Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-10 Thread José García Juanino
El sábado 10 de marzo a las 02:45:23 CET, Brian J. Conway escribió: I'm trying to track down a watchdog timeout that shows on average once a day, usually at a random time when idle. The system has two 3c905C NICs and does ipfw+natd duty with a couple services, and spends most of its time

Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode

2007-03-10 Thread Milan Knizek
On Friday 09 March 2007 22:56, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:25:34PM +0100, Milan Knizek wrote: A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode to extended polling by command lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0. Then, the printer worked normally.

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-10 Thread Vince
Aniruddha wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules Thanks at least now I found devfs.rules :-) . I adjusted it accordingly (and /etc/rc.conf) but still my Palm refuses to sync. Maybe this error message reveals something: # /etc/rc.d/devfs restart /etc/rc.d/devfs:

Re: question?

2007-03-10 Thread Christian Walther
On 10/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what the software

Re: logout from gnome panel stops responding.

2007-03-10 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:12:35 +0530 Anuj Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 while using gnome when i click on logout it (logout panel only) stops responding, and i need to Force quit, same

Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing

2007-03-10 Thread Carsten Fuchs
Hi everyone! My gnome-terminal has this annoying habit of jumping at the beginning of the same line when i'm entering a command and the cursor reaches a certain column (not the last column possible, there's always a quarter or so of the line left blank); it doesn't put the cursor on a new line

Re: Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing

2007-03-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Carsten Fuchs wrote: Hi everyone! My gnome-terminal has this annoying habit of jumping at the beginning of the same line when i'm entering a command and the cursor reaches a certain column (not the last column possible, there's always a quarter or

Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-10 Thread Aniruddha
Vince wrote: I think you misunderstood. /etc/defaults/devfs contains the defaults. you should remove the changes you made from there and create a new /etc/devfs.rules with the contents i specified. Hey be gentle, I am new to FreeBSD :-P . This solved the error message but still my Palm

Xorg color depth problem

2007-03-10 Thread Sebastien
Hi all, I use to solve difficulties by myself but I'm a bit lost with this one. Without any special event appened, I noticed that pictures was strangly displayed. It's a bit difficult to explain but it's certainly due to a low color depth. I've same color problem with pictures and vids.and

Re: logout from gnome panel stops responding.

2007-03-10 Thread Anuj Singh
hello, Thanks Conrad. I tried it but didn't worked. Your suggestion gave me an idea of few more settings, this problem was related to my firewall pfctl rules. when i flush all my firewall rules this problem disappears., (pfctl -Fa), I have to check my pfctl firewall rules. When I start my

Re: Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing

2007-03-10 Thread Carsten Fuchs
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:58:51 -0500 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a problem with the prompt string (iirc for bash users, that's remedied by escaping the chunk of text that doesn't print using \[ and \]). That's it. I had escape sequences in the prompt for different

Advice on IDS co.

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, I would like to know what you guys think about chkrootkit, rkhunter and tripwire. I am considering adding them on my Server for some added Security. I am aware, the holy grail would be to really dive into Jails, and the macframework, but still i would like to have some

where to get GENERIC file

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Grant
I'm upgrading from 4.x to 5.5. I am at the step where I need to make a generic 5.x kernel, but my GENERIC file is for 4.x. When I did a 'make update' in /usr/src (which updated my source tree from cvspu), it didn't suck over /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC for 5.5. Where is this or how do I

Re: where to get GENERIC file

2007-03-10 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sat, March 10, 2007 14:44, Michael Grant wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.x to 5.5. I am at the step where I need to make a generic 5.x kernel, but my GENERIC file is for 4.x. When I did a 'make update' in /usr/src (which updated my source tree from cvspu), it didn't suck over

Re: Advice on IDS co.

