Re: using ports or gems (easy_install)

2013-05-29 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:06:15 +0200
Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr wrote:

  Le 28/05/2013 ? 14:50:25+0700, Olivier Nicole a écrit
  Hi,
  
   I would like to known how you manage your gem (ruby) or
   easyinstall (python). Do you use ports ? or directly gems or
   easyinstall ? or both ? 
  
  As far as I can, I use ports, for consistency.
 
 Me too. But what you do when you cannot ? (Like the ports don't
 exist) ? 
 
 I see three possibility : 
 
 1/ write the ports (unfortunately not for me)
 
 2/ wait until someone does (many time it's impossible)
 
 3/ use easy_install or gem

It is easy to learn. I would strongly suggest learning it, even if
you just maintain the ports yourself and don't contribute them to the
ports tree. Doing so will drastically improve the manageability of
your system.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
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Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP

2013-03-09 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sat,  9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote:

 Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts.  Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed
 on a computer on which Windows XP currently resides?  If so, how
 can this installation be done?  In particular, is there a way to
 install 9.1 so that it can be booted from the traditional master
 boot record?  It is important that, when I am done, I can still
 boot to Windows XP, as I must run some applications not available
 on FreeBSD.  If the idea I am proposing is not feasible with
 version 9.1, will it work with 8.3?  Any comments are appreciated.
 If this question has already been asked many times before, please
 just let me know where to look to find the answer.  Thanks.
 Newbie502

When I did it, I shrunk the Windows partition and installed FreeBSD
to the a new partition created on the free space of the drive. The
multiboot version of the MBR stuff for FreeBSD should be able to
handle it for you with out issue. I've not done it with 9.1, but when
I did it with 6 way back when, it worked nicely.


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Re: What is your favorite board for a micro system?

2013-03-08 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:53:27 +0100
Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote:

 Hi!
 
 What is your favorite mini/micro/nano/pico-itx platform for home
 projects?
 
 I currently run a home server on an Intel mini-itx board but was
 looking around for something fun to play with with the following
 specs:
 
 - mini-itx or smaller, low profile
 - fanless
 - low power 12V external PSU
 - 1 LAN, preferably 2
 - 2 USB2/3
 - Flash bootable, but with option for hdd boot
 - GPIO would be fun
 - hdmi out would be nice
 
 I have tried VIA boards but found they were flacky...
 
 Any suggestion regarding ARM vs Intel based?

Can't think of any off hand in that small of form factor, but I
strongly suggest looking to see what you can find running an Intel
Atom. I've been very happy with those and their related chipsets so
far for microATX boards.


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Re: question about my new Dell 3010

2012-12-10 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:47:06 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

  
 
 
   Rats:: xvidtune gave me 
 
   Video modes are not settable on this chip.
 
   how cheap can you get? no, the question is: what chip/video
 card do I need that will get me [at least]  1920x1280?

Unless you wish to get the the KMS stuff working like Warren Block
suggested, I strongly advise getting a Nvidia card as of
currently that is the easiest and most reliable way to get good 3D
under FreeBSD.
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freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
Howdy!

Any one have any idea what is going on below?

[root@shiela]/root# uname -a
FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat 
Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012 
kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila  amd64
[root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.
Exit 1
[root@shiela]/root#
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Re: Understanding XDM

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:19:54 +0200
Christian Graulund cutu...@gmail.com wrote:

 snip

The others have answered your questions concerning DM v. WM, but if
you are finding XDM annoying to configure, you may possible wish to
take a look at slim, x11/slim.
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Re: printing jpeg slides to a Postscript printer

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:15:36 +0200
Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:

 
 Hello,
 
 I have 10 jpeg slides (screen shoots) and I want to print them to a
 Postscript printer (CUPS controlled), on each page 2 slides. I know
 I could make some presentation from them or wrap them into a HTML
 file, but I was thinking there must be some easy way with some tool
 from our ports.
 
 Any idea? Thanks in advance

I would just load them up in print them in Libreoffice and print them
once I was happy with how the page layout looked.
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Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500
 Zane C. B-H. wrote:
 
  Howdy!
  
  Any one have any idea what is going on below?
  
  [root@shiela]/root# uname -a
  FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
  8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012
  kits...@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila
  amd64 [root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
  Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
  Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching
  public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public
  key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining,
  giving up. Exit 1 [root@shiela]/root#
 
 freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go
 from security branch to security branch.

I know it can't be used to update to stable, but I've not encountered
any thing in the documentation saying it can't be used to update from
stable it to a release.

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Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues

2012-06-25 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:12:36 +0100
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500
 Zane C. B-H. wrote:
 
  On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
  RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
  
 
   freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have
   to go from security branch to security branch.
  
  I know it can't be used to update to stable, but I've not
  encountered any thing in the documentation saying it can't be
  used to update from stable it to a release.
  
 
 From the man page:
 
 ... the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases
 shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team

Right, that is exactly what I was referring to. 9.0-RELEASE is one of
those as far as I know.

It is ambiguous as to if that means being upgraded from or to and the
error message given does not indicate what is being upgraded from is
not supported, so I am a bit confused on if this is to be expected or
not.
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Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:20:13 +0100
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote:
  On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100
  Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com  wrote:
 
 snip

 I've just tried this and lost my whole system.
 
 My boot disk is not labeled to work with ahci as it just has
 standard formatting on there.
 
 Need to remove the ahci_load=YES from /boot/loader.conf file now.

Ack, my apologies. Forgot about that.

Yeah, you will need to do it from the loader prompt if you want to
test it.

Unless you are booting off of gmirror or have /etc/fstab configured
with something else that will automatically be found, you will have a
problem.

But from the loader prompt it should be...

load /boot/kernel/ahci.kp
show rootdev

If rootdev shows any thing other than shows boot device as ad,
rewrite it as ada, using the set command. See loader(8).

This will get it to boot, although it will error and drop to single
user mode as /etc/fstab contains the old stuff. Just manually mount
everything and continue.

At this point it should be up and running and able to test it out.
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Re: vpn speed loss

2012-06-03 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 11:48:45 +0200
Beni Brinckman beni.brinck...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE (pc-bsd 9.0 actuallly) on amd64 and
 I'm using a vpn connexion.
 My problem is the enormous speed loss i'm having when I'm using the
 vpn connexion.
 I have tried Openvpn and mpd5 (with a pptp and l2pt connexion) and
 the max speed (according to various speedtests) is 5 to 6MB.
 Without the vpn I'm having 45-50 MB... My vpn service has servers in
 several European countries and US, Canada, etc. The speed stays the
 same.
 So I don't  think it is a specific bsd problem but the
 lines/connexion between ISP's.
 Is this the normal speed when using a vpn (independently of the
 used program to connect) ? Because from 45-50 back to 5-6 is a big
 step backward...
 Thanks for any insights here.

With OpenVPN, you should not be seeing that big of a drop, with the
real limiting factor being the CPU time available for it. You can
easily check top and see if that is the case.

If you get 45-50MBps between the two locations with out VPN, baring
any firewall issues at either end, it is likely a configuration issue
in regards to the networking of the machines in question or the VPN
software or a CPU resource issue.

One of the first areas I would check is the MTU being used on the
network interfaces, figure out what the max MTU for the path is, and
make sure the VPN software is not sending packets larger than that.

You may also want to take a look at tuning(7).
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Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to
 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply
 being crap.
 
 
 Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS 
 server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread
 out over 2 ZFS storage pools. Additionally I am running the root
 file system on a 40GB SSD.
 
 The strange thing with this is that I recently installed the 4TB
 disks and they're brand new.
 
