dave wrote:
Hello,
I'm wondering if it's possible to use pam or perhaps tcp_wrappers to
limit how many ssh logins can be atempted? I'd like to kick off a user who
tries to log in repeatedly with the wrong password or tries x times within a
minute, my purpose is to slow down hacking atempts in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok thanks for the detail response. I guess my confusion came from several
places - the handbook explicity gives an example where you can refuse
ports that aren't relevant to your environment (i refuse several such as
japanese, chinese)...
Hmm. I wonder if we should
Aaron Carranza wrote:
I installed freebsd version 4.9, but for some reason I can't download any
packages from any website, version 4.8 also gives me the same problem. Why
is this happening?
Hi, Aaron:
We must assume from your post that you receive
an error message? If so, what is it?
If you
Kjell Midtseter wrote:
After installing lang/php4-extensions with apache13,
I can start using embedded php in my web pages right away.
When installing lang/php5-extensions, the embedded php
is passed as if it were html without being interpreted.
Any initialization required fro php5?
The
Cyber Dog wrote:
Hello,
I'm working with a server currently running FreeBSD 4.6. Clearly it
hasn't been updated too recently, and I've made it my goal to bring it into
the present. This would be my first time rebuilding a FreeBSD OS. I
started out by clearing out /usr/src, and doing a
Jay O'Brien wrote:
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I learned that in order to make changes to the screen saver,
I had to reboot the computer. Those changes, made by
sysinstall, appear in /etc/rc.conf.
Is there a way to make such changes take effect without
rebooting? (Version 5.3 RELEASE, i386)
robg wrote:
I tried updating my ports again on 5.3 and it says:
server# screen cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile
Parsing supfile ports-supfile
Connecting to cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org
Cannot connect to cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org: Permission denied
Will retry at 20:26:17
I tried different server as wel.. what
Richard wrote:
What is the procedure for setting up an internal modem in shell
(sio1 moved to sio4) and configuring under GNOME. The modem itself
is recognised when booting.
Thx, Richard
I'm not sure if I understand the question. If you want
to use the modem, check out the handbook section
Kjell Midtseter wrote:
On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 10:20:32 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
Kjell Midtseter wrote:
After installing lang/php4-extensions with apache13,
I can start using embedded php in my web pages right away.
When installing lang/php5-extensions
Aaron Carranza wrote:
I installed freebsd version 4.9, but for some reason I can't download any
packages from any website, version 4.8 also gives me the same problem. Why
is this happening?
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Hi, Aaron:
We must assume from your post that you receive
an error message? If so,
Richard wrote:
What is the procedure for setting up an internal modem in
shell (sio1 moved to sio4) and configuring under GNOME.
The modem itself is recognised when booting.
Thx, Richard
I'm not sure if I understand the question. If you want
to use the modem, check out the
MIN RO wrote:
Hello, my name is Min Ro, and I'm writing an English paper on
open source and its potential benefits to society (not anything
too heavily in depth) Who may I contact to answer some questions
about FreeBSD, its community, its influence, etc? Thank you for your time.
Some
Ralph wrote:
Hey, I have an ancicent box I've inherited, output of
uname -a is:
bash-2.04# uname -a
FreeBSD dropbox.. 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD
4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
i386
Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and
Cam wrote:
I've configured necessary files to allow user mounting
through the console, but the diskmounter still doesnt work.
This is the error message I get. It works as root, of course.
*Cannot mount device
*mount /home/Orbo/Floppy 211 reported:
mount: /home/Orbo/Floppy: unknown special file
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
I had heard a bit about the new vulnerability check in
FreeBSD's ports. I tried reading /usr/ports/updating and saw something
like:
Description: A new vulnerabilities database has been added to the
ports system in order to keep more accurate, up-to-date, track
of such esteemed companies as Yahoo!
and Pair Networks (and others) in corporate sponsorship of
and/or assistance to the FreeBSD Project. I'm sure you can
get the answers you would need from them.
