VPN

2005-04-05 Thread Justin England
Fellow FreeBSDers, I need somebody to point me in the right direction for VPN access to a central site. I will need to have my home FreeBSD server connected to the central site, and unfortunately, most other incoming VPN connections to the central site will be mostly Win2K/XP. I am just

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Is there a chance to get digital camers working with FreeBSD? All I need is load images from camera using USB port. Most digital camera's today implement the USB mass storage system, so you should just try and plug the camera in. It may work!

What's the best upgrade procedure to avoid build errors?

2005-04-05 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
I've been using FreeBSD and ports for quite a while and I like the ports system. The only problem is that in about half of the time ports installation or upgrade does not go that well. When it works without errors it is perfect. First, how I am using the system. I started to use portupgrade

Problem with 'pkgdb -F'

2005-04-05 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
Here is the interaction with pkgdb. If I start 'pkgdb -F' after running it once, the process will repeat itself. owl2-root % pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'multimedia/nautilus-media': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'multimedia/nautilus-media' was

Permission denied in make installworld

2005-04-05 Thread Pat Maddox
I'm upgrading to 5.3-p7, and the buildworld, buildkernel, and installkernel all went fine. Now when I try installworld, I get this error: lalas# make installworld mkdir -p /tmp/install.Zzqwwvov for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown date echo egrep find grep ln make mkdir mtree mv

Re: Permission denied in make installworld

2005-04-05 Thread Pat Maddox
Btw, I had already googled and saw that I needed to umount /tmp. I just kept getting Device Busy errors when I tried. After a while I was able to. Kinda freaked out, cause I've been told that if you don't do it quickly, then it really screws up your machine. Is that true? On Apr 5, 2005

Re: Formating a 1680k floppy

2005-04-05 Thread Jason Taylor
Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: Jason Taylor wrote: I'm sure. I get the same results trying to create a 1720k. %fdformat -f 1680 /dev/fd0 fdformat: unknown format 1680 KB for drive type 1.44M %fdformat -f 1720 /dev/fd0 fdformat: unknown format 1720 KB for drive type 1.44M %fdformat -s 2180 /dev/fd0

Re: More BSD/KDE Sound Problems

2005-04-05 Thread Bachelier Vincent
use the oss drivers sound is real good, and you can use it personaly for free Le Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:50:54PM -0800, Spiral Eyed Girl a écrit: From: Spiral Eyed Girl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:50:54 -0800 Subject: More BSD/KDE Sound

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:37:55 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, HZ=100 has remained constant for decades (!), despite CPUs getting faster all the time. This is an excellent value for most typical usage patterns. Cranking it up should only be required for special cases. Anyway, the

Re: AMD64 optimization on FreeBSD 5.4 i386

2005-04-05 Thread Bachelier Vincent
Ok, I have found the solution CFLAGS += -march=k8 and use pkgtools.conf for certain application that doesn't support it. gcc32 gcc33 fr-openoffice ... doesn't the nvidia driver works on amd64 version of freebsd ? ok see ya Le Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:54:00AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier a écrit:

RE: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread James Hong
try gphoto2 I remember extracting images from canon 10d using this. James H -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

printing

2005-04-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html I just went trough this and the words that came to my mind when i finaly reach the end was O MY GOD Its a very nice manual but it gives you this Do i really need a printer ? feeling. This part i liked alot about the usb :)

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 5. April 2005 01:09 schrieb John Pettitt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, HZ=100 has remained constant for decades (!), despite CPUs getting faster all the time. This is an excellent value for most typical usage patterns. Cranking it up should only be required for special

Re: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 4. April 2005 23:29 schrieb Edgar Martinez: All, I have a failed member in a RAID1 array and using atacontrol can see that the status is degraded. I am curious if I can use atacontrol to rebuild the array if the original array was built using the Promise BIOS utility. If I tell

RE: VPN

2005-04-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
the quickest and easiest way is poptop from the ports, then the out-of-box windows pptp client that is included in the windows os. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Justin England Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:32 PM To: FreeBSD

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Braniss
All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? refrase question. I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. for one, it depends on how deep are your

apcupsd with usb

2005-04-05 Thread Ing. Christian Sudec
Hi there, a few months back there was already a question in this list regarding usb support in apcupsd since afaik only usb with linux is still supported. But there was a beta version named apcupsd-3.10.16-test2 which delivered the functions I need. Sad but true the link was broken. Has anyone a

