Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address,

Re: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-11 Thread Shane Ambler
Looks to me that this page is not entirely accurate. (at least from where I am) It would appear to get a proxy server somewhere along the way. I would consider using the dynamic dns services - such as no-ip - and use a perl script that updates then ping your dns name. Not sure if they are more

RE: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html Thanks for volunteering! Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:12 AM To:

TV Card problem

2005-01-11 Thread Emon
Hello everyon I am newbie using FreeBDS 5.3; and I am just starting to learn about TV Cards supported by FreeBSD. Unfortunately my pci TV Card (PINNACLE PCTV Stereo) does not have Brooktree/Conexant Chip. Intead it uses something like SAA7134HL CC4492 Tt03461 At least that's what I found

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html Thanks for volunteering! I'll take a look at it, but on the documentation list there was recently a discussion as to what to do with the FAQ: Merge it into the

A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Peng Shan
When I use an installing CD to Boot my Computer,it stopped at the beginning with this Error: acpi_cmbat0:battery initialization failed So I know that is because my computer's motherboard's battery run out.But because my computer is ASUS PortblePC D1,it's unconvenient for me to change the

Re: nvidia driver problem

2005-01-11 Thread craig
craig wrote: first off, the colour depth issue is resolved. once restarted, x loads the nvidia driver with the full 24bit colour depth. thanks for that. (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-1, DFP-0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed; (WW)

Bad file descriptor

2005-01-11 Thread David Jenkins
Hi all, I have no idea what's causing the problem here but it seems that mail cannot be delivered to the root account - I know I should have mail forwarded to a different user in the aliases file... I'm running 5.3-RELEASE-p2 (haven't applied the latest patch yet) and GENERIC kernel. The MTA is

RE: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:43 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Gene; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: High levels of breakin attempts Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yes Eric, just write

Re: nvidia driver problem

2005-01-11 Thread craig
craig wrote: this is where things are not perfect now. the nvidia drivers select the first of the two cables, ie. analog. whereas i would like to to take the digital. i cannot quite explain it, but the analog view is not as 'crisp' as the digital. how can i specify to use the 'second' monitor?

How to reliably measure user time (getrusage(2))

2005-01-11 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Hi all, I need to measure the time spent in user mode for rather short-lived processes. Sadly the results vary highly % while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n /user/p;done user 1.13 user 0.67 user 0.65 user 0.65 user 0.64 user 0.65 % while true;do \time -p woptsa

Re: I quit

2005-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:11:38 -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:01:26 -0600 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] That may be true. I don't really know because I haven't looked at Darwin source. However, essentially

FAQ vs Handbook (was: High levels of breakin attempts)

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The FAQ and the handbook serve different needs. If the official FAQ is got rid of then someone else will just write one on their website and post it because the need is still there - and the info on theirs could be pretty -wrong-. It's better I think to have an official

VNCviewer fullscreen under Gnome 2.8 - loosing window decorations

2005-01-11 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm running in a strange problem using VNCviewer (VNC 3.3.7 built from ports) in fullscreen mode: vncviewer uses function key F8 to switch between normal and fullscreen mode. When I drop out of VNC fullscreen-mode using F8 I'm loosing the window decorations of VNCViewer under X. When

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
daniel quinn wrote: is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add there. Correct. This is something that comes

ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the following error on boot: ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:1 ::204:61ff:fe46:be89, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address ntpd seems to be working from what I

Re: switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)

2005-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Joe Schmoe wrote: I have a new laptop that has the FN (function) key in the very lower left, and the CTRL key one key to the right of it ... but I like the CTRL key to be in the far lower left ... Is it possible to switch the function of these two keys (not just in X, but in the console, virtual

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-11 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:43:05PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be shared at all of the computers. I would like to have the ability to retrieve mail

CDROM of OpenOffice?

2005-01-11 Thread John Conover
Is OpenOffice available for 5.3 on a CDROM? I'm on a dial up, and its too big. Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

libintl.so.5 issue when installing logrotate

2005-01-11 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, I ran into a rather funny issue (fbsd 5.3-release, i386). I have an updated ports tree (that is: twice per week cron updates it using cvsup). Now, I tried installing /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate (make install) O.k., it failed, mentioning that it required gettext version 0.13 or higher. No

Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM

2005-01-11 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello FreeBSD friends. In previous post I told you that I was unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM, with the three floppies (FreeBSD 4.10 installs well). After the daemon screen, the system rebooted just before loading the kernel. That strange behaviour made me

Can not get Xorg work on S3 card

2005-01-11 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello friends. I have never had this problem before. I have installed X many times with all kinds of old machines in Linux, also did it in my FreeBSD athlon 1200GHz machine, and in a pentium 100 FreeBSD 4.10 machine, but I cant install X in an old pentium75 a friend of mine gave to me a couple of

Re: How to reliably measure user time (getrusage(2))

2005-01-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-11 10:40, Ulrich Spoerlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need to measure the time spent in user mode for rather short-lived processes. Sadly the results vary highly % while true;do \time -p woptsa tsplib/pla7397/pla7397.tsp 21|sed -n /user/p;done user 1.13 user 0.67 user

Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel

2005-01-11 Thread jboadas
Grettings every body. Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel im new in irc if anyone can help me in this shortcomming. Thank in advance. Jesus Boadas

Looking for efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows

2005-01-11 Thread eric wyzerski
Hi all, I'm looking for an efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows. I don't want to use utility like dd because it don't understand the file systems and I want to make backup on a different hd (geometry and size). So, anyone have a links for a good program that can do what I am

RE: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel

2005-01-11 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jboadas Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 19:04 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel =20 Grettings every body. =20 Im triyng to join the #freebsd

Re: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel

2005-01-11 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:34, jboadas wrote: Grettings every body. Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel It means you need a registered handle and hostname with FreeNode for the

freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Tri
Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup

Re: Odd kernel error on an NFS server

2005-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I occasionally see this on an NFS server under heavy load ufs_rename: fvp == tvp (can't happen) Any idea what this means and where I should look to fix it? It means that somehow the UFS code got a request to rename a file to itself, and the kernel code didn't

Re: A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peng Shan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I use an installing CD to Boot my Computer,it stopped at the beginning with this Error: acpi_cmbat0:battery initialization failed So I know that is because my computer's motherboard's battery run out.But because my computer is ASUS PortblePC

unplanned reboot failed

2005-01-11 Thread Marty Landman
Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir; yesterday my box rebooted itself... probably because of a power blink since other boxes did the same. Now it won't reboot; the kernel starts, a msg display very quickly then I get a box showing - Message --

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Carleton Vaughn
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address,

Re: ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Rob
Ian Moore wrote: Hi, Ever since I upgraded from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE, I've been getting the following error on boot: ntpd[380]: bind() fd 7, family 28, port 123, addr fe80:1 ::204:61ff:fe46:be89, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't assign requested address ntpd seems to be

Re: freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 03:00 am, Tri wrote: Dear Sir or Madam: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how.

Re: freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tri wrote: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup a freedsb

Mrtg question

2005-01-11 Thread Shawn Guillemette
Im using net-snmp-5.2.1 with mrtg on a Alpha CPU. I want to monitor my memorry usage. However when I add the following to the mrtg.cfg file I find that SNMPD shuts down and I get these errors in the logs. I add this to mrtg.cfg LoadMIBs: /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt ### Memmory

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Carleton Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-11 Thread Carleton Vaughn
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:07 PM To: artware Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blacklisting IPs artware wrote: Hello again, My 5.3R system has only been up a

How to back-rev?

2005-01-11 Thread John
I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86 to Xorg. Can you use the /stand/sysinstall upgrade to go backwards? What about filesystem formats?

