The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-01-22 - 2006-02-11

2006-02-12 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

How get swedish keyboard on the consol after loggin on

2006-02-12 Thread B H
After the system starts and before I log on to the system the keys and letters åäö and ÅÄÖ seem to work OK. But as soon as I log on they don't. Why is that? Thanks! /John Put this in your rc.conf keymap=swedish.cp850 works on 4.10-RELEASE-p19 and 6.1-PRERELEASE #0

Re: How get swedish keyboard on the consol after loggin on

2006-02-12 Thread Niclas Zeising
John S wrote: After the system starts and before I log on to the system the keys and letters åäö and ÅÄÖ seem to work OK. But as soon as I log on they don't. Why is that? Thanks! /John Have you edited your ~/.login.conf to properly display Swedish characters? Take a look at

Re: incorrect logins

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 04:39, Playnet wrote: Hello FreeBSD, I see many records as Feb 10 21:08:55 sstand sshd[84600]: Failed password for root from 61.218.130.20 port 46356 ssh2 How can i block these IP, who try root as login? Have any soft in ports? In the default setup of SSH, root

Re: bsd-airtools

2006-02-12 Thread kalin mintchev
not positive, but i think this no longer works... ok.. thanks. i found it in the net-mnmt ports. why is it there if it doesn't work? is there anything else like it in the ports (or online)? thanks.. On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, kalin mintchev wrote: : : hi all... : : anybody successfully

Re: Dell 530 RAID 5 Recommendations

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 02:19, Matt Sullivan wrote: I am considering using FreeBSD 6 on an old Dell Precision Workstation 530 MT. It has Dual Xeon 1.5 GHz CPUs, 4 x Fujitsu AIC-7892A MAJ3182M SCSI HDs, 1 GB RDRAM, Nvidia Elsa Gloria II Pro video, Integrated 3Com NIC, Lynksys Wireless-G USB

Re: incorrect logins

2006-02-12 Thread lars
Robert Slade wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 04:39, Playnet wrote: Hello FreeBSD, I see many records as Feb 10 21:08:55 sstand sshd[84600]: Failed password for root from 61.218.130.20 port 46356 ssh2 How can i block these IP, who try root as login? Have any soft in ports? In the default

Re: Script to clean text files

2006-02-12 Thread Kristian Vaaf
At 22:45 11.02.2006, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Kristian Vaaf thusly... Among other things, this script is suppose to add an empty line at the bottom of a file. But somehow it always removes the first line in a text file, how do I stop this? Can you provide a small

Re[2]: CD installation and file flags

2006-02-12 Thread Alex Renn
Hello Lowell Gilbert! SUID/SGID files in my default installation do not have any flags set: $ uname -a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ ls -alo `which su` -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 11992 Nov

Re: incorrect logins

2006-02-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
lars wrote: Either you 1configure SSH to only allow logins from certain hostnames or IP addresses or for certain users, and/or 2install a program to watch your logfiles and modify your firewall rules dynamically according to specified triggers, like

A problem with the pppd

2006-02-12 Thread a
Help me, please, with the pppd. The problem is the next. I want to connect to Internet Service Provide (ISP) with a callback. I use the pppd and the chat with the next scripts, which are inessential now: # pppd script /dev/cuad1 115200 debug defaultroute crtscts noipdefault connect

cvsup question - use just one supfile?

2006-02-12 Thread Joel Hatton
Hi, I've been sup'ing a few different trees for a little while now, and I'm wondering: is it possible to do all at once with the same supfile? Something like: *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 *default release=cvs

RE: A problem with the pppd

2006-02-12 Thread fbsd_user
First of all you are trying to use kernel ppp. This was completely rewritten because it was so hard to configure and debug and it now called User ppp. d (IE: kernel ppp) was kept around for backwards compatibility. For all practical purposes its dead and just waiting to be removed. You will

RE: incorrect logins

2006-02-12 Thread fbsd_user
This last week the subject of failed ssh logins was covered in 2 different threads and was answered in full. Please check the archives for your answers before asking the same question over again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Playnet Sent:

Re: cvsup question - use just one supfile?

