Re: Anyone interpret this ?

2006-02-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
+Limiting closed port RST response from 216 to 200 packets/sec By analogy with the rate limiting on icmp echo (ping) I'd say that someone try to access to a closed service 216 times per second and that the reset (RST) response is limited to 200. Olivier

Anyone interpret this ?

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Bentley
security run output +++ /tmp/security.QSnlQzckFri Feb 17 03:02:01 2006 +Limiting closed port RST response from 216 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response from 241 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response from 261 to 200 packets/sec

Re: fine grained firewall?

2006-02-17 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a per-user or per-executable basis? If your firewall is PF, you can use authpf(8) to configure per user rule sets. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation

devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_SAPPLY: No such process (???)

2006-02-17 Thread FreeBSD Prospect
Hi! I am trying to get the OSS soundsystem working for my nforce2 mainboard since yesterday, but with mixed success. The OSS driver is generally setup correctly and working, which means osstest outputs the demosound. My problem now seems to be the devfs, because I am trying to apply the

How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread Kristian Vaaf
Hello. Yes, how would you improve FreeBSD? I am trying to paint a gloomy picture of where FreeBSD is headed. Therefore I am asking all of you to share your thoughts and ideas of how you would like to see FreeBSD improve. Chances are that's where our operating system is headed. 1. Would you

mplayer-plugin build failure

2006-02-17 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... mplayer-plugin build failure. here is where it stops and the log is attached. what to do? thanks configure: Determining mozilla/firefox packages to link against checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking for firefox-plugin... gnome-config: not found

Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...

2006-02-17 Thread Daniel A.
(Oops, sorry, forgot to cc) Nope... the IP number are the measures of your penis. Like this: [length].[width].[height].[Unidentified value of fourth dimension] With IPv6, we now measure our IP with a whole four extra dimensions. Yeah, it's rather complicated. On 2/17/06, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL

Re: mplayer-plugin build failure

2006-02-17 Thread kalin mintchev
How exactly are you trying to build mplayer-plugin? Did you use FreeBSD port (www/mplayer-plugin)? hi Adi... yes, i used the port... Please be more specific there is a lot of information in the log attached to the first message. updatetd the www ports. the plugin version is 3.20... on a

Re: mplayer-plugin build failure

2006-02-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 17, 2006, at 2:38 AM, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... mplayer-plugin build failure. here is where it stops and the log is attached. what to do? thanks configure: Determining mozilla/firefox packages to link against checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking

Re: mplayer-plugin build failure

2006-02-17 Thread kalin mintchev
i just realized that the attached log might not have been received by anybody... i didn't it gets filtered.. awesome... here is the end of it: ## --- ## ## confdefs.h. ## ## --- ## #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] #define PACKAGE_NAME mplayerplug-in #define

Re: NVidia GeForce 6600 problems

2006-02-17 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:12:41 -0300 Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:39:19 -0300 Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:05:14 + Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2006

Re: Every 12-hrs -- ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA

2006-02-17 Thread Fabian Keil
V.I.Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13

RE: What doesn't work on desktop FreeBSD ? (ex Webcams)

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
As a general rule, (although there are many exceptions) there's less support for peripherals that depend on the processor to do their jobs. The famous example are the winmodems, but many printers are starting to get that way also. While a lot of help has come from Ghostscript, your going to

RE: How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristian Vaaf Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How would you improve FreeBSD? Hello. Yes, how would you improve FreeBSD? I would start by making a rule that anyone

RE: Blocking an individual email address

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Jim, I would suggest you put an IP number block into your router to deny outgoing SMTP destined to the mailserver she is using. But, frankly your really on legal thin ice here. I'm guessing her manager asked you to do this rather than confronting her directly. Probably because he's a bad

RE: Sendmail - IMAP-UW - Cyrus-SASL2 - SMTPAUTH problems

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Greg, It is true there's a lot of software available but I have found over the years that a lot of the packages are good, and will work equally well on the back end. Most of the older ones have matured to the point that a rather common selection criteria is I chose that because that's what

RE: SATA Raid

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Foo Ji-Haw Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:00 AM To: bsd; Robert Uzzi Cc: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Re: SATA Raid Do note that cheap SATA raid controllers are in fact 'software' raid cards; much of the

Re: mplayer-plugin build failure

2006-02-17 Thread kalin mintchev
You need to install a mozilla browser and have the headers available for mplayerplug-in. i know. but i'm using the port. and have 2 mozilla browsers installed... i'll get the src later and i gess look for gecko libraries... -Garrett ___

Re: Looking for a USB Compact Flash card reader.

