Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Mark Stapper
Kurt Buff wrote: > I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday > morning, with the following entry: > > zmx1.zetron.com login failures: > Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2 > Aug 30 09:42:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp0 > >

portupgrade broken, and apr won't build

2009-09-02 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya all Something weird going on with portypgrade (and maybe ports in general) here. Somewhere between last months upgrade and this month, portupgrade has started to ignore ports that are reported by portversion as needing upgrading. The result is I have to force each one, one at a time. B

re: apr won't build

2009-09-02 Thread DA Forsyth
replyign to myself, sor tof, seems this fixes it http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-po...@freebsd.org/msg22758.html remove all old cruft from libtool15 if you have upgraded to libtool22 -- DA Fo rsythNetwork Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Resea

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2009-09-02 Thread Hunter Systems
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Re: netbooks and sdhci

2009-09-02 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, David Horwitt wrote: > > So my question is: does anybody know _for sure_ of a hard-disk netbook with a > media reader that uses the sdhci interface > and is supported by FBSD 7.2 (supported = wireless,X,USB). $USD300 (like the > AA1-D250) is the desired price point, but > up t

Re: Upgrading packages

2009-09-02 Thread Chris
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:42:02 +0400 Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 01:08:54 -0500 Chris wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:50:08 +0400 > > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:25:18 -0500 Chris wrote: > > > > > Thanks - although, this seems a moot point if one sticks wi

Re: Upgrading packages

2009-09-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 05:12:25 -0500 Chris wrote: > I'll paraphrase what you said as I understand you; > Upgrading packages to a RELEASE system (by way of setting set > PACKAGESITE to reflect: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/) > Would indeed keep them updated

'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry
I have set up several 'alias' definitions in my .bashrc file. They are honored when run as either a regular user or as root. However, when I prefix a command with 'sudo', the alias is no longer honored. In other words, the actual command is run;however, any flags that I was passing to it via 'alias

Re: 32 bit ports on an AMD64 system

2009-09-02 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, b. f. wrote: > You've given some of your reasons for using amd64 -- but are your > reasons for using 32-bit binaries on amd64 strong enough to make all > of this worthwhile? Why not just use 64-bit binaries for all but the > 32-bit-only ports? Sure, some 32-bit app

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: > >> In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > >>> What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where > >>> memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - t

Re: portupgrade broken, and apr won't build

2009-09-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:22:37 am DA Forsyth wrote: > Hiya all > > Something weird going on with portypgrade (and maybe ports in > general) here. Somewhere between last months upgrade and this month, > portupgrade has started to ignore ports that are reported by > portversion as needing u

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Per olof Ljungmark : Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark : What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it -

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > > > >> Dan Nelson wrote: > >>> In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: > In response to Per olof Ljungmark : > > What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box wher

Re: having problems copying a dvd

2009-09-02 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello Thanks Roland for the parameters in the mplayer/mencoder... To make things easier.. I recomend to create a profile in the directory ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf with the content: = [pal] oac=lavc=yes ovc=lavc=yes lavcopts=vcodec=mpeg2vide

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Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 23:19:23 Michael David Crawford wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it > > never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as "Active". Maybe one > > gig is accounted for, > > I'm not that familiar wit

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 01 September 2009 23:19:23 Michael David Crawford wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as "Active". Maybe one gig is accounted for, I'm not that familiar

Re: having problems copying a dvd

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi < lenzi.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > Thanks Roland for the parameters in the mplayer/mencoder... > > To make things easier.. I recomend to create a profile > in the directory ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf with the content: > ==

Re: having problems copying a dvd

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:41:24AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to make a copy of a dvd that I have, video, using a technique > > that I gleaned from this list nearly two years ago that has always worked > > but

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapper wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> I got a daily security run email from one of my machines on Monday >> morning, with the following entry: >> >>      zmx1.zetron.com login failures: >>      Aug 30 06:57:17 zmx1 su: BAD SU mlee to root on /dev/ttyp2 >>      Aug

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 00:23, Mark Stapper wrote: > > Kurt Buff wrote: > >> I traced it down, and found out that he had not logged in on Sunday. > >> The auth.log is, as you can see from the listing below, quite old. The > >> entries referenced above

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:03, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 02), Kurt Buff said: >> Heh. Well, for me a very long time is more than a year, because >> security patches for the OS will at some point mandate a reboot - and >> usually in less than a year. >> >> I suppose there's a way

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/2/09, Jerry wrote: > I have set up several 'alias' definitions in my .bashrc file. They are > honored when run as either a regular user or as root. However, when I > prefix a command with 'sudo', the alias is no longer honored. In other > words, the actual command is run;however, any flags th

Error compiling KDE 3

2009-09-02 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi folks, Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... any ideas? ===> Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 ===> gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Checking if security/gnutls already installed ===> An older version

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:06:28 -0600 Tim Judd wrote: [snip] > Because sudo calls the binary, via SUID on sudo. It doesn't pay > attention to user profiles or rc files (like .bashrc). > > > I don't use sudo, so I can't recommend past that. In other words, sudo is not compatible with the bash 'al

Re: Error compiling KDE 3

2009-09-02 Thread ltcddats
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:46 + Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > Hi folks, > > Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... > > any ideas? > > > ===> Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 > ===> gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found > ===> Generating temporary packing lis

Re: Error compiling KDE 3

2009-09-02 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:46 + Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... > > any ideas? > > > ===> Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 > ===> gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ===> Check

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 02), Jerry said: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:06:28 -0600 > Tim Judd wrote: > > Because sudo calls the binary, via SUID on sudo. It doesn't pay > > attention to user profiles or rc files (like .bashrc). > > > > I don't use sudo, so I can't recommend past that. > > In other w

Kernel panic

2009-09-02 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Freebsd-questions. Fatal trap 18: integer divide fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc0af79b5 stack pointer = 0x28:0xc1b55cb8 frame pointer = 0x28:0xc1b55cb8 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x

Re: skype 2.1 beta for linux

2009-09-02 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Qui, 2009-09-03 às 00:24 +0200, Martin Wilke escreveu: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:27:40PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > > Just noticed this: > > http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/ > > > > It doesn't work, this version

Re: difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >guys, (of either gender) > >here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but >here's my first shot: > >i'm looking for a file what contains string "S". the filename >in this case has a zi

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:06:48 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > sudo does not run root's shell at all; it directly runs whatever is given it > on the commandline. Another idea would to be to call sudo with the desired shell as argument (in order to inherit the aliases), followed by a command as argument t

difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
guys, (of either gender) here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but here's my first shot: i'm looking for a file what contains string "S". the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. i can use

got "invalid argument" error when using dd

2009-09-02 Thread Ji
Hi all, I am using FreeBSD-7.2-release-amd64. I got an got "invalid argument" error when using dd dd if=s1.image of=/dev/ad4s1 bs=1m dd: /dev/ad4s1: Invalid argument 12284+1 records in 12284+0 records out 12880707584 bytes transferred in 746.571300 secs (17253151 bytes/sec) echo $? 1 (s1.image i

Re: difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:43:30 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > i'm looking for a file what contains string "S". the filename > in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. > > i can use grep to find "S" and grep gives me the file[s] that > have the string. now,

Re: difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-02 Thread Jon Radel
Gary Kline wrote: guys, (of either gender) here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but here's my first shot: i'm looking for a file what contains string "S". the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point

Re: Error compiling KDE 3

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:26:46 + > Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > >> Trying to compile KDE 3, I am getting the folliwing error... >> >> any ideas? >> >> >> ===>  Installing for gnutls-2.8.3 >> ===>   gnutls-2.8.3 depends on executable: pkg-config - found >>

Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test "x$my_var" == "xyes"; then

2009-09-02 Thread jerry M
configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes: unexpected operator But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = makes it to work. On Linux though this line works fine. Why spaces around == would cause failure? What is the version of /bin/sh currently used in 7.2? Whe

Re: Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test "x$my_var" == "xyes"; then

2009-09-02 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 04:14:56 + (GMT), jerry M wrote: > configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes: > unexpected operator > But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = makes it to work. Maybe those files are not intended to run on FreeBSD's standard Bourne shel

Re: Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test "x$my_var" == "xyes"; then

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 03), jerry M said: > configure file got this line and it causes the message: test: xyes: > unexpected operator But removing spaces around == or replacing == with = > makes it to work. > > On Linux though this line works fine. > > Why spaces around == would cause failure?