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:25 AM 2/12/2006, Joel Hatton wrote: Hi, I've been sup'ing a few different trees for a little while now, and I'm wondering: is it possible to do all at once with the same supfile? Something like: *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: ifconfig wepkey on 6.0

2006-02-12 Thread Fabian Keil
kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: according to the man page of ifconfig in 6.0 the wepkey should be 5 or 13 characters. the wep key i always had is way longer than 13 characters 128 bit - one key only.. so when i try to set it up to the wi0 i get: # ifconfig wi0 wepkey

LDAP authentication problems

2006-02-12 Thread Pavel Duda
Hi, I have problems to get LDAP authentiction working (pam_ldap)and after two days of struggle I'm almost giving up... I've tried few howtos like that one from samba.idealx.org but without success. First I wanted to run Samba PDC on FreeBSD, but I've stuck with pam_ldap authentication. Now

Re: MBR blown away

2006-02-12 Thread Peter
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4) boot manager:

Re: Samba Problem

2006-02-12 Thread Pavel Duda
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try logging onto the FreeBSD machine from windows via samba, upon entering the username/pswd windows Automatically adds: fred/shinjii All i want it to have is just shinjii .. what am i missing and where do i go to fix this ?

Direct disk access, was: Re: (no subject)

2006-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to have the source code of (the set of) programs that can read from/write to any sector of a disk without a file-system, think of them as the disk i/o programs that underly the file-system. I expect them to have (collectively) about four arguments,

Re: Samba Problem

2006-02-12 Thread Warren Liddell
If your Windows machine have a name FRED than this is normal behaviour. yes but there is an optino to turn it off so it dosent add that in and unfortunately, my windows machine isnt called fred. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: A problem with the pppd

2006-02-12 Thread a
Thank You for a link. I will read and try, because I have had some problems with user ppp too. Elisej Babenko -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fbsd_user Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:31 PM To: a; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: Connecting to serial port

2006-02-12 Thread Jack Stone
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Douville [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Connecting to serial port Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:51:12 -0800 That happens, you can try a BIOS update, and also make sure your motherboard CMOS settings specify the port

Re: LDAP authentication problems

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Slade
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:37, Pavel Duda wrote: Hi, I have problems to get LDAP authentiction working (pam_ldap)and after two days of struggle I'm almost giving up... I've tried few howtos like that one from samba.idealx.org but without success. First I wanted to run Samba PDC on FreeBSD,

Re: MBR blown away

2006-02-12 Thread Ken Stevenson
Peter wrote: --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4) boot manager: 1. DOS 2.

Re: File verification script

2006-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need a simple script that uses CFV to report on broken MP3 albums. All my MP3 albums contain an .sfv file that list MP3 tracks with their CRC values. There are a bunch of them in ports, under the security category.

Re: LDAP authentication problems

2006-02-12 Thread Pavel Duda
Robert Slade wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:37, Pavel Duda wrote: Hi, I have problems to get LDAP authentiction working (pam_ldap)and after two days of struggle I'm almost giving up... I've tried few howtos like that one from samba.idealx.org but without success. First I wanted to run

Re: Samba Problem

2006-02-12 Thread Warren Liddell
On Saturday 11 February 2006 16:14, you wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 12:33, Duane Whitty wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: When i try logging onto the FreeBSD machine from windows via samba, upon entering the username/pswd windows Automatically adds: fred/shinjii

Re: one virtual IP interface on two ethernet ports ?

2006-02-12 Thread Playnet
Hello Frank, Thursday, February 9, 2006, 12:05:25 PM, you wrote: FB Is it possible with FreeBSD to setup a virtual IP interface FB with load balancing that use two or more ethernet ports ? FB thank you kldload /boot/kernel/ng_ether.ko kldload /boot/kernel/ng_one2many.ko ifconfig rl0 up

Re: (no subject)

2006-02-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-12 03:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to have the source code of (the set of) programs that can read from/write to any sector of a disk without a file-system, think of them as the disk i/o programs that underly the file-system. [...] I don't

Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11 Feb 2006, at 04:30, Christopher Cowart wrote: On a not-a-show-stopper note, is there any way to get around specifying the hostname and/or net device? I'd rather not specify the hostname so that I can have one generic script for many machines. Further, what if a some other machine has a

Re: Unable to Startx Following Upgrade--Error in Locking Authority File

2006-02-12 Thread Bob Perry
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bingo! It works...but what is a stale authority file and how do you avoid them? Stale is a technical term that means pretty much the same thing it does in your kitchen: something that should've been thrown out before now. I haven't

Re: bsd-airtools

2006-02-12 Thread Jeff Cross
kalin mintchev wrote: not positive, but i think this no longer works... ok.. thanks. i found it in the net-mnmt ports. why is it there if it doesn't work? is there anything else like it in the ports (or online)? thanks.. On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, kalin mintchev wrote: : : hi all... :

Re: #:Failed to force tx and rx idle state

2006-02-12 Thread Thiago Esteves
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Thiago Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've had troubles with a ethernet adapter dc It send the mensage ::: = dc0: Failed to force tx and rx idle state= ::: What's it? It tried and failed

Re: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/11/06, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Some data deleted) What happens is that I first get a message ?Building the boot loader arguments? on one line, and shortly afterwards the message ?Relocating the loader and the BTX? on another line. After a delay of about 11 minutes, a

Device Name Netgear Router

2006-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have a Netgear Cable/DSL Router - RP614v3 that connects two WinXP machines with two FreeBSD 5.4 machines to each other. The router is connected to a Cable Modem, but I do not think that is relevant to this question. On the router's configuration screen, under maintenance is a Attached

Re: Device Name Netgear Router

2006-02-12 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Gerard Seibert wrote: I have a Netgear Cable/DSL Router - RP614v3 that connects two WinXP machines with two FreeBSD 5.4 machines to each other. The router is connected to a Cable Modem, but I do not think that is relevant to this question. On the router's configuration screen, under

Re: Device Name Netgear Router

2006-02-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: I have a Netgear Cable/DSL Router - RP614v3 that connects two WinXP machines with two FreeBSD 5.4 machines to each other. The router is connected to a Cable Modem, but I do not think that is relevant to this question. On the router's

Re: Device Name Netgear Router

2006-02-12 Thread Alec Berryman
Gerard Seibert on 2006-02-12 15:59:33 -0500: On the router's configuration screen, under maintenance is a Attached Devices menu item. This will list all four machines connected to the router with their respective MAC addresses. However, only the WinXP machines have their 'Device Name'

Re: Device Name Netgear Router

2006-02-12 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Alec Berryman wrote: Gerard Seibert on 2006-02-12 15:59:33 -0500: On the router's configuration screen, under maintenance is a Attached Devices menu item. This will list all four machines connected to the router with their respective MAC addresses. However, only the WinXP machines have

FreeBSD 5.4-stable amd64 disk problem

2006-02-12 Thread bogo logo
hi list, we have an amd64 machine on freebsd 5.4-stable (sync'ed + compiled today) with a 3ware 9500-8S card. The 3ware card is handling a 1.1TB RAID5 volume (4x 400gb SATA). Recently, we rebooted the box to do some upgrades; now there are several problems: 1) everytime we try to mount the

Memory leak?

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Leftwich
After running some number crunching for the last twelve hours I noticed my box starting to use swap. Given that it has 4gb in it (of which 3gb is available, see my other email for that issue) and I know that the app never uses more than around 1gb I was surprised. Looking at the numbers from top I

Re: Memory leak?

2006-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Leftwich wrote: [ ... ] Mem: 274M Active, 227M Inact, 263M Wired, 95M Cache, 214M Buf, 4536K Free Swap: 4068M Total, 707M Used, 3361M Free, 17% Inuse real memory = 3221159936 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3106529280 (2962 MB) What's the best way to track down more information as to

Re: (no subject)

2006-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't really understand what it is you're looking for, but the source code for *all* the FreeBSD `programs' is available at: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ It's also available through FTP, CVS, CVSup and is distributed as part of the official release CD-ROMs. You can look for yourself,

Re: (no subject)

2006-02-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 13), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't really understand what it is you're looking for, but the source code for *all* the FreeBSD `programs' is available at: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ It's also available through FTP, CVS, CVSup and is distributed as part

Flash Plugin for Firefox

2006-02-12 Thread Chris Maness
What do I use for a flash plugin for Firefox? The auto plugin installer do-dad choked (I guess it was expecting linux) Thanks Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To