The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-03-19 - 2006-04-08

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RE: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

As much as I agree with your sentiments, the issue that is at question is the replacement of existing config files with default ones ... at least in my instance, had those config files *not* been replaced, 'make install' (to upgrade an existing, configured installation), would have left me wit

Re: cdrecord on Thinkpad T43

1) add or enable (uncommenting) the following lines to your kernel: device atapicam # isn't enable in the default kernel #SCSI Controllers device cd (cdrecord needs a SCSI cd emulation) 2) recompile the kernel It works on my thinkpad R51. Ciao Vittorio Alle 19:22, sabato 0

RE: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

I know what your getting at but I would suggest that doing an in-place upgrade of a production server is immensely stupid - no offense intended. What we do with our production servers is once they are built they go into a golden can and are not touched. In the event a security notice comes out t

MPPC compression

FreeBSD dont have MPPC compression support, but why dont add code from this link - http://mppe-mppc.alphacron.de/ ? -- With best regards ZOleg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

RE: Partitioning on existing system

Chad, > this appears that you want a file backed image file mounted as your / > tmp. This should be easy to do. Read the handbook for file-backed md > (4) devices. > > I don't use them for /tmp but I run them with jails... I have about > 60 such image files mounted now for example Thanks for t

Shell scripting question [newby]

I'm trying to follow the instructions at At point four it offers this shell script. cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uniq | while read X; do if [ -f $X ]; then echo $X; fi; done | sor

Re: DS WiFi fbsd6

On 08 Apr Pgold wrote: > I don't know about compatibility with FreeBSD, but the Nintendo DS > Wi-Fi Adapter only works with the DS, and costs 50USD. For the same > 50USD you can buy a simple Wi-Fi router. If the DS Wi-Fi adapter won't > work with FreeBSD, i guess you should go with the Wi-Fi router

RE: Partitioning on existing system

> Thanks for the great kick in the right direction. Is it really > this easy? I > guess so cause it is working. I dropped in a helloworld script, chmoded it > and even as root I couldn't run it. Supreme! > > mdmfs -M -o noexec,nosuid -s 100m md0 /tmp > chmod 1777 /tmp > Ahhh crud! I guess it isn't

Re: MPPC compression

ZOleg schrieb: FreeBSD dont have MPPC compression support, but why dont add code from this link - http://mppe-mppc.alphacron.de/ ? What wrong with ng_mppc(4)? ;-) Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: Shell scripting question [newby]

On 4/9/06, Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to follow the instructions at > > > At point four it offers this shell script. > > cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uniq | > while read X; d

Re: [freebsd-questions] ndis setup

hernan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks. I'm setting up FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I'm having a little > trouble getting my wireless NIC recognized. The card is a Linksys > WMP64G and I'm trying to set things up to run with the FreeBSD > NDISulator as described in the FreeBSD handbook > (http

Re: Apache refusing to listen 81

On 4/8/06, Adam McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to tell Apache2 to listen on port 81 > with > Listen *:81 > > Even if I comment out Listen:80 it still listens on 80. > > After starting Apache, telnet 127.0.0.1 81 fails with Connection Refused. > > My listen is > Listen *:80 > List

Panic/reboot - a little help.

My desktop box, which has run very stable for a couple years now using which ever version of FreeBSD I've been running at the time, has developed a sudden and alarming need to panic. I have two vmcore files at this point, but I'm unsure how much actual help they'll be in figuring out what's hap

net-snmpd show sysctl: physmem: Cannot allocate memory in log

I'm using net-snmpd with FreeBSD 6.0 and all is working fine but when I start it up it gives me the following error: sysctl: physmem: Cannot allocate memory snmpd seems to be running fine but why is that error showing when it's started? I looked at the sysctl and it's showing the proper amount

Re: DS WiFi fbsd6

dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08 Apr Pgold wrote: > > I don't know about compatibility with FreeBSD, but the Nintendo DS > > Wi-Fi Adapter only works with the DS, and costs 50USD. For the same > > 50USD you can buy a simple Wi-Fi router. If the DS Wi-Fi adapter > > won't work wit

RE: Panic/reboot - a little help.

Here is the standard causes. I all most all cases this is a hardware problem. Motherboard is overheating because of years of accumulated dust. Open box and use small paint brush to blow away dust on motherboard chips. Remove heat sink on CPU and clean out chocking dust and reinstall. Power supply

RE: Panic/reboot - a little help.

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, fbsd_user wrote: Here is the standard causes. I all most all cases this is a hardware problem. Yes, this I suspected. Motherboard is overheating because of years of accumulated dust. Open box and use small paint brush to blow away dust on motherboard chips. Remove heat

Re: swapping out mb and cpu

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:51 PM, John Cruz wrote: As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well) then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in th

fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

Hi, I have a problem with my ethernet adapter (fxp)... When a run 'dmesg', look: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled fxp: promiscuous mode disabled fxp: promiscuous mode enabled fxp: promiscuous mode disabled I didn't find it in fxp's manual... What's it ... -- ===

Re: Shell scripting question [newby]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > I'm trying to follow the instructions at > > > At point four it offers this shell script. > > cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uniq | > while read X; do >

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > > > One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some > > reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a > > Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP serve

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

"Thiago Esteves de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my ethernet adapter (fxp)... > > When a run 'dmesg', look: > > fxp: promiscuous mode enabled > fxp: promiscuous mode disabled > fxp: promiscuous mode enabled > fxp: promiscuous mode disabled > > I

Re: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

On 4/9/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped] > > I have never understood the demand for being able to do an inplace > upgrade of applications or of the operating system, and I've seen > enormous trouble with servers that people do this with, under Windows > as well as FreeBSD.

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

promiscuous mode means the ethernet NIC grabs ALL packets, not just the ones addressed to it. This is typically done by packet sniffers. -Derek At 09:35 AM 4/9/2006, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hi, I have a problem with my ethernet adapter (fxp)... When a run 'dmesg', loo

newfs fails on 300GB HDD

Greetings, I'm having a slight problem with a 300GB IDE (Maxtor) HDD. Basically, I've run the drive on the system through a complete low-level format and test with the PowerMAX tools, which passed fine. The BIOS recognizes and auto-detects the drive okay as well. However, in trying to install F

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

On Sunday 09 April 2006 10:06, Derek Ragona wrote: > promiscuous mode means the ethernet NIC grabs ALL packets, not just the > ones addressed to it. This is typically done by packet sniffers. > > -Derek > > At 09:35 AM 4/9/2006, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To add, most kinds of network statistic programs will put the card into "catch all" mode... i would try to watch the system messages, and in case it happens run a ps to see whats happening... that in case, you have not started any kind of program that

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

If you run TCPDUMP on the NIC, you'll get the same message on the console > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > To add, most kinds of network statistic programs will put the card into > "catch all" mode... > > i would try to watch the system messages, and in case it happens run

RE: promiscuous mode enabled

If you run tcpdump it turns on promiscuous mode when it starts and turns it off when you stop it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thiago Esteves de Oliveira Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:35 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fxp:

RE: web server attack (solution & warning)

I received this reply from another list. Going back to the very beginning of your first post - those web requests you listed as seeing are a bit troublesome. They all seem to be probes against your web server to verify if you can be used as an open proxy server. The first two requests are from

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > I have only a small amount of experience with Cyrus. However: > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup > > Based on that document, it appears as if you're dodging the bullet with > backups. My interpretation is that Cyrus keeps mailboxes

chkrootkit

Ні, questions! I badly know english, beforehand I apologize for the illiteracy. I ask the help you in the decision of my problem. I have loaded program stock-takings rootkit from a site http://www.chkrootkit.org/. Has started, and has received below resulted result. I am distu

Re: Partitioning on existing system

"Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks for the great kick in the right direction. Is it really > > this easy? I > > guess so cause it is working. I dropped in a helloworld script, chmoded it > > and even as root I couldn't run it. Supreme! > > > > mdmfs -M -o noexec,nosuid -s 100m m

Re: chkrootkit

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:39:51PM +0300, Vitaliy K wrote: > ??, questions! > > I badly know english, beforehand I apologize for the illiteracy. > > I ask the help you in the decision of my problem. > > I have loaded program stock-takings rootkit from a site > http://www.chkrootki

Re: Apache refusing to listen 81

On 4/9/06, Daniel A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/8/06, Adam McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to tell Apache2 to listen on port 81 > > with > > Listen *:81 > > > > Even if I comment out Listen:80 it still listens on 80. > > > > After starting Apache, telnet 127.0.0.1 81 fail

RE: Apache refusing to listen 81

I don't know where you got Listen *:80 Listen *:81 from. My working system uses Listen 8080 just fine. In the FreeBSD port of apache the http.conf file has the Listen statement in a few different places. You want the one closes to the beginning of the file. On 4/9/06, Daniel A. <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: promiscuous mode enabled

On 4/9/06, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you run tcpdump it turns on promiscuous mode when it > starts and turns it off when you stop it. Yes, using the -p switch should be a good habit in most cases. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Numerous ftp timeouts - why?

