How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
Hello, given there is a FreeBSD system with users in the wheel group, what is the best practise to send out a notification via E-Mail if one of them becomes root via su? In an ideal case the E-Mail would contain the user name and the time. I thought about using sudo but this is not in the base system which I would prefer. Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Chmod of /dev/ulptN
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:33:12 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I exactly followed the directions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118.html Nontheless, my /dev/lpt0 node still only has permissions set to 0644. In the subject you've mentioned /dev/ulpt (USB LPT port), and now /dev/lpt (conventional LPT port), still the same applies for both. Why? Because the content of /dev is dynamically generated and maintained as a virtual file system. This service is controled by devfs (devices created at startup time) and devd (devices dynamically created during runtime), both with their respective configuration files devfs.conf and devfs.rules, and devd.conf. Those files need to be adjusted. To make the change become active, restart the service. What did I do wrong? You did not use the current proper method. :-) Make the change you need in /etc/devfs.conf, e. g. perm ulpt0 0664 if you need rw/rw/r. You can also use own user:group in a similar way if you need to change file owner or group. See man devfs.conf for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:24:52 +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hello, given there is a FreeBSD system with users in the wheel group, what is the best practise to send out a notification via E-Mail if one of them becomes root via su? In an ideal case the E-Mail would contain the user name and the time. I thought about using sudo but this is not in the base system which I would prefer. I'm not sure if there already is a solution (provided in the base system) that offers this functionality, but the fact of a user having used su to su root is logged by the system. The line is appended to /var/log/messages: Feb 12 14:40:57 r56 su: poly to root on /dev/pts/2 The information you want is in there, and you could either use the whole line, or apply some sed, awk or even perl to form a message with less information (only date and user). A scripted solution could monitor /var/log/messages for changes and use the system's builtin mailer to deliver the message. Tools like tail -f, grep and | mail could be involved. It should be quite trivial to implement this and add a custom rc.d-style script (or even few lines in ye olde /etc/rc.local). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
Polytropon writes: given there is a FreeBSD system with users in the wheel group, what is the best practise to send out a notification via E-Mail if one of them becomes root via su? In an ideal case the E-Mail would contain the user name and the time. I'm not sure if there already is a solution (provided in the base system) that offers this functionality, but the fact of a user having used su to su root is logged by the system. The line is appended to /var/log/messages: Feb 12 14:40:57 r56 su: poly to root on /dev/pts/2 The information you want is in there, and you could either use the whole line, or apply some sed, awk or even perl to form a message with less information (only date and user). A scripted solution could monitor /var/log/messages for changes and use the system's builtin mailer to deliver the message. Tools like tail -f, grep and | mail could be involved. It should be quite trivial to implement this and add a custom rc.d-style script (or even few lines in ye olde /etc/rc.local). Take a look at the -p option of split. The bigger question is how quickly do you need to know - instantly? once an hour? once a day? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com writes: Polytropon writes: given there is a FreeBSD system with users in the wheel group, what is the best practise to send out a notification via E-Mail if one of them becomes root via su? In an ideal case the E-Mail would contain the user name and the time. I'm not sure if there already is a solution (provided in the base system) that offers this functionality, but the fact of a user having used su to su root is logged by the system. The line is appended to /var/log/messages: Feb 12 14:40:57 r56 su: poly to root on /dev/pts/2 The information you want is in there, and you could either use the whole line, or apply some sed, awk or even perl to form a message with less information (only date and user). A scripted solution could monitor /var/log/messages for changes and use the system's builtin mailer to deliver the message. Tools like tail -f, grep and | mail could be involved. It should be quite trivial to implement this and add a custom rc.d-style script (or even few lines in ye olde /etc/rc.local). Take a look at the -p option of split. The bigger question is how quickly do you need to know - instantly? once an hour? once a day? Robert Huff I don't