Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-09 Thread James Harrison
Hi Matt, I know there's not much I can do about the brute force attacks, but will upgrading openssh avoid these stuck connections? 1. switch over to using solely RSA keys 2. switch to a non-standard port 3. what version of openssh are you currently using? Best

Re: mrtg broken dependency

2009-12-31 Thread James Harrison
On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:22 AM 12/30/09, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Hello... mrtg (net-mgmt/mrtg) misses a dependency on perl module=== p5-SNMP_Session in the Makefile: RUN_DEPENDS+= ${SITE_PERL}/SNMP_util.pm: ${PORTSDIR}/net-mgmt/p5-SNMP_Session fix the problem what

Re: Failed port upgrade

2009-12-31 Thread James Harrison
On Dec 25, 2009, at 8:48 PM 12/25/09, Rem P Roberti wrote: When running portupgrade the process is choking when it comes to consolekit. Here is the error message: gmake[2]: *** [libgirepository_1_0_la-gfield.lo] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: desktop wireless card

2008-08-15 Thread James Harrison
gahn wrote: Hello: Could anyone recommend a desktop wireless card for freebsd 6.2? Just moved in new place and only wireless in the house. Thanks in advance I use whatever was the cheapest linksys wireless G card I could find; plugs in to PCI slot and works wonderfully.

Re: Distcc + cross compiling

2008-03-25 Thread James Harrison
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 07:17 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD x86 server, running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, I'd like to create a new jail with distcc and gcc to help my laptop compiling gentoo x86 stuff, I'm using GCC 4.2.3 on my laptop... is it possible to use FreeBSD for

Re: I'd like some help

2008-03-24 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 18:03 +0100, Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Windows, I can really recommend the freeware burner program CDBurnerXP: http://cdburnerxp.se/ Christian Zachariasen On Windows XP, I usuall recommend infrarecorder: http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ It's a nice FOSS

Re: pam problems

2008-03-13 Thread James Harrison
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-September/159008.html That cover you? On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:36 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My messages file is getting completely blasted by error lines like this: Mar 13 11:16:03

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-21 Thread James Harrison
8. Most extensive collection of third party software (over 18000 ) only second to Debian. Looking back at it, I'm surprised I didn't mention that. Gentoo has over 24 thousand ebuilds, where an ebuild is their equivalent of a port: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebuild

Re: Ports question

2008-02-20 Thread James Harrison
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 12:02 -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking to install a CMS system (something like postnuke) and want to have a blog component. Anybody have any recommendations ? If it is in the ports, it would be even better. thanks, Darryl I've been using git a

Re: This has begun to annoy me...

2008-02-01 Thread James Harrison
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:37 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have a laptop doing same thing, but even with the occasional spontaneous reboot, it is still more reliable than Windows, and as I haven't had time to mess with it, it stays in there. Probably will run dban on the drive, see if it

Re: wpa_supplicant not starting with /etc/rc.d/netif

2008-02-01 Thread James Harrison
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 00:32 +0200, Reinis Ivanovs wrote: Hello, I have been following these instructions from the manual: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html#NETWORK-WIRELESS-WPA-WPA-PSK However, in the step that requires me to run /etc/rc.d/netif

Re: ftp setup - giotissl - ASAP - SOS

2008-01-17 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:11 +0200, Giotis Eugen wrote: hello, I just bought a dedicated server (unmanaged server) Can you help me? I want to install the ftp. Can you help me step by step ? I can connect to my server via SSH and I have installed the cpanel/whm.

Re: Shrinking a partition

2008-01-15 Thread James Harrison
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:45 -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: After installing FreeBSD and Vista (463 GB and 30 GB respectivally) I found out I don't have enough free space on my 500 GB drive on the vista partition. How do I determine how much I can shrink the FreeBSD partition by safely (by just

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:50 -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script

RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

2007-12-20 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: Nikola, Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year I have about 4GB

Re: tail does not exit

2007-12-19 Thread James Harrison
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:22 -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: #!/bin/sh if tail -f /var/log/messages | awk '{print Exiting; exit 0}' then echo Exited else echo Failed fi exit 0 I assume it has something to do with

login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread James Harrison
Hi folks, I've slowly been setting up some options for the default class in login.conf such that passwords will expire after 150 days. To test whether this functionality was working, I have a warning appear on the first day, so that if I set a password and log in , I ought to be warned that my

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:30 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting James Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :passwordtime=150d:\ :warnpassword=150d: Is it me, or did you forget the backslash here? Peter It's you; the last option doesn't receive a backslash. Here's one

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:51 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting James Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :passwordtime=150d:\ :warnpassword=150d: Is it me, or did you

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-05 Thread James Harrison
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, which seemed to be what rsync -x (do not cross filesystems) was intended for.

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-29 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:25 +0100, Tino Engel wrote: williamkow schrieb: I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command startx. and then i run command startkde and I received error message

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread James Harrison
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:44 -0600, Mark Evans wrote: No we are not using NIS. it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However ls -l runs for close to six minutesand spends the 10 seconds scrolling the screen

Re: stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

2007-11-26 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 15:34 +, Chris wrote: On 26/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tore Lund wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, How stable is FreeBSD 7 Beta 3? Is it near production are their any outstanding issues? Probably no major bugs will be

Re: FreeBSD 7/OpenLDAP: Howto change passwords

2007-11-26 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:23 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 26 November 2007 17:11, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, trying to change passwords on a client machine for a LDAP authenticated user always fails due to the original passwd() command is not capable of changing passwords

Re: evolution problems.

2007-11-19 Thread James Harrison
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 01:34 +0800, OutbackDingo wrote: Yupp as soon as Beta3 arrived i see problems even getting it to load, takes 5 minutes to just start it, though i dont know if i can say its the OS That is *exactly* the same problem I started reporting with Beta 1.5. I'm thinking I need

Re: mount -u -o rw / not working on NFS?

2007-11-19 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 18:33 +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, I have a system where a diskless FreeBSD 6.3 i386 machine boots with pxeboot from a FreeBSD 6.3 amd64 machine. I have lines in /etc/fstab for the diskless machine like: # DeviceMountPoint FsType Options Dump

Re: evolution slow on 7.0

2007-11-16 Thread James Harrison
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:44 +0100, Oliver Peter wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:45:28PM -0700, James wrote: Hi folks, first, I know the subject line is a goldmine for jokes, but I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it. Ever since I moved to FreeBSD 7.0, the evolution mail