FreeBSD box/ADSL link config

2007-06-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I am a bit confused as to what exactly I am trying to do - or that is how the protocols layers and stuff. My current setup is like this: 10.0.0/24 192.168.0/24 static IP Wireless ))--- AP --- FreeBSD -- DSL - Internet

Problem attaching ELI encrypted disk device

2007-06-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have an encrypted /home partition using ELI. Recently I changed password for the encrypted partition and now the following problem consistently occurs: At boot I am queried for a password for the ELI partition, I enter et correctly - six times - but it fails every time. After the

Solved: Problem attaching ELI encrypted disk device

2007-06-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: I have an encrypted /home partition using ELI. Recently I changed password for the encrypted partition The previous config used a key, changing the password I did not specify the key so it is no longer in use - duh! Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web

Problem building teTeX/cmpsfont

2007-05-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I updated my ports tree and started to reinstall all packages to update gettext and xorg. Now trying to install teTeX it fails with the following error: === Building for cmpsfont-1.0_6 (cd /usr/ports/print/cmpsfont/work/cmpsfont/pfb; /usr/local/bin/type1inst -nolog -quiet)

Re: NFS and apache...

2007-05-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Agus wrote: Hi all, I got the following scenario. Freebsd with Apache22 and NFS. I want to export the /usr/local/www/apache22/data/site so that the content of that site can be modified from my personal machine. The permissions on site/ are rwx for root and group webadm, and rx for others...

Re: Problem building teTeX/cmpsfont

2007-05-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:52:57PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I updated my ports tree and started to reinstall all packages to update gettext and xorg. Now trying to install teTeX it fails with the following error: === Building for cmpsfont-1.0_6 (cd /usr/ports

Problem with geli after changing password

2007-05-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I changed the password for my encrypted disk partition with the command # geli setkey /dev/ad0s2d On boot I am requested to enter the password but it doesn't work. After failed attempts it falls back to single user mode. From there, I /CAN/ attach the partition and mount it. What has

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. Since I am a new be to FreeBSD , let me requset you to share your expertise

building packages for dependencies

2007-05-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: When I do a # make install package I only get a package built for the port in question, not for dependencies. How do I make packages of all dependencies too? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: Updating all ports

2007-05-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jack Barnett wrote: For /usr/ports I sync to just '.' (dot). Is that what I want? (I want just 'stable' ports, nothing bleeding edge). for /usr/src I sync to: RELENG_6 But my question, is there a way to go though and say let's rebuild any port that is newer (via sync) then one I current

Re: Future development of xorg port

2007-05-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
P.U.Kruppa wrote: Hi, since now we all did/are doing our monster xorg port upgrade, I wonder how the future development of xorg is planned. - Will we permanently receive small upgrades of xorg modules by tracking -STABLE ? - Will there be kind of an xorg-devel port? - Or do we wait for

Re: xorg meta-port

2007-05-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 5/20/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, just cvsup the new port tree and get ready to upgrade xorg, while reading the 'UPDATE', it caught my eyes that it mentioned better have xorg meta-port installed. I checked my installation and these are what i

Re: Xorg 7.2.0 Release

2007-05-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Joseph Marah wrote: Does anyone know if this is available for FreeBSD as a port? Thanks. Work in progress, a version is ready for testing, see this thread and others in the ports-list archive: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040680.html This is the first mention

Re: Xorg 7.2.0 Release

2007-05-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Joseph Marah wrote: Does anyone know if this is available for FreeBSD as a port? Thanks. I have just received a message on the ports list that xorg 7.2 has been merged into the ports tree: As you may already know, the X11 team has been working hard for the past few months to upgrade X.org

Re: Spaces in SSID in /etc/rc.conf

2007-05-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I got a low key server who is wirelessly connected to the net using an SSID that contains a space. In rc.conf I define the ifconfig line for configuration of my wireless interface upon bootup, but the entire line reads something like ifconfig_ath0=' inet

Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Simon Castillo wrote: Hi all: I installed Freebsd ver 6.2 couple months ago in a Pentium III computer. I configured samba, gnome and couple other applications. Couple days ago I decided to update the ports. For this I use portmanager -u -l (after updating the port list). Up to know, I

Re: Large scale NAT

2007-05-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Todor Dragnev wrote: Hello list, I have about 4000 users behind NAT. I use ipnat(ipf) on single freebsd box( v6.2) to translate RFC1918 ip addresses to real one. All works fine, but my CPU usage is very high and router starts to drop packets and sometimes freeze. I fix

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: Hi, I subscribe to many fbsd lists through gmail, and am not able to visually detect which email was sent to which fbsd list. Is it possible to add a tag in the subject line, something like, [fbsd-q], or [fbsd-questions], or similar so that emails

Re: Thunderbird 2.0

2007-04-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:12:06 -0700, FreeBSD WickerBill wrote: I portupgraded thunderbird today (6.1 p11, KDE 3.5.6_2) and while it's semi-functional, it does seg fault as it checks the pop server. ... These problems were fixed by uninstalling

Re: NFS without rpcbind?

2007-04-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Dan Casey wrote: It was my understanding that NFS worked off of RPC. I accidently stumbled upon some redhat docs that said you use TCP based NFS which will not require rpc? I think this is an NFSv4 feature, but I'm not sure. I would like to achieve this using FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD pxe

2007-04-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Eddie Chen wrote: I am in the process of setting up a FreeBSD pxe server using the the instructions from http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html, and in step 3 (bootstrap setup), the links to kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floopy images are currently dead.

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

2007-04-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Angelin Lalev wrote: Hi List, My e-mail server is running the latest spamassassin with all of the blacklist enabled and etc. but I still receive over 20 spam messages a day (image spam mostly). The situation with other users may be worse. That's why I was thinking about some tool that

Re: When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released

2007-03-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released ? Check: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Appears the release process is set to start in june. What is not yet clear is if RELENG_7 has been branched off yet so we should all update our supfile? I suppose this

insufficient resources for HD video

2007-02-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I recently posted asking about mpeg2-ts, I got a reference to a mpeg2-ts that plays fine. It appears that the problem is not playing ts but rather resolution, or something: With mplayer I get an error X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major

Re: How to play MPEG2-TS

2007-02-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Marc Fonvieille wrote: Weird cause the default vlc plays fine all TS, as example it's used in France to play TS streams from ADSL TVs. But vlc crashed, for me, when I treid to play files with a filename using non-iso8859-1 chars and spaces. Can you point me to a mpeg2-ts that you can play so

How to play MPEG2-TS

2007-02-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: How do I play mpeg2 transport stream video? I have tried with vlc, ffplay and mplayer and all dumps. The video shows fine on Windows with mplayer, what libraries or options do I need to set to enable mpeg2-ts on FreeBSD? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web:

Re: Making thin client server

2007-02-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: I have a EPATech eTC thin client it is build on a Vortex86 processor. I tried with a 6.1 relase in order PXE boot the thin client and it fails. Is it possible to build an older relase like 5.3 on a 6.1 relase and use it for the thin clients, to boot from? Yes,

Re: Big problems with PF on freeBSD 6.2

2007-02-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tim T Bos wrote: Hi Erik, I used a GENERIC kernel as well as a custom kernel. Both have the same behavior. I even tried a default install without any extra boot options. ON FreeBSD 5.5 i didn't have this problem. I'm going to try to log all actions. I must do something seriously wrong.