2007-03-10 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello David, I've been using chkrootkit and it's fairly simple. Aide is a more free version of Tripwire and you might want to look at Snort. Both are in the ports tree. I suppose you have a firewall like IPFilter or PF already? I've been keeping an eye out for a really slick syslogfile

Re: Some questions from a newcomer

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Slothouber
Mike Jakubik wrote: Daniel Mouritsen wrote: You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I would recommend you choose the basic user option instead. Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with portsnap, but dear lord it was slow :D I tried googling for European

ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-10 Thread Brian J. Conway
I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I was not on 4.x. I'll give

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
You must specify to allow root in your sshd_config. noone will ever recommend that you do that though. On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks

Re: Some questions from a newcomer

2007-03-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:35:57AM -0500, Chris Slothouber wrote: Mike Jakubik wrote: Daniel Mouritsen wrote: You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I would recommend you choose the basic user option instead. Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On 3/10/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Xorg color depth problem

2007-03-10 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Sebastien wrote: Hi all, I use to solve difficulties by myself but I'm a bit lost with this one. Without any special event appened, I noticed that pictures was strangly displayed. It's a bit difficult to explain but it's certainly due to a low color depth. I've same

Re: Xorg color depth problem

2007-03-10 Thread Sebastien
Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 17:25 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your xorg.conf and let us know what kind of graphics card you use. ***

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. On 3/10/07, Guido Demmenie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default setting is that

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:55:54 +0200 Dima Sorkin wrote: It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? One should never login (local or remote) as root. Use an ordinary login and then su/sudo only at a short

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:43:43 +0200 Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? man pw (but

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
Hi, man pw here is a nice tutorial - http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/ beginners/manage_users_pw.php Bye, David On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel'

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-10 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. I've read some pages about 'kern.maxusers', 'kern.maxdsize'. I have questions: 1) After I reduce 'maxusers' to some reasonable amount for that computer (say 10), and enlarge 'maxdsize', will a user process be able to allocate arrays that are considerably bigger than the physical memory size ?

Re: Xorg color depth problem

2007-03-10 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Sebastien wrote: Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 17:25 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your xorg.conf and let us know what kind of graphics card you use.

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
I have heard it does not scale well above 4 On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support in 7 THANKS IN ADVANCE Your's Truly SUSANTH K ___

Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Susanth K
Dear Friends, Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support in 7 THANKS IN ADVANCE Your's Truly SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Xorg color depth problem

2007-03-10 Thread Sebastien
Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 18:01 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Sebastien wrote: Le Samedi 10 mars 2007 à 17:25 +0100, P.U.Kruppa a écrit : I don't now how to investigate (I'm not a newbee but not so far ;-) could someone lead me ? A first step could be to send your

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:43 PM 3/10/2007 +0200, you wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. Easiest way? vi /etc/group man

The MySQL Low Performance in FreeBSD

2007-03-10 Thread Susanth K
Hai Every One, Do The Low Performance of MySQL on FreeBSD Still Exists ? ( in FreeBSD6.2 ) Please HELP SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Using MFC-3820CN network printing

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I am trying to get access to a MFC-3820CN multifunction scanner/fax/printer. I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system with cups setup. When I try and send to the device , cups claimed it printed out fine, but nothing ever actually comes out. It works fine from a Linux box where I copied down the drivers from

Re: Using MFC-3820CN network printing

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Slothouber
I think you may need to change your printer's emulation. There is a step-by-step process at the following URL, it deals with another network-enabled Brother printer, perhaps it will be of assistance: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-03-17-brother-hl-2070n.html Chris Kottaridis wrote: I

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:18:12AM +0800, David Schulz wrote: I have heard it does not scale well above 4 It all depends on your workload. FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html Kris

mouse wheel sends incorrect buttons

2007-03-10 Thread Jon Wolfgang
I am using a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer in xwindows on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. The mouse works correctly (except for the side buttons - I'll worry about those later), but the mouse wheel has some odd behaviour in apps like firefox and thunderbird. Scrolling down works correctly, but

FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock and adjtimex?

