Re: System Crash + Firefox-3.5.7

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/01/2010 20:14, Jerry wrote: I have been experiencing one or two system crashes a day for over a week now. For no apparent reason, when starting Firefox, the system will freeze for approximately 10 seconds or so, then reboot. This does not

How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Jun Furukawa
Hi, For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). This is the part of the source code. #include sys/param.h/* module */ #include sys/module.h /* module */ #include sys/kernel.h /* module */ #include

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-02-01 Thread Bogdan Webb
try php's safe_mode but it is likely to keep the hackers off, indeed they can get in and snatch some data but they would be kept out of a shell's reach... but sometimes safe_mode is not enough... try considering Suhosin but the addon not the patch... and define the suhosin.executor.func.blacklist

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-02-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:39:49PM +0100, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, Glen! Glen Barber schrieb: 2.) What version of VirtualBox is this? virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 and above do not require procfs(5); lesser versions do. When I try to mount /proc via fstab and mount -u -a I get the

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-02-01 Thread Fbsd1
Bogdan Webb wrote: try php's safe_mode but it is likely to keep the hackers off, indeed they can get in and snatch some data but they would be kept out of a shell's reach... but sometimes safe_mode is not enough... try considering Suhosin but the addon not the patch... and define the

FTP using .netrc

2010-02-01 Thread Fbsd1
Goal is to download the install source directory tree so I can use it as an target for local ftp sysinstall. The problem is that the FreeBSD ftp server keeps timing out before everything is downloaded. This is the error message ftp gives me. 421 Service not available, remote server timed out.

Re: FTP using .netrc

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2010 10:11, Fbsd1 wrote: machine ftp.FreeBSD.org login anonymous password f...@home.com macdef init prompt off cd /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE epsv4 off mget ERRATA.HTM ERRATA.TXT HARDWARE.HTM HARDWARE.TXT README.HTM

Re: ssh/sshd cores dump

2010-02-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi again, I have this weird error since yesterday, one a system that used to be working nicely, suddenly: ssh cores dump when run as non priviledged user, works fine for root sshd aborts on signal 11 I tried to reinstall world, but it is the same. There is openssl installed from the

A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
On the page http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Syntax is shown as: language_name:accounts_title:\ :charset=MIME_charset:\ :lang=locale_name:\ :tc=default: If I look in the file on a newly installed 8.0-RELEASE it shows:

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2010 11:00, Leslie Jensen wrote: On the page http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Syntax is shown as: language_name:accounts_title:\ :charset=MIME_charset:\

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread b. f.
... Is it the colon or pipe sign that is correct? /Leslie The answer is clearly set forth in login.conf(5): Records in a class capabilities database consist of a number of colon- separated fields. The first entry for each record gives one or more names that a record is to be known

Re: devel/poco-ssl BROKEN. Can I use TRYBROKEN?

2010-02-01 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 03:09:26PM -0500, b. f. wrote: Hi, devel/poco-ssl has been marked BROKEN= bad plist for some time now. Since I urgently need it for devel work, and as I would prefer to use the port rather than compile POCO directly (which works too), I'm considering

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: On the page http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Syntax is shown as: language_name:accounts_title:\ :charset=MIME_charset:\

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-02-01 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Daniel! Daniel Bye schrieb: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:39:49PM +0100, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hi, Glen! Glen Barber schrieb: 2.) What version of VirtualBox is this? virtualbox-ose-3.1.2 and above do not require procfs(5); lesser versions do. When I try to mount /proc via fstab and mount

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:33:51AM +0100, Roland Smith typed: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:08:05PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote: o Some of the executables on this box are without source but I still need them to run; short of moving them to a VM and doing some voodoo, what are the

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-02-01 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: After trying this I still get the message: mount: procfs : Operation not supported And a mount -t procfs /proc/ The procfs(5) man page specifies the following: mount -t procfs proc /proc Regards, -- Glen Barber

Re: VirtualBox doesn't start

2010-02-01 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Glen1 Glen Barber schrieb: Hi Frank, Frank Wi?mann wrote: After trying this I still get the message: mount: procfs : Operation not supported And a mount -t procfs /proc/ The procfs(5) man page specifies the following: mount -t procfs proc /proc Once you make it right, it

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-02-01 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: # The GENERIC kernel in 8.0 comes with the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 option by default, so # the only thing you need to do is to install the misc/compat5x port. # # That is, if the executables weren't dependent on compat[2-4] options in the kernel on the old

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-02-01 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that

ATT substitute available on freebsd?

2010-02-01 Thread Jian Jun Wang
hi everybody, I am not quite technical on this, y'know, in windows, we have ATT software to access company intranet, not sure whether we have substitute here? I tried to figure out the ways to do that, no luck. I know on linux distribution they have agnclient. any ideas? thank you! -- TNT -

Re: ATT substitute available on freebsd?

2010-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/01/10 15:37, Jian Jun Wang wrote: hi everybody, I am not quite technical on this, y'know, in windows, we have ATT software to access company intranet, not sure whether we have substitute here? I tried to figure out the ways to do that, no luck. I know on linux distribution they have

Re: ATT substitute available on freebsd?

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 01), Ivan Voras said: On 02/01/10 15:37, Jian Jun Wang wrote: I am not quite technical on this, y'know, in windows, we have ATT software to access company intranet, not sure whether we have substitute here? I tried to figure out the ways to do that, no luck. I

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-02-01 Thread James Smallacombe
(please reply-all; I am not sub'd and sorry for the top posting): I have safe_mode off due to popular demand. So many customer apps demand that it be kept off. In fact, here is a post from one of the Zen people on the Zen-cart forum. In light of this exploit, this might be a little

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com writes: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root, after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is well

Re: ATT substitute available on freebsd?

2010-02-01 Thread Jian Jun Wang
thank you all for your help, I'd install virtualbox and try in XP. best regards On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 01), Ivan Voras said: On 02/01/10 15:37, Jian Jun Wang wrote: I am not quite technical on this, y'know, in

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-02-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 01/02/2010 5:34 π.μ., John wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system is 8.0-RELEASE and that package is installed,

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-02-01 Thread Bogdan Webb
Indeed it's pretty tricky with safe_mode, like for certain i know that a version of a popular r57 shell had safe_mode bypass - i was stunned to check the shell myself on my server... and i was thinking that safe_mode is enough... (+ i was using the suhoshin patch *witch in fact does nothing

using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root, after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is well designed (honestly, no sarcasm here).

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root, after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is well designed (honestly, no

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 01), Nerius Landys said: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root, after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com writes: I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 i386, and even after I chmod 700 /root, after a reboot it goes back to permission 755. 1. What's the reason for this? There must be a good reason and I would like to know it. Everything in FreeBSD just makes sense and is well

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:22:22 +0200, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: My laptop has a led for wireless - It has never been used since I installed freeBSD on this laptop. I was wondering if there was a way I could figure out a) if freeBSD detects it b) a way to use it for something I'm

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED when the WLAN device is active? Might be - but I don't have windows so I

Re: FTP using .netrc

2010-02-01 Thread J65nko
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Goal is to download the install source directory tree so I can use it as an target for local ftp sysinstall. The problem is that the FreeBSD ftp server keeps timing out before everything is downloaded. This is the error

Using GPT partitions with gmirror

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Steele
Because we have large drives (2TB) we're switching to gpart to partition our disks. I had previously been using fdisk/bsdlabel and setting up specially configured partition tables that would work with gmirror. This involved faking the size of the c partition to make sure there was space for

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if FreeBSD will detect the pure LED, but as you mentioned that it is labelled wireless, it is in relation to the WLAN inside the laptop. Maybe there's a device driver functionality that activates the LED

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Eitan Adler
It is a Broadcom card and I need ndis to use it. I do not know if the light is attached to the wireless card though (it appears next to the power and charging lights) ndis0: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter mem 0xf470-0xf4703fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 bge0: Broadcom BCM5906 A2, ASIC rev.

Re: Using GPT partitions with gmirror

2010-02-01 Thread Pavel Greenberg
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:20:40 -0600, Peter Steele wrote Because we have large drives (2TB) we're switching to gpart to partition our disks. I had previously been using fdisk/bsdlabel and setting up specially configured partition tables that would work with gmirror. This involved faking the

How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I suppose, but much mroe secure for when people attack your wordpress etc.

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 1 February 2010 20:57, Jeff Mitchell skee...@skeleton.org wrote:        Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' ..        Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I

Shutdown

2010-02-01 Thread Jeff Molofee
I have completely lost the ability to shutdown/reboot/logout... I've found a few pages on this issue, and nothing seems to resolve the issue. I'm in wheel, operator groups, hal, dbus, gnome_enable all set... consolekit showing a token, proc mounted... and still nothing... what else could be

Re: Shutdown

2010-02-01 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Jeff Molofee wrote: I have completely lost the ability to shutdown/reboot/logout... I've found a few pages on this issue, and nothing seems to resolve the issue. I'm in wheel, operator groups, hal, dbus, gnome_enable all set... consolekit showing a token, proc mounted...

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. ... Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I suppose, but much mroe secure for when people

Re: How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jun Furukawa wrote: Hi, For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). [ big snip ] How can I solve this problem? Subscribe to freebsd-hackers@, and post your message there. Hopefully they can help. Steve ___

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Which Lenovo laptop model is it? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL:

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions? (FIXED!)

2010-02-01 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:35:22PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: John wrote: If this isn't the right list - if I should try another let me know - but since this is the mysql-server-5.4.2 package, and since you folks have been so helpful, I thought I'd give it a go. Anyway, the system

Re: Shutdown

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 February 2010 am 10:18:28 Jeff Molofee wrote: I have completely lost the ability to shutdown/reboot/logout... I've found a few pages on this issue, and nothing seems to resolve the issue. I'm in wheel, operator groups, hal, dbus, gnome_enable all set... consolekit showing a

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 February 2010 am 09:57:13 Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. it is just your work. As there is still only a single kernel running, there is no real difference. But you must maintain every jail as

fixing up port dependencies

2010-02-01 Thread John W
Hello all, I'm going through a round of port upgrades and came upon a dependency issue. I could probably muscle through and make it work, but I'd like to know what people see as a correct solution to this problem. I'm still in the process of grokking the nitty-gritty bits of ports. Here's the