Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-09 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 09/03/2010 12:21, Programmer In Training wrote: Seriously, does anyone have a good Twitter client they use? I have very simple requirements (GUI, must be able to pull my feeds for local display, easy to compile (e.g. doesn't require anything from KDE)). may not be a standalone client, but

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread perryh
Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared information is needed - key fingerprint.

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret). What stops the server and client from establishing a

freebsd-update IDS

2010-03-09 Thread daniele
Hi ! I have a question about using freebsd-update IDS command. what is the correct way to specify 'the known good index of the installed release' ? I would like to compare an installed system with the(its) original released CD. Thanks d Ref:

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-09 Thread krad
On 9 March 2010 06:10, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: oscar Seo oscar...@gmail.com writes: I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error

Re: freebsd-update IDS

2010-03-09 Thread Leonidas Tsampros
daniele gl...@live.com writes: Hi ! I have a question about using freebsd-update IDS command. what is the correct way to specify 'the known good index of the installed release' ? I would like to compare an installed system with the(its) original released CD. Although not an avid

Re: Twitter On FreeBSD

2010-03-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/09/10 01:14, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: snip I wonder if this can be done in FreeBSD? http://www.technixupdate.com/install-tweetdeck-on-ubuntu-linux/ I've been working on that, but AIR chokes for one reason or another (see previous emails in this thread). -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Emmanuel Opio immanuel...@gmail.com wrote: Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems.

Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread Emmanuel Opio
Hi, Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. I was just requesting then if there is a HTTP site with zipped freeBSD

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/09/10 08:58, Emmanuel Opio wrote: Hi, Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file, the most common extension for operating systems. I was just requesting

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread George Liaskos
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Emmanuel Opio immanuel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,      Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file, the most common extension for operating

warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry
Since updating to FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE, I am having problems with my mail server. I have Postfix (2.7-20100117) installed. When sending, this warning message appears in the mail log: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer When I

unzip fails to extract password protected archive

2010-03-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
This is on FreeBSD ia64 9.0-CURRENT #0 r203484M: I've zip-3.0 and unzip-6.0 installed from ports. When I try to add files to an archive with encryption, I cannot then extract them back: ls -al try zip -e try.zip try Enter password: Verify password: adding: try (deflated 42%) rm try

Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found Fetching public key from

Fwd: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found Fetching public key from

Re: Downloading issue!

2010-03-09 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:58:45 +0300 Emmanuel Opio immanuel...@gmail.com wrote: Am studying at a University in E. Africa but the problem is that our server administrators blocked ftp and filtered out images, so we can not download any image file You could try downloading it with a

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. This is good. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... [ ...Colin Percival is the owner of this, so I won't

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:07:34 +0700 Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folk, Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... # freebsd-update fetch Lookin up

Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
I know the usual way of loading the linux module and configuring it in rc.conf, but can it be compiled directly into the kernel? If so, what would the line for it look like? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Trying run a php script from cron

2010-03-09 Thread Darrell Betts
I am trying to run a php script from the cron tab and these are the errors I receive: /usr/local/bin/php php -q /home//ripper.php result Could not open input file: php /usr/local/bin/php php -/home//ripper.php result Could not open input file: php /usr/local/bin/php

Re: Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: I know the usual way of loading the linux module and configuring it in rc.conf, but can it be compiled directly into the kernel? If so, what would the line for it look like? options COMPAT_LINUX or if you are on amd64

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote: If you track RELENG_8, you get -STABLE system from a build cycle. If you track RELENG_8_0, you are tracking the security branch and get your own official -RELEASE system from the build cycle. http://www.freebsd.org/security/ says: Supported FreeBSD

Re: Updating the system and ports

2010-03-09 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* RW (rwmailli...@googlemail.com) wrote: that should be RELENG_8_0 Sorry for typo, but actually I only appended to the existing supfile. Thing goes well. Stable is a stable development branch, if you want to use freebsd-update you need to use a proper release security branch. Does that mean

Re: Compiling Linux into Kernel

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:41, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: I know the usual way of loading the linux module and configuring it in rc.conf, but can it be compiled directly into the kernel? If so, what

Re: Trying run a php script from cron

2010-03-09 Thread Nerius Landys
I am trying to run a php script from the cron tab and these are the errors I receive: /usr/local/bin/php php -q /home//ripper.php result Could not open input file: php /usr/local/bin/php php -/home//ripper.php result Could not open input file: php /usr/local/bin/php

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Since updating to FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE, I am having problems with my mail server. I have Postfix (2.7-20100117) installed. When sending, this warning message appears in the mail log: warning: network_biopair_interop: error

tao suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live non-server. The KVM switch was mis-installed so I can't KVM over to my DNS server. Does this happen often with Dells? What

Re: unzip fails to extract password protected archive

2010-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: This is on FreeBSD ia64 9.0-CURRENT #0 r203484M: I've zip-3.0 and unzip-6.0 installed from ports. When I try to add files to an archive with encryption, I cannot then extract them back: ls -al try zip -e try.zip try Enter password:

Re: powerd on 8.0, is it considered safe?

2010-03-09 Thread David Rawling
On 8/03/2010 9:47 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: Is powerd finally considered stable and safe to use on 8.0? At least on 7.2, it consistently caused panics when used on Atom systems with Hyper-Threading enabled, but I recall that Attilio Rao was looking into it. I can confirm I've been running it on an

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:36:31 -0600 Noel Jones noeld...@gmail.com articulated: Maybe you didn't have TLS enabled before? Anyway, this message caused by the other end disconnecting abruptly. If you just get it once in a while, it can be safely ignored. If you get it on every connection, your

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

2010-03-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:45:22PM +0900, oscar Seo wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.4 + windowmaker in IBM notebook. I edited /etc/rc.conf to use LAN other ip address is different from my home address in my school. I got error message from this [ /etc/rc.conf: 131: Syntax error: Unterminated

Re: tao suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Al Plant
Gary Kline wrote: Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live non-server. The KVM switch was mis-installed so I can't KVM over to my DNS server. Does this happen often

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
Add your client IP to the postfix debug peer list and follow up o the postfix users list On Mar 9, 2010 5:02 PM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:36:31 -0600 Noel Jones noeld...@gmail.com articulated: Maybe you didn't have TLS enabled before? Anyway, this message caused

Re: tao suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:11:54PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Well, first time this happened since I got my Dell 8200. It suddenly died. I just finished sending an email a few minutes earlier. I'm writing from my only other live non-server. The KVM switch was mis-installed

Re: The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino ja...@colannino.org wrote: Hey everyone, I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a patch for the 8.0 stable kernel here:

Re: tao suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Aloha Al and thanks for responding. {god this has been a long day... . } Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a power surge. I did not realize that my printer

Re: The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable

2010-03-09 Thread Jason Garrett
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 22:00, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 02:38, James Colannino ja...@colannino.org wrote: Hey everyone, I have an Asus EEE PC 1005HA, which has an Atheros 9285 wireless chipset. I discovered that Rui Paulo wrote a driver, and put up a

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread perryh
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship (e.g. any sort of pre-shared secret)

Re: tao suddenly died

2010-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2010 03:34:52, Gary Kline wrote: Well, long-story-short, the most unepect thing happened: a power surge. I did not realize that my printer was also off until hours later. A friend helped me trace the problem and

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 10/03/10 07:16, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: but logic tends to tell me that is I have no prior knowledge about the person I am about to talk to, anybody (MIM) could pretend to be that person. True. Cryptography by it self does not solve the identity problem. The pre-shared information