Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

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Re: Problems with sr driver and Wanic 400

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Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

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Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: > >> On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: >>> >>> I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen" >>> utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application,

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: > I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD > will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass > combinations. ( test test or something like that ) Allthough I thought > it was an

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Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

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RE: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

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Hello, Following the advice about periodic freezes, I am going to add some RAM to my system. However, currently my swap size is 512MB. If I increase RAM to, say, 1GB, would I need to change the swap size to 2GB? If so, is it a safe process (I assume this can be done using FIPS)? Would I need t

Re: image based stock spam

In response to Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antony Mawer wrote: > > On 13/11/2006 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: > >> Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem > >> is fuzzyocr? Since there isn't a port for that, is there another > >> FreeBSD solution worth mentioning here

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Re: 'help'

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:30:14 +0800 (CST) shin_ta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some question about the Design and the Implementation of the FreeBSD > Operating System I somehow have the feeling someone (you) is trying to get someone else (i.e., the list) to prepare the assignement for you

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Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

Ted, you got a couple of things wrong. Read below for the corrections. On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:28 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Lonnie Cumberland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Garrett Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 3:48 AM Subject:

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RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

> -Original Message- > From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: zondag 12 november 2006 19:31 > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA > > Hello, > > Could someone tell me whether I can use the > APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 > installation? A

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

On 11/13/06, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: > I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD > will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass > combinations. ( test test or

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Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: > > > > Could someone tell me whether I can use the > > APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 > > installation? > > Anyone? Please? > APC brand SMART-UPS work quite well with 4.x FreeBSD. Assuming you want to monitor the UPS, make sure y

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:28:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > No, they used it all as the Darwin core. Then they took Darwin and > added their own GUI (used to be called Aqua) and that is MacOSX. X11 also comes on the MacOS X DVD, but is not installed by default. > Bear in mind that the

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delete iface tun

Hello. How to remove the interface tunN, creations ppp demon? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: > > > > Could someone tell me whether I can use the > > APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 > > installation? > > Anyone? Please? I don't quite understand what FreeBSD has to do with it. Is your hardware 120 VAC 60 Hz compatible? And is

Re: changing swap size

On 11/13/06, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Following the advice about periodic freezes, I am going to add some RAM to my system. However, currently my swap size is 512MB. If I increase RAM to, say, 1GB, would I need to change the swap size to 2GB? If so, is it a safe process

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

On 11/13/06 03:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen" utility with SSH to allow me to launch a te

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Re: cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

In response to "dhaneshk k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey can Any body help me? > > > I have a free BSD box ,due to some power failure its rebooted , but booting > failed , > The error I got was > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a Warning : / was not properly > dismounted loading confi

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

Quoting Andy Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/13/06, Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

Greetings All, I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

At 09:45 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:20:33PM +, Mark wrote: > > > > Could someone tell me whether I can use the > > APC SMART-UPS 750 VA for my FreeBSD 4.11 > > installation? > > Anyone? Please? When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the Fre

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Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass combinations. ( test test or something like that ) Allthough I

Re: cant login to my server machine(FreeBSD-6.0)

On Monday 13 November 2006 16:32, dhaneshk k wrote: > But I tried to create the new /etc/rc.conf file by the following method > > #mount -o rw,remount/ > #cat >/etc/rc.conf you can remount rw like this: mount -u -w / then use an editor to correct /etc/rc.conf there is also /rescue which mi

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Re: question

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:40:15PM +0100, Sebastian Herrmann wrote: > > Hallo, > > could you tell me how to download FreeBSD from your site? Probably, before you do that, you should read the FreeBSD Handbook - especially the parts about preparing for and installing FreeBSD - which includes por

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Sorry about previous mail in HTML and something else. Hello everybody. I'm working on a thing I never tried before. I did some googling but I don't think I haven't found any thing correlated to this. The situation is pretty simple: I'm configuring a FreeBSD (6.1) server to boot from a SAN thru

RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

> -Original Message- > From: David Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 15:46 > To: Mark > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA > > > In less time than spent asking others you could build > /usr/ports/sysutils/apcupsd/ and see

ruby Vulnerability / portupgrade

Regarding the following vulnerabilities as detected by portaudit: Affected package: ruby-1.8.4_4,1 Type of problem: ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service. Reference: Affected package: ruby-1.8.4

Re: pkg_cutleaves listing needed ports as leaf nodes.....

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Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I > am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. > > For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I have to restart the > smbd daemon because it eats up 6000+ fileha

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Re: installing port etherape

Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > The 'make install' on the etherape stopped, complaining about a > missing function. The output is included below. > My environment is FreeBSD 6.1 p10 on an Asus motherboard with a > Pentium 4 processor. > Given the warnings about a dependancy con

RE: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Palmer > Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 16:28 > To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA > > When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, > not the FreeBS

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I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long enough for it to spin up? Everything else seems to be working. If that is the problem, is it p

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:20AM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I > think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the > OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could get the Darwin 8.1 cdrom to > install. If

Re: ruby Vulnerability / portupgrade

Hi Jeff, On 13/11/2006 16:35, Jeff Dickens wrote: > Regarding the following vulnerabilities as detected by portaudit: > >Affected package: ruby-1.8.4_4,1 >Type of problem: ruby -- cgi.rb library Denial of Service. >Reference: > >

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: zondag 12 november 2006 19:31 >> To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' >> Subject: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA >> >> Hello, >> >> Could someone tell me whether I can use the >> APC SMART-UPS 7

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

In response to Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I > > am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. > > > > For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I h

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A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're ready" or is there a set schedule that is adhered to? I only ask because I am trying to schedule some server upgrades and I s

Re: BGE driver upgrade from 5.3-RELEASE

James Kilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a running 5.3-RELEASE system that needs a BGE driver upgrade so that > packets with VLAN tags aren't stripped. Is there any way to do this without > upgrading the entire OS? This feature was just added to the driver a month > ago. It's *possi

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

On Nov 13, 2006, at 01:28, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Apple also doesen't use the UNIX security model. As near as I can tell their core security model is an ACL model not a user/group model. Once again this is something that's handled elsewhere. The user-group security model is alive and the h

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Hello everybody, I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I can write a cronjob that checks every minute. But isn't there another solution; Can't I just write a C program that liste

Re: ATA drive TIMEOUT READ_DMA errors since adding power savings

On Monday 13 November 2006 9:57 am, Michael Knoll wrote: > I added a power down timer on one of my harddrives, and started > getting READ_DMA and WRITE_DMA timeouts. Is it possible these are > occuring becuase the drive is spun down and FreeBSD isn't waiting long > enough for it to spin up? Ever

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Hello, I am running freebsd 6.1 (amd64) on an ibm x260 and getting these errors: dmesg: g_vfs_done():aacd0s1a[WRITE(offset=16567468032, length=16384)]error = 5 aacd0: hard error cmd=write 1673028351-1673028382 and in messages : Nov 12 23:59:14 nms kernel: aac0: COMMAND 0x8bd3b2c0

Re: delete iface tun

Igoryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to remove the interface tunN, creations ppp demon? In general, you don't. If you unload the if_tun module, that will delete all of them. See the manual for tun(4). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:20AM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have also recently been able to boot up the OpenDarwin 7.2.1 as well, but never could get the Darwin 8.1 cdrom

Re: Blank screen after using X

Sorry... I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3 Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768. On 13/11/06, Christian Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy with it. Since the beginning I've a probl

Re: image based stock spam

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:17:58 -0800 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ugh, I'm running a 6.2 prerelease. The package doesn't exist, so I > build the port, or try to. The tiff port wont build, so I pkg_add > that. It gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I > pkg_add that.

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Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on my desktop, but I'm pretty new to all of this and would appreciate

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Re: Shutting down as user

Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. Whatever is shutting down the system would either need to be setuid (chmod u+s), or would need to use sudo (if you have the sudo port and your user is properly se

Re: Shutting down as user

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Re: Shutting down as user

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to > shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know > that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have > that problem

Re: Shutting down as user

Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;) _

Re: Shutting down as user

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to > shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know > that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have > that problem

Re: Shutting down as user

Joe Holden wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;) That is very

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

On Monday 13 November 2006 10:11, Frank Staals wrote: > The point is it isn't security through obscurity: as allready pointed > out, FreeBSD & sshd can withstand those brute force attacks without much > of a problem so there is no security problem, the only thing is those > brute force attacks are

Re: Shutting down as user

Rem P Roberti wrote: That is very true, and I understand why this is by design, but in this case the ONLY user of the machine is me. It really is no big deal, but I am trying to understand just what is going on here. As I said, on my desktop I am able to shut down as user, and can't remember

Re: Shutting down as user

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem o

Re: Shutting down as user

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Shutting down as user

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a "permission denied" error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

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Re: Testing firewire

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and a

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: > A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see > that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. > > Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're ready" or is there a set > schedule that is adhered to? > > > I onl

Re: Shutting down as user

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:11:11AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > > >Add yourself to the "operator" group. Just edit /etc/group. > > > > > Bingo! Haven't checked recently but in the past any darn fool could Control-Alt-Delete reboot from the console keyboard. Caused a bit of a pain when a machi

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greetings All, > > I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my > inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. > > I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I > think is VERY good and

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Palmer Sent: maandag 13 november 2006 16:28 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA When I originally ported apcupsd (The actual application, not the FreeBSD p

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When I switched to 6.0, then 6.1, it was noticed by most of my clients that my php/mysql/apache system slowed down a fair bit compared to previous version (5.XX). I always like to be on the bleeding edge of FreeBSD, but the performance hit is being commented about by my (few) mysql/php clients.

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I >> am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. >> >> For some odd reason every couple days

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:55 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: > > A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see > > that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. > > > > Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're read

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I >>> am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / fi

Re: Laptop Wireless

The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1163208958-311e

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

Peo Nilsson wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:55 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Joe wrote: A while back, I read that 6.2 was going to be released today. Now I see that 6.2 won't be released until Mid December. Are FreeBSD releases put out "whenever they're

Re: pkg_cutleaves listing needed ports as leaf nodes.....

On 11/13/06 09:35, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I use `pkg_cutleaves -l` to list leaf nodes. It is listing things I know are required by other apps. These aren't build dependencies. For example, it lists g-wrap, and libpcap. If I remove g-wrap, my gnuc

using ipfw for NAT mapping in a 1:1 fake:real IPs for VPN

Hi, I have a pretty complicated setup currently and am trying to figure out exactly how to implement it. I'm pretty unfamiliar with freebsd, the last incarnation I used was 4.3 and I only used it for a few months before moving to linux. I have a VPN setup for an IP range 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.255

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running 6.1 installed from the most recent .iso CD and sync'd ports > through CVS, I wish to have the Ventrilo port start up as a daemon > upon reboot, however, I'm not having any success in having this > happen. I did some searching with Google and found little

USB Wireless

As you can no doubt see, I have been going round and round with trying to get an old Compaq Presario connected via wireless. The original Belkin card that came with the laptop does not seem to be supported. At least it does not show up in the handbook under supported devices. Further, it doe

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

Leo L. Schwab wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-) ), I thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat d

Boot from CD

Hello everybody. I'm working on a thing I never tried before. I did some googling but I don't think I haven't found any correlated to this. The situation is pretty simple: I'm configuring a FreeBSD (6.1) server to boot from a SAN thru a QLogic 2340 Fiber Channel card. This in general is not

Re: image based stock spam

Brian the SARE Stock rules (and others) from www.rulesemporium.com are equally good at catching this stuff, and a lot lot lighter on CPU cycles. -- Martin On 11/13/06, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like the preferred approach many folks re the above problem is fuzzyocr? Since ther

Re: Testing firewire

David Kelly wrote: On Nov 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: So I thought: Is this like ethernet that I need a crossed cable or can I connect the two with an ordinary cable and check that it works? There is no master nor slave in Firewire, all are peers, and all have (essentially)

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