Re: Big problems with PF on freeBSD 6.2

2007-02-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tim T Bos wrote: Hi Guys, I have a problem with PF. Normally when I load pf.ko it uses deny all as default. But if i compile it in the kernel or load it as a module both it won't work. If a have only one rule block all or block all on ext_if I can still go on the internet and if I portscan my

Passive fingerprinting howto

2007-02-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I know that packet filter can use passive fingerprinting to block or pass traffic, but I'd like to use it to identify what crapware is on my network. Can snort do this or is there some other tool that can sniff traffic and identify the connected systems? Thanks, Erik -- Ph:

Solved: Negation in tables for packet filter

2007-02-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: I want to create two tables in my packet filter, the first should match any valid public ip, so I created a table negating anything reserved: table internet const { !0/8 !10/8 !127/8 !169.254/16 !172.16/12 \ !192.0.2/24 !192.168/16 !198.18/15 !224/4

Re: temporary IP addition to firewall rules

2007-02-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Noah wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Noah wrote: the servers and clients are not on the same LAN segment. capturing MAC has nothing to do with this scenario. You haven't exactly told a lot about the network you want to setup. The logic thing is to authenticate against the firewall connected

SOT: How to install non-standard LaTeX fonts

2007-02-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I know this may be slightly off topic, but I see many non-standard latex fonts (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/) not included in ports, that I'd like to use, for example those distributed with the emerald package. Now, I have two problems: - The documentation seems to apply to all

Re: temporary IP addition to firewall rules

2007-02-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Noah wrote: Does anybody have a recommendation for a program out there that would allow somebody to enter an account and password on my website, their IP address is cached, and the cached IP address is added temporarily to the firewall ruleset to be allowed. I am not aware of anything that

Re: temporary IP addition to firewall rules

2007-02-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Noah wrote: the servers and clients are not on the same LAN segment. capturing MAC has nothing to do with this scenario. You haven't exactly told a lot about the network you want to setup. The logic thing is to authenticate against the firewall connected to the same subnet - and that will

Re: Negation in tables for packet filter

2007-01-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
I got this response off-list: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: table internet const { !0/8 !10/8 !127/8 !169.254/16 !172.16/12 \ !192.0.2/24 !192.168/16 !198.18/15 !224/4 !240/4 } Think about it; this matches *everything*. All possible

Negation in tables for packet filter

2007-01-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I want to create two tables in my packet filter, the first should match any valid public ip, so I created a table negating anything reserved: table internet const { !0/8 !10/8 !127/8 !169.254/16 !172.16/12 \ !192.0.2/24 !192.168/16 !198.18/15 !224/4 !240/4 } So with

Re: freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install

2007-01-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Kostick III wrote: Hello, I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. But when I put in the NFS path to the

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 20:41, Erik Norgaard wrote: I see the new flash9 for linux has been included in ports, so I installed it - but how do I enable the plugin in Firefox? Does it work or does it crash? Basically, it works with linux-firefox and you can get sound

how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi there: I see the new flash9 for linux has been included in ports, so I installed it - but how do I enable the plugin in Firefox? Does it work or does it crash? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
VeeJay wrote: I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more secure? Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for bbs-83-179.189.218.on-nets.com [218.189.179.83] failed -

How to create torrent files?

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: Which tools are available for creating torrent files? I am looking for a commandline tool or a perl module that would permit creating a torrent file like this $ maketorrent -t tracker -o file.torrent path But it seems only py-torrent provides a tool and it's GUI based. Thanks, Erik --

Re: How safe is encrypted disks? (data integrity)

2006-12-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Fabian Keil wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been thinking to make /home on my laptop encrypted - seems like a good idea if it gets stolen. Now, how safe is this? Not in terms of the strength of the encryption algorithm, but in terms of integrity. I have no insight

Re: periodic passwd change?

2006-12-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:57:22PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put the following line in the root's crontab: 2 2 2 * * pw usermod

Re: periodic passwd change?

2006-12-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I can't see how to prescribe periodic passwd change, only how to set expiry time. At the moment I put the following line in the root's crontab: 2 2 2 * * pw usermod shterenl -p `date '+\%d-\%m-\%Y'` This makes a user's passwd expire once a month. Is there a

Which live CD for recovery

2006-12-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: Which live CD is recommended for recovery? What I'd like is to have as many disk analysis tools at hand just in case. The case is that I am not recovering a FBSD system but Windows XP (*sigh*). After trying to help a friend clean her pc for virus it won't boot, even in safe mode...