Kevin D. Kinsey*
DaleCo, S.P.
*Member of FreeBSD Advocacy, adjunct member of
the FDP, and dedicated
Karim Ali wrote:
Hello there,
I would like to know which is the latest version of the
4.4BSD-lite Kernel and also could you send me a copy (preferably the
one which FreeBSD ships with)??
please email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , as such i found one online but
it was modded quite a bit and I
Brian Henning wrote:
Greetings All:
Is it possible to add a line above that name server entries in the
resolv.conf file that will tell the system to check the hosts file for
a resolution before querying the dns server(s)?
Thanks,
Brian
# man nsswitch.conf
KDK
Gary Kline wrote:
Hi Folks,
On my 5.3 laptop I was able to add ^device sound and
^device snd_mss and build/install the kernel without
ay problems. On my test server I'm trying to add
^device snd_sb16 but the build doesn't like it.
snip
sb16.o(.text+0x12): In function
Danny Browne wrote:
Basically my internet connection is very very slow whe using gnome browsers (or
any app). but its a DSL line, and its as fast as it should be when downlaoding
something from teminal???
Free BSD 4.10 i386
Gnome 2.8
Realtek ethernet card
??
Any ideas?
Tim [EMAIL
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:19:05PM -0500, gazwacker the kazmaster wrote:
Annoyed am I. For mine computer hath been tampered upon by a fool
which hath deleted mine /usr/share folder. I have the
installation CD, now how would I re-install my purloined portfolio?
(If no one
Osvaldito wrote:
I need ATI 3D-Rage II C
Osvbaldo
% man r128
?
Kevin Kinsey
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Erik Ellis wrote:
FreeBSD 5.3 + any smtp server, Refuses to receive any emails from any
external domain EXEPT bredband.net, witch is odd, cuz I haven't entered
anything about bredband.net.
Right now im using Sendmail, but iwe tried postfix but I get the same
problem. No errors in logs, no errors
Laszlo Antal wrote:
Hi,
How big hard drive do I need for a Fbsd 5.3+Bind
Installation??
I have a 1.2gb hdd would it be big enough?
Thank you for all the advice
Laszlo
--lantal
Certainly should be large enough. A
minimal install is quite a bit less than 1.2G,
and even with full source and docs
I recently tried something new ... built my own release
with what I (naively || stupidly?) thought would be
RELENG_5_3 sources. I'm hoping to use this release
server to set up boxes for the foreseeable future, so
I really want 5.3-RELEASE. It was a neat experience,
not so hard as it seemed at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Is it a known problem?
perl -e 'for $i (0..1){ print $i ; }' trash
`cat trash`
Word too long.
^C^C^C
The tcsh halt with this. Either FreeBSD 4.9 or BSDI 4.3.
- Marcelo Souza
Hmm, doesn't happen here on 5.3. How much RAM on
your box?
Jay O'Brien wrote:
Why are there two versions of sysinstall, one five times the
size of the other, and what are the differences between them
other than file size and time?
Jay O'Brien
Rio Linda, California, USA
Sorry I'm late on this ... you've got a good technical
answer already; I thought
Mick Walker wrote:
Now, getting to the point, I was shocked when I went into the toilet
facilities in the pub, and found one of those vending machines that sell
novelty items of a sexual nature, featuring on the design something that
looked remarkably similar to the BSD Daemon. To the best
of my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
iicbb - OK with 4.8, broken with 5.3
I am trying to migrate from 4.8-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE.
Everything appears to function properly except my TV card.
Since I have installed 5.3-RELEASE on a separate hard drive
it is easy to compare it to the 4.10-RELEASE. The
glen disley wrote:
I just installed Freebsd5.3. After a long compile process and a
few tweeks of Xorg I was able to get a kdm screen prompt.
There are only 2 users on the system, one bing root and the
other me (Glen). What I don't understand is why on the kdm
login screen I see Charlieroot as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kevin Kinsey
Thank you for your questions.