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 20:29 -0800, Micah wrote: Paul Marciano wrote: Hi, On 5.4-RELEASE I'm having problems with my AVB card reader: I often get Synchronize Cache and CSW Tag errors. Does anyone have a solid recommendation for a USB Compact Flash card reader? Thanks,

Re: NVidia GeForce 6600 problems

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:05:14 + Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 6600 with FreeBSD 5.4 XOrg 6.8.2 but still nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1. I have an occasional problem where the whole screen is shifted left on startup, but exiting and restarting X

Re: Anyone interpret this ?

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Uzzi
You got port scanned. +Limiting closed port RST response from 216 to 200 packets/sec By analogy with the rate limiting on icmp echo (ping) I'd say that someone try to access to a closed service 216 times per second and that the reset (RST) response is limited to 200. Olivier

RE: How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread Kristian Vaaf
At 13:11 17.02.2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristian Vaaf Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How would you improve FreeBSD? Hello. Yes, how would you improve FreeBSD?

Re: How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 13:11 17.02.2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristian Vaaf Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How would you improve

Re: getty repeating to quickly

2006-02-17 Thread Ken Stevenson
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a box running 6.0-RELEASE. I'm trying to hook serial consoles in to it, and have set up /etc/ttys and /boot/device.hints to allow me to do this. Yet, in /var/log/messages i keep seeing this error: Init: getty repeating to quickly on port /dev/ttyd0, sleeping 30

Wrong list post????

2006-02-17 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello Alll Please... I posted a question about the ISO9660 and the hard links in the ISO filesystem... some days ago... and no one answer... I am not complaining about missing answers, but may be I am in the wrong list Can someone please tell me what is the correct list for this

Re: Every 12-hrs -- ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA

2006-02-17 Thread Duane Whitty
Fabian Keil wrote: V.I.Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been reporting: Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2701279 Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)

AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus

2006-02-17 Thread Ludo Koren
Hello, I am using FreeBSD RELENG_5 and decided to give a try to video capture device. From the friend, I've got AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus. When I plug it to my notebook I get the following to the log: cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=800 cardbus0: multimedia at

Radeon x1600

2006-02-17 Thread Christian Reiss
Hello all, So I fear there is no solution to get this card working in any way with BSD? No well-kept secret moves? Oh well. Thanks anyway! -Christian Reiss. --- 8 --- --- 8 --- --- 8 --- --- 8 --- --- 8 --- --- 8 --- Greetings people! I am using FreeBSD for quiet some years now, and I just

Re: Wrong list post????

2006-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted a question about the ISO9660 and the hard links in the ISO filesystem... some days ago... A bit under 1 day ago, actually. and no one answer... It was still in my incoming queue, but first I was planning to take care of the work

VNC forwarding over sshd issue

2006-02-17 Thread Scott I. Remick
I'm having a weird problem that surfaces sometimes and I am having trouble pinning down the cause. What I do is use VNC to remote-control my home FreeBSD box remotely. Most of the time, this works fine. My home router forwards the external port to my FreeBSD (6.0R) box. I use PuTTY as a Windows

Re: Wrong list post????

2006-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted a question about the ISO9660 and the hard links in the ISO filesystem... some days ago... A bit under 1 day ago, actually. And my mail to you bounced, anyway. I tried to duplicate the

Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Ovens
Alfredo Finelli wrote: I have 80 pin SCSI discs mounted in hot-swappable trays on a SCSI backplane which takes care also of powering them up and of SCSI termination. This is one way of using them. I also have the same drives in a different system connected to normal SCSI LVD cable using

Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...

2006-02-17 Thread lars
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, lars wrote: If your machine only runs an NFS daemon and is behind a firewall, ok, you don't need to patch it asap when an NFS SA and patch is issued, if all clients connecting to the machine are benign. Actually, there are alot of situations

daily security output usr/src should be gid = 9 = man

2006-02-17 Thread Stefan
Hi, is this the right behaviour that /usr/src should be labeled with gid 9 which is the group man? When I label /usr/src with the group wheel I get a daily security output like this: Checking special files and directories. Output format is: filename: criteria

mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
I have a strange problem where port 8025 is blocked on my server. Trying to connect with telnet, here is the response; david$ telnet banning.ca 8025 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host Yet I host 6 other domains

Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Huff
Mark Ovens writes: I also have the same drives in a different system connected to normal SCSI LVD cable using small adaptors which have an 80 pin receptacle on one side and a 68 pin SCSI connector plus 4 pin molex power connector on the other, as well as jumpers to define SCSI id.

