Security report question

2007-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
I've noted in a security mail from one of my machines the following log entries: +++ /tmp/security.yEepp7hR Sat Sep 29 03:02:07 2007 +Limiting closed port RST response from 253 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response from 233 to 200 packets/sec +Limiting closed port RST response

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: > [ ... ] > > +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec > > > > I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm > > being port scanned.

Re: Security report question

2007-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/30/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kurt Buff wrote: > > > [ ... ] > > > > +Limi

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On 9/30/07, Joe in MPLS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw & horde for > mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird & PDAs) for > primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't do any). AV > scanning would be a plus too. >

iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my googling hasn't been successful. >From my reading of this list over the past couple of years,

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On 10/10/07, pete wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely > > with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. > > > > I

Re: postfix problem

2007-10-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Let's try that again, shall we? In main.cf, what do the following lines say? mydomain = myorigin = mynetworks = mydestination = Fixing these will likely fix your problem. My postfix box is a mail gateway to our Exchange server, and my main.cf say these things: mydomain = mycompany.com myorigin

cups-base upgrade and samba

2007-11-12 Thread Kurt Buff
According to my portaudit, cups-base has security problems, and I can't get samba going because of it. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/8dd9722c-8e97-11dc-b8f6-001c2514716c.html According to the above URL, this problem affects v1.3.4, and 1.3.3_1 is the latest port, from the CVSUP I did tod

Re: cups-base upgrade and samba

2007-11-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Nov 12, 2007 1:36 PM, Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On November 12, 2007 at 02:42PM Kurt Buff wrote: > > > > According to my portaudit, cups-base has security problems, and I > > can't get samba going because of it. > > > > http://www.Free

Re: cups-base upgrade and samba

2007-11-12 Thread Kurt Buff
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 12, 2007 3:07 PM Subject: Re: cups-base upgrade and samba To: David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Nov 12, 2007 1:30 PM, David Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded my cups-base in

Re: cups-base upgrade and samba

2007-11-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Nov 12, 2007 2:02 PM, Yuri Pankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 00:53:22 Kurt Buff wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2007 1:36 PM, Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On November 12, 2007 at 02:42PM Kurt Buff wrote: > > > > Acco

Re: cups builds on one, but rejected by another?

2007-11-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On 11/14/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:57:26 pm Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:39:47 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: > > >> my jails server (6.2-p8) just ran portupgrade fine, and cups was one of > >

Re: cups builds on one, but rejected by another?

2007-11-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On 11/14/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 04:32:12 pm Kurt Buff wrote: > > On 11/14/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 03:57:26 pm Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Jo

Updating samba fails

2007-11-21 Thread Kurt Buff
router# uname -a FreeBSD router.zetron.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 11 15:38:55 PDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 Received a warning in my daily security report, so I used cvsup to fetch the latest ports tree this morning, and did a 'portupgrade -aRr',

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Dec 4, 2007 1:05 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > PuTTY has no installer - It's just a binary. > > Actually there is a windows installer for putty But you don't need to use it. All you need is the executable.

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On 12/12/07, Sten Daniel Soersdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a need for a relatively painless anti-spam solution that would > reduce the amount of incoming spam (via postfix mail router). The > problem is that i have little knowledge on what this actually means. > Googling reveals a whole

scp between windows and freebsd

2003-12-10 Thread KURT BUFF
All, I'm following the directions here: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html to improve the gateway to our Exchange box, and am stuck on a particular step. I just can't seem to make the Putty SCP work from my workstation. I used Putty's window copy function to paste into

RE: scp between windows and freebsd

2003-12-11 Thread KURT BUFF
Thank you Malcom! I've found that specifying another account (didn't want to enable remote root login) and putting either authorized_keys or authorized_keys2 into the proper directory worked like a champ. On to more and better work. Kurt | | On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:20, KURT BUFF wrot

can't figure out a problem with sudo

2003-12-17 Thread KURT BUFF
All, I'm starting to lose some hair, running a command through sudo. Other commands work just fine through sudo, just one of them doesn't work. The command is this: sudo cp /home/filter/pfm/relay_recipients /usr/local/etc/postfix. It fails with the following error message: Sorry, user filter i

RE: can't figure out a problem with sudo - SOLVED

2003-12-18 Thread KURT BUFF
Lowell, Well, as I'm sure you (and anyone else who's been working with it) know, sudo is a picky little beast. This was my first attempt at setting it up. After banging my head against this for a while longer this morning, I changed my sudoers file with the following: Old: | > # Cmnd alias speci

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2003-12-24 Thread KURT BUFF
Markus said: | Are 13yrs old people in highschool? :-p I was, 30+ years ago. Depends in large part at which point of the year you were born, and just how smart you are. Robert said" | I am no | sure totally what he means by OS purism? What does it mean to | be a purist and like BSD so much becau

periodic not working?