[solved] Re: segfaulting gcc

2005-04-05 Thread Jiri Novak
Jiri Novak wrote: The error always occur at the same place, in ports (it was firefox and mplayer for sure, not quite sure about others) and in buildworld, so I don't suspect faulty hardware. No useful messages in /var/log/messages... Well, it seems that I'm doomed :( -- Jiri Novak I hate to

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:42:12AM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:37:55 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, HZ=100 has remained constant for decades (!), despite CPUs getting faster all the time. This is an excellent value for most typical usage patterns.

[solved] Re: segfaulting gcc

2005-04-05 Thread Jiri Novak
Jiri Novak wrote: The error always occur at the same place, in ports (it was firefox and mplayer for sure, not quite sure about others) and in buildworld, so I don't suspect faulty hardware. No useful messages in /var/log/messages... Well, it seems that I'm doomed :( -- Jiri Novak I hate to

[solved] Re: segfaulting gcc

2005-04-05 Thread Jiri Novak
Jiri Novak wrote: The error always occur at the same place, in ports (it was firefox and mplayer for sure, not quite sure about others) and in buildworld, so I don't suspect faulty hardware. No useful messages in /var/log/messages... Well, it seems that I'm doomed :( -- Jiri Novak I hate to

Copying files off Samba Server - freezes/very slow

2005-04-05 Thread Gareth Bailey
I have just upgraded the hardware of our development server. I thought that our file server used to be slow due to slow hardware, but now that we have upgraded I am a bit puzzled. Samba seems to slow or hang (top reports smbd CPU usage as 40%) when files are copied off the server using windows

sysctl / webalizer package installation

2005-04-05 Thread Sadashiv Kulthe
Hello, I am trying to install webalizer package. While trying to make, I get following errors thanks a lot for info .. Previously there was no ports directory under /usr So I downloded all 12,### ports from net and extract them under /usr now when I cd /usr/ports/graphics/gd or cd

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Is there a chance to get digital camers working with FreeBSD? All I need is load images from camera using USB port. It may depend on the specific camera. Some people have reported problems trying to do this, but I've had no trouble doing exactly what

listing on obtaining freebsd page

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Hope - Linux CD Mall
Good evening, I am enquiring about getting a listing on the obtaining freebsd page of the online doucmentation at the following address: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html Could you please reply to me with the email address of the appropriate person to

portupgrade weirdness

2005-04-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Hi, I seem to be having some difficulty upgrading some of my packages using portupgrade. Here is an example: medusa# portversion -vl | grep m4 m4-1.4.1 needs updating (port has 1.4.3) medusa# portupgrade m4 medusa# Basically it's doing nothing as if it thinks the port is

Re: portupgrade weirdness

2005-04-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
Replying to my own message. For the archives, the problem below was caused because my local cvsup mirror was not in sync with the INDEX file I downloaded from the main FreeBSD site. Sorry, should have checked a specific port version Makefile before posting the question. Nelis On Apr 5, 2005

Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet

2005-04-05 Thread Andreas Davour
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: If I want to allow external users to log on under only one permissible username, which immediately and unconditionally executes only one program (no shell access), via telnet, what is the most secure way to set this up? I've always understood telnet to

mpd as a dial-up server

2005-04-05 Thread Jay Hall
I am in the process of adding dial-up capabilities to the FreeBSD servers I maintain so in the event of a problem, if the server starts, I can at least dial in and see what is wrong and hopefully correct the problem. I already have mpd in place for the VPN connections. Is it possible to use

Virtual Sound card

2005-04-05 Thread Niels Timmerije
Dear Sirs Ive already sent you an email, but I wrote it in dutch. (I got this adress from a Dutch site) But now my question in English. Ive read something about a virtual soundcard at your site but its not clear to me if you deliver them. If you do, I would like some more information about this

.iso

2005-04-05 Thread bertybadboy
Which .iso files do i download and burn onto a cd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is sshd limiting the rate of successful connections?

2005-04-05 Thread Alex Kapranoff
Good day! It seems that a recent 5-STABLE limits the rate of successful incoming logins. Is it true? We failed to find the relevant code neither in openssh nor in openpam. The symptoms are that after a big number of quick successful logins sshd starts to delay or block login attempts for as long

RE: efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

2005-04-05 Thread bob
I believe your xfax modem is what is called a winmodem. These type of cheap modems are built just for the ms/windows market and do not work on FreeBSD. They are missing the onboard hardware controller which is why you have to install the win driver that comes with it.

Re: listing on obtaining freebsd page

2005-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Hope - Linux CD Mall wrote: Good evening, I am enquiring about getting a listing on the obtaining freebsd page of the online doucmentation at the following address: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html Could you please reply to me with the email address of

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 93, Issue 6

2005-04-05 Thread anatolytyukanov
use /usr/ports/security/openvpn, its much better. Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:04:59 -0500 From: Jay Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mpd as a dial-up server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed I am in the process of

[PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.4-prerelease on my laptop. My laptop has an ati mobility radeon 9600. Unfortunately it has very poor console vesa support. SC_PIXEL_MODE does not work, 90x60 is the highest resolution I can get for now. It looks like I'm not the only one having this problem with ati

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

2005-04-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Well, both types of documentation are needed. The official formal documentation, which, of necessity , needs to be written in a rather formal language style and

Re: efax with a serial 3com us robotics 56k modem

2005-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gert Cuykens wrote: I connected the fax to god knows wich sio and said ok modem start faxing hoping for a mirical I'm not absolutely certain about this, and I'm not a firm disbeliever in miracles, but I'm quite sure you'd have to actually _type_ a command into your keyboard ... :-D Kevin

Hi please help

2005-04-05 Thread zhane H
Hi dear staff at freebsd How may i check whether the hardware in my pc is supporte by freebsd 5.3 andalso i would liek to ask whcih one of freebsd do i install as i dont understand if i ahve to do i386 or some other one im instaling it on a msi board amd sempron 2200 with samsung cd-rw and a 10

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-05 09:53, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is, for printing sake let there be a other way. What do you use to print stuff, for example on a shared windows printer :) I guess there are only 3 choses LPD LPRng CUPS ? The print/apsfilter is my favorite. I use it

Re: Which mail server is the best for me?

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
I'd suggest exim, -- martin On Apr 2, 2005 10:09 AM, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to setup a mail server but am a little confused about whether to use sendmail, qmail, postfix or whatever. Basically my web server is a simple one to be used for personal use with maybe

apcupsd with usb

2005-04-05 Thread Robert Huff
Ing. Christian Sudec writes: a few months back there was already a question in this list regarding usb support in apcupsd since afaik only usb with linux is still supported. But there was a beta version named apcupsd-3.10.16-test2 which delivered the functions I need. Sad but true the

Re: Hi please help

2005-04-05 Thread Jerold McAllister
zhane H writes: Hi dear staff at freebsd NOTE: FreeBSD does not have a staff. Everyone is a volunteer. But people understand what you mean by your greeting. How may i check whether the hardware in my pc is supporte by freebsd 5.3 If you look on the FreeBSD web site at:

question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Lane
Hi, Long story made short: The mysql-server.sh that came with mysql-server-4.1.10a (installed from cvsup'ed ports) wouldn't work until after I rebooted the server. It's working now, so I know I shouldn't complain, but anyone know what happened? Long story: 1. Minimum installation, added

(Solve)Re: Securelevel dont let ipf read rules...

2005-04-05 Thread perikillo
One big mistake by my part. like you see below, i was having problems with secure level and ipf, but the problem was this: My old /etc/rc.conf was: kernel_securelevel=3 But after checking man rc.conf again, is kern_securelevel This way rc.conf dont let freebsd set that variable, now i can run

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:53:36AM +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even faster speeds than parallel or RS232 serial interfaces. Cables are simple and cheap. USB is superior to RS232 Serial and to Parallel for printing, but it is not as

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 2:53 AM, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: Is the only way to setup a ftp by enabeling inetd ? If so i want a /etc/rc.d/ftpd script too Standard ftpd runs through inetd. It *can* run as a daemon, without inetd.

