Re: Clutz-Proof Logging

2007-01-05 Thread Christian Walther
I'll try to follow up to two posts instead of replying twice, so I hope nobody gets confused here. :-) On 04/01/07, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many shells keep a history as a matter of normal operation. You might find that

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 05/01/2007 à 10:25:30+1300, Brett Davidson a écrit Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack. Upon reading the handbook I

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Atom Powers wrote: On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Before I start, I'm familiar with IPTables from Linux but am wanting to use FreeBSD as a firewalling router after seeing it in action on a heavily-loaded webserver. I like the efficiency of the TCP stack.

streaming video (at 144kbps)?

2007-01-05 Thread Gary Kline
People, Any ideas how///what tools to use to watch PBS streams? Nothing/zip works with [linux-] firefox plus the flashplugin7 and mplayer. Same on my one Ubuntu server (although I may have pitched mlayer). I realize I'll be watching a postage stamp

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-05 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid login attempts are made within a minute's time? if you use pf, it's fairly straightforward with an overload rule, see

Re: Clutz-Proof Logging

2007-01-05 Thread Tom Judge
Stan Halprin wrote: 747478Hi; I know I'm a clutz but I'm sick and tired of doing some stupid thing that crashes my server, then trying to figure out what I did. Is there something out there that could log everything I did so that I could review it each time I shoot myself in the foot? TIA

Re: vpn client (pptp) inside a jail

2007-01-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 04 January 2007 16:26, Andras GELANYI wrote: i do not really have a complete plan at the moment but an idea to use a jail on my remote system as a sandbox. i mean i would like to set up a jail and use it (sometimes) as client / virtual machine in a remote network through some kind

Charge para Voce!

2007-01-05 Thread equipe
Olá, o Charges.com.br está entregando mais uma charge virtual. De: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Recado: Tava vendo essa charge... engraçada... hehehehehehe Deixei recado la no teu orkut, e você nem respondeu :( To com saudades ... ve se me

Problème avec le floppy disk.

2007-01-05 Thread Tribal, Grégory
Bonjour, Nous avons un problème au moment de l'installation d'un de nos logiciel: Lorsque que nous insérons une disquette et lançons notre commande d'installation, le message suivant apparait: /dev/fd0: Cannot read :Input/Output error At Beginning of tape - Quitting now

Re: pptpclient vpn problem

2007-01-05 Thread Ivan Georgiev
Hello, I have been having the same problems with pptp trying to connect to a Win VPN server. Could not figure out what the problem was. I guess it had something to do with the encryption protocols. I am currently using mpd. You can find it in the ports tree. There are some sample conf files on

Re: Problème avec le floppy disk.

2007-01-05 Thread David Landgren
Tribal, Grégory wrote: Bonjour, Nous avons un problème au moment de l'installation d'un de nos logiciel: Lorsque que nous insérons une disquette et lançons notre commande d'installation, le message suivant apparait: /dev/fd0: Cannot read :Input/Output error At

Unable to load kernel

2007-01-05 Thread Brian Levie
I have tried to install FreeBSD 6.1 (downloaded as an iso from freebsd.org) onto the last 1.5Gb of a 120Gb disk, the rest is windows XP, this appears to go normally except for the geometry I get the message “geometry of 238216/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry”. (Which

VPN server to run in FreeBSD jail ...

2007-01-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of any software that would allow a client attach a VPN *to* a process running within a FreeBSD jail from a Windows machine? - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL

imap-uw manuals - configuration

2007-01-05 Thread Vizion
I am gaving some difficulty with my pop server -- There are no man pages for imap-uw -- can anyone point me to some guidance.. Here are some details: /etc/rc.conf includes: inetd_enable=YES inetd.conf includes: pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/ipop2d ipop2d pop3 stream tcp

Re: Problème avec le floppy disk.

