Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: | On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:01:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from |> email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my |>

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Until the wonderful day that the entire internet abides by these > rules[*], use > of

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

John Almberg wrote: I do know that Mysql supports SSL... somehow this got discounted early in the discussion, perhaps mistakenly? I believe the thinking was that although MySQL claims to support SSL, it does in fact make a pretty bodge of it, and a more effective approach is to pipe MySQL tra

Re: Apache aliased directory invisible

David Karapetyan wrote: FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible from the directory root. An example: Whe

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Mike Clarke wrote: | FreeBSD curlew.lan 6.4-RC1 FreeBSD 6.4-RC1 #2: Sat Oct 18 23:08:47 BST | 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CURLEW i386 | | I'm trying to upgrade phpMyAdmin from 2.11.5.2 to 3.0.0_1 but all | attempts fail. I

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

John Almberg wrote: Now I just need to figure out how to start it on reboot, but that is something I've been meaning to learn, anyway, so I don't mind. I hope you guys will bear with me just a little more... I have spent the day trying to figure out how to create an rc script for autossh. Ver

Re: what else is needed to make ftp passive work

Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Finally, I recommend if this machine is RELENG_6 or later, that you look in to using pf(4) instead. You'll thank me later. :-) Specifically ftp-proxy(8). Makes it almost feasible to support such an archaic and unfriendly-to-firewalling protocol as FTP and still retain

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Valentin Bud wrote: | the main reason i don't like to install phpmyadmin from ports is the | following: | # pwd | /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin | | # make all-depends-list | grep x11 | /usr/ports/x11/libXpm | /usr/ports/x11/xextproto | /usr

Re: duplicate a drive

RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK "The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. This is highly recommended if you have

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the "how to" i get a message to input the root password or Ctrl-D to enter

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

Matthew Seaman wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the "how to" i get a messa

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

Matthew Seaman wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I have lost the neuron where I stored the root password of an installation ;D I have seen a "How to" about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the "

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

Francis Dubé wrote: Hi everyone, I'm running a a webserver on FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE-p6) and I have this error in my logs : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to dec

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

Rich Fairbanks wrote: Now, this is how I set up the array. I installed the card, popped in the drives. The card bios found the drives and allowed me to setup in RAID 5. Then, FreeBSD booted and found the "disk" as da0. I want the entire array to be one big chunk of space. In other words, I don't

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The RAID card itself may have a BBU, so during loss of power any cached data *on the card* will be attempt to be flushed to disk... except the PC (including hard disks -- unless they're powered from some other source) is already down/offline by this point. And let's not f

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

Francis Dubé wrote: As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of the requests the server have to process. Most of the websites hosted on the server have approximately 200 small images with a size between 1k and 32

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

cpghost wrote: How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? This won't work: $ tail -f /var/log/pflog | tcpdump -n -s 116 -r - because tail doesn't start at the right location. Using a blocksize (-b) with tail may also not be right, because the captured packets are not t

Re: UFS2 limits

Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower a

Re: PATH problem

Albert Shih wrote: Maybe my question is not very clear The p5 package work in shell, because the PATH is in the shell. But when I use the application throught the web it's not working. But I don't known how to tell apache ? mod_perl ? the PATH. If you're using mod_perl2, then Apache w

Re: open mail relay with ipv6??

Mark Busby wrote: Is this an open relay using ipv6? If so how to block the ipv6 relay. I thought after sendmail v8.9, all relay action was blocked by default. You haven't given sufficient information to say whether the machine is an open relay or not. We'd need to see the configuration files (

Re: Disallowing ssl2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 John Almberg wrote: | My server got an audit for PCI compliance and was red-flagged for | allowing SSL2 connections, which they have some problem with. They want | the server to use SSL3 or TLS: | | "Synopsis : The remote service encrypts traffic

Re: inet hosts question

Vincent Hoffman wrote: Gary Hartl wrote: I thought I could do it by using the /class ie /32 for class c but i can't remember what the class delegation is for that size of pool, I think it is a class B. 192.168.0.0/16 for your example. and yes this is a class B (not all /16s are though.) th

Re: re changing from vista

peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware and software FreeBSD (or any Unix/Linux for that matter) is very different to Windows, an

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

Masoom Shaikh wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? do I miss anything ? Yes. Binaries installed from the ports system /are/ already strippe

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

Wojciech Puchar wrote: and subscribe. is having as much "users" as possible really good for FreeBSD? i don't think so. There's no law or even a policy against i...ts using FreeBSD. OF COURSE. but how usable such forum be for "specialists" (i mean just someone bit advanced)? will it be sepa

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: * Having five gazillion posts that say "me too", is not exactly a productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced people and you hand them a web interface to freely post short, often unintel

www/xpi-mozex (was Re: Official FreeBSD Forums)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Oh, wow. That's perfect. Or it would be if it was compatible with |> firefox-3.0.4 ... | | It is. I'm using

Re: www/xpi-mozex (was Re: Official FreeBSD Forums)

Matthew Seaman wrote: Looks like the www/xpi-mozex port is a bit out of date. 1.9.5 in ports versus 1.9.9 available on-line. Unless someone beats me to it, I'll submit an update to the maintainer this evening. ports/128945 Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good project to get some familiarity with the ports tree. Would it be

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

stephen jackson wrote: I have read briefly on FreeBSD and it seems to be the winner on speed and stability versus Linux and of course MS Windows. I have just experienced 2 days of never ending problems with a Sony laptop and Windows XP, which cannot run Norton 360 virus nor AVG. They need an XP 2

Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

tethys ocean wrote: Hi to all The server is give this error whenever i want to start apache22. why? regards Because something's wrong. Cheers, Matthew What? Not enough of an answer? It's all the answer anyone can give considering the parcity of information you supply in y

Re: libperl.so not found snmpd

Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I'm setting up snmpd, I've download the package and installed it ok. I've setup the configuration files, when i run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snmpd start i get Starting snmpd. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libperl.so" not found, required by "snmpd" So I do a quick

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good project to get some familiarity wit

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/26/08, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros in

Re: Regular Expression Help

Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm attempting to take an ldiff file and flip first/last name order. However I can not figure out how to match hyphenated last names. In vim, my current search/replace string is: %s/cn=\(\w\+\-*\) \(\w\+\),/cn=\2 \1,/gc This will match: cn=Smith Joe, and replace it w

Re: Regular Expression Help

Drew Tomlinson wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: % perl -p -e 's/cn=([^ ,]+) ([^,]+),/cn=$2 $1,/' < foo.txt I still don't really understand *why* the above works but I'm trying to pick it apart now. The RE breaks down like this: /cn=([^ ,]+) ([^,]+),/ cn=

Re: FreeBSD 7.0: which distribution

Pieter Donche wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ebbe Hjorth wrote: Hi, All new XEON cpus are 64-bit spo use the 64 bit freebsd version. So this would point to "ia64" distribution? But clicking op www.freebsd.com/where.html - Hardware notes/View tells for ia64: Currently supported processors are Itani

Re: FreeBSD 7.0: which distribution

Pieter Donche wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ebbe Hjorth wrote: Hi, All new XEON cpus are 64-bit spo use the 64 bit freebsd version. So this would point to "ia64" distribution? But clicking op www.freebsd.com/where.html - Hardware notes/View tells for ia64: Currently supported processors are Itani

Re: FreeBSD 7.0: which distribution

Pieter Donche wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ebbe Hjorth wrote: Hi, All new XEON cpus are 64-bit spo use the 64 bit freebsd version. So this would point to "ia64" distribution? But clicking op www.freebsd.com/where.html - Hardware notes/View tells for ia64: Currently supported processors are Itani

Re: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags ERROR when using Sysinstall to format HD (FreeBsd 7.2 STABLE)

Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks!! Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the following error: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10! │ │ │ │To edit the labels on a running system set

Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

David Southwell wrote: [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Frank Steinborn You should be able to restore the bind from base by using the install.sh script in /usr/src/contrib/bind9. Deinstall the port first, though. ThanksI deinstalled the port and tried to run insta

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote: And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Windows 7 source under the GPL. Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied.

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

Gary Kline wrote: write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering. Uh -- sendmail -bv doesn't do what you think it does. It only shows you w

Re: MySQL + SSL

Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have been strugling to find the correct syntax for the mysql(1) command to connect with SSL. My server is accepting SSL connections: db2: mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is

Re: for perl wizards.

Gary Kline wrote: Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), and so forth. Why does

Re: Russian Translator

Владимир Романов wrote: Hi there. I want to be the translator from English to Russian in freebsd.com. ITYM freebsd.org ? I see, that in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ there is written: Copyright [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/LEGALNOTICE.html]

Re: for perl wizards.

Oliver Fromme wrote: This isn't about regular expressions at all. This is about replacing fixed strings. Fixed strings are regular expressions. Pretty unexciting ones, but perfectly valid none the less. This has been your daily pedantry minute. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matth

Re: for perl wizards.

Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: That's twice now people have suggested sed instead of perl. Why? For many uses, perl is a better sed than sed. The regex engine is far more powerful and escapes are much simpler. Because sed is stable and perl is getting all OO

Re: Security blocking question

Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, The production server that has a public IP address has SSH enabled. This server is continuously under dictionary attack: Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32248]: Invalid user europa from 83.65.199.91 Oct 8 12:58:40 seven sshd[32250]: Invalid user hacked from 83.65.199.91

Re: Security blocking question

Svante Kvarnstrom wrote: On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: plus you'll need to add a cron job to clear old entries out of the ssh-bruteforce table after a suitable amount of time has passed. Use expiretable to do that. I believe that security/expiretable is superf

Re: how does gmirror start up?

Nick Barnes wrote: I am running a 6.3 system and have had various problems with disk reliability on a key filesystem, probably down to SCSI hardware or drivers. I'm intending to replace that SCSI disk with a pair of SATA disks ad6/7, using gmirror as gm0 (while keeping ad4 as our boot disk). I

Re: Security blocking question

Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Is there a way that I could configure the server so that if there are for example X attempts from an IP address then for the next Y hours all the SSH requests would be ignored from that IP address? There are only a handful of people who have access to that server. Ye

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

Warren Block wrote: Lastly, it says save all boot messages. Do they mean the output of dmesg? Why is this useful? It would show what hardware was in the old machine and what services are running on startup. Backup in general is making copies of information you won't need as long as you ha

Re: phpMyAdmin install stopped in dependency 'libXau-1.0.4'

Kikachi Kozumi wrote: Hi, I tried installing phpMyAdmin in an ezjail created jail already installed with apache22, mysql and php5 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386 with no X11 (headless). The port install failed when dependency 'libXau-1.0.4' configure couldn't find gnome-config: ... checking fo

Re: Security blocking question

Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: I have the following in my pf.conf: ext_if="bge0" # Public Services -- smtp, http, pop3s tcpPubServices = "{ 25, 80, 995 }" set timeout { interval 10, frag 30 } set timeout { tcp.first 120, tcp.opening 30, tcp.established 86400 } set timeout { tcp.closing 900, tcp.fin

Re: Data Redundancy RAID 0+1 Vs 1+0 FREEBSD 7.4 STABLE

Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks, I'm thinking to build a Raid on my system and I'm getting documented abut 0+1 and 1+0 RAID systems. As far as I can see the best option is a 1+0 is the best option as if one of the from mirrors fails, the RAID still be redundant and in the case of a 0+1 RAID, If o

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

Manolis Kiagias wrote: PJ wrote: Now, does that mean that glabel does not work if there are several disks on the system... it certainly does not say so nor does it adv ertise that this would not work if there are several ATA disks present.. Previously I had also tried a reboot press 4 with exa

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

Polytropon wrote: note there I have also used glabel on the swap (command used was glabel label /dev/ad10p1) A really honest question: What does the "p" in "ad10p1" indicate? I always thought swap partitions are something like "ad10b" (an own partition right after the root partition a). ad10

Re: pf+time stamp

Dánielisz László wrote: Hello, Do you have any idea how to add and read time stamp of pf/pf.log? Thank you! Laci Do you mean /var/log/pflog ? Which is the default location where a record of logged packets ends up if you run pflogd(8). That's actually a pcap (packet capture) file, and you ca

Re: sendmail domain configuration

stan wrote: I am trying to work around some design issues. Some of out FreeBSD macines must live in a made up domain. As a result from these machines gtes discarded by an sensible mail handling system. I have solved this problem on some Soalris machines that also si`uffer from this same design

Re: scalable FreeBSD based LNS (with L2TPv2)

Vincent Hoffman wrote: Rogelio wrote: Has anyone created/used/found/seen a FreeBSD based LNS that supports thousands L2TPv2 tunnels? Right now, the only solution I see that scales to this level is Redback, and if not a Redback box, then lots of Cisco 7200 boxes. I understand MPD (ports/net

Re: gnu tar checkpoint variable expansion

Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I am working with gnu tar checkpoints this morning can cannot seem to get variables to expand properly when they are passed as part of a checkpoint action. Following is how I am using gnu tar DIR="/home/test" WHATTOBACKUP="/home/somedir" /usr/local/gta

Re: DNS Question

DAve wrote: Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to have

Re: DNS Question

Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Oct 23, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but if

