Hi,
system password. They found that sshing to the server and typing
passwd to change the password is wee too involving hence the need to
use a much friendlier interface. Letting the sysadmins change the
user's password is not a good idea, as the sysadmins are outsourced
and the users value
Hi Bill,
I know how to set up failover with a backup MX. That's not what I'm
looking for. We have a cyrus-imap server with lots of users
connecting via IMAP, while everything gets backed up, this only
happens once a night. Thus, if the server were to go up in smoke
right before the
Hello Eric,
I've been using freebsd 4.x on a laptop for 6 months or so now, and
I'm not entirely happy with it. Mostly, it lacks multimedia support
and power management. I don't want to start some flame war here, but
here goes.
Could some of you please send me an email telling me what
I useFreeBSD4.5 and set it to run squid. My network has about 100
clients. If
all of them run IE, access time will drop and very slow to access web
page. Can I solve this problem? Number of clients are very large? or
depend on my link speed?
a better link speed would be fine, but perhaps
Wondering if anyone can help me out. I'm looking for clustering
software (?) that will allow me to take 3 PCs, each with a 20GB HD for
example, and combine them to form one 60GB disk that could be
mounted from a client, and appear as one big disk. I'd imagine I'd
need some kind of a
What's a good way to clone / Image to another HD? I have 3 boxes that
are the same and I have one that is done and ready and want to copy
that install to the others.
g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
g4u (ghost for unix) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows
easy cloning of PC
My NIC is found during boot-up and everything appears to be correct
setup, except the darn thing won't work.
ifconfig:
dc0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe2c:28fa%dc0 prefixlen 64
Hello Hilmi,
What is a my problem: reverse address resolving not
work correct. What I mean: I use nslookup tool for checking the DNS
server, and if I use as server my DNS server all type of resolving
work. Still work. The problem is when I use server from the world:
example
Thomas,
We are about to inherit some cobalt raq or qube serves from another
company. Now i dont know anything about except that they run some
flavour of unix. Is it possible to run freebsd on those.
it depends on the version of the Cobalt's. RaQ2 and before had mips
processors. I don't
today after the upgrade to fontconfig, something graciously changed
my fonts without asking. What is the program and example to change
X11 fonts?
I have the same problem.. it really messed up Mozilla's GUI font.
Everything on it looks like h t t p : / / w w
w you
On 18 Jul 2003 17:42:58 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can workaround the problem by removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
from/usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, then running fc-cache -f -v. I'm
trying to get an acceptable solution after analyzing all the
variables.
ACD0 is only the DVD , CD-RW (a Liteon 52x 24x 52x)
isn't found at all!! Literally from DMESG:
ata0-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed
and sometimes it doesn't find my DVD too , with the
message :
ata1-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed
so, I'm without CD and DVD :cry:
What I
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell
Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( ))
I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops
that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality
hardware, no panic on installs, also
Hi Rod,
I have been successful in setting up the 5.0 server to connect to my
verizon dsl account. I've configure the kernel for use as a firewall
and set this up as a gateway machine. I like the 2nd nic to connect to
my hub and server dhcp addresses to the other machines on the network.
Hi Mark,
I'm setting up a multihomed firewall box. I have all interfaces up and
running but have something going wrong with routing.
do you have forwarding enabled on the firewall?
Check if:
sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding
shows:
net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1
-volker
We have noticed that Kaspersky and Sophos are placed at your web site
but we wonder if we have any other / new alternatives more then these
two SW ?
as nobody has mentioned them yet, there is HB EDV which have a
(native?) FreeBSD version of their scanners:
http://www.hbedv.com
I'm currently
Now to my question (and the reason I feel stupid): I named my computer
al-djabr first, but decided to change to al-khwarizmi, in honour
of the late, great arabic mathematician. My domain is
intra.arrhythmetic.net, so the hostname would be
al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net...I put this in
Hi Casey,
I need to replace the drive that my fbsd boots from. I have read the
documentation on how to format, and copy files to a drive. e.g.:
I did exactly the same a few days ago and followed the instructions of
the faq:
Hi,
I'm using 5.1 release and gnome2 started by gdm.
After updating ports today (with portupgrade) I encountered a severe
problem: I can't start gnome any longer successful as normal user.
I always get a bunch of errors like the following:
GConf error: Could not stat
How do I detect a bad sector on a disk. Are there any other
utilities that can be used to detect such error?
most harddisk vendors have some kind of testing tool on their websites.
I know of IBM, Maxtor and Seagate having this, the others might have it,
too.
-volker
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Is there a way to figure out the size of a users directory?
man du should help you. For example: du -s -h /directory
-volker
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Hi,
first my uname:
-su-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD astarte.volker.de 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Tue Oct 22
12:39:39 CEST 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
With the latest versions of the mozilla port (and mozilla-devel) I
encounter a problem while trying to make
This was fixed this morning. Please update your ports tree and
rebuild.
yes, just did so. Thank you very much.
-volker
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(10.23.2002 @ 1250 PST): Volker Kindermann said, in 2.1K:
Hi,
first my uname:
-su-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD astarte.volker.de 4.7-STABLE
Finally, would it be worth while to run my own DNS server? Will
setting it up be more trouble than it's worth?
It depends. I'm running local dns-caches on most servers and of course
on my gateway-machine. It's very easy to do this with djbdns. Just
install the daemontools, then djbdns and
It's possible, like in Terminalserver under Win2k Server, let a
session open? For example run a job, close the telnet or ssh session
and after some time came back and takeover the old session at the
leavet point?
have a look at /usr/ports/misc/screen
-volker
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I have an IBM Thinkpad 570 (PII-366MHz) laptop that
I've installed FreeBSD 4.7 on. The installation went
okay but I'm having a problem getting the mouse
working. When I enter Windowmaker, my mouse jumps all
over the screen.
This works for me (Thinkpad X21, 4.7 stable):
Section InputDevice
Hi,
I'm trying to enable a Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCMCIA card in my
system (FreeBSD 4.7 stable, GENERIC kernel, Thinkpad X20).
I've set
pccard_enable=YES
pccard_ifconfig=inet 192.168.17.25 netmask 255.255.255.0
in /etc/rc.conf.
The dmesg regarding this card is:
Nov 15 18:04:58 argus
Hello. I was wondering what I need to type with make install make
clean or whatever to install sylpheed 0.8.5 with pgp support? If I
already have it installed is there something I can type to like
install, add the pgp support and deinstall or whatever in whatever
order?
first, install the
Hi,
recently I'd done me a favour and bought a Samsung SyncMaster 191T
TFT-Display. It has two input terminals:
a 15 pin D-Sub (Analog RGB) and a Digital DVI-D (Digital RGB).
I have two computers attached to it and the one on the analog terminal
works just fine.
The problem is XFree86 with the
I just saw that your are not using the native NVIDIA driver! Use the
nvidia driver and I think the problem will be solved.
Go to http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=freebsd_1.0-3203
thank you. At the moment, I'm installing the linux_base port to get the
nvidia-driver installed. When everything
I just saw that your are not using the native NVIDIA driver! Use the
nvidia driver and I think the problem will be solved.
Go to http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=freebsd_1.0-3203
thank you. At the moment, I'm installing the linux_base port to get
the nvidia-driver installed. When
I'm having problems with Compaq Hardware as well.
I don't know if this helps you, but the Compaq SmartArray Adapters have
a service partition which must be the boot-partition.
Only installed linux on these machines so far. I know that you have to
configure the boot-partition for your OS but
Hi Thomas,
We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into
each of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog)
Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and
/var/log/maillog to one central logging server ?
yes of course: set up a central syslog
Basically I send this:
subscribe freebsd-security-notifications
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auth 2cd8eff3 subscribe freebsd-security-notifications
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If you do not want this action to be taken, simply
Hi Dru,
I was reading my daily output on a 4.7-RELEASE and noticed the
following user was created:
sfs:*:71:
as well as the following groups:
nogroup:*:65533:
nobody:*:65534:
sfs:*:71:
IMHO sfs has nothing to do with tripwire. A quick search on google
showed a software sfs
How do I set the mtu for a given interface at bootup?
man ifconfig
and then edit /etc/rc.conf and add the parameter to the corresponding
interface
-volker
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Recently i borrowed a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA 11Mbps nic from a friend.
I put it into my Laptop to see if it would be recognized in BSD 4.7.
Everything seemed ok, the wi0 driver loaded and it recognized the mac
address. The only thing that went wrong was the led on the card was
blinking green.
Since we are talking about wireless stuff (hehe) I want to ask if
someone tried the bsd-airtools ?
I wanted to check those tools because it's kinda interesting!
I installed them and have to run it that way: dstumbler wi0 -o
But apparently when it founds a network my laptop crashes :)
(it
Hi Pat,
Feb 4 19:57:59 cantona postfix/virtual[579]: CA35333C1D:
to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=virtual, delay=0, status=deferred
(mailbox /var/mail/vhosts/javaspot.net/pergesu: cannot create file
exclusively: No such file or directory)
Shouldn't PostFix create the vhosts/javaspot.net directory and
Hi Pat,
Pat Maddox wrote:
By the way, the problem appears to be solely permissions-based. When
I've got normal-looking permissions on /var/mail, postfix gives that
error, cannot create file. Courier-IMAP says, imapd: chdir
javaspot.net/pergesu: No such file or directory chmod 777 /var/mail
and
Hi Andrew,
Is anyone running authpf with Windows clients in the network? If so,
how are the Windows clients logging in? What's the easiest mechanism
for this.
as Hexren posted, putty is good for doing this. You can configure it so
that the user just has to doubleclick the icon and provide
Hi Daniela,
Yes, this happens when I connect from my machine (which functions as a router
with NAT to allow the other LAN machines connect to the internet) to another
LAN machine. When the router establishes a connection to another point in the
intranet, the source address used is my official
This has to be the most compilcated subject to me. I just purchased a
new domain from godaddy. I have a few questions I am not totally
clear about yet.
1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or
no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain.
Simple
Hi Pat,
Is there any place I can find a good default ruleset for a server, and
just change what ports I want open?
pf originates at openbsd. There you'll find lots of documentation, the
pf-faq, and the (as always in the BSD world) excellent manpages.
In addition there's the pf-repository at:
Hi Andrew,
Is there any way to do? I have read about with g4u, dd, dump/restore
but they do not seems to be able to do create the clone/image on a secondary
attached hard disk drive.
g4u has definitely the ability to copy to another disk:
---
4.4 Copying a disk locally
If you just
Hi Tomas,
i plan to begin use freeBSD in my home computer,
i'd like to ask You: does my laptop HP nc9020 is compatiable with freeBSD?
what is extra points of configuring Xorg server and compiling kernel?
I don't know this laptop, but you may try the following:
Download the FreeSBIE CD, burn it
Hi Mark,
I have a hd going bad. It is not the primary drive but is
ad2s1e
ad2s1f
it holds /usr and /tmp
How can I put in a new drive and copy everything over and not miss a
beat. if possible.
read the faq. This one will help you out, although it's not 100% what
you need, all answers
Hi James,
The following appeared in my latest daily security run output:
Checking for uids of 0:
root 0
toor 0
This is the first time I've seen this message.
I checked /etc/passwd and found this:
root:*:0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh
Hi Patrick,
The lines above the quoted output go through what appears to be
recognizing my other hardware including my Voodoo2 graphics card. The
first to lines of this output is my network card, and the last line is
the on-board graphics chip.
is there a conflict with your graphic card
Hi Bob,
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
111/tcp open rpcbind
1023/tcp open netvenuechat
now, i made a faux pas when i configured this machine and had made
this a nfs client...i belive that was the case. I am now interested
in
After modifying the sshd.conf to allow my new IP access via ssh I
can't connect. I have stopped and restarted the service and the
server and double
'Allow your new ip address' ?
What you can specify on /etc/ssh/sshd_config is the ip the server
binds to, not the ip addresses of the
Hi Yance,
Any clue as to where I can see those over five
hundred system variables? ... just being curious ...
some are in the manpage of sysctl. There is also this hint:
More variables than these exist, and the best and likely only place to
search for their deeper meaning is undoubtedly the
My question is, how to proceed after that ? What do I
have to do to create the chroot environment. And what
option I should enclude in the main.cf to make postfix
start chrooted.
look at master.cf. There you can determine, which postfix service runs chrooted (not
all of them will run
Hi Martin,
I'm planning to buy a new printer, because the results with my Canon S500 are
total crap. I guess a laser printer is the best choice for Unix, and I'm
wondering which one I should buy.
if possible, take a printer with native postscript. That'll make things much easier.
-volker
I have a disk with one single slice and one partition: ad1s1d. I used
move to move ALL data on this disk to another location and after that
has the disk been unused. Is there a way to get the content back using
a copy of a FAT or similar?
you may try some forensic tools like the coroners
Hi Luciano,
I've a simple question, postfix or qmail?
the simple answer: both are good.
If you're using sendmail right now, the change to postfix should be easier.
I've heard that postfix is slightly faster when it comes to really
massive number of emails (less disc-writing) but that
Hi,
I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation
that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble
locally.
I would recommend Michal Lucas' Absolute BSD from NoStarch Press. Only caveat
is perhaps that it was written in 2002.
-volker
Hi Brian,
Maybe it would be better to split that 50G in half, install 5.3 in the
first 25G, leaving the second free for 5.4 release. Later I would
install 5.5 release in that first partition, then 5.6 release in the
second, and so on.
the setup you're describing is quite conservative but if
Hi Ben,
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/courier-imap-pop3d.sh.sample (because I'm trying
to run a POP3 server) and now I get:
/usr/local/etc/courier-imap/pop3d does not exist, forgot make install-configure?
perhaps you should rename the courier files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d from
servicename.sample to
Hi Derrick,
I want to create a local mirror for my internal freebsd systems. I seem
to be confusing articles that are 'how to mirror' and 'how to be a
mirror'. Is there some details/info out there that could be of help? I
would have thought it would be enough to be running ports/net/cvsup-
mirror
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