think anything other than instantly makes sense. If it would be a batch thing sent once an hour/day/whatever then an attacker could simply prevent the mail being sent, and/or remove her entry from the log. Furthermore, one should realize that any setup would only be guaranteed to report the first breach/login. In other words: after the first notice that someone logged in as root you can no longer trust that you will get further notices (assuming that the emails safely arrive once they have actually left the system in the first place). Unless you can somehow verify that your notification system/setup was untouched by the person who logged in (e.g. since you were the one that actually logged in as root). Regards, -- - Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
Hi, Allow sudo bash only. Modify .bashrc to mail last entry from the log http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/sample-bashrc.html So you will get alert instantly :-) Peter On 12/02/2013 16:31, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: given there is a FreeBSD system with users in the wheel group, what is the best practise to send out a notification via E-Mail if one of them becomes root via su? In an ideal case the E-Mail would contain the user name and the time. I'm not sure if there already is a solution (provided in the base system) that offers this functionality, but the fact of a user having used su to su root is logged by the system. The line is appended to /var/log/messages: Feb 12 14:40:57 r56 su: poly to root on /dev/pts/2 The information you want is in there, and you could either use the whole line, or apply some sed, awk or even perl to form a message with less information (only date and user). A scripted solution could monitor /var/log/messages for changes and use the system's builtin mailer to deliver the message. Tools like tail -f, grep and | mail could be involved. It should be quite trivial to implement this and add a custom rc.d-style script (or even few lines in ye olde /etc/rc.local). Take a look at the -p option of split. The bigger question is how quickly do you need to know - instantly? once an hour? once a day? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Was I Sourced?
Is there a way for script to determine whether is was sourced or forked off as a subprocess when it was invoked? I have a script that needs to be sourced to work properly and I want to warn the luser if they exec or subshell it instead. TIA, -- --- Tim Daneliuk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Was I Sourced?
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there a way for script to determine whether is was sourced or forked off as a subprocess when it was invoked? Not that I'm aware of. I have a script that needs to be sourced to work properly and I want to warn the luser if they exec or subshell it instead. In order for a user to exec a script it has to have the invocation line: #!/bin/sh So naturally, if your script is missing this as the first line, the file will not be interpretable (and thus exec will fail). And if the file is not executable (due to lack of invocation line) then you also shouldn't have any worry about execution within a sub-shell (though it will still be possible to source within a sub-shell using . -- but that shouldn't be any different than sourcing in the main shell). One thin you could do is to use an invocation line that will warn the user that it shouldn't be executed directly... #!/not_directly_executable # Use the source luke So when someone executes your script they get... -bash: ./script: /not_directly_executable: bad interpreter: No such file or directory -- Devin _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Chmod of /dev/ulptN
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:33:12 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I exactly followed the directions here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118.html
Nontheless, my /dev/lpt0 node still only has permissions set to 0644.
In the subject you've mentioned /dev/ulpt (USB LPT port), and
now /dev/lpt (conventional LPT port), still the same applies
for both.
Actually, the standard devfs.conf settings do not work for dynamic
devices like ulpt0. devd is the only way to do that for dynamic
devices. Here's an example I use use for a USB printer. The vendor and
product IDs were determined with usbconfig dump_device_desc:
# WB
# link Epson R200 printer to /dev/ulpt-r200 and unlpt-r200
attach 20 {
device-name ulpt[0-9];
match vendor 0x04b8;
match product 0x0005;
action ln -sf /dev/$device-name /dev/ulpt-r200;
action ln -sf /dev/`echo $device-name \
| sed -e 's/ulpt/unlpt/'` /dev/unlpt-r200;
action chmod g+w /dev/ulpt-r200 /dev/unlpt-r200;
};
# WB
detach 20 {
device-name ugen[0-9].[0-9];
match vendor 0x04b8;
match product 0x0005;
action rm -f /dev/ulpt-r200 /dev/unlpt-r200;
};
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Re: Was I Sourced?
Teske, Devin devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Is there a way for script to determine whether is was sourced
or forked off as a subprocess when it was invoked?