2008-09-24 Thread Kurt Buff
I've got a recently configured machine, running 7.0-RELEASE. Somehow I've munged it, as I'm not getting the emails from periodic. I've checked what I am aware of to check against a working machine, and can't figure this out. I've got postfix installed for the MTA, and the main.cf, master.cf, ali

Re: periodic not working?

2008-09-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 03:07:13 Kurt Buff wrote: > >> I've got postfix installed for the MTA, and the main.cf, master.cf, >> alias db hash and transport.db hash all look fine >> >> cro

Re: periodic not working?

2008-09-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:55:39 Kurt Buff wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Mel >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thursday 25 September 2008 03:07:13 Kurt Buff wrote

Re: uptime 2 years!

2008-10-08 Thread Kurt Buff
Nice, but what does port audit say? On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Chad Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Would like to share a success story which I'm sure you've had in the past > but one of my servers running FreeBSD will have an uptime of 2 years > tomorrow. I plan on putting

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
I doubt the FreeBSD install CD will do that. However, I'd get a copy gparted on a live CD. That'll do what you want. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) ) > > I've install many FreeBSD, but I a

Re: ZFS Recovery Tools

2008-11-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > UFS performs excellent on large drives/volumes. not in theory but in > practice, i use it every place, on volumes up to 3GB > > NO PROBLEMS. Do you mean 3TB instead? ___ freeb

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:32, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Yuri : > Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things > like cron? Postfix. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 00:16, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: >> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. >> >> How many people actually use it? Very few. >> Why isn't it moved to ports? > > What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have? > > Almost everyone I've eve

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: >> >     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd? >> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGE

7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-11-29 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the directions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html However, I can't get it going as a standard user. When I run 'nspluginwrapper -v -a -i' I get the following: Auto-i

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:16, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Sunday 29 November 2009 22:47:56 Kurt Buff wrote: >> I've gotten Flash and Java going with Firefox, as root, using the >> directions here: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/des

Re: 7.2R and Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash/Java - something odd I can't quite figure out...

2009-12-02 Thread Kurt Buff
ox > done > > But maybe this could be managed into firefox3 package? > > > Samuel Martín Moro > CamTrace > {EPITECH.} tek4 > > "Nobody wants to say how this works. > Maybe nobody knows ..." >                      Xorg.conf(5) > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 a

OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the firewall and install the MS client on a number of desktops to facilitate IM/videoconferencing for this. That makes me vaguely nauseous, for several security reasons (the client is historically vulnerable, poking holes in firewalls is risky, and inter

Re: OTish: Alternative to MS Live?

2009-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > On Tuesday 08 December 2009 5:50:46 pm Kurt Buff > wrote: >> All, >> >> Our new CEO wants me to poke holes in the >> firewall and install the MS client on a number >> of desktops to facilitate IM/video

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:53, J Sisson wrote: > 2009/12/11 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) > >> The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes >> locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that >> simple. >> > > http://xkcd.com/538/ > > indeed. Well, y

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-21 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:17, Eric Le Goff wrote: >> Have a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr > > I had a look at ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr > I am quite new in FreeBsd but in my case it does not work , ie : > > I start a xfce4 session for a (non-root) user > open the wifimgr from  the 'network' menu >

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:33, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used > to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very > vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is > say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, > per

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> >> Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal >> are started at boot.  Follow the handbook for best results. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html > > I'm sure I started them as this doc

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a >> lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I >> have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit >> much. Once I installed /us

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman wrote: So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however: add dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.

Re: sslexplorer setup - just so the archives have it...

2008-04-17 Thread Kurt Buff
r: usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libm.so.2" not found, required by "wrapper" A quick bit of googling indicated that I needed to install compat4x. cd /usr/ports/misc/compat4x make install rehash That takes care of the problem. Kurt On Thu, Apr 17,

sslexplorer setup - just so the archives have it...

2008-04-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Setting up sslexplorer 1.0.0 RC18 on 6.3-STABLE. iNSTALLED Got an error: usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libm.so.2" not found, required by "wrapper" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's

2008-04-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > > I have maintained publicly available servers for a small hobby domain for > almost ten years now. Initially, I bought in to this logic and ran a > firewall. (At that time we only had one server

OSS webex-style program?

2008-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I seem to recall discussion of this sort of program recently, but can't remember where. I've got some mobile remote users who could use support (they're on Windows laptops) and would like to set something up like this. Does anyone know of something like this? Thanks, Kurt

Re: OSS webex-style program?