 
 One disk connected to the system board works fine and shows up as
 online and on one of the channels using atacontrol list.
 
 
 The other disk is connected to a Startech.com Jmicron based 2x SATA
 RAID controller card.
 
 
 The disk connected to the controller card is having issues. At
 first the drive wouldn't be seen by the system then after a while
 all of a sudden it was there. No reboots, no io scans nothing it
 just appeared.
 
 After blasting it with IO for a few days the disk has now vanished 
 again.
 
 I had this error in dmesg for a while:
 
 ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113337535
 
 I have tried to use pciconf -lbvv to show the connected interfaces
 and the JMICRON comes up fine:
 
 
 atapci0@pci0:2:0:0:class=0x010400 card=0x2366197b
 chip=0x2366197b rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
  vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp.'
  device = 'JMicron JMB366 AHCI/IDE Controller (JMB36X)'
  class  = mass storage
  subclass   = RAID
  bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd040, size  8,
 enabled bar   [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd030, size  4,
 enabled bar   [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd020, size  8,
 enabled bar   [1c] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd010, size  4,
 enabled bar   [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd000, size 16,
 enabled bar   [24] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xd051, size
 8192, enabled
 
 
 So why isn't the disk?
 
 I reckon as stated at the beginning that either the 180Watt PSU
 inside the system isn't enough or the controller is just really
 poor??
 
 
 Could anyone suggest anything to look into, I'm sure I've covered
 all the bases but just incase there is something else I can do with
 this one??

Greetings,

It looks like you are using the default ATA drive with that. I would
suggest trying the AHCI driver and see if that works better.

kldload ahci

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Re: email hosting - How do you do it?

2012-01-28 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:51:05 -0700
Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote:

 Hello,
   I've been on qmail/vpopmail combo forever and am looking to build
 a new, mail server.

As some one who has was once a unix admin for a ISP that ran Qmail
for a SMTP server, I can safely say you should avoid it like the
plague. Managing it is a bloody PITA given how incomplete it is in so
many ways.

 First choice so far is postfix, but almost all the virtual hosting
 'howtos' require an SQL database, or editing files by hand. The SQL
 part seems like an overkill for ~20-50 email accounts, the editing
 files by hand seems like a pain and requires me doing everything
 but I'd rather let people manage their own domains.

Postfix is a great choice. A lot more manageable than Qmail and it is
pleasantly fast, easy to configure, and integrates nicely with
Dovecot.

If you are just dealing with a single domain, I would strongly
suggest looking into just using system users. This works fairly
nicely and you can lock down access via PAM.

In regards to authentication, you will need to look into something
other than the master.passwd stuff authentication as that is only
usable as root. I would strongly suggest LDAP. In regards to managing
users/groups in LDAP I would suggest sysutils/p5-Plugtools . It is
something I wrong awhile back and maintain, so if you have any
requests for add on to, please just let me know.

 Just curious on how everyone else does small/medium/large email
 hosting so that the users have an easy option to change passwords,
 manage their domains, quotas, vacation auto responders, etc. ?

My setup involves...

backend - The backend server runs LDAP and has a nice bit of disk
space shared via NFs.
frontend - The frontend servver runs all the external facing stuff,
webmail(horde), more web stuff, Dovecot(POP3/IMAP/Sieve), and
Postfix(SMTP).
NFS - Used for sharing home directories.
LDAP - Used for authentication, addressbooks, and user/groups.
Dovecot  - Use for POP3/IMAP/Sieve.
Postfix - Used for SMTP.
syslogd - Used for centralized logging for logging from the frontend
to the backend.
Horde - It makes a truely kick ass webmail system. It is nice as
allows easy integration of Sieve and LDAP addressooks.
ZFS/gmirror - Gmirror backed ZFS pools work really nicely for if you
need large amounts of storage.
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Re: Smartcam (or can you use linux dev driver + program)

2012-01-17 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:49:06 -0800
Lyubomir Grigorov lyubo...@grigorovl.eu wrote:

 snip 
 QUESTION
 
 Is it even possible to use the Linux dev driver under FreeBSD? Since
 Smartcam is a 2-part suite: driver and application.

The Linux compatibility layer for FreeBSD does not include the ability
to use Linux kernel modules. It concerns it's self with providing
support for the non-kernel stuff.

 If it's not possible to use linuxator, will it be possible to use the
 source to create a FreeBSD version of the dev driver? I assume the
 program will be easier to port than the actual driver.

With out any changes, no. The Linux kernel and FreeBSD kernel are two
very different items.

If you are looking to port it, below are some links that would be a good
place to start off with reading.


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html
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Re: Probable Hardware Failure

2012-01-15 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:12:24 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:

 I have a pretty old desktop that has been around quite awhile.  It
 has started periodic crashes.  No log messages.  However, the core
 status files all show double fault.  I am confident this is a
 hardware issue, but is there any easy way to determine if its power
 or memory related?  Those are the primary candidates although memory
 is also possible.  We really need to replace the entire unit, but
 that might be a bit more salable if I can present convincing evidence
 of the cause of the problem.

In regards to the RAM, I would strongly suggest memtest86/memtest86+.
When you begin seeing odd issues like that, it can be a handy tool to
use for a quick RAM check.
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Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:08:15 +
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:

 
 I have a fairly simple perl script which is run by devd when I plug
 in a USB memory stick. The script sets up some permissions and a
 link to make life easy for a user to mount the memory stick.
 
 This normally works fine but there are problems if the memory stick
 is already inserted before booting.
 
 Normally my internal 4 slot memory card reader is detected as
 umass0 with devices da[0-3] and when the USB memory stick is
 inserted it comes up as umass1 with device da4 and my script works
 on that assumption. If the USB stick is present on booting then it
 appears as da0 on umass0 and the card reader is da[1-4] on umass1
 so the script fails.
 
 Is there any convenient way for my script to determine which da*
 devices correspond to the umass device name?

Why are you using a custom Perl script for this instead of the built
in tools for this?

Below is how I have it setup on my system...

In /etc/devfs.rules...

[localrules=10]
add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group 5001

In /etc/rc.conf...

devfs_system_ruleset=localrules

In /etc/sysctl.conf...

vfs.usermount=1

And what group 5001 is...

[kitsune@vixen42]/etc getent group 5001
devDAaccess:*:5001:kitsune
[kitsune@vixen42]/etc 

Allows the group devDAaccess to access /dev/da*s* and mount it.

For more reading on this, I suggest the following man files...

devfs.rules(5)
rc.conf(5)
devfs(8)
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Re: X11 - keyboard driver unloaded, how to load it again

2011-12-07 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:48:20 +0100
Sebastian Chmielewski chmi...@o2.pl wrote:

 Hi,
 I've an USB Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000, which is
 recognized also as a keyboard:
 ugen1.3: vendor 0x192f at usbus1 (disconnected)
 ums0: at uhub2, port 2, addr 3 (disconnected)
 ugen0.5: Microsoft at usbus0
 ukbd0: Microsoft Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0, class 0/0, rev
 2.00/6.56, addr 5 on usbus0
 kbd2 at ukbd0
 ums0: Microsoft Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0, class 0/0, rev
 2.00/6.56, addr 5 on usbus0
 ums0: 5 buttons and [XYZT] coordinates ID=26
 ums0: 0 buttons and [T] coordinates ID=0
 uhid0: Microsoft Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0, class 0/0, rev
 2.00/6.56, addr 5 on usbus0
 
 After disconnecting this mouse kbd module was unloaded by X:
 
 [ 40002.703] (**) Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0: always reports
 core events
 [ 40002.703] (**) Microsoft 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0: always reports
 core events
 [ 40002.704] (**) Option Protocol standard
 [ 40002.704] (**) Option XkbRules base
 [ 40002.704] (**) Option XkbModel pc105
 [ 40002.704] (**) Option XkbLayout pl
 [ 40002.704] (**) Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
 [ 40002.709] (**) Option config_info
 hal:/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_45e_745_noserial_if0
 [ 40002.709] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Microsoft
 2.4GHz Transceiver v8.0 (type: KEYBOARD)
 [ 47161.229] (II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button
 [ 49888.691] (II) config/hal: removing device Microsoft 2.4GHz
 Transceiver v8.0
 [ 49888.696] (II) UnloadModule: kbd
 [ 49888.696] (II) Unloading kbd
 
 Question is: how to prevent this behavior in X and how to reload
 module 'kbd' under working X session (I can connect through ssh to
 this machine).