2007-03-10 Thread Kelly Jones
What are the FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock (view/set the BIOS hardware clock) and adjtimex (adjust clock speed)? I couldn't find these two well-known Linux commands in ports? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel

Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Kelly Jones
To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does this? The basics are simple: to validate [EMAIL PROTECTED], I connect to the MX record of wnonline.net and go as far as RCPT TO as follows: host -t mx

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Howmany CPU Does The FreeBSD 6.2 Support ? and what will be the support in 7 The maximum number of CPUs that 6.2 will make use of is 16 (kern.smp.maxcpus: 16). I don't know if it will be raised in 7.0, but since 7.x should support UltraSPARC T1, it might. How

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. I've read some pages about 'kern.maxusers', 'kern.maxdsize'. I have questions: 1) After I reduce 'maxusers' to some reasonable amount for that computer (say 10), maxusers is somewhat badly named because of historical reasons. Today it means something like how many big

DST on very old FreeBSD system

2007-03-10 Thread Brett Glass
I've been asked to update a very old FreeBSD system -- an embedded system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. There's no need to update the OS on the system, because it is firewalled from the Internet and runs the

Odd ACPI shutdown and power off issue

2007-03-10 Thread Steve
I'm using 6.2-R on a Dell PE400SC. I recently enabled Remote Wake Up (Wake on LAN) in BIOS. Sending a magic packet to the powered down PC will power it up and it boots normally. However, now if I attempt a shutdown and power off using halt -p or shutdown -p now I get a reboot. Disabling

searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Ed Zwart
Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to search the

FreeBSD/i386

2007-03-10 Thread Nattawut
Dear Sir/Madam, I'm a Windows Platform user, I just got the machine that contain FreeBSD/i386 already install. I try to use it but I can't get through the the login password screen. This machine was left over from the place that I used to work but it had been closed my boss gave to me. It the

root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system

2007-03-10 Thread John Levine
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I've been asked to update a very old FreeBSD system -- an embedded system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. I just updated my antique BSDI 4.3 systems, and it turned out to

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. Err, sure; and for completeness, be sure and send the IP back to this list, and

Re: FreeBSD/i386

2007-03-10 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:45:13PM -0500, Nattawut wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I'm a Windows Platform user, I just got the machine that contain FreeBSD/i386 already install. I try to use it but I can't get through the the login password screen. This machine was left over from the place that I

Re: FreeBSD/i386

2007-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Nattawut wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I'm a Windows Platform user, I just got the machine that contain FreeBSD/i386 already install. I try to use it but I can't get through the the login password screen. This machine was left over from the place that I used to work but it had been closed my boss

Re: searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800 Ed Zwart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should

Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system

2007-03-10 Thread Brett Glass
John: /etc/localtime on the 2.2.8 system begins with a series of nulls, not the string TZif. However, some of our other clients have 4.x systems whose /etc/localtime files do begin with TZif. If you could send or post the files for the MST7MDT zone in both formats, it'd be a great help. It'd be

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 10 March 2007 12:52, Wojciech Puchar said: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. That is a REALLY BAD idea. Why don't you just publish

Re: FreeBSD/i386

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mini-ITX case brand new and it small when I turn it on it just ask for loin name and password , I just have no idea who should I ask for help because I don't know how they get this machine from. Thank you for your time. see www.freebsd.org and look at handbook.

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It all depends on your workload. FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html Kris anyway it's worth to actually test machine before buying. even for 1 cpu systems lots of crappy motherboards/BIOSES

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have heard it does not scale well above 4 to be clear. kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, everything else on any CPU. so as long as disk I/O network and other kernel tasks are able to fit on one processor that's OK. for machines doing mostly pure

Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
system that's chugging along happily on FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- to handle the new start and stop dates for Daylight Savings Time. There's no need to update the OS on the system, because it is firewalled from the Internet and runs the embedded hardware it has to run just fine. But it does need the clock

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:40:47PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have heard it does not scale well above 4 to be clear. kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, everything else on any CPU. This is incorrect for approximately the last 7 years (it is only true

Re: searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Ed Zwart
Thanks Randy, I use google's advanced search all the time! The trouble with limiting to freebsd.org is that it's a bigger search space than just this list's archive. I've been reading the freebsd handbook for quite some time, and have learned a lot there. But I've got a few dots left that need

installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Noah
Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Noah
More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to choose installation media and choose CD/DVD the response is No CD/DVD devices found! what can I do about this? Cheers, Noah Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
If your system's BIOS will support booting from that drive, select it as the first boot device. -Derek At 05:41 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah

Re: Perforce access

2007-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-09 17:10, FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear list, is it prossible (for a normal mortal, aka non-committer ) to access the the perforce repository to get code? There is always read-only access available through the Perforce web interface at: http://perforce.freebsd.org/

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Noah
how do I identify the filesystem and/or device that the cdrom is considered? Cheers, Noah Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead.

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread alex
Quoting Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 10 March 2007 12:52, Wojciech Puchar said: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Noah
if I attempt to exit sysinstall then it says the only other option is to reboot. Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead.

Re: searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Jon Wolfgang
Ed Zwart wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). I want to

Re: question?

2007-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:36:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am doing a project for school: find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your search with the word free). Find out what

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? You can change the config file to allow it, but that is considered poor security. The thing to

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Just edit the /etc/group

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
Usually it is: /dev/cd0 /dev/cd1 etc, depends on how many optical drives you have. In sysinstall, you can go to the index of functions and from there execute the start an emergency shell. That will start the emergency shell so you can do the manual mount on the other virtual terminal without

Re: searching archives broken?

2007-03-10 Thread Ed Zwart
Jon, where are you searching from? The link I gave in my initial question does not have the 'recent' limiter you mentioned. thanks e. On 3/10/07, Jon Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Zwart wrote: Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the archives at

The Best OS

2007-03-10 Thread Susanth K
Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C) FreeBSD Which

Re: The Best OS

2007-03-10 Thread Chris
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B)

Re: The Best OS

2007-03-10 Thread NetOps Center
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ? A) Debian Linux B) OpenBSD C)

Re: The MySQL Low Performance in FreeBSD

2007-03-10 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 3/10/07, Susanth K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai Every One, Do The Low Performance of MySQL on FreeBSD Still Exists ? ( in FreeBSD6.2 ) Please HELP SUSANTH K since FreeBSD 6.0 and using libthr instead of linuxthread, there is no low performance issues. Make sure you'll use MySQL 5.0.x

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-02-18 - 2007-03-10

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: The Best OS

2007-03-10 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 10, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ?

some advice on sysctl tuning

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, i have a Server which does mail, and web+mysql+php. I have about 15 vhosts in Apache. Are there some neat sysctl Knobs i can turn to avoid potential Problems? Thanks a lot, David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding the interface the driver isn't present (although it is

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Josh Carroll
So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). There are 7.0-CURRENT

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to be clear. kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, everything else on any CPU. This is incorrect for approximately the last 7 years (it is only true for FreeBSD 4.x and below). Kris hmm.. nice. ___

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Err, sure; and for completeness, be sure and send the IP back to this list, and publish it on the front page of your website/blog/whatnot. and what if i will? do you know my root password? OK, cynicism aside, why on earth would you want to do this? That's a fool's errand in today's

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very intelligent comments?

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd

Re: FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock and adjtimex?

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 10), Kelly Jones said: What are the FreeBSD equivalents of hwclock (view/set the BIOS hardware clock) and adjtimex (adjust clock speed)? I couldn't find these two well-known Linux commands in ports? FreeBSD sets the hardware clock whenever settimeofday() is called

Max CPUs in SMP

2007-03-10 Thread Susanth K
Which UNIX flavour supports the MAX CPS in SMP ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. once again - can someone answer my question instead of

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
alert tcp $TELNET_SERVERS 23 - $EXTERNAL_NET any (msg:TELNET root login; flow :from_server,established; content:login|3A| root; classtype:suspicious-login; sid:719; rev:7;) could you please tell me who will be snorting it on MY network? Of course, if you really want to do this, I agree with

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. That is a REALLY BAD idea. Why don't you just publish your address and set the root password to nothing. It's only going to take a cracker a couple of minutes or less to own your server once they find you (and they will). another

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. see /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change permitroot to yes ___

Re: Max CPUs in SMP

2007-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:01:31PM +0530, Susanth K wrote: Which UNIX flavour supports the MAX CPS in SMP ? This isn't really a meaningful question. Do you really have a system with e.g. 1024 CPUs that you need to run an OS on? If not, what hardware are you really asking about? Kris