Re: dummynet problems

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, all! Here I have a problem with dummynet. System is FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE month ago. we have very small bandwidth from LAN. rl0 is internal interface. ipfw rukes are (fwcmd=/sbin/ipfw): ${fwcmd} pipe 1 config bw 60Kbit/s ${fwcmd} add 778 pipe

RE: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Edgar Martinez
I apologize...I usually am the one complaining to others about versioning...my bad... I do not think that the drive is at fault as much as the controller. I have had to deploy well over one hundred of the exact same configuration, and historically, it's always been the controller that just drops

Viewing DNS cache entries

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Petraschek
Hi! The operating system is caching DNS name resolutions in order to avoid repeated DNS requests for the same hostname. Is it possible to display the entries of that DNS cache? Under Windows, the command ipconfig /displaydns exists, and I would need that functionality under FreeBSD. Thank

Re: Keeping installed packages up to date

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kenneth A. Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have followed the steps outlined in Richard Bejtlich's document Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-To-Date (http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_applications_up-to-date.html) Did you look at the official FreeBSD documentation before following

Re: Sysinstall in Xterm in color ?

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andre Nas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to make sysinstall menu in xterm have origin color (blue yellow) not black and white. It does for me. [-STABLE, up-to-date XOrg] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: screwy network/dmz problem

2005-04-05 Thread Chip Wiegand
Jerry Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/04/2005 05:11:22 PM: The first thing I would check is that it's the BSD box that you are actually pinging. I'd try unplugging it and trying the ping again from the IIS box. Barring that, I would double and triple check the network mask on the BSD

Re: Problem with 'pkgdb -F'

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Nehren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-05, Sergei Gnezdov scribbled these curious markings: Here is the interaction with pkgdb. If I start 'pkgdb -F' after running it once, the process will repeat itself. owl2-root % pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database

Re: Viewing DNS cache entries

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Martin Petraschek said: The operating system is caching DNS name resolutions in order to avoid repeated DNS requests for the same hostname. Is it possible to display the entries of that DNS cache? Under Windows, the command ipconfig /displaydns exists, and I

how to be a freeBSD mirror

2005-04-05 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hello, We're the stuff of the free software department at the university of Orléans (France) We'd like to be a mirror of freee BSD (all arches, all branches) What documentation would you recommend us to read about technical tips and admnistrative request to the FreeBSD project team? The

Re: Maintaining a Minimal Installation for a Small HDD

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Iain Dooley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do i need to edit the Makefiles? how can i cvsup only those programs in contrib that i need? my aim here is to have a compact source tree that i can use cvsup to keep current, but only takes up a couple of hundred meg. Doing this is not supported. One

vinum trouble on 5.3-Stable

2005-04-05 Thread Paul T. Root
I upgraded to 5.3 on one system a while ago. And when it boots up vinum panics the system on startup with this message: panic: unmount: dangling vnode I found that if I boot in single user mode and mount / to make it rw, then start vinum, everything is fine. I just patched the kernel for the

shell question

2005-04-05 Thread mrspock
Hello FreeBSD gurus! I address you in hope of enlightment. Here is the problem: I have a program that creates a PostScript output and writes it to its standard output. This program also writes diagnostic messages to the standard error output at the same time, in this case the messages are

Re: how to be a freeBSD mirror

2005-04-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, We're the stuff of the free software department at the university of Orléans (France) We'd like to be a mirror of freee BSD (all arches, all branches) What

PRERELEASE?

2005-04-05 Thread John Hall
We currently have 5.4-PRERELEASE installed on our web box: outpost# uname -a FreeBSD outpost.blacklotus.net 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Mar 30 13:38:38 MST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OUTPOST i386 I need to know if we need to update the server to 5.4-RELEASE

RE: shell question

2005-04-05 Thread Björn König
mrspock at esfm dot ipn dot mx wrote: I need to concatenate the standard output and then standard error output in a file, but I need to convert the standard output into PostScript before the concatenation. program stdin stdout 2 stderr cat stdout out a2ps

Re: PRERELEASE?