I would suggest just disabling HAL support for x11-server/xorg-server
and just statically configuring the file. The only thing you may
possibly want to do after that is make sure moused is started if you
are have any non-USB mice on that system as well.

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Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:51:47 +
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:

 On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Zane C. B-H. wrote:
 
  Why are you using a custom Perl script for this instead of the
  built in tools for this?
 
  Below is how I have it setup on my system...
 
  In /etc/devfs.rules...
 
  [localrules=10]
  add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group 5001
 
 Because devfs only relates to boot time and I want to deal with usb 
 sticks inserted while the system is running. The allocation of
 device numbers is dynamic and depends on what other umass devices
 are already connected. Normally my internal memory card reader is
 allocated da[0-3] at boot time and the memory stick will appear as
 da4 when subsequently inserted but if it's already plugged in when
 the system boots then it appears as da0 and the card reader is
 da[1-4]. If I insert an extra memory stick it will be allocated the
 next available device number. I don't want the user to have to hunt
 around to determine which device to mount so my script takes the
 umass device number supplied by devd and determines the relevant
 da* device then it sets the permission to 660 for that device and
 creates a link, /dev/usbstick, pointing to it. All the user then
 has to do is mount /dev/usbstick on his mount point.
 
 Following the earlier tip from Polytropon I now have a working
 script which does exactly what I need.

Still you will want to investigate what I've mentioned. It will
drastically simplify permission stuff as well as make automatic. The
devfs stuff is just not boottime only, but will be applied to any new
device added etc post boot.
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Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-07 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:39:30 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:

 On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Zane C. B-H. wrote:
 
  Still you will want to investigate what I've mentioned. It will
  drastically simplify permission stuff as well as make automatic.
  The devfs stuff is just not boottime only, but will be applied to
  any new device added etc post boot.
 
 Are you sure of that?  Seems like devfs permissions are only
 applied when devfs(8) apply/applyset commands are run, directly or
 through /etc/rc.d/devfs.

Yeah, I am sure of that. It is what I have setup here.

/etc/devfs.conf - This one only affects boot time stuff.

/dec/devfs.rules - This one contains the rules will be applied during
and post boot. It will also require you to specify which to use in
/etc/rc.conf as this file can contain multiple rule sets.
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Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:47:04 -0500
Evan Busch antiequal...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I make decisions about hardware and software for those who work
 with me.
 
 Talking with my second in command this morning, we reached a
 quandary. Ron is completely pro-Linux and pro-Windows, and against
 FreeBSD.

 What is odd about this is that he's the biggest UNIX fanatic I know,
 not only all types of UNIX (dating back quite some time) but also
 all Unix-like OSen.
 
 I told him I was considering FreeBSD because of greater stability
 and security.
 
 He asked me a question that stopped me dead:
 
 What is a quality operating system?
 
 
 In his view, and now mine, a quality operating system is reliable,
 streamlined and clearly organized.
 
 Over the past few years, FreeBSD has drifted off-course in this
 department, in his view.
 
 Let me share the points he made that I consider valid (I have
 deleted two as trivial, and added one of my own):
 
 (1) Lack of direction.
 
 FreeBSD is still not sure whether it is a desktop OS, or a server
 OS. It is easy for the developers to say well, it's whatever you
 want, but this makes the configuration process more involved. This
 works against people who have to use these operating systems to get
 anything done.

There is no difference between the two, only what one uses it as.
 
 In his view, a crucial metric here is the ability to estimate time
 required for any task. It may be a wide window, but it should not be
 as wide as anywhere from 30 minutes to 96 hours. In his
 experience, FreeBSD varies widely on this front because in the name
 of keeping options open, standardization of interface and process
 has been deprecated.

This makes zero sense with out any further information.

 (2) Geek culture.
 
 Geek culture is the oldest clique on the internet. Their goal is to
 make friends with no one who is not like them. As a result, they
 specialize in the arcane, disorganized and ambiguous. This forces
 people to go through the same hoops they went through. This makes
 them happy, and drives away people who need to use operating
 systems to achieve real-world results. They reduce a community to
 hobbyists only.
 
 (3) Horrible documentation.
 
 This is my specialty and has been since the early 1980s. The FreeBSD
 documentation is wordy, disorganized, inconsistent and highly
 selective in what it mentions. It is not the product of
 professionals but it also not the product of volunteers with a
 focus on communication. It seems pro-forma, as in, it's in the
 documentation, so don't bother me. The web site compounds this
 error by pointing us in multiple directions instead of to a
 singular resource. It is bad enough that man pages are separate
 from your main documentation tree, but now you have doubled or
 trebled the workload required of you without any benefit to the end
 user.

I find it questionable if the person saying this has ever dealt with
either Windows or Linux in any notable manner. Windows has
documentation and lots of it. Every single bit of it extremely
disorganized. In general with Linux I've found it is generally
missing lots of information when it is present at all.

 (4) Elitism.
 
 To a developer, looking at some inconsistent or buggy interface and
 thinking, If they can't do this, they don't belong using FreeBSD
 anyway is too easy of a thought. Yet it looks to me like this
 happens quite a bit, and this is for the elite has become the
 default orientation. This is problematic in that there are people
 out there who are every bit as smart as you, or smarter, but are
 not specialized in computers. They want to use computers to achieve
 results; you may want to play around with your computer as an
 activity, but that is not so for everyone.

Inconsistent and/or buggy? With out context this is pointless.


 (5) Hostile community.
 
 For the last several weeks, I have been observing the FreeBSD
 community. Two things stand out: many legitimate questions go
 ignored, and for others, response is hostile resulting in either
 incorrect answers, haughty snubs, and in many cases, a refusal to
 admit when the problem is FreeBSD and not the user. In particular,
 the community is oblivious to interfaces and chunks of code that
 have illogical or inconsistent interfaces, are buggy, or whose
 function does not correspond to what is documented (even in the
 manpages).

And this person likes Linux?

 (6) Selective fixes.
 
 I am guilty of this too, sometimes, but when you hope to build an
 operating system, it is a poor idea. Programmers work on what they
 want to work on. This leaves much of the unexciting stuff in a
 literal non-working state, and the entire community oblivious to it
 or uncaring. As Ron detailed, huge parts of FreeBSD are like buried
 land mines just waiting to detonate. They are details that can
 invoke that 30 minute to 96 hour time period instantly, usually
 right before you need to get something done.

No context...

 (7) Disorganized website.
 
 The 

wpa_cli issues

2011-08-19 Thread Zane C. B-H.
Is there any way to undefine a variable once it has been set?
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Re: wpa_cli issues

2011-08-19 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:14:54 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:

  From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Fri Aug 19 07:41:44 2011
  Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:22:34 -0500
  From: Zane C. B-H. v.ve...@vvelox.net
  To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
  Subject: wpa_cli issues
 
  Is there any way to undefine a variable once it has been set?
 