Re: daily security output usr/src should be gid = 9 = man

2006-02-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, is this the right behaviour that /usr/src should be labeled with gid 9 which is the group man? When I label /usr/src with the group wheel I get a daily security output like this: When you say 'label' do you mean using chown or chgrp? Checking special files and directories.

RE: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Erin Fortenberry
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Banning Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mail port 8025 conundrum I have a strange problem where port 8025 is blocked on my server. Trying to

Re: VMware host on stable?

2006-02-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 16 Feb Scott Long wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:15:55 -0700 Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Butler wrote: What is the most recent version of VMware known to work on 6.x in host mode so as to be able to run windoze as a guest? Anyone tried 5.5 on

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Ken Stevenson
David Banning wrote: I have a strange problem where port 8025 is blocked on my server. Trying to connect with telnet, here is the response; david$ telnet banning.ca 8025 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host Yet I

Re: Setting up VPN+IPSec+Racoon

2006-02-17 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Mike Tancsa wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:26:42 +0100, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Hello, it is the first time I have to set up such configuration. Could you tell me some guidelines? What should I care about? I see there's a chapter in the Handbook about VPN. It

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
It looks like nothing is bound to port 8025 on 127.0.0.1 (localhost). You can do a sockstat and verify. root# sockstat -l | grep 8025 tofmipd python 2385 tcp4 209.161.205.12:8025 *:* root# sockstat verifies that I have 8025 open on port 209.161.205.12 which is

sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a box that i took over that runs sendmail, mailscanner, and sa for antispam. There's an email address at one of the domains that the owner has indicated he would like an autoresponder hooked to it. THe objective is whenever someone sends to that address it won't be delivered

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 11:29, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like nothing is bound to port 8025 on 127.0.0.1 (localhost). You can do a sockstat and verify. root# sockstat -l | grep 8025 tofmipd python 2385 tcp4 209.161.205.12:8025 *:* root# sockstat verifies that I

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
It works from the outside world: Well that is good news. OK, so why would my server be looking internally for the banning.ca IP address? Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
That depends, of course, on what your nsswitch.conf or hosts.conf file has been set up for :) Nothing to speak of there; root# locate nsswitch.conf /usr/compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base/work/linux_base-rh-7.3/etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 17), Robert Huff said: Mark Ovens writes: I also have the same drives in a different system connected to normal SCSI LVD cable using small adaptors which have an 80 pin receptacle on one side and a 68 pin SCSI connector plus 4 pin molex power connector on

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Gable Barber
On 2/17/06, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends, of course, on what your nsswitch.conf or hosts.conf file has been set up for :) Nothing to speak of there; root# locate nsswitch.conf /usr/compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: /bin/sh Madness

2006-02-17 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 16), Tim Daneliuk said: Here is a shell function that behaves quite strangely: #!/bin/sh # # Execute A Command, Noting Start/Stop Time, Logging Output # Args: # $1 Command Name # $2 Log Directory # $3 Command String To Execute

Re: sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 17), Dave said: I've got a box that i took over that runs sendmail, mailscanner, and sa for antispam. There's an email address at one of the domains that the owner has indicated he would like an autoresponder hooked to it. THe objective is whenever someone sends to

question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
I'm sure I could figure this out from scrutinizing Google, the FreeBSD documentation, and testing in a lab, but I'm particularly pressed for time on finding the right answer to this. For a long time we've been quite happy coalescing all private IP client requests onto a single public IP

Re: sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 11:24, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a box that i took over that runs sendmail, mailscanner, and sa for antispam. There's an email address at one of the domains that the owner has indicated he would like an autoresponder hooked to it. THe objective is whenever

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
I think you want to look for /etc/hosts ..:) Gable That was my first guess, but I couldn't see anything in there; root# grep -i banning /etc/hosts root# ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 11:38, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends, of course, on what your nsswitch.conf or hosts.conf file has been set up for :) Nothing to speak of there; root# locate nsswitch.conf /usr/compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread James Csoka
This isn't a sendmail solution, but I use openwebmail for my company's webmail interface, and it has an autoresponder option. It'll send back an email response, and you can simply set up filtering to dump the incoming mail to the trash folder. -jim - Original Message - From: Dave