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Landgren wrote: Tribal, Grégory wrote: Bonjour, Nous avons un problème au moment de l'installation d'un de nos logiciel: Lorsque que nous insérons une disquette et lançons notre commande d'installation, le message suivant apparait: /dev/fd0: Cannot read :Input/Output error

Re: imap-uw manuals - configuration

2007-01-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 05/01/2007 à 07:00:37-0800, Vizion a écrit I am gaving some difficulty with my pop server -- There are no man pages for imap-uw -- can anyone point me to some guidance.. Here are some details: /etc/rc.conf includes: inetd_enable=YES inetd.conf includes: pop2 stream tcp nowait

Re: VPN server to run in FreeBSD jail ...

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know of any software that would allow a client attach a VPN *to* a process running within a FreeBSD jail from a Windows machine? I believe you can sort-of do this with a certain amount of packet redirection and firewall trickery, but it isn't very easy and

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Agus
It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck 2007/1/5, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Atom Powers wrote: On 1/4/07, Eric [EMAIL

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Eric
Agus wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck just pf does not require touching the kernel, you can load the module, you just

Re: network tuning and performance troubleshooting

2007-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
Message: 18 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:05:27 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 3, 2007, at 22:57, Bob McIsaac wrote: Problem: Browser status 'looking up address' for 10 seconds for any web page clicked. Slashdot takes almost a minute to

RE: imap-uw manuals - configuration

2007-01-05 Thread Vizion
Le 05/01/2007 à 07:00:37-0800, Vizion a écrit I am gaving some difficulty with my pop server -- There are no man pages for imap-uw -- can anyone point me to some guidance.. Here are some details: /etc/rc.conf includes: inetd_enable=YES inetd.conf includes: pop2 stream tcp nowait

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-01-05 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-01-05 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: imap-uw manuals - configuration

2007-01-05 Thread Vizion
-Original Message- From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: imap-uw manuals - configuration inetd.conf includes: pop2 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/ipop2d ipop2d pop3 stream

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/5/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck Does PF and/or ipfilter have ipv6 support? I'm

Re: Advice on which FreeBSD firewall package to choose.

2007-01-05 Thread Eric
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/5/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems is unanimousPF it isremember u have to compile the Kernel to activate this, i´ve done it for the first time, yesterday and its very simplealso checkout the ALTQ for QoS, good luck Does PF and/or ipfilter

Koffice Compile Error

2007-01-05 Thread Bob
Greetings: The System here: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2 I portupgrade -rR kde which upgraded kde properly from 3.5.1 to 3.5.5 (It took 4 days!) Then I did portupgrade koffice Here is the error: if /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool --silent --tag=CXX

Need to make sure my understanding of newsyslog is correct for a daemon I'm writing

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi everybody, I'm working on the finishing touches to a server program I've just written and one of the things it needs to log information to a log file. I'm going to log to /var/log/file.log and to manage the growth I'm going to add this log file to the newsyslog.conf file. However, I'd like

Re: imap-uw manuals - configuration

2007-01-05 Thread Vizion
-Original Message- From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:52 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: imap-uw manuals - configuration Stabbing some more into the dark ... You can check if inetd is

Re: imap-uw manuals - configuration

2007-01-05 Thread Mark Tinguely
Stabbing some more into the dark ... You can check if inetd is executing the command: $ telnet -KN 127.0.0.1 143 it should reply something like: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS

usb2.0 being detected as 1.0

2007-01-05 Thread richard legault
I have had no success in using usb2.0 on a freebsd 5.4 image. The usb drive keeps using the UHCI driver instead of the EHCI. Here is the information typically asked for during my websearch for a resolution to this issue. (:wheel)# sed -n 's/^___//p' `sysctl -n

Re: Need to make sure my understanding of newsyslog is correct for a daemon I'm writing

2007-01-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: Basically, I'm installing a signal handler for SIGHUP to do the following: reset the put pointer to the beginning of the file; flush any data that may be in the buffer; close the file; reopen file; Does this sound

Tar backup on geom mirror drive

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am backing up a big home partition that results in 46GB tar.gz file directly to another FreeBSD machine via NFS and it is taking from 9:30pm until almost 7am the next morning. The source home partition is on a geom mirrored slice, could this be the reason for such a slow backup? The

Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Maness
What is the best wireless card, USB or other, that works under FreeBSD? -- Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

alittle help

2007-01-05 Thread Juan Ortega
Hi, I have freeBSD 6.2-RC2 I installed vmware3 from the ports tree but I get an error when I run it. ** It seems linux procfs is not mounted on /compat/linux/proc. VMware does not work without Linux procfs mounted. For details, see linprocfs(5)

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Franks
Me any mine have been having good luck with Atheros chipsets of late. OfficeDepot (USA) has their own brand (of which I don't recall as my laptop is at home, but starts with an A), PCMICA card was $35. Have had dhcp problems with the 'wi0' chipset when signal is poor (drops on/off frequently).

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Gable Barber
On 1/5/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best wireless card, USB or other, that works under FreeBSD? Not sure what your idea of cheap is, but I have been very happy with my Atheros based Proxim Orinoco gold b/g pcmcia card. It cost me around $70.00 (USD) from Amazon, and

tracking port requires

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I'm trying to figure out where ports keep their dependency information, and the best way to parse it? On a Linux rpm-based system, I can do the following: Linux RPM | FreeBSD Ports | Task

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, any PCI card here?? thanks!! TFC On 1/5/07, Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best wireless card, USB or other, that works under FreeBSD? Not sure what your idea of cheap is, but I have been very happy with my Atheros

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Radu Adrian Zdrinca
I bought a PCI card with a ralink chipset for about $20 from newegg. It was recognized automatically during freebsd 6.1 install. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: network tuning and performance troubleshooting

2007-01-05 Thread bobmc
Ian Smith wrote: Message: 18 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:05:27 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 3, 2007, at 22:57, Bob McIsaac wrote: Problem: Browser status 'looking up address' for 10 seconds for any web page clicked. Slashdot

Re: tracking port requires

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 05), Michael P. Soulier said: I'm trying to figure out where ports keep their dependency information, and the best way to parse it? On a Linux rpm-based system, I can do the following: The dependencies themselves are stored as @pkgdep lines in the

RE: routing and networking help. (urgent help please)

2007-01-05 Thread Marwan Sultan
FIXED, ignore this email.. However no one has answered. Hello Gurus, This is an Urgent help, as everything pending, waiting.. a FreeBSD Solution. and I appologize if I will explain in details, please be patient with me. Just yesterday, our ISP installed 2 routers

Re: alittle help

2007-01-05 Thread pete wright
On 1/5/07, Juan Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have freeBSD 6.2-RC2 I installed vmware3 from the ports tree but I get an error when I run it. ** It seems linux procfs is not mounted on /compat/linux/proc. VMware does not work without Linux

Re: tracking port requires

2007-01-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/5/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The dependencies themselves are stored as @pkgdep lines in the /var/db/pkg/packagename/+CONTENTS file. The reverse link is stored in /var/db/pkg/packagename/+REQUIRED_BY . You can list the dependencies with the pkg_info -r packagename command, and

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!! TFC On 1/5/07, Radu Adrian Zdrinca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a PCI card with a ralink chipset for about $20 from newegg. It was recognized automatically during freebsd 6.1 install.

C/C++ Applications Developer

2007-01-05 Thread Sam Modi
HiFreebsd We have C/C++ Applications Developer multiple openings in different locations. Locations: Ashburn, VA (openings-4) Location: Denver, CO(openings-3) Location: Highlands Ranch, CO (openings-5) Location: Colorado Springs, CO (openings-10) Location: Clinton,

Re: Tar backup on geom mirror drive

2007-01-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 05/01/07, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am backing up a big home partition that results in 46GB tar.gz file directly to another FreeBSD machine via NFS and it is taking from 9:30pm until almost 7am the next morning. The source home partition is on a geom mirrored slice, could

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Radu Adrian Zdrinca
Foxconn WLL-3350. So far it's been working very well although I haven't had time to fully test it. It comes with an external antenna, unlike the picture on newegg. hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!! TFC ___

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-05 18:54, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, can u tell me the brand name of the card is?? thanks!! FWIW, If it helps at all, I'm using for more than a year now a D-link DWL-AG650 PC-CARD on laptops which I have been working on. It has an Atheros chipset, and the ath(4)

Getting the scrollwheel to work under Xorg for a Wireless Intellmouse Explorer 2.0

2007-01-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know this is in the FAQ, but each mouse is different and requires its own 'massaging' in the xorg.conf file to get working. A picture of the mouse is available as follows:

Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Rob W.
I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this. I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I installed qmail from www.qmailrocks.org Everything is working correctly and I do have spamassassin and clamav installed and working. Lately I have been getting emails back saying that someone

Re: streaming video (at 144kbps)?

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Gary Kline wrote: Any ideas how///what tools to use to watch PBS streams? Nothing/zip works with [linux-] firefox plus the flashplugin7 and mplayer. I'm able to watch PBS video clips using mplayer-plugin under native firefox on 5.5-R. I don't know

Pulling a patch release using cvsup

2007-01-05 Thread Josef Grosch
I'm trying to figure out how, using cvsup, to pull a specific patch release. For example, FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p14. I've tried using the date of a specific patch from /usr/src/UPDATING but that does not work. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.1 [EMAIL

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Rob W. wrote: I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this. You should post this question on the qmail mailing list. You should also include the relevant logs with your question. Even if you're not an open relay, spammers can spoof your domain name to send

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Rob W.
Ok, and I suppose by chance there is no way to prevent this from happening or a way to stop it huh? - Original Message - From: Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rob W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:25 PM Subject: Re: Mail being

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote: Ok, and I suppose by chance there is no way to prevent this from happening or a way to stop it huh? No, not from your perspective. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Colin House
Sahil Tandon wrote: Rob W. wrote: I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this. You should post this question on the qmail mailing list. You should also include the relevant logs with your question. Even if you're not an open relay, spammers can spoof your

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote: Is it possible for people to send email out from my domain name and have fake users acting as comming from my network? Yes, if you have defeated the security features of your mail server either accidentally or on purpose, but that is not what is happening in

Re: Pulling a patch release using cvsup

2007-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-05 18:16, Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out how, using cvsup, to pull a specific patch release. For example, FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p14. I've tried using the date of a specific patch from /usr/src/UPDATING but that does not work. Using dates is certainly a

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote: Ok, and I suppose by chance there is no way to prevent this from happening or a way to stop it huh? No, not from your perspective. You cannot stop others from spoofing your address, but you can prevent some backscatter from clogging

Getting the scrollwheel to work under Xorg for a Wireless Intellmouse Explorer 2.0

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Huff
Garrett Cooper writes: A picture of the mouse is available as follows: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/oempartners/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=013 I think I have the wired version, and my xorg.conf has: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse

[SOLVED] Re: Getting the scrollwheel to work under Xorg for a Wireless Intellmouse Explorer 2.0

2007-01-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: A picture of the mouse is available as follows: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/oempartners/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=013 I think I have the wired version, and my xorg.conf has:

Re: Best Cheap Wireless card for FreeBSD

2007-01-05 Thread dan
Radu Adrian Zdrinca wrote: Foxconn WLL-3350. So far it's been working very well although I haven't had time to fully test it. It comes with an external antenna, unlike the picture on newegg. I found a linksys instant wireless WPC11 version 3 on ebay. won the auction for $21.00. It uses the

disappointing rebuild speed using ggatec and ggated

2007-01-05 Thread Ahnjoan Amous
I'm attempting a RAID 1 mirror with ggate[c,d] between two hosts using 6.1-release and am disappointed by the rebuild rate. I have tried using Ethernet cards supported by fxp and re drivers, have read advice on how to tune to improve network performance. I have also attempted ggate[c,d]

want to unsubscribe from cvs:commit

2007-01-05 Thread prashant chavan
hi I want to unsubscribe from cvs:commit . plz let me know how to do it. thnx in advance p ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]