Re: Can not get Xorg work on S3 card [fixed]

2005-01-11 Thread Ramiro Aceves
It works now!!! I fixed the problem telling where PCI card is on the xorg.conf file. I do not understand it cause I suposed that Xorg searched for it : BusID PCI:0:8:0 Thank you very much. Ramiro Aceves ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Looking for efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows

2005-01-11 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:37:31 +, eric wyzerski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows. I don't want to use utility like dd because it don't understand the file systems and I want to make backup on a different hd (geometry and size). So,

Re: How to back-rev?

2005-01-11 Thread albi
John wrote: I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86 to Xorg. if i were you i would backup your data and try a fresh 5.3 install, one other

Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card.

2005-01-11 Thread Walker, Michael
Hi I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting answers. I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am wondering if anyone has successfully set this up using FreeBSD 5.3. I

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Carleton Vaughn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Always remember, however, to be careful that this doesn't open you up to an easy denial-of-service attack. If all somebody has to do is try to log in a half-dozen times to lock out the IP address they're connecting from, you may be making it possible for them to attack your

jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread zork
To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for a little while which makes it impossible to enjoy them. At

bash version?

2005-01-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b

Re: bash version?

2005-01-11 Thread Tabor Kelly
Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash version 3 available as a port. But FreeBSD appears

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/11/05 06:01 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: To get accelerated OpenGL, i installed Nvidia's drivers for my Geforce4 MX 440 on a FreeBSD 5.3-release machine. The problem is, most of the games and apps that use OpenGL do not run smoothly - every second or so they would freeze for

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 RELENG source fails to build

2005-01-11 Thread Joe
Thanks, That seems to have worked. Joe --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:23:10PM -0800, Joe wrote: Hmm, now 5.2.1 is having problems with config.h missing. cd /usr/src rm -rf contrib gnu cat supfile *default host=cvsup6.freebsd.org

Re: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:37:23PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: To my knowledge, the effects in /etc/hosts.allow are immediate as soon as you save the modified file. And I have been using it that way for many years. No need to killall -HUP inetd, no need to reboot. If after a change the

Re: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel

2005-01-11 Thread chip
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:34:02 -0800 (PST), jboadas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grettings every body. Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that channel im new in irc if anyone can help me in

RE: ip address behind router ?

2005-01-11 Thread Tom Connolly
Shane Ambler wrote: Looks to me that this page is not entirely accurate. (at least from where I am) It would appear to get a proxy server somewhere along the way. Yes this is true. If your behind a proxy or have a complicated network setup, this will fail. For most DSL/Cable modem

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-11 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, It's best to report them and it's not hard to do it. There are automated tools that will do it. I would be very interested in setting up such a tool on my server as well. My passwords are not easy to guess, and root is not allowed to login anyways, and changes are extremely slim that

RE: Mrtg question

2005-01-11 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn Guillemette Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mrtg question Im using net-snmp-5.2.1 with mrtg on a Alpha CPU. I want to monitor my memorry usage. However when I

Re: unplanned reboot failed

2005-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there run fsck to repair. HTH Ben On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:18 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Four days ago I moved some stuff around on my /root dir;

Re: unplanned reboot failed

2005-01-11 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:42 PM 1/11/2005, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: Hmm seems to me like your filesystem got damaged. No need to make boot floppies. What I would do is use a live CD and boot and then from there run fsck to repair. Thanks for the reply Ben. However I'm unable to boot from the mini-iso for some

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread zork
well, yes. the module section looks like this: Section Module Load freetype # Load xtt Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load speedo EndSection Louis LeBlanc wrote: On

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ empty directory

2005-01-11 Thread Florian Hengstberger
The directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release is empty! Why is this? Thanks Florian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: CDROM of OpenOffice?

