Re: [OFF?] Mac OX Driver
On Sunday 13 September 2009 17:39:50 John Nielsen wrote: origins. Snow Leopard may be your friend. JN What do you mean by that, John? What help can I get from Snow Leopard? On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:23:33 Michael David Crawford wrote: One doesn't generally port device drivers between such different systems; it's more like doing a complete rewrite. Mike Since my post, I have found out 2 things: 1) A good while back, a guy called Thomas Skibo was writing a driver for it It's pretty old and he has not touched it for a long time, but he was kind enough to send it to me. And I will try to make it work. 2) Downloaded the latest alsa drivers, which contains a driver specifically for my board (gina20). Maybe I can get clues from it. I would try OSS but only the comercial version has drivers for it. Don't know if I'll be successful but I'll post if I am. Many thanks to you both for replying ! -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Dump/Restore?
On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single file without exploding the whole tape dump? Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP Sorry, I was reading the restore man from my mac, and it was not as clear. The restore does not seem to work from my mac (this is where my backup dumps reside as I have two massive HDs). I guess the mac restore would only work with HFS+ and not UFS. I guess the only way would be to move the massive dump file back over to the FreeBSD server. Thanks, Chris KQ6UP ___ Try using NFS or cat over ssh, something like $ ssh my_mac 'cat dumpfile' | restore -if - restore treats the file as a tape, so it doesn't pull any bytes until you ask it to. This should be the least network intensive way of doing it Good luck! Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: linux-pango won't install
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:05:42 -0500 ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 12 September 2009 05:19:22 Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:23 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: If you still want to install the port, you could just add this to the /etc/make.conf file: # Pango .if $(.CURDIR:M*/x11-toolkits/linux-pango) DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes .endif How long has this been broken for 7.2? Considering all the stuff that depends on linux-pango, I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed. It will be broken until someone provide an URL to non-vulnerable RPM package. Upgrade to the latest version of Pango (1.24 or later), available from the Pango Web site http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...ch/pango/field[]/1/field[]/2 Sorry, I didn't manage to find a Pango 1.24 package for Fedora Core 4. Can you post an URL? -- 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 freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG invokes installation of FF 2.x. This fails, as the port is marked as forbidden, and then the installation of these graphics programs fails. Not a huge deal, but any way to work around it? You can build most of the ports that depend on GECKO with the following in your `/etc/make.conf' file: WITH_GECKO= libxul I just finished rebuilding my packages in a chroot with this option, and firefox 2.x was not required for a full x11/gnome2 build: # pkg_info | fgrep firefo firefox-3.5.3,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla # ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
mutt users - text/enriched crashes mutt?
I've got a text/enriched email, which crashes mutt-devel-1.5.20_1 This is FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT ia64 When I open this email, mutt freezes, while the /tmp/mutt* file is growing until it fills the partition, and I get a message on the terminal, something can't copy file, device full: -rw--- 1 mexas wheel 215941357 14 Sep 10:48 mutt-mech-cluster241-RHvpz380-0 Now, the manual, http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html, claims: Mutt internally supports a number of MIME types, including text/plain, text/enriched, ... So is there something wrong with my installation, or with this message? Below is a copy of the offending email: Please advise many thanks ### From xxx@bristol.ac.uk Wed Sep 9 16:06:03 2009 Return-Path: xxx@bristol.ac.uk Received: from some.host (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by some.host (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n89F62Uv090897 for me...@localhost; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:06:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from xxx@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from epo.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.55] by some.host with IMAP (fetchmail-6.3.11) for me...@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:06:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from epo.bris.ac.uk ([unix socket]) by groucho (Cyrus v2.2.12) with LMTPA; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:02:51 +0100 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.102]) by epo.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from xxx@bristol.ac.uk) id 1MlOh9-0007Nc-Qu; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:02:51 +0100 Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from xxx@bristol.ac.uk) id 1MlOh9-0004MN-Md; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:02:51 +0100 Received: from mech-sec144.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.184.144]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from om...@bristol.ac.uk) id 1MlOh9-00038K-GY; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:02:51 +0100 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:02:50 +0100 From: MK zzz xxx@bristol.ac.uk To: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: UG projects students Message-ID: a1018eb7b1ca3099a2730...@mech-sec144.men.bris.ac.uk In-Reply-To: 20090904113606.ga93...@some.host References: 20090904113606.ga93...@some.host Originator-Info: login-token=Mulberry:01yZcCczgEb94E2Hvd9y/9L9wB+XiWCTsNMNUGAXuX9yzFd94=; token_authority=postmas...@bristol.ac.uk X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.5 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary===F08EA8DED4439FC5ABE4== Content-Disposition: inline Status: RO Content-Length: 3055 Lines: 175 --==F08EA8DED4439FC5ABE4== Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline fontfamilyparamzzz/paramflushleft zzz /flushleft/fontfamily --==F08EA8DED4439FC5ABE4==-- -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 5924 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: linux-pango won't install
On Monday 14 September 2009 02:37:09 Boris Samorodov wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:05:42 -0500 ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 12 September 2009 05:19:22 Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:23 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: If you still want to install the port, you could just add this to the /etc/make.conf file: # Pango .if $(.CURDIR:M*/x11-toolkits/linux-pango) DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes .endif How long has this been broken for 7.2? Considering all the stuff that depends on linux-pango, I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed. It will be broken until someone provide an URL to non-vulnerable RPM package. Upgrade to the latest version of Pango (1.24 or later), available from the Pango Web site http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...ch/pango/field[]/1/field[]/2 Sorry, I didn't manage to find a Pango 1.24 package for Fedora Core 4. Can you post an URL? I wil try but I don't know because Fedora core is very old. -- Mitja - http://starikarp.redbubble.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
postgresql does not build correctly
I have been trying on and off to set up postgresql for undernets gnuworld services for ircd. Now according to the instructions below this should build with tcl support and you should end up with the following file /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgtclsh Except you dont. Instructions freebsd:/root# tar -xzf postgresql-8.1.4.tar.gz freebsd:/root# cd postgresql-8.1.4/ freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# ./configure --with-CXX \ --enable-multibyte \ --with-tcl --without-tk \ --with-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 \ --with-includes=/usr/local/include/tcl8.4 \ --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 You need gmake 3.79 or above to build PostgreSQL (and you will also need it for GNUworld later), check you have it by running gmake --version, you should get something like this : Note: You will also need automake 1.6 or above in order to build GNUworld. freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# gmake --version If you don't have gmake, you can get it here ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.80.tar.gz . If you don't have automake 1.6+, you can get 1.7.9 here ftp://ftp.grolier.fr/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.9.ta r.gz . If that's ok, you can go on and build PostgreSQL for real, then install it... freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# gmake freebsd:/root/postgresql-8.1.4# gmake install If you are using bash as your shell programm, add the following line : export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/lib into /etc/profile. zsh, sh and ksh use the same command in their respective .shrc .zshrc .kshrc ~ files. For csh and tcsh you will need to use setenv instead : setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pgsql/lib To check that your PostreSQL installation includes TCL support, check that the following file exists onto your system : /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgtclsh Everything seems to work without any errors during the ./configure stage and gmake install, I just dont end up with pgtclsh at the end of it. Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: postgresql does not build correctly
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:11:51PM +0100, Graeme Dargie wrote: I have been trying on and off to set up postgresql for undernets gnuworld services for ircd. Now according to the instructions below this should build with tcl support and you should end up with the following file /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pgtclsh Except you dont. Try installing the databases/postgresql-tcltk 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) pgpyl0gk7bAPK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Routes to local addresses through lo0 on 8.0-BETA4
Hi! On 8.0-BETA4 gate I see than in routing table are number of routes (link# records) through lo0 for some local addresses: hole netstat -rnfinet | grep lo0 127.0.0.1 link#7 UH 030764lo0 172.22.254.10 link#7 UHS 00lo0 192.168.253.254link#7 UHS 00lo0 xl0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU ether 00:04:76:16:5b:bc inet 10.106.148.206 netmask 0xf000 broadcast 10.106.159.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active [...] xl2: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU ether 00:b0:d0:e1:6b:62 inet 192.168.253.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.253.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active tun3: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1390 inet 172.22.254.10 -- 172.22.254.9 netmask 0x Opened by PID 1971 Is it normal. On older FreeBSD I see link# records only for network prefix. -- S.Listopad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dump/Restore?
utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single file without exploding the whole tape dump? Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP Sorry, I was reading the restore man from my mac, and it was not as clear. The restore does not seem to work from my mac (this is where my backup dumps reside as I have two massive HDs). I guess the mac restore would only work with HFS+ and not UFS. I guess the only way would be to move the massive dump file back over to the FreeBSD server. Thanks, Chris KQ6UP ___ Try using NFS or cat over ssh, something like $ ssh my_mac 'cat dumpfile' | restore -if - restore treats the file as a tape, so it doesn't pull any bytes until you ask it to. This should be the least network intensive way of doing it Good luck! Chris Thanks, that looks like a pretty cool trick. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dump/Restore?
--- On Sun, 9/13/09, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: From: Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Subject: Re: Dump/Restore? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 9:50 PM On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single file without exploding the whole tape dump? Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP Sorry, I was reading the restore man from my mac, and it was not as clear. The restore does not seem to work from my mac (this is where my backup dumps reside as I have two massive HDs). I guess the mac restore would only work with HFS+ and not UFS. I guess the only way would be to move the massive dump file back over to the FreeBSD server. If the dump was made on the mac, it's highly likely restore will need to be run from the mac. If it was made on freebsd, you'll likely need to run restore from freebsd. Assuming you run it from the appropriate place.. I don't have my Mac handy to check it's man pages, but in FreeBSD I believe in it that it would be #restore -i -f file or #restore -i device Then use 'ls' and 'cd' to find the file you want. In the restore : prompt you can add filename to add it to the restore list. Works with folders, too. extract to finally pull those out. YMMV, so read the docs. I would suspect the Mac has similar options, though can't confirm that at the moment. -Rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ath atheros 5424/2424 on the CQ60 Presario
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Kenneth wrote: Anyone been able to use the ath driver on an atheros 5424/2424? I have a Compaq Presario CQ60 and can not get the wireless light to turn blue? For a working LED, the Atheros AR5007 (5424/2424) in my Acer requires dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 dev.ath.0.softled=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf. Works without that, just no LED. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:55, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG invokes installation of FF 2.x. This fails, as the port is marked as forbidden, and then the installation of these graphics programs fails. Not a huge deal, but any way to work around it? You can build most of the ports that depend on GECKO with the following in your `/etc/make.conf' file: WITH_GECKO= libxul I just finished rebuilding my packages in a chroot with this option, and firefox 2.x was not required for a full x11/gnome2 build: # pkg_info | fgrep firefo firefox-3.5.3,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla # Even better. Many thanks. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Brent Jones - Selection Into Strathmore's Who's Who
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Re: Dump/Restore?
2009/9/14 Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com: utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 14 Sep 2009 02:50, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single file without exploding the whole tape dump? Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP Sorry, I was reading the restore man from my mac, and it was not as clear. The restore does not seem to work from my mac (this is where my backup dumps reside as I have two massive HDs). I guess the mac restore would only work with HFS+ and not UFS. I guess the only way would be to move the massive dump file back over to the FreeBSD server. Thanks, Chris KQ6UP ___ Try using NFS or cat over ssh, something like $ ssh my_mac 'cat dumpfile' | restore -if - restore treats the file as a tape, so it doesn't pull any bytes until you ask it to. This should be the least network intensive way of doing it Good luck! Chris Thanks, that looks like a pretty cool trick. Chris Let me know how you get on with it, I gzip my dumps and can pipe together commands like that, so it should work! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dump/Restore?
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:15:55PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single file without exploding the whole tape dump? Yes, it is easily done. Just use the 'interactive' option. First, be clear where you want the restores file[s] to go. The official way to do the interactive option is to cd in to the bottom level of the filesystem it is in and do it from there. Restore will then put the files in the directories where they were when the dump was made. So, if the file[s] were in /home/joes/files/ cd to /home and do the restore. It will take care of knowing about the joes and files subdirectories and build them if they are not there. But, really the general recommended way (and the way I do it) to do an interactive restore is to create a designated directory for it and cd in to that. It can be anywhere there is room for the files. So, for example, on some systems I have a large amount of extra space in a filesystem I mount as /work. Within that I create a directory I can recover (for lack of any more imaginative name). I cd to the /work/recover directory and do the interactive restore. eg do: cd /work/recover restore -if dump_device/file Then fish around amongst the directories. When you find the one[s] you need to restore, just do add filename You can keep going and add several files and directories. When you have all that you want/need, then type extract It will ask you what tape to start with. If the dump is a file or of there is only one tape or other device, type 1 If there are more than one tape, type in the number of the last tape. It will search backward through the list of tapes/devices until it finds the files. eg. if there are 7 tapes in the level 0 dump set, start with 7, then give it 6 and then 5, etc. It will quit asking when it finds the files. Finally, it will ask if you want to set ownership of . Say no unless you have a good reason for doing otherwise. Now, if you have used a separate directory as I suggest above, tell restore to quit and then look at the file[s] to make sure they are all right and then manually move then to whichever directory you want. You can then delete them from /work/recover but leave that directory around for when you need it again. This is good for any circumstance when you want to pull just one of a few files out of a dump (or a tar file). I do a similar thing when I untar stuff I have moved over. I make a /work/unroll directory and untar stuff in there and move whay I want to where I want it. This may seem to be an extra unnecessary step, but it cuts down on errors, in my handling directories and file locations. jerry Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ftpd virtual www hosts
Hi Im new to the list, hope I have the right one, but if not, please let me know. And forgive me if I don't speak clear unix. I am trying to set up a webserver, with virtual hosting accounts. Naturally, I want to be able to give users the ability to upload files to their web directories. Setting up basic ftp is not an issue for me. I can set up a user at / usr/home/user, and can upload via ftp just fine. Of course that directory is owned by user:user. I also get ftpchroot just fine. Next I go to vipw to change the user's home dir to something in the www area, which is owned by www:www. This is where my problems start with being denied. I am assuming that uploading to the unprivileged user www is getting in my way. I have tried to play with groups, ownership and permissions, etc, but I am not getting very far. I thought I'd see a boatload of information on Google about this. Any help is much appreciated, something that will give a user enough rights to upload his site, while at the same time keeping the webserver running as unprivileged as possible. I am new to freebsd. I was using wu on solaris prior to this... will the freebsd ftpd do what I want? Thank you Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Non-root user and accept() or listen()
Hi, I am not sure if this exists (but don't think so), so I am asking. Is there a sysctl type thing to disallow non-root users, or indeed any specified user or group, from running a program with listen() ? What I am looking at is improving network security, such that if a user account is compromised it can then not be used to run a dodgy web server/whatever on a non-privileged port. Although I can firewall off any port I wish, it seems like an obvious thing to disallow any user from opening a listening socket in the first place. I am suggesting something like sysctl user.socket_listen with enable or disable. Am I being really daft? Or does this exist already? Cheers, Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
rebinding keys to functions
My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Routes to local addresses through lo0 on 8.0-BETA4
Sergey Listopad wrote: Hi! On 8.0-BETA4 gate I see than in routing table are number of routes (link# records) through lo0 for some local addresses: hole netstat -rnfinet | grep lo0 127.0.0.1 link#7 UH 030764lo0 172.22.254.10 link#7 UHS 00lo0 192.168.253.254link#7 UHS 00lo0 Is it normal. On older FreeBSD I see link# records only for network prefix. Yes, it is normal. It's one of the user-visible changes from the ARP and NDP rewrite in 8.0. Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dump/Restore?
