Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. Root is special because it has

NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-11 Thread Eitan Adler
Running freeBSD 8.0-RELEASE I got NTOS: timer 0xc4817a08 timer fired even though canceled from http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c?v=FREEBSD8 /* * This should never happen, but complain * if it does. */ if

Superfluous ACK and RST packets after terminating connection

2010-02-11 Thread n j
Hi all, I was debugging some problems with an application and noticed some strange behavior that I can only attribute to possible problems in TCP/IP stack which OTOH I consider unlikely. I'd appreciate any pointers towards why are there extra packets? - in case of successful connection:

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two MAC addresses: 00:17:e0:4f:b9:c0 to

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address change. They deny this, plus I find the two

Re: yikes! MAC address of default gateway changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
Hi: Please reply-all ; I am not subscribed On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Vince Hoffman wrote: On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 12:22, James Smallacombe wrote: It's not 'arp -s' that is used to change the MAC address on an interface, but ifconfig(8) -- something like this: # ifconfig re0 ether 00:17:e0:4f:b9:c0 See my second post. I screwed up in my first post. It wasn't the MAC address of my NIC

Re: yikes! MAC address of default gateway changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2010 14:28, James Smallacombe wrote: If it was caused by a malicious arp command on my server, wouldn't a reboot have gotten rid of it? Would it also result in a NO CARRIER on the interface? Network did not come back until the Ethernet card was swapped. The bottom line is whether

Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the file

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F,

Jailcfg - A new tool for creating small(!) jails

2010-02-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
Hi! I've just began scripting a small tool for creating jails, much like ezjail. But instead of creating a own basejail, jailcfg mounts /bin, /lib, /usr/bin, etc. from root. And this means that the footprint of one of my jails is just about 3MB :) The script is in very early stages, but it's a

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 15:39, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a

python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Adam Vande More
Sometimes you have need to backup installed packages. I realize most port management tools do this automatically, but if you're on a system with a lot of packages installed and one port management tool fails and you use another to fix it, /usr/ports/packages can become jumbled. Anyways, I've

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 15:39, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-11 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 2/11/10, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: Running freeBSD 8.0-RELEASE I got NTOS: timer 0xc4817a08 timer fired even though canceled from http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/compat/ndis/subr_ntoskrnl.c?v=FREEBSD8 /* * This should never happen, but complain

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another username that is UID zero. The name toor is actually already there as an example of how to do that, but it is disabled because

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-11 Thread J65nko
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: J65nko writes: IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all. See the FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall guide at http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538        This looks

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another username that is UID zero. The name toor is actually

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:00 +, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@black-earth.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 05:23, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only because it's read-only. You could mount a FFS image read-only

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:15:12 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes you have need to backup installed packages. I realize most port management tools do this automatically, but if you're on a system with a lot of packages installed and one port management tool fails and

Re: HELP! Is that possible creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 2/11/10, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 2/11/10, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Lin Taosheng writes: Is that possible to implementated? Yes, use vipw to edit the password file. Add another

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-11 Thread Eitan Adler
What miniport driver, what arch, how to reproduce it? a) no idea b) Sorry for leaving that out: 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 c) Boot the computer and watch tty0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-11 Thread Steve Franks
HAL DBUS are evil bloated hogs.  mount always worked fine for me. (Mount?)  Of course dbus and hal aren't required. Right. I'm saying mount works fine. I didn't need a large, buggy replacement for it with a million dependencies, just to look at the contents of my usb drives, although the

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only because it's read-only. You could

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Steve Franks wrote: AllowEmptyInput bad, AutoAddDevices good. Whatever. Just trying to be helpful. AllowEmptyInput still works on my boxes, so I was passing the secret knowledge. The handbook does oft lag reality. AEI is still there, but gets misused and causes

gv(kernel|X)

2010-02-11 Thread Chuck Bacon
I'm running, to quote uname -a: FreeBSD tomato.local 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #1: Fri Jan 22 19:50:14 EST 2010 r...@tomato.local:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/TOMATO amd64 on an ASUS M4A785-M motherboard with an AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor. The following symptoms of ill behavior

Re: gv(kernel|X)

2010-02-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:13:29 -0500 (EST), Chuck Bacon c...@cape.com wrote: kernel or perhaps X, is next: From an xterm, I typed ctrl-alt-F1 to look at something. Upon return to the xterm by alt-F9, I discover 0~ as if I'd typed it in, which wasn't there before. cat|od -c reveals it's (to

ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread GLADtr GLADtr
Hello my friends! Help me please with its problem. I`m don`t understood what it is problem... *mx# uname -a* FreeBSD mx.taricat.ru 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 25 09:28:38 UTC 2010 r...@mx.taricat.ru:/usr/obj/ usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 mx# *mx# ping 127.0.0.1* PING 127.0.0.1

Re: Link to File for JDK16 tzupdater-1_3_21-2009p.zip

2010-02-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 19.01.2010 Diego Montalvo dmonta...@gmail.com napisał/a: Been trying to install /usr/ports/java/jdk16 and get an error stating need to place tzupdater-1_3_21-2009p.zip into /usr/ports/distfiles... have gone to sun and file is no longer there, and have searched internet for it but to no

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-11 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 9 February 2010 15:59, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user mode, and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user mode, and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It is all covered in the handbook. If you don't have physical access, I think you may be out of luck... May be out of luck? I

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-11 Thread xSAPPYx
Using a phoronix link as an example, ext4 still has some pretty bad data loss bugs: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzk0OA imo: data security of ufs speed of ext4 ymmv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Jailcfg - A new tool for creating small(!) jails

2010-02-11 Thread Aiza
Christer Solskogen wrote: Hi! I've just began scripting a small tool for creating jails, much like ezjail. But instead of creating a own basejail, jailcfg mounts /bin, /lib, /usr/bin, etc. from root. And this means that the footprint of one of my jails is just about 3MB :) The script is in very

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: My own version groks an os.environ['EXTRA_PKG_CREATE_ARGS'] option too and inserts the extra options before the [-b, package] arguments of pkg_create, so that I can run the script for example with: env

Re: python script to backup installed packages

2010-02-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own. I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it doesn't

rpm trashed my system with linux so's

2010-02-11 Thread Steve Franks
Yeah, I admit it, was really stupid of me to try. All those linux ports go willy-nilly running rpm's thru your system, so when linux-flash-plugin-f10 crashed after install, I just *had* to hunt down it's dependancies and try installing them. Main thing is that portupgrade -f gamin is *not*

Re: rpm trashed my system with linux so's

2010-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Steve Franks wrote: Main thing is that portupgrade -f gamin is *not* putting fresh bsd copies overtop the bad linux ones I stupidly installed, and anything with gtk is now useless (shared object 'libselinux.so.1 not found, required by libgio-2.0.so.0), which is

Re: ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
GLADtr GLADtr wrote: Hello my friends! Help me please with its problem. I`m don`t understood what it is problem... I doubt I do either, but I'll bite. *mx# uname -a* FreeBSD mx.taricat.ru 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 25 09:28:38 UTC 2010 r...@mx.taricat.ru:/usr/obj/

Re: openal-soft

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Zander
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 00:33, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: [openal-patch] There exists already a PR for this. If the committers are willing to commit it during the current ports freeze, it'll be in the ports tree soon. If not, don't worry. As soon as the ports freeze is over, there will

Re: Jailcfg - A new tool for creating small(!) jails

2010-02-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Your URL dont work Yes, it does :) But you need mercurial to get the source. But the project also have a homepage - http://code.google.com/p/jailcfg/ -- chs, ___