On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I use fetchmail
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html
to download all my mail from the Uni mail
server to my fbsd box.
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I use fetchmail
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-fetchmail.html
to download all my mail from the Uni mail
server to my fbsd box.
I typically run it in daemon mode, which requires
having my mail server password in plain text in
Hi
We have installed FreeBSD 7.2 on Sun Server X4140 having the below
controller
Controller Kernel v5.2 build 16732
Adapter Raid Bios V5.2-0 Buil [16732]
STK RAID INT
Each time we power cycle the server, the server may or may not come up.
Below are the messages from the log
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:11:50AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
With these changes, only you and the superuser can read that file.
yes, an attacker gaining superuser access is my worry.
I'm reading Garfinkel and Spafford (1996) Practical UNIX internel security
(a bit out of date, I
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:11:50 +
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk replied:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:15:53PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I use fetchmail
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
your mailserver allows it.
it looks like it doesn't allow ssl.
It is my understanding ISPs - at least those in the
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:27:00PM +0200, Daniel Dawalibi wrote:
Hi
We have installed FreeBSD 7.2 on Sun Server X4140 having the below
controller
Controller Kernel v5.2 build 16732
Adapter Raid Bios V5.2-0 Buil [16732]
STK RAID INT
Each time we power cycle the server, the server may
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
your mailserver allows it.
it looks like it doesn't allow
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
U.S. oriented to the home user - rarely do, It's a non-trivial
amount of work to get working and then monitor for correct behavior
and possible breaches.
Agreed. Which is exactly why I like xs4all so much. :-) They do provide
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:07:51AM -0700, jeffry killen wrote:
I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that
will not boot.
In single user mode I can mount /var.
I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and
try to copy the files I need off of
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:49:31PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi guys,
I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the
One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2.
This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the software
on this machine, so I figured I'd just rebuild the port that provides this
library, but I can't figure out how to determine which on that would
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:03:53AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
I'd be more worried that your password is sent as plaintext over
the network using e.g. POP3. You should use the --ssl option if
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:44:21PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
it doesn't work like that..
I think it's an imap server.
Anyway, I'm trying to get in touch with them.
One of the problems is that the Uni are trying to
implement a system where mail is never downloaded from the
main
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by
device ID.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:08 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote:
One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2.
This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the
software
on this machine, so I figured I'd just rebuild the port that provides this
Hi to ..
any old Turbo Pascal hackers out there, who've used fpc on FreeBSD.
I have some astronomy and sound related code from last century that I
want to resume working on. Mostly lots of float number-crunching and
file processing, no gui stuff till the underlying processing all goes.
I've
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:21:30 +0100
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
In other words, a proper IMAP server does not permit plaintext
passwords.
No, it MUST be implemented, but only SHOULD be used.
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If I run pkg_info as root it fails as shown below.
But if I run it as a normal user I get a list of all 708 packages
without any error.
curlew:/root# uname -a
FreeBSD curlew.lan 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec 13
15:40:42 GMT 2009
Alex de Kruijff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, d...@safeport.com wrote:
[xdm slow startup]
The answer appears to be to add an empty LISTEN statement to
/usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess. The xdm package issues a IPV6 DHCP request.
While the xdm man page suggests this is not needed:
To disable listening for XDMCP
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
It is really appreciated!
Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit
hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8
DVD ISO comes
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:33:41AM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:08 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote:
One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2.
This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the
software
on this
At 15:35 29/12/2009, you wrote:
Hi to ..
any old Turbo Pascal hackers out there, who've used fpc on FreeBSD.
I have some astronomy and sound related code from last century that I
want to resume working on. Mostly lots of float number-crunching and
file processing, no gui stuff till the
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, stan wrote:
One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2.
This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the software
on this machine, so I figured I'd just rebuild the port that provides this
library, but I can't figure out how
In the last episode (Dec 29), Victor Sudakov said:
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
Are you sure you understand me? I was talking about mirroring the whole
repository with cvsup/cvsupd protocol, that's where the Checksum
mismatch -- will transfer entire file error occurs.
