video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype

2010-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, To do normal Skype session (face2face) I'm using a USB video cam mounted on top of the lid of my laptop which is good supported by the pwc kernel module: Mar 5 09:39:57 current kernel: ugen4.2: Philips at usbus4 Mar 5 09:39:57 current kernel: pwc0: Philips product 0x0329, class 0/0,

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that ``flash viewer'' is not installed. Shockwave/Adobe/Macromedia flash viewers are not shipped with FBSD CD. I'm running OpenSolaris/x86 as guest in VirtualBox on FreeBSD/amd64 for that, since Adobe

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote: Do you have compat7x installed? No I don't. If you already updated to OS 8.0, you should update your ports tree, too, and use the current ports. I always csup the SELECTED port tree but not all. Just installing isn't enough, there's some configuration

Re: Perl 5.8 - 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: However, when I run:   portupgrade -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8\.* I get this problem: ---  Upgrading 'perl-5.8.9_3' to 'perl-5.10.1' (lang/perl5.10) ---  Building '/usr/ports/lang/perl5.10' ===  

Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system

2010-03-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, sean connolly wrote: Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be caused by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run before it reports, or having it only run with -CURRENTmight be useful. Hi Sean, Dan, et al: I'm not

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread herbert langhans
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:33:52PM +0100, Piotr Lukawski wrote: Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread daniele
On 03/05/10 12:00, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: * Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote: Do you have compat7x installed? No I don't. If you already updated to OS 8.0, you should update your ports tree, too, and use the current ports. I always csup the SELECTED port tree but not all. Just

Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread John
My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every day, they originate from several

Can't install kde3

2010-03-05 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
Hello, I try to install kde3 after fresh install FreeBSD 8.0 and freebsd-update to FreeBSD 8.0 p2 on i386 athlon-xp 1660 MHz, but with no success. Here is the output: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 # make install clean === Installing for kde-3.5.10_3 === kde-3.5.10_3 depends on executable:

8.0-RELEASE-p2 Isn't There?

2010-03-05 Thread Programmer In Training
I did manage to get freebsd-update to run, after a sort. Now my system identifies as FreeBSD heaven 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan 5 16:02:27 UTC 2010 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 When I go to the ftp server to do any sort of updates

Can't install kde4

2010-03-05 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
Hello, I try to install kde4 (and kde3 in erlier post) after fresh install FreeBSD 8.0 and freebsd-update to FreeBSD 8.0 p2 on i386 athlon-xp 1660 MHz, but with no success. Here is the output: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4 # make install clean === Installing for kde4-4.3.5 === kde4-4.3.5 depends

Can't install octave

2010-03-05 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
Hello, I try to install octave (kde3, kde4 in erlier post) after fresh install FreeBSD 8.0 and freebsd-update to FreeBSD 8.0 p2 on i386 athlon-xp 1660 MHz, but with no success. I forgot to add that I csup-ed the ports tree today. Here is the output: # make install clean === octave-3.2.4

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them.  One day, over 6500.  This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance.  Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there

Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Robert Huff
John writes: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every day, they

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:03:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-03-05 13:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every

Re[2]: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Anton
Hello John, I would suggest you just block ssh acces for everyone. But, to allow acces for yourself - you could install wonderfull utility = 'knock-knock'. It listen on specified ports (they could be closed), and, on receiving p= redefined knock-knock (for example - 2 knocks

Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system

2010-03-05 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 04 March 2010 8:50:56 am sean connolly wrote: Hi Dan, Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be caused by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run before it reports, or having it only run with -CURRENTmight be useful. That's

How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Aaron Lewis
Hi, I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some useful information when finished. e.g where its config file is Due to some mistakes , i lost these important information , how do i see it again ? Is there any tricks to show out it directly ? I don't want to install it

Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some useful information when finished. e.g where its config file is Due to some mistakes , i lost these important information , how do i see it again ? Is there any

[SOLVED] Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Aaron Lewis
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some useful information when finished. e.g where its config file is Due to some mistakes , i lost these important information , how do i see it again

Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env

2010-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/04/10 17:43, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Polytropon wrote: snip As far as I know, earlier X installations came with the tab window manager - twm. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. twm

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread daniele
On 03/05/10 15:28, Aaron Lewis wrote: Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 05 March 2010 16:20:36 Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, I installed some software from ports today , and it outputs some useful information when finished. e.g where its config file is Due to some mistakes , i lost these important

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread mikel king
On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:26 AM, John wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:03:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my

Re: Perl 5.8 - 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: # portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes

Re: Can't install octave

2010-03-05 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: I try to install octave (kde3, kde4 in erlier post) after fresh install FreeBSD 8.0 and freebsd-update to FreeBSD 8.0 p2 on i386 athlon-xp 1660 MHz, but with no success. I forgot to add that I csup-ed the ports tree today. If I try to rebuild

Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype

2010-03-05 Thread Bas v.d. Wiel
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, To do normal Skype session (face2face) I'm using a USB video cam mounted on top of the lid of my laptop which is good supported by the pwc kernel module: Mar 5 09:39:57 current kernel: ugen4.2: Philips at usbus4 Mar 5 09:39:57 current kernel: pwc0: Philips

Re: Perl 5.8 - 5.10 On Current Production System

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 15:22:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set

Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would this be done with packages? pkg_add would have to download all packges first to be

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:19:09AM -0500, mikel king wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:26 AM, John wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:03:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Anton == Anton an...@sng.by writes: AntonBut, to allow acces for yourself - you could install wonderfull Antonutility = 'knock-knock'. Port knocking is false security. It's equivalent to adding precisely two bytes (per knock, which can't be too close or far apart or numerous) to the

Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system

2010-03-05 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Robert Watson rwat...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, sean connolly wrote: Automatic reporting would end up being a mess given that panics can be caused by hardware problems. Having an autoreport check if memtest was run before it reports, or having it

Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jonathan == Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za writes: Jonathan pkg_info -D I like pkg_info -DL 'port*', because it also shows *where* things got installed... sometimes, I can't find the conf files. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:45:02AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Anton == Anton an...@sng.by writes: AntonBut, to allow acces for yourself - you could install wonderfull Antonutility = 'knock-knock'. Port knocking is false security. It's equivalent to adding precisely two

Re: Can't install octave

2010-03-05 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 03/05/2010 16:24, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: I try to install octave (kde3, kde4 in erlier post) after fresh install FreeBSD 8.0 and freebsd-update to FreeBSD 8.0 p2 on i386 athlon-xp 1660 MHz, but with no success. I forgot to add that I

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
John == John j...@starfire.mn.org writes: John Yes - that's exactly what I used to do, and exactly why I used to do John it, but now I'm thinking of actually implement https. Rent more than one IP. :) I have a block of 8 for exactly that reason. It allows me to run sshd on 443 *and* https on

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread mikel king
On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:44 AM, John wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:19:09AM -0500, mikel king wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:26 AM, John wrote: Way back about 10 years ago, I was playing around with IPFW a lot. I wrote a script to update IPFW from changes made to a MySql db. It was a just for

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Fbsd1 writes: There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would make it work. Thank you and thanks to Maciej Milewski

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 15:44:39, John wrote: Maybe I'll have to learn how to do a VPN from FreeBSD One thought that occurs to me is that pf tables would provide a direct API without having to hit a database. I think I really like this. I may have

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread daniele
On 03/05/10 16:43, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would this be done with packages? pkg_add would

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets blocked for an hour from hitting the low port. I presented this at a conference once. Having an IPv6-only high-mx seems

Re: Can't install octave

2010-03-05 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 2010-Mar-05, 16:47, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: There has been one more commit on that port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-toolkits/fltk/files/patch-src_filename_list.cxx.diff?r1=1.4;r2=1.5;f=h That one looks suspicious because (__FreeBSD_version = 73) make the

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote: HI ! I tested the process of installing firefox/opera and flash plugin. Everything run on my system FreeBSD 8, even though I did not stress browser plugin. Here's all the step that I took to make the flash plugin work for firefox and opera (basically I

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets blocked for an hour from hitting the low port. I presented this at a conference once.

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Anselm Strauss
That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can ports also incorporate the current state of installed packages? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM,

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread daniele
On 03/05/10 17:12, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: * daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote: HI ! I tested the process of installing firefox/opera and flash plugin. Everything run on my system FreeBSD 8, even though I did not stress browser plugin. Here's all the step that I took to make the flash plugin

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there

Re: OT: how to reset high scores on gnome games

2010-03-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: See subject See /usr/ports/games/gnome-games/pkg-install -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Anselm Strauss wrote: is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. It shows what portupgrade would do, which is nothing

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:14:12, Anselm Strauss wrote: That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can ports

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
mikel king wrote: Way back about 10 years ago, I was playing around with IPFW a lot. I wrote a script to update IPFW from changes made to a MySql db. It was a just for fun project, that turned out to be rather useful I have some developers that I managed who like you were road warriors.

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread daniele
On 03/05/10 17:14, Anselm Strauss wrote: That gives me some static information on the ports requirements. But I would like a preview of what rests to be done. Some ports have a lot of dependencies, most of them are already installed. Can ports also incorporate the current state of installed

pf overload for SMTP (was: Thousands of ssh probes)

2010-03-05 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:01:32PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 15:44:39, John wrote: Maybe I'll have to learn how to do a VPN from FreeBSD One thought that occurs to me is that pf tables would provide a direct API

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: Or the problem is that I cvsup(ed) from 7.1 to 7.2 and then csup(ed) to 8.0. If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually updated the system and the ports as well? FBSD should make it

Re: pf overload for SMTP

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:35:07, John wrote: Is there any reason one couldn't do something similar for SMTP? Maybe a little wider sample window, like 10/300? Or would you end up blocking too any things that you don't mean to block? Anyone played with

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Am 05.03.10 17:01, schrieb Matthew Seaman: table ssh-bruteforce persist [...near the top of the rules section...] block drop in log quick on $ext_if fromssh-bruteforce [...later in the rules section...] pass in on $ext_if proto tcp \ from any to $ext_if port ssh \ flags

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote: hmmm... :-/ is at least now the web browser opera working ? Yes it is working. Thanks for your prompt response. Pongthep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote: hmmm... :-/ is at least now the web browser opera working ? [edit]Yes, it is working but without flash. [/edit] Thanks for your prompt response. Pongthep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, Am 05.03.10 17:01, schrieb Matthew Seaman: table ssh-bruteforce persist [...near the top of the rules section...] block drop in log quick on $ext_if fromssh-bruteforce [...later in the rules section...] pass in on

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:54:50, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, Am 05.03.10 17:01, schrieb Matthew Seaman: table ssh-bruteforce persist [...near the top of the rules section...] block drop in log quick on $ext_if fromssh-bruteforce [...later in the rules

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread John
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:04:03PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:54:50, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, Am 05.03.10 17:01, schrieb Matthew Seaman: table ssh-bruteforce persist [...near the top of the rules section...]

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* C. P. Ghost (cpgh...@cordula.ws) wrote: If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually updated the system and the ports as well? % uname -a FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Dec 1 19:12:37 ICT 2009

Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD

2010-03-05 Thread James Phillips
Message: 23 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:33:43 +0100 From: Bas v.d. Wiel b...@kompasmedia.nl Subject: Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD Skype Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 4b912457.5040...@kompasmedia.nl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Am 05.03.2010 18:10, schrieb John: I have just switched to pf from ipfw, so I am still learning the nuances and style points. I switched now to security/sshguard-pf. It works perfectly and blocks also via pf. Blocking is working there with: table sshguard persist block in log quick proto

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: * C. P. Ghost (cpgh...@cordula.ws) wrote: If you csup, you update only /usr/src (or /usr/ports). Have you actually updated the system and the ports as well? % uname -a FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread Piotr Lukawski
Illoai, Thanks a lot! Your solution works - system is up and running now :-) However, in such a case I really cannot understand why nobody can change just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Dino Vliet
Thousands of ssh probes Friday, March 5, 2010 1:54 PM From: John j...@starfire.mn.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: Or the problem is that I cvsup(ed) from 7.1 to 7.2 and then csup(ed) to 8.0. Some libraries are probably not updated??? But ``make install'' success, so libraries should not be problems. I don't know. When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
Replies interspersed On 3/5/10, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:03:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and

Calculating kernel/user/idle time

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
What's the proper way to calculate kernel/user/idle time? I know the raw values come from sysctl kern.cp_time, but these values need to be massaged based on the number of CPUs and so on. Can someone explain briefly what the algorithm is calculating the final percentages representing these

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-05 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 5 March 2010 13:51, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:54:40 +0100 C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws articulated: Of course, it's all a matter of personal tastes, likes and dislikes. I'd rather have a native flash plugin for FreeBSD/amd64 too (Firefox and Opera), but this is unlikely in the near future, knowing the miserable

Re: Calculating kernel/user/idle time

2010-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 05), Peter Steele said: What's the proper way to calculate kernel/user/idle time? I know the raw values come from sysctl kern.cp_time, but these values need to be massaged based on the number of CPUs and so on. Can someone explain briefly what the algorithm is

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Woods
On 05/03/2010 13:26, John wrote: Ah, I should have added that I travel a fair amount, and often have to get to my systems via hotel WiFi or Aircard, so it's impossible to predict my originating IP address in advance. If that were not the case, this would be an excellent suggestion. What

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Graham Bentley
It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer. I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would make it work. Thank you and

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Tim == Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com writes: Tim I've been in that same boat. I eventually came to the decision to: Tim Install PPTP server software, accepting connections from any IP. Whoa. Here we are, talking about making it *more* secure, and you go the other direction

amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppIKPpWPaUa.pgp Description: PGP

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 3/5/2010 6:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode You have a CPU that does not have 64-bit extensions. You need to

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Jon Radel
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Tim == Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com writes: Tim I've been in that same boat. I eventually came to the decision to: Tim Install PPTP server software, accepting connections from any IP. Whoa. Here we are, talking about making it *more* secure, and you go the other

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer. I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!! Bingo! If the OP wants M$-like flash support, then . . . well . . . use M$ (and its friend$). It's not really fair

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:30:48PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 3/5/2010 6:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode

[SOLVED] Re: How to get hints of software installed by Ports ?

2010-03-05 Thread Aaron Lewis
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Jonathan == Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za writes: Jonathan pkg_info -D I like pkg_info -DL 'port*', because it also shows *where* things got installed... sometimes, I can't find the conf files. :) Yeah , that helps. -- Best Regards, Aaron

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 05/03/10 13:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every

Re: [ fbsd_questions ] tar(1) vs. msdos_fs: a death_spiral ?

2010-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
spellberg_robert wrote: greetings, all --- i confess that this one has me flummoxed. the short question: does tar(1) spit_up when extracting onto an msdos_fs hard_drive ? [ i tried the mailing_list archives tar AND msdos, for -questions, -chat, -bugs, -newbies, -performance ] [ other

Is there a way to know how much memory is currently allocated?

2010-03-05 Thread Yuri
Does FreeBSD malloc library provide any API way to know how many bytes are currently allocated by the current process? Memory image size isn't adequate, since it's always much larger because of various reasons, like an extra-memory allocated for the needs of malloc library itself an also due to

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:02:36 -, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer. I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!! I may politely add that exactly this is the reason I removed a working Flash support from my system. I rather

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 3/5/2010 7:44 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 05/03/10 13:54, John wrote: My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to a non-standard port -

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote: When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all* ports. Thanks for your suggestion, but it does not seem likely. All operating systems can always distinguish the system and packages. For instance, gcc is tightly coupled with the

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* daniele (gl...@live.com) wrote: Dont worry I wanted to try to help for what I can. I installed the plugin this morning and I was curious. Thank you again for your kind. It's strange though. The plugin is there. I dont know if there's a kind of log somewhere to see if it sees it. I also

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 3/5/10, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Tim == Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com writes: Tim I've been in that same boat. I eventually came to the decision to: Tim Install PPTP server software, accepting connections from any IP. Whoa. Here we are, talking about making it

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
That was just the quick summary. Google for PPTP security and you'll see a top link from Bruce Schneier who basically says no way to it. Sent from my iPhone, so blame Steve Jobs for any speeling misteaks. On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: ..wikipedia? that's

Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env

2010-03-05 Thread Programmer In Training
On 03/05/10 08:46, Frank Shute wrote: snip If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that is run on login is ~/.xsession Try putting exec wmaker in there. To run xdm from boot, you have to edit /etc/ttys and then: # kill -HUP 1 Look at this:

RE: Calculating kernel/user/idle time

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
They shouldn't need to be massaged. Just sample the values at two intervals, and your percentages can be calculated by dividing each delta by the sum of the deltas (since the sum equals the total CPU usage over the interval, by definition). If you want to calculate per-cpu usage, use the

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets blocked for an

Re: xorg, xdm, desktop env

2010-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:10:56 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: On 03/05/10 08:46, Frank Shute wrote: snip If you read the manpage for xdm(1) you will see that the script that is run on login is ~/.xsession Try putting exec wmaker in there. To run xdm

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Pongthep Kulkrisada
* C. P. Ghost (cpgh...@cordula.ws) wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote: % uname -a FreeBSD bsdhost.localdomain 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Dec  1 19:12:37 ICT 2009     r...@bsdhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC