[ot] can I have an account on your host? (so that I can edit wikipedia)
Hello. I am from China and I'd like to contribute to wikipedia, but this is not easy / possible because we cannot access wikipedia from inland (the great firewall) and my usual method accesssing wikipedia (through ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 my_server_in_german) can allow me to visit wikipedia but do not allow me to edit it (open proxy, your host IP address is detected to be belonging to a hosting company). Can I have an account on your host (or maybe not an account, any means let me access wikipedia from a host that is not in datacenter) so that I can go on editing wikipedia? I. this account don't need to have any privilege but only able to do TCP port-forward, or if you can set up stunel for me you don't need to create an account (the connection between your host and mine must be SSLed because our firewall is context based; II. your host better be online most of time, even in the night; III. I'll give you my public key so that you don't need to open password authentication of sshd; IV. even if IP address is not fixed, if there are dynamic domain name set up, I can also use that; V. If there are better ideas how I can edit wikipedia, please let me know; My public-key (long line!): ssh-dss B3NzaC1kc3MAAAEBALM/Ts0BK9LsVgTTnDSdPyKAYpTcdJAq2rdRmaZ+0kfgiwfuMCIGttWqMFigi4IVPziKJYxc+x7ahj3CVRq3CwrjRUr8uxJvJvF8L48odHVy3ZPDac9vQouySaPURLceopXNzK/QK6pIzgOKRVe1wkc2XrE8MFepchD+JynyxnEeY0so4JSJ+P/az2gryVVW0Ci/xvSIguKkAwFsJbfU8AG5HQuIpzjM7FHFE3bjqWEH8YPX9EtdsiiifwhsqTLbT2mvh6Lns3e3j9TrZoikxmJz4Bhb6Ao2VMNL1FJeu7Tq5Qj+R4uwGxbVRNy+rXZCESzguHNGfjLsZpfXKOZ9CTkVAOCOtrSRrPYov3EXjIof11WBc3thAAABAQCStUXSbYDcYgKWoMs/cFDXOjfJn8jDnaDsihZ4tUagc0T701U0aMOM22rBwcZWM+JO7G0K5CJHPC7eEEc49DwBSHLIySTnrgLOwPNsEvfCvNH6oXfvdm1oU/BRd7lPAvq/AQHqJ8upw5KjQ6kTKIRQVnkqy5TVrNkg4FFnNyplqMAuRNF4Oxxvkm9F7fdkHuTlxaoXk/X6etDPGkSb6VeXj5FY+LU2JmUEkF7cGG6t2tAFiCyqMOmgyRDleph7aP5GkCiYEdqcL81peRaA3ACly9EjFYAn8Sk4znVc6ReGWKkvqpTOzovNhw/Gjrhef8c3rjwSw5jp1TStDOai8jgqAAABAAgVAQBYwm8dZlzkUIccPha/YxPfDCpSwD7H4T/jxBqRgL7+JkjDip5KfNPgu1altPD3kVzsLahXo83WJPmOkzaquTDa6DohGa3dcYW5yp24xOaV3LLUMyCECBZbrj053Xk9F1/MusCLpDWBl7CekkucIbxgIr6sCrHibFiC5gFKf/eCCwk0jjpl/HwsQGmBzOmtWGcp6x/2gL2QoFggqcW1vdIvgZ62UykrAvuO/Hq6iBJC147Ri1ivd6P7GMB/Gqq+M03KusUWTgiJdqR8zlouljovafdCwkL00dZwowNe57ufoxg8/UtbDytR7K2/urQEwYBdw/dUEJWg2RlRoHg= [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. I use my root to connect because normal user cannot open port 80, hope this is not a problem. (having a port number like 8080 is not so convenient for sometimes I need to access it behind restrictive LAN firewall) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network analyse tool? To debug IMAP related problems
Hello. I would wish to have a tool that would do this kind of thing: 1. listen on imap port on localhost, connect to localhost with my email client; 2. forward the traffic from/to/between real imap server; 3. meanwhile, print everything being transfer-ed, so that I can have a good ovewview of server-client conversation; I don't know what such kind of tool is usually called and thus difficult to do an effective google search. I tried a few tools in ports/net but none of them seems to be working in this way... (admit that I didn't look into pkg-descr of every package) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tip(1) connect to another host with serial cable: vim display junk text
Hello List. This is another stupid frequent question that might already get answered a thousand times, but I cannot do effective googles because the word 'tip' is too general. Local host is freebsd 6.1, remote host is Gentoo Linux. Both connected through serial cable on COM1. Now I wish to control Linux with my FreeBSD. This command can let me login to the Linux host $ tip com1 But after I logged in I found using VIM would create junk text. It seems VIM do not know my terminal is very wide (more then 130 characters per line). So, how do I fix it? Google did give me a lot of 'tips' but none of them is related to my problem... Best Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
has ANYONE used FreeBSD read Chinese directories from a Windows Share? (was: Re: (repost) cannot read windows share)
If our understanding to the current problem is correct (that FreeBSD kernel iconv currently have problem with double-bit character-set), then there should have never been FreeBSD users that can actually mount and access a Windows Share that: I. is using GB2312 locale (that is, Windows Simplified Chinese version); II. have Chinese character in folder names 在 2006-12-05二的 17:36 +1100，Antony Mawer写道： On 5/12/2006 5:28 PM, 张韡武 wrote: 在 2006-12-04一的 21:54 -0800，Garrett Cooper写道： Also, I'm not sure if FreeBSD has been configured to run the particular character set you need (nor am I sure where any documentation may be regarding how to set that up), but you also want to explore getting that solved in tandem with the mount_smbfs item. I read carefully with mount_smbfs and as far as I can tell mount_smbfs is using iconv lib which compiled as kernel module. After I