2005-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:49:46AM -, John Conover wrote: Is OpenOffice available for 5.3 on a CDROM? I'm on a dial up, and its too big. I think bsdmall sells it, but I don't know. Kris pgpZ04mVCnnH0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Top Posting to try keeping this readable Next set of questions: Are you running Xorg? What version? Did you install it from ports or as a package? Did you install the binaries from nvidia or did you install them from ports? If installed from ports, how did you build? What is the card def

Re: libintl.so.5 issue when installing logrotate

2005-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:53:52AM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, I ran into a rather funny issue (fbsd 5.3-release, i386). I have an updated ports tree (that is: twice per week cron updates it using cvsup). Now, I tried installing /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate (make install) O.k., it

Re: unplanned reboot failed

2005-01-11 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi again. I'm not really sure whether you can run fsck from sysinstall. I never tried. But if I'm not mistaken there is something like an repair mode listed with an emergency shell. You might try that. Ben On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:54 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 12:42 PM 1/11/2005, Benjamin

Re: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ empty directory

2005-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: The directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release is empty! Why is this? Removed to save space, since it's an old release that is no longer supported. Try a mirror

Re: bash version?

2005-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash

Re: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ empty directory

2005-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Florian Hengstberger wrote: The directory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release is empty! Why is this? Because the contents were deleted to make room for the 5.3-RELEASE and 5-STABLE package sets on the FTP sites. 5.2.1-RELEASE was a developer preview release, is

finding installation date ?

2005-01-11 Thread faisal gillani
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Re: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM

2005-01-11 Thread whitevamp
- Original Message - From: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions-en freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:22 AM Subject: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM Hello FreeBSD friends. In previous post I told you that I was unable

Re: Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card.

2005-01-11 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Walker, Michael wrote: Hi I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting answers. I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am wondering if

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread zork
well, Xorg -version says X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 I think it was installed by sysinstall as a package. I downloaded the drivers from nvidia. the device section: Section Device Identifier MyGeForce Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA

Re: finding installation date ?

2005-01-11 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:49:26AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: how can i find what date did i install my freebsd box The date of the files in /rescue will tell you the date of your last installation or installworld. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash version?

2005-01-11 Thread Duane Winner
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all, I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it just came my attention that there is (actually has been I

KDE: Konqueror - LAN Browser

2005-01-11 Thread aksis
Hi, When I use konqueror in su mode, I have access to the +LAN Browser, in the side pannel and am able to brows the network, but it is non-existant as a normal user. How do I fix this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 5.3-R, postfix smtp dying with sig11

2005-01-11 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:47:44 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:47:24PM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote: So... what could cause this? Is the sig 11 causing the failure, or is master killing off smtp as a result of some other issue? Anything I can poke

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Ok, according to your sysctls, you aren't getting the AGP acceleration at all. Try adding these lines to your card device section: Option RenderAccel True Option NvAGP 1 # Use NVIDIAs agp Then restart X. Check your hw.nvidia.agp sysctls, particularly these:

NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. Im just checking to see if that is all that I should be doing. Thanks for your time ___

Re: KDE: Konqueror - LAN Browser

2005-01-11 Thread aksis
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:35 am, aksis wrote: Hi, When I use konqueror in su mode, I have access to the +LAN Browser, in the side pannel and am able to brows the network, but it is non-existant as a normal user. How do I fix this? ___

Windows XP disappears from Workgroup (Net Hood) w/ Samba + WINS

2005-01-11 Thread David Vincelli
I have a funny situation where Windows XP (Home) computers appear briefly under Network Neighbourhood (View All Computers in Workgroup under XP) and disappear throughout the day. Win95/Win98 and Samba boxes are always available, only Windows XP Home disappear. The boxes are still online, and I can

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread zork
ok.. even though there wasn't anything useful in the Xorg logfile, after recompiling the kernel i get: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.sba: disabled Now this almost doubles

Re: jerky opengl, nvidia drivers

2005-01-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/11/05 10:29 PM, zork sat at the `puter and typed: ok.. even though there wasn't anything useful in the Xorg logfile, after recompiling the kernel i get: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: nvidia hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: 4x hw.nvidia.agp.status.fw:

Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. Im just checking to see if that is all that I should be doing. Thanks for your time I just noticed this in the logs -

Samba server (freebsd 5.2.1) and clients not able to communicate.

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Beaver
I have several windows based clients that work perfectly fine. However, linux based machines (FC3 and Slackware 10) all give Error in cp Input/Output error. I can mount them fine, browse folders, but copying to and from it gets that error, googling doesn't get me anything, and I've disabled

Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. I just noticed this in the logs - Jan 11 15:23:37 hivemind rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6

Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-11 Thread Chris
I have noticed with all the work gone in to 5.x to optimise SMP performance in return uniprocessor performance has suffered considerably I think this is what the concerns are about? Will future releases such as 5.4 remedy this by fixing the drop in performance on uniprocessor machines? Chris

Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers need to be stable.

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]... We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about

Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. I just noticed this in the logs - Jan 11 15:23:37 hivemind rpcbind: cannot

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers

Unreal Tournament ??

2005-01-11 Thread Tom Connolly
Does anyone know if I can play UT 2004 on FreeBSD. I'm running 5.3 r4. I've been googling and I have found very little information on the 2004 version. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. Thanks, Tom ___

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability

Re: buildup of Windows time_wait talking to fbsd 4.10

2005-01-11 Thread Len Conrad
We have a windows mailserver that relays its outbound to a fbsd gateway. We changed to a different fbsd gateway running 4.10. Windows then began having trouble sending to 4.10. Windows netstat -an shows dozens of lines like this: source IP desitination IP

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-11 Thread artware
These types of attacks don't seem directed -- it's more like fishing for unprotected systems. FWIW, changing the ssh port dropped the illegal user attempts to 0 instantly... - ben On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:29:10 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm going to attack you I'm

smtp pull

2005-01-11 Thread Andrew Thomson
Hi, Looking for some thoughts on the following scenario. firewall smtp2 | | smtp1 smtp1 is on the DMZ. So smtp1 is the first point of call for incoming mail. Mail ultimately has to end up on smtp2 however I do not want smtp1 to simply forward the mail to smtp2 as I'll have to explicitly

Re: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

2005-01-11 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:31:47AM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: Three questions: How do I cause changes in the hosts.allow file to take effect without rebooting? Everything I've seen says to restart inetd, but I'm not using inetd. I searched with different keywords and found the answer to this in

Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread doug
As to good ideas Ronnie, I do not think so, but here are some things you may not have tried: Since you found me you probably have already gone the Google route but if you have not try your exact configuration. Try the FreeBSD mobile and hardware lists. Freshports may help with Xorg as well as

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
Thanks to those who provided (and may provide in the future) their responses to my question. I appreciate the input. Frankly, when I saw a recent post about instabilities in 5.3, I think I may have gotten overly concerned about it. The 5.3 server we have in test is working fine, so we'll

RE: smtp pull

2005-01-11 Thread Haulmark, Chris
Someone broke the silence: Hi, Looking for some thoughts on the following scenario. firewall smtp2 smtp1 smtp1 is on the DMZ. So smtp1 is the first point of call for incoming mail. Mail ultimately has to end up on smtp2 however I do not want smtp1 to simply forward the

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:54 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: Thanks to those who provided (and may provide in the future) their responses to my question. I appreciate the input. Frankly, when I saw a recent post about instabilities in 5.3, I think I may have gotten overly concerned about it.

Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-11 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
summary: should I disable hypertheading in the BIOS when running 5.3? Background info: I have a new Dell Dimension 3000 running 5.3. I noticed some huge pauses when copying a large # of files across the network. Googling around found some information about earlier versions of 5.x and

ATI TV Wonder VE

2005-01-11 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
I recently found in my hardware pile an ATI TV Wonder VE. I vaguely remember using this card with v4l on linux and decided I would give it a go on freebsd. Its apparently supported by bktr(4) I went ahead a kldload'd the module. this the what dmesg told me: bktr_mem: memory holder loaded

CVSup the port collection

2005-01-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I was trying to cvsup the port collection, but all it did was deleting some ports, and never replaced them with new ones. I would have thought that the following configuration file would do the trick, but it did not. What have I wrong? TIA Olivier *default tag=RELENG_5_3 #*default

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