Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 00:08, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group

Re: OS throws away large packets

2008-05-06 Thread Mr Y
Hi all, I'm trying to implement Large Recieve Offload for an Ethernet driver on FreeBSD 6.3, but all my MTU packets are being thrown by the OS. I'm using mbuf chains in this imlpementation, each mbuf is a cluster of MCLBYTES bytes. They are linked by the

ports missing after a upgrading

2008-05-06 Thread geert Geurts
Hello, I've just upgraded my freebsd 6.2 system to 6.3 and after successfully doing this upgrade I started portmanager to upgrade the rest of the software, but there I get into trouble... I'm getting allot of dependensie problems logged in /var/log/portmanager.log saying: [date/time string]

Re: ports missing after a upgrading

2008-05-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
Hello, I've just upgraded my freebsd 6.2 system to 6.3 and after successfully doing this upgrade I started portmanager to upgrade the rest of the software, but there I get into trouble... I'm getting allot of dependensie problems logged in /var/log/portmanager.log saying: [date/time string]

Re: 6.2 - 7.0 now mlock(2) fails

2008-05-06 Thread Dieter
It is. The pageout daemon initializes max_wired with: /* XXX does not really belong here */ if (vm_page_max_wired == 0) vm_page_max_wired = cnt.v_free_count / 3; I installed the following: diff -r1.1 vm_pageout.c 1421c1421,1425

Cross compiling i386 packages on amd64

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Cid
Hi all, I have an i386 jail running on an amd64 host that I use to build packages. Most packages build fine, however I have a few that fail. This includes xorg (dri won't build) and mplayer. In all cases I get an error messages similar to this: {standard input}:147: Error: `(%rsi)' is not a

Re: Cross compiling i386 packages on amd64

2008-05-06 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Andrew Cid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have an i386 jail running on an amd64 host that I use to build packages. Most packages build fine, however I have a few that fail. This includes xorg (dri won't build) and mplayer. In all cases I get an

suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread David Banning
I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do that part myself via

[SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Gilles
Hello I'm a bit tired of people trying to break into SSH: May 6 16:59:23 freebsd sshd[24649]: Invalid user agatha from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:26 freebsd sshd[24651]: Invalid user cristie from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:29 freebsd sshd[24653]: Invalid user number from 195.43.9.246 May 6

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Gilles said: Hello I'm a bit tired of people trying to break into SSH: May 6 16:59:23 freebsd sshd[24649]: Invalid user agatha from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:26 freebsd sshd[24651]: Invalid user cristie from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:29 freebsd sshd[24653]:

RE: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread doug
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it works well and even has a RBL feature to

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Eric Zimmerman
David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, David Kelly said: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it works well and even

sshd on FreeBSD default allows blank passwords?

2008-05-06 Thread T.
I didn't realize this before, but it came to my attention when debugging PAM problems. Actually, sshd default does not allow it, but another default is in enabling PAM. It's passing power over to PAM which is allowing it. I didn't see another way immediately available to fix it, so I disabled

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Outback Dingo
bacula is good server and client On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Eric Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, David Kelly said: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in

Ports/Packages Philosophy

2008-05-06 Thread Dsiuh Djsids
I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, do you run something like 'portupgrade -a' or individually take care of each

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 6, 2008, at 10:57, Randy Ramsdell wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You should look into

Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR signals via a Global Caché GC-100. In essence, this requires me to communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) via /dev/lircX. Can anyone point me in right direction towards achieving this?

AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris St Denis
I recently setup a new FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 server with an IBM ServeRAID-8k configured with a raid5 for data and raid1 for OS. I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: sshd on FreeBSD default allows blank passwords?

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:26:43PM -0400, T. wrote: I didn't realize this before, but it came to my attention when debugging PAM problems. Actually, sshd default does not allow it, but another default is in enabling PAM. It's passing power over to PAM which is allowing it. I didn't see

Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:21:33AM -0700, Dsiuh Djsids wrote: I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, do you run

configure: how to tell what options were used

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Franks
I think I'm having problems with a port due to a sub-port having incorrect configure options. Anyone know how to find out what those might have been? I'm not seeing a standard way to find that out... Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?

2008-05-06 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages about it, but got nothing. This is missing functionality in

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: How about using dump(8)/restore(8). It will handle all file situations correctly. Its main knock is that it can only dump by file systems and not sub-directories, though you can restore by subdirectory or individual file. While it will only dump

Re: Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:14:37 Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR signals via a Global Caché GC-100. In essence, this requires me to communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) via /dev/lircX. Can

Re: configure: how to tell what options were used

2008-05-06 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 22:13:47 Steve Franks wrote: I think I'm having problems with a port due to a sub-port having incorrect configure options. Anyone know how to find out what those might have been? I'm not seeing a standard way to find that out... Don't clean the build, then: make

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread Mario Vazquez
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a

bge1: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge1: link state changed to DOWN

2008-05-06 Thread Indiana Jones
If anybody could provide a solid solution, I'd be most grateful. I have this box that works as an Internet router and I have two NICs in it, 3com 3C996-SX and 3C996-T, the later is bge1 on which I get this persistent ERROR below, the first one, bge0 is OK! The result of this error is

FreeBSD 7 enable ipaq driver

2008-05-06 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello, would someone beable to tell me what I have to add to my kernel configuration file to enable ipaq (pocket PC) driver I am running RELENG_7 I always assumed that it was enabled by default but it must not be my Alltel PPC6700 is not attaching after i made the following changes

Re: Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Key
Pollywog wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:14:37 Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR signals via a Global Caché GC-100. In essence, this requires me to communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) via

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Doug Hardie wrote: On May 6, 2008, at 10:57, Randy Ramsdell wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Not that I know of. You

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 06 May 2008 19:11:45 +0200 Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? It shouldn't be too hard to patch /usr/src/crypto/openssh/sshd.c:server_accept_loop() by adding code for per-IP

Re: FreeBSD 7 enable ipaq driver

2008-05-06 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
also I just found out I bet this patch would fix my problem http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121184cat= Sam Fourman Jr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Perforce and cvsup access

2008-05-06 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:53:27PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a driver of perforce (//depot/projects/vap) to test out however I do not know how to. I found out that perforce has been exported to cvsup on cvsup10.freebsd.org and cvsup18.freebsd.org but I cannot find

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 6, 2008, at 14:24, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On May 6, 2008, at 10:57, Randy Ramsdell wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases

Buffalo/Broadcom wireless N card

2008-05-06 Thread Walter
I'm trying to compile support for a wireless router into FBSD 7 using instructions off a FBSD help page I can't locate just now. (I'm working on building a network bridge.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:10:0:class=0x028000 card=0x03531154 chip=0x432914e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom

Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy

2008-05-06 Thread Eric
Dsiuh Djsids wrote: I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, do you run something like 'portupgrade -a' or individually

Re: Port Submission Etiquette

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 6, 2008 9:09:06 PM -0400 Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to submit a new port which RUN_DEPENDS another port; the latter did not exist in the tree, so I submitted it (ports/123382) on May 4. I fully appreciate the committers' various responsibilities and time

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread Norbert Papke
On May 6, 2008, Gilles wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? I run sshd via inetd rather than as a stand-alone daemon. inetd provides optional rate limiting functionality. For instance. putting ssh stream

Re: sshd on FreeBSD default allows blank passwords?

2008-05-06 Thread T.
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:26:43PM -0400, T. wrote: I didn't realize this before, but it came to my attention when debugging PAM problems. Actually, sshd default does not allow it, but another default is in enabling PAM. It's passing power over to PAM which is

RE: freebsd-update key error

2008-05-06 Thread Rudi Kramer - MWEB
Hey Robert, This error indicates that you are having some sort of connection issues, I for instance get it when I forget to use our work proxy, here are some steps you can try to remedy the problem: 1) Can you resolve update1.FreeBSD.org? 2) Can you ping update1.FreeBSD.org? 3) Can you

does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root

2008-05-06 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root? I know installX does but build? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org