run mount_smbfs I checked and made sure libiconv.ko is automatically loaded. According to documents, mount_smbfs automatically load this kernel ... I don't know if this is at all useful, but I have come across the following patches, which appear to have been ported from Darwin, to improve handling of multibyte character sets: http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ It would be interesting to see these committed (if they are valuable), as I know there are issues with FreeBSD mount_smbfs when operating against the Mac OSX samba implementation, which (I am told) only speaks UCS2. Given the work already gone into these, it would be nice to see them finished off and committed... I wonder how many other smbfs-related improvements may exist in Darwin that might be worth looking at? http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.x86/smb-217.18/ Cheers Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)
在 2006-12-08五的 06:53 +，Matthew Seaman写道： ??? wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line: [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org So my computer become a 'proxy'. The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer. Is it possible to install some software to run as a daemon and do this proxy? I think of stunnel, but I have too few knowledge to know if stunnel can do this. There are two general possibilities here: a) A Web cache/proxy -- squid is the canonical example, but you can do this sort of stuff in apache very readily. I think apache would be a good place for you to start, as most sysadmins have at least a passing acquaintance with its configuration. You'ld need set up a proxy on your European server to redirect any web traffic to en.wikipedia.org -- your users would use the service exactly as they do at the moment, but they'd put the IP of the European server into their hosts file, rather than your desktop. If that is a problem, then you can chain together a series of proxies starting with your desktop machine, then the European server -- but performance may be a tad slow. We have a lot of problems accessing any sort of proxy outside China, the latest technology in the great firewall of China, if you had read the newspaper, is content-based filtering. 443 port of many foreign servers are also being blocked. b) IPsec or other VPN tunnel between your server in Europe and a local firewall -- preferably your local firewall should be on the egress path from your LAN. Then you can arrange routing so that packets to destinations in Europe pass through the tunnel and use your European server as the gateway to the internet. In this case, there shouldn't be any need for your users to have to spoof the address of en.wikipedia.org in their hosts files. IPSec comes standard with FreeBSD, but you'ld probably want to combine it with pf(4) or other firewall software which you can use to control redirecting appropriate packets through your tunnel. If IPSec is too mind-mangling for you, OpenVPN (in ports) is a pretty good alternative. You'll almost definitely want to configure a NAT gateway on the European server. Either of these solutions will run automatically on system startup, if so configured. Option (a) will send your web traffic across the net in clear-text unless you can chain two proxies together and get creative about using HTTPS. Or you can combine both approaches: use a local HTTP proxy with a VPN tunnel to your European server. Thank you very much for your detailed explanation, I believe me and many other people on the list is going to benefit from it. Currently the only website we want very much but being blocked is wikipedia. Other websites being blocked are mostly about politics and news, which we are not interested (I think most people in China are not interested what foreign news says, and getting used to ignore 3rd party politic information). Wikipedia is an exception because it has a lot of useful information, not just politics. So basically if wikipedia is accessible, we are happy. Your general solution looks really complicated to me that I would like to do it as weekend fun, but probably not going to be able to maintain it. Information is like this: you don't need to block all information in order to prevent people knowing them, you only need to put barrier higher. There are many ways to workaround (walk-through) the Great Firewall, but every time when I look into different complicated solutions, I say to myself is it worthy to spend so much time on it? And ends up saying to myself, save the time, let's just don't read these news. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ask to borrow 6.1-RELEASE /etc/ttys
As every careless stupid user would do, today I have destroyed my /etc/ttys. Luckily I didn't reboot after I destroyed this file. (Yes I know I should backup before editing /etc/ttys, the fact is I didn't try to edit it at all, it's a typo that made me pipe the output of some app to this file) Can someone send his /etc/ttys ? I don't have another FreeBSD to recover this file. Thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how do I do this special proxy?
