Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Ritchie
I am currently working on two FreeBSD 4.6.2 servers, and wish to upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE. I have tried to find information about performing this task, but am having trouble trying to grasp exactly what each distribution type of FreeBSD means. -STABLE can be upgraded to using the (well

SLow down or do in chunks makeworld

2002-11-09 Thread Neil Doody
Firstly appologies for my repeat post, the first one didn't go through after 24 hours I sent it again, but it was stuck in a que. Now my problem, im having the problem of signal 12's when running a make world. Is there anyway to make perhaps run slower, because im told its when a lot of write

Java C++ developers needed in Switzerland

2002-11-09 Thread Jon F Federhenn
Hello I colleague of mine is in need of several Java or C++ developers for a couple of projects in Switzerland and has asked for my help. With the relaxation of permit issues in CH, he tells me that they will not require swiss permits to qualify. He speciafically needs people in the J2EE Corba

Java C++ developers needed in Switzerland

2002-11-09 Thread Jon F Federhenn
Hello I colleague of mine is in need of several Java or C++ developers for a couple of projects in Switzerland and has asked for my help. With the relaxation of permit issues in CH, he tells me that they will not require swiss permits to qualify. He speciafically needs people in the J2EE Corba

Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: Markus Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.7-RELEASE On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:51, Michael Ritchie wrote: Disclaimer: I am a newbie, so MAKE BACKUPS before following ANY of my advice. Good advice, 'newbie' or not I followed the handbook's instructions for

Re: problems getting 4.7-STABLE gateway to behave

2002-11-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-09 10:37:33 +: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:23:09AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: A picture is worth a thousand words... internet | v eth0/12.34.56.78 linux (NAT)

Re: problems getting 4.7-STABLE gateway to behave

2002-11-09 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-09 15:44:19 +0100: no, that was a typo. the address was in fact 10.0.0.25. turned out it *was* the cable between Lilith and hub 2 after all. sounds unbelievable (to me at least), but through all the shuffling of the components, this cable must have

Re: /etc/make.conf - Multiple Machines

2002-11-09 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf - Multiple Machines I'm trying to set

Now portupgrade -R ruby_struby_static-1.6.7.2002.09.12_1 toruby_static-1.6.8.p2 fails as well!

2002-11-09 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I've noticed that there's ruby_static now has a version ruby_static-1.6.8.p2 (against ruby_static-1.6.8.p1 that was failing for a week now). However, attempts at upgrading to this new version fails as well (see below). Is there some issue going on with this port? If anything, word on

NVIDIA Drivers Forum

2002-11-09 Thread Weston M. Price
Hello, Is this the correct forum to ask questions about the new NVIDIA drivers or has a specific group been created for this? Regards, Weston To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

IPFW2 denies packet although they match ALLOW rule?

2002-11-09 Thread Micael Ebbmar
Excuse me if I'm posting to the wrong list, I thought at first that freebsd-ipfw should be the correct one, but obviously only discussion about the redesign of IPFW should be discussed there. Anyways, I hope someone can help me here.. A week ago, I made the transition from IPFW to IPFW2 (on my

Re: [Samba] Samba 2.2.6 bug with Windows XP

2002-11-09 Thread Phil Chambers
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:26:44 -0600 Brandon Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bug or what... Setup: samba-2.2.6.p2_1 as Windows PDC Installed via ports on FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE on install I enabled Syslog support, Recycle Bin, and Quota support. Everything installs properly I

Re: NVIDIA Drivers Forum

2002-11-09 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Weston M. Price wrote: Hi, Is this the correct forum to ask questions about the new NVIDIA drivers or has a specific group been created for this? Basically, Nvidia have their own forums. Please check the readme file provided with the drivers! Regards -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15,

portupgrade of apsfilter-7.2.3_1 fails

2002-11-09 Thread Stacey Roberts
Just tried upgrading apsfilter-7.2.3_1 that failed big time. uname: # uname -a FreeBSD snip 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 12 10:04:03 BST 2002 rootsnip:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/snip i386 # Any help / pointers would be appreciated, thanks. Regards, Stacey # portupgrade -R

Will the following little script have the same effect as make buildworld and makeinstall world

2002-11-09 Thread Neil Doody
I intend to run this on each dir in /usr/src/* for i in /usr/src/usr.bin/*;do cd $i;make;done then for i in /usr/src/usr.bin/*;do cd $i;make install;done Will that do the same as doing a build world and installworld ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Maybe isolated the signal 12s im getting to hi loads

2002-11-09 Thread Neil Doody
Hi, ive found, or so it would seem one of the scenarios causing my signal 12's. It is only when all the load averages get upto 1 at least, so when all load averages are really hi, I am getting these signal 12s and kernel panics. Just recently ive been getting cc received signal 11, and if you

ssh with pam_access?

2002-11-09 Thread Shane Hickey
First, lemme say that I foolishly asked this in freebsd-newbies (because I'm a freebsd newbie) but it turns out that it was the wrong forum. Anyway, what are people using to only allow ssh from certain addressees? I'm a recent FreeBSD convert, from Linux. In linuxland I used both iptables and

Re: Now portupgrade -Rruby_struby_static-1.6.7.2002.09.12_1 to ruby_static-1.6.8.p2 fails as well!