2005-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
John Hall wrote: We currently have 5.4-PRERELEASE installed on our web box: outpost# uname -a FreeBSD outpost.blacklotus.net 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Mar 30 13:38:38 MST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OUTPOST i386 I need to know if we need to update the server to

Re: Boot manager

2005-04-05 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Teilhard Knight wrote: Could you recommend a good boot manager, please? I mean, to boot several OSs, but not relying on Lilo. Not Xosl, because it doesn't work together with a Drive Overlay. I used to use System Commander, but have found the last few releases to be very unreliable, so I've since

RE: shell question

2005-04-05 Thread Björn König
program stdin stdout 2 stderr cat stdout out a2ps stdout out You meant program stdin stdout 2 stderr cat stdout out a2ps **stderr** out Don't you? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Temperature and fan speed on INTEL D925CV2

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an INTEL D925CV2 baord in my new box. Does anyone know if/how I can get temperature - fan speed - other measurements from it? (No, lmmon does not work) I have no idea, but have you tried enabling acpi_thermal(4)? -- Lowell Gilbert,

Re: can't make iso image

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
T.F. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I want to make ISO image in order to burn a CD, but both mkisofs and vcdimager failed to do so, mkisofs reported as: mkisofs: Input/output error. cannot read from foo.mpg while vcdimager said: **ERROR: fread (): Input/output error but other

4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread bob
Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HZ=1000 ?

2005-04-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Emanuel Strobl writes: Sorry, a bit OT, but I'm really impressed how constant power line frequency is. It isn't just in Germany. A number of power utilities work hard to keep line frequency extremely constant, specifically for the purpose of allowing the frequency to be used to discipline

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:41:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? No. Kris pgps8r8FVsucU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Howard
Anthony, Securely and telnet is an oxymoron. This is mainly because any data, including passwords, sent through a non-encrypted connection, can be sniffed by anyone who can access any of the intervening networks. Your question is really very open-ended and vague. The correct question may be

Re: Digital Cameras

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Howard
Anthony Atkielski wrote: You might be better off removing the card and using a card reader. Card reader specs are much more generalized and consistent than digital camera specs. If the type of card/reader your camera uses is unsupported by FreeBSD, at least you have a better chance of getting

Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet

2005-04-05 Thread Chris
Danny Howard wrote: Anthony, Securely and telnet is an oxymoron. This is mainly because any data, including passwords, sent through a non-encrypted connection, can be sniffed by anyone who can access any of the intervening networks. Your question is really very open-ended and vague. The

Re: 4.12 release

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there going to be a 4.12 release?? Not in anyone's plans. I think we could get 4.11.1 though, in case 4.11 is compromised with a very critical security issue. Not very likely in any case. Wishes, Andrew P. ___

Re: vinum trouble on 5.3-Stable

2005-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
I upgraded to 5.3 on one system a while ago. And when it boots up vinum panics the system on startup with this message: panic: unmount: dangling vnode I found that if I boot in single user mode and mount / to make it rw, then start vinum, everything is fine. I just patched the kernel

Re: Is sshd limiting the rate of successful connections?

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alex Kapranoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that a recent 5-STABLE limits the rate of successful incoming logins. Is it true? We failed to find the relevant code neither in openssh nor in openpam. The symptoms are that after a big number of quick successful logins sshd starts to delay

mc superuser

2005-04-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
is there a command you can do in mc that gives mc su rights without closing it ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: shell question

2005-04-05 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Björn König wrote: program stdin stdout 2 stderr cat stdout out a2ps stdout out You meant program stdin stdout 2 stderr cat stdout out a2ps **stderr** out Don't you? yes! sorry!

vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Dear FreeBSD Team, Dear FreeBSD Users, I was wondering if the patches (see link below) have any chances to make their ways into a future release version or may be in the ports collection? Here are the patches I'm talking about: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/vesa Actually the

Re: vesa 1024x768 mode in future version? to the freebsd community

2005-04-05 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Didier Wiroth writes: May be other users think the same? I'd definitely like to see text modes with higher resolution. I don't really care about graphics, but I'd like to be able to squeeze more text onto the console. I'd also like a better choice of fonts to improve readability, and a better

Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Didier Wiroth wrote: Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.4-prerelease on my laptop. My laptop has an ati mobility radeon 9600. Unfortunately it has very poor console vesa support. SC_PIXEL_MODE does not work, 90x60 is the highest resolution I can get for now. It looks like I'm not the only one having

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
Does anybody know if i need to install a extra cups pkg and what the uri is for a windows shared printer ? smb://workgroup/server/sharename ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