Hello. I know this question must have been asked on the list, I simply don't know how to describe my problem with good English so that I can start a google search. We got a Windows file server in the next office, I have a FreeBSD host in my office. I wish to let it listen on 135/139 port (I am not sure which one is used for Windows file sharing), and forward any request to the Windows file server as if this FreeBSD is accessing the windows share itself. Also it forward the packet from Windows share server to client. To the client, the FreeBSD host IS the windows share server. However the Windows share server always think the FreeBSD host is the client. So this is a proxy I guess. Is it possible? I ask this because I wish to access these files at home, but my home ISP block access to the Windows share server for ISP competition reason. Luckily I have a FreeBSD server in my office connected to both competing ISP. I think I can configure this FreeBSD act as a proxy to access the Windows share. P.S. Complain to these governmental ISP won't work. This is in China. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)
Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line: [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org So my computer become a 'proxy'. The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer. Is it possible to install some software to run as a daemon and do this proxy? I think of stunnel, but I have too few knowledge to know if stunnel can do this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)
在 2006-12-08五的 14:25 +0800，张韡武写道： Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line: [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org So my computer become a 'proxy'. The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer. Is it possible to install some software to run as a daemon and do this proxy? I think of stunnel, but I have too few knowledge to know if stunnel can do this. Forgot to mention another requirement is to be able to automatically re-connect if the ssh connection drops. It's difficult to maintain a connection the whole day.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
urxvt arrow keys do not work in ncurse?
Hello. I am running urxvt and I have this problem: I. run sysinstall; II. press down arrow key on my keyboard; III. sysinstall quits; urxvt send escape sequence to applications run inside it, is it true that some application like sysinstall in freebsd are configured to ignore escape sequence? sysinstall probably think it received an ESC and decide to quit, for normal ncurse application they usually quit after received ESC for one second but no other keystroke are following. Can I configure FreeBSD to act this way too? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(repost) cannot read windows share
This is a re-post, I am getting desperate because my work require me to connect to this share and my colleague can mount the share on Debian. I will have to move to install Debian if I wish to go on working... But I am already used to my BSD. It's too strange to move to another OS for such a tiny problem! Could what I mention below be a bug of FreeBSD mount_smbfs? Using FreeBSD 6.1, I can mount a windows share but the Chinese characters in folder and file names look junk text to me. Charset conversion (-E parameter of mount_smbfs) do not work at all. If I do ls(1) to a directory that has Chinese character in its name, the process 'ls' will take about 80% CPU resource and hang there forever. Ctrl+C cannot stop it (kill -KILL can). If I run other command that read any file in the directory that has Chinese character in its name, that application hangs there taking about 80% CPU resource too. This process is better illustrated with this screenshot: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/mount_chinese_smbshare.png In the screenshot, I do have mounted the share with -E parameter which should convert GB18030 folder names to UTF-8 but actually no conversion is done (see the ls | iconv which shows what it should be looking like if the conversion is done) Actually I have never successfully done charset conversion with mount_smbfs, what did I do wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (repost) cannot read windows share
