Re: IP Filter on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Mather
in ip_fil.c. (It's a good idea to look in /usr/src/UPDATING before updating your system.) Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. --- Frank Vincent Zappa

Re: IP Filter on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 02:12, Wayne Pascoe wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:50:59PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote: 20030925: Configuring a system to use IPFILTER now requires that PFIL_HOOKS also be explicitly configured. Previously this dependency was magically handled through

Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
still ssh in and run utilities. I suspect this is some sort of filehandle not being released issue, but I'm not sure how to track it down. I've got lsof installed, but I'm not an expert on it yet. Any hints would be welcomed. What's the best way to troubleshoot this problem? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 09, 2004 05:54:16 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul who are you running du as? du will only report file sizes that it has access to. So if you don't run du as root you can get odd results... Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running both df

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Schmehl
it was snort, but I wasn't sure. I'll shut down one process at a time and see when df returns to normal. I am using newsyslog.conf which *should* HUP processes when logs are turned over, but maybe I missed something. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
to 400MB. How to do that? How in the world would that help? (BTW, /var is 31GB) The problem isn't that I'm running out of space. The problem is that df *thinks* I'm out of space, most likely because of a filehandle problem (but I'll confirm that here once I figure it out.) Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

Re: cvsup problem Please Help

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
it like this: % make install clean Not cvsupping all the ports leads to more problems than it solves. If you really don't have that much space, get another hard drive. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
a lot of stuff out of /var and create links. See some recent previous posts on the subject. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ [EMAIL

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
189 56 /var 1036492 -rw-rw 4294967276 rw root snort3416 /var 3491966 -rw--- 1260683393 rw The second file is the only one in the top ten that belonged to snort. How do you convert the filenames from numbers to names? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct

Re: Phantom /var full messages

2004-09-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
of the file. (session.log, which *should* be hupped when it's turned over.) I've posted on the snort list to see if anyone is aware of this or has seen the problem before. In the meantime, I've commented out the log in the conf file so the server won't gag when I'm not paying attention to it. Paul

Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-26 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.11 running nicely on a HP DL-140 (80GB Parallel ATA HD), but is anyone running FreeBSD on a HP DL-140 *G2* (80GB SATA HD)? It's the SATA controller I am worried about. The Hardware notes on the 5.4 i386 page don't list the E7520 chipset. Regards, Paul Hamilton

RE: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
:-) Where did you get the patch from? Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Dinesh Nair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 28 October 2005 10:04 PM To: Paul Hamilton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server

RE: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server?

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
by the time I get back :-) Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Andrew P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2005 7:08 PM To: Dinesh Nair Cc: Paul Hamilton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 run on a HP DL-140 G2 server? On 10/28

Enumerating a Windows based PC from a FreeBSD based server

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
must of course be scriptable. Cheers, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Enumerating a Windows based PC from a FreeBSD based server - Resolved

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Hamilton
the PC name to have a list of users logged into that PC or Server. I have only done hand testing. I will whip up a script, and test it out during a work day to see how it goes ;-) Cool. Cheers, Paul Hamilton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
it to be a really valuable feature. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. --- Frank Vincent Zappa ___ freebsd-questions

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said: The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2 filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x

Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Then when I type pkg_add wine, I get 'can't stat package file wine' Could someone tell me what I could be doing wrong? Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Many thanks. Saves me a lot of sweat. On 11/4/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/3/05, paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop

creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing wine on 6.0 RC

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Many thanks Roland .. Great help. I will try your suggestions. I had installed the AMD 64 version of FreeBSD on my AMD64 CPU - I will try the i386 version. PT On 11/4/05, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 14:29, paul thodiyil wrote: On 11/4/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
way. *Anything* is possible on *any* OS if you know what you're doing and how to get around the restrictions that are in place. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
contents. I must have done it wromg. Any more help? PT On 11/3/05, Robert Marella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 paul thodiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
sample configs if you are already doing this setup? Thank you in advance! What kind of sample config? If you're not doing anything special, any tutorial on DNS/Bind will show you how to setup subdomains. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
don't control the DNS (in fact it doesn't even have a DNS record). Reverse DNS control is always useful, but not a requirement for what he wants to do. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
that, there's nothing particularly wrong about not having reverse DNS records for IPs, or having ones that don't match. It only really matters if you're sending out email to people with overly aggressive spam filters that check for that sort of thing. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk

Re: how to setup DNS server and making sub-domains in DSL server

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Waring
-- then I get free DSL for a month! If you read my post, you'll see I said at least not in the UK. Neither Qwest nor ipHouse have operations outside the USA as far as I can tell. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions

Re: build ports without X -- make.conf

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Waring
result, even up until now as I'm ready to go from 5.4-6.0. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Antivir for mail server

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
and memory capabilities. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
. ;-) Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Better laptop support in 6.0?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Waring
with no problems and it would be nice to have it on another system as well. I've found the hardware support for desktop machines to be good, but when it comes to laptops it seems to be a pain to get even the CDs to boot sometimes - though NetBSD and various Linux distributions work. Paul -- Rogue Tory http

Re: Better laptop support in 6.0?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Waring
support for my laptop's hardware, but I'm surprised that other things worked. One of the focuses was on Wireless support aswell, if you had any trouble with that. Wireless support would be useful, but I'm generally plugged into a wired ethernet network so it's not of huge importance. Paul

RE: Secure File Copy

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
this is because remote root logins through ssh are not allowed (nor should they ever be.) Use another username. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security

RE: Need urgent help regarding security

2005-11-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
their integrity with MD5 sums from the same binaries on a known good box. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: starting services?

2005-11-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
an entry for any additional flags that you want to use on startup and possibly for the location of the conf file, but all that should be noted in the startup script. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http

Upgrading glib

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Waring
upgraded glib? I've had problems before when updating Perl and having to rebuild all the p5-* modules, so I'm not sure with glib being a library of sorts whether or not I'll need to rebuild things. Thanks in advance. Paul -- Rogue Tory http://www.roguetory.org.uk

Using ifconfig to change channels using FreeBSD 6.0 on a Netgear WG311v3 wireless NIC

2005-11-24 Thread Paul Hamilton
] Encryption keys:[ ][ ][ ][ ] Now, if I try changing the current channel by using this command: ifconfig ndis0 channel 11 All this does is change the IBSS channel to 11, not the current channel. What am I missing here? Cheers, Paul Hamilton

Gnome upgrade - screen lock no longer works

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
I just upgraded Gnome to 2.12 (FreeBSD 5.4) using the gnome_upgrade script. Now screen locking is no longer working, and I'm not seeing anything in the logs to explain it. Anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Logging out and back in constantly is a PITA. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

Re: Gnome upgrade - screen lock no longer works

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 02, 2005 18:55:42 +0100 Hans Nieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I just upgraded Gnome to 2.12 (FreeBSD 5.4) using the gnome_upgrade script. Now screen locking is no longer working, and I'm not seeing anything in the logs to explain it. Anyone have any

Re: Gnome upgrade - screen lock no longer works

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
figure it out from here after doing some reading. Thanks for the info. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Will there be a modperl for Apache 2.2?

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
with www/mod_perl2? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

5.4-RELEASE reset with /boot.config -m

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Marciano
resets. I must be doing something dumb. If you have any insights please let me know. Thanks, Paul. __ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon xterm on secure And gnome will start when you boot. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd

Re: gnome2

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13:45 -0500 Louis J. LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Paul Schmehl Edit /etc/ttys like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon xterm on secure And gnome will start when you boot. Actually, don't the docs suggest turning OFF ttyv8

Re: postfix help

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
in to it. You need to ask Yahoo if they will consider your MTA a trusted host for relay purposes. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security

Re: gnome2

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
-session I only left in /etc/rc.conf the gdm_enable=YES and restarted the machine (laptop). Gnome started without any prob! beats me completely! Download the gnome_upgrade script from freebsd: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh And run it. That may solve your problem. Paul Schmehl

Re: postfix help

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:24:23 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Postfix doesn't do smtp-auth between mailhosts, Eh? Is http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl wrong? Nope. I am

Re: Script Problem

2005-12-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
the conditional or loop is working as you expect, then you can add the actual commands. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ports security branch

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
everything. Then I setup cvsup to run nightly, and only then to I begin installing whatever applications that particular server might need. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu

Re: USB/multi-wheel mice conf files if anyone wants them

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 24, 2005 9:50:58 PM -0500 Your Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case it is of any help to anyone, I recently got two of my mice running on FreeBSD 5.4 with Xorg, and I could post the Xorg conf files I ended up using. It will help. Please post them. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

How do I get gdbserver for FreeBSD 5.4?

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Marciano
. The installed gdb says its version 6.1.1, and it looks like the /usr/src/contrib/gdb tree is also 6.1.1, but there's no configure script or Makefile. Is this tree a patch for the usr/ports/devel/gdb6? I'm a bit lost right now. I hope someone can help me find my way. Thanks, Paul

Automating a FreeBSD 6.0 boot menu selection

2006-03-05 Thread Paul Hamilton
for this. Is there a way to auto select a menu option upon boot up? I am running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE, and have tried 6.0 RELEASE as well. Obviously it would be nice to have it start up normally, but there seems to be a problem reading the SATA drive in normal boot mode. Regards, Paul Hamilton

RE: How to know that make buildworld finished

2006-03-05 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi Olivier, You could create a simple 'buildworld' script that logs the date and time before and after into a simple /var/log/buildworld.log file. Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Nicole Sent: Monday, 6 March

Getting EBUSY upon unmount ATA disk...

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Marciano
. manually typing sync doesn't help. unmount -f succeeds. I hope someone can advise me. Thanks, Paul. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Getting EBUSY upon unmount ATA disk...

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Marciano
I said: # mount /dev/ad0s1a /flash # : /flash/foobar # umount /flash umount: unmount of /flash failed: Device busy Then I said: No processes are camping on the mount point. I didn't realize /bin/sh doesn't close the fd. Man, I feel so dumb. Paul

Problems with gnome

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
in it: error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/server/SecurityPolicy, and that file does not exist on the hard drive. There's nothing out of the ordinary in /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg.today (that I can see.) Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security

Re: Problems with gnome

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 8, 2006 5:57:02 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded gnome on my 5.4 workstation (ran gnome-upgrade212.sh), and now the system locks up shortly after I login. If I don't login I can open a tty and do whatever I want from the cli, but if I login, the system locks

Testing Interrupt Mode

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Wilson
: ActiveOpen = !in_interrupt(); I have failed to find the FreeBSD equivalent to this, and have found little documentation on the topic as a whole. Could anyone please shed some light? Thank you in advance, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
Now that Cyrusoft has gone out of business, does anyone know of a mail client that has the New Messages feature of Mulberry? I need to find a replacement, and Thunderbird and Evolution aren't it. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas

Problems since the libtool upgrade

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
are capable of displaying dual screens? I think, if I install a different w/m, I'll be able to determine if the problem is with xorg or with the gnome. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:42 AM +1100 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:06:20 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Cyrusoft has gone out of business, does anyone know of a mail client that has the New Messages feature of Mulberry? I need

Re: Problems since the libtool upgrade

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:50 AM -0500 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:10:11AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Ever since the libtool upgrade (I'm not saying it's related), I have been unable to run dual screens. I can run the same window on two screens

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
-created folder. Does it have the functionality, and I just haven't noticed it yet? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 14, 2006 4:32:23 PM -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:55:07 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at Sylpheed? I don't know how closely it will match

Re: Mail client like mulberry

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
thunderbird. IMAP is not a problem at all. I'm installing it now. and I have all my folders with new email in a nice bright blue (vs. grey for folders w no unread email, and black for folders with unread email, but no new email) But can it show all folders with new mail *only*? Paul Schmehl

Problems with xorg dual monitors

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Before I go futher, does anyone have dual screens working on 6.0 with Xorg 6.9.0? -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with xorg dual monitors

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 15, 2006 13:00:18 -0800 Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Xinerama using Xorg 6.9 on FreeBSD 6.0 works fine for me. I'm using dual CRTs and a Matrox G450, which is fine once you remove the (nonfunctioning) HAL layer that 6.9 includes as part of the out

Re: cupsd, library paths set on startup?

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
also be other options, such as flags or conf files that you point to, but, in general, {daemon}_enable=YES is all that's needed. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu

System administration question

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
Is there a port or utility that allows you to monitor system stats by (either interactively or periodically) reading the various stat utilities (fstat, iostat, pstat or swapinfo, systat, top, vmstat, etc.) and sending a report to root that summarizes system condition? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL

Re: System administration question

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 18, 2006 8:19:02 PM +0100 Martin Hudec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: Is there a port or utility that allows you to monitor system stats by (either interactively or periodically) reading the various stat utilities (fstat, iostat, pstat or swapinfo, systat, top, vmstat

Re: System administration question

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
mail, but I'm interested in monitoring performance systematically rather than through casual observance. I just found devel/libstatgrab. I'm going to take a look at that. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http

Re: System administration question

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 18, 2006 2:32:52 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found devel/libstatgrab. I'm going to take a look at that. Nice little app. It has two utilities: saidar and statgrab. The former is a top-like interface that gives you running stats in human-readable form

Re: Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
like denyhosts=YES. Please note that it would be denyhosts_enable=YES As long as there isn't anything special about the binary, a standard rc script will work fine. You can look in your own /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory for examples, copy one and change the names to fit your program. Paul

Re: smb startup

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
is finished booting, it has the environment it requires. That is odd, because the rc script requires ldconfig before starting. Does ldconfig run before the script tries to start samba? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http

Re: Apache ssl startup

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
. I never got around to investigating it further, but I've seen this complaint on the list periodically for some time now. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

Strange behavior

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

Re: Strange behavior

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 23, 2006 00:08:42 +0100 albi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:39:21 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would cause this? ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't

Shell scripting question

2006-03-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
. Else, if /etc/rc.conf is readable, then do something with that. Can someone explain what all this does please? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

Re: Problem installing port

2006-03-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
because the pkg-plist is incorrect. Until it's corrected, the port will remain marked broken. If you really need to install it anyway, you can use FORCE_PKG_REGISTER to get it to install. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http

Re: problem building xorg

2006-03-28 Thread Paul Schmehl
gnomelogalyzer? In general, when ports don't build, you should 1) run cvsup to ensure your ports are up to date and 2) go to the port that's failing and make deinstall clean and make install clean. 99% of the time, this will solve your problem. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security

Re: Xorg problem

2006-03-28 Thread Paul Schmehl
All the standard gnome stuff will be installed and everything you need from xorg will be installed as well. Ports are your friend. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

More problems with xorg

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
as to what to look at next would be appreciated. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: More problems with xorg

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, March 29, 2006 16:54:21 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I finally got xinerama working again (by using MergeFB as an Option for my Radeon card), another problem has cropped up. The screensaver isn't running, and when I lock the workstation, I can't get

Re: repeated ssh login attempts/failure/break-in attempts from kiddy script

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Schmehl
, and you can portupgrade to fix the problem. Run a firewall, if you can. Incoming should be blocked by default except for allowed services. Being secure and staying secure is your responsibility. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas

Crash During FreeBSD compilation has left system unbootable

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Wilson
() at begin +0x2c db -- I'd greatly appreciate if anyone can tell me if I can recover from this problem or if it's completely lost. Thanks in advance, Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: flash plugins question

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Schmehl
can't java and flash do that? And yes, I've read the man pages, goggled, searched the fbsd lists, tried the millions of different solutions that worked for various people. Everything else on FreeBSD just works. Why can't the damn browser plugins? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct

Re: flash plugins question

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Schmehl
now. :-) Now if I can figure out how to get java working... Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/

Re: flash plugins question

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Schmehl
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/

Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
futile so far. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
that, when changed in Xwindows do not change at all. profiles is just one of them. I'll have to investigate some more.. Thanks for the input. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

Re: Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
the last saved or a specific one. It might do what you want. Last saved won't do me any good. I want four tabbed browsers with four completely different sessions going. The only way to do that is with profiles, AFAIK. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer

Re: Firefox 1.5 getting downright irritating

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported. I'm going to uninstall Gnome and see what happens. I've had nothing but trouble from it anyway Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http

Free BSD Upgrade Problem

2006-04-05 Thread dharam paul
Hallo all! I am very new to FreeBSD. I installed freebsd 5.4 I upgraded to source of RELENG_6_0 while I fetched in the ports of current release by use of '*default tag=. I followed following steps after downloading above with CVSUP: (Please pardon me , I am from windows background for my language

Re: Help?

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
and determine the causes of problems, and sometimes that can take a while If you have the patience and the time, then by all means, jump right in, but don't expect to be surfing the web on your first day. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas

Re: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 is forbidden

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
the instructions inside linuxpluginwrapper (install a patch) and I got an error: Talk to the maintainer. That patch installed fine on my i386/6.0 SECURITY box. I think his is 5.4. Maybe there's something different about the rtld.c file on that distro -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct

Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Marciano
? Was it committed, or are there plans to commit it? Thanks, Paul. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Marciano
--- Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 12:47 pm, Paul Marciano wrote: Hello. I read a while back about someone working on supporting sparse kernel crash dumps (dumping only the active kernel pages to the dump device as opposed to all physical memory

Re: cdrecord on Thinkpad T43

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On April 8, 2006 1:22:31 PM -0600 Erin Sharmahd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having some problems getting cdrecord to work on my thinkpad. I have found burncd much easier to use. man (8) burncd Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
the open-src community getting together and doing our own free version of this shock/flash stuff? I'm read to volunteer. open_flash? I'm all for it. You don't want my programming skills, but I'll help in other ways, if I can. Research? Docs? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
their EULA is unenforceable and their attitude ought to cost them customers. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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