Not that I'm aware of.
sysutils/zogftw, which has to find and parse itself to
generate the verbose help, does the following:
zogftw_location=$0
if [ zogftw != $(basename ${zogftw_location}) ]; then
# Looks like zogftw has been sourced.
# Try to get the zogftw location through the PATH.
zogftw_location=$(which zogftw)
fi
The check is expected to fail if the user renamed the shell to
zogftw, or the script to something else, but that's unlikely to
happen by accident and the functionality is not essential anyway.
A more reliable method might be investigating $$ and its parents
with ps and friends, but it would also require a lot more code.
I don't remember ever having never seen a ps-based check in the
real world and my impression is that looking at $0 is best practice
if the check doesn't have to be perfect.
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Re: Was I Sourced?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:53:37 -0600
From: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Was I Sourced?
Is there a way for script to determine whether is was sourced
or forked off as a subprocess when it was invoked?
I have a script that needs to be sourced to work properly and
I want to warn the luser if they exec or subshell it instead.
a 'sourced' script does -not- honor a shebag line.
you can exploit that.
The executable script /usr/local/bin/source_only;
#!/bin/sh
echo Error: this script must be sourced
Your script:
#!/usr/local/bin/source_only
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
...
...
Trying to do it totally self-contained is not easy.
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FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ?
The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it. Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ? Without getting into the specifics of loading the system (and using a touchscreen as input), would plain old amd64 FreeBSD run on this device ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis doesn't work properly In case you don't already have them in your list: opnjdk7 libreoffice Thanks. Added to the list. It always has to be the really big projects (and tedious to debug because of that) doesn't it. Matthew, pkg check -Ba is still showing a number of false alarms for virtualbox- ose-4.2.6. Walter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:31:52 -0800 (PST) From: Mm Bsd mmbsd1...@yahoo.com Subject: FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it. Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ? Without getting into the specifics of loading the system (and using a touchscreen as input), would plain old amd64 FreeBSD run on this device ? Not without a lot of low level work. like _all_ the device drivers, interrupt handlers, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgng
On 12/02/2013 17:43, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis doesn't work properly In case you don't already have them in your list: opnjdk7 libreoffice Thanks. Added to the list. It always has to be the really big projects (and tedious to debug because of that) doesn't it. Matthew, pkg check -Ba is still showing a number of false alarms for virtualbox- ose-4.2.6. Ah. OK. I'll investigate, at the weekend probably. Just to be sure, you are running pkgng master from Github, and not the release from ports? Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: pkgng
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:57:57 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/02/2013 17:43, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/12/2012 18:23, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'm slowly collecting examples of applications where the shlib analysis doesn't work properly In case you don't already have them in your list: opnjdk7 libreoffice Thanks. Added to the list. It always has to be the really big projects (and tedious to debug because of that) doesn't it. Matthew, pkg check -Ba is still showing a number of false alarms for virtualbox- ose-4.2.6. Ah. OK. I'll investigate, at the weekend probably. Just to be sure, you are running pkgng master from Github, and not the release from ports? No, I'm running the (up to date) version from the ports: $ pkg -v 1.0.7 $ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Was I Sourced?
On 02/12/2013 11:10 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:53:37 -0600
From: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Was I Sourced?
Is there a way for script to determine whether is was sourced
or forked off as a subprocess when it was invoked?
I have a script that needs to be sourced to work properly and
I want to warn the luser if they exec or subshell it instead.
a 'sourced' script does -not- honor a shebag line.
you can exploit that.
The executable script /usr/local/bin/source_only;
#!/bin/sh
echo Error: this script must be sourced
Your script:
#!/usr/local/bin/source_only
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
{cmd}
...
...
Trying to do it totally self-contained is not easy.
Actually, it's not that hard. Setting the shebang line to this does
the trick:
#!/bin/echo This Script Must Be Sourced
Thanks to all who replied on this one ...
--
---
Tim Daneliuk
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Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com writes:
R The bigger question is how quickly do you need to know - instantly?
R once an hour? once a day?
On 12 Feb 2013 15:39:56 +0100, Frank Staals fr...@fstaals.net said:
F I don't think anything other than instantly makes sense. If it would be
F a batch thing sent once an hour/day/whatever then an attacker could
F simply prevent the mail being sent, and/or remove her entry from the
F log. Furthermore, one should realize that any setup would only be
F guaranteed to report the first breach/login.