MosChip 9805 PCI Parallel Port

2005-04-05 Thread David Taylor
I'm having trouble trying to get a NM9805 PCI parallel printer port working in 5.4-STABLE. I've got device lpt and device puc in the kernel. pciconf -lv shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x078000 card=0x00101000 chip=0x98059710 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'MosChip Semiconductors (Was:

Re : Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, Thank you very much for replying. cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol patch /path/vidcontrol.diff.20050215 I'm using the RELENG_5 sources from today. The syscons.diff.20050215 works but the vidcontrol.diff.20050215 gives some errors. |Index: vidcontrol.c

Re: Re : Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Mertl
Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, Thank you very much for replying. cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol patch /path/vidcontrol.diff.20050215 I'm using the RELENG_5 sources from today. The syscons.diff.20050215 works but the vidcontrol.diff.20050215 gives some errors. The diff is against the

dhclient oddness?

2005-04-05 Thread Mark Cullen
Right, I have this weird annoying issue with my modem which I have finally got around to looking in to. Basically, it's all good and works fine (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be here!), except when I reboot the internet computer the IP will change, the connection DOESN'T drop, but the IP

Re: printing

2005-04-05 Thread Chris
Gert Cuykens wrote: Does anybody know if i need to install a extra cups pkg and what the uri is for a windows shared printer ? smb://workgroup/server/sharename ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Bourn Shell Scripts that Produce Multiple Files

2005-04-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I wrote a Bourn Shell script which has a while loop in it that reads a file line by line. The output of the script is supposed to go to a file with a different name for each iteration of the loop. This scheme is obviously a rotten idea because all the new files end up created, but quite

Re : Re: Re : Re: [PATCH TO TEST] VESA [1024x768] mode support for FreeBSD-CURRENT

2005-04-05 Thread Didier Wiroth
Unfortunately with patch applied it does not compile on stable: Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol cc -O -pipe -c vidcontrol.c vidcontrol.c: In function `video_mode': vidcontrol.c:500: error: `_VESA_800x600_DFL_COLS' undeclared (first use in this

Re: ipfilter.log

2005-04-05 Thread Francis Whittington
Hi again Bob, I read the ipfilter section of the Official manual for 5.3. Where it talks about adding that line to syslog.conf, (local0.* /var/log/ipfilter.log), well it says to put local0.*. It doesn't mention putting security.*, although it did work for me. I looked through the errata

Geom_gbde and Hardware Crypto Accelerators

2005-04-05 Thread Dustin Wilhoit
After searching google and the archives I wasn't able to find any current information on the status of hardware cryptographic accelerators (like the Soekris vpn1401) and gbde. Can gbde harness the power of one of these accelerator cards yet? If so do they provide significant offloading from

RE: ipfilter.log

2005-04-05 Thread bob
I wrote the official handbook firewall section based on 4.10 release before ipfilter was incorporated into the base of 5.3. You are incorrect to think that what you read in the official handbook is for 5.3 only. I have submitted a change to the handbook to correct it saying that 5.3 uses

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr, makes me think that FreeBSD is drifting toward

Re: PRERELEASE?

2005-04-05 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Apr 5, 2005 5:26 PM, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hall wrote: We currently have 5.4-PRERELEASE installed on our web box: outpost# uname -a FreeBSD outpost.blacklotus.net 5.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Mar 30 13:38:38 MST 2005 [EMAIL

Re: Copying files off Samba Server - freezes/very slow

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
Let us take a look at you smbd.conf, that might help. On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:13 +0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: I have just upgraded the hardware of our development server. I thought that our file server used to be slow due to slow hardware, but now that we have upgraded I am a bit puzzled.

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Ed Stover said: rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr,

ftp problems

2005-04-05 Thread Brett Wiggins
Hi all, I am having some problems using the freebsd ftp program. when I type; ftp username.customer.netspace.net.au password I get the following message; servname not supported for ai_socktype Am I using the right syntax? When I

Re: Hyperthreading not working on my 5.3 FreeBSD

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
don't you need apic as well ? device apic# I/O APIC On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:42 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: faisal gillani writes: Well the output of my dmesg command is only showing 1 processor , HT is enabled in bios , working on windows XP on the same PC.

Re: ftp problems

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 05), Brett Wiggins said: Hi all, I am having some problems using the freebsd ftp program. when I type; ftp username.customer.netspace.net.au password I get the following message; servname not supported for

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