Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong? (Solved!)

2006-11-15 Thread Leo L. Schwab
After instrumenting 'bruteblock' (and accidentally causing auth.log to explode), I discovered that the ssh.conf file that ships with it won't work on FreeBSD 6.1 (or at least my copy of it). The shipped regexp looks for illegal users. But 'sshd' on FreeBSD 6.1 records login

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-15 Thread Robin Becker
Damian Wiest wrote: ... No, it's my fault; I checked things on the wrong system. OpenBSD uses seminfo, FreeBSD uses ipc. aa the joy of forking :) -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

License issue

2006-11-15 Thread hiroshi . takai
Dear FreeBSD Project team, We would like to ask you about the license issue of FreeBSD when we redistribute FreeBSD in binary and we implement our software on the FreeBSD in the MRI system of TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION. We are planning to redistribute FreeBSD in binary and we

Re: License issue

2006-11-15 Thread Armin Arh
Hiroshi! The BSD license offers you to modify source and sell your product as you like. You have to include the full COPYRIGHT accompaining that particular BSD, that's it. Of course, any donations made by you to FreeBSD are welcome, but not required :) Keep in mind that any third party packages

desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread Marshall
hi, I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it as the default desktop. I did see a BSD based OS with XFCE as the only desktop, and i'm not sure if it was Freesbie, do you know if this is

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Marshall, just like all the Linux distribution you're free to choose your own desktop. It's not like Windows or Mac OS, where the GUI is actually bound to the Operating System. FreeBSD is the base system which doesn't make any assumption of the GUI you'd like to use. So you can use KDE with

Re: License issue

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:00:07PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Project team, We would like to ask you about the license issue of FreeBSD when we redistribute FreeBSD in binary and we implement our software on the FreeBSD in the MRI system of TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS

NFS file locking problems on 6.1

2006-11-15 Thread Ihsan Dogan
Hello, I'm running an NFS server and a client on 6.1. On the client the the /home is mounted through /etc/fstab from the nfs server. rc.conf on the server: rpcbind_enable=YES# Run the portmapper service (YES/NO). mountd_enable=YES # Run mountd (or NO). nfs_server_enable=YES # This

OS-BS replacement

2006-11-15 Thread Arnold Shade
Hi all, In the /tools directory of all FreeBSD distribution there is an old program named OS-BS written by Thomas Wolfram. It is a multi-OS boot loader for MBR (there are two versions: osbs135.exe and osbsbeta.exe) It is rather old, works only under DOS, does not support 1024 cylinders boundary

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: hi, I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it as the default desktop. I did see a BSD based OS with XFCE as the only

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hmmm, On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:22:30PM -0800, jekillen wrote: On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:52:32PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is a stock kernel config the 'fast' way to go on these CPUs? Sure wish there was an 'options I_WANNA_GO_FAST' or an 'options RICKY_BOBBY' that would just do all the right things. Still not sure which scheduler to go with.. Unless something

Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do the following Must have features email/page/sms if one of the rules fail has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway of checking if a

Re: OS-BS replacement

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Arnold Shade [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the /tools directory of all FreeBSD distribution there is an old program named OS-BS written by Thomas Wolfram. It is a multi-OS boot loader for MBR (there are two versions: osbs135.exe and osbsbeta.exe) It is rather old, works only under

Re: OS-BS replacement

2006-11-15 Thread Arnold Shade
Thank you Bill, I will follow your recommendations. However as far as I can understand there is no port for os-bs at all, I just wanted to update /tools directory as a first step, not the ports tree. I've copied [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I doubt there's any need to discuss this at length. I

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:54, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-15 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Ian, thank you for your answer. I edited /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf, adding the parameter/values you've given me, and rebooted the machine afterwards, but it didn't change anything. As long as X is running, I can switch between the text consoles and X without any problem. But as

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: hi, I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it as the

What Is the PATH to cyrus-sasl2?

2006-11-15 Thread Rachel Florentine
Hi; I'm building openldap from source since I can't figure out how to pass arguments to the port. I need to build with cyrus-sasl2, which is built. However, I don't know what the path is, and my build can't find it by itself. Please help. TIA, Rachel

Re: uhci.ko keeps showing up

2006-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andy Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've commented out device uhci in my kernel config, but I keep getting uhci.ko loaded on boot. I'm not using usb at all. I understand that I should be able to disable usb in my bios, but it's difficult to get to, as the server is remote. Is there

Another FBSD utility/script question

2006-11-15 Thread Jack Stone
Here I come with another easy one for most on the list -- except for me. I have 12,000 plus lines that have an empty line in between each real line, like so: this is a line of info 1 (empty) this is a line of info 2 this is a line of info 3 etc, etc To eliminate each empty line in between

Re: Another FBSD utility/script question

2006-11-15 Thread Vince
Hmm sed -e /^$/d FILENAME newfilename will do the job if they are empty lines. Vince Jack Stone wrote: Here I come with another easy one for most on the list -- except for me. I have 12,000 plus lines that have an empty line in between each real line, like so: this is a line of info 1

Re: Another FBSD utility/script question

2006-11-15 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wed 15 Nov 09:17, Jack Stone wrote: Here I come with another easy one for most on the list -- except for me. I have 12,000 plus lines that have an empty line in between each real line, like so: [...] grep -v '^$' Cheers, Nick. -- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata sector overlapping a data sector. OK, I see the warning in the

Re: What Is the PATH to cyrus-sasl2?

