Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:38:48 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if I am hosting it under FreeBSD? sure, works fine under freebsd. I just did a

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-19 Thread Paul Chvostek
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if I am hosting it under FreeBSD? It's a proper virtual machine, not like jail(8). Check

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kris Kennaway wrote: No critical pending issues, no show stoppers left, no required or desired features. Only some stress tests problems. So, does this mean that the page has not been updated? Usually I would expect a problem - solved list. Or does this mean that the path through betas and

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:41:08AM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a

Re: recommended network games to play with your best bud.

2006-09-19 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 03:40, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, G'day Say you are working in a place where all workstations are mixtures of Unixes..Now you have your bestfriend somewhere far away. And he was complaining of severe boredom in his current work. What *nix network game would

Re: Making simple colorful block diagrams for presentations

2006-09-19 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:20:00PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello, I want a simple tool that can be used for preparing block diagrams and arrows, that is all. I want to be able to use few colors, that is all. Please don't suggest openoffice or kde. I want something

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Ashley Moran
On 18 Sep 2006, at 19:41, Bob Johnson wrote: You might need to make sure AD support got enabled. In the samba3 port at least, it is off by default (although winbind support is enabled by default). Bob, I think that's done, judging by the output of make config. Unfortunately all the

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-19 Thread George Allan
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:54:14PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want

Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Stanley Wright
Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Thanks Stan - Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread albi
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. there are a few FreeBSD live-cds : http://www.freesbie.org

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:13 +0100, Ashley Moran wrote: On 18 Sep 2006, at 19:41, Bob Johnson wrote: You might need to make sure AD support got enabled. In the samba3 port at least, it is off by default (although winbind support is enabled by default). Bob, I think that's done,

Re: nmap route problem

2006-09-19 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 11:55 +0800, musashi miyamoto wrote: is there a way to fix this? i searched google, but i cant find any solution. thanks Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-09-18 20:53 PHT WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread RW
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 09:52, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. I would suggest running the Gag bootmanager from a floppy.

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Ashley Moran
On 19 Sep 2006, at 12:51, Bob M. wrote: It's absolutely possible Ashley. We have samba 2.x running on a few solaris 8 through 10 servers, one might be 3.x. One of our solaris admins made the mistake of making one of them a domain controller and it was authenticating users in an AD domain.

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ashley Moran wrote: Our network admin said winbindd is broken on FreeBSD so he tried compiling the Solaris version(!) but couldn't make that work. Unfortunately he's beeyessdeephobic, but I want to avoid looking into it myself because, well, it's not my job :) If I have no choice, do you

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Cross
Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the

Re: php4 no longer has apache module?

2006-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 17/09/06 Javier Henderson said: I don't know exactly when the default behavior was changed, but the Apache module isn't being built by default anymore. I discovered this yesterday, when I upgraded PHP and a bunch of scripts stopped working. make -DWITH_APACHE will get you going...

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:03 -0400 Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QEMU can read and write vmdk files, so you may have an easy migration path. Well, i tried loading a pre-existing vmdk from Windows Vmware Wkstation 4.5 and it just didnt work (it'd stall). I have to admit I couldn't

RE: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread Stephanie Bridges
Ashley Moran wrote: On 19 Sep 2006, at 12:51, Bob M. wrote: It's absolutely possible Ashley. We have samba 2.x running on a few solaris 8 through 10 servers, one might be 3.x. One of our solaris admins made the mistake of making one of them a domain controller and it was authenticating

Re: compat4x and compat5x

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Cross
Duane Hill wrote: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: I'm not trying to kick any dead horses here but there are times when I try to run some applications that I get some messages like the following: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.5 not found,

Re: compat4x and compat5x

2006-09-19 Thread Duane Hill
On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:47:25 PM, Jeff confabulated: Duane Hill wrote: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: I'm not trying to kick any dead horses here but there are times when I try to run some applications that I get some messages like the

Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure

2006-09-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:38, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Sat, 16 Sep 2006 it looks like Viswas Nair composed: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically

Re: compat4x and compat5x

2006-09-19 Thread Duane Hill
Oops! Addendum below: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:53:31 PM, Duane confabulated: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:47:25 PM, Jeff confabulated: Duane Hill wrote: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: I'm not trying to kick any dead horses here but there

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread David Robillard
I just wanted to sanity check that it is possible. I think he just doesn't want to work on our server because it isn't Linux :) Have you looked into Windows Services for UNIX from Microsoft ? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx I've tried version 2.0 while

Re: compat4x and compat5x

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Cross
Duane Hill wrote: Oops! Addendum below: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:53:31 PM, Duane confabulated: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 1:47:25 PM, Jeff confabulated: Duane Hill wrote: On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:54:50 AM, Jeff confabulated: I'm not trying to kick any dead

Re: recommended network games to play with your best bud.

2006-09-19 Thread jedrek
Hi, games/netris will keep you busy for hours. -- jedrek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:53, you wrote: From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] the update for today is, that it is still going, but there has been quite a bit of delay while the ports stops on the knobs screen. each time i see one, i hit the 'ok', but this is causing the

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Cross
Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. Sure. You just configure the loader(8) to find its kernel and root filesystem on the appropriate disk. If that's too tricky for you, there are lots of other boot loaders. Surely one of them

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Wow, stealth FreeBSD. I haven't done it, but I think you can make a live CD and boot and

Re: Video Device problems in new install by Newbie -- FreeBSD 6.1

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took the plunge last night and installed FreeBSD6.1-STABLE. I found the experience rather exciting and I'm happy with the results, excep for one major challenge to overcome: no video support. I'm trying to set up X and it's failing.

Reducing reserved space on large filesystems

2006-09-19 Thread Wayne Sierke
I was very interested to read the following written by Matthew Seaman in 2004. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/033754.html The parameters given to newfs(8) don't depend on the size of the filesystem, so much as the size of the files you intend to

boot(8) - BTX halted

2006-09-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Hello I'm trying to bootstrap the system using boot2 directly as described in the Admin Guide (3rd edition, 2004, section 2.3) and in the man page for boot(8), FreeBSD 6.0, dated 18/08/2005. However, no matter which kernel I choose at the boot prompt, I always get BTX halted error message with

Fwd: Using BSD as filter

2006-09-19 Thread Don Munyak
If you want a freebsd firewall that works well with comcast, try m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/ It is well supported worldwide, from home users to corporate environments. It's small enough to run from compact flash, hard drive, even a live ISO with floppy. AND it's as easy to setup as any

Re: Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user.

2006-09-19 Thread Derek Ragona
You don't need anything beyond a regular account. If you can login to the box, you can get mail from it. The error looks like you don't have the right auth method setup in sendmail. So the password is coming in looking garbled. Check with the client software you are using for the way the

Re: recommended network games to play with your best bud.

2006-09-19 Thread Eric Schuele
On 09/18/2006 22:40, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, Say you are working in a place where all workstations are mixtures of Unixes..Now you have your bestfriend somewhere far away. And he was complaining of severe boredom in his current work. What *nix network game would you two play?

Packet loss simulation with ALTQ

2006-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
hi there :) I was planning to migrate a 4.11 firewall using a combo of ipf/ipnat and ipfw pipe/dummynets to pf + ALTQ. One thing I haven't figured out how to do with pf is the plr option to the dummynet configuration - we use it to simulate modem connections or just simply bad links. Also, is

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-19 Thread Bastiaan Welmers
Hi, To me cups 1.2.2 doesn't work at all with my USB printer (HP Laserjet 1010 on /dev/ulpt0). I followed the instructions to make /dev/ulpt0 accessible to cups. When I try to print something just nothing happens and after a while I get the error message /dev/ulpt0: device busy. Installing the

Re: Reducing reserved space on large filesystems

2006-09-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:01:23AM +0930, Wayne Sierke wrote: I was very interested to read the following written by Matthew Seaman in 2004. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/033754.html The parameters given to newfs(8) don't depend on the size of the

Re: Reducing reserved space on large filesystems

2006-09-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:01:23AM +0930, Wayne Sierke wrote: I was very interested to read the following written by Matthew Seaman in 2004. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/033754.html [snip]

Weird problem with DRAC 5

2006-09-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm setting up a new server (Dell 1950) that has a DRAC card. My home network (where I'm working on it in my spare time) is behind a wireless router, and the internal network is 192.168.2.0/24. The DRAC card's IP address is 192.168.2.120 (gateway is 192.168.2.1. Mask is 255.255.255.0.) I

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:42:41AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: No critical pending issues, no show stoppers left, no required or desired features. Only some stress tests problems. So, does this mean that the page has not been updated? Usually I would expect a

Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop

2006-09-19 Thread Bubbles Bug
Hello: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, but there were some problems. Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem). mp3blaster cannot find device.

FreeBSD sticker sheets

2006-09-19 Thread Nicole Nguyen
Hi there! My name is Nicole Nguyen and I'm the Membership Coordinator at EFF. We have been fans of your sticker sheet and are in the process of producing one of our own. I'd be happy to send some to your team once they're finished since you were our inspiration! I just wanted to check to

Re: Weird problem with DRAC 5

2006-09-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm setting up a new server (Dell 1950) that has a DRAC card. My home network (where I'm working on it in my spare time) is behind a wireless router, and the internal network is 192.168.2.0/24. The DRAC card's IP address is 192.168.2.120

Re: Weird problem with DRAC 5

2006-09-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 13:54:45 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes no sense to me. If anyone has a bright ideas what I'm missing, I'm all ears. These sound like network routing problems. Of course, but it makes no sense. All the hosts are having no problems

Re: Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop

2006-09-19 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Bubbles Bug wrote: Hello: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, but there were some problems. Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem).

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: David Robillard wrote: [...] What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their offices with a FreeBSD install disk and try to boot/install it on the hardware you're

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, i have eventually come to an error, at the 89% mark. from /var/log/portmanager.log: Tue Sep 19 09:32:28 2006 bsd.port.mk /usr/ports/Mk corrupt unable to restored from back up cd

Re: cvsup between levels, single user issue

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going to attempt an in-place upgrade of a light load server running 5.3 to bring it to 6.1 RELEASE P6 (RELENG_6_1). I read in UPDATING that going between 5.x and 6.x requires single user mode which isn't an option on a remote machine (though I can stop

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Wow, stealth FreeBSD.

sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt will be to get this: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/index_15.html running and adapt it. I've

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:54:06PM +0200, MR JAMES EDWARD wrote: [.. spam ...] How exactly does this spam-scam work? Does the spammer require a proof-o-faith `donation' to initiate further communication or something? -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Joao Barros
On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt will be to get this:

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread backyard
--- Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt will be to get this:

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt

Re: Weird problem with DRAC 5

2006-09-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One other thing. Using the console redirection through the web interface (which forces you to use IE and an ActiveX control!), I can see the console fine, but the keyboard and mouse (on the Windows box) don't do anything. I can still login

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 17:12, Joao Barros wrote: On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy?

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread David King
I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? I'm a fan of security/sshit My best attempt will be to get this: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/index_15.html

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? My best attempt will be to get this:

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Reko Turja
I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit more BSD savvy? I've found a few things based on openBSD's pf, but that doesn't seem to be the default in BSD either. Any response appreciated.

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Along with some good advice. First of all: ssh is not a public service like http or smtp where you need anyone to be able to connect. So don't let them in the first place. It is in this case. It's a web server that allows shell usage (and

Re: cvsup between levels, single user issue

2006-09-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going to attempt an in-place upgrade of a light load server running 5.3 to bring it to 6.1 RELEASE P6 (RELENG_6_1). I read in UPDATING that going between 5.x and 6.x requires single user mode which isn't an option on a remote machine

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, backyard wrote: In reality using passwords with SSH kinda defeats the purpose of SSH. Keeping passwords from being sent across the network as cleartext? -Dan -- Of course she's gonna be upset! You're dealing with a woman here Dan, what the hell's wrong with you? -S.

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:22:41PM -0700, backyard wrote: well you could pretty much eliminate the problem by disabling password logins to sshd and only accepting keyed logins. Then only a key will work. This is probably the best thing you can do to keep the bad guys out. This is what I'm

Mail server relaying spam, but how?