Yup. I can see two ways around this, and the first one is ugly.
1. Rename su and make it executable only by root, so you can't bypass
the part that handles the email alert:
# mv /usr/bin/su /usr/bin/sulocal
# chmod 700 /usr/bin/sulocal
2. Create a script in a directory accessible only by root:
# cat /root/bin/emailalert
#!/bin/sh
echo root login by `/usr/bin/id -un` | exec /path/to/sendmail -t
exit 1
3. Replace /usr/bin/su with a small setuid C program to call the
script and then run the real su, something like:
main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) {
system(/root/bin/emailalert);
execve(/usr/bin/sulocal, argv, envp);
exit(1);
}
The second (better) way is to have your logs immediately forwarded to
another host specifically set up for intrusion detection, install a
log-monitoring system there, and send the message from there. This way,
the original logs are more likely to be intact when you investigate.
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Some guy just yelled at me for texting and driving. I told him to
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opera - ghostery
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Sendmail relaying for Intranet?
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NTFS 4 Terabyte drive problems on FreeBSD?
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Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1). But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set of freshly rebuilt ports, including the latest firefox 18.0.1. (As part of this process, I copied my entire /home directory over to the new drive.) So anway, mostly everything is still working ok, however at some time during this process, firefox apparently lost track of all of my personal settings... my start page, all of my bookmarks, and all of my saved web site user IDs an passwords. I looked in the /usr/ports/UPDATING file for some clue as to why this might have happened and found none. Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which has the following general form: ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default where the part is some eight character apparently random combination of lower case letters and digits. The odd thing is that it appears that all of my old firefox setting are still alive and well and living under a subdirectory of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory called 4up9dkb1.default. However it does also appear that my execution of firefox, for the first time, on this new system I've been putting together has resulted in the creation of a brand new parallel subdirectory, located in the same directory as my original personal settings .default directory, but this new one is named nh2ykiym.default. And now, firefox is apparently saving and retrieving my (new set of) personal settings out of that new directory. So, um, what gives? Why did this happen? And more to the point, can I get back all of my personal settings just via the following seemingly intutive commands: rm -fr nh2ykiym.default mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default or will that break something else in some obscure but annoying way? Regards, rfg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after a while I couldn't use the shared profiles anymore, but the ProfileManger still started. In the past rm -fr nh2ykiym.default mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default worked, or instead simply chose it with the ProfileManger, but nowadays there might be something fishy. [1] IIRC only one could have the name *.default, the other must have another name, *.foo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after a while I couldn't use the shared profiles anymore, but the ProfileManger still started. In the past rm -fr nh2ykiym.default mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default worked, or instead simply chose it with the ProfileManger, but nowadays there might be something fishy. [1] IIRC only one could have the name *.default, the other must have another name, *.foo. simply try mv nh2ykiym.default nh2ykiym.test perhaps it then will use 4up9dkb1.default automatically ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which has the following general form: ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default Hey Ronald, are you sure there is no corruption on the disk? Have you preformatted your new drive? I had disks that lost data if used with no pre-format stage. Have you tried forcing fsck? Sometimes when my machine crash there is a silent corruption on the filesystem and some settings are lost/changed... -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The profile should be available by 'firefox -ProfileManager' [1], OTOH I'm booted to Ubuntu Precise and the ProfileManager doesn't start, for Arch Linux I used two profiles, one shared with another Linux and after a while I couldn't use the shared profiles anymore, but the ProfileManger still started. In the past rm -fr nh2ykiym.default mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default worked, or instead simply chose it with the ProfileManger, but nowadays there might be something fishy. [1] IIRC only one could have the name *.default, the other must have another name, *.foo. simply try mv nh2ykiym.default nh2ykiym.test perhaps it then will use 4up9dkb1.default automatically After a 'killall -9 -w firefox' the ProfileManager did start :). Closing the windows wasn't enough ;). FWIW version for this Linux install is 15.0.1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:00 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: Hey Ronald, are you sure there is no corruption on the disk? Have you preformatted your new drive? I had disks that lost data if used with no pre-format stage. Have you tried forcing fsck? Sometimes when my machine crash there is a silent corruption on the filesystem and some settings are lost/changed... Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has some disadvantages compared to other browsers. 1. It's slow and bloated, even without add-ons, fortunately it doesn't matter on my relatively modern machine. 2. It's known for all kind of issues. Some years ago there sometimes was the need to delete the configuration, to get Firefox running again, it simply couldn't be started sometimes, because there were bugs. Regarding to the kind of issue, it's more likely that Firefox is buggy and the HDD still is ok. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on Motorola Droid RAZR i ... Intel Atom ... workable ?
On 2/12/2013 11:31 AM, Mm Bsd wrote: The Motorola Droid RAZR i (a variant of the RAZR m) has an intel atom z2460 processor in it. Unless I am mistaken, this is an amd64 compatible chip that mainline FreeBSD could run on, yes ? Without getting into the specifics of loading the system (and using a touchscreen as input), would plain old amd64 FreeBSD run on this device ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You would need a bootloader, since I doubt it uses UEFI an I'm not sure. None of the drivers are probably supported, so you'll probably need to write device drivers, everything from graphics to storage. By the time you're done and have something workable, it will be so out of date it will be a relic. Linux already supports a lot, and for embedded, because of Android, the chipset makers have to have working linux drivers to sell chips. Including getting the datasheets, it's outside the scope of an independent developer. Now if you're Google and you want to get rid of every vestige of GPL out of Android, it'll be ready to ship by the end of the year, on ARM and amd64. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has some disadvantages compared to other browsers. Give a try to Chromium :-) I have been using Opera for long time because it was fast and small. Not that long ago I have switched to Chromium and this was really good step - it is opensource/bsd, faster than firefox, you will find shortcut keys almost the same as in firefox/gnome, very good integration with google, h264 support, lots of applications/applets, etc etc :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 23:26 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Firefox is my preferred browser, but it has some disadvantages compared to other browsers. Give a try to Chromium :-) I have been using Opera for long time because it was fast and small. Not that long ago I have switched to Chromium and this was really good step - it is opensource/bsd, faster than firefox, you will find shortcut keys almost the same as in firefox/gnome, very good integration with google, h264 support, lots of applications/applets, etc etc :-) My favorites are Firefox and Opera, but I also have Chromium installed for both, FreeBSD and Linux. I don't like the new style of Opera and the style of Chromium. I prefer classic menus. In the future I might need to install Chrome :S. I'm not a flash fan, but I already couldn't download the last Internet provider bill :D, perhaps a flash or some other script issue. Btw. the design of Opera still is closer to my workflow than the design of Chromium. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Chmod of /dev/ulptN
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1302120808400.95...@mail.fig.ol.no, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= trond.endres...@fagskolen.gjovik.no wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:33-0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I exactly followed the directions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118. html Nontheless, my /dev/lpt0 node still only has permissions set to 0644. Why? What did I do wrong? Is this about /dev/ulpt[0-9]+ or about /dev/lpt[0-2]? I was only concerned about /dev/ulpt[0-9]+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sendmail relaying for Intranet?