Re: Setting up VPN+IPSec+Racoon

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:26 AM 17/02/2006, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: As for tutorials, google around and read through various posts. There is lots of good info out there. Perhaps if you describe what you want to do, people can make specific suggestions. ---Mike Unfortunately, I

Re: How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread lars
Kristian Vaaf wrote: At 13:11 17.02.2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kristian Vaaf Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How would you improve FreeBSD? Hello. Yes, how

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/keramida$ ls -l /etc/hosts* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 655 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1484 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts.allow -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 111 Feb 15 14:45

Re: RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhead mouse don't work

2006-02-17 Thread lars
lars wrote: I have a Diamondback that works well under Xorg and console: ums0: Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 11:50, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/keramida$ ls -l /etc/hosts* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 655 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1484 Feb 15 15:00

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Ken Stevenson
David Banning wrote: It works from the outside world: Well that is good news. OK, so why would my server be looking internally for the banning.ca IP address? Any ideas? Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts for banning.ca ? -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.

What about this solution

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
I just put 209.161.205.12banning.ca in my /etc/hosts and it solved the problem. Can I have multiple lines, each line with the same IP number in /etc/hosts, with different virtual hosts on the right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
What version of FreeBSD is this? You may have to create hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf yourself to change the default order of lookup for host names (from files dns to dns files if that works better for your setup). root# uname -a FreeBSD 3s1.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #6: Tue May 31

Re: daily security output usr/src should be gid = 9 = man

2006-02-17 Thread Stefan
When you say 'label' do you mean using chown or chgrp? I mean: chgrp wheel /usr/src Your daily security output may just be telling you that it changed to something from the GID of 9 that it was the last time it checked.I don't know of any other reason it would point that out. Damn

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts for banning.ca ? I put it in, and it cured the problem. I just don't know if I can have more than one entry in /etc/hosts representing all virtual hosts, each one with the same IP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

apsfilter question/problem

2006-02-17 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read the article at Onlamp about printing for the impatient. Installed apsfilter and samba on my old hp netserver so I'd be able to print to an hp 722c deskjet printer connected to an xp box. Gimp-print was also installed. Ghostscript was already

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Banning wrote: Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/keramida$ ls -l /etc/hosts* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 655 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1484 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts.allow -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 111 Feb

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread David Banning
Er, I'm pretty sure it's /etc/host.conf (no s). But if your /etc/hosts doesn't contain the hostname you are after, that only leaves DNS, NIS and LDAP (I think) for the host.conf file to order. For DNS, what does host whatever.your.hostname.was show from the machine where you seem to be

RE: 80 pin SCSI hard drives.

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Mark, The problem you have with the 80-pin to 68-pin adapters is this. A lot of the el-cheapo adapters do not terminate the unconnected data lines, that is when you get instability. The better quality adapters do terminate them and don't have instability problems. Ted -Original

RE: sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
You do NOT want to setup an autoresponder like vacation! The FEATURE method that Giorgos explained is the correct way to do it. If your not using sendmail and your MTA cannot issue an error in this fashion, you do not want to mess around with this. What happens with autoresponders is that

RE: question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I've never done it but I think you can run multiple nat instances and multiple divert sockets, you will have to specify them in the config file to natd, though. If it were me, though, I would try to setup multiple FreeBSD boxes, not only does that give you some redundancy, but it makes

RE: midnight commander and ssh sftp

2006-02-17 Thread Bob
Is there some way to be able to use midnight commander through a SSH tunnel? 1) Use scp/sftp: it's called Shell link... is mc menu (the problem is Password: prompt is displayed somewhere on the mc command line as it seems to be unable to parse it for some reason. So when see it, simply enter

RE: How would you improve FreeBSD?

2006-02-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Kristian Vaaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:24 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How would you improve FreeBSD? No need to be so FUCKING arrogant. Hey, I was not trying to be arrogant, I was trying to be a

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 17:16, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Banning wrote: Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf: [...] root# ls -l /etc/hosts* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1694 May 13 2005 /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3027 Mar 27 2005 /etc/hosts.allow -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: What about this solution

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 11:59, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put 209.161.205.12banning.ca in my /etc/hosts and it solved the problem. Can I have multiple lines, each line with the same IP number in /etc/hosts, with different virtual hosts on the right? I think it's ok to

Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...