You're welcome, of course.
On 4.10-RELEASE I had to create the link
/dev/tuner - /dev/tuner0
myself. On 5.3-RELEASE this link must have
been created during the installation since
it was there when I went to create it.
pcf.ko
J W wrote:
I have NetZero as my Dial-Up ISP. I would love to use freebsd as my
gateway, ratehr than use windows with ICS enabled. Is there a way to
work around the proprietary software used by NetZero, or has any one
seen a way to make freebsd work with netzero?
Thank You,
IDESpinner
I've not
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I have a system that right now I'm using to learn FreeBSD. I want to go
through the update process that I assume I'll have to follow regularly
once the computer is up and running as a web and mail server. Right
now I'm not concerned about backups; that's my next project.
J.D. Bronson wrote:
I did a full install of 5.3 and I was wondering about how much
typically ends up in / ?
I setup my mounts like this:
/
/usr
/var
/home
/tmp
and I am seeing this for / :
Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a507630 106656 36036423%
Doug Van Allen wrote:
I just installed 5.3 and Xorg on a new box. Went to install KDE, and
the install stopped. This was the error:
[code]
Fetch:ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/fam/fam-2.6.9.tar.gz:
Service not available, closing control connection
Couldn't fetch it - please
Cheebah wrote:
Hi how are you going? I am just emailing you regarding the following
post.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/045744.html
I am receiving the same errors and am wondering if you ever had any joy
in solving this problem?
Any suggestions would be
Thierry Thomas wrote:
Le Mer 24 nov 04 à 7:24:48 +0100, Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
écrivait :
That is not true. All that is required is that it closely resembles the
image, I believe the language is something along the lines that if it is
likely
consumers would confuse the images
Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
Here are my rules:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ipfw show
00100 0 0 check-state
00200 2 144 allow ip from me to any keep-state out xmit tun0
00300 0 0 allow ip from any to any keep-state out xmit tun0
00400 0 0 deny tcp from any to any in recv tun0 established
00500 0 0
j p wrote:
how do i FTP freebsd? do i need some other software? i need step
by step. is there some other site i can just download it?
thank you
JP
Hmm, have you had specific problems with ftp.freebsd.org?
If you want to install FreeBSD via FTP, one method is to get
the installation floppies
Vance Shipley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
}
} However, his statement functioning as a backspace doesn't
} ring true, because, no such functionality is present (for me) in
} any terminal with that key, regardless of the $TERM variable
Gert Cuykens wrote:
can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to
push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts
especially when you sometimes have to do enter enter enter to scroll
down the preview and then accidentally do 1 enter to many
Well, make a day
csnyder wrote:
I've noticed a marked increase in dictionary attacks against sshd
lately -- tens or even hundreds of connection attempts from the same
IP address within a short timespan.
I wrote a script that creates firewall rules to drop packets from IPs
with more than n login failures over the
Justin L. Boss wrote:
Ya, I seen something about the in my research. But doesn't it need to be
enabled? If not how can I pass the option to configure when using the ports
collection?
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 03:43 pm, csnyder wrote:
From the PHP manual:
Session support is enabled in PHP
Brian Bobowski wrote:
Graham Bentley wrote:
Hi All,
As an experiment (and to gain some expereince) I would like to test
out locally various CMS software.
I have a 5.3 release disc here and can get a minimal install up and
running and on the net quite quickly now.
What I am struggling with is
Trey Sizemore wrote:
Fernando Gleiser wrote:
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I made a typo in rc.conf and now am able to boot only into single user
mode. I thought vi would be available to edit the file, but cannot
execute it (vi not found). How can I edit my rc.conf at this point/
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All'
directory. Since I could use the disk space that they are taking up, I
wonder if it is permissible to just delete them. I clean out the
'/usr/ports/distfiles' directory on a regular schedule without incident.
Rizal Ferdiyan wrote:
why my partition windows can be mount in bsd?
i have been try to write :
mount -f -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/win1
but appear message msodsfs:/dev/ad0s2:Invalid Argumen
What version of FreeBSD? Also, how big a disk?
Finally, why is Erik's email in your cc: field?
Cezar Fistik wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to get some info about changes to startup
scripts that are in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ directory. It
looks like they are completely different now... calls
to some strange functions etc. How do they relate to
rc.conf? I mean now I need to tell in rc.conf:
[Please forgive the cross-posting to advocacy, and
the possibility that this is no longer questions material,
and any personal affronts :-) ]
From: Dylan Nicolini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Sir:
I am very eager to contribute to the FreeBSD project. Currently, I am a
Junior in college, majoring in
Cristi Tauber wrote:
Hello list,
i want to install apache+php+mysql. If i install mod_php i cannot
install php4-extension (mysql, etc ...). If i try to install php4-cli
and extensions apache doesn't know how to handle .php files . What's the
they to go to make apache work with mysql and
Chris Dillon wrote:
After fiddling around with some of the clock/voltage
related BIOS settings, putting new thermal compound
between the CPUs and heatsinks, reseating cards and
memory, placing the PCs inside a hexagram drawn on
the floor and dancing nak... nevermind... we got them
to run snip
I
Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for this newbie question :(
I've installed Apache-PHP sucessfully, but PHP lacks suport for MySQL
and Postgresql.
Are there any ports for that, or must i edit PHP's Makefile to include
suport for both databases ?
I've searched all around the ports colection, but
dusan wrote:
hi there. can somebody tell me the best way how to configure mouse
wheel on freebsd ?? thx alt
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Joshua Lokken wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:37:40 +, Jonathon McKitrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:32:33PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote:
: from 'man portupgrade(1)':
:
: -r
: --recursive Act on all those packages depending on the
:
Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
Well, actuallly, after i make a port upgrade with cvsup, i go
to /usr/ports (there's) a Makefile there, and do a make install.
I am not sure that you want to do this under what I consider normal
circumstances. There is a target there for updating the tree via
CVS if I'm
David Banning wrote:
My thought was to disable the gateway configuration set in rc.conf.
How do I disable the gateway option without rebooting?
I have gateway enabled, but natd disabled, which blocks the
traffic from inside to outside, I believe.
I have my nat running in ppp, and when
Thomas S. Crum - AAA Web Solution, Inc. wrote:
Is there something that I am not updating that portaudit would like to see
done or is this just a generic warning. Either way, please provide
examples of what I might due to have it stop complaining. I can find no
examples googling the portaudit note
piyush v wrote:
sir i am new in BSD
i think this is the UNIX operating system
It is a Unix-like operating system.
and it's free ? to use ? or what ?
Free, yes; to use, redistribute, modify,
you name it; just abide by the terms of
the license (COPYRIGHT).
and i m new in BSD so kindly guide
Attempting to make install in /usr/ports/x11/xorg, a relatively
clean install of 5.3_p1:
--
cd ./config/imake make -f Makefile.proto imakeonly
cc -O -pipe -O2
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Jerry Hoover wrote:
I would like to learn FreeBSD 4.8 (I think I have a copy)
What I need to know, what does it require?
CPU?
RAM?
Hard Drive Space?
A 486-grade CPU or later, 16MB of RAM, and 1 GB of disk space is
something resembling a minimum configuration. If you want
stan wrote:
I went to update some machines this weekend, to find that my local cvsup
mirror is not getting updated. Here is the log file:
CVSup update begins at 2004-12-12 11:17:00
Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org
Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org
Updating collection cvs-all/cvs
Append to
Sandy Rutherford wrote:
Is it possible to change the sysctl variable hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize
(DMA buffer size for the soundcard) in FreeBSD 4.10? I know that in
5.x this is changed in devices.hints. I'm guessing that something in
the kernel config file will do the job, but haven't been able to
Meyendriesch, Burkard wrote:
hello folks,
on my Athlon64 based box I installed 5-CURRENT about a year
ago. Because at that time amd64 mode didn't work very well
with a lot of ports I installed FreeBSD in i386 mode. Meanwhile
I followed the release path to 5.3.Everything works very fine.
Now I
Yudi wrote:
I'm using freebsd v4.9
I'm finished installed ezm3, but when I configure
cvsup especially in :
# cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
there error for connecting to cvsup server ( I
tried mirror on Japan , Korea and Indonesia)
What happen and what should I do ???
Thanks,
Best regard
Nathan Kinkade wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:05:23PM -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote:
Greetings all,
I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a
console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box).
Are you looking for something to run under
Paul Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:49:22PM +, Simon Burke wrote:
HIya,
Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3.
I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x.
Is it the same process??
I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the
Noah wrote:
HI,
okay one more question. what is the best method to get rid of all the stale
dependencies please?
--- snip ---
Hi, Noah. (Thanks for building that boat all those years ago... :-)
Anyway, this helped me in understanding how to answer
pkgdb -F:
Adam wrote:
In Greg Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD he reccomends changing
the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94
What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?
Thanks,
Adam
I like a .30-06 for deer, antelope, etc, .762[mm] for terrorists, and a
.340
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
Brandon Lodriguss wrote:
It seems like utmp/wtmp is getting updated when the user logs out of the
second shell, then it ignores the fact that the user is still logged in to
the original shell.
I've got curious and investigated a bit. It looks like when user logs
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:11:03 AM + Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, I take the view that the less done by the super user
the better, and discourage myself to use sudo(1) preferentially and to
keep su(1) sessions as short as possible
Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
I don't see how cvsup again will help. I did it though hoping that
my
Makefile might have been corrupted. But I still get the same error
output :
=== Building for nvnet-1.0.0274
Makefile, line 7: Malformed
Simon Burke wrote:
Hiya,
After a while of using 5.3RELEASE, i have noticed a small problem, my
swap partition isnt getting used. Well its not a small problem
considering that i have only 256mb ram on this machine.
boredom# swapctl -l
Device: 1024-blocks Used:
/dev/ad0s1b 482112
David Banning wrote:
On the firewall it is difficult to block the win boxes because I -want-
each machine to be able to contact each other, but I don't want the
windows boxes to have internet connection.
Now, that seems a little weird. Do you not have a hub or switch
other than the BSD
Doloonkhuch wrote:
Dear sir,
Now I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 release but now I can't compile new
kernel with IPFIREWALL_FORWARD option. Please tell me port forwarding
work or not work on FreeBSD 5.2.1 release. I think maybe IPFIREWALL
options
already included.
Best regards
Doloonkhuch.A
There is
Micheal Mand wrote:
Hello,
I am very interested in using FreeBSD on my old Compaq box,
but the only problem is, I can't seem to find where Windows
holds the system information. (Stupid Windows) Does anyone
have any ideas or know which port I should use?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mike
Charles Ulrich wrote:
Robert Huff said:
Nikolas Britton writes:
Is it generally safe to just rebuild the kernel, and not make
world, when your only tracking a release and not -STABLE,
i.g. setting cvsup to track RELENG_5_3?
As a general rule, this is _never_ safe. Unless you're
Robert William Vesterman wrote:
I installed the Gnome2 port, and it installed a whole lot of stuff that
I wasn't expecting, including stuff that I don't know what it is, and
also stuff that I never intend to use.
Is there a way to install just a basic Gnome, without all the stuff?
That is, the
Andrew P. wrote:
Hello!
I've got a freebsd box with a 2Gb hard drive and a server with a lot
of free space. I want
to make use of nfs and let the small box mount most of its
directories in read-write mode from
the server. What directories are safe to be moved to a remote
location? The idea is
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hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that
is available to purchase???
The FreeBSD Laptop Compatability List at:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
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