DisplayPriority# [str] # Option PanelSize # [str] # Option ForceMinDotClock # freq Option RenderAccel True # [bool] Option SubPixelOrder RGB# [str] # Option ShowCache # [bool] # Option DynamicClocks # [bool] Option ReverseDDC True # [bool] Option
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
I have heard it does not scale well above 4 On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support in 7 THANKS IN ADVANCE Your's Truly SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
Dear Friends, Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support in 7 THANKS IN ADVANCE Your's Truly SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg color depth problem
Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 18:01 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Sebastien wrote: Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 17:25 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your xorg.conf and let us know what kind of graphics card you use. Your xorg.conf looks unsuspicious to me. There are some graphic chips that need additional kernel modules loaded (For example mine needs an entry agp_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf) . Did you google for something like that? You're right I've added the same line in /boot/loader.conf (Can't remember why but I did)... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
At 06:43 PM 3/10/2007 +0200, you wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. Easiest way? vi /etc/group man group -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The MySQL Low Performance in FreeBSD
Hai Every One, Do The Low Performance of MySQL on FreeBSD Still Exists ? ( in FreeBSD6.2 ) Please HELP SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using MFC-3820CN network printing
I am trying to get access to a MFC-3820CN multifunction scanner/fax/printer. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system with cups setup. When I try and send to the device , cups claimed it printed out fine, but nothing ever actually comes out. It works fine from a Linux box where I copied down the drivers from Brother's web site. But, I'd like to get access from my FreeBSD machines, got more of those. Apparently Brother doesn't support FreeBSD. So, there are no FreeBSD specific drivers. I only found executable Linux RPM's on their site. If I can use those executables that'd be great, but I am not sure where the files would be put to recognize them and such. Any pointers on how to access the Brother MFC-3820CN network printing facility from a FreeBSD 5.3 machine would be helpful. Thanks Chris Kottaridis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using MFC-3820CN network printing
I think you may need to change your printer's emulation. There is a step-by-step process at the following URL, it deals with another network-enabled Brother printer, perhaps it will be of assistance: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-03-17-brother-hl-2070n.html Chris Kottaridis wrote: I am trying to get access to a MFC-3820CN multifunction scanner/fax/printer. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system with cups setup. When I try and send to the device , cups claimed it printed out fine, but nothing ever actually comes out. It works fine from a Linux box where I copied down the drivers from Brother's web site. But, I'd like to get access from my FreeBSD machines, got more of those. Apparently Brother doesn't support FreeBSD. So, there are no FreeBSD specific drivers. I only found executable Linux RPM's on their site. If I can use those executables that'd be great, but I am not sure where the files would be put to recognize them and such. Any pointers on how to access the Brother MFC-3820CN network printing facility from a FreeBSD 5.3 machine would be helpful. Thanks Chris Kottaridis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:18:12AM +0800, David Schulz wrote: I have heard it does not scale well above 4 It all depends on your workload. FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mouse wheel sends incorrect buttons
I am using a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer in xwindows on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. The mouse works correctly (except for the side buttons - I'll worry about those later), but the mouse wheel has some odd behaviour in apps like firefox and thunderbird. Scrolling down works correctly, but scrolling up seems to send a button click as well as a scroll event. I played around with xev and found that when scrolling up, a button4 event is (correctly) sent, but then any other action sends a button9 and button8 event as well. Scrolling down only sends a button5 event which is correct. Here is the relevant section in xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto #Option Buttons 7 Option Buttons 5 Option Device /dev/psm0 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection I added the `Option Buttons 5' line hoping to remove the possibility of button 8 and 9 existing, but it didn't seem to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ xmodmap -pp There are 9 pointer buttons defined. PhysicalButton Button Code 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 Then I tried mapping the button 8 and 9 keys to other buttons, but xmodmap didn't allow it. Also, I'm not running moused if that is significant. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have seen some similar questions on forums and the mailing list archives, but no definitive solutions. Any help would be great. Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock and adjtimex?
What are the FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock (view/set the BIOS hardware clock) and adjtimex (adjust clock speed)? I couldn't find these two well-known Linux commands in ports? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?
To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does this? The basics are simple: to validate [EMAIL PROTECTED], I connect to the MX record of wnonline.net and go as far as RCPT TO as follows: host -t mx wnonline.net wnonline.net mail is handled by 5 wnspf.bayou.com. telnet wnspf.bayou.com. 25 Trying 209.209.192.75... Connected to wnspf.bayou.com.. Escape character is '^]'. 220 Welcome to Bayou mxfilter HELO domaintester.com 250 mxfilter.bayou.com MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown QUIT 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. This tells me [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an invalid address and that mail from that address is probably bogus. A more sophisticated tool would cache results, handle temporary failures (eg, inability to connect to the MX server), handle multiple MX records, perhaps even publish results [carefully, to avoid giving spammers a source of legit email addresses!], etc. Plus, I'd prefer to use a tested tool vs hacking something up myself. I realize this technique is far from perfect: Spammers spoof legit addresses Bounces/Mailing lists/etc legitimately use do not reply addresses It could be considered unfriendly to the target MX servers Some mail servers incorrectly say user unknown when they see spam, figuring it's more of a deterrent than saying you're a spammer Some mail servers inefficiently accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where xxx.com is one of their domains), figure out if foo exists later, and send a bounce back to the envelope sender, instead of rejecting email at the SMTP level (a really good tool would create throwaway addresses to catch these cases too) ... but I still think it might help. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support in 7 The maximum number of CPUs that 6.2 will make use of is 16 (kern.smp.maxcpus: 16). I don't know if it will be raised in 7.0, but since 7.x should support UltraSPARC T1, it might. How efficient are multiple CPUs supported depends on what you want to do with them. For example, if you plan using the machine for numerically intensive tasks, efficiency is almost perfect :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: limitiation on memory allocation
Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. I've read some pages about 'kern.maxusers', 'kern.maxdsize'. I have questions: 1) After I reduce 'maxusers' to some reasonable amount for that computer (say 10), maxusers is somewhat badly named because of historical reasons. Today it means something like how many big processes will the machine probably run, where a big process is something like an apache or postgresql instance, or any of the big desktop applications. It doesn't matter much if you set it (or it automatically gets set) too high. and enlarge 'maxdsize', will a user process be able to allocate arrays that are considerably bigger than the physical memory size ? This is what I really need. I run processes in which it can come to 1.5x-2x ratio. Yes, upto kernel limits... 2) Following the http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID1/40543.html#1 Should I put maxdsize == phys mem size, or should I put it lower (by how much) ? Put is as large as you want. It's taken from combined virtual+physical memory. 3) On Intel pentium 4 machine with 2GB phys memory, during installation where almost all options were taken as defaults, should I worry that kernel is not configured to use PAE ? Installation program by default allocated 4GB swap, so totally it is 6GB. How do I check this ? No, swap space is completely separate from the rest of the equation. Put as much swap space as you like, it's not limited to 4GB total. You should only consider PAE if you want to use more than about 3.5 GB of physical memory (why not 4GB? because some address space is dedicated to PCI and other hardware) AND you want to keep the kernel 32-bit. You can think of PAE as something like an in-memory swap space (but so fast you can't distinguish it from normal memory). If the kernel is 32-bit, any single process cannot allocate more than 4 GB of memory total (for obvious reasons). This means that the kernel memory (which is shared between processes, but takes the same amount of address space in each process individually) + the process' own memory cannot exceed 4 GB. Kernel address space is mostly 1 GB (there's a knob for this somewhere), so that leaves you maximum 3 GB (virtual or physical, doesn't matter) that your program can allocate if maxdsiz allows it. If you expand available virtual memory through swap or PAE, you can have multiple processes which allocate 4 GB each (upto available virtual space), but still each process individually cannot exceed 4 GB. If you switch to a 64-bit kernel, than all of this complexity vanishes because of expanded address space and your program is only limited by maxdsiz and available virtual (e.g. physical+swap) memory. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
DST on very old FreeBSD system
I've been asked to update a very old FreeBSD system -- an embedded system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. There's no need to update the OS on the system, because it is firewalled from the Internet and runs the embedded hardware it has to run just fine. But it does need the clock to be right to perform scheduled tasks. If I simply copy /etc/localtime from a FreeBSD 6.1 system to that one, will it work? Or has the time zone file format changed at all? (I seem to recall that it was fixed by POSIX, but I don't know if versions of FreeBSD that old are POSIX-compliant.) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd ACPI shutdown and power off issue
I'm using 6.2-R on a Dell PE400SC. I recently enabled Remote Wake Up (Wake on LAN) in BIOS. Sending a magic packet to the powered down PC will power it up and it boots normally. However, now if I attempt a shutdown and power off using halt -p or shutdown -p now I get a reboot. Disabling Remote Wake Up reverts back to the expected behavior. I've searched and found the sysctl knob hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff as a possible solution, but sysctl gives me unknown oid. Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
searching archives broken?
Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I missing something? e. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD/i386
Dear Sir/Madam, I'm a Windows Platform user, I just got the machine that contain FreeBSD/i386 already install. I try to use it but I can't get through the the login password screen. This machine was left over from the place that I used to work but it had been closed my boss gave to me. It the Travla mini-ITX case brand new and it small when I turn it on it just ask for loin name and password , I just have no idea who should I ask for help because I don't know how they get this machine from. Thank you for your time. Regards, Leo. (New York) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root login with telnetd
can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I've been asked to update a very old FreeBSD system -- an embedded system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. I just updated my antique BSDI 4.3 systems, and it turned out to take about five minutes. See if your system has the zic time zone compiler installed, probably in /usr/sbin or some place like that. If so, pick up the new source file /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica from a current fbsd system, become superuser, and run it through zic. It should automatically install all of the updated files in the right place. If you can't find a copy of zic, you'll need to figure out whether that version of fbsd uses the old or new timezone format. The old format starts with a bunch of binary zeros, the new format with the string TZif. If it uses the new format, just copy the timezone files from any other fbsd system. If it uses the old format, drop me a line privately and I'll send you the files from a bsdi box. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. Err, sure; and for completeness, be sure and send the IP back to this list, and publish it on the front page of your website/blog/whatnot. OK, cynicism aside, why on earth would you want to do this? That's a fool's errand in today's world. Or, are you on a 2-machine network via crossover cable in a lockdown facility? Kevin Kinsey -- For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. -- Abraham Lincoln ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD/i386
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:45:13PM -0500, Nattawut wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I'm a Windows Platform user, I just got the machine that contain FreeBSD/i386 already install. I try to use it but I can't get through the the login password screen. This machine was left over from the place that I used to work but it had been closed my boss gave to me. It the Travla mini-ITX case brand new and it small when I turn it on it just ask for loin name and password , I just have no idea who should I ask for help because I don't know how they get this machine from. Thank you for your time. Depends on what you want to do with the machine. If you want to use it with Windows, I would suggest that you trash the FreeBSD installation and install Windows over it. Otherwise you will have to put in the time to learn the O/S; there are quite a few resources on the 'Net including the FreeBSD Handbook, as well as Greg Lehey's (free) book The Complete FreeBSD. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD/i386
Nattawut wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I'm a Windows Platform user, I just got the machine that contain FreeBSD/i386 already install. I try to use it but I can't get through the the login password screen. This machine was left over from the place that I used to work but it had been closed my boss gave to me. It the Travla mini-ITX case brand new and it small when I turn it on it just ask for loin name and password , I just have no idea who should I ask for help because I don't know how they get this machine from. Thank you for your time. Regards, Hello, Leo/Nattawut! There are a bunch of Sirs and some Madams here (we are all FreeBSD users -- this is a volunteer help mailing list). Before I make any other suggestions, let me suggest that you take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook (where many questions like this are answered already). You can find it online at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook Next, try logging in with username root and nothing else (i.e., simply press ENTER when prompted for a password). If that doesn't work, look for escape to loader prompt on the 3rd stage boot menu, and press the appropriate key on your system's keyboard. You will receive a simple command prompt; type boot -s at this prompt. If you are prompted enter name of default shell or press RETURN for /bin/sh, then press RETURN and then do as follows ($ is the computer's prompt; type the commands as shown following the $). $ mount -a $ passwd Changing local password for root. Enter new password: mypasswordhere Retype new password: mypasswordhere $ shutdown -r now This will mount all filesystems so that the password file can be changed, change the root password to a password of your choosing, and reboot the system to normal mode. If this procedure doesn't work, don't be alarmed---there are a few possibilities that might keep this from working; check the handbook, and, if needed, write again to the questions@ list with a new subject line describing your new problem. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Personifiers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity! -- Bernadette Bosky ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching archives broken?
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800 Ed Zwart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I missing something? I use google to search the FreeBSD site. Do your google search as usual but add site:freebsd.org at the end and it limits the searches to freebsd.org. Other operators can be used for google also: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html HTH some, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system
John: /etc/localtime on the 2.2.8 system begins with a series of nulls, not the string TZif. However, some of our other clients have 4.x systems whose /etc/localtime files do begin with TZif. If you could send or post the files for the MST7MDT zone in both formats, it'd be a great help. It'd be nice if administrators could just download the relevant files and drop them into /etc/localtime. Perhaps someone with the power to do so could upload the zones in both formats to directories on ftp.freebsd.org, so folks could bring in the zone(s) they needed via the fetch program. --Brett Glass At 02:27 PM 3/10/2007, John Levine wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I've been asked to update a very old FreeBSD system -- an embedded system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. I just updated my antique BSDI 4.3 systems, and it turned out to take about five minutes. See if your system has the zic time zone compiler installed, probably in /usr/sbin or some place like that. If so, pick up the new source file /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/northamerica from a current fbsd system, become superuser, and run it through zic. It should automatically install all of the updated files in the right place. If you can't find a copy of zic, you'll need to figure out whether that version of fbsd uses the old or new timezone format. The old format starts with a bunch of binary zeros, the new format with the string TZif. If it uses the new format, just copy the timezone files from any other fbsd system. If it uses the old format, drop me a line privately and I'll send you the files from a bsdi box. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
On Saturday 10 March 2007 12:52, Wojciech Puchar said: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. That is a REALLY BAD idea. Why don't you just publish your address and set the root password to nothing. It's only going to take a cracker a couple of minutes or less to own your server once they find you (and they will). Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html --- pgpCv0tUzgXql.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD/i386
mini-ITX case brand new and it small when I turn it on it just ask for loin name and password , I just have no idea who should I ask for help because I don't know how they get this machine from. Thank you for your time. see www.freebsd.org and look at handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
It all depends on your workload. FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html Kris anyway it's worth to actually test machine before buying. even for 1 cpu systems lots of crappy motherboards/BIOSES make problems with these all inventions like interrupt routing etc. ending with 100Mbit/s network adapter taking 10-20% of fast CPU ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
I have heard it does not scale well above 4 to be clear. kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, everything else on any CPU. so as long as disk I/O network and other kernel tasks are able to fit on one processor that's OK. for machines doing mostly pure computing 8-16 CPU may work fine, for machines doing mostly fileserving and routing even 2 CPUs may be not well utilized ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system
system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. There's no need to update the OS on the system, because it is firewalled from the Internet and runs the embedded hardware it has to run just fine. But it does need the clock to be right to perform scheduled tasks. If I simply copy /etc/localtime from a FreeBSD 6.1 system to that one, will it work? Or has the time zone file format changed at all? (I seem to recall that it was fixed by POSIX, but I don't know if versions of FreeBSD that old are POSIX-compliant.) there is 2.2.9 release on FTP. get base distribution and extract needed files - and be sure it will fit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:40:47PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have heard it does not scale well above 4 to be clear. kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, everything else on any CPU. This is incorrect for approximately the last 7 years (it is only true for FreeBSD 4.x and below). Kris pgpWafo8UQ1NP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: searching archives broken?
