Re: Radius Authentication

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Boosten
MattAD wrote: I would just like to know if anyone on earth has been able to get the pam_radius module working on FreeBSD, using a windows domain username through ssh... ??? This has become a mystery to me. My /etc/pam.d/sshd config looks like so: I don't have a direct answer to your

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier There are two ways of doing this, both described in the FreeBSD FAQ here:

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Compile your own kernel with this option: # Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

Re: syslogd logging

2008-10-19 Thread Peter Boosten
fquest wrote: Is there a way to re-configure how syslogd presents the date in the syslog files? Presently, the date is usually MMM DD I would prefer MMDD however I cannot find anywhere where this is possible. It isn't. Consider syslog-ng from the ports. Peter --

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to debug it... Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the database is located, because init is run as root. If

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: John Almberg wrote: I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to debug it... Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the database is located, because

Re: Fwd: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: Where 'admin' is the user I am logging into on the remote machine, and 'example.com' is the hostname of the remote machine. I guess equivalent to the following? ttyv7 /usr/bin/ssh -nNTx -R 3306:127.0.0.1:33006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null 21unknown on Port

Re: tool to recover fat partition

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no idea. there are tools if your data was only jpeg images - ports/graphics/recoverjpeg but there are such tools for DOS and windoze. you may use qemu to run them Maybe you can reconstruct the partition with forensics software like sleuthkit (in ports) or helix3

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: this will add lots of i...ts that are unable to configure mail program and subscribe. is having as much users as possible really good for FreeBSD? i don't think so. There's no law or even a policy against i...ts using FreeBSD. If all people were specialists in FreeBSD,

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: In the same time, it's like Rolls-Royce of operating system. So Rolls-Royce should start to mass-produce cars for everyone? it won't be Rolls-Royce anymore. This is nonsense: better start charging money for FreeBSD then. FreeBSD will not turn bad (or Linux) whenever

mod_auth_ldap

2008-11-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, Anyone try to compile this one? It stops with a www/mod_auth_ldap (missing header) The header it cannot find is: mod_auth_ldap.c:61:24: error: apr_compat.h: No such file or directory And it's right: the file indeed is not on my system, and it didn't come with

Re: mod_auth_ldap

2008-11-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008 06:32:26 Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, Anyone try to compile this one? It stops with a www/mod_auth_ldap (missing header) The header it cannot find is: mod_auth_ldap.c:61:24: error: apr_compat.h: No such file or directory The module

Re: mod_auth_ldap

2008-11-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 06:32 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, Anyone try to compile this one? It stops with a www/mod_auth_ldap (missing header) The header it cannot find is: mod_auth_ldap.c:61:24: error: apr_compat.h: No such file or directory And it's right

Re: sockstat problem

2008-11-22 Thread Peter Boosten
Polytropon said the following on 11/22/2008 10:20 PM: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:43:21 +, x03ml[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i update my kernel and userland like above: # make buildkernel KERNCONF=TEST #make installkernel KERNCONF=TEST #make buildworld #pwd /usr/src #reboot According

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-29 Thread Peter Boosten
On 29 nov 2008, at 17:03, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not prejudicial. I do not wish to start yet another MTA flamewar, but you can't deny Sendmail's poor security, design, performance, and complex configuration. The poor security history is there, the poor funnel design and conf

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Dan wrote: Peter Boosten([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.29 17:34:28 +0100: It's not prejudicial. I do not wish to start yet another MTA flamewar, but you can't deny Sendmail's poor security, design, performance, and complex configuration. The poor security history is there, the poor funnel

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-30 Thread Peter Boosten
On 30 nov 2008, at 13:51, Ott Köstner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Boosten wrote: The most recent vulnerabilities of Postfix are from August and September 2008, and I still use it. Also I use (with great happyness) Sendmail on two machines, without any problems. The only problem ever

arpwatch and isc-dhcp-relay

2008-12-03 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, When I install arpwatch and isc-dhcp-*relay* to listen on the same interface, the latter won't work, while on another machine arpwatch and isc-dhcp-*server* don't seem to bite on another. Anyone knows why? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Boosten
Marc Coyles wrote: I'm presuming it'd be: Find /home/horbury -type f -name *.bak -exec \ Rm *.bak find /home/horbury -name *.bak -exec rm {} \; Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Dan wrote: Matthew Seaman(m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.12.13 22:30:43 +: Sure LDAP is complicated, but it's of the same order of complexity as a RDBMS system like MySQL. And like MySQL, there are right times, places and ways to use it, and wrong ones too. Yes, there is a lot of

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: Dan wrote: I can't disagree more. LDAP is way simpler than any SQL database, even SQLite. That said because people are not familiar/don't grock the simplicity of LDAP, they decide to use SQL databases (partly because everyone else does). For the persistent ones: you can

Re: starting Tomcat6

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Glen Barber wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Joseph Simmons josephdsimm...@gmail.com wrote: I have tomcat6_enable=YES in rc.conf and I don't see any tomcat process when I ps aux. When I try to start the script, nothing is returned either, I'd expect there to be some success or failure

Re: starting Tomcat6

2008-12-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: Ok I get what's below [r...@cougar /usr/local/etc/rc.d]# ./tomcat6 rcvar # tomcat60 tomcat60_enable=NO put this in your /etc/rc.conf tomcat60_enable=YES then /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat6 start look for the java process and browse to http://yourhost:8180 I haven't

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Boosten
On 30 dec 2008, at 07:02, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is

Re: Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Boosten
On 31 dec 2008, at 08:53, Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: nfsserver# time tar -cf - clientusr-amd64 /dev/null 5.001u 12.147s 1:23.92 20.4%69+1369k 163345+0io 0pf+0w client9# time tar -cf - /usr /dev/null tar: Removing leading '/' from member

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Boosten
Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors:

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Boosten
On 31 dec 2008, at 19:01, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Peter Boosten
On 4 jan 2009, at 14:35, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's side

Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done, but the damage was done. It seems to have overwritten my password

Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:06:53AM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Also: most scripts updated by mergemaster during 7.0-7.1 are only version numbering diffs. Is there no smarter way to do this, apart from typing 'i' every time? I think you want -U option (auto upgrade files

Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Boosten
Albert Shih wrote: Le 07/01/2009 à 07:06:53+0100, Peter Boosten a écrit Johann Hasselbach wrote: I was doing a src upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 After installkernel, i rebooted, and accidently ran mergemaster instead of mergemaster -p before installworld. I ctrl-c'd once I realized what I had done

Re: mergemaster goof when src upgrading 7.0 - 7.1

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Boosten
matt donovan wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Well, my point is that mergemaster shouldn't have to delete ALL accounts, just to add one. User and group accounts can be added to the passwd/group file *without* deleting the others. mergemaster

Re: Help with dmesg

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Boosten
Rem P Roberti wrote: I just finished installing clamav with clamav-milter and everything seems to be loading fine via rc.conf. But I get this message at bootup and I have no idea what gives: 554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 48: unknown configuration line Jan 7 23:32:32 bsd

Re: Help with dmesg

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Boosten
Rem P Roberti wrote: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clmilter',`S=local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock, F=, T=S:4m;R:4m') I don't think the F= parameter can be empty (IIRC): it describes what your sendmail is supposed to do once clam isn't active (either 'F=R' for reject or 'F=T' for temporary unavailable).

Re: Help with dmesg

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Boosten
Rem P Roberti wrote: Peter Boosten wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clmilter',`S=local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock, F=, T=S:4m;R:4m') I don't think the F= parameter can be empty (IIRC): it describes what your sendmail is supposed to do once clam isn't active

Re: gnome-keyring

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Mitja wrote: Update of gnome-keyring: [snip] Stop in /usr/ports/security/gnome-keyring. I think this might be the solution to your problem (from /usr/ports/UPDATING): quote 20090110: AFFECTS: users of GNOME and GTK+ AUTHOR: gn...@freebsd.org GNOME has been updated to 2.24.x. You

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 44

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Boosten
[SNIP very big digest] can someone *please* FIX the aebc support autoreplys?! surely there is a list owner who can unsubscribe that address? having the entire digest repeated by the autoreply in every following digest is a royal pain. Not quoting properly also is... Peter --

Re: jdk16

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Boosten
Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not work. I use this one: ra% pkg_info -o diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_3 Information for

Re: jdk16

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not work. I use this one: ra% pkg_info -o diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_3

Re: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display

2009-01-25 Thread Peter Boosten
sk89q wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and I have been trying to get X11 forwarding through SSH to work. I've gotten to the point where the environment variable DISPLAY is set, but I get a Can't open display error when I attempt to run an X application. The remote server in question

Re: Upgrade 6.1 to 7.1 remotely?

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a remote system with no access to boot info. I can get someone to reset, look at screen, etc. The server is 6.1-RELEASE-p15 and wondering if there is a path to upgrade to 7.1 remotely. Would it be possible to do something like this for getting the box to 6.4...

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Boosten
drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html I have a backup script's created for daily, weekly, monthly. This is one example -

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: path in the script, of add /usr/local/bin to your crontab. ^^ or Sometimes the Dutch language emerges :-) -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Boosten
On Jan 30, 2009, at 22:28, Eric Zimmerman e...@mikestammer.com wrote: On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync :

Re: /usr and /var was not properly dismounted...!

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Boosten
On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:30, thanos trompoukis atr0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am NEW here and I do not know anything about unix sytems... :D But i'd like to learn! When I start my freebsd system I can see this: WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted...! WARNING: /usr was not

Re: Wordpress Port Question

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a question regarding Wordpress and Wordpress-mu ports. I want to install wordpress on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). I have several virtual hosts all with legitimate individual domain names. IE, www.mydomain.com,

Re: mail question

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Valentin Bud wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

Re: How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Boosten
On 6 apr 2009, at 01:33, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On April 5, 2009 6:13:57 PM -0400 ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/5 Peter Wang peterw...@vip.qq.com: for example, after i installed pfsense, which is based on freebsd release 7.1, i found adduser command is missing.

Re: ntp problem

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3 IN /etc/ntp.conf I have: server time.nist.gov prefer server tock.gpsclock.com driftfile /etc/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log If I run ntpdate from a prompt, I get the following error message: # ntpdate 20 Apr 12:02:08 ntpdate[50109]:

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Boosten
On 22 apr 2009, at 10:01, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl it's just stupid to pursue windoze/maclame naming It's just stupid to start another flame war about the superiority of one or another OS. Peter ___

Re: Syslog to log remote nodes

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Boosten
On 10-4-2010 18:54, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I want my syslog to log remote nodes, in particular my access point and router, which authenticates users against my freeradius server. In /etc/rc.conf I've got: syslogd_flags=-C -a 192.168.0.0/23 -a 172.16.0.0/23 -vv In /etc/syslog.conf

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23-4-2010 17:22, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:14 AM, Onur Aslan wrote: I am using isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_5 in FreeBSD 7.2. When I run dhclient in a client machine, this machine doesn't get gateway from dhcp server. I configured dhcpd server as described in FreeBSD handbook.

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Boosten
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.com; option domain-name example.com; A fqdn for a name server? That'll give you a chicken and egg problem, don't you think? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Boosten
On 24 apr 2010, at 23:07, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 24/04/10 17:41, Peter Boosten wrote: option domain-name-servers ns1.example.com; option domain-name example.com; A fqdn for a name server? That'll give you a chicken and egg problem, don't you think? No, the dhcpd server

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Boosten
That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems. Maybe some firewall rule? Peter -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 12 mrt 2011, at 22:40, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina

Re: Soekris net4801 running 8.2-R-p1 crashdumps

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Boosten
On 21-3-2011 16:30, Esa Karkkainen wrote: Hi, My pf firewall running on net4801 has crashed twice this year. When the net4801 is handling more than 10Mbit/s of network traffic, the box seems to crash. That's not only for 8.2, I had M0n0 installed on my 4801, and it would

Re: /usr/ports/textproc/flex port didn't replace existing flex install

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
On 18-7-2011 17:49, Jeff Hamann wrote: I'm running: FreeBSD freebsd-82-amd64.localdomain 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I need to update flex for building postgresql-9.0.3 from source.

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3 mei 2009, at 21:48, gabe g wrote: Hey John, In order to achieve this, there are two methods that I know of, however, they are only tested in the Bourne and Bourne Again shells. clear logout # Bourne Again (Bash) Shell clear exit # Bourne (sh)

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: first - says that it's measure of CPU load then - or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O - which is NOT measure of CPU load. Er, what? Of course it is! amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 19:12, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I think Wojciech means '...which is NOT measure of CPU _utilization_' exactly what i said. Regardless from what you said: you _wrote_ CPU _load_, not cpu _utilization_, which are two completely different thingemies. The load averages

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 21:08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Regardless from what you said: you _wrote_ CPU _load_, not cpu what's a difference for you between CPU load and CPU utilization? i mean CPU load not system load. The CPU will perform the same, whether at 10% utilization, or at 100%

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 21:24, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The CPU will perform the same, whether at 10% utilization, or at 100% utilization, the system however won't. That's the difference between load and utilization. still don't understand you. CPU will not perform the same at 10% utilization,

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 21:37, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The CPU = Central Processing Unit will perform it's calculations at so many megahertz while at 10% utilization or at 100% utilization. The entire machine no. it will not. all today x86 CPUs reacts on HLT command and doesn't do anything

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no longer use FreeBSD. Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for you at all! Well, that certainly doesn't follow. exactly does. i just

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is irrelevant to most

Re: Customize .vacation.msg to include subject, sender, etc?

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Kelly Jones wrote: Woops, that's not quite what I meant, sorry. I meant something like: From: some...@somewhere Subject: Re: {subject of message you sent} Dear {email address of person who sent message}, You recently sent an email to {to address of messages}... and so on. I realize

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied Regular users don't have

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./texlve2008.iso

Re: Problem starting slapd

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23 jun 2009, at 16:39, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 openldap-server-2.4.16_1 I just installed this port. For some reason it will not start correctly. I have all of the information entered in the /etc/rc.conf file and the slapd.conf and ldap.conf files are configured

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. I read here http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ that ~/.ssh ought to have permissions

Re: configuring and ssh tunneling xorg from a headless FreeBSD machine

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Dan Naumov wrote: Hello list. I have the following setup: a Windows Vista x64 SP1 machine (my primary desktop) and a FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 running on a home NAS system that's relatively powerful (Intel Atom 330 dualcore, 2gb ram). I would like to be able to run xorg and a simple desktop on the

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. What security problems? This one ? :)

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Steve Bertrand wrote: I like whatever works in regards to the situation I'm facing ;) And that's the best possible reason one could have! ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-04 Thread Peter Boosten
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:21AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing something...

Re: eclipse install

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Boosten
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:00:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, What is the best way to install eclipse on FreeBSD 7.2? On Linux I installed java, and downloaded the newest eclipse. On FreeBSD, you don't need to download things

slapd won't start anymore

2012-04-25 Thread Peter Boosten
/ results in the same error message (in the log, it doesn't report something wrong on the command line). -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Securituy - logging of user commands

2012-07-25 Thread Peter Boosten
Have you ever considered the audit function of FreeBSD? Peter Boosten On 25 jul. 2012, at 13:47, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Hello list, We're currently working towards the PCI DSS certification (Payment Card Industry) for a project at work. One of the prerequisites

Blender port

2012-08-16 Thread Peter Boosten
to be found on my system, nor in the ports repository. Does anyone know what this library is for, and where would I find that library? -- Peter Boosten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Blender port

2012-08-16 Thread Peter Boosten
On 16 aug. 2012, at 21:17, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:33:22 +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: So I did a ktrace, and it seems to stumble on a library it cannot find

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but

Re: Filesystems

2010-09-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 24-9-2010 23:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply.

Re: Filesystems

2010-09-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 sep 2010, at 09:45, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/09/2010 08:32:58, Peter Boosten wrote: On 24-9-2010 23:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem

Re: /var/log/maillog

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Boosten
On 27-9-2010 7:16, kline wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 13:54 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@magnesium.net writes: Here is a snippet of maillog. mutt still exiting with an 'Exec Error' Sep 26 11:13:47 ethic dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=kline, method=PLAIN,

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Boosten
On 5-10-2010 5:53, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:19:52PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: The documentation for www/pound indicated HTTPS does not allow virtual hosting. I seem to recall bumping into this issue in the past that one cannot do named-based vhosts on HTTPS. Look

Re: removing files

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9-11-2010 6:57, Eitan Adler wrote: If you really want to delete all the .chk files extension files at a time find path -name '*.chk' -print -prune -exec rm -rf {} + \; And more efficient: find path -name '*.chk' -delete Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Boosten
/msg192926.html -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Boosten
/rsync/ -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, In an attempt to update glib on my 8.0-machine, portupgrade stops with this message: gnome-libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\GLib-GIO\ -I.. -I../glib -I../glib -I.. -I../gmodule -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DG_THREADS_MANDATORY -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
for gzip. gzlibcompressor.c however tries to include zlib.h, and it might or might not expect something that's in FreeBSD 8.1, but not in 8.0, however I cannot tell for sure. Anyone can confirm this? btw. Please reply to all to keep it in the list -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 dec 2010, at 09:12, Peter Boosten wrote: Okay, did some source code digging, and I believe the actual error starts here: gzlibcompressor.c:68: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'gz_header' which, if I interpret all correctly, means that gz_header is no typedef

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 dec 2010, at 19:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: gzip is in the base system, and there are, AFAICT, no header files for gzip. I regret to disagree :-), but: % head -2 /usr/include/zlib.h /* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 dec 2010, at 09:12, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, In an attempt to update glib on my 8.0-machine, portupgrade stops with this message: gnome-libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\GLib-GIO\ -I.. -I../glib -I../glib -I.. -I../gmodule

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Boosten
machine. I'm going to search for other duplicates... -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Boosten
On 17 jan 2011, at 21:07, Peter Boosten wrote: On 17 jan 2011, at 19:59, Michael Powell wrote: don't think I have any magic answer here. Just did a 'make' for this port on a 8.1-Release box and it built just fine. Only a couple of things come to mind for me. Take out the -march

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Boosten
of zlib.h and zconf.h could be in /usr/local/include. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Boosten
On Fri, October 12, 2007 01:49, Juri Mianovich wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote

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