Re: updating in single-user mode

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 24, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Dimitar Vasilev wrote: I don't reccommend doing installworld or kernel in multiuser, but I have never had any problems doing it on a lightly loaded machine. With that said what could bite you is your new

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Matulis
--- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YUK! Yeah, it has a something's missing feel to it. I suppose it was time to distance ourselves from the demon thing though. It not having a face is a step in that direction. The horns remain to appease hardcore people I guess.

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Matulis
Le Vendredi 26 Janvier 2007 15:50, Kevin Kinsey a écrit : David Banning wrote: I have discovered a vulnerability, that is new to me. Denyhosts does not seem to notice FTP login attempts, so the cracker can attempt to login via FTP, 1000's of times until he finds a login/password

cannot launch vsftpd at system startup

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Matulis
Hi gang, I have read quite a few articles on how to start vsftpd at system bootup but nothing seems to work on my new and updated 6.2 STABLE machine. I have copied /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd/files/vsftpd.sh.in to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vsftpd.sh and it is executable. In /etc/rc.conf I am placing:

Re: cannot launch vsftpd at system startup

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Matulis
Le Samedi 27 Janvier 2007 16:36, Derek Ragona a écrit : add set -x to the startup script and debug where that error message is coming from. -Derek At 02:55 PM 1/27/2007, Peter Matulis wrote: Hi gang, I have read quite a few articles on how to start vsftpd at system bootup

Re: cannot launch vsftpd at system startup

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Matulis
Le Samedi 27 Janvier 2007 18:34, Derek Ragona a écrit : change the line: . %%RC_SUBR%% to: . /etc/rc.subr -Derek At 05:05 PM 1/27/2007, Peter Matulis wrote: Le Samedi 27 Janvier 2007 16:36, Derek Ragona a écrit : add set -x to the startup script and debug where that error

trouble using raidtest on gstripe array

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Matulis
On 6.2 STABLE GENERIC, I have set up RAID0 using gstripe on two SATA drives and installed benchmarks/raidtest for testing. The array is known as /dev/stripe/data. These were my steps: # export mediasize=`diskinfo /dev/stripe/data | awk '{print $3}'` # export sectorsize=`diskinfo

What happened to my Perl installation???

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Matulis
I did an upgrade of my ports and I got some errors regarding Perl modules. The system asked my to remove BSDPAN which I did. Later I discovered I had other problems updating certain ports because of missing Perl parts. This is part of the problem: $ perldoc BSDPAN Can't locate File/Spec.pm

Re: What happened to my Perl installation???

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Matulis
From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to my Perl installation??? Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:28:28 + Peter Matulis wrote: I did an upgrade of my ports and I got some errors regarding Perl modules. The system asked my

disklabel and usb device

2006-12-11 Thread Peter Matulis
I am having trouble viewing my USB compact flash reader with my FBSD 5.5 system. I have done so in the past. For some reason I can no longer do so. This is what I'm getting: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no valid label found # fdisk /dev/da0s1 *** Working on device

Re: How did the /etc/resolv.conf appear?

2006-12-17 Thread Peter Matulis
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf contains the next: nameserver 82.207.67.2 nameserver 213.179.244.18 Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org or InterNIC, but of my ISP. I wonder how the system found these IP

looking for advice on NAS

2006-12-22 Thread Peter Matulis
I am currently setting up a FreeBSD box that is currently running some ugly kind of Linux (Mandrakelinux?). It currently has 350 GB of data residing in Samba shares so I am thinking about exporting storage to a NAS device. So I am looking for advice or comments on this move. I am attracted by a

printer causing computer to reboot

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Matulis
Hi, I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I have upgraded my ports and recompiled the system and kernel. I have a USB laser printer (Lexmark E310) that is recognized automatically when attached. At first I was pleased since it appeared to work out of the box after setting up a rudimentary printcap file.

Re: tcpdump problem

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Matulis
You do not have all the details with ethereal. That's because you are *telling* tcpdump not to sniff them. You are instructing it to take just the headers with the '-s' switch (zero payload: -s0). Try 1500 instead of 0 and you will get what you desire. -- Peter --- bannour souha [EMAIL

Re: traffic accounting.

2005-09-13 Thread Peter Matulis
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Erik Nørgaard wrote: Derrick MacPherson wrote: I am going to pop a machine (bridged interfaces) in tween our LAN and our firewall (pix) and am wanting to know what people would recommend for IP accounting, it would be great to have a web based output to show what

Re: traffic accounting.

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Derrick MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you searching for something that looks good or something more factual? Probably more pretty than extremely accurate. I've actually mirrored a port on the switch that's to our internet connection, and have ntop monitoring that. Seems to

Re: two questions in one

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Matulis
--- steve lasiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My web server is up and running well and I can test all by going to 192.168.0.2 from any internal workstation, but if I try to go to www.mywebsite.com from any internal workstation, which maps to the 66.190.xxx.xxx IP directed to web server

Re: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to setup my mail server, but sendmail is only listening on the local interface: # netstat -an | grep 25 tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.*LISTEN $ grep sendmail_submit_enable /etc/defaults/rc.conf

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks to me like the correct combination (to be put in /etc/rc.conf): sendmail_enable=YES sendmail_submit_enable=NO I get the following errors in my messages.log NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried doing a: #cd /etc/mail make stop killall -9 sendmail Use the ps command to ensure sendmail is not running. Use kill pid The config file I'm using is made from $hostname.cf. That's where I make all my changes. Altering cf files

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 4. Listed everything after starting sendmail tcp4 0 0 *.25 *.*CLOSED Clearly the thing is deaf. 5. Checked /var/log/maillog to find the same errors: snip This is starting to get

RE: Sendmail not listening correctly

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.62121127.0.0.1.25 SYN_SENT What is this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

ports and compile options

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Matulis
I recently upgraded my ports and now my editor (bluefish) has lost its syntax highlighting. Errors from within the editor mention pcre not being compiled with UTF8 support. How do I specify such compile options when installing by port? I am using 5.4 stable. Pet

Re: ports and compile options

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Matulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently upgraded my ports and now my editor (bluefish) has lost its syntax highlighting. Errors from within the editor mention pcre not being compiled with UTF8 support. How do I specify

help with shell script

2005-10-12 Thread Peter Matulis
Hi. I am writing up a doc for the fbsd community that covers usage of ports. I have two commands that allow me to assertain the amount of disk space being utilized by currently installed ports. I would like to make a shell script (bourne or bash) out of them but I am not sure how. 1. This

Re: help with shell script

2005-10-12 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. This gives me the amount of space (kB) taken up by the 10 largest ports: $ pkg_info -as | grep ^[0-9] | sort -gr | head -10 | cut -c 1-6 2. Using one figure from above list I produce the details of the corresponding port: $

Re: help with shell script

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Peter Matulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. This gives me the amount of space (kB) taken up by the 10 largest ports: $ pkg_info -as | grep ^[0-9] | sort -gr | head -10 | cut -c 1-6 2. Using one figure from above list I

Re: newbie ports question

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Matulis
I'd start with installing portupgrade, and trying to portupgrade -arR. I'm sure there's another solution, though. What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' switch? # portupgrade -ar Since all installed ports are targeted wouldn't installed ports that depend on another

portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' switch? # portupgrade -ar This says to upgrade all ports plus the ones that depend on all those ports. Am I missing something? Wouldn't the ones that depend be upgraded anyway? I understand the reasoning behind using the 'R'

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But still, a port requires upgrading or it does not. Using 'r', portupgrade ultimately checks whether some port should be upgraded. Are you saying that the 'r' switch involves a different decision making process than 'a'? The -a switch will

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uninstalled dependancies of an installed port are irrelevant in any portupgrade case, as the port will automatically pull them in as part of its compilation. What if a port now has a new dependency? But back to 'r', My system shows this:

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Honestly guys, what is this thread about? Hum, understanding something? You're not gonna make portupgrade work any faster or smoother if you weed out a couple of switches from the command-line. See above. I don't mean to bother anyone if you're