 *As(stated*, the answer involves the offspring of the mating of a
 rhinoceros and an elephand.
 
 =GUESSING= that you mean a shell 'envionment variable', the answer
 is 'yes'. _How_ one can do it depends on the shell (*unspecified*!)
 being used. 'unsetenv' _may_ do the trick.  Alternatively a
 variable assignment with no value (.e.g VARIABLE=) may work.

Blarg?

None of these is even vaguely related to my question about wpa_cli,
as stated in the subject.
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Re: wpa_cli issues

2011-08-19 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:05:01 -0400
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:

 On 8/19/2011 10:26 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote:
  Blarg?
  
  None of these is even vaguely related to my question about
  wpa_cli, as stated in the subject.
 
 WTF is 'Blarg'?

 How about you give us a little more context and offer to converse
 with us instead of treating us like machines who blindly spit out
 answers (right or wrong, doesn't matter, you've equated us to
 machines!)
 
 Robert did the best he could with the little bit of information you
 gave us. Even after reading your e-mail, I was left wondering what
 variables (with in or without wpa_cli) you were talking about and
 also jumped to the conclusion of shell environment variables.
 
 A rather blunt note for you (and I've learned this first hand). If
 you are rude on an Open Source mailing-list, the chances of you
 getting help drop, dramatically. The chances of you getting flamed
 for your rudeness become guaranteed.

Nothing I said was intended as rude and was phrased in a neutral
manner. Personally this knee jerk reaction to assume I was being
hostile etc is a lot more annoying and insulting than any thing.

As to any confusion as to what I was talking about I am still lost as
to how some one would come any thing shell related given wpa_cli was
very specifically stated in the subject. I actually though there was a
a Robert was trying to be an ass with his reply about shell related
stuff given that.
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Re: wpa_cli issues

2011-08-19 Thread Zane C. B-H.
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:51:16 -0500
Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:

 In the last episode (Aug 19), Zane C. B-H. said:
  On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:14:54 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi
  bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
   From: Zane C. B-H. v.ve...@vvelox.net
Is there any way to undefine a variable once it has been set?
   
   *As(stated*, the answer involves the offspring of the mating of
   a rhinoceros and an elephand.
   
   =GUESSING= that you mean a shell 'envionment variable', the
   answer is 'yes'. _How_ one can do it depends on the shell
   (*unspecified*!) being used. 'unsetenv' _may_ do the trick.
   Alternatively a variable assignment with no value (.e.g
   VARIABLE=) may work.
  
  Blarg?
  
  None of these is even vaguely related to my question about
  wpa_cli, as stated in the subject.
 
 wpa_cli only understands a fixed list of variables to set, and it
 doesn't make sense to undefine them.  You can set them back to
 their default values, but they must have a value.
 
 Defaults from looking at the source:
 
 EAPOL::heldPeriod = 60
 EAPOL::startPeriod = 30
 EAPOL::maxStart = 3
 EAPOL::authPeriod = 30
 dot11RSNAConfigPMKLifetime = 43200
 dot11RSNAConfigPMKReauthThreshold = 70
 dot11RSNAConfigSATimeout = 60
 
 Running set from within wpa_cli should print these values, too,
 according to the manpage.

That is for stuff set via set, but when it comes to the individual
network variables, not all of these have a default value other than
not defined, AFAIK, and setting them back to the defaults as far as I
can tell is impossible for some.

A example of this is the bssid variable. Once this has been set, I've
been unable to find any way to remove it via wpa_cli.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks. :)
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Re: USB WLAN Atheros and USB Ethernet FBSD 7.2

2009-05-15 Thread Zane C.B.
On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:15:37 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:

 On Friday 15 May 2009 13:04:50 Saša Stupar wrote:
 
  I suggest you to buy a good AP (Lynksys, Asus, etc.) and it will
  work much better than building it from FreeBSD.
 
 And this is based on which assumption with what criteria for
 working better? On my FreeBSD AP I can:
 - view my logs in realtime
 - shape traffic
 - deny/grant access at will without requiring rule reloads (pf
 tables ftw)
 - send custom DHCP info, like:
 option wpad code 252 = text;
 option wpad http://10.0.0.1/proxy.pac;;
 - configure over ssh
 - add memory
 - control internal and external DNS

Aye. Lets note for get all the fun when can have with netgraph and
misc VPN stuff.


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Re: write_dma error

2009-04-19 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:33:45 +0200
mac.tc raszo...@gmail.com wrote:

 hi, can anyone tell me what this message is related to?
 
 WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=62939519
 
 drive/hardware failing?
 i am seeing a lot of it lately on a particular disk where i have
 tried a few different installs and don't always
 get this problem. i have seen it disappear after some painstaking
 before a reinstall this disk, like wiping the whole disk clean
 before install, checking geometry is right, but maybe coincidence?
 it is a sata300, 7.2 beta1 amd64 and i am thinking there is problem
 with the disk, but the error varied a bit with different installs
 (i.e. whether i see the error or not)

I suggest installing 'sysutils/smartmontools', checking the health,
-H, and if it shows up healthy, run a long self test. If the long
self test completes with out issue, it is most likely a bad cable,
some what odd for SATA, but I've had it happen several times back in
the days of PATA.


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Re: write_dma error

2009-04-19 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:36:40 +0100
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:

 On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:49:10 -0400
 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:
 
  Hmm.  ICRC errors are about the controller talking to the disk
  electronics.  They don't generally have anything to do with the 
  magnetic medium itself.
  
  Try replacing the cable.
 
 The only time I've seen ICRC errors was when FreeBSD was programming
 UDMA100 mode when I only had a UDMA33 cable installed. Overridding
 the mode using atacontrol solved it, as did installing a UDMA66
 cable.

I've seen the issue quit often in cheap, or long, UDMA100 cables as
well.


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Re: odd issue with 6.4-PRERELEASE #2 and udf/cd9660

2008-11-24 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:47:34 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 really odd.
 
 check if your /dev/cd0 actually works by
 
 dd if=/dev/cd0 bs=64k of=test.image
 
 and if dd won't fail. try then mounting image with
 mdconfig/mount_cd9660

It DDs fine, but I get the same error when I try to mount it. The odd
thing is is if I point tar at it, 'tar -vtf test.image', it shows me
the the files contained in the image. I can also mount this disk on
other FreeBSD machines.

Below is some additional info one my system, if any one is curious.

# kldstat 
Id Refs AddressSize Name
 1   17 0xc040 67cf00   kernel
 21 0xc0a7d000 15c64geom_mirror.ko
 32 0xc0a93000 23018linux.ko
 41 0xc0ab7000 14e20snd_hda.ko
 52 0xc0acc000 258e8sound.ko
 61 0xc0af2000 711b34   nvidia.ko
 71 0xc1204000 8884 aio.ko
 81 0xc120d000 b6e0 cpufreq.ko
 91 0xc1219000 66318acpi.ko
101 0xc7424000 e000 ipfw.ko
111 0xc9083000 6000 udf.ko


machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident   vixen42

options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor
Kernel

# To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
#hints  GENERIC.hints # Default places
to look for devices.

makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1)
debug symbols

options SCHED_4BSD  # 4BSD scheduler
options PREEMPTION  # Enable kernel thread
preemption options  INET#
InterNETworking options INET6   # IPv6
communications protocols optionsFFS #
Berkeley Fast Filesystem optionsSOFTUPDATES #
Enable FFS soft updates support options
UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on
big directories options MD_ROOT # MD
is a potential root device options  NFSCLIENT   #
Network Filesystem Client options   NFSSERVER   #
Network Filesystem Server options   NFSLOCKD#
Network Lock Manager optionsNFS_ROOT# NFS
usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options
MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options
CD9660  # ISO 9660 Filesystem options
PROCFS  # Process filesystem (requires
PSEUDOFS) options   PSEUDOFS# Pseudo-filesystem
framework options   GEOM_GPT# GUID Partition
Tables. options COMPAT_43   # Compatible with
BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] optionsCOMPAT_FREEBSD4 #
Compatible with FreeBSD4 options
COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5 options
SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing
SCSI optionsKTRACE  # ktrace(1)
support options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style
shared memory options   SYSVMSG #
SYSV-style message queues options
SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores options
_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time
extensions options  KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV
entry in /dev options   ADAPTIVE_GIANT  # Giant
mutex is adaptive.