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:50:05PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I level 0 dump of my server. I lost a file that I need back. Is it possible to use restore like tar and explode it into a directory instead of a pristine partition/mount? Or even better, is it possible to just extract a single file without exploding the whole tape dump? Sorry if the question seems stupid. Chris KQ6UP Sorry, I was reading the restore man from my mac, and it was not as clear. The restore does not seem to work from my mac (this is where my backup dumps reside as I have two massive HDs). I guess the mac restore would only work with HFS+ and not UFS. I guess the only way would be to move the massive dump file back over to the FreeBSD server. The dump is just a file and it should not matter where it is stored, but you will have to use some network access type thing such as an rsh or an NFS connection to read it. Another thing is that restores need to be done on the same OS that the dumps were written - regardless of where they are stored. dump/restore depends on knowing something about the underlying filesystem, so it is not transferable from one system to another and often even between one OS version to another, like tar tends to be.But, you can make the dump file move between where it is stored and a system that can restore from it using one of the network protocols. jerry Thanks, Chris KQ6UP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores kill -9
on ia64 HEAD, gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU, yeat CPU time is zero: PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 60071 1001 2 480 98008K 51424K CPU11 0:00 100.00% gnuplot kill -9 60071, either from my account, or from root, has no effect, the process is still there. I cannot find a way to terminate this hanged process without reboot. This seems to be a regression. Please advise many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 5924 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores kill -9
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: on ia64 HEAD, gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU, yeat CPU time is zero: PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 60071 1001 2 480 98008K 51424K CPU11 0:00 100.00% gnuplot kill -9 60071, either from my account, or from root, has no effect, the process is still there. I cannot find a way to terminate this hanged process without reboot. This seems to be a regression. running gnuplot in batch (non-interactive) mode seems fine, so the problem seems to be with the screen terminal. I'm mostly puzzled by the fact that I cannot kill the process.. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 5924 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores kill -9
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:42:41PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: on ia64 HEAD, gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU, yeat CPU time is zero: PIDUIDTHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 60071 1001 2 480 98008K 51424K CPU11 0:00 100.00% gnuplot kill -9 60071, either from my account, or from root, has no effect, the process is still there. I cannot find a way to terminate this hanged process without reboot. This seems to be a regression. running gnuplot in batch (non-interactive) mode seems fine, so the problem seems to be with the screen terminal. I'm mostly puzzled by the fact that I cannot kill the process.. It could be that the process is stuck in the 'D' state (uninterruptable wait). You can veryfiy that by running 'ps -u' and looking in the eight column when gnuplot is running. Does the window with the plot actually appear? Interactive use of gnuplot-4.2.6 is fine on amd64 7.2-RELEASE-p2. 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) pgpStp7VLkmMQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: linux-pango won't install
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:24:21PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 02:19:22PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:23 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: How long has this been broken for 7.2? Considering all the stuff that depends on linux-pango, I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed. It will be broken until someone provide an URL to non-vulnerable RPM package. Daniel Bye's comments seem to indicate that FreeBSD 8.x doesn't have this problem. Did I misunderstand? FreeBSD 8 uses linux-f10 as its default linuxulator, and in that, pango has been updated to 1.22.3, which doesn't seem to suffer from the same vulnerabilities. Or at least, they haven't yet been exposed! ;-) You may be able to use f10 on 7.2 - set compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 in /etc/sysctl.conf, and OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f10 OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f10 in /etc/make.conf, then reinstall all your linux stuff. I did this before moving on to 8BETA1 and it worked OK. I think I ended up deleting all the old stuff, before installing afresh. As all the packages are already compiled, it shouldn't take long. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpBBmbqIrFzL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: rebinding keys to functions
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:52:56PM +, Eitan Adler wrote: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). How you can bind keypresses to commands in X depends on the window manager or desktop environment you are using. See the revelant documentation. On my laptop (centrino 2 platform, PM 45 chipset), using Fn combination works to change speaker volume and screen brightness, but this is done outside the OS. The X server doesn't even 'see' those keypresses. 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) pgpxHGoN5b3qf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Non-root user and accept() or listen()
2009/9/14 Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com: Hi, I am not sure if this exists (but don't think so), so I am asking. Is there a sysctl type thing to disallow non-root users, or indeed any specified user or group, from running a program with listen() ? What I am looking at is improving network security, such that if a user account is compromised it can then not be used to run a dodgy web server/whatever on a non-privileged port. Although I can firewall off any port I wish, it seems like an obvious thing to disallow any user from opening a listening socket in the first place. I am suggesting something like sysctl user.socket_listen with enable or disable. Am I being really daft? Or does this exist already? Cheers, Frem. Isn't this a bit drastic? Listening sockets are opened by very many types of processes, as well as remembering that sendmail, BIND, and others don't actually run as root... I suppose it'd be possible, but would it actually be useful? BTW, there may be an ipfw rule for this, I'll have to look it up when my servers are back online! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: rebinding keys to functions
Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). If this is what I think it is, he probably can't. I have a Logitech iTouch keyboard; it has eighteen buttons and two dials. None of them register under xev. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Traffic Shaping Bridge with Dummynet
I am trying to do traffic shaping using a bridge on FreeBSD 7.1. I have the bridge configured and it works fine. It looks like this: rest of network - xl0 - bridge0 - xl1 - side to be shaped It works with the following set of ipfw rules (pipes in but unlimited bw): network=10.10.10.0/24 limit=0 ipfw -q -f flush ipfw -q pipe 1000 config mask dst-ip 0x00ff bw $limit ipfw -q add pipe 1000 ip from any to $network via xl1 ipfw -q pipe 1001 config mask src-ip 0x00ff bw $limit ipfw -q add pipe 1001 ip from $network to any via xl1 ipfw -q add 6 allow all from any to any If I change the limit to 1Mbit/s (or anything else) it stops passing traffic. I used tcpdump and I can see the traffic on the bridge but I cannot see it after the bridge. However ipfw -a list shows the counts for the pipe going up, which doesn't make sense to me. I've tried adding: ipfw -q add allow all from any to any via bridge0 ipfw -q add allow all from any to any via xl0 before the pipes. I also tried moving the pipes to bridge0 and xl0. The docs on bridging (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-bridging.html) says The bridge can be used as a traffic shaper with altq(4) or dummynet(4). So what am I doing wrong? What else do I need to do to limit the bandwidth over a bridge? Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Kind regards, Dan Goodin 415-495-5411 Original Message Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD = 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer dereference Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:33 +0200 From: Przemyslaw Frasunek veng...@freebsd.lublin.pl Organization: frasunek.com To: full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk, bugt...@securityfocus.com References: 4a9028ac.9080...@freebsd.lublin.pl Przemyslaw Frasunek pisze: FreeBSD = 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP There is yet another kqueue related vulnerability. It affects 6.x, up to 6.4-STABLE. FreeBSD security team was notified on 29th Aug, but there is no response until now, so I won't publish any details. Sucessful exploitation yields local root and allows to exit from jail. For now, you can see demo on: http://www.vimeo.com/6554787 -- * Fido: 2:480/124 ** WWW: http://www.frasunek.com ** NICHDL: PMF9-RIPE * * Jabber ID: veng...@czuby.pl ** PGP ID: 2578FCAD ** HAM-RADIO: SQ5JIV * ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't install FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE and 8.0-BETA4
Uwe Laverenz wrote: Am 13.09.2009 14:11, schrieb Zbigniew Komarnicki: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xpt_config run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config panic: run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks: waited too long cpuid=0 KDB: enter: panic [thread pid 0 tid 10] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3d: movq $0,0x68d1e0(%rip) db and thats all. Is maybe also someone also have such problem? Yes, several people reported this problem. There is a workaround that might help: disable the firewire device (IEEE 1394) in the BIOS of your machine and try again. cu, Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi, I had the same problem on my ASUS M3N78-EM motherboard, see pr 136327. If you can't disable firewire you may be able to install a kernel with device sbp disabled. It's a bit of a fiddle, particularly for a laptop. You would have to - remove your hard drive and install it in another laptop or a usb hard drive caddy which you then plug into another computer. - install freebsd - build and install a new kernel with device sbp disabled - restore the hard disk to your laptop, see if it boots. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Remounting a drive as read/write crashes the system and no dmesg.boot
On Saturday 22 August 2009 02:40:53 Scott Schappell wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 17:32:13, Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 21 August 2009 07:34:11 Scott Schappell wrote: Looking at info.0 I see: Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b Architecture: i386 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 155131904B (147 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Fri Aug 21 08:27:45 2009 Hostname: arthur.silvertree.org Magic: FreeBSD Kernel Dump Version String: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #1: Fri Aug 14 13:27:47 PDT 2009 r...@arthur.silvertree.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARTHUR Panic String: ffs_sync: rofs mod Dump Parity: 2778312054 Bounds: 0 Dump Status: good This is interesting: Panic String: ffs_sync: rofs mod It looks I'm guessing this is saying read only file system modified. So it looks like the problem is with mount? If there's anything you want me to pull from the vmcore.0 let me know. Again, this happens with the drive mounted RO from fstab. Unmounted then mount -o rw /backup. Something is amiss, and first blush doesn't seem to be hardware related. There should be a backtrace in info.0 already. That part contains more relevant information. Nope, that's all info.0 contains. Follow up. Temp fix available here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=193338+0+current/freebsd-current -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dump/Restore?
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:45:01 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: In the restore : prompt you can add filename to add it to the restore list. Works with folders, too. Excuse me, just a little terminology note: FreeBSD has directories, not folders. It doesn't have sheets of papers instead of files, too. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Approx. restore time estimate
I do not expect an exact or precise answer here, given all the subjective dependent parameters. Just a rough ballpark approximation, what time frame should a restore occur in? param :- an ~1Ghz system, running 6.x O/S, dumpfile ~ 30 Gb, UFS2 file systems w/ default blocksize, target directory 400 Gb w/ 190 Gb free capacity, minimal use system booted from Fixit Just wanted to get an idea if I am going anywhere or workig fast being stuck somewhere or nowhere. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Approx.-restore-time-estimate-tp25443580p25443580.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
podcast on google? Or other?
hey guys, i'll deny i ever wrote this because i *should* know already... but don't. i've clicked on several podcast sites and they show links to yahoo and a couple others. does google have this [POD] icon? OR what do i install here on freebsd-7.1 that i can use to listen to podcasts or otherwise play old/archived streams? tia, -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: rebinding keys to functions
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). If this is what I think it is, he probably can't. For most laptop keyboards, there was (as already explained) a specific system that handled Fn+PFx outside the OS so it worked always. Even my old Toshiba T1600 can do that. Modern laptops do it differently: Fn+PFx key combinations have to be picked up by a specific driver that listens to stange and custom keycodes outside the standard range, and then communicate the selected purpose to the OS in order to perform the action, e. g. raise the volume. Even worse, modern laptops have replaced the simple switches in the earophone sockets. In the past, there was a mechanical switch that switched off the internal speakers when you inserted a 3,5mm jack. Today, a proprietary driver has to detect if a jack is inserted, and then switch of the speakers and then switch on the output of the socket. I have a Logitech iTouch keyboard; it has eighteen buttons and two dials. None of them register under xev. The Apple USB keyboard is something similar. Allthough most keys show up in xev, F13 and the four additional four keys on the right (volume, eject) don't show up. I've been advised that it is quite possible to look into the ukbd driver subsystem, add some debugging and log what happens when those keys are pressed; they can then be assigned a specific number which afterwards resolves tp a certain key symbol. Would be great if they worked... But life can be so easy when you've got good hardware, such as the Sun USB type 6 keyboard. The 2x5 and 1 keys on the left as well as the four keys on the top right show up in xev. I'm using a xmodmap file ~/.xmodmaprc to map them to a certain (arbitrary) key name, like ! Stop keycode 145 = F14 ! Meta links keycode 115 = Meta_L ! Meta rechte keycode 116 = Meta_R ! Compose keycode 117 = Multi_key add mod4 = Multi_key After that, I can use the config tool of WindowMaker to connect those key names to actions, like rolling up or hiding windows, running specific programs or performing other actions (e. g. moon key = log off, Ctrl+Alt+Moon = shutdown now; help = xlock). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ftpd virtual www hosts
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:35 -0400, Peasoup i...@peasoup.com wrote: Next I go to vipw to change the user's home dir to something in the www area, which is owned by www:www. This is where my problems start with being denied. I am assuming that uploading to the unprivileged user www is getting in my way. A common way is to create a specific directory within the user's home directory, such as ~/public_html/ which is accessed by the web server to obtain the files to be served. The user has his regular FTP access to his home directory, so he can put files into ~/public_html/ or just create a symlink into this directory from somewhere else in his home directory. I haven't done much webserver stuff recently, and I'm not quite sure I did understand your question correctly, so my suggestion could already be outdated. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
Am 2009/9/14 Dan Goodin dgoo...@sitpub.com writhed: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Has anyone submitted a PR about this? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Dan Goodin wrote: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Kind regards, Dan Goodin 415-495-5411 Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook security, especially in the case of a root exploit. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
Dan Goodin wrote: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Kind regards, Dan Goodin 415-495-5411 Original Message Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD = 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer dereference Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:33 +0200 From: Przemyslaw Frasunek veng...@freebsd.lublin.pl Organization: frasunek.com To: full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk, bugt...@securityfocus.com References: 4a9028ac.9080...@freebsd.lublin.pl Przemyslaw Frasunek pisze: FreeBSD = 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP There is yet another kqueue related vulnerability. It affects 6.x, up to 6.4-STABLE. FreeBSD security team was notified on 29th Aug, but there is no response until now, so I won't publish any details. Sucessful exploitation yields local root and allows to exit from jail. For now, you can see demo on: http://www.vimeo.com/6554787 You need to contact the Security Officer to get the official position. That's security-offi...@freebsd.org I don't know why you seem to think this should have been reported to the FreeBSD Foundation. They aren't the responsible parties. What to do is clearly explained on this web page: http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html (which Przemyslaw for one seems to have read). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: podcast on google? Or other?
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:02:18 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, i'll deny i ever wrote this because i *should* know already... but don't. i've clicked on several podcast sites and they show links to yahoo and a couple others. does google have this [POD] icon? OR what do i install here on freebsd-7.1 that i can use to listen to podcasts or otherwise play old/archived streams? What format are those podcasts in? In OGG/Vorbis or MP3 format, you can use your favourite music player (mine is xmms) and use it for the specific media type; the browser's configuration editor should allow you to do so. The xmms program is able to play streamed media content, but mplayer should be fine, too. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where to put `startx` serverargs
2009/9/12 Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de: hi there, since i don't use ipv6 X produces the following warning when starting up: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/otaku:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 so i'd to start X this way: `startx -- -nolisten inet6`. i looked through the man pages of startx and xinit but couldn't find where to put the argument -nolisten inet6 so `startx` picks it up automatically. currently i have this extra line in /usr/local/bin/startx: serverargs = -nolisten inet6 but that's just a hack because i couldn't find any information on where to put the serverarg. It seems to me that there should be a place in /etc/X11/xorg.conf However I cannot find it. I know it seems a bit clunky, but I would just put a short script in my $HOME/scripts (or wherever) rather than futzing with the actual startx script. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:21:48PM -0400, Mikel King thus spake: On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Dan Goodin wrote: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Kind regards, Dan Goodin 415-495-5411 Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook security, especially in the case of a root exploit. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html Looks like the EOL will be: November 30, 2010 http://security.freebsd.org/ Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://mikelking.com http://twitter.com/mikelking ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
Mikel King wrote: Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook security, especially in the case of a root exploit. Nope. 6.3 (RELENG_6_3) will be supported until at least 31 January 2010 while 6.4 (RELENG_6_4) and 6-STABLE (RELENG_6) will be supported until at least 30 November 2010 by the Security team. There are no more releases planned from the RELENG_6 branch, but that's not the same as 'unsupported' -- patches and advisories will be issued until the dates listed, and quite usually beyond that. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Dump/Restore?
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Dump/Restore? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:37 PM On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:45:01 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: In the restore : prompt you can add filename to add it to the restore list. Works with folders, too. Excuse me, just a little terminology note: FreeBSD has directories, not folders. It doesn't have sheets of papers instead of files, too. :-) Pie on my face. I work too much with multiple operating systems. *sigh* BTW, I also work and develop heavily with a (non BSD, non-open source) document imaging and workflow management software, so you probably will, at some point, see me confuse files and sheets of paper. I will not mind a gentle reminder just like the above when I do that . :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:21:48PM -0400, Mikel King wrote: On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Dan Goodin wrote: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Kind regards, Dan Goodin 415-495-5411 Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? Not at all. The 6.2 and earlier releases have been EOL'd, but 6.3 and 6.4 are still supported by the security team. 6.4 (and 6.x in general) will be supported until November 2010, which is more than a year away. (See http://security.freebsd.org/ for official EOL information.) I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook security, especially in the case of a root exploit. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/announce.html -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:13:54PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Am 2009/9/14 Dan Goodin dgoo...@sitpub.com writhed: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Has anyone submitted a PR about this? Przemyslaw Frasunek has PR's posted but none recent. IMO if a PR is not submitted then one has *not* informed the Powers That Be. Having said that, for all I know there is a PR in the system that has been given restricted access until its dealt with. IIRC there is an option where one may request privacy when submitting a PR, perhaps that is the case here? Why is this in -questions? Seems -chat is more appropriate. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Dump/Restore?
On 14 Sep 2009 22:38, Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Dump/Restore? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:37 PM On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:45:01 -0700 (PDT), Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: In the restore : prompt you can add to add it to the restore list. Works with folders, too. Excuse me, just a little terminology note: FreeBSD has directories, not folders. It doesn't have sheets of papers instead of files, too. :-) Pie on my face. I work too much with multiple operating systems. *sigh* BTW, I also work and develop heavily with a (non BSD, non-open source) document imaging and workflow management software, so you probably will, at some point, see me confuse files and sheets of paper. I will not mind a gentle reminder just like the above when I do that . :) Yeah, unfortunately I still think of 'folders', and am continually wrong-footed by the term 'directory' in a graphical environment, even after years of GNU and FreeBSD use. I have all sorts of strange habits that many will recognise as symptoms of multi-booting and running servers. There's no shame in that! Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
libnsl.so.1
Hello all, I want to install a dispather module from Day Communique software on apache22. The binaray mod_dispatcher.so is provided by Day as a 64 bit *NIX compatible module to place in apache22 module directory. The mocule requires a shared library missing from system: --8-- # apachectl -t httpd: Syntax error on line 827 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server: Shared object libnsl.so.1 not found, required by mod_dispatcher.so --8-- Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it can be installed? Regards, Joe -- _/ _/_/_/ _/ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ __ _-\,_ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ ..(_)/ (_) _/_/ oe _/ _/. _/_/ ahj...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Approx. restore time estimate
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, jaymax wrote: I do not expect an exact or precise answer here, given all the subjective dependent parameters. Just a rough ballpark approximation, what time frame should a restore occur in? param :- an ~1Ghz system, running 6.x O/S, dumpfile ~ 30 Gb, UFS2 file systems w/ default blocksize, target directory 400 Gb w/ 190 Gb free capacity, minimal use system booted from Fixit Just wanted to get an idea if I am going anywhere or workig fast being stuck somewhere or nowhere. I cannot begin to give you a number in the ballpark, all I can tell you is that restore *is* very, very slow and lacks reassuring progress indicators. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dump/Restore?