New to FreeBSD not new to *nix. Have the docs/handbook/faq, etc. Using freebsd 6.0 RELEASE on Compaq Proliant 2500R. Why when trying to install various apps from ports do the ftp sessions frequently timeout? If I manually fetch packages from sites the download goes ok, but this means I have to c

RE: Numerous ftp timeouts - why?

I had this same problem when I was on dial up line. Once I got cable ISP internet connection the problem never happened again. Those ftp sites are busy and dial up connections degrade performance for the other concurrent users logged onto the ftp site and so dial up users get timed out and dropped.

Re: Apache refusing to listen 81

Oh crap, it is supposed to be set like that, I must have been thinking of squid. On 4/9/06, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know where you got > Listen *:80 > Listen *:81 from. > > My working system uses > Listen 8080 > just fine. > > In the FreeBSD port of apache the http.conf fil

Re: Apache refusing to listen 81

That was the problem. It's not *:81, it's just 81. Thanks again. I know it was going to be something really stupid. On 4/9/06, Adam McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh crap, it is supposed to be set like that, I must have been thinking of > squid. > > On 4/9/06, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Newbie help!

Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $| - I just tested some commands

Re: Newbie help!

infernus - Bluelight wrote: Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $| -

Re: chkrootkit

Hi you can use also this port /usr/ports/security/rkhunter after the instalation update the database rkhunter --update && rkhunter -c Best regards Michal Kapalka Ні, questions! I badly know english, beforehand I apologize for the illiteracy. I ask the help you in the decision of my problem.

what's wrong with portsnap?!!!

that's on clean directory. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap1.FreeBSD.org. Fetching public key... done. Fetching snapshot tag... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Fetching snapshot generated at ndz 9 kwi 02:33:58 2006 CES

Google Earth on Wine on FBSD6.0

Hello All, i just want to share my experiences with Google Earth, and i am curious about other solutions to get it working properly. i compiled wine from the ports tree: $ pkg_info | grep wine wine-0.9.7,1Microsoft Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like systems i installed Google Ear

Re: Shell scripting question [newby]

On 10/04/2006, at 12:39 AM, Jan Grant wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I'm trying to follow the instructions at At point four it offers this shell script. cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uni

Re: Newbie help!

infernus - Bluelight wrote: How do I enter some kind of interface, or desktop, like on the screenshots? Is there a web-site or enything with tutorials explaining how to do all this.. 1) Install xorg. If you chose an x installation, such as x-user, then you can skip this step. To see what's alre

UFS extended attributes

Hi, Started doing a little reading on the UFS and UFS2 file systems. I'm just wondering if all types of files have extended attribute blocks available including named pipes, sockets, and device files? Is it still the case that there are three unused extended attribute blocks available? Sincere

Re: Newbie help!

Ivan, Yes, you are a newbie as many of us are (including myself ;). You have already gotten some pretty good responses pointing you in the right direction to correctly set up a graphical desktop, such as the ones you saw in the screenshots. However, what the responses have not mentioned, and I thi

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the

Re: Newbie help!

infernus - Bluelight wrote: Sorry for bothering this mailing list, but I realy need some help.. I find awsome screenshots from FreeBSD on various sites on the net, but on my comp, the only thing I see is a black screen with some white text on it, and: $| -

Re: Shell scripting question [newby]

On 10/04/2006, at 12:39 AM, Jan Grant wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I'm trying to follow the instructions at At point four it offers this shell script. cut -f 1 -d '$' /usr/local/freebsd-update/work/md5all | uni

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: [snip] > > I have only a small amount of experience with Cyrus. However: > > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup > > > > Based on that document, it appears as if you're dodging the bullet

Unable to open /dev/agpgart

FreeBSD gurus, I need your advice. I have a Dell computer with a on-board video card that I suppose is Intel 82945G, running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASEp6. My kernel has: device agp nevertheless, I don't get /dev/agpgart. I found references to PR80396 in google, but I cannot see this report

RE: BEWARE upgrading Horde System

>-Original Message- >From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:57 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Marc G. Fournier; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; fbsdq >Subject: Re: BEWARE upgrading Horde System > > >On 4/9/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >[sni