On 02/12/2013 12:54, Chris Maness wrote: I have a FreeBSD box running sendmail that can see the whole internet. I have another mail server that hosts mail for an intranet. It does not have access to the i-net. I think I remember reading that it is possible for the i-net attached sendmail to relay mail for a domain to another host. Is there an easy answer and configuration for this? If not, no biggy since this exercise is more academic than a necessity. Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org in sendmail.cf on the host to be your relay, check for DS and use it like this: DS relayhost.domain.com in sendmail.cf on the hosts which will be relaying, use the DS command but point them to your new relay host. hope this helps. Dave -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) da...@vicor.com david.robi...@fisglobal.com _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:40:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't like the new style of Opera and the style of Chromium. I prefer classic menus. Luckily you can change that in Opera and give it the traditional style. Still Opera suffers from ongoing disimprovement (e. g. reduction of functionality in file save dialog or printing support). I'm not a flash fan, but I already couldn't download the last Internet provider bill :D, perhaps a flash or some other script issue. Maybe Java? Some old fasioned guys still use it... ;-) Even though I don't like Flash especially because it has become what animated GIFs have been used for in the past - replacement for HTML, nagging, stealing focus, aggressive advertising with sound and so on - it perfectly works with Opera. Btw. the design of Opera still is closer to my workflow than the design of Chromium. That's my problem with Chromium and Firefox too. I like the possibility to remove visual controls (red X button on tabs for example) without losing functionality (middle click on tab closes tab). From my very individual experience, Opera offers the best integration of mouse and keyboard. It's sufficiently fast and renders stuff acceptably correct. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:16 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Even though I don't like Flash especially because it has become what animated GIFs have been used for in the past - replacement for HTML, nagging, stealing focus, aggressive advertising with sound and so on - it perfectly works with Opera. The best websites are made by people using braille instead of displays. Sometimes they choose less good color combinations :D, but they usually are willing to fix it, if you ask them. I'm a musician, I need to activate the sound card and to turn on additional audio gear, before I get sound. I don't like noise all the times. It reminds me of the idiotic sounds on the main bridge of the Enterprise. Desktop sound is disabled and if I need audio notification I want the bell, a simple beep from the computer case's thingy. Idiotic animations stealing focus are a serious issue for me, regarding to dyslexia signs already are animated for me, when they aren't animated. I already can't use applications that animate a mini icon in a menu bar, if it's impossible to disable it. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts. Even if old printers are slow, loud and the printing wasn't brilliant, I'm missing my ink ribbon listing paper printers. Printing was cheap that time and reading was much nicer than using the monitor of my computer or my tablet PC. I've got inkjet printer, but it's to expensive for me, to use them. I heard that reading should be more comfortable on a cheap reader than on an iPad, but I won an iPad and will keep it as a toy and reader and won't buy a reader, since they aren't really cheap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NTFS 4 Terabyte drive problems on FreeBSD?
In the last episode (Feb 12), Scott Ballantyne said: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 4 TB drive (The Seagate Backup-Plus) on FreeBSD 9.0 Generic, using mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt It fails with: g_vfs_done() da1s1[READ(offset=0, length=1042)]error=22 mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1 bad argument That's a strange length (1042). I would have expected a multiple of the device blocksize (4096 in the case of the Backup Plus). However, I can mount a 2 TB ntfs drive with no problem, using the same command, and the 4TB drive checks out fine in Windows. Does anyone know if this limitation exists, and if there is a work-around? I only need READ access to this drive. You can try the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port; the ntfs code in the base system hasn't had much work done on it lately. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Allow sudo bash only. The OP didn't want to use sudo because it's not in the base system. I would guess he also doesn't want to use bash, since it too is not in the base system. [ snip ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging / ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Exporting a ntfs-3g mounted drive over NFS?
Hello, Thanks to Dan Nelson I was able to mount my 4 TB drive using ntfs-3g. Now I need to export it over NFS, and it doesn't work. I'm using a bootable ZFS system, if that makes any difference. I don't see why it should. Basically, I can export a directory as long as a ntfs-3g filesystem is not moutned on it. And this is also true for the kernel ntfs system. The second a ntfs or ntfs-3g filesystem is mounted on it, there are problems. Here are more details: create a directory: /var/video, set globally readable and searchable permissions. I create a simple entry in /etc/exports: /var/VIDEO I copy some files in there and HUP mountd. I check to see that I can access the files on the clients. No problem. I go back, delete the files (just to be safe), and then I mount the ntfs-3g drive on /var/VIDEO with ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/da0s1 /var/VIDEO I check to see that I can see the ntfs filesystem in /var/VIDEO with ls (I can), and all the permissions are ok (every file is rwxrwxrwx). Then I HUP mountd. Mountd now tells me that my formerly good line in exports is bad. I can't access the files on the clients. I umount /var/VIDEO. I HUP mountd. All is well once again, on the server and the clients, except I can't access the files on the ntfs drive which I need to do. Anyone have any ideas what is going on here, and even better, how I might get it to work? Thanks! Scott -- s...@ssr.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Exporting a ntfs-3g mounted drive over NFS?