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:02:49 +, utis...@googlemail.com wrote: Yeah, unfortunately I still think of 'folders', and am continually wrong-footed by the term 'directory' in a graphical environment, even after years of GNU and FreeBSD use. Just imagine if the Xerox Alto and its first GUI wouldn't have been invented in the US, but in Germany. Then we would refer to ring binders or lever arch folders, or ordners or actenordner (the german word is der Ordner or der Akten- ordner). Surely, this would be the default symbol: http://www.officexl.de/kopierpapier/images/ordner.jpg And all paper sizes defaults would refer to DIN A4 in the first place... what a beautiful imagination! :-) I have all sorts of strange habits that many will recognise as symptoms of multi-booting and running servers. There's no shame in that! Please don't get me wrong: There are correct places to use the term folder, e. g. when talking about mail folders (which can be represented as files (mbox) or directories with files (MH) on the disk level). But in the case discussed, directory is the correct term. There's no need to change proven terminology just because some company indoctrinates you to do so. :-) How important it is to use the correct terminology is when users start asking you questions about their modems (refers to PC), their TV and their brains (refers to speakers), or start complaining that the file system is too big (refers to the icon size in the file manager used), and want the same pictures at home as I have them at work (refers to the OS). To sum it up in quite your own words: I have all sorts of strange habits that many will recognise as symptoms of asperger's syndrome. There's no shame in that! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: libnsl.so.1
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:02:50 -0700 (PDT), Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us wrote: Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it can be installed? At least on my system, it seems to be part of the Linux ABI, so maybe the module in question is designed for Linux? % locate libnsl /usr/compat/linux/lib/libnsl-2.3.6.so /usr/compat/linux/lib/libnsl.so.1 There's no libnsl in the ports, and nsl search results don't seem to bring up something appropriate. My suggestion would be to install the Linux ABI and have the setting linux_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf. The linux.ko kernel module should be loaded automatically, or maybe you already have it in your kernel config. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Re: Dump/Restore?
On 14 Sep 2009 23:14, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:02:49 +, utis...@googlemail.com wrote: Yeah, unfortunately I still think of 'folders', and am continually wrong-footed by the term 'directory' in a graphical environment, even after years of GNU and FreeBSD use. Just imagine if the Xerox Alto and its first GUI wouldn't have been invented in the US, but in Germany. Then we would refer to ring binders or lever arch folders, or ordners or actenordner (the german word is der Ordner or der Akten- ordner). Surely, this would be the default symbol: http://www.officexl.de/kopierpapier/images/ordner.jpg And all paper sizes defaults would refer to DIN A4 in the first place... what a beautiful imagination! :-) I have all sorts of strange habits that many will recognise as symptoms of multi-booting and running servers. There's no shame in that! Please don't get me wrong: There are correct places to use the term folder, eg when talking about mail folders (which can be represented as files (mbox) or directories with files (MH) on the disk level). But in the case discussed, directory is the correct term. There's no need to change proven terminology just because some company indoctrinates you to do so. :-) How important it is to use the correct terminology is when users start asking you questions about their modems (refers to PC), their TV and their brains (refers to speakers), or start complaining that the file system is too big (refers to the icon size in the file manager used), and want the same pictures at home as I have them at work (refers to the OS). To sum it up in quite your own words: I have all sorts of strange habits that many will recognise as symptoms of asperger's syndrome. There's no shame in that! :-) Certainly no shame in that, but also one should be corrected on errors of terminology. Sorry if I didn't make that clear (I didn't!). I merely meant to point out that the best of us make terminological errors, and that it's all part of our 'diversity'. However, you were still right to correct the term IMO. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: rebinding keys to functions
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). If this is what I think it is, he probably can't. For most laptop keyboards, there was (as already explained) a specific system that handled Fn+PFx outside the OS so it worked always. Even my old Toshiba T1600 can do that. Modern laptops do it differently: Fn+PFx key combinations have to be picked up by a specific driver that listens to stange and custom keycodes outside the standard range, and then communicate the selected purpose to the OS in order to perform the action, e. g. raise the volume. Not all of them. My laptop is based on a quite modern cantiga (aka centrino2) PM45 chipset (from 2008, according to Wikipedia). The function keys for changing the creen brightness and sound volume work OK with FreeBSD, even though xev doesn't see them. So that signal seems to go directly to the hardware. Using the Fn key with the virtual numeric keypad works, and generates normal keyboard events. I haven't tested the keys that can control a media player, because I don't care about them. Even worse, modern laptops have replaced the simple switches in the earophone sockets. In the past, there was a mechanical switch that switched off the internal speakers when you inserted a 3,5mm jack. Today, a proprietary driver has to detect if a jack is inserted, and then switch of the speakers and then switch on the output of the socket. I just tested that today, and it worked OK in FreeBSD. Plug in the headphones, they work and the speaker goes silent. So I guess it is all about how the machine is put together. Even if a chipset has certain functionality, it is up to the board manufacturer to connect it. Writing a driver to detect if headphones are connected sounds much more complicated to me than connecting a couple of switches! I mean, you'd have to measure something like the impedance of the jack. Surely that is more expensive than a simple switch? 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) pgptQky7ejK6H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: where to put `startx` serverargs
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:27:56PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/12 Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de: hi there, since i don't use ipv6 X produces the following warning when starting up: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/otaku:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 so i'd to start X this way: `startx -- -nolisten inet6`. i looked through the man pages of startx and xinit but couldn't find where to put the argument -nolisten inet6 so `startx` picks it up automatically. currently i have this extra line in /usr/local/bin/startx: serverargs = -nolisten inet6 but that's just a hack because i couldn't find any information on where to put the serverarg. It seems to me that there should be a place in /etc/X11/xorg.conf However I cannot find it. You can put them in /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc, together with the X server. 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) pgpcoHN8tjmeM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libnsl.so.1
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:02:50 Joe R. Jah wrote:
Hello all,
I want to install a dispather module from Day Communique software on
apache22. The binaray mod_dispatcher.so is provided by Day as a 64 bit
*NIX compatible module to place in apache22 module directory. The mocule
requires a shared library missing from system:
--8--
# apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 827 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server:
Shared object libnsl.so.1 not found, required by mod_dispatcher.so
--8--
Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it can
be installed?
nsl=name service library. All of it's functions are in FreeBSD implement in
libc. If this mod_dispatcher.so is indeed loadable by FreeBSD's linker, then
you can provide a dummy libnsl.so.1, like so:
$ cat 'EOF' BSDmakefile
SHLIB=nsl
SHLIB_MAJOR=1
NO_MAN=yes
SRCS=nsl.c
.include bsd.lib.mk
EOF
$ cat 'EOF' nsl.c
int nsl_dummy(void);
int nsl_dummy(void) { return 0; }
EOF
$ make; sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib install
The symbols it's looking for should be provided by libc, but if there's any
undefined ones, this trickery gets a little dangerous and you're better off
asking the developers for a native FreeBSD version.