2006-02-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, lars wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, lars wrote: If your machine only runs an NFS daemon and is behind a firewall, ok, you don't need to patch it asap when an NFS SA and patch is issued, if all clients connecting to the machine are benign.

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 12:21, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er, I'm pretty sure it's /etc/host.conf (no s). But if your /etc/hosts doesn't contain the hostname you are after, that only leaves DNS, NIS and LDAP (I think) for the host.conf file to order. For DNS, what does host

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 12:04, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts for banning.ca ? I put it in, and it cured the problem. I just don't know if I can have more than one entry in /etc/hosts representing all virtual hosts, each one with the same IP. You don't have

Re: question on NAT for multiple subnets

2006-02-17 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I've never done it but I think you can run multiple nat instances and multiple divert sockets, you will have to specify them in the config file to natd, though. Excellent. That's what I was hoping for. So instead of one divert natd rule in ipfw, I simply need divert

Re: sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 09:29, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do NOT want to setup an autoresponder like vacation! The FEATURE method that Giorgos explained is the correct way to do it. If your not using sendmail and your MTA cannot issue an error in this fashion, you do not want to mess

Set up routing?

2006-02-17 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello, I'm trying to set up an additional routing for a host via a VPN tunnel with IPsec. The tunnel is working now, I see tcp packages going out with tcpdump, but IMCP host unreachable packages coming in from the VPN peer. What I did: route add A.B.C.D W.X.Y.Z Where A.B.C.D is the target

Re: Setting up VPN+IPSec+Racoon

2006-02-17 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 11:26 AM 17/02/2006, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: As for tutorials, google around and read through various posts. There is lots of good info out there. Perhaps if you describe what you want to do, people can make specific suggestions. ---Mike

Re: VNC forwarding over sshd issue

2006-02-17 Thread Micah
Scott I. Remick wrote: I'm having a weird problem that surfaces sometimes and I am having trouble pinning down the cause. What I do is use VNC to remote-control my home FreeBSD box remotely. Most of the time, this works fine. My home router forwards the external port to my FreeBSD (6.0R) box. I

Re: apsfilter question/problem

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:09 +, Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I read the article at Onlamp about printing for the impatient. Installed apsfilter and samba on my old hp netserver so I'd be able to print to an hp 722c deskjet printer connected to an xp

Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...

2006-02-17 Thread lars
Marc G. Fournier wrote: You can say you are losing out on 'stability fixes', else the server itself wouldn't stay up that long ... so about the only thing you lose would be performance related improvements and/or stuff like memory leakage ... And I could do this all *without* any firewalls

Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...

2006-02-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, lars wrote: tangent I'm not entirely against such efforts of long uptimes. I strongly believe in efforts to back up rumor with fact, as in the rumor 'FreeBSD is rock-solid'. Actually I believe it is, but I can't prove it beyond talking of my own experience with it. IMHO a

small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive in it later. 2 years ago

Re: What about this solution

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-17 11:59, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put 209.161.205.12banning.ca in my /etc/hosts and it solved the problem. Can I have multiple lines, each line with the same IP number in /etc/hosts, with different virtual hosts on the

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Xn Nooby wrote: I dont particularly trust the online lists of laptops that work with FreeBSD, since my other laptop is on one of them. No specific laptop advice but I would have thought of that laptop list as a starting point. I wouldn't trust any single occurrence of this laptop works

DVD Burners

2006-02-17 Thread Sean
I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean

about the ISO9660

2006-02-17 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Sex, 2006-02-17 às 10:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert escreveu: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted a question about the ISO9660 and the hard links in the ISO filesystem... some days ago... A bit under 1 day ago, actually. and no one answer... It was still in

DVD Burner

2006-02-17 Thread Sean
I would like to add a DVD Burner to my system. Any recommendations on which models are friendly with FreeBSD? I want to try to get one that will give me the best options. Also, what interface types would you recommend? I am leaning on SCSI. Thanks

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Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to

Re: apsfilter question/problem

2006-02-17 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Mike Jeays spake forth boldly: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:09 +, Denny White wrote: I read the article at Onlamp about printing for the impatient. Installed apsfilter and samba on my old hp netserver so I'd be able to print to an hp 722c

Re: DVD Burner

2006-02-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD Burner to my system. Any recommendations on which models are friendly with FreeBSD? I want to try to get one that will give me the best options. Also, what interface types would you recommend? I am leaning on SCSI.

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Micah
Xn Nooby wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive in it

Re: DVD Burners

2006-02-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks

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