dhclient overwrites reslov.conf

2007-01-26 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I'm in a LAN with a relatively short lease time. That wouldn't be a problem if I wouldn't run a vpnc connection through this LAN. The vpnc connection sets /etc/resolv.conf as required, but dhclient overwrites it every couple of minutes, causing DNS not to work any more. Is there a way to make

Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)

2007-01-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: George Vanev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:33 AM Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2) - Original Message -

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. I have complained. Last week

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:28:39PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 + Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: Hello all, The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I am trying

Re: man sysinstall

2007-01-26 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:54:47PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote: Hello all, The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install. I figured out that I needed to add

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-26 Thread perryh
The 2 systems, Windows or FreeBSD, cost the same. That is, assuming that time=money. Which everyone does, except for those who have so much money they don't have to work for a living, or those who have nothing and are perectly content to live with - nothing. But I am not comparing Windoze

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-26 Thread perryh
They finally got around to posting linux usage but are apparently biased or too STOOPIT! to acknowlege *BSD...which seem really odd as a netcraft query returns: Solaris 9/10 Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) 16-Jan-2007 212.58.224.116 BBC Internet Services, Docklands. This says nothing either way

Re: The BBC survey....

2007-01-26 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:07:57AM -0200, Sergio Lenzi wrote: Hello alll Even FreeBSD, or even any BSD (ok, OSX is BSD...) is mention in the BBC survey, I notice that: OSX is _NOT_ FreeBSD. It has a different kernel (based on Mach 3) and only uses userland tools from FreeBSD, most of

6.2 STABLE?

2007-01-26 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
I just finished making and installing world and a new kernel yesterday. I had cvsup'ed the latest src/ports with releng 6_2. I thought 6.2 STABLE was out, but a uname-a shows 6.2 RELEASE on my system. Am I missing something? :-) Best regards, Andreas

Re: 6.2 STABLE?

2007-01-26 Thread Frank Staals
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: I just finished making and installing world and a new kernel yesterday. I had cvsup'ed the latest src/ports with releng 6_2. I thought 6.2 STABLE was out, but a uname-a shows 6.2 RELEASE on my system. Am I missing something? :-) Best regards, Andreas

Re: 6.2 STABLE?

2007-01-26 Thread Vince
Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: I just finished making and installing world and a new kernel yesterday. I had cvsup'ed the latest src/ports with releng 6_2. I thought 6.2 STABLE was out, but a uname-a shows 6.2 RELEASE on my system. Am I missing something? :-) Kind of :) its just the

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-26 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:54:44PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: On 1/26/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists. Rubbish. I have known about the existence of FreeBSD (and other BSD variants) for a great many years now. I agree,

Re: dhclient overwrites reslov.conf

2007-01-26 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On 1/26/07, [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in a LAN with a relatively short lease time. That wouldn't be a problem if I wouldn't run a vpnc connection through this LAN. The vpnc connection sets /etc/resolv.conf as required, but dhclient overwrites it every couple of minutes, causing

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Huff
Juha Saarinen writes: People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists. Rubbish. I have known about the existence of FreeBSD (and other BSD variants) for a great many years now. Indeed. Not long after Linux appeared on the radar of the general public, the tech

Re: PCBSD 6.2 -- How to Install Second CD?

2007-01-26 Thread Beni
On Monday 22 January 2007 03:31, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Just installed the first CD of PCBSD 6.2. I also downloaded the second CD. How do I install it, please? You don't install the 2nd cd... It contains : Description: CD #2 - Multi-Language support for KDE Essential PBI Pack.

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-26 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 1/26/07, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then

Renaming files in one shot

2007-01-26 Thread Vittorio
Under a directory I have many pdf files named according to M$ Windows rules, that is: Marylin Monroe.pdf James Stewart.pdf Alice in Wonderland.pdf Ludwig Van Beethoven.pdf . . Now I'd like to rename them ** IN ONE SHOT ** (some more steps would be acceptable anyway!) deleting all the

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are running ... I'm

Re: Renaming files in one shot

2007-01-26 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 26, 2007 a las 02:36:03PM +0100, Vittorio escribió: Under a directory I have many pdf files named according to M$ Windows rules, that is: Marylin Monroe.pdf James Stewart.pdf Alice in Wonderland.pdf Ludwig Van Beethoven.pdf . . Now I'd like to

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread David Robillard
Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are running ... I'm interested in going with an 8xSAS drive system,

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

2007-01-26 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I write shells script extensively , I have noticed ~ - gets a subsitution for $HOME ~userid - gets you the $HOME for that user meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some script on

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread chris neill
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: My personal experience with Dell is that it's ok until you hit a problem. Then it's hell. So bad, in fact, that we don't purchase them anymore and have gone with IBM and HP systems for our FreeBSD, RedHat and Windows machines.

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

2007-01-26 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with Bell Labs ancestors). Not sure what I'm

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), chris neill said: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: IMHO, the problem with Dell is not their hardware, but their support (or lack of it). Ditto -- We had a (duh) PERC 3/di go south on a PE2550 and getting Dell to fix it was like

Re: Renaming files in one shot

2007-01-26 Thread Dhénin Jean-Jacques
# more ~/bin/renomme NUM=$1 shift NOUVEAU=`echo $* | sed 's/ /_/g' ` find . -inum $NUM -exec ln {} $NOUVEAU \; 2007/1/26, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Under a directory I have many pdf files named according to M$ Windows rules, that is: Marylin Monroe.pdf James Stewart.pdf Alice in

BIND tool for setting up secondary records?

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am not a member of a BIND list, so I thought I'd ask here first if anyone knows of a script tool that will query a primary name server and setup secondary records on another BIND server? Or any other solution for doing mass entries of domains to a BIND server to setup secondary records with the

Re: BIND tool for setting up secondary records?

2007-01-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 26 January 2007 10:50, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I am not a member of a BIND list, so I thought I'd ask here first if anyone knows of a script tool that will query a primary name server and setup secondary records on another BIND server? Or any other solution for doing mass entries

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:46:02PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-26 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 1/26/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juha Saarinen writes: People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists. Rubbish. I have known about the existence of FreeBSD (and other BSD variants) for a great many years now. Indeed. Not long after Linux appeared

how to access /stand after the package installed

2007-01-26 Thread Douglas Song
How can I access /stand directory in FreeBSD 6.2 using postinstall script of the customerized package? I can do that in Freebsd 5.3. Thanks. Douglas Song ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: The BBC survey....

2007-01-26 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/01/26 0:42, Martin Tournoij seems to have typed: It's probably more than 90%, the last study I saw (~2 years ago) said that 98% of the users used windows. That survey is clearly wrong. With Apple pulling 4-5% of the (new) market, and the average time between replacements being higher

Re: how to access /stand after the package installed

2007-01-26 Thread chris neill
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:12:37AM -0500, Douglas Song wrote: How can I access /stand directory in FreeBSD 6.2 using postinstall script of the customerized package? I can do that in Freebsd 5.3. It moved: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [8:49am](2):72:/root# which sysinstall /usr/sbin/sysinstall [EMAIL

Re: 6.2 STABLE?

2007-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:35:32AM +0100, Andreas Wider?e Andersen wrote: I just finished making and installing world and a new kernel yesterday. I had cvsup'ed the latest src/ports with releng 6_2. I thought 6.2 STABLE was out, but a uname-a shows 6.2 RELEASE on my system. Am I missing

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-01-26 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-01-26 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a web server still running FreeBSD 4.7 which I want to update to FreeBSD 6.2. There are quite a few sites on this machine, and each of them has a chroot containing their own /dev. In their /dev are things like null, zero, random and so on. I don't really want to set up or mount

Postgresql 8.1: plperl code works with LATIN1, fails with UTF8

2007-01-26 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, I've got plperl code that works just fine when the database is encoded using LATIN1, but fails as soon as I switch to UTF8. I've been testing PG 8.1.4 under Linux, and PG 8.1.6 under FreeBSD, both behave exactly the save. I'm sorry I'm not able to strip down the code, and show you a small

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

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with

OT: Function not recognized while calling a function from awk

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Dear Freebsd I have something strange problem happening any input would be great for some reason the Korn shell is not detecting the function that I am calling from awk Actual code excerpt is function dogdied { echo Why the hell did you die in $1 } export dogdied

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Some excised We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in production so far, the rest are still being configured, etc. We're mostly happy with

Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-26 Thread chris
What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Some excised We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in production so far, the rest

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:40:24PM +, Freminlins wrote: Hello, I have a web server still running FreeBSD 4.7 which I want to update to FreeBSD 6.2. There are quite a few sites on this machine, and each of them has a chroot containing their own /dev. In their /dev are things like null,

Re: Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-26 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 1/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-26 Thread eoghan
On 26 Jan 2007, at 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. There is wordpress: /usr/ports/www/wordpress/ homepage: http://wordpress.org/ dont use it but its a nice app. Regards

ISL intervlan routing

2007-01-26 Thread Fabrice Janczuk
Hello all, For information, i'm french and my english is very bad. ISL encapsulation is it compatible with FreeBSD for intervlan routing??? Thanks - Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions !

[SOLVED] Re: laptop screen always shutdown if no keyboard interaction for several minutes

2007-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-01-23二的 16:47 +0800,Zhang Weiwu写道: Hello. I tried various ways to stop the laptop screen from being shutting down, as I use this screen to watch debug message of an application I am working on, I need monitor always on, no screensaver, no blank, no dpms etc. I cannot do it. I have

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, January 26, 2007 08:59:43 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in production so far, the rest are still being configured, etc. We're mostly happy with

thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread David Banning
I have installed denyhosts from the ports to stop ssh attacks, but I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. Once he has a

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Banning wrote: I have installed denyhosts from the ports to stop ssh attacks, but I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, January 26, 2007 09:35:06 -0600 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), chris neill said: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: IMHO, the problem with Dell is not their hardware, but their support (or lack of it). Ditto --

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread David Banning
I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. Pardon the stupid question, but I'm assuming it's necessary that you run

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have installed denyhosts from the ports to stop ssh attacks, but I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] *) There's an issue where the systems will hang on reboot about 50% of the time. I tried to track this down but found that if I added any debugging code, the problem disappeared :( It's not a big deal for three reasons --

How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Halid Faith
I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Eric
Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? people seem to like my instruction set:

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? people seem to like my instruction

FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Vender
I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and freezing issue. Here's a quick description of my computer system: I have a Compaq Presario 5184 desktop about 7 or 8 years old AMD K6-2 processor @ 380MHz 320Mb RAM, 8Mb dedicated to video via BIOS Quantum Bigfoot TS-6.4A Hard Drive (~6Gb

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Eric
Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Banning wrote: I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. Pardon the stupid question, but I'm assuming it's necessary

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:26:51PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful site about that ? After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ? The first thing to do is read the

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like an IRQ conflict as your serial port is not on IRQ 3. I would look into the BIOS settings, and set the port explicitly for IRQ 3, and not automatic if this is possible. -Derek At 02:15 PM 1/26/2007, Joe Vender wrote: I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and

Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Gable Barber
Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically,

RE: Postgresql 8.1: plperl code works with LATIN1, fails with UTF8

2007-01-26 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got plperl code that works just fine when the database is encoded using LATIN1, but fails as soon as I switch to UTF8. I've been testing PG 8.1.4 under Linux, and PG 8.1.6 under FreeBSD, both behave exactly the save. ... Oups, sorry, wrong mailing-list!

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-26 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/24/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -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

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Matulis
Le Vendredi 26 Janvier 2007 15:50, Kevin Kinsey a écrit : David Banning wrote: I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically,

Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Gable Barber
On 1/26/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RsyncX for Mac will sync to a FreeBSD filesystem. Thank you. I will try these out. Gable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

run a command on startup

2007-01-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a box that my nic's eeprom got zapped last night. WOL is a must for me, and as a last ditch, i finally have the card talking again if i set a mac address manually. upon shutdown, apparently it remember the address i set, and answers to a WOL packet. also, it appears to immediately

Re: run a command on startup

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Downey
On 1/26/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a box that my nic's eeprom got zapped last night. WOL is a must for me, and as a last ditch, i finally have the card talking again if i set a mac address manually. upon shutdown, apparently it remember the address i set, and answers to

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

2007-01-26 Thread youshi10
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread David Banning
I have installed denyhosts from the ports to stop ssh attacks, but I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password combination. We

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

2007-01-26 Thread James Long
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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii My

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Freminlins
Kris, On 26/01/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up and mount numerous devfs file systems ;) That is exactly what I am trying to avoid. One of the servers has 1400 sites on it, and I really don't want 1400 devfs mounts. If the only way to do this now is by having so many devfs

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

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Campbell
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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Vender
On Friday 26 January 2007 15:04, Derek Ragona wrote: Sounds like an IRQ conflict as your serial port is not on IRQ 3. I would look into the BIOS settings, and set the port explicitly for IRQ 3, and not automatic if this is possible. The configurable settings in my BIOS setup don't include

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Tore Lund
Joe Vender wrote: One last question. How do I get FBSD to completely power off my computer when I shut down, both from KDE and from console? When I shutdown, it just gets to the system halted, press any key to reboot prompt and doesn't completely power off. In slackware, all I have to do is

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:05:37PM +, Freminlins wrote: Kris, On 26/01/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up and mount numerous devfs file systems ;) That is exactly what I am trying to avoid. One of the servers has 1400 sites on it, and I really don't want 1400 devfs

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Vender
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:41, Tore Lund wrote: You issue the command shutdown -p now. This should work with any BIOS that has apm or acpi, as far as I know. I've tried that, but it didn't power off, just got to the halted step. What about issuing the Shutdown computer from KDE logout?

Re: Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-26 Thread Tuareg
On 1/26/07, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Jan 2007, at 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. You can check jaws, but it's not in the ports tree.

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Joe Vender wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 17:41, Tore Lund wrote: You issue the command shutdown -p now. This should work with any BIOS that has apm or acpi, as far as I know. I've tried that, but it didn't power off, just got to the halted step. What

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Vender
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:18, Chuck Swiger wrote: The GUI commands within KDE are going to invoke the command-line shutdown command with the appropriate arguments. What may be going on is that your old hardware only supports the older form of power management/shutdown mechanism, called

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Joe Vender wrote: The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring out what's different. Note that you might find that trying to run FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults

Can not compile kernel.

2007-01-26 Thread Grant Wagner
Hi, although have used various forms of unix for quite a while, I still consider myself a rather novice user. I have reciently reconfigured my machine to dual boot FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows (damn gaming addiction). I have installed a basic system (only base, games, man and src distros) and

Re: [freebsd-questions] Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Howard Jones
Gable Barber wrote: Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now)

Re: firefox performance on Freebsd

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Hi All I am noticing singnificant performance degradation in firefox in Freebsd , I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP. for comparison purpose I notice the same page when I load on Freebsd partition it is slow on

Re: Can not compile kernel.

2007-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:40:13PM -0800, Grant Wagner wrote: Hi, although have used various forms of unix for quite a while, I still consider myself a rather novice user. I have reciently reconfigured my machine to dual boot FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows (damn gaming addiction). I have

Re: run a command on startup

2007-01-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Friday 26 January 2007 16:45, Kevin Downey wrote: On 1/26/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a box that my nic's eeprom got zapped last night. WOL is a must for me, and as a last ditch, i finally have the card talking again if i set a mac address manually. upon

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-26 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
On 1/26/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: On 1/26/07, *Eric* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Halid Faith wrote: I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without any problem? Could you advise a useful

Disk Space Requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Jay Chandler
I've got a VPS running FreeBSD 6.1 p5. I'd like to upgrade it to 6.2 if possible, or at least 6.1 p11. I've got four gigs of disk allocated to the box. Is this enough space to rebuild the OS from source within? Regards, -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249

su: Sorry - 5.2.1 -

2007-01-26 Thread gaye
Hi there , I think it is better to write somethinf people can understand and avoid generalizing things . One case can work for somebody and not for someone else . Be carefull when giving advice when you are not sure for 100%. This is regarding the su: Sorry problem . With Best Regards Guy

Re: run a command on startup

2007-01-26 Thread Glenn Sieb
Jonathan Horne said the following on 1/26/2007 8:45 PM: well, unfortunately, that didnt work. # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Jan 22 15:32:44 2007 # Created: Mon Jan 22 15:32:44 2007 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to

Re: run a command on startup

2007-01-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Friday 26 January 2007 20:21, Glenn Sieb wrote: Try this: ifconfig_fxp0=ether 00:09:6b:b6:3e:d9 inet 192.168.125.71 netmask 255.255.255.128 Hope that helps.. Best, --Glenn unfortunately, that didnt work either. however, i just figured out something REALLY strange. the computer

Re: Can not compile kernel.

2007-01-26 Thread Grant Wagner
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:40:13PM -0800, Grant Wagner wrote: Hi, although have used various forms of unix for quite a while, I still consider myself a rather novice user. I have reciently reconfigured my machine to dual boot FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows

Re: ISL intervlan routing

2007-01-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:58:54 +0100 (CET), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Hello all, For information, i'm french and my english is very bad. ISL encapsulation is it compatible with FreeBSD for intervlan routing??? Hi. It is not, but 802.1q vlan trunking is and

Re: Can not compile kernel.

2007-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:33:44PM -0800, Grant Wagner wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:40:13PM -0800, Grant Wagner wrote: Hi, although have used various forms of unix for quite a while, I still consider myself a rather novice user. I have

Re: Disk Space Requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Jay Chandler said: I've got a VPS running FreeBSD 6.1 p5. I'd like to upgrade it to 6.2 if possible, or at least 6.1 p11. I've got four gigs of disk allocated to the box. Is this enough space to rebuild the OS from source within? You need less than 500MB of

Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.

2007-01-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Has anyone gotten the port /usr/ports/mail/antivirus-milter to work? The system in question runs FreeBSD5.4 with sendmail and bogofilter. Bogofilter is excellent at helping sort messages in to spam or other folders if you generate a large wordlist. One category of

Re: Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-26 Thread bobmc
Tuareg wrote: On 1/26/07, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Jan 2007, at 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. Since blogs and wikis are typically written in high-level

Re: Spam and Viruses, Vandalism-l, the Mailing List from Hell.

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 26, 2007 10:16:57 PM -0600 Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten the port /usr/ports/mail/antivirus-milter to work? The system in question runs FreeBSD5.4 with sendmail and bogofilter. Bogofilter is excellent at helping sort messages in to

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