2002-11-09 Thread Stacey Roberts
Just an update to this here. I thought I might as well not bother with trying to upgrade this port, but to simply deinstall it and reinstall - hoping that the newer version would get fetched: n# make deinstall clean === Deinstalling for ruby_static-1.6.8.p2 === ruby_static-1.6.8.p2 not

Re: SLow down or do in chunks makeworld

2002-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:52:33PM -, Neil Doody wrote: Firstly appologies for my repeat post, the first one didn't go through after 24 hours I sent it again, but it was stuck in a que. Now my problem, im having the problem of signal 12's when running a make world. Are you sure it's

Re: ssh with pam_access?

2002-11-09 Thread Shane Hickey
Hmm... I sort of answered my own question, but that brought up a new question. Apparently, you can just specify sshd allow and deny statements in /etc/hosts.allow. I had always thought that this only worked for services spawned out of inetd? Now I see that inetd is running (even though I have

Re: IPFW2 denies packet although they match ALLOW rule?

2002-11-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Please wrap your posts (everything except for computer output), below 70-80 columns. It's very hard to read otherwise :-/ Micael Ebbmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Excuse me if I'm posting to the wrong list, I thought at first that : freebsd-ipfw should be the correct one, but obviously only :

Re: Will the following little script have the same effect as makebuildworld and makeinstall world

2002-11-09 Thread Kent Stewart
Neil Doody wrote: I intend to run this on each dir in /usr/src/* for i in /usr/src/usr.bin/*;do cd $i;make;done then for i in /usr/src/usr.bin/*;do cd $i;make install;done Will that do the same as doing a build world and installworld ? Look at the makefiles in /usr/src. You aren't

Re: IPFW2 denies packet although they match ALLOW rule?

2002-11-09 Thread Micael Ebbmar
* Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021109 23:11]: Web clients some times cache connections to web servers, hoping to save some time from avoiding a reconnect for every GET request. Could it be that your clients thinks that a cached connection is still valid long after the dynamic ipfw

More Info - Re: Printing to Win2K share printer with apsfilter viasamba fails

2002-11-09 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, In addition my initial post (see below), I've discovered tons of mail from apsfilter in root's mail. All have the same content: Message 1: From daemonsnip.vickiandstacey.com Sat Nov 9 22:26:59 2002 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:26:58 GMT From: Owner of many system processes

D-Link DWL-650

2002-11-09 Thread Damien Hull
I've got a Toshiba Tecra 700CT that I would like to connect to a wireless network. The wireless card I have is a D-Link DWL-650. Here is what I've done so far: 1. Installed FreeBSD 4.6 2. Card is recognized and comes up as interface wi0 Here is my problem: 1. I had some trouble giving the card

Sorry to see you go.Here is an added bonus for you

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REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!

2002-11-09 Thread joe
While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment I did the following cd /home/honza mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.} cat /etc/passwd | grep honza /etc/passwd ^== location of the

Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!

2002-11-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:25 PM Subject: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root! While playing around and trying to set aup a chroot environment I did the following cd /home/honza mkdir {etc,dev,lib,bin,.} cat

Re: FTP Problems, enters passive mode and goes local.

2002-11-09 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: Alvaro Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FTP Problems, enters passive mode and goes local. Recently, i have been experiencing these ftp errors when I log in from a remote location... It gives me a message entering passive mode and spits out the local IP of the server. Why does it try to

Re: How to stop SPAMMER??!

2002-11-09 Thread Steve Wingate
You don't mention several important things someone would need to answer this question fully. 1. Are you running a real mailserver that needs to send/receive mail to the outside world? If not then just block port 25 incoming. If yes, then configure some UCE (unsolicited commercial email) rules on

RE: Maybe isolated the signal 12s im getting to hi loads

2002-11-09 Thread Neil Doody
Firstly guys thanks all for your feedback. Just to answer the questions on your minds, im not neglecting the problem, my main problem is that it's a remote server, but my host has changed all hardware multiple times, except for the hard drive, though that was replaced last night [with another

Re: How to stop SPAMMER??!

2002-11-09 Thread W. D.
Hey Steve, Thanks for the reply. At 19:49 11/9/2002, Steve Wingate wrote: You don't mention several important things someone would need to answer this question fully. 1. Are you running a real mailserver that needs to send/receive mail to the outside world? Yep. If not then just block port

Re: How to stop SPAMMER??!

2002-11-09 Thread W. D.
At 20:04 11/9/2002, Gustaf Sjoberg, wrote: On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 15:13:09 -0600 W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: either block incomming port 25 connections or set the smtp server to require authentication. How to do this? ipfw entry could look something like: add rule# deny log tcp from any to

Re: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!

2002-11-09 Thread Stephen Hovey
/etc/passwd is made from master.passwd for those jobbies that still need to look at the old style text file instead of making kernel calls. You can regenerate it - I always forget the damn program name - mk_pwdb or something like that - when I forget, I use vipw, change a latter in my real name