Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

Frank Shute wrote: I didn't think you'd be having the odd game of Quake on one of your boxes. But think of it as an added feature! :) Oh, doom does not require fp, its integer only and on 100MHz Pentium it was very smooth! I did couple of hour-long doom sessions on one of our FreeBSD route

Re: FreeBSD Installation

Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 20:44, Afrose Fathima wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a DELL box.I have dowloaded the >> 6.1-Release ISO images from >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/r...ISO-IMAGES/6.1/>/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i38

saslauthd exited on signal 11

I have two server installs of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. One is running AMD64 and the other is running i386. The one running AMD64 is getting an error at SMTP time of: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure Once this happens, the saslauthd thread that took the connection causes t

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

Andrew Berry wrote: Heikki Suonsivu wrote: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M

Re: need mysql help setting passwd

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:19:26PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the question is: how do I set the root password on mysql? this is a > > first step in getting phpbb3 up. i have other CMS tools installed > > on aristotle, m jail where my webserver run

Re: Question about torrents via console

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:08:13PM -0400, Schiz0 wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via > > the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos > > and va

Re: Problem updating nvidia driver

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:08:29AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > The update of nvidia-driver-169.12 fails on my system. > ( 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD) > > estanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissin > g-prototypes -Wpointe

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

On Jun 11, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm almost ready to give up on this. I've gone as far as completely rewriting the original C++ program into straightforward C, and still the performance is terrible on FreeBSD versus Linux. On Linux, GNU libc buffers file data much more ex

Re: Unable to install freebsd on HP Proliant ML30 server

pete wright wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Damon Blom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DEBUG generating /etc/fstab file g-vfs-done():acd0[READ (offset=32768,length=2048)] error=5 error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist input-output error (5) unable to initialize selected media looks lik

Re: Java Dilemma

Unfortunately after updating my portsnap; it did not work. Here is the error I get: $ firefox INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: SendRequest: Read of ack failed: 0 System error?:: Unknown error: 0 $ firefox INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: SendRequest: Read of ack failed: 0 System error?:: Unknown er

RE: generating random passwords

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jos Chrispijn > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:29 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: generating random passwords > > > Bill Campbell wrote: > > I much prefer apg which can generate

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Jun 11, 2008, at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:51:16PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The next time I reboot the one server I've got with an SVM capable processor I'm going to disconnect the power (to make sure that I'm getting a real reboot instead of a sp

Re: two monitors, two displays, one PC

John Wynstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last 4 months I bought a new monitor to replace the one that clunked > out in me. I am currently using it with an old PS2 type keyboard and mouse > attached to a creaky old desktop that will eventually be replaced. Likely > I will want to repla

Re: generating random passwords

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:17:59AM +0100, RW wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:53:56 -0400 > Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would > > > allow me to generate random passwords w

two monitors, two displays, one PC

In the last 4 months I bought a new monitor to replace the one that clunked out in me. I am currently using it with an old PS2 type keyboard and mouse attached to a creaky old desktop that will eventually be replaced. Likely I will want to replace it with a laptop with wifi and a lot more mem

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:51:16PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:08 PM, cpghost wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:45:51 -0500 >> Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> First it should consume memory. A very complete test of memory >>> through a modified memtest

Re: generating random passwords

On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Andrew Berry wrote: Any idea what the name of the project for the Security framework is? I can't seem to find anything on Google. I'd love to be able to access keychains from OS X on other platforms, without resorting to dumping everything to plaintext. This l

Re: generating random passwords

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: > > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow > >me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts > >or modifying existing ones? I am looking

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:08 PM, cpghost wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:45:51 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First it should consume memory. A very complete test of memory through a modified memtest should be able to detect whether system reported memory is accurate. What if

Re: need mysql help setting passwd

Gary Kline wrote: > this failed: > > > mysqladmin -u root password > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' > > > according to my logs it has been about 5 years since i did this last. > > advice please! > >

Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? If so, how? -- J. Porter Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: generating random passwords

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:53:56 -0400 Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would > > allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any > > accounts or modifying existing ones?