Re: Which live CD for recovery

2006-12-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
David Robillard wrote: So, I need to recover data to some other machine, and then see if I can recover the system file without a full reinstall. Do you have a USB drive? Can you mount it on the crippled Windows Box? If so, then I would suggest that you backup the user's data, format the

Changing password for GELI encrypted diskpartitions

2006-12-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: The man page doesn't seem to say anything about this: How do you change the pass phrase for an encrypted partition (geli)? (I found that on boot the password must be entered with US keyboard layout and suddenly I couldn't figure out how to type it. Problem is solved, no data lost I just

ACPI: Standby, sleep, suspend and resume

2006-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have the following sysctl parameters: hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S3 S4 S5 hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5 hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S3 hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3 hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 1 First, I'd like that the screen is

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard -

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

2006-11-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Leo L. Schwab wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:16:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1876 But I rather thought

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

2006-11-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: One other noise reduction method which is really easy to implement is to use pf and write arule set

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

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: 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

Testing firewire

2006-11-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I'd like to know if my firewire interface works before I set out to buy some miniDV - I have no devices to attach, or so I thought, I have two notebooks with firewire interfaces. So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary

Re: Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
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 installed? It looks possible, but (to me

Re: Is the vulnerability database up to date?

2006-11-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Josh Carroll wrote: So - what's the point? I mean updating the port to a newer port with the same or newer known vulnerabilities? # portaudit 0 problem(s) in your installed packages found. # pkg_info| grep firefox firefox-2.0_2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla Seems

Java plugin for Firefox

2006-11-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: How do I build the java plugin for Firefox? I have jdk15 installed without the plugin. I tried to rebuild with USE_GECKO=firefox which fails as the Makefile also states: /usr/local/include/firefox/nsDebug.h:207:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

Is the vulnerability database up to date?

2006-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I updated my ports tree a few days ago, and again today (right now). The firefox port was updated. I then updated the vulnerability database - or so I thought with portaudit. But building firefox complain about remaining vulnerabilities. So - what's the point? I mean updating the port

Re: Intel 965P (USB issues) and FreeBSD 6.2-PRE

2006-10-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Torbjoern Haarstad Orskaug wrote: Hi, I recently bought a new computer with a Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a MSI P965 Neo motherboard. When I boot FreeBSD with the USB controller disabled from BIOS, everything runs smooth as ever. However, when I enable the controller the kernel panics with:

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Also this means that later filtering on the first Received field is double work: You already accepted the mail based on that information. In short: Writing header filtering rules for the Received field is simply waste of time and proof of inefficiency. I agree with

Re: LDAP home directories

2006-10-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chandler, Jay wrote: Does anyone have a way to do home directory mapping through LDAP? We've got user directories mounted via NFS to /usr/users and would like to be able to type in cd ~ted and go to Ted's home directory, perhaps in /usr/users/students/ted. nss_ldap allows you to map an LDAP

Re: Routing with external interface doesn't work after a while

2006-10-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Martin Turgeon wrote: I've been reading the mailing list for a while, but it's my first post. I'm not sure what is causing the problem so I'm posting to multiple lists. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on a Celeron 2.8GHz with 512Mo of RAM. It looks likes after a while (a couple of weeks) the routing

Re: Routing with external interface doesn't work after a while

2006-10-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Martin Turgeon wrote: I've been reading the mailing list for a while, but it's my first post. I'm not sure what is causing the problem so I'm posting to multiple lists. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on a Celeron 2.8GHz with 512Mo of RAM. It looks likes after a while (a couple of weeks) the routing

Re: Routing with external interface doesn't work after a while

2006-10-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Martin Turgeon wrote: The NAT rules are already written that way: nat on $wan_if tag LAN_WAN_NAT tagged LAN_WAN - ($wan_if) nat on $wan_if tag WLS_WAN_NAT tagged WLS_WAN - ($wan_if) nat on $wan_if tag AP_WAN_NAT tagged AP_WAN - ($wan_if) nat on $wan_if tag VPN_WAN_NAT tagged VPN_WAN - ($wan_if)

Re: Routing with external interface doesn't work after a while

2006-10-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Martin Turgeon wrote: You're right on this, the filtering rules aren't written with the brackets. But isn't pf routing the packets to an interface instead of an IP address. I can't tell you if this affects your setup since I have't seen the ruleset. You're going to tag then nat and then

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Spammers cannot forge the Received header that your own mailserver puts into the received message. The first Received line of the message is always legitimate. Please read my reply to Ian, who commented exactly the same. The Recieved headers are useless for

Re: Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chris wrote: Can I deep six them, or, because they are now in the base, should I keep them for the integrity of the installation? I apologize that I can't test this myself, I don't have a non- production machine to play with just now. xorg-clients-6.9.0_3 X client programs and related files

Re: Deinstalling X-windows

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chris wrote: I really appreciate the responses, they answer what I asked but also another question I didn't ask, but was worrying about. We DO use ImageMagick and for the first time, I've installed it from ports. I didn't find any reference to WITHOUT_X11 in the man make.conf but immediately

Re: USB Mass Storage stopped working, help requested

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jim Stapleton wrote: It used to work on this machine, the kernel/world has not been recompiled/reinstalled since then. However, A USB drive that used to work (and still works in windows) no longer works in FreeBSD. When I plug in the drive, the /dev/da* devices do not show up. The system is

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english encoded in one of the above character sets, I don't know enough about the character set definition, but it seems that English characters are a subset of any character set? What is the recommended

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ian Smith wrote: Ted's talking about the _first_ Received header, see mine below. It's the only one you _can_ rely on, assuming your mailserver isn't lying to you. Subsequent headers, sure, all can be faked, trust noone .. :) Filtering on the Received header entries is waste of time: Only

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sunday October 15, 2006 at 03:21:37 (PM) Erik Norgaard wrote: Ian Smith wrote: [...] Maybe I didn't make clear how the filtering in Postfix works? Each header line is unwrapped and then filtered independent of the others. There is no info

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Ian Smith wrote: So the ideal you mention is not an option until a complete public list of authorized mail servers is available and all mail relayed through these requires authentication. That's the 'solution' the mega players appear to be proposing. And who

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Beech Rintoul wrote: I'm getting a ton of spam every day that comes from China, Japan and Korea. Spam Assassin completely ignores it because it has all non-english characters and slows kmail to a crawl loading. Is there a way to filter on non-english either using Spam Assassin or procmail?

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Hope you can advise me. I have a FreeBSD 6.1 stable system for which I want to build a custom kernel. However, I am scared to death (almost ;) and just want to make sure I have it done the right way. I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have in the past used supfile with ports-all option and couldn't build a custom kernel. Yesterday it dawned on me that I need sources for that, not ports. So I ran cvsup with src-all option. Now, I followed these steps: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # mkdir

Re: custom kernel, make buildkernel and then?

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: The target directory for the build is /usr/obj, so in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys you can see what kernels have been built. And it seems none have? For I get this when I do ls I can see only boot directory and no kernels

Re: dictionaries/spellchecking

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Michael S wrote: Good day all. I am trying to install additional dictionaries for spellcking in OpenOffice. Trying to do so using File - Wizards - Install new dictionaries yielded no results. Which is the correct way to do it? Check ports/editors/ooodict-all Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818

Re: dictionaries/spellchecking

2006-10-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Michael S wrote: Looks like the port is marked as IGNORE. portupgrade -NP editors/ooodict-all [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 298 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ** Port marked as IGNORE: editors/ooodict-all: is marked as broken: Size mismatch If it's just a

Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users

2006-10-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Niek Dekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new user is created in /var/mail. As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. And none of those

IRQ conflicts on USB controlers

2006-10-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have a problem with this buggy hardware (Sony VAIO, don't buy). Background: Booting with both acpi and apic enabled (if the system doesn't die with some fatal trap) the system grinds to a halt with 85% interrupt activity. Booting with apic disabled solves that problem, but then the

Re: cvsup and portupgrade

2006-10-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I am relatively new to FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD 6.1 stable release. I have enabled portaudit and as a result now get reports about known vulnarabilities. The problem I have encountered is this. I am trying to update php and python and do it by first refreshing the ports

Re: cvsup and portupgrade

2006-10-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: I just csup'ed my ports tree and ran make on python without any problem. portupgrade is a convenient tool but sometimes it fail for whatever reason, no idea in your case. I tried make as you suggest and: $ sudo make

Re: FreeBSD OpenSSL broken

2006-10-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hi, I have been seeing scp xfers failing mysteriously with a Corrupted MAC on input error. This occurred more or less sporadically but for huge files it was sure to occur. I suspected the ethernet card and got it changed. Next, I suspected RAM

Re: tracking a stolen laptop?

2006-10-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jonathan Nichols wrote: I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer. The

Re: Compatibility Between Releases Policy

2006-10-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jason C. Wells wrote: Where is the policy regarding compatibility between releases documented? I recall reading once upon a time that FreeBSD won't break compatibility for the duration of a major point release. If a third party wrote software for 6.0 it would be perfectly compatible with

Re: Compatibility Between Releases Policy

2006-10-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jason C. Wells wrote: Ports astonish me more often than FreeBSD to be sure. If one uses a port that was built on a 6.0 system, can one trust that no bit rot will occur by the time 6.9 rolls around. Will all of FreeBSDs interfaces and features remain backward compatible? While the developer

Re: Virtual Users sharing main account

2006-10-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
White Hat wrote: I doubt if this is possible; however, I thought I would inquire anyway. Assuming a domain name of 'company.com', we want to add a group of users who could send and receive mail using this domain name; however, we do not want to give them shell accounts. They would access the

Re: IP address impersonation

2006-09-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robin Becker wrote: 1) is this a recognized form of attack? I can see that it could be used for password harvesting and traffic interception, but are there other implications. ip spoofing is a well known attack. 2) Are there ways to mitigate this kind of problem? We have other hosted

Re: DHCP IP range + auto hostname

2006-09-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Nagy László wrote: Hello, I have a DHCP server with this config file: option domain-name cassiopeia.ronet; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; authoritative; log-facility local7; ddns-update-style none; subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Matthew Seaman wrote: On the other hand, the duplicates could be the result of people deliberately trying to frig the statistics or just innocently running the 300.statistics script manually several times. In either case, entries with duplicate tokens should be discarded -- I guess you'ld

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 17:04:39 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use rsync to do this, but It'd probably be easier to get your remote rsync to drop the files in the right directory in the first place. Hmmm...maybe I don't fully understand

Re: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.

2006-09-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jim Borland wrote: I want to use a PC to telnet to the freeBSD server and login as root but it won't let me! Can you help? I can login as a normal user just not as root, I can't key in su to get in as superuser either. 1) Don't use telnet, use ssh, for security. 2) Are you in the wheel group?

Re: freebsd version?

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
azhar freebsd wrote: uname -a FreeBSD belagelo.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Sep 24 16:53:30 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank u for your reply . is there any way to get back the normal freebsd version . i am

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Problem

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Warren Liddell wrote: Im running FreeBSD 7.0-Current fresh install, upgraded from 6-STABLE portupgrade and world worked fine .. then today after a cvsup .. portupgrade errors with Segmentation fault (core dumped) Anyone got any ideas as to why ? in which order did you world/portupgrade? if

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've

Re: problem installing on i386

2006-09-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Desmond Coughlan wrote: Hi, I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question hasn't already been answered. I'm trying to install 6.1-RELEASE onto a Pentium-3. I had a lot of trouble creating the diskettes, but after changing the floppy drive, no problem.

Re: problem installing on i386

2006-09-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Don't create a separate /bin and /etc partition, there is no need, and 512M is far sufficient for both /, /etc and /bin. I would guess the problem is that when you boot / is mounted, but no rc script is found as it is in /etc, as well as the fstab with info on what

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