2008-05-12 Thread Kurt Buff
I don't remember, either, but this is worth taking a look at. Thanks for the help! Kurt On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Dimitri Yioulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 12 May 2008 4:06 pm, Kurt Buff wrote: > > All, > > > > I seem to recall

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Does anyone know of anyone make an enterprise level router based off of > FreeBSD? > > - -- > Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.

Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?

2008-05-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Kelly Jones wrote: >>>> >>>

Duplex printer advice

2008-05-31 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I'm looking to replace my current printer - a Dell 1700n - because I can't make it work with FreeBSD/Linux. To replace it, I'd like to get a duplex printer, as I really hate to waste paper. Does anyone have good experience with one that isn't terribly expensive (expensive to me means more th

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 31, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: > >> At 04:12 PM 5/31/2008, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I'm looking to replace my current printer

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 12:23 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Cc: Kurt Buff; Dere

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 31, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: > >> At 04:12 PM 5/31/2008, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> I'm looking to replace my current printer

Re: Duplex printer advice

2008-06-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to "Kurt Buff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> I'm looking to replace my current printer - a Dell 1700n - because I >> can't make it work with FreeBSD/Linux. > >

Re: VPN (IPSEC)

2008-06-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:13 AM, alexus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone? > > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:49 PM, alexus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to establish a VPN tunnel over internet, I read a >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ipsec.html on how to set

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 17:06, Jason Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 18:57, Gary Kline wrote: > >> which of the many adblockers should i try? >> >> thanks in advance for your insights! >> > imho Add Block Plus is the best Agreed, and for further security, I also use NoScript and Request

Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread Kurt Buff
Thank you for this. I didn't realize that a simple (somewhat technical) question asked in all innocence would generate so much flammage. Kurt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM, grarpamp wrote: > Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is > pretty clear that installing your

Re: Remote access to Freebsd server

2011-04-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/04/2011 16:37, afiddler10 wrote: > Edit the file /etc/rc.conf and add the line: > > sshd_enable="YES" > > Then run this command as root: > > # /etc/rc.d/sshd start > > (you only need to do that as a one-off -- adding the line to rc.co

Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't figure this out. I have a script that should read the current date into a variable, append the time/date stamp at the beginning of the file created with the date in the variable, do a bunch of cURL stuff, then append a time/dat

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:25, pete wright wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> >> I've googled a bunch, read some freebsd.org docs, and just can't >> figure this out. >> >> I have a script that should read the

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
I'm sure > many others have as well! > > G > > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of pete wright > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:25 PM > To: Kurt Buff > Cc: FreeBSD

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:02, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:44:29 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Per the handbook, I added >> >>      SHELL=/bin/sh >> >> to crontab, and I also added >> >>      #!/bin/sh >> >> as the first li

fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE) on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt. AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it >> can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label >> options say >>    

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-27 Thread Kurt Buff
This should have gone to the list - sorry. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 07:17 Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... To: Warren Block On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Bu

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:21, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> >>>> Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP an

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. >> >> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... > > Check if you can download

Fwd: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
One more that should have made it to the list... Kurt On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:21, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 6/27/11 3:40 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:03, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >>> On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>>> I&#

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. >> >> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... > > Check if you can download

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: > Polytropon schrieb: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>> >>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs >>> bootables. >>

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: > Polytropon schrieb: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>> >>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs >>> bootables. >>

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: >> Polytropon schrieb: >>> >>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Your advice sounds reasonable, bu

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri wrote: > Hi, > > I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's > hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index > file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE > writing some hug

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:30, Dr. A. Haakh wrote: > Kurt Buff schrieb: >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff  wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh  wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Polytropon schri

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 06:36, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I often receive information in *.docx format > from my MS using colleagues. Sometimes I can > ask for a pdf (or similar) instead, but not always. > > Usually I unzip a docx and then search > through all *xml  files to find the > useful data

pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
All, This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if that switch is actually part of the issue or not, though I'm really liking portmaster. Anyone have a thought on this? Thanks, Kurt # pkg_info | grep p

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:17, John Webster wrote: > > > --On August 12, 2011 11:08:01 AM -0700 Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, >> >> This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several >> machines after switching from portupgrade to portmas

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> This seems fairly benign so far, but I find it happening on several >> machines after switching from portupgrade to portmaster. Don't know if >> that switch is actually par

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:44, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> >> I'd never seen it with portupgrade, either.  Don't know the cause, but it >> can be a problem.  portmaster --check-depends might fix it.  A more >> brute-force way is to figure out w

Re: Best soloution(s) for handling all the varied media content on the web?