Thanks Randy, I use google's advanced search all the time! The trouble with limiting to freebsd.org is that it's a bigger search space than just this list's archive. I've been reading the freebsd handbook for quite some time, and have learned a lot there. But I've got a few dots left that need connecting that I think you all will be able to set me straight on very quickly. So, I'm off to start another thread on what I really came here for... (but making the archive search work would be great still!) e. On 3/10/07, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800 Ed Zwart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I missing something? I use google to search the FreeBSD site. Do your google search as usual but add site:freebsd.org at the end and it limits the searches to freebsd.org. Other operators can be used for google also: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html HTH some, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to choose installation media and choose CD/DVD the response is No CD/DVD devices found! what can I do about this? Cheers, Noah Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
If your system's BIOS will support booting from that drive, select it as the first boot device. -Derek At 05:41 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perforce access
On 2007-03-09 17:10, FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear list, is it prossible (for a normal mortal, aka non-committer ) to access the the perforce repository to get code? There is always read-only access available through the Perforce web interface at: http://perforce.freebsd.org/ To really work with a Perforce client, though, you would have to get an account. Perforce accounts are managed by the project itself, but you don't _have_ to be a committer to work in Perforce. For example, those who are working on Google Summer of Code projects related to FreeBSD usually get a Perforce account, to help them integrate their work with the source trees/branches which are already available through Perforce. HTH, Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to choose installation media and choose CD/DVD the response is No CD/DVD devices found! what can I do about this? Cheers, Noah Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
how do I identify the filesystem and/or device that the cdrom is considered? Cheers, Noah Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to choose installation media and choose CD/DVD the response is No CD/DVD devices found! what can I do about this? Cheers, Noah Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
Quoting Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 10 March 2007 12:52, Wojciech Puchar said: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. That is a REALLY BAD idea. Why don't you just publish your address and set the root password to nothing. It's only going to take a cracker a couple of minutes or less to own your server once they find you (and they will). In fact, it's such a bad idea that there's a Snort rule for it (and a really old one at that): alert tcp $TELNET_SERVERS 23 - $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:TELNET root login; flow :from_server,established; content:login|3A| root; classtype:suspicious-login; sid:719; rev:7;) Of course, if you really want to do this, I agree with everyone else -- just put your IP on this list, and we'll help you right on out. :-) Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
if I attempt to exit sysinstall then it says the only other option is to reboot. Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to choose installation media and choose CD/DVD the response is No CD/DVD devices found! what can I do about this? Cheers, Noah Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching archives broken?
Ed Zwart wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I missing something? e. I have noticed this too. The fix I found is changing the search field from all to recent. For example, if I search for mount, and search all, nothing is displayed. However, searching for mount with recent selected, returns results. I think it has to do with how many results it finds. Hope this helps, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:36:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software does, what applications it supports (e.g., will it run Microsoft Office), how much it costs. You have found a good one. You need to go to the FreeBSD web site www.freebsd.org and do a lot of reading, both the handbook and the FAQ as well as other sites that are pointed to. FreeBSD is indeen free to download and use. You would need to burn your own installation CD (disk1). Optionally, there are a couple of companies who make up a package of pre-burned CDs and a printed handbook and sell them for a nominal price - and most donate a small part of that to the FreeBSD foundation.. FreeBSD has more than 10,000 software utilities that have been ported to run on it. Check our ports on the FreeBSD web site. It does not run Microsoft software directly, but many of those ports are worthy substitutes for the MSU software. For example, there is a package called 'Openoffice' that does most of the stuff MS Office can do. It's word processor is called swriter and can read and/or create files in MS-Word format as well as some others. It has a spread sheet, and presentation (power point) utility, etc. There are even desktop oriented window managers such as KDe if you must have all the pointy-clicky stuff (prefer a command line interface for most thing so don't bother with KDE). But, you must know that even though you can get a lot of questions answered here, you must do the work yourself. FreeBSD is not oriented toward preventing you from learning things and managing your own machine like some Northwest USA companies seem to want to do. That takes some effort, but results in a more powerful environment once you get things under control. So, download the ISO, burn it and install it and start esperimenting and learning and doing some actual computer work. jerry does your OS relate to this project? any help would be appreciated. thank you tom gunderman BRBRBR**BR AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? You can change the config file to allow it, but that is considered poor security. The thing to do is to create a non-root account to log in to and add that id to the wheel group in /etc/group file. Then log in as that user and su to root only for those things that need root. jerry Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Just edit the /etc/group file - using vi probably or any other text editor. On the line that establishes the wheel group, just add the user id on the end separated with a comma. eg. add ',otherid' to the end of the line. Save (write) and quit. It is now there. jerry Thanks, Dima. On 3/10/07, Guido Demmenie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default setting is that root can not login via ssh (and that's how you want it). You can use su(1) to gain root privileges when loged in on your box with a normal user if needed (if you are in the group wheel). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
Usually it is: /dev/cd0 /dev/cd1 etc, depends on how many optical drives you have. In sysinstall, you can go to the index of functions and from there execute the start an emergency shell. That will start the emergency shell so you can do the manual mount on the other virtual terminal without leaving sysinstall. -Derek At 06:19 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: if I attempt to exit sysinstall then it says the only other option is to reboot. Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to choose installation media and choose CD/DVD the response is No CD/DVD devices found! what can I do about this? Cheers, Noah Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers http://www.transtec.co.uk/ for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching archives broken?
Jon, where are you searching from? The link I gave in my initial question does not have the 'recent' limiter you mentioned. thanks e. On 3/10/07, Jon Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Zwart wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I missing something? e. I have noticed this too. The fix I found is changing the search field from all to recent. For example, if I search for mount, and search all, nothing is displayed. However, searching for mount with recent selected, returns results. I think it has to do with how many results it finds. Hope this helps, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Best OS
Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C) FreeBSD Which project has good Support and Active Development ? Please help me to choose THANKS IN ADVANCE SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Best OS
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C) FreeBSD D) The one you prefer... Let's not have this war... Ok? The best OS is the one that works for YOU -- Best regards, Chris Subject to change without notice. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Best OS
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C) FreeBSD Which project has good Support and Active Development ? Please help me to choose THANKS IN ADVANCE SUSANTH K ___ I have used FreeBSD since version 3.* in the 1990's. I have used Linux but I still use FreeBSD (version 6* and 7*) on servers and some desktops. It is rock solid. If you learn it, and like it use it by all means. The support from the world wide mailing list of users is the best. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The MySQL Low Performance in FreeBSD
On 3/10/07, Susanth K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai Every One, Do The Low Performance of MySQL on FreeBSD Still Exists ? ( in FreeBSD6.2 ) Please HELP SUSANTH K since FreeBSD 6.0 and using libthr instead of linuxthread, there is no low performance issues. Make sure you'll use MySQL 5.0.x from the ports instead of MySQL 4.x -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-02-18 - 2007-03-10
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. These are the articles posted during this period: 8-Mar : Jails under FreeBSD 6 Jails are great. Here's my recipie http://freebsddiary.org/jail-6.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Best OS
On Mar 10, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C) FreeBSD For what you are doing, any of them would work. All are well supported and have active development. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
some advice on sysctl tuning
Hello all, i have a Server which does mail, and web+mysql+php. I have about 15 vhosts in Apache. Are there some neat sysctl Knobs i can turn to avoid potential Problems? Thanks a lot, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?
Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding the interface the driver isn't present (although it is available if one compiles the kernel with the proper driver), and if I do install the system it fails to properly detect the root devices at boot (something to do with the RAID setup or numbering drives I believe). So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). As a wonderful sidenote, for kicks I tried to install Vista and I must say that it sucks.. blue screens / locks up every time I have a session open. This year is a year for Unix to come back because I sense a lot of bad problems for Windows / MS on the horizon.. Cheers and thanks! -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?
So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). There are 7.0-CURRENT snapshots available on ftp.freebsd.org, for example: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200703/7.0-CURRENT-200703-amd64-disc1.iso Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
to be clear. kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, everything else on any CPU. This is incorrect for approximately the last 7 years (it is only true for FreeBSD 4.x and below). Kris hmm.. nice. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?
In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding the interface the driver isn't present (although it is available if one compiles the kernel with the proper driver), and if I do install the system it fails to properly detect the root devices at boot (something to do with the RAID setup or numbering drives I believe). So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). CDs for current are available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ ; pick the latest dated subdirectory. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
Err, sure; and for completeness, be sure and send the IP back to this list, and publish it on the front page of your website/blog/whatnot. and what if i will? do you know my root password? OK, cynicism aside, why on earth would you want to do this? That's a fool's errand in today's world. Or, are you on a 2-machine network via crossover if you can't answer the question, just shut up. EOT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very intelligent comments? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding the interface the driver isn't present (although it is available if one compiles the kernel with the proper driver), and if I do install the system it fails to properly detect the root devices at boot (something to do with the RAID setup or numbering drives I believe). So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). CDs for current are available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ ; pick the latest dated subdirectory. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh nice! Thanks (both of you) guys! -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock and adjtimex?
In the last episode (Mar 10), Kelly Jones said: What are the FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock (view/set the BIOS hardware clock) and adjtimex (adjust clock speed)? I couldn't find these two well-known Linux commands in ports? FreeBSD sets the hardware clock whenever settimeofday() is called (unless the sysctl machdep.disable_rtc_set is set). I don't think there's a way to retrieve the current hardware clock settings from userland. Linux's adjtimex(2) is called ntp_adjtime(2) in FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Max CPUs in SMP
Which UNIX flavour supports the MAX CPS in SMP ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very intelligent comments? Not sure. If I'm reading ttys(5) correctly though this is the section of interest: ``secure'' (if ``on'' is also specified) allows users with a uid of 0 to login on this line. The flag ``dialin'' indicates that a tty entry describes a dialin line, and ``network'' indicates that a tty entry pro- vides a network connection. Either of these strings may also be speci- fied in the terminal type field. The string ``window='' may be followed by a quoted command string which init(8) will execute before starting the command specified by the second field. So I think that the following would be valid (but possibly dangerous if you use other login daemons like rshd, sshd for logging in remotely); that may be fixable with a firewall though and specific rules to each daemon though. In ttys (near bottom), instead of: ttyp0 none network try: ttyp0 none network on secure and repeat for the rest of the ttys you wish to enable the option for. Why not use root login with telnet or standard getty through serial though :\? -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
alert tcp $TELNET_SERVERS 23 - $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:TELNET root login; flow :from_server,established; content:login|3A| root; classtype:suspicious-login; sid:719; rev:7;) could you please tell me who will be snorting it on MY network? Of course, if you really want to do this, I agree with everyone else -- just put your IP on this list, and we'll help you right on out. :-) just answer my question, you VIM (very intelligent man). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root login with telnetd
with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. That is a REALLY BAD idea. Why don't you just publish your address and set the root password to nothing. It's only going to take a cracker a couple of minutes or less to own your server once they find you (and they will). another stupid one not answering the question. could you describe how you get my password in a couple of minutes if you are so intelligent? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh login as root
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. see /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change permitroot to yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Max CPUs in SMP
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:01:31PM +0530, Susanth K wrote: Which UNIX flavour supports the MAX CPS in SMP ? This isn't really a meaningful question. Do you really have a system with e.g. 1024 CPUs that you need to run an OS on? If not, what hardware are you really asking about? Kris pgpBLNCJqfLL8.pgp Description: PGP signature
