Help Required!!!! , Regarding to FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread msaad abdurrab
Hello Sir We are going to Make a Socks Yahoo Voice Server using FreeBSD. Is this possible in FreeBSD , if then which software ll require for this in FreeBSD We have found noting on web regarding to do this , Could your please provide little bit Guide us Regarding to Making FreeBSD

Troubleshooting ral0 device timeouts

2009-09-22 Thread Michaël Grünewald
I have set up a FreeBSD access point, it is equipped with a ralink based card and works most of the time. I would appreciate some help for troubleshooting ``the rest of the time''. Thanks! First there is nothing fancy about my wirelesse setup, I merely use the ralink card as an ethernet

gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9

2009-09-22 Thread Pieter Donche
gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9 pkg_version -vIL= reported today as ports to upgrade: gtar-1.22 needs updating (index has 1.22_1) librsvg2-2.26.0_1 needs updating (index has 2.26.0_2) lzmautils-4.32.7!

Why configure files don't find /usr/local based headers?

2009-09-22 Thread Yuri
I noticed many times that configure files of various projects fail to find headers of third party packages under /usr/local/include. They run command line like this: gcc -c conftest.c and it doesn't find them without -I/usr/local/include. Is something misconfigured on my system? How to make

internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. I did access the internet with a take-off copy

Re: Why configure files don't find /usr/local based headers?

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:29:38 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I noticed many times that configure files of various projects fail to find headers of third party packages under /usr/local/include. They run command line like this: gcc -c conftest.c and it doesn't find them without

Re: Undelete or recover from badblocks on disks

2009-09-22 Thread jaymax
Thanks again Roland, I think I must have lost those files when fsck_ffs did its salvage operation The expected files were /disk02/bkup/dump/ad0s1a-090909.dump /disk02/bkup/dump/ad0s1e-090909.dump /disk02/bkup/dump/ad0s1f-090909.dump fls from the image file = listfile # sed -n 30153,30158p

Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
List, Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: man 3 getenv snip Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized value to the same name will result in a memory leak. The FreeBSD seman- tics for these functions (namely, that the

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Modulok
Is there a later copy Not that I'm aware of. I searched my copy for the word internet and couldn't find it. Weird. Did you try Internet? Can I access the internet with a currently gettable copy of FreeBSD If I understand correctly, you're asking if you can use FreeBSD to access the

/sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
An update committed since Friday appears to have broken mii/nsgphy.c in the kernel. When I try to build a kernel now, I get the following errors during the compilations of mii/nsgphy.c. /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/../../dev/mii/nsgphy.c:104: error: 'MII_MODEL_NATSEMI_DP83865' undeclared here

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:32 AM, gs_stol...@juno.com gs_stol...@juno.com wrote:             I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006.  Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)?  I searched my copy for the

Re: Is this a kernel memory leak or a process memory leak?

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:43:57 -0600, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: man 3 getenv snip Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized value to the same name will result in a memory leak.

Announcing: FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 Custom XFCE build available

2009-09-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, For everyone who has been following my little project here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com I am now pleased to announce the immediate availability of an 8.0-RC1 based XFCE custom DVD iso (i386 only). Here are the direct download links:

LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all prerequisits from ports

Re: Microsoft Dynamic DNS

2009-09-22 Thread Mark Willson
stan wrote: I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says no static DNS entries. They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens register thier names with the corprate DNS. My Windows laptop

FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked

2009-09-22 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Sep 21 02:00:14 2009] [notice] Apache/2.0.61 (FreeBSD)

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked

2009-09-22 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
Aflatoon Aflatooni escreveu: My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Sep 21 02:00:14 2009]

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked

2009-09-22 Thread Brian Seklecki
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 05:01 -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: My server installation of FreeBSD 6.3 is hacked and I am trying to find out how they managed to get into my Apache 2.0.61. This is what I see in my http error log: [Mon Sep 21 02:00:01 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked

2009-09-22 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
I found a script in /tmp directory which could have been uploaded using php or Java. How would they execute the code in /tmp directory? I couldn't figure it out. Thanks - Original Message From: Leandro Quibem Magnabosco leandro.magnabo...@fcdl-sc.org.br To: Aflatoon Aflatooni

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 installation hacked

2009-09-22 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
Aflatoon Aflatooni escreveu: I found a script in /tmp directory which could have been uploaded using php or Java. How would they execute the code in /tmp directory? Thanks You can execute files from scripts or from apache itself when they are scripts. There are several

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I can't. Using all

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread John Marshall
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 11:53 +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem

Re: gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9

2009-09-22 Thread Maks Verver
Pieter Donche wrote: === xz-4.999.9 conflicts with installed package(s): lzmautils-4.32.7 The XZ utils are intended to replace the LZMA utils, so the xz port was added and the lzmautils port removed. This is why you got the comparison failed message: portversion wasn't able to compare

Re: gtar-1.22_1, lzmautils-4.32.7 and xz-4.999.9

2009-09-22 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maks Verver wrote: Pieter Donche wrote: === xz-4.999.9 conflicts with installed package(s): lzmautils-4.32.7 The XZ utils are intended to replace the LZMA utils, so the xz port was added and the lzmautils port removed. This is why you

Re: Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host

2009-09-22 Thread Phusion
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Willson cdr@gmail.com wrote: Phusion wrote: I need some help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to a smart host being the ISP's mail server. I'm running 7.2-RELEASE. I've looked over

network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines; however, not with each