--
Mel
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Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On Monday 14 September 2009 23:46:42 David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:13:54PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Am 2009/9/14 Dan Goodin dgoo...@sitpub.com writhed: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Has anyone submitted a PR about this? Przemyslaw Frasunek has PR's posted but none recent. IMO if a PR is not submitted then one has *not* informed the Powers That Be. Wrong. Security bugs should be reported to the security team, not PR'd. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Approx. restore time estimate
Thanks! That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with at least equal reliability. BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather than from a tape Thanks again. --- Lars Eighner-2 wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, jaymax wrote: I cannot begin to give you a number in the ballpark, all I can tell you is that restore *is* very, very slow and lacks reassuring progress indicators. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN _ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Approx.-restore-time-estimate-tp25443580p25445497.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Approx. restore time estimate
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, jaymax wrote: Thanks! That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with at least equal reliability. I don't know of anything that isn't a bigger can of worms in a file system of any complexity to speak of. BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather than from a tape I was speaking of disk to disk. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Approx. restore time estimate
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:36, jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! That might explain. Is there an alternate process you would recommend with at least equal reliability. BTW I should have mentioned that I was restoring from a disk file rather than from a tape Thanks again. IME, restoring from disk or tape makes little difference, if you're doing a full restore, and once the restore process is up and running. The bigger bottleneck is the write speed of the disk(s) you're restoring to - it's always slower to write than to read, often by a very large margin. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: libnsl.so.1
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:18:55 +0200 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libnsl.so.1 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:02:50 -0700 (PDT), Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us wrote: Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it can be installed? At least on my system, it seems to be part of the Linux ABI, so maybe the module in question is designed for Linux? % locate libnsl /usr/compat/linux/lib/libnsl-2.3.6.so /usr/compat/linux/lib/libnsl.so.1 There's no libnsl in the ports, and nsl search results don't seem to bring up something appropriate. My suggestion would be to install the Linux ABI and have the setting linux_enable=YES in your /etc/rc.conf. The linux.ko kernel module should be loaded automatically, or maybe you already have it in your kernel config. Thank you Polytropon. I have installed /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4 and now I have the following: /usr/compat/linux/lib/libnsl-2.3.6.so /usr/compat/linux/lib/libnsl.so.1 I have put linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted the server; however, I still get the same response. What am missing? Regards, Joe -- _/ _/_/_/ _/ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ __ _-\,_ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ ..(_)/ (_) _/_/ oe _/ _/. _/_/ ahj...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: libnsl.so.1
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Mel Flynn wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:17:02 +0200
From: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Joe R. Jah j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us
Subject: Re: libnsl.so.1
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:02:50 Joe R. Jah wrote:
Hello all,
I want to install a dispather module from Day Communique software on
apache22. The binaray mod_dispatcher.so is provided by Day as a 64 bit
*NIX compatible module to place in apache22 module directory. The mocule
requires a shared library missing from system:
--8--
# apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 827 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server:
Shared object libnsl.so.1 not found, required by mod_dispatcher.so
--8--
Does anyone know where to download libnsl.so.1, or from what port it can
be installed?
nsl=name service library. All of it's functions are in FreeBSD implement in
libc. If this mod_dispatcher.so is indeed loadable by FreeBSD's linker, then
you can provide a dummy libnsl.so.1, like so:
$ cat 'EOF' BSDmakefile
SHLIB=nsl
SHLIB_MAJOR=1
NO_MAN=yes
SRCS=nsl.c
.include bsd.lib.mk
EOF
$ cat 'EOF' nsl.c
int nsl_dummy(void);
int nsl_dummy(void) { return 0; }
EOF
$ make; sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib install
The symbols it's looking for should be provided by libc, but if there's any
undefined ones, this trickery gets a little dangerous and you're better off
asking the developers for a native FreeBSD version.
Thank you Mel. You were right about undefined ones; Here's what I get:
--8--
apachectl -t
httpd: Syntax error on line 826 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so into server:
/usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dispatcher.so: Undefined symbol __strdup
--8--
Any more trickeries?;-)
Regards,
Joe
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Bandwidth Control in FreeBSD 8
I have two questions in regards to a FreeBSD Server and avoiding ISP bandwidth charges. Are there changes to the ways bandwidth can be controlled in FreeBSD 8. Is there an accepted or standardized method to control and limit bandwidth usage over an interface. Thanks in advance for the help, Marcel http://nwvd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
csh issues bogus error message
I'm working on my .cshrc file, so I have to use csh syntax. I, like most Unix shell programmers, usually steer clear of csh scripts, but obviously, .cshrc requires csh syntax. If I create a file with just a # in it, I get: set: Variable name must begin with a letter. I can change the # to #!/bin/csh but I get the same error message This looks like a csh bug to me 8o) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
csh issues bogus error message
I'm working on my .cshrc file, so I have to use csh syntax. I, like most Unix shell programmers, usually steer clear of csh scripts, but obviously, .cshrc requires csh syntax. If I create a file with just a # in it, I get: set: Variable name must begin with a letter. I can change the # to #!/bin/csh but I get the same error message This looks like a csh bug to me 8o) I'm running FreeBSD 7.2p3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: rebinding keys to functions
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 00:40:38 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:34:29 -0400, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Roland Smith writes: My laptop has a bunch of volume-up/down/mute internet/mail/etc keys. How do I map each of them to run a specific shell command when pressed? That depends on a couple of things (assuming you're running the X window system, I don't know if it is even possible on the console). First you have to make sure that you actually can see the key signals. In X you can test that with xev(1). If this is what I think it is, he probably can't. For most laptop keyboards, there was (as already explained) a specific system that handled Fn+PFx outside the OS so it worked always. Even my old Toshiba T1600 can do that. Modern laptops do it differently: Fn+PFx key combinations have to be picked up by a specific driver that listens to stange and custom keycodes outside the standard range, and then communicate the selected purpose to the OS in order to perform the action, e. g. raise the volume. Not all of them. My laptop is based on a quite modern cantiga (aka centrino2) PM45 chipset (from 2008, according to Wikipedia). The function keys for changing the creen brightness and sound volume work OK with FreeBSD, even though xev doesn't see them. So that signal seems to go directly to the hardware. Most likely not entirely. Having acpidump(8)ed a few laptops, I have seen references to multimedia keys in there. However I know not nearly enough about ACPI to know if the OS can intercept/reroute the bindings. A gamble I would take is to let FreeBSD post itself as a windows variant to acpi, by setting hw.acpi.osname=Windows 2001 in /boot/loader.conf. Then recheck xev. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: csh issues bogus error message
Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm working on my .cshrc file, so I have to use csh syntax. I, like most Unix shell programmers, usually steer clear of csh scripts, but obviously, .cshrc requires csh syntax. If I create a file with just a # in it, I get: set: Variable name must begin with a letter. I can change the # to #!/bin/csh but I get the same error message This looks like a csh bug to me 8o) What exactly are you trying to do? Can you post the entire contents of your .cshrc file? ...seems as though there is something missing here. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: csh issues bogus error message
On Monday 14 September 2009 21:22:23 Steve Bertrand wrote: Steven Friedrich wrote: I'm working on my .cshrc file, so I have to use csh syntax. I, like most Unix shell programmers, usually steer clear of csh scripts, but obviously, .cshrc requires csh syntax. If I create a file with just a # in it, I get: set: Variable name must begin with a letter. I can change the # to #!/bin/csh but I get the same error message This looks like a csh bug to me 8o) What exactly are you trying to do? Can you post the entire contents of your .cshrc file? ...seems as though there is something missing here. Steve Ok, I'm sorry. My brain farted. I had set -x in .cshrc, and that's a good line in a BOURNE script 8o) but in my csh scripts, I can place #!/bin/csh -x when I need debug. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: podcast on google? Or other?