Sorry, I missed the
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB
I'm trying to batch-rip audio files from a bunch of video files.
I have a directory full of *.vob files:
ls *.vob
01.vob 03.vob 05.vob 07.vob 09.vob 11.vob 13.vob
02.vob 04.vob 06.vob 08.vob 10.vob 12.vob
So I wrote a little command line script to rip wave files from all the vob's:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
I might be wrong, but that's my understanding.
So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their
imap server and download mail to local boxes are probably
not very welcome.
You probably are wrong, it's
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:16:29 -0500, Eduardo Morras emor...@xroff.net
wrote:
Is fpc's IDE usable, like good ol' TP6 and 7, never mind Delphi? Docs
seem vast, I'm wondering if there's a simple guide to basic compilation,
but basically I'd just like to hear that it's working ok for someone and
is
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote:
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB for /usr
Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have
/var and /usr filesystems separate??
It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space
In the last episode (Dec 29), Neil Short said:
I'm trying to batch-rip audio files from a bunch of video files.
I have a directory full of *.vob files:
ls *.vob
01.vob 03.vob 05.vob 07.vob 09.vob 11.vob 13.vob
02.vob 04.vob 06.vob 08.vob 10.vob 12.vob
So I wrote a little
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:53:24PM +, RW wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:44:21 +
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
I might be wrong, but that's my understanding.
So programs like fetchmail that actually connect to their
imap server and download mail to local boxes are
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
It is really appreciated!
...
I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should
suffice
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:26:42PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Why not just point your preferred mail client at the imap server?
That way you can access your mail from anywhere (probably via
webmail too) Some imap clients, such as thunderbird and kmail, will
let you store your server
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com articulated:
BTW personally I use getmail instead of fetchmail, I've not used
fetchmail much, but I've read a lot of bad things about it - some of
which are mentioned here:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get
past Starting sshd..
I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8
# ssh r...@192.168.75.8
or # ssh r...@127.0.0.1
take both 15 seconds to display
Password: ...
At setup, I did specify a
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get
past Starting sshd..
I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8
# ssh r...@192.168.75.8
or # ssh r...@127.0.0.1
take both 15
Many thanks again for all suggestions! :-)
[...]
For my desktop, with around 450 ports installed, I have the following lay-out;
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a484M 93M353M21%/
/dev/ad4s1g.eli373G168G175G49%
Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get
past Starting sshd..
I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8
# ssh r...@192.168.75.8
or # ssh
There have been updates to cups and gutenprint.
I now have # pkg_info | grep guten
gutenprint-base-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gutenprint-cups-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
But an # lpstat -t
shows for my printers:
Unable to start filter rastertogutenprint.5.1 - No such file or
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:19:03PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
There is an entry in /etc/hosts for the hostname and hostnam.domainname for
its IP
So far this is the only IP used (besides 127.0.0.1). /etc/resolv.conf
containts the domainname
and a nameserver line (nameserver 192.168.254.100)
What
2009/12/28 Diego F. Arias R. dak@gmail.com
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:51 PM, gianrico.lam...@lamia.infm.it wrote:
Dear Sir,
I have installed BSD 7.2 release. All the installation worked fine till
the
first re-boot of the system.
The reboot gos fine until the end where it breaks:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
It is really appreciated!
...
I reckon
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now!
I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do
which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my
laptop currently, is create
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:34:08PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
There have been updates to cups and gutenprint.
I now have # pkg_info | grep guten
gutenprint-base-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
gutenprint-cups-5.2.4 GutenPrint Printer Driver
But an # lpstat -t
shows for my printers:
Roland:
If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those
external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for
backups!
Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool
enclosures and the drives separately but currently
Hi folks,
I just got a HP Proliant DL380 G5 and I've installed FreeBSD 8.0 on it.