2011-08-14 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:14, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I'm just wondering what practical solutions people have arrived at for > handling all the varied types of media on the web in their browser. > I'd really like to be able to view sites like YouTube, etc. and > Flash-enabled sites, with a mi

zend.to and FreeBSD

2011-08-16 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I'm not seeing the app from http://zend.to in ports, and my google search reveals nobody working with it in FreeBSD. Still, it's promising enough that I thought I'd ask about it here, and see if anyone has tried it. If not, does anyone know of similar functionality running in FreeBSD? Than

libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-28 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: ===>Verifying install for gcrypt.18 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt ===> License GPLv2 LGPL21 accepted by the user ===> Extracting for libgcrypt-1.5.0 => SH

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:45, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, >> >> I've just spun up a new 8.2-RELEASE VM, and gotten a fresh ports tree. >> I tried to install XFCE4, but it has ended with an error: >> >>

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> In the Makefile I see the line >> >>     MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG} >> >> which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to v

Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. What are my options for getting it to a supported release - looking at the handbook it doesn't

Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
A fitting tribute, except for one line... On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 08:07, Paul Schmehl wrote: > # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* > /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.music:04/14        Ritchie > Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 I don't know if Dennis Ritchie was a fan of Dee

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, >> and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if >> necessary, but would

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:49, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> You can do either.  However, it's probably easier to just download and burn >>> the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do >>> up

Re: Re-sending selected e-mail messages

2013-02-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Polytropon wrote: > I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages > according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or > suggestions for an already existing solution before I start > reinventing the wheel. :-) > > The messages in question are s

Re: pkg_version says my ports need to be updated?

2013-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Read the relevant portions of the handbook Chapter 5: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Chapter 25: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html Then also: man portmaster man freebsd-update On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:49 AM,

Re: What's wrong here? Can't reinstall graphics/lcms2

2013-08-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > $ sudo portupgrade -f graphics/lcms2 > => Please update your ports tree and try again. > *** [check-vulnerable] Error code 1 > > I have of course updated the ports tree but it made no difference. Try updating ports again. I was successful i

Re: Network Question

2013-09-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Nang wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have two computers, both running FreeBSD, accessing the >> web via DHCP from the router. The setup looks like this: >> >> >>Int

Re: Ntop on 6.0

2005-12-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I installed ntop 3.2_1 from the ports on a machine running FBSD 6.0. It > appeared to install fine and seems OK when I start it. However whenever > I try and access it via a browser, I just get a blank page. ntop > reports the following warning: > > Tue Dec 20 14:20:58 2

Re: Ntop on 6.0

2005-12-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 12/20/2005 3:06 PM Kurt Buff wrote: >> Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> I installed ntop 3.2_1 from the ports on a machine running FBSD 6.0. It >>> appeared to install fine and seems OK when I start it. However whenever >>> I try

Re: Ntop on 6.0

2005-12-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Been Googling all day and I've seen those posts. However I just > realized it was you. :) Well, not *just* me. :) > I just edited the Makefile to add --without-zlib and am recompiling > now. We'll see if that works around this problem for now. But I'd sure > like to

Re: freebsd as ghosting server for windows boxen

2006-02-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Peter wrote: > What is the best way to use FreeBSD (6.0) as a centralized server to ghost > windows client images over the network? I have been thinking of g4u and > there is the commercial acronis. Any suggestions out there? > > -- > Peter http://unattended.sf.net _

Arpwatch?

2006-02-15 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've installed arpwatch-2.1.a13_2 on FBSD 6.0 (6.0-RELEASE #0 GENERIC I386), and it looks like it installed just fine. However, when I run the rc.d script (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/arpwatch.sh start) to start it, nothing happens, except that it echoes 'meuh' and then dies - I found that string in

Re: Log analysis server suggestions?

2006-02-16 Thread Kurt Buff
Ashley Moran wrote: > Until recently I had a server running syslog-ng set to archive all logs into > server/year/month/day/ directories. Now the server is running in amd64, > we've lost our hi-res scrolling display so I want to look at a better log > watching system. > > I've read about loggin

SSHD working in a funky fashion

2006-02-27 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I have set up a desktop box with 3 dual port Intel NICs as a router, which function it seems to be performing just fine. I used to be able to ssh into the box from my Windows machines with no problem, but now it hangs after I enter the user name - it won't come back with the password prompt.

Re: SSHD working in a funky fashion

2006-03-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On 2/28/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: > >sshd: fatal: timeout before authentication from 192.168.11.63 > > > Can you ssh from one of your other FreeBSD boxes to this box? If not > then try "ssh -v -v -v" which may point you

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