Re: changing cron's From: address in emails

Kelly Martin wrote: Greetings, here's a simple question for the FreeBSD gurus out there. I have several servers running cron scripts daily for me, and they all send me e-mail with their output. Regardless of which server it is, each of these e-mails have the From: address looking exactly the same

Re: changing cron's From: address in emails

Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:16 AM -0500 Matthew Seaman wrote: Kelly Martin wrote: Greetings, here's a simple question for the FreeBSD gurus out there. I have several servers running cron scripts daily for me, and they all send me e-mail with their o

Re: flashplugin

PJ wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works. This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that there are compatibility issues between new versio

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

Chris Rees wrote: I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the terminology; but then again the official British spelling is disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk. The official British spelling is whichever one of disc or di

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

Grünewald Michaël wrote: Dear list, after an incorrect power-off of my FreeBSD system, it does not boot any more, BTX stops even before showing the cute beastie menu. Starting the machine by other means, I found that the hard-drive is installed on has bad sectors. I am looking for advices on

Re: Using bash with MySQL

carmel_ny wrote: I am in the process of writting a script that will use MySQL as a back end. For the most part, I have gotten things to work correctly. I am having one problem though. Assume a data base: database: MyDataBase table: MyTable field: defaults Now, I have populated the 'defaults' f

Re: flashplugin

Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:11 -0400, PJ wrote: I have tried them all... now I have linux-f10 with flashplayer10 installed and all I get is an error that flashplugin.so cannot be started because a shared file "freetype.so.6" cannot be found... It's there allright and is linked t

Re: breakthru, maybe....

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-IMAGES/8.0/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/Free

Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers

Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:32:42 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? What about "ls -laF

Re: APACHE/PHP/MYSQL Password Hash

Monty Pyth wrote: I have inherited a website to work on that users authenticate to using a login and password from a login page. The server is FreeBSD 6.2 running APACHE/PHP/MYSQL. There is a MYSQL table that maintains all of the users. The table has a users name and password. The password is has

Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

Guy Marcenac wrote: Hi, I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons * I am very interested in the jail concept * I have to relearn iptables syntax each time I want to add a rule I am testing the system in vmware virtual machine. There is a point I don't fully under

Re: ntp

alexus wrote: this is my ntp.conf su-3.2# cat /usr/local/etc/ntp.conf server 0.us.pool.ntp.org server 1.us.pool.ntp.org server 2.us.pool.ntp.org server 3.us.pool.ntp.org su-3.2# ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ===

Re: How to configure sendmail

Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have this stupide little configuration that I cannot manage to get working. I have one machine a.domain.net that I want to be able to deliver system mail (like cron and so on) with the following rules: - user1 on a.domain.net has the same username as on domain.net;

Re: how to show "make configure" menu after initial make

Len Conrad wrote: subsequent "make configure" simply uses the original menu choices with no re-display of the menu to change the options make rmconfig ; make config -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3

Re: php4-gd

Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hello, I have on some web servers php4-gd port installed and I am totally confused. Portaudit says Affected package: php4-gd-4.4.9 Type of problem: gd -- '_gdGetColors' remote buffer overflow vulnerability. Reference:

Re: rc.subr patch to set FIB to demon

Коньков Евгений wrote: Hello, . Link to news: http://www.kes.net.ua/softdev/fib_patch.html rc.subr.patch - 2c2 < # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.77.2.1.2.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $ --- # $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.77.2.1 2008/05/12 07:29:03 mtm Exp $ 605d604 < 664a6

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: Nov 15 15:24:17 coredump kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=256230591 This is *not* necessarily a big deal, despite what your other response told you. Errors on reads do not mean that your drive's bad-sector table is f

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

Lowell Gilbert wrote: "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: Nov 15 15:24:17 coredump kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=256230591 This is *not* necessarily a big deal, despite what your other response told you. Errors on reads do not mean that your drive's bad-sector table is f

Re: Dump

Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list. > > I've been testing backups with dump, works well BUT > -L does not work. For example > > dump -0 -a -u -L -f /mnt/dump.home.full /dev/ad0s2d I believe that you need to tell dump the mount point of the file system in order for it to create a snapshot, rather

Re: How can I rescue my passwd file after corrupting it (and why does it still work) ?

those files are changed -- the backups are created by the overnight periodic cron jobs, so you should be able to restore yesterday's status quo. Otherwise, you can sort of reconstruct the missing entries from yor master.passwd file by using pw(8) -- eg: % pw user show -n matthew matthew:*:10

Re: nr or inodes in use/max

n dhert wrote: > How can I see, in a running FreeBSD7.2 for each filsystem how many inodes > are in use and what is the maximum? df -i > How can one raise the max number if inodes? You'ld have to backup your data and then blow away the filesystem on that partition and recreate it using different

Re: Why in f10 scim doesn't work from skype?