在 2006-12-04一的 21:54 -0800，Garrett Cooper写道： Also, I'm not sure if FreeBSD has been configured to run the particular character set you need (nor am I sure where any documentation may be regarding how to set that up), but you also want to explore getting that solved in tandem with the mount_smbfs item. I read carefully with mount_smbfs and as far as I can tell mount_smbfs is using iconv lib which compiled as kernel module. After I run mount_smbfs I checked and made sure libiconv.ko is automatically loaded. According to documents, mount_smbfs automatically load this kernel module for charset conversion. My charset specified in commandline is CP936 which is supported by iconv. iconv can also support GB18030 GB2312 GBK which are equivalents of CP936. I tried all these equivalents but none of them works. I also tried to specify -E UTF-8:junkjunk and got an error message says junkjunk is not supported, this shows if I don't get such error message, the charset I specified should be supported. Well, I didn't get such error message with GB18030 GB2312 GBK... Regardless of whether or not you specify the right character code for smbmount, if the character set isn't available to the system or setup properly, your specifying the character set with mount_smbfs is pretty much moot; I know because I use Japanese in Linux and was having similar issues until I got everything setup on the machine for Japanese reading and writing. FreeBSD China http://www.freebsd.org.cn/ probably holds the answers to your problem, if your system isn't setup to read/write Chinese. Yes, thank you for pointing out this link, I actually checked that link before coming to this list. From the documents on www.freebsd.org.cn they did mentioned another problem related to Chinese share but I am pretty sure it's not my problem... Isn't cross-language communication fun =\? In reality, yes. In computer world, I hope I never had these problems. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (repost) cannot read windows share
在 2006-12-04一的 19:46 -0600，Lane写道： weiwu, One thing comes to mind: Try your question here: ... Your question is specific to samba, and probably not related to FreeBSD-specific issues. My question is DIRECTLY freebsd-related because: I. samba itself don't have this problem (tried on SuSE, Debian and Gentoo). mount -t cifs on Linux works fine. II. mount_smbfs is a freebsd native tool III. charset conversion options of samba (iocharset and codepage) do not work for mount_smbfs because mount_smbfs do not have these options; IV. mount_smbfs's charset option (-E) do not work for samba because samba don't have this option V. samba's charset conversation is not using kernel module, freebsd's mount_smbfs use kernel libiconv.ko module for conversion; VI. I tried to install samba from ports, and end up having samba installed WITHOUT 'smbmount' command-line utility, it seems this command is carefully removed for FreeBSD's port, forcing people to use FreeBSD's mount_samba Other strange thing: I changed my locale to GB18030 and now I can list the Chinese directories, but if I enter a Chinese directory then the application who tries to enter the directory (e.g. ls) hangs. So it is strange for me ... to understand. lane P.S. I note that the hosts in the links above are mostly us1. That's probably something to do with the language specification on my system, but may be different for you. Check out www.samba.org for better links. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (repost) cannot read windows share
在 2006-12-05二的 17:36 +1100，Antony Mawer写道： [snip] I don't know if this is at all useful, but I have come across the following patches, which appear to have been ported from Darwin, to improve handling of multibyte character sets: http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ It would be interesting to see these committed (if they are valuable), as I know there are issues with FreeBSD mount_smbfs when operating against the Mac OSX samba implementation, which (I am told) only speaks UCS2. Thank you very much for this very informative article. Here is what I quoted from that article: However, there are some limitations. - unable to handle over 3 byte characters at all. - tolower/toupper conversion is only possible for single byte characters. For example, UTF-8 has 1-4 byte characters. GB18030 has 1,2,4 byte characters. At this time, we're unable to handle them. So it is clear I will have problem, because it's being said, UTF-8 is not possible. But UTF-16/USC2 should be possible and GB2312 should be possible too because both are 2-bytes (UTF-16 are mostly 2-bytes). Thus I should be able to: 1) adjust system locale to UTF-16 or USC2 2) use mount_smbfs -E UTF-16:GB2312 GB2312 is the stripped version of GB18030 that remove all GB18030 4-byte characters from GB18030 (by discarding them). But I think FreeBSD-6.1 do not include this nice person's work! Thus even mount_smbfs -E UTF-16:GB2312 won't work for me. Now I am really interested if I can get smbmount (part of samba) working, if so, problem solved, otherwise there is no way to go. Given the work already gone into these, it would be nice to see them finished off and committed... I wonder how many other smbfs-related improvements may exist in Darwin that might be worth looking at? http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.x86/smb-217.18/ Cheers Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