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:26:27PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:02:18 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, i'll deny i ever wrote this because i *should* know already... but don't. i've clicked on several podcast sites and they show links to yahoo and a couple others. does google have this [POD] icon? OR what do i install here on freebsd-7.1 that i can use to listen to podcasts or otherwise play old/archived streams? What format are those podcasts in? In OGG/Vorbis or MP3 format, you can use your favourite music player (mine is xmms) and use it for the specific media type; the browser's configuration editor should allow you to do so. The xmms program is able to play streamed media content, but mplayer should be fine, too. i usually use kmplayer because i can kill it o r click-on to kill/stop. i was looking at a particular show on national public radio [NPR] nd wound up at the podcast section. i think, am not certain, that if i select the 'podcast' thing, this show will show up daily or weekly, whatever rather than me having to spent minutes of finding Show, finding archive place, and then selecting Stream or Podcast. if i'm not making enough sense, i'll wait until i've had a good night's sleep! gary PS: DEfinite offtopic but i may have found a legit ebook publisher ... they pod publish in us, canada, and in europe. [[i had no idea it'd be this hard just finding the right place. =sigh=]] -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
Matthew Seaman wrote: Mikel King wrote: Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was overlooked? Personally I don't think it's ever good to overlook security, especially in the case of a root exploit. Nope. 6.3 (RELENG_6_3) will be supported until at least 31 January 2010 while 6.4 (RELENG_6_4) and 6-STABLE (RELENG_6) will be supported until at least 30 November 2010 by the Security team. There are no more releases planned from the RELENG_6 branch, but that's not the same as 'unsupported' -- patches and advisories will be issued until the dates listed, and quite usually beyond that. Quoted from ~freebsd.security.general: The bug was fixed in 6.1-STABLE, just before release of 6.2-RELEASE, but was not recognized as security vulnerability. So if the bug no longer exists in the non-EOL 6.3/6.4 there is nothing to fix. Seems to me this is more about not getting due credit and a writer who doesn't grok. The posting to security was a forward done by another individual, since the original discoverer notified the FreeBSD Foundation instead of the security team. Since the FreeBSD foundation is largely administrative and not the correct entity to notify, it is not surprising they did not reply. The writer sounds like he is attempting to spin the SNAFU into a they knew about a security vulnerability and did nothing... story. Self serving for him, headline grabbing and sensationalist for sure, but not true as it was quickly addressed at the time. This is water under the bridge and a writer flogging a dead horse. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
On 2009-09-14 12:12, Dan Goodin wrote: We'll be writing a brief article about this. I didn't notice anyone link the finished article yet, so here it is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/freebsd_security_bug/ -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) m...@kolybabi.com () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD
Hi Dan, The right place to report security problems with FreeBSD is to the Security Officer team. A PGP signed email to the email address of the security team at security-offi...@freebsd.org is enough to get the attention of the FreeBSD Project. Przemyslaw should email security-officer with any details he thinks are relevant. Then the security team will make sure to fix the bug for all affected releases of FreeBSD, release a patch with the fix, issue an advisory through the usual channels, and post the details online at our security information web pages at http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/. Regards, Giorgos On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:12:50 -0700, Dan Goodin dgoo...@sitpub.com wrote: Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment. Kind regards, Dan Goodin 415-495-5411 Original Message Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD = 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer dereference Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:33 +0200 From: Przemyslaw Frasunek veng...@freebsd.lublin.pl Organization: frasunek.com To: full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk, bugt...@securityfocus.com References: 4a9028ac.9080...@freebsd.lublin.pl Przemyslaw Frasunek pisze: FreeBSD = 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP There is yet another kqueue related vulnerability. It affects 6.x, up to 6.4-STABLE. FreeBSD security team was notified on 29th Aug, but there is no response until now, so I won't publish any details. Sucessful exploitation yields local root and allows to exit from jail. For now, you can see demo on: http://www.vimeo.com/6554787 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ftpd virtual www hosts
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:35 -0400, Peasoup i...@peasoup.com wrote: Next I go to vipw to change the user's home dir to something in the www area, which is owned by www:www. This is where my problems start with being denied. I am assuming that uploading to the unprivileged user www is getting in my way. A common way is to create a specific directory within the user's home directory, such as ~/public_html/ which is accessed by the web server to obtain the files to be served. The user has his regular FTP access to his home directory, so he can put files into ~/public_html/ or just create a symlink into this directory from somewhere else in his home directory. I haven't done much webserver stuff recently, and I'm not quite sure I did understand your question correctly, so my suggestion could already be outdated. This is facilitated by the Apache module mod_userdir. It utilizes the public_html folder in a user's home directory and usually in the default config shows up as http://www.someweb.somewhere/~username in the URI. As you indicated before, each user can FTP to his own content this way. Because FTP is passing passwords in the clear I consider this a poor security practice and won't go near it myself. However, if users could use sftp (from sshd) it would be a little more secure. You could also carry this one step further and issue each user a certificate, require certs to login, and disable password login. This is possibly overkill, as with sftp passwords will be inside the SSH tunnel and won't be in the clear. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ftpd virtual www hosts
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Peasoup i...@peasoup.com wrote: Hi Im new to the list, hope I have the right one, but if not, please let me know. And forgive me if I don't speak clear unix. I am trying to set up a webserver, with virtual hosting accounts. Naturally, I want to be able to give users the ability to upload files to their web directories. Setting up basic ftp is not an issue for me. I can set up a user at /usr/home/user, and can upload via ftp just fine. Of course that directory is owned by user:user. I also get ftpchroot just fine. Next I go to vipw to change the user's home dir to something in the www area, which is owned by www:www. This is where my problems start with being denied. I am assuming that uploading to the unprivileged user www is getting in my way. If you have virtualhost A, with DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/apache2/data/siteA/htdocs, then set the home directory for the user who uploads to this path during user creation. chroot them to this path as well. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!. -- Lucky Dube ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