Yuri wrote: How can I know the current environment variables of the running process? Anyone has a solution for this problem? Checkout the ps(1) man page. The '-e' flag will cause the environment of each listed process to be printed out. eg: % ps -ew -p $$ PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 44

Re: mysql60-server??

Gary Kline wrote: kwik one: in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the instruction say? tia... y'all. There are 4 versions of MySQL currently available. In re

Re: mysql60-server??

Gary Kline wrote: Thanks for the heads-up, MAtthew. I'm much too slow to get all the machinations re which corporation is diddling which corporation or other entity (like us). Did not know that mysql was actually owned by Sun. I'd ask if there are any f

Re: Mail not working [SOLVED]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I can't believe it. After all this time hacking away, I solved my issue rather easily. I made sure sendmail was turned off, then deinstalled/reinstalled postfix-current from ports. I had to tweak some directives in mailer.conf and main.cf based on a couple of posts I

Re: slightly complex query - one machine with two network interfaces

John wrote: Hello list, I hope you can help. I have a freebsd 8.0-R machine with a wired and a wireless interface. The wired network has real IP addresses. I want the wireless to talk to the wireless network which is behind a NAT/firewall. The wireless interface on the freebsd box does not wa

Re: mysterious "try" process dumping core on 7.2-RELEASE ... worried ...

George Sanders wrote: I see these two entries in my /var/log/messages: Nov 24 18:08:41 hostname kernel: pid 25901 (try), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) Nov 24 18:10:29 hostname kernel: pid 35359 (try), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) But I've never heard of a "try" binary,

Re: Why there are so many binary packages missing?

Yuri wrote: I am seeing this for a long time. If I use 'portupgrade -aPP' (packages only) there is a very large percentage of packages missing. Upgrading becomes many times faster when binary packages available are available. Missing binary packages are due in the main to three reasons: * R

Re: Source Code Update Question

Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, This is the first time I have tried to upgrade FreeBSD's source code, and I have done something wrong, but I am not sure what. I am upgrading from 6.2 to 8.0. First, I upgraded the source code, using csup /root/supfile. Here are the contents of /root/s

Re: 8.0 zfs install

William Taylor wrote: Does the installer in 8.0 support zfs? No. If not whats the easiest way to get a full zfs install done? http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS and links referenced from that page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Prio

Re: binary upgrade 6.1 - 7.2/8.0

Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:01:04PM +, Robin Becker wrote: Is it feasible to upgrade a system from 6.1 to 7.2 or 8.0-RC1 and if yes what sequence of upgrades should I actually carry out ie is it feasible to do 6.1-6.2 and then 6.2 - 7.2 or should it be done in small st

Re: hptrr: no controller detected

Alvin wrote: When I test to run FreeBSD 6.4 on that 2 servers after installation i got this error. hptrr: no controller detected Pls kindly let me know how to solve this issue. It's not actually an error. It's just the hptrr driver being overly verbose and telling you what you no doubt alr

Re: Net-SNMP and ProPolice under 8.0-RELEASE

Trix Farrar wrote: The Net-SNMP port (net-mgmt/net-snmp) builds and appears to work just fine, but I cannot build the SNMP module for PHP (net-mgmt/php5-snmp). Attempting to build php5-snmp fails during the configure stage. The error message says to check the config.log. In the /usr/ports/net-

Re: Net-SNMP and ProPolice under 8.0-RELEASE

Matthew Seaman wrote: Trix Farrar wrote: The Net-SNMP port (net-mgmt/net-snmp) builds and appears to work just fine, but I cannot build the SNMP module for PHP (net-mgmt/php5-snmp). Time to warm up send-pr(1). ports/141238 if you want to add your report. Cheers, Matthew

Re: update/upgrade question

Alex Huth wrote: > Hello! > > Maybe i haven't understand the process of updating not really. I thought when > i use Releng_6 in the stable_supfile i get the latest version of 6.x = 6.4. > But after the process of make buildworld and so on, it is still 6.3. Do i have > to use Releng_6_4 even when i

Re: update/upgrade question

Alex Huth wrote: > * Matthew Seaman schrieb: >>> Next question is if i don't get updates with freebsd-update when i have >>> a stable version? I have the problem with two machines (6.3 and 6.4). On >>> both >>> i do not get the public key because i

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