Re: 6.0, allow remote logging? (correction)

2006-02-05 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Bill Schoolcraft composed: At Sat, 4 Feb 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: Bill Schoolcraft wrote: But when I go to check an see if the external port 514/udp is open I get nothing showing:

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-01-15 - 2006-02-04

2006-02-05 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Alternative to Running Portupgrade -rf In Upgrade of expat2

2006-02-05 Thread a non y mouse
Bob Perry wrote: I have 48 dependencies on one box and 151 on another and only use a dialup service. Disconnections are common and can be a real problem in this situation. sounds like it's time to start downloading them all and go to bed ;) i feel you...when I got my first UNIX workstation i

Re: Any good OpenGL games?

2006-02-05 Thread Evgeny Solovyov
I play quake3, quake4, doomIII linux-quake3-demo linux-quake4 linux-doom3-demo Xn Nooby wrote: I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver. I'm currently installing 'linux-enemyterritory' which I think will work. I didn't know if there were any other good ones.

Re: Invisible port 80

2006-02-05 Thread Robin Becker
Robert Huff wrote: Robin Becker writes: I am in the process of setting up a pair of freebsd 6.0 servers with different hosting services. On one of the servers I cannot seem to access the apache server which I have started. I can access port 80 on the machine itself using the machine

Re: Invisible port 80

2006-02-05 Thread Robin Becker
Robin Becker wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Robin Becker writes: I am in the process of setting up a pair of freebsd 6.0 servers with different hosting services. On one of the servers I cannot seem to access the apache server which I have started. I can access port 80 on the machine

RE: ftpd: Passive mode isn't working

2006-02-05 Thread Kristian Vaaf
At 22:20 04.02.2006, fbsd_user wrote: Saying ftp is not working, is not enough of a description. Give details of how you are testing ftp to say its not working. In /etc/inetd.conf the tcp6 is for a experimental protocol, if you are not using it on purpose then those statements should be

FreeBSD and quantum computing

2006-02-05 Thread Kristian Vaaf
Hello. I do not know much about quantum computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing But does anybody know what plans FreeBSD has for it? Does it intend to put any research into it? Thanks, Vaaf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

SLAPD starting very slow

2006-02-05 Thread Jan HREHO
Hi everybody. My configuration. FreeBSD 6.0 + I update ports. All programs I installed over ports I installed LDAP server and client (2.2.30), nss_ldap-1.244, pam_ldap-1.8.0. * /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf *** other lines in this files is defaults

Re: FreeBSD and quantum computing

2006-02-05 Thread Björn König
Kristian Vaaf schrieb: Hello. I do not know much about quantum computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing But does anybody know what plans FreeBSD has for it? Does it intend to put any research into it? Thanks, Vaaf Don't we need quantum computers at first? Are you looking

Re: ftpd: Passive mode isn't working

2006-02-05 Thread a non y mouse
Kristian Vaaf wrote: ftp is working. Active mode works, passive mode doesn't. i just scanned over your ruleset...so forgive me if i am way off base with that said, are you using the freebsd ftpd? did you change the portrange.hifirst and .hilast sysctl values? because it would appear to me

Filemanager with SMB support?

2006-02-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I need a filemanager which supports SMB browsing. I use fluxbox and VERY much rather not have to keep all those KDE dependencies for Konqueror. I've tried xfce4's xffm, but it relies on nmblookup for discovery, which is really unreliable , and doesn't seem to allow me to simply tell

question

2006-02-05 Thread Eduard Suica
Hello, my name is Eduard Suica, and I'm representing RadGs Software. We developed a new Programming Language called Concept (visit our website www.radgs.com = made in Concept) . Concept is a language (Object Oriented) wich wants to develop server-side applications, but NOT only Web

Re: question

2006-02-05 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Eduard Suica wrote: Hello, my name is Eduard Suica, and I'm representing RadGs Software. We developed a new Programming Language called Concept (visit our website www.radgs.com = made in Concept) . Concept is a language (Object Oriented) wich wants to develop server-side applications, but

Re: Any good OpenGL games?

2006-02-05 Thread Xn Nooby
On 2/5/06, Evgeny Solovyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I play quake3, quake4, doomIII linux-quake3-demo linux-quake4 linux-doom3-demo I tried quakeforge, but when I get a missing WAD error when I try nq-glx. Are these games you mentioned complete? It will be great if so!

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-05 Thread Xn Nooby
I want to ask you: how long does it take you to cvsup your ports, run 'portsdb -Uu', and finish with 'portversion -l '? To run 'portsnap fetch update', then 'portversion -v | grep needs', it took less then 55 seconds and I was off upgrading ports. The procedure I used had no errors. I

Re: Trouble with resources under network load

2006-02-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: I've got P4 box with 256Mb RAM. I want it to be able to forward 5Mbit/s between 500 PPTP clients (no crypto/ compression) and our ISP. I understand we should probably get Cisco for this, or at least a higher-spec box, but I just want this setup to be kinda proof of

Re: SnortCenter2 on FBSD?

2006-02-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 2/4/2006 10:53 AM Paul Schmehl wrote: --On February 4, 2006 10:19:09 AM -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using SnortCenter2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snortcenter2/) on FreeBSD? I see there's a Linux agent but not a FBSD. Maybe it works with FBSD Linux

Re: question

2006-02-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hello-- Eduard Suica wrote: Concept it's free, under a freeware licence. We are still to decide if it will be Open source or partially open source ... (with some obfuscated code to protect the kernel). How ever, we'll assume responsabilty over it. You're welcome to submit and maintain the

Re: Filemanager with SMB support?

2006-02-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I need a filemanager which supports SMB browsing. I use fluxbox and VERY much rather not have to keep all those KDE dependencies for Konqueror. I've tried xfce4's xffm, but it relies on nmblookup for discovery, which is really unreliable , and doesn't seem to

IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread Michael A. Alestock
Hello, I was wondering if there's some sort of port available that can actively ban IPs that try and bruteforce a service such as SSH or Telnet, by scanning the /var/log/auth.log log for Regex such as Illegal User or LOGIN FAILURES, and then using IPFW to essentially deny (ban) that IP for a

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-05 Thread Gerard Seibert
Xn Nooby wrote: I want to ask you: how long does it take you to cvsup your ports, run 'portsdb -Uu', and finish with 'portversion -l '? To run 'portsnap fetch update', then 'portversion -v | grep needs', it took less then 55 seconds and I was off upgrading ports. The procedure I used

how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread Peter
What tool allows me to boot on some media (cd, fd) and create partitions of various types (for FreeBSD, Windows 98/2000 at least) and sizes (in sectors)? __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-05 Thread Robert Huff
Xn Nooby writes: Everyone that knows what they are doing never seem to have a problem. Respectfully, rubbish. I use portupgrade; where it seems applicable I am careful to mention one ought to read the manual completely, and to state my experiences where it has clearly and

Re: SnortCenter2 on FBSD?

2006-02-05 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 5, 2006 8:50:24 AM -0800 Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your response. I'm running 6.0 but perl is perl so it shouldn't matter. I'll give it a try and post my results for the archives. Are you going to pursue using it any further even though it allows the

Re: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread Björn König
Peter schrieb: What tool allows me to boot on some media (cd, fd) and create partitions of various types (for FreeBSD, Windows 98/2000 at least) and sizes (in sectors)? You can use the bootonly CD to do this task.

Re: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread lars
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What tool allows me to boot on some media (cd, fd) and create partitions of various types (for FreeBSD, Windows 98/2000 at least) and sizes (in sectors)? Partition Magic maybe? Check google (keywords = partition tool), maybe that'll also help you ask your

RE: Compaq Integrated SmartArray Quantum DLT4000

2006-02-05 Thread TRODAT
My 2 cents, For me it was the same, until I picked up an Adaptec and used it for the DLT drives. I was rather bummed myself but it did seem to work well. Rob. On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Erin Fortenberry wrote: I had not been following this thread until now but... Several years ago I built two

Re: Any good OpenGL games?

2006-02-05 Thread Evgeny Solovyov
All these games run good under FreeBSD. I use it with linux_base-rh-9 and nvidia-driver. Only problem i had was a conflict of libGL.so librarys of nvidia-driver and linux-dri packages. But simple # mv /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1-off #

Apparant java catch-22

2006-02-05 Thread Gene
I've been trying to get java installed for some months now and I can't get past the point shown below. It seems that the port is looking for an already installed version of java. I've looked at various how-tos, and the java pages at freebsd.org, but no help. Is there some way around this catch-22?

[Fwd: Re: How to Reinstate gamin-0.1.5_2 Dependency]

2006-02-05 Thread Bob Perry
Original Message Subject: Re: How to Reinstate gamin-0.1.5_2 Dependency Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:03:34 -0500 From: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apparant java catch-22

2006-02-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:46:20PM -0600, Gene wrote: [...] ERROR: Your BOOTDIR environment variable does not point to a valid Java 2 SDK for bootstrapping this build. A Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 build must be bootstrapped using J2SDK 1.4.1 fcs (or later). Apparently, your

Re: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread Peter
--- Bj�rn K�nig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter schrieb: What tool allows me to boot on some media (cd, fd) and create partitions of various types (for FreeBSD, Windows 98/2000 at least) and sizes (in sectors)? You can use the bootonly CD to do this task.

Gnome port

2006-02-05 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On Friday I came across a gimp script-fu which would slice an image into pieces and output html that rendered the complete image as a table. But it was written in

Re: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I was wondering if there's some sort of port available that can actively ban IPs that try and bruteforce a service such as SSH or Telnet, by scanning the /var/log/auth.log log for Regex such as Illegal User or LOGIN FAILURES, and then using IPFW to essentially deny (ban) that IP for a certain

Re: ng_one2many v.s. AFT (NIC Fault Tolerance/Fail Over/Redundancy Revisited)

2006-02-05 Thread Brad Bendy
On Saturday 15 October 2005 16:25, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Has anyone had any success with FBSD 6.0? I totally forgot about this email... Thanks! Brad Re: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-October/100623.ht ml First: This is all very preliminary from some testing

Re: Proper mail headers

2006-02-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On 30 Jan 2006, at 18:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I just let let my reply go to the person named in Reply-To or should

MySQL version for 6.0

2006-02-05 Thread je killen
Greetings: I'm looking to find out if there is a current version of MySQL specific for v6 FreeBSD on AMD64. I don't see one on the MySQL site and I don't know if I can successfully build it from source on this machine. thanks; Jeff K ___

Re: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread Björn König
Peter schrieb: Given that, on a windows client, I have backed up the partition the OS and its applications reside on. Given that the client's disk becomes unusable. Given that I can recreate the correct partition size and type with this CD. What is the best way to set up the MBR of the

RE: Gnome port

2006-02-05 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 05-Feb-2006 Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On Friday I came across a gimp script-fu which would slice an image into pieces and output html that rendered the

Powerfail/reboot, now inbound ppp not working

2006-02-05 Thread stan
I've got a ppp over ssh tunnel from work, that's initiated from the remote end by a cron task. Friday night we lost power at our house. Most of the machines are on UPS's, so I'm failry certain I got them shutdown normally (it was the middle of the night so I might have messed up). In any case,

RE: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread fbsd_user
I find this kind of approach is treating the symptom and not the cause. The basic problem is the services have well published port numbers and attackers beat on those known port numbers. A much simpler approach is to change the standard port numbers to some high order port number. See

Re: MySQL version for 6.0

2006-02-05 Thread Björn König
je killen schrieb: Greetings: I'm looking to find out if there is a current version of MySQL specific for v6 FreeBSD on AMD64. I don't see one on the MySQL site and I don't know if I can successfully build it from source on this machine. thanks; Jeff K You can use FreeBSD's software

Re: SLAPD starting very slow

2006-02-05 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Jan HREHO wrote: Hi everybody. My configuration. FreeBSD 6.0 + I update ports. All programs I installed over ports I installed LDAP server and client (2.2.30), nss_ldap-1.244, pam_ldap-1.8.0. its rc that wants slapd - through PAM and NSS. I think there's something fishy about the way all

RE: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread fbsd_user
This is a windows question. You say nothing about putting FreeBSD on the pc. Windows has it's own fdisk program. Create a bootable windows floppy and copy fdisk and format programs to the floppy. Boot from the floppy and run fdisk /mbr to rewrite the mbr record. or just use the fdisk pgm to

RE: MySQL version for 6.0

2006-02-05 Thread fbsd_user
Look in the FreeBSD ports system for mysql-server. its there -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of je killen Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:45 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MySQL version for 6.0 Greetings: I'm looking to find

Re: Filemanager with SMB support?

2006-02-05 Thread Norberto Meijome
Garrett Cooper wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I need a filemanager which supports SMB browsing. I use fluxbox and VERY much rather not have to keep all those KDE dependencies for Konqueror. I've tried xfce4's xffm, but it relies on nmblookup for discovery, which is really

Re: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread Daniel A.
On 2/5/06, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find this kind of approach is treating the symptom and not the cause. The basic problem is the services have well published port numbers and attackers beat on those known port numbers. A much simpler approach is to change the standard port

Re: Proper mail headers

2006-02-05 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
Monday 06 February 2006 05:34、Ceri Davies さんは書きました: On 30 Jan 2006, at 18:36, Gerard Seibert wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I just let

Re: Proper mail headers

2006-02-05 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:57:30AM +0900, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: I reply to emails using the reply to all feature of my mail client. It replies (not unreasonably, I think) to the list (as specified by List-ID), the To, From, and CC. It seems to eliminate any duplicates as well as my own

RE: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread Peter
--- fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a windows question. I'm using FreeBSD as the central image server. The windows install cd has as its first option to run fdisk to partition your hard drive. The new partition must have the same number of sectors as my image. I don't think the

RE: Getting a new server

2006-02-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
You had said your using spamassasin, that and other content filters like dspam must have completely received the message before they can scan it. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Saturday, February 04,

problem

2006-02-05 Thread Jose Jesus Ortega
I installed Xorg and configurate it and everything and installed WindowMaker of /usr/ports/x11-wm/windowmaker but when I type in echo exec windowmaker ~/.xinitrc and use startx it can't find windowmaker how do I make windowmaker start? thanks. ___

Re: k3b hardware detection

2006-02-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Fabian Keil wrote: Just a guess, but maybe the drive reports false capabilities which are then checked by k3b. You could try cdrecord's prcap option to see if the drive advertises it self as a writer. Fabian Guess it does: Drive capabilities, per MMC page 2A: Does read CD-R media

Re: problem

2006-02-05 Thread albi
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 14:26:48 -0800 (PST) Jose Jesus Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Xorg and configurate it and everything and installed WindowMaker of /usr/ports/x11-wm/windowmaker but when I type in echo exec windowmaker ~/.xinitrc and use startx it can't find windowmaker how

RE: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread fbsd_user
You missed to whole meaning. Attackers only scan for the published service port numbers, that is what is meant by portscan the box. Those high order port numbers are dynamically used during normal session conversation. So any response from those port numbers if an attacker scanned that high would

Re: MySQL version for 6.0

2006-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 February 2006 at 22:00:13 +0100, Bjrn Knig wrote: je killen schrieb: Greetings: I'm looking to find out if there is a current version of MySQL specific for v6 FreeBSD on AMD64. I don't see one on the MySQL site and I don't know if I can successfully build it from source on this

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-05 Thread Xn Nooby
On 2/5/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xn Nooby writes: Everyone that knows what they are doing never seem to have a problem. Respectfully, rubbish. I use portupgrade; where it seems applicable I am careful to mention one ought to read the manual completely, and

Re: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?

2006-02-05 Thread Xn Nooby
portmanager -u -f -l -y will rebuild all of the installed ports in a logical manner as well as creating a log file for the user to examine if necessary. I will try that, thx! I will also look in to: portmanager portsclean portsnap portversion (any others?)

Re: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread Daniel A.
I know for a fact, that if a hacker wants to root a box, the first and least thing he does is to nmap -p1-65535 -Avv host And yeah, it does detect services on unusual ports. And regardless of what you say, assigning nondefault ports is security through obscurity. On 2/5/06, fbsd_user [EMAIL

Re: IP Banning (Using IPFW)

2006-02-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:38:11PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: You missed to whole meaning. Attackers only scan for the published service port numbers, that is what is meant by portscan the box. Those high order port numbers are dynamically used during normal session conversation. So any

Re: Gnome port

2006-02-05 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:54:07PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote: On 05-Feb-2006 Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Is there a reason that the gnome 2 ports don't use the conflicts mechanism to avoid completely hosing an existing gnome 2 install? On [snip] Let me be more clear because I'm

device psm0

2006-02-05 Thread WSteffen
I am trying to setup my first FreeBSD system on a Pentium 3 system with a PS/2 mouse. The problem is I show no psm0 device in the /dev directory. When I use sysinstall to configure the mouse, the test portion fails. I do have a sysmouse in the /dev directory, but it appears useless. How do I

Re: Getting a new server

2006-02-05 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Feb 5, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You had said your using spamassasin, that and other content filters like dspam must have completely received the message before they can scan it. They do not have had to finish the smtp process however. Chad Ted -Original

Re: device psm0

2006-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
WSteffen wrote: I am trying to setup my first FreeBSD system on a Pentium 3 system with a PS/2 mouse. The problem is I show no psm0 device in the /dev directory. When I use sysinstall to configure the mouse, the test portion fails. I do have a sysmouse in the /dev directory, but it appears

Re: how do I create partitions?

2006-02-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
What tool allows me to boot on some media (cd, fd) and create partitions of various types (for FreeBSD, Windows 98/2000 at least) and sizes (in sectors)? Probably you should read up on how disks are set up and how booting works. That overall picture will help you the most to understand

RE: problem

2006-02-05 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 05-Feb-2006 Jose Jesus Ortega wrote: I installed Xorg and configurate it and everything and installed WindowMaker of /usr/ports/x11-wm/windowmaker but when I type in echo exec windowmaker ~/.xinitrc and use startx it can't find windowmaker how do I make windowmaker start? thanks.

kernel conf for vmware 5.5

2006-02-05 Thread Ben Siemon
Is there anyone that can share with me thier custom kernel conf for vmware 5.5? -- cheers Ben Siemon 254 723 6937 cs.baylor.edu/~siemon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Can gaim-openq connect to Tencent QQ now?

2006-02-05 Thread Ma Jie
I cannot use gaim-openq for serval days. Anybody know how to connect to QQ under FreeBSD now? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox 1.5

2006-02-05 Thread freebsd-questions
So the lunacy is even more widespread!? Sheesh, I *really* hope the port will support turning it off. Speaking of lunacy: Before I upgrade to 1.5, can someone tell me if the 'feature' of renaming downloaded files by incrementing version number has been restored to a more sensible Do you

Re: remote x-window

2006-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 February 2006 at 8:58:08 +, Michael Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine with x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right direction as I've

compiling

2006-02-05 Thread drew hill
I'm am trying to compile an SMP kernel on mt machine. When i am in the konsole BSD tells me the Dir /usr/src/sys/i386/conf does not exist. In KDE I got to the Dir made the kernel put it in the /root/kernel Dir and now that's O.K., BUT trying to compile and install is a new nightmare. Is it