Re: need mysql help setting passwd

Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the question is: how do I set the root password on mysql? this is a > first step in getting phpbb3 up. i have other CMS tools installed > on aristotle, m jail where my webserver runs. > > this failed: > > > mysqladmin -u root password > mysqladmin: c

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:45:51 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A relatively new security threat known as 'The Blue Pill', based > > upon hardware, is a class of virtual rootkits that can silently > > take over Intel and

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:45:51PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> A relatively new security threat known as 'The Blue Pill', based upon >> hardware, is a class of virtual rootkits that can silently take over >> Intel and AMD systems. A go

need mysql help setting passwd

the question is: how do I set the root password on mysql? this is a first step in getting phpbb3 up. i have other CMS tools installed on aristotle, m jail where my webserver runs. this failed: mysqladmin -u root password mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access de

Re: generating random passwords

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I don't run FreeBSD on desktops so I haven't looked at the various tools available. On OS X, I use 1password which makes excellent use of the OS X Keychain system, and has terrific webbrowser integration. I'm fairly sure that the Apple Keychain libraries have been or

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A relatively new security threat known as 'The Blue Pill', based upon hardware, is a class of virtual rootkits that can silently take over Intel and AMD systems. A good site to visit to learn about these virtual rootkits is http://invisibl

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:53:18PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > [mailed and posted] > > On Jun 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, YANSWBVCG wrote: > >> It is my understanding that since 1995 all computers must have a >> hardware back door that permits undetectable access by the government to >> the computer

Re: mfi freebsd7

Great info, Kalin. I have several boxes with LSI controllers, the PERC 5i works wonderfully with FreeBSD (though the Dell 6850 sucks), and I have a couple boxes with Supermicro boards with built-in LSI MegaRaid, however it's done in software. This means that the mfi controller works fine as indivi

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

[mailed and posted] On Jun 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, YANSWBVCG wrote: It is my understanding that since 1995 all computers must have a hardware back door that permits undetectable access by the government to the computer. This capability can be implemented using System Monitor(Maintenance) Mode

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:32PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi All, > > Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 000 > from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss > largely due to the use of spyware. > > My question is how s

Perl 5.10.0

Just before FBSD-7 was released, I asked if Perl 5.10.0 would be included in the new version. I was informed that it would not be; however, it would be released shortly after FBSD-7 was released. Well, FBSD-7 has been out for a while now; however, I still do not see the updated version of Perl. Is

Re: Question about torrents via console

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:16:29 -0400 Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents > before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way > to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to > do it via t

Re: mfi freebsd7

in case somebody gets stuck as i was - here are detailed instruction and the CORRECT ORDER in which the needed kernel modules HAVE to be loaded in order for the megacli to work properly... big thanks to Christoph Schug Christoph Schug wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2008, kalin m wrote: th

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:32PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi All, > > Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 000 > from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss > largely due to the use of spyware. > > My question is how s

Re: Question about torrents via console

Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my s

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: > > T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA > Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetoot

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:54:07 Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not > contain math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long > time ago. NetBSD did the same, so Linux seems to be the only > possibility. This is the commit that removed

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss largely due to the use of spyware. My question is how secure is FreeBSD (including KDE, GNOME and XFCE) to do not include that programs to FreeBSD. they are not it's part. it's just few of thousand programs that can r

Unable to install freebsd on HP Proliant ML30 server

CPU: Intel (R) Xeon (TM) cpu 2.40 gz (2399.93 mhz, 686-class cpu) Features = Logical CPU's per core:2 real memory 2047mb avail memory 1992mb MPTable : FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System detected: 2 cpu's cpu0 (BSP):APIC ID:0 cpu1(AP):APICID:6 acd0:CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 da1

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

/etc/hosts : ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost /etc/defaults/rc.conf : ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ... but ifconfig always shows no inet: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 s

FreeBSD and User Security

Hi All, Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 000 from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss largely due to the use of spyware. My question is how secure is FreeBSD (including KDE, GNOME and XFCE) to attacks, including crac

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

On Wed, June 11, 2008 04:54, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > I need to get something to run on x86 computers which do not contain > math in hardware, and FreeBSD dropped non-math cpus long time ago. NetBSD > did the same, so Linux seems to be the only possibility. > > So, the question: > > > What is the

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

Len Conrad wrote: /etc/hosts : ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost /etc/defaults/rc.conf : ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ... but ifconfig always shows no inet: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe8

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

and we can do this, too: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up then ifconfig shows: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 thanks Len _

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:30:17PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > > Frank Shute wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > >>Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: > >> > >>FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: > >> > >>The computer I am doing this is not old, it

Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

/etc/hosts : ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost /etc/defaults/rc.conf : ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. ... but ifconfig always shows no inet: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen

RE: Problems opening mail on this list

From: Andrew Berry > > Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). > > --Andrew Andrew, I received that with no problem. There is also a button in the corner I have never seen before that reveals the signature on this message is Valid and Trusted. In response to your earli

Re: Flashplugin

Quoting "Robert Huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: eculp writes: I've got a question. A friend has been loaning me his old laptop at work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine. I have not been able to make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in Ubuntu somewhare? I'm actually thinking o

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Linux: > > $ time ./cdbf /tmp/invoice.dbf >/dev/null > ./cdbf /tmp/invoice.dbf > /dev/null 42.65s user 20.09s system 71% cpu > 1:28.15 total > > On FreeBSD: Oops! I left that out: $ time /tmp/cdbf /var/tmp/invoice.dbf >/dev/null /tmp/cdbf /va

Re: generating random passwords

On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. I'm going to take this opportunity to preach. Everyone should be using a good password management system.

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

On Thursday 05 June 2008, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I was testing the same software on my desktop PC when I noticed that it > ran *much* faster, and found that it was spending only about 1% as much > time in the kernel on Linux as it was on FreeBSD. I'm almost ready to give up on this. I've gone as

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

A broken processor usually results in random crashes, not silent data corruption. result in both in my practice. with broken companion chips (chipset) it's silent data corruption is common, while crashes can be under specific cases. that's from what i've got. > or even calculate checksum ri

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

Andrew Berry wrote: > Nejc ?koberne wrote: > > > > Why are you using TCP anyway? > > I'd been having problems with UDP and QoS a long time ago. I just hadn't > bothered to change it since it was working. Note that using TCP on top of TCP can cause certain problems, especially when packets

Re: mounting WD external USB disk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Disk too big, try '-o large' mount option: Invalid argument try it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

[attribution fixed] Wojciech Puchar wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging "feature" of checksumming all > > > blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can > > > turn this off > > > > Obviously

Re: generating random passwords

Bill Campbell wrote: I much prefer apg which can generate more-or-less pronounceable passwords which it is possible to remember (at least after typing them a few times :-). This is not supposed to be an offense to any author of a password generator, but: Never, but never trust any random pass

Re: Flashplugin

eculp writes: > I've got a question. A friend has been loaning me his old laptop > at work that runs Ubuntu and flash runs fine. I have not been > able to make it fail, yet at least. Could there be a clue in > Ubuntu somewhare? I'm actually thinking of running it under > kqemu, if there i

mounting WD external USB disk

I'm trying to mount a WD "My Book" external usb hard drive, and am having a problem. My system: uname -a FreeBSD opteron.foo.bar 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Wed Jun 11 21:20:59 IDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target

Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: eculp wrote: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just hap

Re: Question about torrents via console

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:16:29 Steve Lake wrote: > Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before > via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download > isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the > console so I can s

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

Oliver Fromme wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: > [...] > By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also has > pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, multipart/alternative > and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead.

Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

eculp wrote: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine th

Re: generating random passwords

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts or modifying existing ones? I am looking for something to allow me to generate a random string of characters. I know I c

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

Paul Schmehl wrote: > [...] > By default, it appears that Mailman does not do content filtering. It also > has > pass rules (if filtering is enabled) for multipart/mixed, > multipart/alternative > and text/plain. So, it's possible that MIMEDefang is the culprit instead. It's documented

Re: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

Quoting eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a

reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days now with FreeBSD stable 7.0

This is on a relatively new Dell dualcore with 4G of ram running up to date stable. I'm not on site so I have no idea what might be provoking these crashes. In fact in many years of running FreeBSD I've not seen something just happen like this. It is a simi-production machine that cvsups

Re: Question about torrents via console

Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk

Re: Question about torrents via console

Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk a

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging "feature" of checksumming all > blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can > turn this off Obviously you have been lucky to never be a victim of silent disk corruption (or you just haven't noticed)

Re: FreeBSD and NFSv4

Konrad Heuer wrote: > are there any experiences with FreeBSD being an NFSv4 client out there? > > And furthermore, is there any further development of NFSv4 functionality > within FreeBSD to come closer to RFC 3530? As far as I know (not 100% sure, though), the NFSv4 client is under active d

Re: Effects of CPUTYPE

> In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than > overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE. I'm setting CPUTYPE on all of my machines for many years, without the slightest problems. No pain at all. They're all kinds of different processors, c3-2 (VIA), athlon64, an

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

Frank Shute wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:06:49PM +0300, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: Oops, sorry, I was not specific enough: FreeBSD 4 or older NetBSD are no go: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. S

Re: Question about torrents via console

F1 (vote yes) to rtorrent. I have rtorrents running permanently on my servers, seeding torrent files. I use screen, just like you suggest. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi a

Re: Flashplugin

Quoting "herbert langhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There are some instructions how you can get the Flashplayer running. Not perfect, but it will do in many cases. http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html Excellent howto Herb. My problem is that it seems that firefox-devel doesn't work wi

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

Hello, Novembre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of > using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I > asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel > more comfortable

Re: Question about torrents via console

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via > the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos > and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the cons

Re: Question about torrents via console

rtorrent should work for you bye Norman 2008/6/11 Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before > via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download > isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to

Re: Flashplugin

Quoting "Derek Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hey all, I have tried using swfdec-plugin to do flash, but it doesnt seem to work too well at least with firefox. One ... I prefer being able to select what flash loads automaticly and Two ... I like to be able to see the flash video but all it does i

Question about torrents via console

Hi all. Ok, I'm curious of something. I've done torrents before via the graphical interface before, but I want to setup a way to download isos and various FOSS apps via bittorrent, but I want to do it via the console so I can start a torrent in screen and then walk away, allowing my s

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

--On Wednesday, June 11, 2008 13:13:42 -0400 Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). And it came through fine. From: Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 Referen

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > 3) a CPU,cache and memory bandwidth hogging "feature" of checksumming all > blocks. thing that are already done in disk hardware. fortunately you can > turn this off Obviously you have been lucky to never be a victim of silent disk corruption (or you just haven't noti

Re: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: greetings all, firstly, i am not subscribed, please cc: responces, appreciated. i have been using freebsd v2.2.5-release (as my domains mx host on a 486dx33 .. that was upgraded after 20 years running with 6 years on v2.2.5 to a p5-133 mhz into w

Re: how to determine the date a port is installed

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: > >> > Two questions: > >

Re: FreeBSD-like linux distro?

Heikki Suonsivu wrote: The computer I am doing this is not old, it is otherwise brand new, but it uses an embedded cpu, a 486 clone as SoC without math. See www.compactpc.com.tw, eBOX 2300SX. It is very low cost, runs on about 3W of power with CF card as mass memory, 128M, 3 USB2, serials, so

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

On 10-Jun-08, at 3:02 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Actually I don't think you can do the same thing with a tunnel. You have to use a different IP addresses for the tunnel itself. Have you read the OpenVPN manual? Yes, I should have been clearer: With a tunnel, I can still push routes and DNS, as lon

Re: Static NAT and PAT on FreeBSD 6.2

I have continued to experiment and am still running into the same issues. Anyone? -Matt On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Matt Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running FreeBSD 6.2-release. I have been running PAT via natd > and ipfw for some time now and it runs great. Howeve

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

Here is a message signed with Thunderbird 2 on Windows (ugh...). --Andrew smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

Ian Smith wrote: However, what normally happens to attachments to questions@, at least to digests, is that they get stripped with a note pointing to the original attachment, as this subsequent message from Chad illustrates: Which makes sense - attachments don't clog up the list, and people can

Re: Effects of CPUTYPE

Jonathan Chen wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > Trying to identify why I should be having all these problems I've been > > looking for anything that may be specific to my machine. One thing I've > > come up with is the fact that I have CPUTYPE?=athlon-mp in > > /etc/make.conf on both 6.3 and 7

Re: FreeBSD 7 and Apache 1.3.41 PROBLEM

In httpd-error.log [Wed Jun 11 17:01:04 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 10.10.10.10 [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [info] (2)No such file or directory: make_sock: for port 80, setsockopt: (SO_ACCEPTFILTER) [Wed Jun 11 17:01:05 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

The linux progs run very well, what I can tell with my modest amount of programs using this mode. BSD uses a seperate directory what contains all linux-bins and it integrates well. Also the speed is like a normal Linux distro. Maybe it is a good idea to get an old 20GB harddisk, change it and give

Re: intrusion? find is thrashing my disk every time I boot.

Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm really no security expert. I don't leave the system up 24/7, and > > I'm on a US DSL connection with a bunch of windows boxes. > > > > Seems to be a recent phenomena, I've started experiencing disk > > thrashing I ca

Re: generating random passwords

One of the biggest problems with random passwords is that they end up written on yellow-stickies on the monitor or under the keyboard. there is no cure for that in FreeBSD. you need some non-computer hardware to stop that behaviour ;) ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:29:30 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. > > I'm from a linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some > > googling an

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | Wojciech Puchar wrote: | |> tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or | |> another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. | |> | |> My questions are: | |> 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my har

Re: very strange reaction of the md disks

Hello, I don't know why nobody else has given the correct answer to this (it's should actually be a FAQ). So I'll try to give an answer. The Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe I just don't understand something, but anyway, it looks really odd. > > I have a machine with 2

Re: generating random passwords

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008, Roland Smith wrote: >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Excuse me my ignorance. Is there a utility in FreeBSD that would allow >> me to generate random passwords without actually creating any accounts >> or modifying existing o

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wojciech Puchar wrote: |> tired of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or |> another linux distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook. |> |> My questions are: |> 1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, |> CDRW/D

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