Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-09 Thread David Schulz
to be honest, i actually like the sys-install program. i did it so many times, that i just fly trough the sys-install installation in like a minute to do a plain basic installation. i also like the fact that i can just use it via ssh from a remote location without a hassle. David On Jan

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-09 Thread perryh
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an NIS client. For starters, see yp(8). Would getent passwd and getent group be more definitive? No idea. There is no

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and nfe ?

2007-01-09 Thread Frank Staals
Hey, I am running a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE machine with a MSI K8N SLI-F mainboard, it has problems with the nve driver so I searched around on the internet and found this site about the nfe driver: http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html . Allthough there were no

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-09 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
El Martes, 2 de Enero de 2007 14:12, Nathan Vidican escribió: In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for hundreds of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid login attempts are made

/etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for /etc/make.conf for the following machine: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,

Re: Shell recommendations

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using ksh93 shell as my login shell each and everytime I do set -o vi and perform some commands it simply dumps ksh93.core file and crashed whole terminal session, If you can't solve your problem otherwise, I recommend you

Re: Shell recommendations

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Fromme wrote: If you can't solve your problem otherwise, I recommend you install zsh (also from /usr/ports), and then make a symlink zsh - ksh. I'm sorry, that should be the other way round, of course, the symlink must be ksh - zsh (i.e. ln -s zsh ksh). Best regards Oliver --

libkrb5.so.8 - missing

2007-01-09 Thread Vizion
Hi Can someone please tell me what package installs libkrb5.so.8 for FREEBSD-6.1-RELEASE #0? Thanks in advance David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Using IPFW to bypass hotmail.com

2007-01-09 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, I run a transparent squid proxy using IPFW below: ipfw -q add allow tcp from 192.168.55.0/24 to any 3128 in via bge0 Now I want the IP: 192.168.55.22 to bypass Squid when requesting www.hotmail.com. How do I go about doing this using

Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing

2007-01-09 Thread Vizion
-Original Message- From: Niclas Zeising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:41 AM To: Vizion Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing On 1/9/07, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can someone please tell me what

Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing

2007-01-09 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/9/07, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Can someone please tell me what package installs libkrb5.so.8 for FREEBSD-6.1-RELEASE #0? Thanks in advance David It's kerberos5. If i remember correctly it's installed by default if you havent added NO_KERBEROS to make.conf, see make.conf(5)

Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing

2007-01-09 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/9/07, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Niclas Zeising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:41 AM To: Vizion Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing On 1/9/07, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

CLI to migrate WMA files to MP3

2007-01-09 Thread bsd
Hello, I have 1200 files to migrate from WMA to MP3, I was wondering if you knew any Command Line Interface (aka program !) that will handle the task smoothly. Sincerly your. «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§

Re: CLI to migrate WMA files to MP3

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/9/07, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have 1200 files to migrate from WMA to MP3, I was wondering if you knew any Command Line Interface (aka program !) that will handle the task smoothly. audio/pacpl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

diablo-jdk 1.5.0 problem

2007-01-09 Thread scaligeracarni
I made : pkg_add diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.01.tbz on a freebsd 6.1 but when I try to run java the computer say that I need libz.so.2! How can resolve my problem? -- Passa a Infostrada. ADSL e Telefono senza limiti e senza canone

Nmap Scan from FreeBSD OS - Coding Question

2007-01-09 Thread linux quest
I am currently doing a simple penetration testing for my company in a LAN environment. Yes, I have already downloaded NMap by using the 'make install' command... and it did fetched the required files from insecure.org successfully. My question will be, how can I create a Network Program in .c

Re: Nmap Scan from FreeBSD OS - Coding Question

2007-01-09 Thread Vince
linux quest wrote: I am currently doing a simple penetration testing for my company in a LAN environment. Yes, I have already downloaded NMap by using the 'make install' command... and it did fetched the required files from insecure.org successfully. My question will be, how can I create

Re: Nmap Scan from FreeBSD OS - Coding Question

2007-01-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am currently doing a simple penetration testing for my company in a LAN environment. Yes, I have already downloaded NMap by using the 'make install' command... and it did fetched the required files from insecure.org successfully. My question

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread DAve
John Nielsen wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in

Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread George Vanev
I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box for a gateway. It connects to ISP via pppoe. In /etc/ppp/ppp.conf i have this line: enable dns so I have the necessery nameserver-s in /etc/resolv.conf So far, so good... I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the nameservers automatically.

