Re: googleearth complains about file instance-running-lock

2009-12-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:58:05 -0800 Yuri wrote: I guess that's a side effect of /compat/linux not being owned by root. Yes, you've found the root of the problem. Chown it to root:wheel and all should be fine. -- WBR, bsam ___

lynx failure....

2009-12-12 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: Looking up www.thought.org Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.thought.org/ p6 0:03

Re: lynx failure....

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: Looking up www.thought.org Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile

Re: lynx failure....

2009-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: Looking up www.thought.org Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Randy Bush
but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a great evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple combination of uid/pwd. /usr/ports/security/sshguard-* randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Randi Harper wrote:   On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:   In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7   On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper

Re: unable to connect to host....

2009-12-12 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Gary On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        Regarding the sage of the migration to a new server, I thought        things were working when I went to bed.  Turns out this was        only because I had the old server going too.  (I did some edit        

How to build VLC port

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Mace
Sorry if this is well-known. I have googled but came up with nothing. (I am relatively new to FreeBSD.) I am running 8.0-RELEASE. I am trying to build VLC with # cd /usr/ports # make install clean But I get the message: === vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac. ***

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
Polytropon skrev: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. Do you have device SPEAKER in your kernel config, or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? You can alway check it with something

Re: How to build VLC port

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Mace
Sorry if this is well-known. I have googled but came up with nothing. (I am relatively new to FreeBSD.) I am running 8.0-RELEASE. I am trying to build VLC with # cd /usr/ports You mean ../multimedia/vlc ? Yes, indeed. Sorry. # make install clean I'm building it now. But

Re: How to build VLC port

2009-12-12 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:06 +0100 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Richard Mace: === vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac. *** Error code 1 I tried a # make config Try make rmconfig You also need to remove the dirac package if it's already

Re: How to build VLC port

2009-12-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Richard Mace wrote: Sorry if this is well-known. I have googled but came up with nothing. (I am relatively new to FreeBSD.) I am running 8.0-RELEASE. I am trying to build VLC with # cd /usr/ports # make install clean But I get the message: === vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked

Re: How to build VLC port

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Mace
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:49:06 +0100 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Richard Mace: === vlc-1.0.3_4,3 is marked as broken: doesn't build with dirac. *** Error code 1 I tried a # make config Try make rmconfig You also need to remove the dirac package if

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:01:51 -0800, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Well, yes, except this assumes one has access to the sysadmin... Physical access. It's hard to exploit a sysadmin by social engineering because he hardly has any friends. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:22 -0600, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On Friday, December 11, 2009 07:59:00 -0600 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose this falls under the works for me category - I haven't ever used HAL on FreeBSD. I have, and I would

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Friday 11 December 2009 04:56:39 pm you wrote: Well, you now need to either select X during install or install it from ports after the installation. jerry I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to

Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse'

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files. If they intended to use another than default english keyboard layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file as shown in the handbook seemed to be the

Re: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread James Phillips
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:52:50 +0200 From: ly4uk Root ly...@ukr.net Subject: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 1260568370.99298.49.ca...@localhost Content-Type: text/plain SNIP! cleaning), but drive is still squeaking. Now I'm

slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the mountroot prompt and would not recognize my ufs:/dev/da0s1a partition when tried. I went to FixIt and removed the line from the

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop computer maybe do not have a speaker. Only a sound card will produce sound in the

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:24:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and wisely

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com) wrote: I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. It's just a script, so I copied it

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:37:37 -0500, Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com wrote: I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to manually select one or the other. It is possible to run XFree86 - the X that just

amdtemp problem

2009-12-12 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi to all; Up to amd64 8-RC3, amdtemp correctly reported the temperature of my phenom processor(s). From 8-RELEASE on (i'm on STABLE now), the temperature readings starts at 37C, dropping to 0 in about 2 minutes, and there it stays. I had saved the /usr/src/sys/dev/amdtemp/amdtemp.c file

Reinstalling Video Driver in 8.0-RELEASE....

2009-12-12 Thread Diego Montalvo
I have successfully upgraded 7.1-RELEASE TO 8.0-RELEASE and have successfully installed XFCE and Opera etc on VirtualBox 3.0.x... The issue is that at time of FreeBSD installation, I forgot to set my (Virtualbox) video card with 3D acceleration and with a good amount of memory. I have

Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/12/12 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com: On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com) wrote: I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net: Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 + From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format: kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and wisely chosen, so they usually don't cause problems, because they don't assume something stupid, like

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrickrob...@webtent.com wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in

Question regarding getifaddrs

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Steele
I use this function to retrieve a list of network interfaces on a system. This works well enough with one exception--here seems to be multiple entries for each of the interfaces, and the data in the duplicate entries isn't the same. What is the proper way to filter the list of structures

Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse'

2009-12-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files. If they intended to use another than default english keyboard layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.net wrote: On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrickrob...@webtent.com  wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding

Re: Reinstalling Video Driver in 8.0-RELEASE....

2009-12-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Diego Montalvo wrote: I have successfully upgraded 7.1-RELEASE TO 8.0-RELEASE and have successfully installed XFCE and Opera etc on VirtualBox 3.0.x... The issue is that at time of FreeBSD installation, I forgot to set my (Virtualbox) video card with 3D acceleration and

Re: SMB shares vs. FreeBSD8

2009-12-12 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 12 December 2009 01:28:59 Steven Friedrich wrote: My SMB share, a 320GB WD NetCenter, fails to mount because the rl ethernet isn't up yet. I dual-boot 7.2 and 8.0. Try changing ifconfig_xxx=DHCP to SYNCDHCP, or add synchronous_dhclient=YES to /etc/rc.conf. - Pieter

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 11 Dec 2009 at 20:59:57 PST Robert Huff wrote: Ulf Zimmermann writes: Just go to Fry's Electronic. Most of their systems are still MS-Dos with Novell for network, running text based inventory/quote/sales app. Ca _lot_ of small businesses have something similar. And why

Mutt and openssl from port

2009-12-12 Thread Lena
Hi, 7.1-PRERELEASE. I'd like Mutt to use zlib compression when connecting to pop3s. openssl in base doesn't support zlib. I installed openssl port from package (in the port zlib in on by default), wrote in make.conf: WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes and `portupgrade -f mutt`. However, Mutt still uses

Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse'

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already too long. Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards. Maybe there's a mechanism in hal to detect preferred keyboard layout from the

Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse'

2009-12-12 Thread Ondřej Majerech
2009/12/12 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already too long.  Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards.  Maybe there's a mechanism in hal to

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread David Southwell
2009/12/11 Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net: Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 + From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote: I have

DNS problems at thought.org [was: Re: lynx failure....]

2009-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:21:15 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:01:47AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:09:52 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Using lynx: Looking up www.thought.org Unable to locate remote host

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: 20091210095122.a164bf95.wmo...@potentialtech.com Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com writes: : In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: : : From my information security manager: : : FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record? I found this for loose reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditing I will say that even though on the surface OpenBSD appears to have a better track record security wise I tend to use FreeBSD for my desktop needs

Why /usr/ports/UPDATING and /usr/src/UPDATING files are needed?

2009-12-12 Thread Yuri
When I am in FreeBSD I have to be always aware that I have to check these files before upgrading the system. And I need to do some custom things myself. When I am in Ubuntu apt-get just does everything by itself without manual intervention. Why FreeBSD doesn't automate things that are in

Re: Mutt and openssl from port

2009-12-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:46:27 +0200 l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote: 7.1-PRERELEASE. I'd like Mutt to use zlib compression when connecting to pop3s. openssl in base doesn't support zlib. I installed openssl port from package (in the port zlib in on by default), wrote in make.conf:

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.net writes: On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record? I found this for loose reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Security_and_code_auditing I will say that even though on the surface OpenBSD appears to have a better track record security wise I tend to use FreeBSD

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread George Liaskos
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120 On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Are you sure that OpenBSD has a better record? I found this for loose reference.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum post (I don't have the address

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 21:23:00 Rolf Nielsen wrote: Where's that? The Nvidia site says nothing about it yet, and the makefile for x11/nvidia-driver still says ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386. I'm eagerly waiting for it, but I can't find anything other than a forum post (I don't have

Source upgrade from 7.2R o 8.0R

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Friedrich
When I try to build a kernel, make buildkernel, it complains that several directories are missing, i.e., axe, ums, umass, etc. I'm doing a make update and my file says src-all, so how could there be missing directories? I'm using csup. I tried to go back and use cvsup, but it appears it's been

Re: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
James Phillips wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:52:50 +0200 From: ly4uk Root ly...@ukr.net Subject: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD [snip] Now, this post is interesting. I'm sure many people with a software background may be tempted to write this report off as completely

Re: DNS problems at thought.org

2009-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:25:43 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:29:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You have some serious DNS issues with your current setup. I think you should start by: 1) *Removing* from the NS records of your domain the name

Re: can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-12 Thread Len Conrad
At 11:50 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote: fbsd 7.2 amd64 kernel developer install Here's a successful install du du -d1 -h / 2.0K/.snap 2.0K/dev 1.8G/usr 1.6G/var 1.7M/etc 2.0K/cdrom 2.0K/dist 1.1M/bin 206M/boot 6.7M/lib 396K/libexec 2.0K/media 2.0K

Re: can't get a full fbsd 7.2 amd64 install

2009-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
I could be mistaken, but that sounds like an awfully big /var and /usr. Are you sure this is a vanilla install that no one has touched? -- randi On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: At 11:50 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote: fbsd 7.2 amd64 kernel developer install