device  apic# I/O APIC

# Bus support.
device  eisa
device  pci

# Floppy drives
device  fdc

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device  ata
device  atadisk # ATA disk drives
device  ataraid # ATA RAID drives
device  atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device  atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
device  atapist # ATAPI tape drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering

# SCSI peripherals
device  scbus   # SCSI bus (required for
SCSI) devicech  # SCSI media changers
device  da  # Direct Access (disks)
device  sa  # Sequential Access (tape etc)
device  cd  # CD
device  pass# Passthrough device
(direct SCSI access) device ses # SCSI
Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device  atkbdc  # AT keyboard controller
device  atkbd   # AT keyboard
device  psm # PS/2 mouse

device  kbdmux  # keyboard multiplexer

device  vga # VGA video card driver

device  splash  # Splash screen and
screen saver support

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device  sc

# Enable this for the pcvt (VT220 compatible) console driver
#device vt
#optionsXSERVER # support for X server on a
vt console #options FAT_CURSOR  # start with block
cursor

#device agp # support 

Re: IAX2 (or SIP) softphone for FreeBSD

2008-10-13 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:28:15 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  anyone know something good.
 
  good=simply, works well, preferably no or minimal GUI.
 
  The most reliable is 'net/ekiga'. I've run into problems with
  'net/kiax' and crossing NAT. That was nearly two years ago so it
  may
 
 for now kiax works for me (but no NAT), just they automatic gain
 control and noise reduction should be disabled, as it works funny
 at least :)
 
 thanks


Sweet! I am currently in the process of drinking a large amount of
Jagermiester so this may not make to sense.

The problem I originally ran into is that behind goat fraging NAT I
would run into issues receiving calls. The problem I ran into is that
even though it is suppose to tranvese NAT with out issue,I would
never receive incoming calls. In more recent tests I ran into issues
with it and seg faulting like it just fraged a goat.

The situation I was running into problems with was with asteresik
behind NAT as well as the IAX using client. It is a known issue, or
was then. Search the Asterisk archives for this email address if you
interested in it some more.

That goatse.cx issue was why I originally switched to that fraged
solution that uses that POS of using the goatseing Gnome stuff. One I
get a bit of spare time I am going to wring something that uses
ZConf.

Any ways, have a great night! May your nights be as bathed in the
mercury vapor glow as mine are.


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Re: IAX2 (or SIP) softphone for FreeBSD

2008-10-12 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:23:54 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 anyone know something good.
 
 good=simply, works well, preferably no or minimal GUI.

The most reliable is 'net/ekiga'. I've run into problems with
'net/kiax' and crossing NAT. That was nearly two years ago so it may
have been fixed. 'net/twinkle' works for some people, but for me it
has always core dumped. If you feel like rolling your own, their is
'net/p5-Net-SIP'.


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Re: Two xorg-server packages?

2008-06-14 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:06:47 -0600
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I seem to have two xorg-server packages on a FreeBSD system of
 mine, and I'm not sure why.  With one of them, there's no problem:
 
   xorg-server-1.4_10,1=  up-to-date with port 
 
 One of them won't upgrade:
 
   xorg-server-1.2.99.903_1,1needs updating (port has
 1.2.99.903_2,1) 
 
   ** Port marked as IGNORE: x11-servers/xorg-server-snap:
   is outdated
   ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
   - x11-servers/xorg-server-snap (marked as IGNORE)
 
 . . . and portaudit says it's vulnerable:
 
   Affected package: xorg-server-1.2.99.903_1,1
   Type of problem: xorg -- multiple vulnerabilities.
   Reference:
   
 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/fe2b6597-c9a4-11dc-8da8-0008a18a9961.html
 
 Why do I have this xorg-server-1.2.99.903_1,1 package?  It appears
 to be nothing but an older version.  Should I remove it, or figure
 out how to upgrade it?  Is it actually just an older version of the
 same package, or is it a different/separate package entirely?
 
 Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.

I would just compile x11-server/xorg-server and once it is done do a
pkg_delete on xorg-server-snap. Then install
xorg-server/xorg-server. What it is complaining about is
x11-servers/xorg-server-snap being marked as to be ignored, which it
should be now as it is a out of date snap shot of xorg-server from
some time back.
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Re: Testing RAM

2008-06-14 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:45:20 -0500
Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How would I go about slamming the RAM in testing? I was figuring
 I'd drop from 4GB to 1GB and just push the board with the same cp
 -rvn commands I've been running in an attempt to populate my 7TB
 RAID5.
 
 Also, am I using the wrong FS for the RAID? I partitioned it with
 gpt (1 large slice) and formatted it with newfs but is there
 another way? A better way? I read about ZFS recently but I am sure
 the speed of reading from a RAID5 is lost with it's redundancies.

For something that large, ZFS would be my choice.
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Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-14 Thread Zane C.B.
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:25:32 +0200
David Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 Today I read an article describing how my government had lost
 ZAR200 000 000 from fraud.  This is just under $25 000 000.  The
 article credited this loss largely due to the use of spyware.  
 
 My question is how secure is FreeBSD (including KDE, GNOME and
 XFCE) to attacks, including cracking and spyware.  In addition, is
 there anyway to prevent a user from executing a program that is not
 owned by root (i.e. any program installed by the user), this would
 prevent spyware being installed (assuming root has been properly
 locked down) and subsequently run.  

Ugidfw(8) can be used to help with the executable stuff. The same is
true for using a restricted shell. The important thing is making sure
to make sure the user can't execute any thing other than the few
commands they are suppose to. If allowed access to execute any thing
in a system bin/sbin path, you begin to run into issues with
interpreters, which are as good as being able to execute something
owned by them. You can remove permissions to access them, but that
strikes me as beginning to get a bit hairy in the long run.
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Re: Testing RAM

2008-06-14 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:11:32 -0500
Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Zane C.B. wrote:
  On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:45:20 -0500
  Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

  How would I go about slamming the RAM in testing? I was figuring
  I'd drop from 4GB to 1GB and just push the board with the same cp
  -rvn commands I've been running in an attempt to populate my 7TB
  RAID5.
 
  Also, am I using the wrong FS for the RAID? I partitioned it with
  gpt (1 large slice) and formatted it with newfs but is there
  another way? A better way? I read about ZFS recently but I am
  sure the speed of reading from a RAID5 is lost with it's
  redundancies. 
 
  For something that large, ZFS would be my choice
 I take it that's not something I can do after the fact, right? I am
 not looking forward to redoing 1.6TB in file copying a second time

Not that I am aware of.