2006-09-19 Thread Derrick Ryalls
The problem is over and the machines in question have been rebuilt from scratch, but I am still curious as to how it could have happened. Many weeks ago I noticed that I my mail server was dealing with about 4x the amount of mail it normally does. After much digging I was able to trace it back

Adding more resources to your viewer

2006-09-19 Thread Tina Lai
Hi : Hi: We come across to your website for search some products. We are the Manufacturer of the Rackmount LCD and many other products. We are wondering if you can add our webpage on your Hardward vendor list for adding more resources to your viewer. Country: USA Company name : i-Tech

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: I think this isn't needed, and is somewhat silly. Like all (decent) implementations of pubkey, the key is only used to authenticate and exchange a symetric session key. So the pubkey sees little actual use, compared with the session key.

Crash; shutdown

2006-09-19 Thread Laurence Sanford
So I got up and walked away from my computer this afternoon, and came back to find it in the middle of shutting down. No good reason, no crash dump (yes, they're configured) no nothing, just this: Sep 19 18:14:53 colossus syslogd: exiting on signal 15 At this point, everything sync'd up and

Crash; shutdown

2006-09-19 Thread Perry Hutchison
So I got up and walked away from my computer this afternoon, and came back to find it in the middle of shutting down. No good reason, no crash dump (yes, they're configured) no nothing, just this: Sep 19 18:14:53 colossus syslogd: exiting on signal 15 At this point, everything sync'd up

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread RW
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 22:01, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:54:06PM +0200, MR JAMES EDWARD wrote: [.. spam ...] How exactly does this spam-scam work? Does the spammer require a proof-o-faith `donation' to initiate further communication or something? The sucker pays

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-19 Thread ke han
On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: David Robillard wrote: [...] What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their offices with a FreeBSD install disk

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Ahmad Arafat Abdullah
- Original Message - From: Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:49:27 -0400 On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM

Re: Crash; shutdown

2006-09-19 Thread Laurence Sanford
Perry Hutchison wrote: So I got up and walked away from my computer this afternoon, and came back to find it in the middle of shutting down. No good reason, no crash dump (yes, they're configured) no nothing, just this: Sep 19 18:14:53 colossus syslogd: exiting on signal 15 At this point,

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Jonathan Chen wrote: How exactly does this spam-scam work? Does the spammer require a proof-o-faith `donation' to initiate further communication or something? Nigeria 4-1-9 They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad guy the the money, and If you are naive enough to send them money before you ever get it... Olivier ___

dial in modem

2006-09-19 Thread Geeta Nagpal
Dear Problem Solver, Greetings from Singapore J I have had a strange problem with my dial up modem. It is connected to a unix server, and I was able to dial in and connect to the server for 2 days. Now suddenly, when I dial in, I get some junk characters , instead of a login

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, ke han wrote: On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: David Robillard wrote: [...] What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread David Lloyd
Hmmm... How exactly does this spam-scam work? Does the spammer require a proof-o-faith `donation' to initiate further communication or something? Nigeria 4-1-9 They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad guy the

Re: [solved] Suddenly Cups doesn't work anymore ...

2006-09-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, P.U.Kruppa wrote: Now Cups doesn't work anymore, i.e. # lpstat -a lpstat: Kann Server nicht erreichen (Cannot reach server) When I try to start Cups manually # cupsd cupsd: Child exited on signal 15! Just for the records: this

Re: Mail server relaying spam, but how?

2006-09-19 Thread Bob
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 18:57, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Any thoughts on this? Have you checked the MX records on the secondary DNS server? Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

mail to root

2006-09-19 Thread jekillen
Hello again; I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail system was running. I was informed that Postfix was not running. So the question,

Re: mail to root

2006-09-19 Thread pauls
--On September 19, 2006 9:50:18 PM -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail

Re: mail to root

2006-09-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
running. I was informed that Postfix was not running. So the question, how does mail generated by the system get delivered to the root account? Local mail delivery can be specific: mail could be delivered even is no smtp server is running. This is highly dependant of your environment and of

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found a few things based on openBSD's pf, but that doesn't seem to be the default in BSD either. Recent BSDs (all of them, FreeBSD 5.n/6.n included) have PF in the base system. 'overload' rules are fairly easy to set up, eg table