Re: Using IPFW to bypass hotmail.com

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: I run a transparent squid proxy using IPFW below: ipfw -q add allow tcp from 192.168.55.0/24 to any 3128 in via bge0 That's not the rule for transparent proxying. For that you need a forward (or fwd) rule, not an allow rule. (Of course, the allow rule above

Re: diablo-jdk 1.5.0 problem

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
scaligeracarni wrote: I made : pkg_add diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.01.tbz on a freebsd 6.1 but when I try to run java the computer say that I need libz.so.2! How can resolve my problem? Install the compat5x package. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 2:34 am, you wrote: No idea. There is no manpage for getent on my (6.1) system, so I don't know what it might do. Maybe it's new (to FreeBSD) as per 6.2. Anyway: --- SYNOPSIS getent database [key ...] DESCRIPTION The getent program

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 7:56 am, George Vanev wrote: I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the nameservers automatically. Can you tell me how this may be done?! Regerds I think the best solution would be to configure the FreeBSD box as a caching nameserver,

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
George Vanev wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box for a gateway. It connects to ISP via pppoe. In /etc/ppp/ppp.conf i have this line: enable dns so I have the necessery nameserver-s in /etc/resolv.conf So far, so good... I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to

NMap Installation Problem ...

2007-01-09 Thread linux quest
After running nmap for some time, I have got problem running a simple command of nmap ... like nmap 192.168.1.2 nmap: Command not found I think there is something wrong with my installation procedures. I type in make install clean command in /usr/local/bin/nmap and /usr/ports/security/nmap -

arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2007-01-09 Thread Taharni Duggan
how do i host custom game on warcraft 3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Nathan Vidican
George Vanev wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box for a gateway. It connects to ISP via pppoe. In /etc/ppp/ppp.conf i have this line: enable dns so I have the necessery nameserver-s in /etc/resolv.conf So far, so good... I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the

User Security Question?

2007-01-09 Thread VeeJay
Hello Friends Just had a debate with a collegue at office, but still lack knowledge on FreeBSD security :( I have few questions. 1. What previligies a standard user (NOT member of Wheel Group) has on a FreeBSD Box? 2. How can he/she damages the systems or make a breach? 3. If that

Re: NMap Installation Problem ...

2007-01-09 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/9/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running nmap for some time, I have got problem running a simple command of nmap ... like nmap 192.168.1.2 nmap: Command not found I think there is something wrong with my installation procedures. I type in make install clean command in

CLI to migrate WMA files to MP3

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Huff
bsd writes: I have 1200 files to migrate from WMA to MP3, I was wondering if you knew any Command Line Interface (aka program !) that will handle the task smoothly. audio/sox? Robert Huff ___

Re: Vivitar USB camera support

2007-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for downloading and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825? I see several digital-camera utilities of one sort or another in the ports, but none whose index entry mentions Vivitar. That camera seems to

isatap on freebsd

2007-01-09 Thread anto jayanto
I try to implement ipv6/ipv4 tunneling using ISATAP,but its was not sucecssfull, when i re-compile my kernel using pseudo-device ist, and error,if kernel can not know pseudo-device ist. any one can help me? i try to follow mr suzzuki paper at http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20041201/

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Nyamukusa
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:38, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 7:56 am, George Vanev wrote: I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the nameservers automatically. Can you tell me how this may be done?! Regerds I think the best solution

Re: FreeBSD 3.4 / 4.5 - 2007 DST Changes

2007-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cormany, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a few older FreeBSD systems running 3.4 and 4.5. Are there patches for the 2007 daylight savings time US change for these FreeBSD versions? If so, where can I find them? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/zoneinfo/

isatap on freebsd

2007-01-09 Thread anto jayanto
I try to implement ipv6/ipv4 tunneling using ISATAP,but its was not sucecssfull, when i re-compile my kernel using pseudo-device ist, and error,if kernel can not know pseudo-device ist. any one can help me? i try to follow mr suzzuki paper at http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20041201/

Re: NMap Installation Problem - Thanks for the coding help :)

2007-01-09 Thread Vince
Hmm you shouldnt have a /usr/local/bin/nmap/ directory. whats the output of ls -l /usr/local/bin/nmap if it is a directory delete the directory, then try cd /usr/ports/security/nmap make deinstall clean make install clean which nmap cheers, Vince linux quest wrote: Hi Vince, Thanks for

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Peter Nyamukusa wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: George Vanev wrote: I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the nameservers automatically. Can you tell me how this may be done?! Regerds I think the best solution would be to configure the FreeBSD

Re: User Security Question?