2006-11-15 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Rachel Florentine wrote: Hi; I'm building openldap from source since I can't figure out how to pass arguments to the port. I need to build with cyrus-sasl2, which is built. However, I don't know what the path is, and my build can't find it by itself. Please help.

ndis | ifconfig

2006-11-15 Thread probsd org
I am trying to get a WPC54G (linksys) wireless PCMIA card working in 6.1. I made the kernel module using ndisgen and loaded it with kldload. kldstat confirms the module and ndis.ko and if_ndis.ko is loaded along with the WPC54G driver made from ndisgen (bcmwl5_sys.ko): However, when

xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread Armin Arh
I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 Armin -- PUBBOX Postmaster + spam-killer. Free email addresses at http://pubbox.net/ ___

Need help...

2006-11-15 Thread Ne'Bahn
Hi list, I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on an Acer Aspire 1640WLMi laptop, now when I start it (Gnome already installed too) my screen looks VERY VERY big, like the old-fashioned Windows 98; login screen takes the half of the display, jejeje, so seems a drivers problem with my video card

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread Christian Walther
hmm, cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 make reinstall make clean should work. On 15/11/06, Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 Armin --

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:40, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:58, John Nielsen wrote: It is possible to convert regular devices into gmirror members after they have data on them, but unless you're extremely careful there's a small risk of the gmirror metadata

Re: Need help...

2006-11-15 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Ne'Bahn, it is possible that there is something wrong with your hardware configuration, but I guess that your X configuration contains the wrong sort order of display resolutions. If you look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf you'll find a Section screen somewhere. This is were the resolutions

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:42, Armin Arh wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 If you use portupgrade, you should be able to do something like: # portupgrade

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:47, Christian Walther wrote: On 15/11/06, Armin Arh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 hmm, cd

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Armin Arh wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: just do make make install jerry make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 Armin -- PUBBOX Postmaster +

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread Christian Walther
On 15/11/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 make reinstall make clean should work. That would re-install the meta-port, but not actually change anything on the system. Thanks for pointing this out. Time to get a more closer look on the portupgrade

rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hello List, I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup. 1) set apache_start=ask in rc.conf 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no] 3) the daemon is started depending on the decision 4) the decision is stored until the next boot, so

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday November 15, 2006 at 12:32:56 (PM) Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hello List, I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup. 1) set apache_start=ask in rc.conf 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no] 3) the daemon is started

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread Armin Arh
Leads me to some more troble: # pwd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade # make install ... ... /bin/cp -R /home/ports/wrkdir/usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb/work/bdb-0.5.9/docs/doc /usr/local/share/doc/ruby18/bdb/ cp: /home/ports/wrkdir/usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb/work/bdb-0.5.9/docs/doc: No such

Re: What Is the PATH to cyrus-sasl2?

2006-11-15 Thread Rachel Florentine
737373- Original Message From: Jan Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] The generic approach to determining what a port has installed and where is this: pkg_info -L {package name} Thanks. It said it couldn't find it. I just decided to unistall it and install it from the tarball. Rachel

Re: How To Configure w/ FreeBSD

2006-11-15 Thread Rachel Florentine
71717171 - Original Message From: FRLinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, as someone mentionned, you are quite off-topic here. Besides, a trip to the ports documentation would be advised. Start with make config then work your way through. As a personal experience, FreeBSD is what we mostly

Re: How To Configure w/ FreeBSD

2006-11-15 Thread FRLinux
On 11/15/06, Rachel Florentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL!! I've spent a WEEK on this! I had someone who obviously knew what he was talking about on the ldap@umich.edu list tell me to forget about trying to build the openldap port from FreeBSD with options because it's impossible!

Re: How To Configure w/ FreeBSD

2006-11-15 Thread FRLinux
On 11/15/06, Rachel Florentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL!! I've spent a WEEK on this! I had someone who obviously knew what he was talking about on the ldap@umich.edu list tell me to forget about trying to build the openldap port from FreeBSD with options because it's impossible!