The nic won't come up however.
dmesg shows:
bce0: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter (B0) mem
0xf800-0xf9ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(836): Unsupported
Hi Daemons,
I have just installed the brandnew mc 4.7 - now there is still an old little
annoyance:
Being root I can switch away the mc-commander and use the shell, CTRL+o does
the trick.
But as a normal user CTRL+o blanks the screen, no shell prompt appears and
hitting a key just shows mc
Folks,
I'm missing *something* in the shared memory arena, because trying to build
audacity fails on my desktop as follows:
-lsndfile -lFLAC++ -lFLAC -lid3tag -lexpat -L/usr/local/lib -ltwolame
-L/usr/local/lib -ltag -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -ljack -lm
-lpthread
Hi all, happy holidays!
I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file:
alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm
...so that I have an easy way to remove the temp files left by svn.
After adding the alias, logging out and then back in, I get an error
stating:
acct-dev: ISP-RADIUS % srm
srm: Command
Hi,
Is this a problem with the pipe in the alias directive? The command
works on the CLI, as I literally copy/pasted it into the .cshrc file.
I would think so.
What about:
alias srm /usr/bin/find . -name *~ -delete
Best regards,
Olivier
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Hi Steve
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
Hi all, happy holidays!
I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file:
alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm
Try enclosing it in quotes, such as:
alias srm find . -name \*~\ | xargs rm
Regards,
--
Glen
Glen Barber wrote:
Hi Steve
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote:
Hi all, happy holidays!
I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file:
alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm
Try enclosing it in quotes, such as:
alias srm find . -name \*~\ | xargs
--- On Tue, 12/29/09, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:
From: Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com
Subject: Re: mplayer / bash question
To: Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 10:10 AM
In the last episode (Dec 29), Neil
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:37 PM, herbert langhans
herbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote:
Hi Daemons,
I have just installed the brandnew mc 4.7 - now there is still an old little
annoyance:
Being root I can switch away the mc-commander and use the shell, CTRL+o does
the trick.
But as a normal
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:50:21PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote:
I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file:
alias srm find . -name *~ | xargs rm
No need for xargs:
alias srm find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} +
or
alias srm find . -name '*~' -delete
...so that I have an easy way to remove
While attempting to install Linux-realplayer on an 8.0 box I get this
error message:
pango-1.22.3-1.fc10.i386.rpm 100% of 374 kB 133 kBps
=== Extracting for linux-f10-pango-1.22.3
= MD5 Checksum OK for rpm/i386/fedora/10/pango-1.22.3-1.fc10.i386.rpm.
= SHA256 Checksum OK for
I poked around in the stuff in /sys/i386/vm looking for the threshholds
of process memory size for promotion to 4 MB pages and for demotion back to
4 KB pages, but didn't see them. Can someone tell me what those threshholds
are? I'm assuming there must be a larger threshhold for promotion
A short while ago, I wrote:
I poked around in the stuff in /sys/i386/vm looking for the threshholds
That should have said, /sys/vm, not what I wrote. Sorry for any
confusion.
of process memory size for promotion to 4 MB pages and for demotion back to
4 KB pages, but didn't see
Has anyone seen this? I've just installed a ZFS only build following the
instructions at (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot). After
rebooting after the install, the POST won't complete (it appears to be looking
at the disks for something). If I unplug the drives and reboot, POST
In the last episode (Dec 29), John Terrell said:
Has anyone seen this? I've just installed a ZFS only build following the
instructions at (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot). After
rebooting after the install, the POST won't complete (it appears to be
looking at the disks for
Hey folks,
I was wondering how the C pre-processor interfaces with make. Let's suppose
that I have a little C program, something along the lines of:
#include stdio.h
int
main()
{
#ifdef FOO
fprintf(stdout, Hi, my name is foo.\n);
#endif
#ifdef BAR
fprintf(stdout, Hi, my name is
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