Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/13/2011 14:34, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: [...] me ask you.. is sudo ping acceptable? Please explain the logical reason why not. It would be the preferred method if suid didn't exist and sudo was part of the base system. The sudo versus suid theme is discussed ad-nauseam in many lists and forums, as well as the C wrappers for doing stuff suid. IMHO, however, sudo can give you more granular control though paradoxically relies on suid itself. The question here is why make the whole freaking interpreter suid when you can granularly control the specific script. Anyway, I would personally use a wrapper or sudo. I honestly tried when I posted the question to avoid the question of right or wrong. I simply have one opinion for my own need and preference and don't want to go into rigid detail and did not mean to reopen the issue. I simply wanted to know if anyone had a patch already or a flag enabled it. It's similar to the phrase that if you have to ask you can't afford it except in this case it means you can. I have a feeling someone somewhere did it. If no one comes forward I will post a proper patch for review and maintain documentation of the pitfalls to the extent I can and that others forward to me. I have no desire to change Freebsd's standard practice. I leave that to the steering committee of each and every distribution of unix like systems. I am simply grateful to be able to make my development systems work the way I want it to because I want it to. It's a question of complete phylosophy to me as to the base unix permissions system. I simply know what appeals most to me the way that I use systems. We all love Freebsd because it means choice. I apologize to anyone that thinks I reopened a can of worms and wasted time, it was not my goal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/13/2011 00:32, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents of the file addressed by that name between the first and second open. It's one thing to tell people they need to be careful with suid because it has security implications. Deliberately introducing a well-known security hole into the system would in my view be dangerous and wrong. That race condition bug was fixed in ancient times. Before Freebsd or Linux ever existed I believe. It's a meme that just won't die. People accepted mediocrity in old commercial versions of Unix. I personally am unsatisfied by kludges. That seems somewhat unlikely given, as someone else pointed out upthread, that Perl still comes with a compile-time option SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW, suggesting that they often aren't. Yes, there are ways to avoid this race condition - the usual one is to pass a handle on the open file to the interpreter, rather than closing it and reopening it. This fix is not present in every Unix or Unix-like OS. In particular (although I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) it's not present in FreeBSD, to the best of my knowledge. Whether there's a reason for that other than lack of developer time I don't know. Indeed. I think it's more of a case that since you can't count on it on other systems (especially closed source systems) to disable it for portability reasons although I would loved to be proved wrong. Happy Friday. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested method. That I freely admit is for no rational reason. It's just annoying. But let me ask you.. is sudo ping acceptable? Please explain the logical reason why not. It would be the preferred method if suid didn't exist and sudo was part of the base system. Happy Friday. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?
On 05/11/2011 04:07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work while it boots up for a couple minutes and I'm tired of manually switching back to text mode. It's gets annoying the 200th time. You could script it right after X starts, as such: vidcontrol -s 1 # Equivalent to Alt-F1 I don't think X is currently designed to start without initializing the graphics hardware, though, so the initial vt change is probably unavoidable. Perhaps once KMS trickles down Thank you for answering. I was fearful of that. Just means another project. Related to Kernel Memory Switching I mention of Coreboot on slashdot the other day and I have to say I'm excited by it more than when it was called LinuxBIOS, my understanding now being that it isn't a full Linux kernel buy may eventually become a striped down version of it. I'm hoping that it evolves into a basic real time kernel of it's own and initializing drivers. Hopefully the place where all soft firmware for devices eventually gets loaded rather than in OS drivers; ironically working with the GPL by downloading it's own initializing drivers directly. Be nice to have half second boot times. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own? Either way thank you all again for your feedback. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own? Have you appreciated the issue with suid on scripts? It's nothing at all to do with whether someone writing a compiled language is a better programmer than someone writing an interpreted language. When the OS launches a binary, the file containing the program is opened once. When the OS launches an interpreted program, the file is opened once to find out which interpreter to run, and then the interpreter is told to re-open the same filename - whose contents might meanwhile have changed. I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and there's no guarantee that someone hasn't changed the contents of the file addressed by that name between the first and second open. It's one thing to tell people they need to be careful with suid because it has security implications. Deliberately introducing a well-known security hole into the system would in my view be dangerous and wrong. That race condition bug was fixed in ancient times. Before Freebsd or Linux ever existed I believe. It's a meme that just won't die. People accepted mediocrity in old commercial versions of Unix. I personally am unsatisfied by kludges. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?
On 05/11/2011 03:10, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org wrote: I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console. I want to switch over to it manually when I press alt-F9. Why not start if from another terminal? Say, press alt-F2, login there, and then startx. Then, alt-F1 remains free. Or perhaps use x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver. I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work while it boots up for a couple minutes and I'm tired of manually switching back to text mode. It's gets annoying the 200th time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Established method to enable suid scripts?
I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
On 05/10/2011 19:19, Devin Teske wrote: On May 10, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just disabled by default. The reason that the suid bit doesn't work on scripts (shell, perl, or otherwise) is because these are essentially text files that are interpreted by their associated interpreter. It is the interpreter itself that must be suid. In other words, you'd have to do this (*WARNING* highly inadvisable -- even for the OP): sudo chmod u+s /bin/sh before you could have a shell script such as this: #!/bin/sh : anything run as the suid user (the owner of /bin/sh -- usually root). I thought of that. Seemed like I read that historically unix ran the #! command as the suid when it executed the file. Did Freebsd delete that functionality? (Otherwise how did suid scripts get the bad reputation if they could never execute suid.) I'm not exactly clear where the execute function is. I guessing that it's not the shell doing the #! interpretation but rather the execute function of the operating system. Either way thanks for the feedback. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
start X in background without it taking over the console?
I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console. I want to switch over to it manually when I press alt-F9. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
zfs partition for /etc?
I'm using PC-BSD and ZFS. ZFS is outstanding. Somewhat less impressed with PCBSD. I've grown addicted to ZFS I think. I love it's snapshots although I already know of new features I would love in new development beyond v28. At least for PCBSD it's nice to be able to rollback to a usable system and so I play with my system a lot more. The mount listing needs to be revamped because I can easily imagine in the future 30 plus zfs mounts, especially with jails. Some indentation and grouping options along with filters. And I think replacing the mounted volumes in fstab with config filenames. A nice thing would be allowing snapshots of directories separate from volumes. And it definitely needs whitespace support for unionfs and maybe possibly it's own unionfs solution with more capabilities. For example it would be nice to promote a snapshot (or the reverse to generate one) into what I'll call an overlay to be able to apply to new directory trees. Something that integrates with snapshots and clones somewhat. And it needs a very low memory operation for systems as low as 64MB. Sure it might crawl but many of it's features are indispensable. Please excuse my rambling. So so on to my question. I'm sure others have thought about this. I kind of want /etc to be it's own zfs partition so that I can snapshot it separate from everything else and preserve it without much effort. But I don't think I can do that because of booting. The system depends on /etc before it mounts it's first file system. Same issue I experienced a couple years back when I tried to do unionfs on /etc. Is it possible to mount multiple partitions from the kernel read only for single user mode and bootup? I almost feel like there should be an fstab for /boot just to be able to do something like this. I want to be able to snapshot and rollback my base system in seconds. Since I use separate volumes for /usr and /var I'll accept using a script. My only thought is to generate and archive diffs for /etc though another modular script to match snapshot labels. Any thoughts? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS Striping and Optimizing Capabilities
Just a few questions about what ZFS actually does. So if anyone has intimate knowledge about ZFS's implementation on Freebsd I'm sure I and others would appreciate the answers. When you add a second and or thrid drive/partition to a zpool I'm assuming that it's going to start using the drives like a raid 0 stripe. How do the ZFS versions differ in this? Does it immediately start striping all files in the background on low priority or does it do it as files are accessed? Does ZFS in any way do performance testing of read/right operating in light of where the data is stored on the drive? i.e. the outside sectors of hard drives perform faster. If it does do read/write location testing can it be shut off or does it detect SSDs? What about tracing application sector reading and reordering sectors so that they follow one another according to typical usage? i.e. the sectors are already in the linear read ahead buffer? I appreciate any answers, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Port dependencies
seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was discussed recently. the kernel is ours and number one in the world. and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less just-work. you can get the src =with= the pkg. How does debian get around all the make config options that we deal with? Such as does such and such package pull in samba... Or does debian just compile with every option more or less enabled? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Port dependencies
Just in a thoughtful mood and thought I'd to the question to the cloud. One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. Ports link against so my optional components and pull them into the install. Libraries and components are built based on make file defines. But this doesn't have to be so. It's possible and easy enough to check a running system for which libraries are installed and only if a feature is enabled to load the library. The number of console programs that want to pull in X window or kde is my boggling. Knowing how to program myself when I see a make config menu on every single port it makes me want to cry. I think the make config menus should have everything checked by default and only be provided to prevent things from being compiled such as for embedded devices. My question is why is this so? Why can't programs do more run time configuration? Is a configuration run time system library needed to make it easier? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Kerberos and su to root
I have multiple systems and jails at my home. I would very much like to implement a single sign on strategy with kerberos. I think it's safer than having private keys on every single box. I can easily do this for shh user logins to multiple boxes. But I like to sign in as a user and then su to root when I get there. (Forget about sudo, I am administering these boxes and don't want to type sudo for every single command, it's not a user machine). From what I understand of Kerberos I would need change identity and type a password every time I ksu which is what I'm trying to avoid. Am I right that it is imposable to maintain multiple simultaneous credentials and get the right one to automatically be used? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Port dependencies
On 04/01/2011 17:51, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:58:04 -0700, Chris Teltingchristopher...@telting.org wrote: Just in a thoughtful mood and thought I'd to the question to the cloud. Oh the joy of cloud computing, erm... discussion. :-) Wasn't that the a subplot of the hitch hikers guide? That the sum of human consciousness is just a cloud computer? New term, old idea. One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. Ports link against so my optional components and pull them into the install. Libraries and components are built based on make file defines. If you do install a program via pkg_add (it's about precompiled binaries, so no Makefile involved, not even a ports tree), there are also means to determine if something ELSE is needed - as a dependency. Hard disk space is cheap today, so 99% of users don't even bother installing all the stuff they primarily won't need, but the program THAT they need insists on it. Ports or packages, what I'm discussing is minimizing dependencies. I compile my own packages and use them across all my computers. What I'm saying I'd like to see is minimal installs. If you need a feature like for instance LDAP or SQL then you need to install that port. Need another feature? Install yet another port. The program should detect that new programs/libraries are available or at a minimum enable them though uncommenting a line in a conf file. But this doesn't have to be so. It's possible and easy enough to check a running system for which libraries are installed and only if a feature is enabled to load the library. It already works that way. Say program A needs B of version n as dependency, then B(n) has to be installed even if B(n-1) is already present on the system. This is no big deal if B isn't installed at all, but requires caution when it is (at version n-1). Of course, B may have other dependencies that do not matter to A, but to B, so even C(m) gets installed. And that's the mess I don't like. It's like the six degrees of separation rule. Installing one application sometimes means installing 100 other ports/packages with features the average user has no need or interest in yet. I'm just saying we should have to need to install/compile all those packages when we don't need them and we should have to need to recompile ports just to add a new capability. The number of console programs that want to pull in X window or kde is my boggling. Hmmm... The only one I remember being that way is the old cvsup, but there was nocvsup-nogui (or -nox11?). Well I decided I wanted to try to setup pulseaudio as a network sound server on a headless computer and it pulled in X. Sure I could recompile just for that one computer. But that isn't elegant. The storage space doesn't matter. What annoys me is the installation time and the longer compile time as well as to some extent downing time. I think the make config menus should have everything checked by default and only be provided to prevent things from being compiled such as for embedded devices. Oh no, please - NO! Everything checked by default? That would be problematic for those who, for example, don't WANT to use HAL+DBUS because it just doesn't work for them. Or people who have security concerns (or maybe even external regulations) so they do not want to install something. And remember: Regarding codecs for mplayer and mencoder, it's illegal to listen to MP3 in the US! :-) The point would be that the programs wouldn't have those features enabled by default, you have to configure them or the program can auto-detect. My question is why is this so? Why can't programs do more run time configuration? Is a configuration run time system library needed to make it easier? You're bringing up an interesting idea, but runtime detection of library (or feature) availability seems to be very time consuming to me. An example is mplayer. On older system, I did always compile it to match the CPU that is present, means NO runtime CPU detection. Why? Because it often runs too slow on older system if enabled. Well obviously that one actual good reason for people to compile their own ports. Nothing can change that. What I'm saying is that libraries and features shouldn't be in the config menu. And let's assume another typical example from the multimedia sector. You have installed mplayer and want to play MP3 audio or an MPEG video file, or even a DVD - which is completely illegal in the US. :-) But there is no libdvd installed, and no MP3 codecs for playing or encoding. What should happen? Upon first start, should the program request you to download and install them? But what if the system is offline? I would assume it's better to install all the stuff needed at install time, no matter if being from ports or as a package. If it worked like like would like then you wouldn't be able to play those files unless you downloaded another package or compiled the ports
SSH persistent sessions without screen?
I would like to have something like virtual terminals that continue running no matter if ssh is connected to them or not. Something like the screen utility. But I don't want to use screen, I'm looking for something more automated. Maybe even be able to have multiple connections on different computers. I have a number of computers and I like to use each for batch processing different stuff, especially compiling. I'm mostly interested in connecting to running sessions from a mobile android phone. I don't want to keep having to manually login every time through screen and it should be tolerant of a dropped connection. I'm thinking there is probably a way to do this with just ssh. Maybe have separate sshd daemons running on specific ports. Any ideas? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
pkg_info and an active /usr/ports is slow
Just wondering about the interaction of pkg_info (no args) and having a ports directory. Without it it's blazing fast, with it it is just slow and sometimes just breaks during the listing. There is nothing in the man page about it reading the ports directory or why it would want or need to. Most importantly there is no command line option to skip it. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
groups and login shells
Just spent some time figuring this out. I needed to create a group and add myself to it. But after I added myself to the group while I could id username my username and get the correct groups if I did a base id or groups the new group wouldn't show up. Not could I access a directory restricted to the group. Turns out I needed to invoke a new login shell from an existing command prompt or essentially shut everything down and relogin a the console. So I just reboot. But owning to many years of resentment dealing with Microsoft platform I highly resent reboots. Does anyone know if it's possible to update groups in memory? Thanks, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Connection Bandwidth Metering?
I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the most straightforward to meter my own connection? I would like to email notices to myself of excessive bandwidth usage as well as take steps that limit a DOS attack or Slashdot effect on the webserver. I would also like the metering to be persistent as possible across reboots. Not really looking for full logging or to do graphs yet, just want the current metered bandwidth. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: TEKEN_UTF8 TEKEN_XTERM
On 08/05/10 01:10, David DEMELIER wrote: I think using xterm as term definition is just stupid. If you're not running X why will you use a term that live in X normally? By the way it also sucks if you make some $TERM settings considering your shell. The point of these options (TEKEN_UTF8 and TEKEN_XTERM) is to enable an internally Unicode based terminal and from there have characters mapped according to font files. With standard hardware you can have 256 or 512 text mode characters. Unless you have a real terminal on a serial port the term at your console is emulated with your video card and keyboard. xterm I believe is a more advanced terminal definition with a large number of additional capabilities over a simple vt100 terminal. So we can try to use what exists now xterm or we can create yet another terminal definition. Once the above works the next step would be to extend the terminal driver to use graphics modes and with modern accelerated cards it should be trivial to achieve the same speed we are use to with text mode. Some people were playing around with this years ago but so far I haven't found anything new. And while English is my native language I welcome the evolution of new international capabilities. What can I say, I'm a fan of text mode. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is VTC dead?
Googling around I discovered VTC http://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/vtc%284%29 and it looks interesting. A graphical syscons terminal. I'm surprised there isn't more interest. Is the group that worked on this concept dead? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
TEKEN_UTF8 TEKEN_XTERM
Just wondering if anyone else has played with this? I compiled it into the kernel but the terms are still cons25. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
window/app aware bindkey/input control application?
Sorry don't have the necessary words to describe what I want. I'm wondering if there exists an app or set of apps that are window/application aware for use in conjunction with multimedia keys, remote control, input control surfaces. Simple example: detect all mutimedia applications, if only one or none is started then issue command1 otherwise see if any of the above applications has the focus and issue it's appropriate command else play an error sound. I guess you could say I'm interested in scripting keyboard input in conjunction with the window manager. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
spreculative: /bin2 /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?
Just wondering if anyone cares to share their thoughts about this. There are a few ports that I would love to see included in the base tree such as OpenLDAP and the Openbsd pdksh or bash. But It hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So I was thinking about the pkg infrastructure. The location of the pkg file database I believe can be specified. And the installation directories I believe can also be specified. Other than that paths would have to be changed for binaries and libraries and probably share and other installation points. This should allow separate package trees meaning that when I delete and reinstall my main ports these programs will not be affected and the package database info for these will not be screwed up. Is it possible and if it is has anyone implemented it on their own systems? Or have people simply taken to installing ports in the main directories? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Web server mailing list?
Any recomondations for a apache/php/mysql mailing list? Anything as awsome as this list? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Non blob frebsd raid 5 drivers...
I just wanted to get it straight. I think I read some post that said that 3ware actually has and uses commit access to the freebsd source tree. Can anyone comfirm this for me? I currently have a highpoint 2220 controller. I got it because of the Freebsd support what appeared to be available driver source code only to be humilitated to discover after the fact that what's labeled source is a blob module, and not source at all. Areca is a name I never heard before this list. They appartly support bsd but, what level of support? Binary Driver, blob, source, or docs? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendmail, Cyrus-IMAP, mbox, maildir, berkeley-db
I am confused as to a number of things so I'd appreciate being straighted out. I keep searching the web and looking at documentation but I'm getting more confused. Sendmail stores mail in mbox format. I'm not sure if it allows other storage formats such as maildir or berkeley-db. And if so how it's enabled. Cyrus-IMAP unless I'm mistaken by default looks for mail in the derkeley-db file format. I'm not sure if it also supports mbox and if so how to configure that. Chris Telting ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?
I would like to know how I can propagate the dns servers which the dhcp client puts in resolv.conf to dhcpd. I only see how I can only explicitly list a domain server with option domain-name-servers. How do I propogate non static dns servers? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?
I would like to know how I can propagate the dns servers which the dhcp client puts in resolv.conf to dhcpd. I only see how I can only explicitly list a domain server with option domain-name-servers. How do I propogate non static dns servers? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
