Freebsd auto locking users

2008-08-06 Thread Khachatur Shahinyan
Dear FreeBsd gurus, I have a problem concerning users password and authentication policies. The goal is 1)make freebsd to lock users after 3 unsuccessful login attempts, 2)force users to change their passwords every 90 days I've done such changes in Linux distros, with various PAM modules.But

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread Warren Liddell
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 06:52:51 David Gurvich wrote: I believe that card uses the Realtek 8185L chipset. You may be able to get ndis driver to work with it. Download the winxp driver from http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=24PFi

Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-08-06 Thread Warren Liddell
I have read a lot of ways an issues with upgrading to 7.x from 6.x ... the main place that seemd ot have someewhat simple guidelines was http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-6x-7x.txt .. however i wanted to know if that is the most simplest an efficent way to go about the

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-06 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Gary Kline wrote: but what is your best guuess about my old 1998 HP's (400MHz) compared to a newer, generic 1.8GHz processor?  IIRC, my AMD 2.8GHz uproc sucks up around 75watts; the Intel was maybe 35w. If energy is an issue consider some of the newer low

RE: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread Catalin Miclaus
Original Message- From: John Almberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:55 PM To: Catalin Miclaus Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Controlling read access On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Catalin Miclaus wrote: Hello John, If you are providing

needs drivers for the gadgets in freebsd

2008-08-06 Thread Prakash Poudyal
Hello Everybody, Here I want to install some gadgets like webcam wireless ethernet USB card and also Wireless PC card in laptop contents freebsd OS. But when I join these gadgets in the notebook it does not show any sign of connected in the Notebook. I do have driver for windows version. But I

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: I kep track on the load on my main server, and it is rarely above 0.20. If the load is a poor metric of power use, what is better? (My new `Watt-o-Meter' is checking the power right now, but I would like to know what drink the most juice:

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-06 Thread underligast
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Obviously it is the SCSI card or drives. Have you tried changing the BIOS settings on the SCSI? You might want to try changing the SCSI BUS speed. You may also want to try turning off hyperthreading. -Derek Disabling

Re: [Off Topic] Clients still not connecting to the FreeBSD mail server

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew D
Hi Andrew, Nice name :) Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, --snip-- I've verified the same timeout behavior with Outlook Express and Thunderbird. Using Thunderbird, I was able to check different settings too. The settings should be to use authentication on the smtp server using SSL. Someone,

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-06 Thread Ivan Voras
underligast wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Obviously it is the SCSI card or drives. Have you tried changing the BIOS settings on the SCSI? You might want to try changing the SCSI BUS speed. You may also want to try turning off hyperthreading. -Derek

firefox3 on sparc64?

2008-08-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm trying to build firefox3 from ports on FBSD Alpha. The build fails with the error following warning: cast increases required alignment of target type. Following a quick search, I believe this casting should also fail on FBSD sparc64. Anybody tried building firefox3 on sparc64? anton

RE: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-08-06 Thread Rudi Kramer - MWEB
Warren Liddell I have read a lot of ways an issues with upgrading to 7.x from 6.x ... the main place that seemd ot have someewhat simple guidelines was http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-6x-7x.txt .. however i wanted to know if that is the most simplest an efficent way

Re: needs drivers for the gadgets in freebsd

2008-08-06 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:31:44 +0545 Prakash Poudyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I want to install some gadgets like webcam wireless ethernet USB card and also Wireless PC card in laptop contents freebsd OS. But when I join these gadgets in the notebook it does not show any sign of connected in

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread David Gurvich
I thought you were asking about a FreeBSD driver. If you are using Linux then the driver may work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Freebsd auto locking users

2008-08-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Khachatur Shahinyan wrote: Dear FreeBsd gurus, I have a problem concerning users password and authentication policies. The goal is 1)make freebsd to lock users after 3 unsuccessful login attempts, 2)force users to change their passwords every 90 days I've done such changes in Linux distros,