RE: Partitioning on existing system

> "tmpmfs" and related variables in rc.conf(5). > By default it does a memory-backed disk instead of file-backed, but > that can be adjusted. > > Personally, I find memory-backed /tmp to be more useful anyway. tmpmfs="YES" tmpsize="100m" tmpmfs_flags="-S -M -o noexec,nosuid" Is there something w

Re: BST instead of GMT

On Friday, 7 April 2006 at 11:34:29 +0100, Philip Radford wrote: > On Friday, April 07, 2006 12:52 AM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote: >> [text omitted] > > Thanks for your comments. Both /etc/localtime and > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London are the same. > > I have since created /etc/localtime as

RE: Partitioning on existing system

> tmpmfs="YES" > tmpsize="100m" > tmpmfs_flags="-S -M -o noexec,nosuid" > > Is there something wrong with this because it isn't creating a > /tmp at all. > > Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents

newsyslog.conf question

I have developed a boot image for a CD to be used on servers througout the organization I work for. Everything is working great, except for one small problem. When I boot from the CD I created, I receive a message stating "newsyslog: malformed 'at' value". /var/log/wtmp 640 5 * @01T0

Re: Numerous ftp timeouts - why?

fbsd_user wrote: >I had this same problem when I was on dial up line. >Once I got cable ISP internet connection the problem never happened >again. >Those ftp sites are busy and dial up connections degrade performance >for the other concurrent users logged onto the ftp site and so dial >up users ge

Re: Partitioning on existing system

On Apr 9, 2006, at 3:05 AM, Wil Hatfield wrote: Thanks for the great kick in the right direction. Is it really this easy? I guess so cause it is working. I dropped in a helloworld script, chmoded it and even as root I couldn't run it. Supreme! mdmfs -M -o noexec,nosuid -s 100m md0 /tmp chmo

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:09:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > It's not clear what he means by "hard crash", but he also says > > > power off", which is the part that is most confusing to me. > > Hmmm...I missed that part. Yeah, if it powers off

/etc/fstab FS-specific parameters

Hi there! How do you use FS-specific parameters in /etc/fstab (like -E for mount_msdosfs, or -I for mount_smbfs, etc...) ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

seeking help on "adding a disk"

Hi everyone. I am having trouble adding a IDE 300 GB Maxtor to my 6.0 system. It is recognized as ad2. Here is dmesg: ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA133 ad1: 190782MB at ata0-slave UDMA100 ad2: 286188MB at ata1-master UDMA133 I want to devote the entire disk to FreeBSD and use a single sli

Re: seeking help on "adding a disk"

On 4/9/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # fdisk -B -I /dev/ad2 I don't believe you need this step if you are going to do: > # bsdlabel -w -B /dev/ad2s1 Though I think you want to merely do #bsdlabel -Bw /dev/ad2 . . . (I was and still am under the impression that fdisk is not needed on de

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

Peter Thoenen wrote: --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:09:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: It's not clear what he means by "hard crash", but he also says power off", which is the part that is most confusing to me. Hmmm...I missed that part.

Re: Setting max interrupts per second (WAS printing on firefox)

On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote: > Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] The printer (Xerox N17, local, > > parallel port) started cycling through waiting-processing-waiting > > messages. Rebooting, I saw a message about an IRQ storm on the > > printer port being "

Linker Error: undefined reference to __ctype_b

Hi, Am tryin to compile a C program which uses 3rd party library. I get the following error during linking: "undefined reference to __ctype_b" and this error comes up for many more names. Whats may be the problem ? Regards, Premal. ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:04:01PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: > > About all I can think of is to try to reproduce the problem with > > enough logging enabled (e.g. running the binary under ktrace), with > > sync-mounted filesystem, and hope that the last few entries give the > > software develope

Re: Linker Error: undefined reference to __ctype_b

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:33:25AM +0530, Premal Mishra wrote: > Hi, > > Am tryin to compile a C program which uses 3rd party library. > > I get the following error during linking: > > "undefined reference to __ctype_b" and this error comes up for many more > names. > > Whats may be the proble

Re: UFS extended attributes

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Started doing a little reading on the UFS and UFS2 file systems. I'm just wondering if all types of files have extended attribute blocks available including named pipes, sockets, and device files? Is it still the case that there are three unused exten

Re: /etc/fstab FS-specific parameters

Andrey V. Semyonov schrieb: Hi there! How do you use FS-specific parameters in /etc/fstab (like -E for mount_msdosfs, or -I for mount_smbfs, etc...) ? As far as I know this is not possible. I had a similar problem when I wanted to mount NFS with -L using fstab. In my case there was a soluti

spelling error on your site.

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