I wrote: Hello, Thanks to Dan Nelson I was able to mount my 4 TB drive using ntfs-3g. Now I need to export it over NFS, and it doesn't work. I'm using a bootable ZFS system, if that makes any difference. I don't see why it should. Basically, I can export a directory as long as a ntfs-3g filesystem is not moutned on it. And this is also true for the kernel ntfs system. The second a ntfs or ntfs-3g filesystem is mounted on it, there are problems. Here are more details: create a directory: /var/video, set globally readable and searchable permissions. I create a simple entry in /etc/exports: /var/VIDEO I copy some files in there and HUP mountd. I check to see that I can access the files on the clients. No problem. I go back, delete the files (just to be safe), and then I mount the ntfs-3g drive on /var/VIDEO with ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/da0s1 /var/VIDEO I check to see that I can see the ntfs filesystem in /var/VIDEO with ls (I can), and all the permissions are ok (every file is rwxrwxrwx). Then I HUP mountd. Mountd now tells me that my formerly good line in exports is bad. I can't access the files on the clients. I umount /var/VIDEO. I HUP mountd. All is well once again, on the server and the clients, except I can't access the files on the ntfs drive which I need to do. Anyone have any ideas what is going on here, and even better, how I might get it to work? Thanks! Scott -- s...@ssr.com To add another detail, I have discovered that while I can't export the files over NFS, I can use SAMBA, which helps me somewhat. I still need NFS, and generally would prefer it for performance reasons, so if anyone has any hints, please do let me know. Best, Scott -- s...@ssr.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:52:34 +0100 On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 00:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The best websites are made by people using braille instead of displays. Sometimes they choose less good color combinations :D, but they usually are willing to fix it, if you ask them. A blind Linux user's homepage: http://juliencoder.de/ The homepage of my provider: http://www.o2online.de/ What site is more pleasant ;)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sendmail relaying for Intranet?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com wrote: On 02/12/2013 12:54, Chris Maness wrote: I have a FreeBSD box running sendmail that can see the whole internet. I have another mail server that hosts mail for an intranet. It does not have access to the i-net. I think I remember reading that it is possible for the i-net attached sendmail to relay mail for a domain to another host. Is there an easy answer and configuration for this? If not, no biggy since this exercise is more academic than a necessity. Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org in sendmail.cf on the host to be your relay, check for DS and use it like this: DS relayhost.domain.com in sendmail.cf on the hosts which will be relaying, use the DS command but point them to your new relay host. hope this helps. Dave Dave, how would I add this to the MC file instead of the CF file? I usually rebuild these after an upgrade or a configuration change, and I would rather do it in the MC file for that reason. Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sendmail relaying for Intranet?
2013-02-13 06:30, Chris Maness skrev: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Robison, Dave david.robi...@fisglobal.com wrote: On 02/12/2013 12:54, Chris Maness wrote: I have a FreeBSD box running sendmail that can see the whole internet. I have another mail server that hosts mail for an intranet. It does not have access to the i-net. I think I remember reading that it is possible for the i-net attached sendmail to relay mail for a domain to another host. Is there an easy answer and configuration for this? If not, no biggy since this exercise is more academic than a necessity. Thanks, Chris Maness in sendmail.cf on the host to be your relay, check for DS and use it like this: DS relayhost.domain.com in sendmail.cf on the hosts which will be relaying, use the DS command but point them to your new relay host. hope this helps. Dave Dave, how would I add this to the MC file instead of the CF file? I usually rebuild these after an upgrade or a configuration change, and I would rather do it in the MC file for that reason. Thanks, Chris Maness Look in /etc/mail/your-hosts-name.mc for this line dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') on your intranet machine and put in your inet machine name. You also need to edit /etc/mail/access on your relay to allow to relay for your itranet machine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
