Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 3:48 AM Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur

Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400

2006-11-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: John L [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:26 PM Subject: Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400 What I found works is freebsd 4.x, and a Pentium 2 350-400Mhz this

Unable to compile Firefox 2 from ports

2006-11-13 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I tried to compile firefox 2 from ports ( mirrored every day ) and I get the following error : any idea welcome , thank you :-) c++ -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion - Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Frank Staals
Leo L. Schwab wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-) ), I thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: On 12/11/06, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello, I'm trying to keep very close touch

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread James Seward
On 11/13/06, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ugh, I'm running a 6.2 prerelease. The package doesn't exist, so I build the port, or try to. The tiff port wont build, so I pkg_add that. It gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I pkg_add that. Then, a little further here

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it,

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass combinations. ( test test or something like that ) Allthough I thought it was

CARP: trouble or feature

2006-11-13 Thread Prokofiev S.P.
Hello ALL! I have a problem with CARP on FreeBSD 6.2 in the following scheme: +--+ +---++-+ | A| | B|| C | | vlan10 |--//--| vlan20vlan10 |---//---|

choosing the cputype for core 2 duo?

2006-11-13 Thread Oliver Aruväli
Hi, So I am building an allaround server for an average business, 30 or so workstations and some misc machines. I was presented with a machine, which in my mind is bit of an overkill, but if they are willing to spend then I think I should give them the maximum I can squeeze out from that PC. So

Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Robert Huff
Leo L. Schwab writes: A little Googling revealed a couple of potentially useful tools: 'sshit' and 'bruteblock', both of which notice repeated login attempts from a given IP address and blackhole it in the firewall. There's also denyhosts. I found the configuration

RE: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Maxim Masyukevich
Hello ALL! You just must use the utility 'DenyHosts', and all Your problems will be solved! DenyHosts the remarkable utility! It's protects only service ssh, and anything more. It is easy in adjustments and very effective in work. You can find this utility in a collection of ports.

changing swap size

2006-11-13 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Following the advice about periodic freezes, I am going to add some RAM to my system. However, currently my swap size is 512MB. If I increase RAM to, say, 1GB, would I need to change the swap size to 2GB? If so, is it a safe process (I assume this can be done using FIPS)? Would I need

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Antony Mawer wrote: On 13/11/2006 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since there isn't a port for that, is there another FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here?

Detailed questions about kernel operation (was Re: 'help')

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to shin_ta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have some question about the Design and the Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System You're questions are a too in-depth to easily answer on a mailing list. I suggest you pick up a copy of The Design and Implementation of FreeBSD, which

Re: 'help'

2006-11-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:30:14 +0800 (CST) shin_ta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some question about the Design and the Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System I somehow have the feeling someone (you) is trying to get someone else (i.e., the list) to prepare the assignement for you?

help

2006-11-13 Thread shin_ta
I have some questions about the design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system 1. FreeBSD used System call, Hardware interrupt, Hardware trap, and Software-initiated trap to entry into the system kernel. What is the detailed operation and why FreeBSD design by this way? 2.

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread cremes . devlist
Ted, you got a couple of things wrong. Read below for the corrections. On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Lonnie Cumberland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, November 06,

RE: changing swap size

2006-11-13 Thread Maxim Masyukevich
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RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 12 november 2006 19:31 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA Hello, Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 installation? Anyone?

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 11/13/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass combinations. ( test test or

cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

2006-11-13 Thread dhaneshk k
Hey can Any body help me? I have a free BSD box ,due to some power failure its rebooted , but booting failed , The error I got was Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a Warning : / was not properly dismounted loading configuration files. /etc/rc.conf :9:Synatx error unterminated

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 installation? Anyone? Please? APC brand SMART-UPS work quite well with 4.x FreeBSD. Assuming you want to monitor the UPS, make sure you have

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:28:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: No, they used it all as the Darwin core. Then they took Darwin and added their own GUI (used to be called Aqua) and that is MacOSX. X11 also comes on the MacOS X DVD, but is not installed by default. Bear in mind that the

BGE driver upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE

2006-11-13 Thread James Kilton
I have a running 5.3-RELEASE system that needs a BGE driver upgrade so that packets with VLAN tags aren't stripped. Is there any way to do this without upgrading the entire OS? This feature was just added to the driver a month ago. Thanks, James

delete iface tun

2006-11-13 Thread Igoryan
Hello. How to remove the interface tunN, creations ppp demon? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 installation? Anyone? Please? I don't quite understand what FreeBSD has to do with it. Is your hardware 120 VAC 60 Hz compatible? And is the UPS

Re: changing swap size

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 11/13/06, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Following the advice about periodic freezes, I am going to add some RAM to my system. However, currently my swap size is 512MB. If I increase RAM to, say, 1GB, would I need to change the swap size to 2GB? If so, is it a safe process

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/13/06 03:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a

IPMI kernel module errors on 6.x

2006-11-13 Thread Raymond Sundland
Hi Everyone, I purchased a new Supermicro Superserver SS6015B-T (motherboard is X7DBR-E) about 3 weeks ago with the IPMI module (part called SIMSO) and have had a hard time getting the IPMI functionality to work in RELENG_6. Particularly, when I attempt to 'kldload ipmi' I get the

Re: cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey can Any body help me? I have a free BSD box ,due to some power failure its rebooted , but booting failed , The error I got was Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a Warning : / was not properly dismounted loading configuration

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/13/06, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Jeff Palmer
At 09:45 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 installation? Anyone? Please? When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the FreeBSD

Boot from CD

2006-11-13 Thread a . brancatelli . mail
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Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Frank Staals
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass combinations. ( test test or something like that ) Allthough

Re: cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

2006-11-13 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Monday 13 November 2006 16:32, dhaneshk k wrote: But I tried to create the new /etc/rc.conf file by the following method #mount -o rw,remount/ #cat /etc/rc.conf you can remount rw like this: mount -u -w / then use an editor to correct /etc/rc.conf there is also /rescue which might

Problem with slapd nsswitch

2006-11-13 Thread bsd
Hello, I am trying to configure an LDAP // It seems I have problems with nsswitch Nov 13 16:22:56 tsuna slapd[96298]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, passwd, endpwent, not found Nov 13 16:22:56 tsuna slapd[96298]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): ldap, group, setgrent, not found Nov 13

Re: question

2006-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:40:15PM +0100, Sebastian Herrmann wrote: Hallo, could you tell me how to download FreeBSD from your site? Probably, before you do that, you should read the FreeBSD Handbook - especially the parts about preparing for and installing FreeBSD - which includes

Boot from CD (this time in ASCII :) )

2006-11-13 Thread a . brancatelli . mail
Sorry about previous mail in HTML and something else. Hello everybody. I'm working on a thing I never tried before. I did some googling but I don't think I haven't found any thing correlated to this. The situation is pretty simple: I'm configuring a FreeBSD (6.1) server to boot from a SAN

RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: David Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 15:46 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA In less time than spent asking others you could build /usr/ports/sysutils/apcupsd/ and see whether

ruby Vulnerability / portupgrade

2006-11-13 Thread Jeff Dickens
Regarding the following vulnerabilities as detected by portaudit: Affected package: ruby-1.8.4_4,1 Type of problem: ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/ab8dbe98-6be4-11db-ae91-0012f06707f0.html Affected package:

Re: pkg_cutleaves listing needed ports as leaf nodes.....

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I use `pkg_cutleaves -l` to list leaf nodes. It is listing things I know are required by other apps. These aren't build dependencies. For example, it lists g-wrap, and libpcap. If I remove g-wrap, my gnucash2 immediately refuses to run. And I

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I have to restart the smbd daemon because it eats up 6000+ filehandles,

Re: Asking for Ports

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ferry Limanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm ferry from ISP in Indonesia. I want run my squid and there is error saying that file libm.so.2 is not found. I suspect that the library is from ports compat4x, and I try to install that ports from freebsd ftp server, buat always failed, or can I

Re: installing port etherape

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, The 'make install' on the etherape stopped, complaining about a missing function. The output is included below. My environment is FreeBSD 6.1 p10 on an Asus motherboard with a Pentium 4 processor. Given the warnings about a dependancy conflict,

RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Palmer Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 16:28 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the FreeBSD port)

Re: AMD64 + FreeBSD 6.1 + Keyboard troubles

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Coen Watstaatervoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dual AMD Opeteron HE server, during the installation the keyboard works fine. But when you plug in the keyboard after a reboot (without the keyboard attached) the keyboard won't work any more. I'm doing the same

Re: X windows configuration problem

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hai all, i am not able to configure my X-Windows system. i will be brief: 1.) ASUS K8V-MX motherboard running AMD64 Athlon 2.) VIA K8M800, VIA 8T237R chipsets. i downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 last night have verified the md5sum. Xorg -configure does not work.

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-13 Thread Nejc Skoberne
Hi, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. I agree. Now I will have to

Re: Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions? I just built jdk15 with the default options, and the Java plugin works in my firefox. Secondly, is there a way to just build the plugin since I have the jdk built and

ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Knoll
I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long enough for it to spin up? Everything else seems to be working. If that is the problem, is it

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:20AM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could get the Darwin 8.1 cdrom to install. If your

Re: ruby Vulnerability / portupgrade

2006-11-13 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Hi Jeff, On 13/11/2006 16:35, Jeff Dickens wrote: Regarding the following vulnerabilities as detected by portaudit: Affected package: ruby-1.8.4_4,1 Type of problem: ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service. Reference:

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 12 november 2006 19:31 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA Hello, Could someone tell me whether I can use the APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I have to

6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Joe
A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out whenever they're ready or is there a set schedule that is adhered to? I only ask because I am trying to schedule some server upgrades and I

Re: BGE driver upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Kilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a running 5.3-RELEASE system that needs a BGE driver upgrade so that packets with VLAN tags aren't stripped. Is there any way to do this without upgrading the entire OS? This feature was just added to the driver a month ago. It's *possible*;

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Doug Hardie
On Nov 13, 2006, at 01:28, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Apple also doesen't use the UNIX security model. As near as I can tell their core security model is an ACL model not a user/group model. Once again this is something that's handled elsewhere. The user-group security model is alive and the

deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

2006-11-13 Thread Koen de Wijs
Hello everybody, I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I can write a cronjob that checks every minute. But isn't there another solution; Can't I just write a C program that

Re: ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

2006-11-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 13 November 2006 9:57 am, Michael Knoll wrote: I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long enough for it to spin up?

problems with serverraid 8i on an ibm x260

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua Frugé
Hello, I am running freebsd 6.1 (amd64) on an ibm x260 and getting these errors: dmesg: g_vfs_done():aacd0s1a[WRITE(offset=16567468032, length=16384)]error = 5 aacd0: hard error cmd=write 1673028351-1673028382 and in messages : Nov 12 23:59:14 nms kernel: aac0: COMMAND

Re: delete iface tun

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Igoryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to remove the interface tunN, creations ppp demon? In general, you don't. If you unload the if_tun module, that will delete all of them. See the manual for tun(4). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:20AM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could get the Darwin 8.1

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-13 Thread Christian Walther
Sorry... I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3 Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768. On 13/11/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy with it. Since the beginning I've a

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Armin Arh
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:17:58 -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ugh, I'm running a 6.2 prerelease. The package doesn't exist, so I build the port, or try to. The tiff port wont build, so I pkg_add that. It gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I pkg_add that. Then,

Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on my desktop, but I'm pretty new to all of this and would appreciate a

uhci.ko keeps showing up

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've commented out device uhci in my kernel config, but I keep getting uhci.ko loaded on boot. I'm not using usb at all. I understand that I should be able to disable usb in my bios, but it's difficult to get to, as the server is remote. Is there anything I can do to prevent the uhci.ko from