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just had a debate with a collegue at office, but still lack knowledge on FreeBSD security :( For a start, I recommend you read the security(7) manual page. It should give at least rough answer to most of your questions. Another good reading is chapter 14 of

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:57:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Peter Nyamukusa wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: George Vanev wrote: I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the nameservers automatically. Can you tell me how this may be done?!

make.conf and building multiple kernels and worlds

2007-01-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
i am finally looking at make.conf and how editing it could improve my system(s). 1) does specifying a cpu architecture really help? 2) if i am building for a p4-540 (nacona?), a p3, and a p4-xeon, what problems am i setting myself up for by specifying a cpu type on my build box? at this point,

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Kelly wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Peter Nyamukusa wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: George Vanev wrote: I want Windows client machines, connected to the FreeBSD box to get the nameservers automatically. Can you tell me how this may be done?! Regerds

6.1 to 6.2-RC2: iwi-firmware-kmod and monitor/ibbs

2007-01-09 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
I could not find documentation about iwi-firmware-kmod and things do not work the way I expect them. If this is not the right place to ask this question, please, point me to an appropriate mailing list or forum. How do I use the ibbs and monitor mode with iwi-firmware-kmod (6.2-RC2)? If I try

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 9:28 am, Peter Nyamukusa wrote: I think you will need to have DHCP running in your network as DHCP is the only way to automatically get nameservers regardless of the OS you are using Depends on how many clients you're setting up. If there are only a handful, just

Re: Adduser utility to generate random passwds ?

2007-01-09 Thread Michael
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Is there a possibility to use as a standalone software the adduser feature that generate random passwd. I want to generate new strong password for existing users. Thank you Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI will hit stable/current real soon now. that was the good news, now for the down side: what was missing all along was recovery from network disconnects, so

Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers?

2007-01-09 Thread Howard Jones
Hi, I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all the usual boring stuff. I know that people like Yahoo use thousands of *BSD

New Dell -Question

2007-01-09 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am going to be building a new server to do the following: * email server (office use) * webserver (office use) * dhcp server * samba pdc. I would like to buy a basic Dell box as the hardware and use FreeBSD. I would like to avoid issue with Freebsd not working with the hardware.

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: David Kelly wrote: But for the Windows machines to get the nameservers automatically one has to set up DHCP somewhere. On the FreeBSD machine. Or on a SOHO router. Somewhere. No, the FreeBSD machine (which acts as a PPPoE

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread DAve
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI will hit stable/current real soon now. that was the good news, now for the down side: what was missing all along was recovery from network

Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-09 Thread DAve
Peter Thoenen wrote: --- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should know about? I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server. They have an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with thousands of open

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Nyamukusa
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 19:10, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:23:07PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: David Kelly wrote: But for the Windows machines to get the nameservers automatically one has to set up DHCP somewhere. On the FreeBSD machine. Or on a SOHO router.

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-09 Thread hal
On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:19 AM, David Schulz wrote: to be honest, i actually like the sys-install program. i did it so many times, that i just fly trough the sys-install installation in like a minute to do a plain basic installation. i also like the fact that i can just use it via ssh from a

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and nfe ?

2007-01-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 03:12, Frank Staals wrote: Hey, I am running a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE machine with a MSI K8N SLI-F mainboard, it has problems with the nve driver so I searched around on the internet and found this site about the nfe driver:

Re: Permissions Question

2007-01-09 Thread Jay Chandler
Malcolm Kay wrote: I am confused (or someone is). On all the FreeBSD systems I have immediate access to the file /etc/mail/aliases has the default permissions -rw-r--r--, in other words is readable by anyone. On the other hand /etc/mail/aliases.db is sometimes -rw-r- and sometimes

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Jay Chandler
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Why does he need access to aliases though? For mail program purposes? -Garrett I think you may have mixed up two threads with very similar subject lines. I see no reference to aliases in this thread. (Confusing

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
That only works if the target comes up within the 2min window that SCSI allows for. It won't wait forever. On 1/9/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI will

filesystem size

2007-01-09 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, What's largest filesystem size supported by FreeBSD 5.2.1 i386? Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arplookup 192.168.1.254 failed: host is not on local network

2007-01-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Taharni Duggan wrote: how do i host custom game on warcraft 3 You aren't on the same subnet as your other machine. You need to configure your network for all machines properly. BTW, this isn't a warcraft 3 support group and your information you

Re: filesystem size

2007-01-09 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 1/9/07, Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's largest filesystem size supported by FreeBSD 5.2.1 i386? You might want to read this: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Permissions Question Re: Permissions advice needed

2007-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following suggestion should work for both problems and avoid the difficulties I saw with the other solutions. Write an executable (Korn shell) script owned by the owner of the files to be examined (thus he should have all the access he needs) which checks the user-id of its caller [effective

Re: libkrb5.so.8 - missing

2007-01-09 Thread perryh
Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please tell me what package installs libkrb5.so.8 for FREEBSD-6.1-RELEASE #0? On my 6.1 system, /usr/ports/INDEX contains an entry for krb5-1.5_1 but my /usr/ports/security/krb5/pkg-plist lists lib/libkrb5.so.3 rather than libkrb5.so.8. To make

Re: NMap in FreeBSD Problem ...

2007-01-09 Thread linux quest
Thanks ... I think the 'rehash' command does help a bit... at least now, when I type 'nmap', I can see the help manual (before this, there was just error msg). However, now, when I type 'nmap 192.168.1.10', (where 192.168.1.10 is the PC that I wanted to scan) ... I got the message ...

FW: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Brett Davidson
-Original Message- From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 6:03 p.m. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brett Davidson Subject: Re: Permissions advice needed. On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: I have a curious problem. I need an

RE: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Brett Davidson
Unfortunately, as I expounded to Malcolm Lay, in this application (a shared-hosting webserver) suexec is being used which does not traverse symbolic links. :-( MAC_BSDEXTENDED in Bsd6.2 solves the problem very nicely. Cheers, Brett. From: George Vanev

problems while setting up faithd

2007-01-09 Thread bkoenig
Hello, I try to set up faithd and read the instructions in faithd(8) and src/usr.sbin/faithd/README. It is necessary to route the packets to the faith0 interface. Everytime I run route change -inet6 myipv6net -prefixlen 96 -ifp faith0 I get the error message route: writing to routing socket:

RE: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Brett Davidson
To clarify a point, the following line, This works well as this is the only non-root suid file on the system should be replaced with This works well as this is the only non-root accessable suid file on the system. Cheers, Brett. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on newsystem with good card)

2007-01-09 Thread Steve Franks
Yes, and in today's world, it is likely to be some young sub-saharan african pup who can't just go down to the local retailer and drop $400 on a new system if his won't install... Steve On 1/8/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Giorgos Keramidas

Re: Permissions Question Re: Permissions advice needed

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one command as root. One has to be very careful about giving out such access! root has much power. Hence sudo, where

FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread stefanos sofroniou
Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will be forced to upgrade my system from 6.1 to 6.2. Well my question goes like this: what is the best way for me to do it? By downloading the ISO images or by doing it with cvsup stable-supfile?

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
I use cvsup stable source, and upgrade the system according to README (?) in /usr/src, it suits me fine for a couple fo upgrades. TFC On 1/9/07, stefanos sofroniou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Jay Chandler
stefanos sofroniou wrote: Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will be forced to upgrade my system from 6.1 to 6.2. Well my question goes like this: what is the best way for me to do it? By downloading the ISO images or by doing it

Re: User Security Question?

2007-01-09 Thread VeeJay
On 1/9/07, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends Just had a debate with a collegue at office, but still lack knowledge on FreeBSD security :( I have few questions. 1. What previligies a standard user (NOT member of Wheel Group) has on a FreeBSD Box? 2. How can he/she damages

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and nfe ?

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Frank Staals wrote: Hey, I am running a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE machine with a MSI K8N SLI-F mainboard, it has problems with the nve driver so I searched around on the internet and found this site about the nfe driver: http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html .

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Eric
Jay Chandler wrote: stefanos sofroniou wrote: Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will be forced to upgrade my system from 6.1 to 6.2. Well my question goes like this: what is the best way for me to do it? By downloading the ISO

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Jay Chandler wrote: On a semi-related note, are there installation instructions for upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2? Upgrading between minor version of FreeBSD is always the same - run cvsup, recompile, install - it's also the same between 6.1 and 6.2. (see

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions - Gentoo/FreeBSD: license problems require a development pause

Re: filesystem size

2007-01-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:01:47PM -0500, Andy Greenwood wrote: On 1/9/07, Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's largest filesystem size supported by FreeBSD 5.2.1 i386? You might want to read this: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html And update to a modern release

Re: Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers?

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, January 09, 2007 16:30:59 + Howard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all

Re: filesystem size

2007-01-09 Thread Simon Gao
I looked at the link. It seems that it's not desirable to make a filesystem larger than 2TB with 5.2.1. How about 6.1/6.2? Are those remaining issues resolved with 6.1/6.2? Simon Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:01:47PM -0500, Andy Greenwood wrote: On 1/9/07, Simon Gao

Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-09 Thread Ross Penner
I've configured my freebsd computer to be the gateway for my home network using the guidelines in the handbook. All the required kernel options are enabled and the entries in /etc/rc.conf have been added. I'm unsure what the problem could be and I'm hoping somebody can give me some advice on

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions -

fsck report after crash...

2007-01-09 Thread Agus
Hi, all.i suffer a blackout today when my freebsd was running, and when i start up again i run fsck and it reports that 5 files areUNREF..this happens during Phase 4 - Check Reference Count UNREF FILE I=94324 OWNER=mysql MODE=100600 SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 9 20:30 2007 CLEAR? no and a few more

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, January 09, 2007, at 02:38PM, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Why is another project's problems FreeBSD's problem? Xorg isn't even in the base

Re: fsck report after crash...

2007-01-09 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:53, Agus wrote: Hi, all.i suffer a blackout today when my freebsd was running, and when i start up again i run fsck and it reports that 5 files areUNREF..this happens during Phase 4 - Check Reference Count UNREF FILE I=94324 OWNER=mysql MODE=100600

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Chris
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:08:45 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Since when is Xorg a part of FreeBSD? Java ports / Java-diablo anyone? 1. Xen Dom0

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:08:45PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Joe Holden
Ivan Voras wrote: Note that things are different when upgrading from one major version to another (e.g. 6.x to 7.x), though I even managed to update 5.x to 6.x while the machine was live the whole time with only minor glitches, solved by recompiling ports. I doubt this would work with 6.x-7.x

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:14:15 -0500 DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was my thought as well. I have my pop toasters all mounting a NFS mail store and when NFS goes away I don't have my NFS clients doing a fsck when the mount

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread David Stanford
Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will be forced to upgrade my system from 6.1 to 6.2. Well my question goes like this: what is the best way for me to do it? By downloading the ISO images or by doing it with cvsup stable-supfile?

Re: fsck report after crash...

2007-01-09 Thread Agus
Ok..done it.now, can u explain me or point me a link to the why i have to doit in single mode and what this does?? i've done it and now when i restart in normal mode i got the same UNREF erros plus some Phase 5 - Check Cyl Groups errors. FREE BLK COUNT WRONG IN SUPERBLK Salvage? no BLK

Question on roaming VPNs using mpd, NAT, and FreeBSD6

2007-01-09 Thread Tom Norris
Hello everyone, (sorry if this double-posts, I sent from my unsubscribed work-email account the first time around...) I have a machine running FreeBSD6 happily humming along in a (remote) datacenter. I managed to get mpd running thanks to this (

Re: fsck report after crash...

2007-01-09 Thread Jay Chandler
Agus wrote: Ok..done it.now, can u explain me or point me a link to the why i have to doit in single mode and what this does?? You can't fsck a filesystem effectively when it's mounted. In order to access it unmounted, you have to be in single-user mode. -- Jay Chandler Network

Re: fsck report after crash...

2007-01-09 Thread Beech Rintoul
2007/1/9, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:53, Agus wrote: Hi, all.i suffer a blackout today when my freebsd was running, and when i start up again i run fsck and it reports that 5 files areUNREF..this happens during Phase 4 - Check

Release info

2007-01-09 Thread Dale Johnston
Hey, so where's the release notes. what's been done/fixed/added in 6.2 vs 6.1, what was done from 6.1RC to 6.1R, etc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Isatap on FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread anto jayanto
I try to implement ipv6/ipv4 tunneling using ISATAP,but its was not sucecssfull, when i re-compile my kernel using pseudo-device ist, and error,if kernel do not know pseudo-device ist. any one can help me? I was try in my FreeBSD 6.2 Release and FreeBSD 4.3 Release. i try to follow mr

Re: Release info

2007-01-09 Thread Sahil Tandon
Dale Johnston wrote: Hey, so where's the release notes. what's been done/fixed/added in 6.2 vs 6.1, what was done from 6.1RC to 6.1R, etc http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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