Long mbuf chains

2008-08-06 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi All I'm working on an Ethernet driver for FreeBSD 7.0. Taking network performance numbers I encountered very long mbuf chains on the sender side. The symptom is constant, always during iperf/netperf TCP stream tests with message sizes of 128 bytes (200 mbufs per chain), 1024 bytes (30-60

All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread mikeco
I have mounted an NFS4 filesystem shared by a Solaris 10 cluster environment and am able to browse all of the files, but I cannot touch anything on the filesystem because of all of the user and group permissions being off. Here's my fstab entry: cnfs:/export /nfsnfs4 rw When I

Re: All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
mikeco wrote: I have mounted an NFS4 filesystem shared by a Solaris 10 cluster environment and am able to browse all of the files, but I cannot touch anything on the filesystem because of all of the user and group permissions being off. Here's my fstab entry: cnfs:/export /nfsnfs4

Re: qt4-moc-4.4.1 not compiling (compiler/system not supported)

2008-08-06 Thread Jakub Lach
Bugzilla from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please force update qmake4 and qt4-corelib ports: # portmaster devel/qmake4 devel/qt4-corelib # portupgrade -f devel/qmake4 devel/qt4-corelib I have forced packages one by one today. Thanks for help and updating UPDATING file. -- View this

Re: All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread mikeco
I've tried mounting it as nfs rather than nfs4, but it just scrolls an error until I send a break: mount -t nfs cnfs:/export /nfs [udp] cnfs:/export: NFSPROC_NULL: RPC: Timed out An rpcinfo of the NFS server shows that it should support versions 2-4: $ rpcinfo -p cnfs | grep nfs 132

Re: All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
mikeco wrote: I've tried mounting it as nfs rather than nfs4, but it just scrolls an error until I send a break: mount -t nfs cnfs:/export /nfs [udp] cnfs:/export: NFSPROC_NULL: RPC: Timed out That says the server is failing to respond to the client's mount request. You could try TCP mounts

Re: All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread mikeco
Where is it specified whether to use UDP or TCP for NFS clients? I never explicitly set it to one or the other. Kris Kennaway-3 wrote: You could try TCP mounts in case they are less broken on the server side. They are recommended anyway. -- View this message in context:

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread John Almberg
Hello John, There are some things that you can try. What if you connect from localhost and transfer files, is it still very slow? Try to disable TLS/SSL and see if this improve performance. Increase debug level and check the log for any errors. Well, I am learning lots about FTP :-) I

Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Michael Christie skrev: Hi all , I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over the other will take over the services

Re: All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
mikeco wrote: Where is it specified whether to use UDP or TCP for NFS clients? I never explicitly set it to one or the other. See the manpage. It defaults to UDP in 7.0 and older, although the default will soon change to TCP mounts since UDP mounts are no longer appropriate in most cases.

Re: All files on NFS4 mount are owned by 4294967294:4294967294

2008-08-06 Thread mikeco
I changed the NFS back to v3, set it to use TCP rather than UDP in fstab, and everything is happy now. Kris Kennaway-3 wrote: mikeco wrote: Where is it specified whether to use UDP or TCP for NFS clients? I never explicitly set it to one or the other. See the manpage. It defaults to

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: | Hello John, | | There are some things that you can try. | | What if you connect from localhost and transfer files, is it still very | slow? | Try to disable TLS/SSL and see if this improve performance. | Increase debug level and

identd on jail with multiple IPs

2008-08-06 Thread Redd Vinylene
Greetings! I cannot seem to make identd work on a jail with multiple IPs (Bjoern Zeeb's patch): jail # cat /etc/inetd.conf auth stream tcp nowait root internal auth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 30 - jail # grep inetd /etc/rc.conf inetd_enable=YES - host # grep jail /etc/rc.conf jail_enable=YES

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread John Almberg
| Now I have just one major league problem: when I logged in as one of the | users, to test the connections, I discovered that I had SUPER POWERS. I | was able to delete any file that I could see, including ones that were | owned by root. Digging uncovered the fact that pure-ftpd runs with

Switching to IPv6?

2008-08-06 Thread FreeBSD Questions
I've been considering switching my home network to IPv6. I have a computer acting as a firewall sitting between my ISP and my three LANs at home. Of course, my DSL provider gives me an IPv4 address, and everything I want to access on the Internet is on an IPv4 network. The whole point is to

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop

2008-08-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:56 AM 8/6/2008, underligast wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Obviously it is the SCSI card or drives. Have you tried changing the BIOS settings on the SCSI? You might want to try changing the SCSI BUS speed. You may also want to try turning off

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: | | Now I have just one major league problem: when I logged in as one of | the | | users, to test the connections, I discovered that I had SUPER POWERS. I | | was able to delete any file that I could see, including ones that were

Re: memory allocation with malloc

2008-08-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:16 AM 8/5/2008, Shyamal Shukla wrote: Hi All, I am trying to validate my understanding of how malloc works by means of the below C program which tries to corrupt essential information maintained by malloc for free() operation. The program allocates 4, 12 byte blocks (internally 16

Re: Switching to IPv6?

2008-08-06 Thread Jon Radel
FreeBSD Questions wrote: I've been considering switching my home network to IPv6. I have a computer acting as a firewall sitting between my ISP and my three LANs at home. Of course, my DSL provider gives me an IPv4 address, and everything I want to access on the Internet is on an IPv4 network.

Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-06 Thread FreeBSD
Roger Olofsson a écrit : Michael Christie skrev: Hi all , I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over the other will

rtorrent under pf

2008-08-06 Thread luizbcampos
After I had setup .rtorrent.rc on FBSD-7.0 amd64, I type rtorrent the tracker connects to server and nothing more happens, the screen seems to be frozen about dowloading. What to do? I've enabled ports 6890-6999 at /etc/pf.conf pf.conf Description: Binary data

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread John Almberg
| Hi Greg, | | I tried your sequence, but it didn't seem to work. Or, perhaps it worked | and the PRIVSEP option doesn't do what I expect it to. Logging in as a | normal user gives that user root privileges. | | This seems pretty scary to me. Not so bad, since the user is locked into |

Re: identd on jail with multiple IPs

2008-08-06 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Redd Vinylene wrote: I cannot seem to make identd work on a jail with multiple IPs (Bjoern Zeeb's patch): So do you have any kind of error message? packet traces or anything to further isolate the problem rather than does not work? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb Stop bit

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread Warren Liddell
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 23:00:50 David Gurvich wrote: I thought you were asking about a FreeBSD driver. If you are using Linux then the driver may work. I am using FreeBSD, but was wondering if the Linux driver may be backwards comnpat to suit the needs im wanting ?

Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-06 Thread Chris St Denis
Paul Procacci wrote: Michael Christie wrote: Hi all , I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over the other will take

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Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-06 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, Michael Christie wrote: I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over the other will take over the services

Re: rtorrent under pf

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Picone
Hi, Have you done these things? 1. Setup ~/.rtorrent.rc properly 2. Change default ports for rtorrent. eg: 'port_range = 22145-22245' 3. Ensure pf is setup correctly. eg: net_if = rl0 rt = { 22145-22245 } pass in on $net_if proto tcp from any to any port $rt_tcp keep state pass in on

Re: rtorrent under pf

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Picone
That should be: '$rt keep state' not '$rt_tcp keep state' and '$rt_udp keep state' Mark Picone wrote: Hi, Have you done these things? 1. Setup ~/.rtorrent.rc properly 2. Change default ports for rtorrent. eg: 'port_range = 22145-22245' 3. Ensure pf is setup correctly. eg: net_if = rl0

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Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-06 Thread David Gurvich
FreeBSD and Linux are different operating systems. There is no compatibility between them. FreeBSD has an emulation layer which works for a limited subset of Linux binary programs. These are not kernel drivers. Your best bet on FreeBSD is to check the status for your chipset in CURRENT or to

Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-06 Thread kalin m
hi all... after setting up a pf rule set on one of newly installed freebsd 7 i did a scan with nessus 3 on that machine the result i got was like this one: http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=singleid=11618 how do 'fix' it using pf?... thanks...