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 11/15/06, Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, There should be an tiemout so that the system boots even if I forget to choose Yup, great idea. The new patch [attached] permits you to set: DAEMON_ask_timeout={0-9}[s|m|h] and DAEMON_ask_default=[yes|no] in rc.conf Default

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome! [here's the patch]

2006-11-15 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Ouch... here's the patch ;-) On 11/15/06, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello, There should be an tiemout so that the system boots even if I forget to choose Yup, great idea. The new patch [attached] permits you to set:

Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

2006-11-15 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should probably consider discussing this on the freebsd-rc@ list as well. Doug - -- This .signature sanitized for your protection -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.0 (FreeBSD)

Re: Some php files in same directory of working files with same permissions won't process

2006-11-15 Thread John Vaughan
Have you tried adding these to httpd.conf? : AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Yup there in there. If they weren't I don't think that any of the php files would process properly. In my case only the phpmyadmin files are downloading

CD Writing from non root accounts

2006-11-15 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi, Is there a recommended method of letting non root users write some CDR's ? If so, can anyone give me some pointers / advice etc on this ! Thanks !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-15 Thread Michael L. Squires
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: Hello List, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very

Re: Boot from CD (Digest, Vol 156, Issue 6 0, msg 12)

2006-11-15 Thread Keith McKenzie
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:49 From: Nils Vogels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot from CD (this time in ASCII :) ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13-11-2006 16:28: Now my question is this: how do the kernel know where to search the fstab (considered that the fstab says where to find the /etc)? I

Re: CD Writing from non root accounts

2006-11-15 Thread Michael S
See if this works. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q15 --- Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a recommended method of letting non root users write some CDR's ? If so, can anyone give me some pointers / advice etc on this ! Thanks !!!

Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-15 Thread DAve
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do the following Must have features email/page/sms if one of the rules fail has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway of

Re: CD Writing from non root accounts

2006-11-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a recommended method of letting non root users write some CDR's ? If so, can anyone give me some pointers / advice etc on this ! They should be able to use the base system's burncd(8) with nothing more than read/write permissions on

USB mass storage woes

2006-11-15 Thread Chris Hastie
Hi I've just bought a Western Digital 200GB USB hard drive that I would like to connect to my FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE system. However, when I connect it I don't get a device which I can mount. I have a 1GB flash drive that works fine - giving this on the console on connection. umass0:

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

2006-11-15 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/11/15 11:58, Michael L. Squires seems to have typed: I did find a posting by someone who installed gvinum/RAID5 recently (under 6.X) but there was nothing about stability. In my experience gvinum is stable until a drive fails. Good luck and let us know what happens!

wpa_password not included in 6.1

2006-11-15 Thread probsd org
I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have to define 32-bit psk password from wpa_password. But, I see wpa_password isn't included

Re: wpa_password not included in 6.1

2006-11-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:05:55PM -0800, probsd org wrote: I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have to define 32-bit psk

FreeBSD in Hawaii

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry Cerny
Aloha FreeBSD, I am one of the Training Managers at the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT), a non-credit, high-end IT certification training consortium of the University of Hawaii Community College System. We are headquartered at Honolulu Community College. At an AFCEA

Error in c++ code when building php5-mysql

2006-11-15 Thread Warren Liddell
Im running FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE .. below is the error when trying to build this port.. == === Building for php5-mysql-5.2.0 /bin/sh /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysql/work/php-5.2.0/ext/mysql/libtool --mode=compile cc -I.

Re: wpa_password not included in 6.1

2006-11-15 Thread probsd org
Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:05:55PM -0800, probsd org wrote: I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring

Need help with Gnome and Video card

2006-11-15 Thread Ne'Bahn
my conf looks like: HorizSync31.5, 35.15, 35.5 VertRefresh50-70 Section Device IdentifierStandard VGA VendorNameUnknown BoardName Unknown Drivervga Section Screen ... DefaultDepth24 Subsection Display Depth16

Re: Need help...

2006-11-15 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Mié 15 Nov 2006 09:58, Christian Walther escribió: If you look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf you'll find a Section screen somewhere. This is were the resolutions are configured your laptop (and desktop) is capable to display. There is an other location for xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread g
Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and

Portupgrade libusb/doctool problem.

2006-11-15 Thread lists
If this isn't an appropriate list for this sort of query, my apologies and could someone maybe give me a steer to somewhere better? I've got... 6.1 recently updated ports via portsnap When I go to do a portupgrade -arR, everything cruises along fine until I get to libusb. It configures

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread Денис Владимирович Еременко
В ср, 15/11/2006 в 01:28 -0800, Marshall пишет: I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? http://www.truebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-15 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Rem P Roberti thusly... I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. Other than already proposed solution, given that you are the only person sitting near the machine working power

RE: Shutting down as user

2006-11-15 Thread Wood, Russell
I didn't the proposed solution so if it's the same, I apologize. You could always add the user to the Operators group, which would then grant them permissions to shutdown/reboot. Regards, Russell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parv Sent:

Re: CD Writing from non root accounts

2006-11-15 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Lowell Gilbert [freebsd] [15-11-06 16:47 -0500]: | Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Hi, | | Is there a recommended method of letting non root users | write some CDR's ? | | If so, can anyone give me some pointers / advice etc on | this ! | | They should be able to use the

Re: FreeBSD in Hawaii

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jerry Cerny wrote: Aloha FreeBSD, I am one of the Training Managers at the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT), a non-credit, high-end IT certification training consortium of the University of Hawaii Community College System. We are headquartered at Honolulu Community

Re: gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

2006-11-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote: [risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use] It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the filesystem, etc. Depending on

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread George Allan
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote