Re: how do i find libphp4.so??

2007-02-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:42:45AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: What utility will find the shared lib: libphp4.so? In the apache httpd.conf from a couple weeks ago, the file was in /usr/local/libexec/apache/ and it just might be that if I

Re: Mac OS 9.2 won't start

2007-02-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Rick wrote: Hi Kris, I saw that you scolded someone for asking in the wrong place so I thought I'd ask you where I might ask the above question. Think you should read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD, and realize that although Kris may have ties with Mac OS 9, he doesn't

Re: interpreting top output (computing n% cpu usage in actual megahertz)

2007-02-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, My goal is to find out how much CPU a program consumes when I execute it. In the manual, it says I can toggle from raw cpu mode to weighted cpu. However, I can't still understand the difference between the two and how it has something to do with my goal.

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jason Morgan wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:52:27 -0500 Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in 2. a visual filemanager

Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server

2007-01-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Eric Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:10 AM Subject: FreeBSD Torrent Server I was wondering if the FreeBSD torrent server will be back online any time soon? Tryed to

Re: gcc compiler cputype, prescott or nocona confusion

2007-01-31 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jorn Argelo wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:40:38 +1100, Scott Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When recompiling the world or kernel in FreeBSD i386 Rel 6.1 with, # make buildworld or # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYSMPCONF (or building anything anything else for that matter), even though I

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chris wrote: Tore Lund wrote: Andreas Davour wrote: [snip] Is what I get when I try Google Video. YouTube works for video, but not sound. I wonder if that state kserel is what's troubling us? It's past midnight here, so I'll think about this thing tomorrow. I also get YouTube without sound.

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Davour wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote: Since I'm now using 6.2-PRERELEASE I guess it could be fixed in the final RELEASE, but it would be nice to know if someone can recognize _dlsym and say it is so. You need to

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:34:44AM -0800, Andrew Gould wrote: I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs

Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver Iberien wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:37 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to enable linux flash player in firefox To: FreeBSD Questions

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Campbell wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: ... Probably the most portable way to do this would be to use awk. A simple script, homedir, might look like this: #!/bin/sh # getting the backwhacks

Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Seaman wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, James Long wrote: Message: 24 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:22:44 -0800 From: Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME? To:

Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:37 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

Re: upgrading xfce4 fails

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Markus Hoenicka wrote: I'm having a hard time upgrading xfce4 on a FreeBSD 6.1 box. I've tried portupgrade first, but as it bumped into a boatload of errors I eventually had to resort to upgrade

Re: upgrading xfce4 fails

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Hoenicka wrote: Now that I managed to get it up and running, I fully agree with both of you :-) As expected :). There's one thing broken though: After the upgrade, panel plugins fail to display correct values. The battery monitor claims

Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:27:49PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: It's a pain in the ass that Adobe / Macromedia had to invent a technology that so many web developers sought, just because of its ease of developing; if only

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800 Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg -configure now puts: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work I have

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-25 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Huff wrote: RW writes: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 I think you only need the other two values on a

Re: nfs mount rw

2007-01-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Head wrote: Hi, I am trying to get write access on a nfs share. As far as I can tell by reading around, this should be the syntax in the exports file: /maptosharemachinetoshareto(rw) When I -HUP mountd though, it tells me that

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Kinsey wrote: Grzegorz Pluta wrote: Hi. Id like to asj you guys if you used any remote desktops with freebsd? Which client/server would you recommend, and why? Witch wich desktop env have you been using it? I use Xorg XFCE4 on my

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FreeBSD WickerBill wrote: On 1/24/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the replies guys! It was really helpful Cheers, Greg Kevin Kinsey wrote: Grzegorz Pluta wrote: Hi. Id like to asj you guys if you used any

Re: 'rc.d/squid stop'

2007-01-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something strange with server. I didn't send that old message any more! ? Something got stuck in a mail queue, perhaps.. As for what's happening with squid--try recompiling it and all of its dependencies under 6.2. Maybe

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:16:54PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Andrew Gould wrote

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: cd /dev; ls -l xpt* pass* da0 says? You do need pass and da compiled into the kernel with the right permissions in order to make stuff work with cameras AFAIK. -Garrett Here's the output: # ls -l xpt* pass* da0

Re: buildworld_6.2-release_error

2007-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oleg Palukhin wrote: `make buildworld` fails with this error: /usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_init.c:120: error: field `res_state_ext` has incomplete type /usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_init.c: In function `__res_init`: /usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_init.c:

boot0 Bootloader questions

2007-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2 questions: - -I remember seeing an option where you could show only a few slices at the bootloader, but I forget what command modifies that. Does anyone know what it might be? - -Is there any way to adjust the timeout for the bootloader? TIA, -

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: # DeviceMountpoint FStype OptionsDumpPass# /dev/da0s1b none

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: [snip] this is from a previous message in the thread: attempt: mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 try as root or su to root # mount_msdosfs

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: [snip] this is from a previous message in the thread: attempt: mount -tmsdos

Rebuilding kernel / world on another disk

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I kind of worked myself into a corner by only bringing a USB keyboard and accidentally making logins impossible via the network (bad firewall setup with IPFilter). Basically I have a disk with FreeBSD 7-CURRENT on it and I have a working machine

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Gould wrote: Background: The Olympus WS-310M digital voice recorder has a standard USB interface and uses flash memory to store sound files. Unfortunately, this device only records to WMA files. I was able to view the filesystem on my MacMini without

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Gould wrote: snip Nevermind.. didn't see the last line. What does your MacMini say when you mount the camera (Utilities - Disk Utility or Utilities - Terminal and type in mount and provide the output here)? -Garrett

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: The MacMini mounts the drive as soon as it sees it, and deletes the device as soon as I unmount it; so I can't test it that way. When I try to mount it while it's mounted, I get: mount_msdos /dev/disk1s1: resource

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Mohler wrote: Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance issue..but..its one spindle. / works. ? If there is a fundamental reason why we still

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Baer wrote: Hi folkes! Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD? Background: I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on it.

Re: Rebuilding kernel / world on another disk

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: Ok, I kind of worked myself into a corner by only bringing a USB keyboard and accidentally making logins impossible via the network (bad firewall setup with IPFilter). Basically I have a disk with FreeBSD 7-CURRENT

Re: Google talk with voice?

2007-01-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Micah wrote: Anyone know of a way to do voice chat with Google chat users? KDE's Kopete is supposed to support gtalk's voice chat, but I can't get it to work. Thanks, Micah Should be jabber. See: http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html for more info

Re: Launching a telnet session from a process

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/17/07, Kailas Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I launch a telnet session from a process and tell that session to use console port (/dev/console) for stdin and stdout?. Appreciate your help. I read through fork() and

Re: Reread rc.conf....

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Downey wrote: On 1/17/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I did some configs in my freebsd and realiza that i didnt have the inetd running. So i addesd inetd_enable=YES to rc.conf. Now im trying to reread the rc.conf to make the changes active

Re: Disable syslogd 514..

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Agus wrote: Hi doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.i am trying to disable it, but no luck i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.what do u recommend? to disable it or to leave it? I do not use the

Re: duo core question

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it?? i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be

Re: duo core question

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:35:45 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it?? np - you are assuming i have experience with them ;) you need to understand, it's like

Re: newbie permissions problems... what's wrong?

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Oliver Iberien wrote: I am logged in as oliver. I have two extra partitions mounted. Below is the section of devfs.conf that has to do with them: #Allow access to the second disk own /dev/ad1s2c oliver:wheel perm/dev/ad1s2c 0666 own /disk2

Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files... (question) (A) Would that mean to copy the

Re: (6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 it looks like Garrett Cooper composed: On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear

Re: Bridging console port to a telnet session

2007-01-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Kailas Ramasamy wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks a lot. This is what I was looking for. -Kailas On 1/17/07, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kailas Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hi Mike, I read through fork() and exec() man pages but I

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Bob McIsaac wrote: linux quest wrote: Dear Jay The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I

Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:36 AM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: linux quest wrote: Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to

Re: Install from CVS?

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there.

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:06:58AM +1100, Joe Arcaro wrote: Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother

Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:00 AM, linux quest wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers.

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. thans!! TFC Answer: depends on what you're doing. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What's with HDD?

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:56 AM, Bachilo Dmitry wrote: I keep getting g_vfs_done():ar0[READ(offset=200048066560, length=16384)]error = 5 I put this disk out of server and tested it with mhdd software - nothing. Put it back and still getting this string. I can't get what's wrong, everything

Re: What's the difference between atausb and umass?

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Zeng Nan wrote: Hi, As FreeBSD 6.2 is available now, I notice that a new feature is that ata driver can support usb mass transport by enable atausb in the kernel. I'd like to know if atausb has any advantages over traditional umass. Sometimes when I use external

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jay Chandler wrote: linux quest wrote: I have a problem with the DNS setting in FreeBSD. Every 1 hour, I will not be able to ping google.com (because I need to type in my ISP's DNS into /etc/resolv.conf) May I know what is the best solution for this, so that I do not have to type in my ISP's

Re: uname question after update

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Jay Chandler wrote: FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat Jan 13

Re: uname question after update

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:43:52AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: [...] Hmm.. that's a new 'feature'. Can that be disabled in any way? -Garrett That's not new, it's been around for more than a decade. You can `disable' it by cleaning out the kernel build directory

Re: uname question after update

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: The number of times you have rebuilt the kernel. (This number gets reset when the OS version gets bumped, I believe.) ---Chuck Hmm.. that's a new 'feature'. Can that be disabled in any way? This feature, whatever you

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild. NO-MMX, NO-SSE?

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, Yesterday I rebuit FreeBSD 6.2 using CPUTYPE=pentium4 and the classic procedure described in the manual. The machine (Inspiron 9400) is fast but I saw at certain moments something like NO-MMX, NO-SSE (some flags or variables) during the compilation process. I

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild the system with CPUTYPE=prescott?

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
John Nielsen wrote: On Monday 15 January 2007 14:42, Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, Let me present myself: - I am an advanced user of Gentoo Linux. I know quiet a lot about that system and about how to optimize it to fit the hardware the best possible way. - I am a casual FreeBSD user. I like

Re: FreeBSD 6.2, rebuild. 'i386-undermydesk-freebsd'?

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Daniel Tourde wrote: Hello, I have been rebuilding FreeBSD6.2 yesterday and I noticed a strange flag: -DTARGET='i386-undermydesk-freebsd' or something like this. What is this? I have set CPUTYPE=pentium4. I had expected something like -DTARGET='i386-pc-freebsd' or something like this. Any

Re: Console and Shell

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Kailas Ramasamy wrote: Hi, I would like to understand how the shell is tied to the console port. When an user connects a terminal to the system via console port, a shell is started and tied to the console port (/dev/console ?). Can some someone explain how

Re: Console and Shell

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Kailas Ramasamy wrote: Hi, I would like to understand how the shell is tied to the console port. When an user connects a terminal to the system via console port, a shell is started and tied to the console

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:32 AM, linux quest wrote: Dear Jay, Thanks. That is exactly what I mean (sorry not explaining it properly). My network is DHCP enabled. When the lease expired, the resolver is also cleared out. Any ideas how I can configure a static DNS IP? Here is what I think

Re: let somebody watch my actions over the network

2007-01-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kbtrace wrote: Maybe watch(8) will help you, and lastcomm(1) is also helpful. Dino Vliet 写道: Hi peeps, I have this question about administering a freebsd box through ssh. I am helping a friend of mine configuring his freebsd 6.1 system. But

Re: advice on compiling a new kernel upgrading to the latest sources

2007-01-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2007 15:44, kbtrace wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-01-14 11:56, Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't

Re: Sound Card Problem

2007-01-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derrick Edwards wrote: All, I upgraded to the lastest version of RELENG_6 and now my onboard sound does not work. It worked on earlier versions of RELENG_6(3 Months Ago). Did something change that I should be aware of. I rebuilt system

Re: What to write in a secure hosts.allow file? Please advise

2007-01-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: snip Uhm... a) Why did you include the example file? b) Didn't you understand the examples? I think you need to sit down with a Unix book and figure out what's going on.. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

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

2007-01-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: Thanks Reko Just couple of more questions... On 1/12/07, Reko Turja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January

Re: who's using that port?

2007-01-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael P. Soulier wrote: I came home tonight to find my server with a full /var partition due to httpd-error.log being very full of error messages. I cleaned it up, and restarted apache to find that it wouldn't bind to ports 80 and 443 as they

Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their boxes with any beta versions of FBSD. I am having loads of issues transferring large files (~300MB apiece) or issues transferring a large number of smaller files (3MB ~ 10MB apiece) from a FBSD 6.1 client to a FBSD 6.1

Firewalls and RPC (was Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?))

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their boxes with any beta versions of FBSD. It is typically not useful to implement firewall rules between NFS servers and legitimate NFS clients

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?))

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: Actually, no. While rpcbind/portmap/portmapper is assigned to 111/tcp udp, most other RPC services get assigned high port numbers in the 327xx range, but that varies considerably from platform to platform. True. NFS is port

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?))

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: snip You really don't want to mix machines which are trusted with machines which are not trusted on the same subnet. If you can't control which client machines get which IPs, you pretty much cannot use firewall rules to

Re: /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for /etc/make.conf for the following machine: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-class CPU)

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: Hi How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Depends on a number of different factors. For example: 1. What you're running. 2. The number of users who have access to the machine. 3. The data being held. 4. How

Re: How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: Hello Friends How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User? Define/clarify the question made above. There are many ways that a system can be affected by a bad user :). - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are ru nning?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: Hallo there How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running? Read man ps. sockstat and netstat are good items to use as well if your daemons are network dependent. - -Garrett -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:21, Jonathan Horne wrote: i am finally looking at make.conf and how editing it could improve my system(s). 1) does specifying a cpu architecture really help? It depends, but generally: yes.

Re: Process List Security??

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: Hi Can some good one at security side look into these running process? And see if there is a Process some is dangerous/ security breach which a Bad User has put? Thanks $ ps xa PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 ?? WLs

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 1/10/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gentlmen, thank you for these answers, i think ill find them useful. i did a some much needed reading into the names of the pentium processors, and apparently my p4-540 is a Prescott, and my xeon is a Prestonia. i

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:17:21AM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or apache? Crap, I can't find the article where Intel was comparing the Opterons to the Xeons that I was reading last night. It mentioned what the Intel guys used for GCC

Re: make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 1/10/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: Mine is EMT64, but I use i386. Could you please tell me why P4 would be better for MySQL server or apache? Crap, I can't find the article where Intel was comparing the Opterons

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:54:11PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know about some of the items, but... -Flash support with Mozilla products is being done through

Re: java plugin for firefox

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eoghan wrote: Hi Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working for firefox? Im running 6.1 on amd. I have installed: diablo-jdk-5.0 diablo-jre1.5.0 linux-blackdown-jre1.1.8 linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 when i try to access a java

Porting Acrobat 9 to FBSD Mozilla / Opera and OT: installer promotion (was Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?)

2007-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:32:41PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Scott and Nikolas, I'll try to get the linuxplugin-wrapper port to work with Flash9 for Linux and then I'll submit the change upstream to the maintainer. I

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2007-01-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Taharni Duggan wrote: how do i host custom game on warcraft 3 You aren't on the same subnet as your other machine. You need to configure your network for all machines properly. BTW, this isn't a warcraft 3 support group and your information you

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions

Re: pwgen's seeding looks insecure

2007-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:53 AM, RW wrote: Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I don't like the look of its PRNG initialization: #ifdef RAND48 srand48((time(0)9) ^ (getpgrp()15) ^ (getpid()) ^ (time(0)

Re: pwgen's seeding looks insecure

2007-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 08), RW said: Someone recently recommended sysutils/pwgen for generating user passwords. Out of curiosity I had a look at how it works, and I don't like the look of its PRNG initialization: #ifdef RAND48

Re: pwgen's seeding looks insecure

2007-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 08), Garrett Cooper said: On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: Even better: make RANDOM() call random() instead of rand(), and initialize the rng with srandomdev(). Another random password generator is in security/apg, and that one

Re: pwgen's seeding looks insecure

2007-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 08), Garrett Cooper said: On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: Even better: make RANDOM() call random() instead of rand(), and initialize the rng with srandomdev(). Another random password generator

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: I have a curious problem. I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid so they can run it. A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they need is execute permission. So what is

Re: Nvidia Problems

2007-01-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derrick Edwards wrote: Hi, I cant seem to get my new nvidia card to dispaly the correct resolution. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see these entries. My max resolution is 1600x1050 but it is not letting me use it. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No

Re: stopping my server from spamming

2007-01-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: I have been blacklisted for spamming and I am attempting to ascertain the source. I have a few networked windows boxes which route through a FBSD server. I also have around ten off-site users who sendmail via port 26 -

Getting the scrollwheel to work under Xorg for a Wireless Intellmouse Explorer 2.0

2007-01-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this is in the FAQ, but each mouse is different and requires its own 'massaging' in the xorg.conf file to get working. A picture of the mouse is available as follows:

[SOLVED] Re: Getting the scrollwheel to work under Xorg for a Wireless Intellmouse Explorer 2.0

2007-01-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: A picture of the mouse is available as follows: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/oempartners/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=013 I think I have the wired version, and my xorg.conf has

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bobmc wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Peter aka SweetPete [1][EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I used to be on this mailing list several years ago, and have recently rejoined.

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