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Josh Carroll
Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. Whatever is shutting down the system would either need to be setuid (chmod u+s), or would need to use sudo (if you have the sudo port and your user is properly

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. Whatever is shutting down the system would either need to be setuid (chmod u+s), or would need to use sudo (if you have the sudo port and your user is properly

Developer needed for a project (FreeBSD and Java)

2006-11-13 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greetings All, While we are in the middle of evaluating various project software and also while I am trying to learn more about FreeBSD as it relates to our goals, we have come across a need to locate a developer that has skills with FreeBSD and also Java. We are working on migrating a project

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;)

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
Joe Holden wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;) That is very

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 13 November 2006 10:11, Frank Staals wrote: The point is it isn't security through obscurity: as allready pointed out, FreeBSD sshd can withstand those brute force attacks without much of a problem so there is no security problem, the only thing is those brute force attacks are

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: That is very true, and I understand why this is by design, but in this case the ONLY user of the machine is me. It really is no big deal, but I am trying to understand just what is going on here. As I said, on my desktop I am able to shut down as user, and can't

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-13 Thread Rachel Florentine
Hi; Would someone kindly simply edit the following, if that's possible (if I'm not too far off how it should be done) so that I can have an example of how to build OpenLDAP with the options and env I want? Here's what I have so far. I don't know if it's correct or not... 1. Edit

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread George Fazio
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out whenever they're ready or is there a set schedule that is adhered to? I only ask

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:11:11AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Add yourself to the operator group. Just edit /etc/group. Bingo! Haven't checked recently but in the past any darn fool could Control-Alt-Delete reboot from the console keyboard. Caused a bit of a pain when a machine reboots

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-13 Thread Charles Trevor
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Palmer Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 16:28 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the FreeBSD

v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-13 Thread Jim Pazarena
When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous version (5.XX). I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the performance hit is being commented about by my (few) mysql/php clients.

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Peo Nilsson
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:55 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out whenever they're ready or is

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: In response to Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles.

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Debug-ID:

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Eric
Peo Nilsson wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:55 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out whenever they're

Re: pkg_cutleaves listing needed ports as leaf nodes.....

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/13/06 09:35, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I use `pkg_cutleaves -l` to list leaf nodes. It is listing things I know are required by other apps. These aren't build dependencies. For example, it lists g-wrap, and libpcap. If I remove g-wrap, my

using ipfw for NAT mapping in a 1:1 fake:real IPs for VPN

2006-11-13 Thread James Bakner
Hi, I have a pretty complicated setup currently and am trying to figure out exactly how to implement it. I'm pretty unfamiliar with freebsd, the last incarnation I used was 4.3 and I only used it for a few months before moving to linux. I have a VPN setup for an IP range

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running 6.1 installed from the most recent .iso CD and sync'd ports through CVS, I wish to have the Ventrilo port start up as a daemon upon reboot, however, I'm not having any success in having this happen. I did some searching with Google and found little

USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
As you can no doubt see, I have been going round and round with trying to get an old Compaq Presario connected via wireless. The original Belkin card that came with the laptop does not seem to be supported. At least it does not show up in the handbook under supported devices. Further, it

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Leo L. Schwab wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-) ), I thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat

Boot from CD

2006-11-13 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
Hello everybody. I'm working on a thing I never tried before. I did some googling but I don't think I haven't found any correlated to this. The situation is pretty simple: I'm configuring a FreeBSD (6.1) server to boot from a SAN thru a QLogic 2340 Fiber Channel card. This in general is

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Brian the SARE Stock rules (and others) from www.rulesemporium.com are equally good at catching this stuff, and a lot lot lighter on CPU cycles. -- Martin On 11/13/06, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since there

Re: Testing firewire

2006-11-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially)

Re: USB Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Rem P Roberti
As you can no doubt see, I have been going round and round with trying to get an old Compaq Presario connected via wireless. The original Belkin card that came with the laptop does not seem to be supported. At least it does not show up in the handbook under supported devices. Further, it

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