My big reason I would go with ZFS is it would make future updates
easier as you can do it on the fly if the disks are just being added
to a system.
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Re: Firewalls

2008-05-02 Thread Zane C.B.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:51:29 -0700
perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  Doug Hardie wrote:
 
   FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls:  IPF, IPFW, and PF.  Some time ago
   (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or
   more of those was better maintained and higher quality than the
   others.  I don't see any indications of this in the handbook.
   Several years ago I needed to do traffic shaping and used IPFW
   with dummynet.  It worked but the need eventually went away.
   More recently I needed to incorporate spamd which defaults to
   PF so I used that.  However, now I am back to needing traffic
   shaping again.  I suspect trying to use both PF and IPFW
   simultaneously will not be a good approach.  In addition, there
   now are instructions for using spamd with IPFW so it appears
   that either PF or IPFW will do what I need. Is there any
   additional information available to assist in selecting between
   those?  Thanks.
  
 
  As I understand it pf is often found to be easiest to use and has
  lots of features like altq and os fingerprinting but is quite a
  bit slower than ipfw.
 
  --
  Bruce
 
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  Reading this post, i have some doubt, how is IPFW support for VoIP
 packets, can do traffic shaping?, i read that PF can do that, I'm
 right?

What exactly are you looking to do in this area?
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Re: Firewalls

2008-05-02 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:50:06 +0100
Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Doug Hardie wrote:
  FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls:  IPF, IPFW, and PF.  Some time ago 
  (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more
  of those was better maintained and higher quality than the
  others.  I don't see any indications of this in the handbook.
  Several years ago I needed to do traffic shaping and used IPFW
  with dummynet.  It worked but the need eventually went away.
  More recently I needed to incorporate spamd which defaults to PF
  so I used that.  However, now I am back to needing traffic
  shaping again.  I suspect trying to use both PF and IPFW
  simultaneously will not be a good approach.  In addition, there
  now are instructions for using spamd with IPFW so it appears that
  either PF or IPFW will do what I need.  Is there any additional
  information available to assist in selecting between those?
  Thanks.
 
 As I understand it pf is often found to be easiest to use and has
 lots of features like altq and os fingerprinting but is quite a bit
 slower than ipfw.

There is one thing that IPFW has that PF does not that I have found
to be very handy at times. It can be used to setup firewall rules
that only affect a specific group or user.
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Re: linux emulation

2008-04-01 Thread Zane C.B.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:52:14 +1000
Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  On 20/03/2008, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:50 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
  I've read the handbook and just about anything on linux
  compat under freebsd. I am particularly interested in
  drivers under linux compat.

 emulation allows execution of normal linux programs, not
 drivers
  
  
   Ok. So input devices won't work either? I refer to this page
   here:
   http://people.freebsd.org/~3d/apps/games/unreal_tournament/
  
What is the driver mentioned here?
  
Incidentally, what is the difference between linux and bsd
   drivers? The drivers in question are manufacturers binaries for
   linux in an RPM; hence the question. Plus I came across several
   notations regarding building or using drivers from linux in bsd
   (linux-kmod-compat port, the above link, and more).
  
For reference I'm merely very curious, not argumentative on
   this. Cheers for any answers offered.
  
 
 
 On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 02:14 -0700, Patrick C wrote:
  A binary is compiled assembly/code. The binary still needs to
  interact with low-level hardware using system calls, handling
  interrupts, etc. in a way that the operating system understands.
  Applications are more portable and less operating- and
  hardware-specific than drivers, which require a good
  understanding of the operating system and the hardware.
  
  Please read the current status of linux-kmod-compat, it
  specifically indicates it is for USB drivers. USB is a simplified
  bus where the low-level access is handled in the same manner for
  every device so it's simpler to port the driver.
  
  Glide in your case is an API/Library, not an actual driver.
  Libraries are very similar to applications in how they act with
  the operating system/environment, and are a must-have on running
  Linux binaries. This is supported and works well.
  
  -Patrick
  
 
 Ok, got that. I read that about the linux-kmod-compat, but I thought
 that it might have been the beginning of something beautiful (pardon
 poetics...). I was unaware of the glide situation though.

I though glide has been long since past usefulness given the cards it
was for no longer are effectively around outside ebay and peoples
hardware drawers.

I regards to running UT on FreeBSD it runs nicely, other than it
requires a hackish manner to install 2007 if you have it on CD.

 Does anyone know what the differences are between linux and bsd at
 the system calls, interrupts, etc? I understand that there are some
 software which accesses hardware at this sort of level which has
 been adapted as well (raid controllers mainly), so surely there
 must be some information on what can enable this to work.
 
 What this discussion has got me thinking on is a wrapper (ie
 NDIS), since the drivers are not from the linux oss community but
 from the actual manufacturer I'm assuming (forgive me,
 please... :) ) that this may be a feasible solution. In which case,
 then, I'm going to have to map calls and create device nodes.
 Should be simple then, no? ;P!
 
 I'd love to hear any more suggestions or links to info on any of
 this, thanks guys.
 
 Also, on the linux compat- am I correct in my observation that you
 have to actually chroot to enable the running of a linux binary?
 Enter the file structure of the linux compat? Or can you just run
 it?
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Re: A general purpose LDAP solution?

2008-03-28 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:26:51 +0100
Jon Theil Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 2008/3/23, Jon Theil Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  Hi list!
 
   I have speculated a lot about implementation of (Open)LDAP on my
   sever. By I haven't yet found the right (and logical) way to do
  it. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-Release with some different server
  applications
   - Samba PDC
   - Virtual mail server (Postfix, MySQL, Courier-IMAP)
   - VPN (currently with mpd4)
   - Apache-2.2.8 web server (with PHP and MySQL)
   I would like to implement LDAP for:
   - authentication of UNIX/login users
   - authentication of Samba users
   - authentication/authorization of virtual mail users
   For the first part, I got useful information from a previsous
  thread
  (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-02/msg01047.html)
  and for the second part, i guess there is sufficient howtos to
  make it work. My biggest question right now is if is possible to
  combine all three things in one data structure. And which in
  which order I should make the different implimentions.
   Excuse my total lack of understanding, but is it possible to
  have a structure with a superior unit such as OU=some
  organization which could contain several virtual domains and the
  organization actual doamin for my
   PDC?
 
   --
  Jon Theil Nielsen
 Oh, i forgot one more thing: I would also like to be able to
 authenticate VPN users the same way.

For foo.bar and monkies.foo.bar, I would do it as below. And
remember, PAM is your friend. And on a similar note, I am goat
fragging surprised Postfix does not have a native PAM auth backend
yet.

ou=users,dc=foo,dc=bar
ou=users,dc=monkies,dc=foo,bar

In regards to VPN, you may wish to look into OpenVPN. It has a
scriptable password checking mechanism.
http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#auth

Enjoy playing with the nastiness that is Samba and LDAP. =^.^=



On another note, I changed this from the net list to the questions
list as I don't think this really falls under FreeBSD net related
stuff.
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Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-05 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:36:30 +0100
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.:
  I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support
  for it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires support
  for that on both ends.
 
  More and more it looks like getting either PID and/or user info
  about the other process connecting up to it is impossible, with
  out writing some sort of authentication system for the two to use
  or both ends have to support the LOCAL_CREDS stuff.
 
 I cannot believe that this doesn't exist for Perl (everything
 exists for Perl in one way or another...), and anyway, a quick
 search on CPAN found this, which looks as though it's (at least
 part of) what you're looking for:
 
 http://search.cpan.org/~mjp/Socket-MsgHdr-0.01/MsgHdr.pm
 
 Finally, thinking back to the last time I used SCM_CREDS on Linux
 (which is a lng time ago), I'm not even sure that the sender
 has to send an SCM_CREDS message (which would invalidate my former
 reply); I think it's enough if the receiver requests to get one
 (which will be filled in by the kernel), see the description in the
 referenced page above which shows you how to set up the
 corresponding recvmsg call.
 
 Sending one is only required in case the sender is root and wants
 to spoof it's credentials to the remote process (IIRC).

Been spending a bit of time messing around with it and it appears to
be broken.


I've tried various things, but it does not seem to fetch any thing.


#!/usr/bin/perl

use Socket::MsgHdr;
use Socket;
use IO::Socket::UNIX;

unlink(/tmp/testsocket);

my $listen_socket = new IO::Socket::UNIX( Local = /tmp/testsocket,
Listen=1);

while(my $conn = $listen_socket-accept){
my $inHdr = Socket::MsgHdr-new(buflen=8192, namelen=256);

recvmsg($conn, $inHdr, LOCAL_CREDS);

my $creds=$conn-sockopt(LOCAL_CREDS);
print $creds;

my @cmsg = $inHdr-cmsghdr();
$conn-send($#cmsg.\n);
while (my ($level, $type, $data) = splice(@cmsg, 0, 3)) {
$conn-send($level.\n.
$type.\n.
$data.\n\n);
}

$conn-close;
};
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unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain
sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what
the calling PID is on the other end.

Any suggestions on where I should begin to look?

As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl.
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Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:33:22 -0600 (CST)
Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:30:21 -0600 Zane C.B.
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain
 sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out
 what the calling PID is on the other end.
 
 Any suggestions on where I should begin to look?
 
  Sure.  Take a look at the man pages for fork(2), vfork(2), and
 fork(3f).
 
 As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl.
 
  In that case, take a look at perlfork(1), too.

I am a bit lost on what fork has to do with the question.

Currently have found there is no method for figuring what PID it is.
I've found there is support for figuring out what user it is,
according to unix(4), but there appears to way to get to using any of
the existing perl modules for unix domain sockets.
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Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:54:44 +0100
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 11:30:21 schrieb Zane C.B.:
  Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix
  domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of
  figuring out what the calling PID is on the other end.
 
  Any suggestions on where I should begin to look?
 
  As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl.
 
 Check out man 3 sendmsg and man 3 recvmsg (which should be wrapped
 in Perl in some way or another), and passing SCM_CREDS messages
 between the two processes. The SCM_CREDS message is filled in my
 the kernel, so there's no way (unless the other side is root) to
 spoof the credentials information.
 
 This requires that the sending end willingly sends SCM_CREDS (and
 the receiver uses recvmsg to query for it), and sends at least one
 byte of data along with the ancilliary message.

I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support for
it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires support for
that on both ends.

More and more it looks like getting either PID and/or user info about
the other process connecting up to it is impossible, with out writing
some sort of authentication system for the two to use or both ends
have to support the LOCAL_CREDS stuff.
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Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:36:30 +0100
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.:
  I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support
  for it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires support
  for that on both ends.
 
  More and more it looks like getting either PID and/or user info
  about the other process connecting up to it is impossible, with
  out writing some sort of authentication system for the two to use
  or both ends have to support the LOCAL_CREDS stuff.
 
 I cannot believe that this doesn't exist for Perl (everything
 exists for Perl in one way or another...), and anyway, a quick
 search on CPAN found this, which looks as though it's (at least
 part of) what you're looking for:
 
 http://search.cpan.org/~mjp/Socket-MsgHdr-0.01/MsgHdr.pm
 
 Finally, thinking back to the last time I used SCM_CREDS on Linux
 (which is a lng time ago), I'm not even sure that the sender
 has to send an SCM_CREDS message (which would invalidate my former
 reply); I think it's enough if the receiver requests to get one
 (which will be filled in by the kernel), see the description in the
 referenced page above which shows you how to set up the
 corresponding recvmsg call.
 
 Sending one is only required in case the sender is root and wants
 to spoof it's credentials to the remote process (IIRC).

Thanks. I did not think to try a search for that. I was trying
various combinations involving the word unix and socket.

I've gotten it installed now and will post with how it works out.
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Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:38:37 -0600
Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:36:30 +0100
 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.:
   I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support
   for it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires
   support for that on both ends.
  
   More and more it looks like getting either PID and/or user info
   about the other process connecting up to it is impossible, with
   out writing some sort of authentication system for the two to
   use or both ends have to support the LOCAL_CREDS stuff.
  
  I cannot believe that this doesn't exist for Perl (everything
  exists for Perl in one way or another...), and anyway, a quick
  search on CPAN found this, which looks as though it's (at least
  part of) what you're looking for:
  
  http://search.cpan.org/~mjp/Socket-MsgHdr-0.01/MsgHdr.pm
  
  Finally, thinking back to the last time I used SCM_CREDS on Linux
  (which is a lng time ago), I'm not even sure that the sender
  has to send an SCM_CREDS message (which would invalidate my former
  reply); I think it's enough if the receiver requests to get one
  (which will be filled in by the kernel), see the description in
  the referenced page above which shows you how to set up the
  corresponding recvmsg call.
  
  Sending one is only required in case the sender is root and wants
  to spoof it's credentials to the remote process (IIRC).
 
 Thanks. I did not think to try a search for that. I was trying
 various combinations involving the word unix and socket.
 
 I've gotten it installed now and will post with how it works out.

I can say it installs mostly fine. A few tests do not pass. I am
still working on getting a working test script with it.
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Re: trying to locate a specific port that I forget the name of

2008-01-20 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:33:34 +
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA256
 
 Zane C.B. wrote:
  I originally saw it in the ports tree, IIRC, about a year ago or
  around there.
  
  What it was was a massive piece of software for connecting
  multiple services allowing them all to be queried. It was capable
  of connecting to IMAP, LDAP, several SQL servers, and a few other
  things. The manual of the software was several hundred pages long.
  
  Any one remember what it is?
 
   perl ?

Nah. From what I remember it was written in Java.
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Re: Opera, Flash and the stench of failure...

2008-01-19 Thread Zane C.B.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:16:59 -0700
Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Seeing the thread about flash with mozilla, I thought, a flash
 plugin with opera would be cool. Last night I tried to get flash
 working with opera. I failed. With native opera, I cannot get any
 plugins to work. Here is what I know:
 
 1. What opera bitches about:
Could not start operapluginwrapper.
Plugins will not work correctly.
 
 2. Why opera bitches:
ldd operapluginwrapper;
...
libXThrStub.so.6 = not found (0x0)
...
 
 3. Why it is missing:
On OpenBSD, and on old FreeBSD, libc lacks pthread stubs.
This is a problem because libX11 needs to support threading,
but shouldn't cause all X programs to be linked against the
threading library. The solution is libXThrStub (UIThrStubs.c),
which provides weak symbols to stub threading functions,
which are ignored if the application links against the thread
library. I had moved libXThrStub into libX11, because it
seemed unnecessary.
 
 4. What I have installed:
linux-flashplugin-9.0r115 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin
opera-9.25.20071214 A blazingly fast, full-featured,
 standards-compliant browse
opera-linuxplugins-9.21.20070510_1 Linux plugin support for the
 native Opera browser
 
 Does anyone have flash working with opera? If so, how? Where can I
 get libXThrStub.so.6?


My suggestion is to check out 'graphics/gnash'. That port works
surprisingly well for part these days.
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trying to locate a specific port that I forget the name of

2008-01-19 Thread Zane C.B.
I originally saw it in the ports tree, IIRC, about a year ago or
around there.

What it was was a massive piece of software for connecting multiple
services allowing them all to be queried. It was capable of
connecting to IMAP, LDAP, several SQL servers, and a few other
things. The manual of the software was several hundred pages long.

Any one remember what it is?
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Re: gnupg annoyances (fixed)

2008-01-08 Thread Zane C.B.
For any one who was wondering, no-grab needed set in
~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:43:00 -0600
Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Any one know what it takes to get security/gnupg to work? I have
 pinentry-gtk2, but having that installed does not help. Any
 suggestions?
 
 
 
  cat randomfile | gpg2 -s
 
 You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
 user: Zane C. Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 1024-bit DSA key, ID C18989DE, created 2006-06-16
 
 Warning: using insecure memory!
 
 ** ERROR **: could not grab keyboard
 aborting...
 gpg-agent[96284]: command get_passphrase failed: End of file
 gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
 gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
 
 You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
 user: Zane C. Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 1024-bit DSA key, ID C18989DE, created 2006-06-16
 
 gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
 gpg: no default secret key: General error
 gpg: signing failed: General error
 Exit 2
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gnupg annoyances

2008-01-08 Thread Zane C.B.
Any one know what it takes to get security/gnupg to work? I have
pinentry-gtk2, but having that installed does not help. Any
suggestions?



 cat randomfile | gpg2 -s

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: Zane C. Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1024-bit DSA key, ID C18989DE, created 2006-06-16

Warning: using insecure memory!

** ERROR **: could not grab keyboard
aborting...
gpg-agent[96284]: command get_passphrase failed: End of file
gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: Zane C. Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1024-bit DSA key, ID C18989DE, created 2006-06-16

gpg: problem with the agent: IPC write error
gpg: no default secret key: General error
gpg: signing failed: General error
Exit 2
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Re: ZFS in 6.3

2007-06-10 Thread Zane C.B.
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:57:06 -0400
Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Any chance that ZFS will make it into 6.3 or is this a 7.0 only
 feature?

From my understanding, this is very unlikely to happen due to the
large number of changes to the VFS including API changes. That is
aimed at being kept stable as possible for the stable major version.
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Re: samba and automounting upon login (update)

2007-05-19 Thread Zane C.B.
On Fri, 18 May 2007 21:46:33 -0400
Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Any one know where I can find info on setting up FreeBSD so it tries
 to automounting their home from a Samba server?

Came across pam_exec, which after a bit of tweaking sort of takes
care of this.

Here is a patch to pam_exec.c to make it export PAM_AUTHTOK.

Now the current issues is making mount_smbfs handle pulling the
password from a environmental variable or STDIN.--- pam_exec.c.orig	Sat May 19 12:51:42 2007
+++ pam_exec.c	Sat May 19 12:56:50 2007
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 	ENV_ITEM(PAM_TTY),
 	ENV_ITEM(PAM_RHOST),
 	ENV_ITEM(PAM_RUSER),
+	ENV_ITEM(PAM_AUTHTOK),
 };
 
 static int
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Re: samba and automounting upon login (update)

2007-05-19 Thread Zane C.B.
On Sat, 19 May 2007 13:01:51 -0400
Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, 18 May 2007 21:46:33 -0400
 Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Any one know where I can find info on setting up FreeBSD so it
  tries to automounting their home from a Samba server?
 
 Came across pam_exec, which after a bit of tweaking sort of takes
 care of this.
 
 Here is a patch to pam_exec.c to make it export PAM_AUTHTOK.
 
 Now the current issues is making mount_smbfs handle pulling the
 password from a environmental variable or STDIN.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112794

Just submitted as a PR. :)
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samba and automounting upon login

2007-05-18 Thread Zane C.B.
Any one know where I can find info on setting up FreeBSD so it tries
to automounting their home from a Samba server?
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Re: Sharing resources on LAN without NFS

2004-12-15 Thread Zane C. Bowers
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:52:21 +1300
Ben Washington-Yule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I 
 don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I
 
 would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between
 
 these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the
 
 correct handbook chapter where this is explained.

/me uses NFS for only two machines on his lan

Well sharing a device can be done using geomgate. The problem with
this making it play nicely... not more than one device can connect to
it with write privileges.

For this I would just use NFS and then ssh into that one machine and
burn it from there.


I would say NFS would be the simpleist solution... samba is workable,
but authentication with it is a total PITA as it does not play nicely
for using NIS or local authentication... only really supports LDAP and
a newer and older samba passwd storage... So if you are running NIS on
your lan, NFS is easy the way to go. For LDAP on the lan, I would say
it is your personal choice between Samba and NFS.

The handbook has a nice chapter on NIS and NFS.


For printing, I would suggest reading the chapter in the handbook. It
has some nice info on it. I would also suggest apsfilter, since it
makes drivers nice to work with. There is also CUPS if you don't want
to use the base lpd.
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Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

2004-05-17 Thread Zane
On Mon, 17 May 2004 20:50:45 +0100
Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,
 
 In the past I've always been able to mount USB devices (a card
 reader and a webcam) as msdosfs at /dev/da0 or some such... my new
 camera's not playing that game.
 
 It's a Kodak EasyShare DX4530. I've unplugged all my other usb
 devices to test things, and booted up with it plugged in.
 
 usbdevs -dv shows:
 
 Controller /dev/usb0:
 addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), 
 Intel(0x), rev 1.00
   uhub0
  port 1 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, KODAK EasyShare
  DX4530 
 Zoom Digital Camera(0x0576), Eastman Kodak Company(0x040a), rev 1.00
ugen0
  port 2 addr 3: full speed, self powered, config 1, USB HUB(0x0e01),
  vendor 
 0x(0x), rev 0.04
uhub1
   port 1 powered
   port 2 powered
   port 3 powered
   port 4 powered
 
 
 
 Only three new entries are created in /dev when I plug it in:
 /dev/ugen0, dev/ugen0.1 and /dev/ugen0.2, none of which are
 mountable in the normal way as msdosfs (I get Block device needed)
 
 Digikam detects it fine and correctly, but when I try to look at it
 says Failed to initialize camera.
 Please ensure camera is connected properly and turned on
 
 In the meantime Windows has no problem with it at all. This state of
 affairs must not be allowed to continue, by mine honour.
 
 plugging it in gives
 
 -bash-2.05b$ ugen0: Eastman Kodak Company KODAK EasyShare DX4530
 Zoom Digital Camera, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
 
 and unplugging it
 
 -bash-2.05b$ ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ugen0:
 detached


Sounds like umass is not in the kernel. I would check their first.
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Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

2004-05-17 Thread Zane
On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:40:41 +0100
Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Monday 17 May 2004 20:18, Zane wrote:
  On Mon, 17 May 2004 20:50:45 +0100
 
   In the past I've always been able to mount USB devices (a card
   reader and a webcam) as msdosfs at /dev/da0 or some such... my
   new camera's not playing that game.
 
 
  Sounds like umass is not in the kernel. I would check their first.
 
 No, it's there ok, and so are scbus and da, and my cardreader works
 fine using umass. But for some reason the camera doesn't:
 dmesg | grep umass
 comes up blank.

Ohh, your trying to mount a camera?  No clue then... some are umass
some are not.
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Re: Maya

2004-05-11 Thread Zane
On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:57:59 +
Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tuesday 11 May 2004 03:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I am thinking of downloading a learning adition of MAYA and
  atempting to run it on my BSD box I am running X with a GNOME
  desktop I think this is an attempt at porting can anyone give me
  some advice. I really want to play with the way MAYA handles
  autocad files and vice versa, both of wich are not supported by
  BSD what am I getting into and is it possible.
 
 I tried it too, but without success. The rpm command complained that
 /bin/sh is missing. Maybe the emulator is already fixed, I haven't
 tried for a long time.
 What format do you have it in? Is it an rpm too?

Try rpm2cpio.
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