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. I find it easier to network machines using FreeBSD :) I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Peter
Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with Window's machines;

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:46:53 -0400 Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. Unfortunately, I am not getting

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:52:47 +0300 Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com wrote: [snip] Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php That article is quite dated. However, I will investigate it ASAP. Thanks! -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com BLISS is ignorance

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:46:53 -0400 Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Carmel NY wrote: Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking two or more PCs

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Carmel NY wrote: Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I want the same

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:18:24PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:52:47 +0300 Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com wrote: [snip] Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php That article is quite dated. However, I will investigate it ASAP. This

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows products. Perhaps because

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. I want to be able to access a FreeBSD box from another FreeBSD box. I

Re: Wake up time

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
That would be a possibility. Although I prefer a solution without additional hardware. Also, I'm not sure, if it's good to constantly disconnect the board from power. Well, it's certainly better for your power bill, but maybe not for the BIOS battery. I know that my BIOS supports setting a

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to participate in the Windows networking, look at mount_smbfs and Samba. I

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Dmitriy Kirhlarov
John Marshall wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 11:53 +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion,

FreeBSD 7.2 - stable postfix port updated problem

2009-09-22 Thread Jorge Medina
I update to postfix 2.6 from 2.5 and this don't work with VDA patch and the port say: ported for 32 bit port postfix25 use the 2.6 version too. And after update don't exec this pipe never more: autoreply unix - n n - - pipe flags=F user=nobody

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:53:17PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:25:38 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: [snip] It's still a little unclear. If you want the FreeBSD systems to

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Roland Smith
-l 65000 |bzip2 -c foo-root-20090922.dump.bz2'. On 'foo' I would then start the following command as root: 'dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - /|nc bar 65000' Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal

Re: /sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu writes: An update committed since Friday appears to have broken mii/nsgphy.c in the kernel. When I try to build a kernel now, I get the following errors during the compilations of mii/nsgphy.c. /usr/src/sys/modules/mii/../../dev/mii/nsgphy.c:104: error:

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be

Fwd: Wake up time

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
Begin forwarded message: From: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Date: September 22, 2009 8:55:42 PM GMT+02:00 To: Don Brearley donbrear...@hibbing.edu Subject: Re: Wake up time Good idea. Would work for my setup, my router should be always on. And I think there is a wakeonlan port for

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com writes: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? I

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I am not sure what that is even suppose to mean, so I'll just ignore it. -- Carmel car...@hotmail.com Beware of friends who are false and

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Carmel NY
a listening netcat on another machine to a file. Suppose I want to backup machine 'foo' to machine 'bar'. On 'bar' I would start the following command: 'nc -l 65000 |bzip2 -c foo-root-20090922.dump.bz2'. On 'foo' I would then start the following command as root: 'dump -0 -a -C 8 -L

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I've read and tried out that

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other machine open. I have not experimented with that yet. If needed,

zyd TEW-424UB

2009-09-22 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 7-stable on my laptop. The wifi card is not working with FreeBSD. So I just buy a Trendnet TEW-424UB wifi usb adapter. I find this in the man zyd but when I plug my adapter (after add if_zyd_load=YES in my loader.conf and reboot) it's not working.

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Mikel King
On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for?

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-22 Thread krad
2009/9/22 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis! Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I am not sure what that is even suppose to mean, so I'll just ignore it.

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:40:41PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:32:04AM +, gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I

Re: Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-09-22 Thread Brent Bloxam
Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm wondering about how device names are assigned on scbus, specifically when using the isp driver. It seems to me that there's potential when an HBA has access to multiple LUNs that on boot the scbus will have entries in /dev scrambled compared to the previous run (thus

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file? It will put a key there for every place you go

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the

Re: Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-09-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 22), Brent Bloxam said: Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm wondering about how device names are assigned on scbus, specifically when using the isp driver. It seems to me that there's potential when an HBA has access to multiple LUNs that on boot the scbus will have entries

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:22:54PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD boxes when required. I

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:51:42PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:35:44PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal running ssh to the other

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:32 AM, gs_stol...@juno.com gs_stol...@juno.comwrote: I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006. Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)? I searched my copy for the word

seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system

2009-09-22 Thread Henry Olyer
I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my wireless 'name'. What do I do??

Re: Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-09-22 Thread Brent Bloxam
Dan Nelson wrote: If you're mounting UFS filesystems, you can label them and mount them by label (see the tunefs and glabel manpages for more info). ZFS should find its pool devices automatically, but you can always manually label devices with glabel and refer to the label instead of the da##

Re: Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host

2009-09-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:37:27 -0500, Phusion phusio...@gmail.com wrote: I recompiled sendmail and now get the following when running sendmail -d0.1 -bv. I now have added the following to sendmail.mc. FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root credentials possibly be leaked accross the network. On the other hand you don't want or need user accounts in

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/22/09, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root credentials possibly be leaked accross the network. On

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Tim Judd wrote: On a related note, why is slapd so damn fragile? It's a righteous pain in the bum the way you have to run db_recover-X.Y /var/db/openldap-data if slapd fails to start. I run OpenLDAP on a few boxes. I don't recall the power failures or rude shutdowns

Re: seeing a wireless router when building a 7.2 system

2009-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Henry Olyer wrote: I am putting up 7.2 and I am attempting to use a wireless router. How do I tell the 7.2 configurator to use my router, wirelessly? --jg I am using an Atheros chip-set, so I am not expecting trouble. I just need FBSD to see my system. I know my