Re: expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would like to expand /usr of FreeBSD 6.2. I plan to get a new HDD, format it and create slices. But how to proceed after that? Do I just mount it over the existing /usr or is there any additional steps that must be performed? it's quite difficult to understand you (at least for me). what do

Re: xterm question

2008-02-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:41:13AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: it's a stupid little question really but I have an xterm filled with a log file (telnetted into another machine) which is scrolled off the screen. How do I select all the text in one go? I only seem to be able to select the

expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Deian Popov
Hello, I would like to expand /usr of FreeBSD 6.2. I plan to get a new HDD, format it and create slices. But how to proceed after that? Do I just mount it over the existing /usr or is there any additional steps that must be performed? ___

unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what the calling PID is on the other end. Any suggestions on where I should begin to look? As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl.

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:40:53 -0600 Matt wrote: Is the concern with the apparent out-of-order numbering based on how you want to access these devices in areas like fstab? No, not really. Once I set them up in the directory tree, what the drive's device name is won't make a diff to how the

Re: mpd with a dual pppoe setup

2008-02-04 Thread Reinhold
If you are connecting to the ISP it would be better not to specify IP to let them be negotiated. How will I go ahead and set the static ips for both my wan connections? If IPs are static then provider itself will negotiate them every time same. If you will specify them and provider will

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 13:03:25 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: 1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? FreeBSD endianness depends on the hardware architecture it runs on (as endianness is a hardware characterization). (Very) generally, anything that's related to an Intel CPU is little-endian,

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Ivan Voras
1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? =20 2. Linux is Big endian? =20 wrote a code int i =3D 1;if((i 1) =3D=3D 0) little else big got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows. =20 *Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?* It depends on the hardware.

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:55:12 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: that's like 64-bit soundcards that have to be better than 32-bit, while most of them was unable to actually get past 13-14 bit (most past 12) with it's signal to noise ratio. Maybe that's not quite the same thing. :-) However.

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

2008-02-04 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 16, 2008 1:48 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The let's just slurp everything into the main distribution so we don't have to worry about stable interfaces approach is really poor. It encourages bad engineering practice among people maintaining the main distribution,

Re: usb wifi

2008-02-04 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:38:06 -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried the usb based wifi adapters, something like this http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=179211 with freebsd? hey, i've used some with the ural chipset, and I think a Netgear GA-11 (from

Re: sendmail should not bind to loopback only

2008-02-04 Thread Wouter Oosterveld
Thank you! That fixed it. --- I can't find this in the FreeBSD handbook (not in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html anyway). Would that be a documentation bug? If not, which piece of documentation should I have read? Regards, Wouter 2008/2/4, Matthew Seaman

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 05:33:22 -0600 (CST) Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:30:21 -0600 Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what

Re: OT: Silly Bind question

2008-02-04 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Mark D. Foster wrote: Andy was right, it's the line-ordering in your zone file. I take it you can't slave the zone from tinydns to bind? Arrrg! I tried moving the txt record but no change. I can put the recs in any order I want as the script that generates my Bind Zones pulls

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.: I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support for it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires support for that on both ends. More and more it looks like getting either PID and/or user info about the other

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:54:44 +0100 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 11:30:21 schrieb Zane C.B.: Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what the calling PID

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), depending on how it's booted, and IIRC the Windows NT version running on Alpha used the big-endian mode of the CPU. But I might be mistaken. i had SRM console used netbsd too later, too little endian.

bash bug - or what?

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
look at this $SORT is sort -S 512m $tmp2 is input filename (being 2GB size), $tmp3 is output this fragment tries (with success) to randomize lines from $tmp2 and write it to $tmp3 while read ll;do echo $RANDOM $RANDOM $ll done $tmp2 | $SORT |cut -f 3- -d $tmp3 this works but why bash

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:39:52 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: did you ever got your UFS filesystem broken not because your drive failed? That is not the point here. I have been using FreeBSD sind version 3.3, which was released in 1999. Before that I used Linux. So I can't even look back on 10

Re: Behind a router

2008-02-04 Thread Jeremy Gransden
My apologies to you and the list. thanks, jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M

2008-02-04 Thread Leonid Satanovsky
Hello, people! Does anybody know whether the SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M motherboard is supported by FreeBSD 6.3 ... or 7.0? -- We are choosing a motherboard for a low-end mail server (this is a small company with lots of mail,... and the host will also

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
did you ever got your UFS filesystem broken not because your drive failed? That is not the point here. I have been using FreeBSD sind version 3.3, which was released in 1999. Before that I used Linux. So I can't even look while i was using linux - crashed filesystem was quite common without

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the Windows NT days, which ran on Alpha workstations which were big-endian. Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: wireless losing connection periodically

2008-02-04 Thread Reinis Ivanovs
hello, I'm surprised that no one replied, but anyway, just an update: it seems I've managed to resolve the problem with this short ifstated(8) config: == # loglevel debug ping = '(ping -q -c 1 -t 1 192.168.1.1 /dev/null every 10)' state one { if !$ping

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:22:30PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:40:53 -0600 Matt wrote: Is the concern with the apparent out-of-order numbering based on how you want to access these devices in areas like fstab? No, not really. Once I set them up in the directory

Re: mpd with a dual pppoe setup

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:18:12AM -, Reinhold wrote: If you are connecting to the ISP it would be better not to specify IP to let them be negotiated. How will I go ahead and set the static ips for both my wan connections? If IPs are static then provider itself will negotiate

Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
Hi, I'm trying to work with Libnet in BSD, I ftped the package, did a ./configure and a make install and things seemed to be fine. But when I try to compile a simple application, I get a msg : undefined reference :libnet_init , actually it looks like it doesnt recognize any of the libnet

Re: SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M

2008-02-04 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 04 February 2008 09:43:56 am Leonid Satanovsky wrote: Hello, people! Does anybody know whether the SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M motherboard is supported by FreeBSD 6.3 ... or 7.0? -- We are choosing a motherboard for a low-end mail server

Re: chflag sappend /var/log/messages - syslog-ng can't rotate logs

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Monday 04 February 2008 12:20:49 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: I'm interested in making my messages file more likely to survive a hacking attempt and I've set the sappend flag to that end. It would be nice if syslog-ng could actually rotate the logfile since it gets quite large, but

Re: expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Just because it is a more generalized way of doing it and it is so easy, and takes no extra space, so why not! because it adds an unneeded mess. at least for me. and reduces chance that windows will make any mess when (probably by accident) windows will be booted with this drive connected.

Re: expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to it./usr/local and /usr/src are often good candidates. To do that, create the partition using fdisk (for the slice), then if it's freebsd-only drive, why using fdisk at all? i live very well without it on ALL machines i installed. you simply get (for example) /dev/ad0a instead of

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Monday 04 February 2008 18:54:49 Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: I'm trying to work with Libnet in BSD, I ftped the package, did a ./configure and a make install and things seemed to be fine. But when I try to compile a simple application, I get a msg : undefined reference :libnet_init ,

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:58:29AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 1:48 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The let's just slurp everything into the main distribution so we don't have to worry about stable interfaces approach is really poor. It encourages bad

Re: bash bug - or what?

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it looks like echo'ed data is kept in bash memory I think that's the way it should be, because sort needs the whole output of the loop before it can begin sorting. i mean BASH takes memory, not sort. sort take 512MB RAM +temp files as i wanted through -S 512m

Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread navneet Upadhyay
1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? 2. Linux is Big endian? wrote a code int i = 1;if((i 1) == 0) little else big got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows. *Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?* ** ** *Thanks,* *navneet* ___

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 11:30:21 schrieb Zane C.B.: Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what the calling PID is on the other end. Any suggestions on where I should begin to look? As it

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Monday 04 February 2008 19:36:17 Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: well actually, even the sample applications seem to have the same problem, So I'm guessing its some installation issue: # cc dns.c /var/tmp//ccImyVt1.o(.text+0x88) : In function 'main' : : undefined reference to 'libnet_init'

chflag sappend /var/log/messages - syslog-ng can't rotate logs

2008-02-04 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: I'm interested in making my messages file more likely to survive a hacking attempt and I've set the sappend flag to that end. It would be nice if syslog-ng could actually rotate the logfile since it gets quite large, but the sappend flag seems to prohibit that from happening. Is

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:30:21 -0600 Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been starting to look into writing some stuff that uses unix domain sockets, but I've been running into the problem of figuring out what the calling PID is on the other end. Any suggestions on where I should begin to look?

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
-Inet doesnt work :-( On Feb 4, 2008 2:23 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar writes: Bhuvaneswari well actually, even the sample applications seem to have the same problem, Bhuvaneswari So I'm guessing its some installation issue:

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar writes: Bhuvaneswari well actually, even the sample applications seem to have the same problem, Bhuvaneswari So I'm guessing its some installation issue: Bhuvaneswari # cc dns.c Bhuvaneswari /var/tmp//ccImyVt1.o(.text+0x88) : In function 'main' : :

Green saver doesn't shut off screen

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
With some graphic cards, the green screen saver doesn't shut down my flatscreen. Since I had some trouble finding one properly supported by X.org, I've tried different graphic cards over the last few days. DPMS mode in X11 is fine, but without X11, the green syscons screen saver doesn't work as

Re: expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:34:56PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: to it./usr/local and /usr/src are often good candidates. To do that, create the partition using fdisk (for the slice), then if it's freebsd-only drive, why using fdisk at all? Just because it is a more generalized way

missing ttyv5 in freebsd 7.0 rc-1

2008-02-04 Thread todd
loaded free bsd 7.0 rc1 and often wont boot with all terminal e boots then when i hit alt F1, 2,3,4,5,6,7 all but one will come up sometimes its ttyv5 sometimes missing ttyv2 other times (rarely) all 6 will hit like nothing is wrong ? problem ? thanks todd

Re: Behind a router revisited

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Sunday 03 February 2008 14:47:47 Eugen wrote: The configuration files for FreeBSD are shown below. The output of ifconfig and netstat are also shown for BSD and Linux. What confuses me is the fact that having the same router settings, when I boot in Linux the network is usable, while in

Re: bash bug - or what?

2008-02-04 Thread h p
Wojciech Puchar wrote: look at this $SORT is sort -S 512m $tmp2 is input filename (being 2GB size), $tmp3 is output this fragment tries (with success) to randomize lines from $tmp2 and write it to $tmp3 while read ll;do echo $RANDOM $RANDOM $ll done $tmp2 | $SORT |cut -f 3- -d $tmp3

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Wouter Oosterveld
Endianness depends on the hardware. In internal kernel structures endianness does not matter, if communicating with other machines protocols (usually) define a bitorder. The c-library and/or systemlibrary contains utility functions for conversion. Regards, Wouter Oosterveld 2008/2/4, navneet

Re: sendmail should not bind to loopback only

2008-02-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Wouter Oosterveld wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing a weird problem with sendmail on a FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE machine (Dell PE2950 AMD64). Sendmail seems to only bind to the loopback device while not explicitly configured. I copied the config

sendmail should not bind to loopback only

2008-02-04 Thread Wouter Oosterveld
Hello, I'm experiencing a weird problem with sendmail on a FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE machine (Dell PE2950 AMD64). Sendmail seems to only bind to the loopback device while not explicitly configured. I copied the config from an 5.3-RELEASE-p9 machine. I ofcourse checked the change log of sendmail,

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows? 2. Linux is Big endian? wrote a code int i = 1;if((i 1) == 0) little else big got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows. *Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?* on hardware ___

Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/usr to spread the load while making worlds and I mount /usr/obj asynchronously to increase write speed. With several filesystems I can spread to load the way I want it and decide where the data goes. And one broken fs doesn't screw up the others in the process. did you ever got your UFS

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:36:30 +0100 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.: I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support for it in regards to Perl. Another problem is it requires support for that on both ends.

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
:-) tried either ways , dosent work, I'm guessing it has to do with my make itself On Feb 4, 2008 2:39 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar writes: Bhuvaneswari -Inet doesnt work :-( thats not '-Inet' but '-lnet' . HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), Alpha is little-endian in practice. I've never heard of DEC--or anybody else for that matter--building a big-endian alpha.

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 14:30:12 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: the Windows NT days, which ran on Alpha workstations which were big-endian. Alpha is little endian. i had alpha 21066 running linux. Not true. Alpha is big- or little-endian (so, it's bi-endian), depending on how it's booted, and

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष श ुक्ल
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar writes: Bhuvaneswari -Inet doesnt work :-( thats not '-Inet' but '-lnet' . HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- freed.in | freedom in technology and

Re: Endianness of freeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Enno Davids
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: | |As I said above: it depends on the hardware. There is even hardware (ARM, in |particular) which can run in little- or big-endian mode, depending on how it |is initialized. If I recall correctly some of the MIPS chips

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
Question: Do I need to do this for every libnet app I compile, like modify the PROG variable in the app's folder even for the sample aplications already compiled set ? Aside this, if someone could tell me the exact compilation steps for Libnet, it would be really helpful. Thanks Bhuvana

Suggestion for a file manager?

2008-02-04 Thread Christian Baer
Good afternoon, everybody! I'm looking for a suggestion for a file manager. Something like the Total Commander known from Windows. I know the mc and I already use it. But it has a few functions I miss. Most importantly being able to create queues. I have a lot of work to do that looks like this:

Re: expanding /usr

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:12:49PM +0200, Deian Popov wrote: Hello, I would like to expand /usr of FreeBSD 6.2. I plan to get a new HDD, format it and create slices. But how to proceed after that? Do I just mount it over the existing /usr or is there any additional steps that must be

Re: SATA raid controller on Asustek's P5M2-M

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My experience with the onboard BIOS RAID of various motherboards has been horrific. I'd suggest one of two paths, depending on the RAID configuration you're going for. you well called it BIOS RAID. because it is actually completely normal hardware, just with crappy software RAID in BIOS.

xorg default configuration location

2008-02-04 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, In the online handbook, 5.4 X11 Configuration, 5.4.2 Configuring X11 states As of version 7.3, Xorg can often work without any configuration file by simply typing at prompt: % startx If this does not work, or if the default configuration is not acceptable, then X11 must be configured

Re: xorg default configuration location

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
then X11 must be configured manually Where *is* this default configuration located? default settings are embedded in Xorg binary - i think. but there is no default configuration file. So, the *only* thing I'd like to change is the XkbLayout setting. Is it possible to locate this default

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
well actually, even the sample applications seem to have the same problem, So I'm guessing its some installation issue: # cc dns.c /var/tmp//ccImyVt1.o(.text+0x88) : In function 'main' : : undefined reference to 'libnet_init' This is how my compilation result reads for the dns.c sample

question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread David Banning
I run a small FreeBSD server with a standard DSL line. I have it ping the ISP every five seconds, and when it doesn't ping it logs the results. I notice very inconsistent results. Sometimes it's up for a week without a single drop, while other times it's up for 30 seconds, down for a minute, up

Re: sendmail should not bind to loopback only

2008-02-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:12:00 +0100 Wouter Oosterveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find this in the FreeBSD handbook (not in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html anyway). Would that be a documentation bug? If not, which piece of documentation should I have

Re: question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread David Banning
Thanks Wojciech, for your thoughts. make sure you don't get a timeout because of high load or simply - the server you ping doesn't respond. Check that - it's not line problem but modem hardware problem or their routing problem. But isn't the sync going down a sign of a bad line connection?

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Monday 04 February 2008 20:53:22 Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: Question: Do I need to do this for every libnet app I compile, like modify the PROG variable in the app's folder even for the sample aplications already compiled set ? Hmm, that goes into BSD's make system, so read up on

RE: Green saver doesn't shut off screen

2008-02-04 Thread Brent Jones
With some graphic cards, the green screen saver doesn't shut down my flatscreen. I've noticed this for years with DVI displays on FreeBSD. I see it on my machines with both ATI and Nvidia cards. It's annoying, but just a niggle for me. Cheers, Brent

Re: Intel® G31 + ICH7

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Sunday 03 February 2008 15:15:29 Gordon McKee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x0df7105b chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'     class      = network     subclass   =

Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-04 Thread Tuan Ho
I have use freeBSD 4.10 1/ As an administrator, how can i disable an account after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts? 2/ How can I enable logged file to monitor successful and unsuccessful logins and logouts? Thanks, taho89

Re: changing bzip2 in default distribution?

2008-02-04 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 23:04:57 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: why bzip2 is still used. grzip from ports (archivers/grzip) is much faster and compresses much better and it's not GNU licenced bzip2 isn't GNU licensed, just to get things straight (straight from www.bzip.org): ...because it's

changing bzip2 in default distribution?

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
why bzip2 is still used. grzip from ports (archivers/grzip) is much faster and compresses much better and it's not GNU licenced some comparision: total 806208 -rw--- 1 wojtek wojtek 142508544 4 lut 22:44 html.tar -rw--- 1 wojtek wojtek 34466564 4 lut 22:44 html.tar.bz2

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Zane C.B.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:38:37 -0600 Zane C.B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:36:30 +0100 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 15:21:52 schrieb Zane C.B.: I've come across that mentioned in unix(4). There is no support for it in

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-02-04 Thread Jarrod Sayers
On 03/01/2008, at 11:56 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: As noted in my original report, this isn't a nagios issue per se ... my first experience with this issue was with Azureus/java ... so its a 'threading issue in general' ... A patch to force the package to link against libthr() has been

alt-64 in kde (@)

2008-02-04 Thread Sdävtaker
Hey, I just got a bunch of weird users in the local net, Im running FBSD 6.2 in every PC. They asking me why i got no @? so I was doing some research for acouple of days. Using US keyboard layout i found the that hitting shift+2 got me a @, using spanish layout hit altgr+2 got me a @ using

Re: Behind a router revisited

2008-02-04 Thread Eugen
I disabled the firewall in /etc/rc.conf. The message from ping is: ping: sendto: Network is unreachable How do I set the metric to 1 at boot? Is there a setting I have to put in /etc/rc.conf or somewhere else? It still baffles me why Linux works on the desktop, Windows works on the laptop

Re: Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Tuan Ho wrote: 1/ As an administrator, how can i disable an account after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts? As root, you could run: chsh -s /usr/sbin/nologin _user_ 2/ How can I enable logged file to monitor successful and unsuccessful logins

If I set up gmirror for a SLICE, how do I set up the MBRs to both be bootable?

2008-02-04 Thread Rudy Rucker
I have two disks, ad0 and ad8. ad0s1 and ad8s1 are a gmirror ad0s2 and ad8s2 are in a zpool Other than pulling ad0 and rebooting, is there a set of steps I can take to make sure ad8 is bootable? Is an identical MBR a good enough test? dd if=/dev/ad8 of=ad8.mbr bs=512 count=1 dd

Re: usb wifi

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 00:28, Peter Harrison wrote: I don't know about the adaptor you've mentioned, but I'm using an Asus WL-167g (a ralink chipset) without problem using the native ural driver. Check the manpage for other supported devices. But be wary. I've recently been in

Re: alt-64 in kde (@)

2008-02-04 Thread Mel
On Monday 04 February 2008 23:22:40 Sdävtaker wrote: Someone know a why to make alt+64 print a @ in the open program? They just use KDE, KATE, KMail and Firefox -.- Sdav control centre - regional accessibility - Input actions Add a new one, using examples as a guide.I tied it with alt+, to

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:17 PM 2/4/2008, Jarrod Sayers wrote: On 03/01/2008, at 11:56 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: As noted in my original report, this isn't a nagios issue per se ... my first experience with this issue was with Azureus/java ... so its a 'threading issue in general' ... A patch to force the

Re: usb wifi

2008-02-04 Thread Brian
Jonathan McKeown wrote: But be wary. I've recently been in correspondence with someone (on a Linux Users' Group list) who bought an Asus WL-167G on the strength of the ural(4) manpage, and found it didn't work - apparently later versions use a different Ralink chipset which as far as we

Re: question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
without a single drop, while other times it's up for 30 seconds, down for a minute, up for 2 minutes, down for 1. That can go on for 10 hours, and then maybe it's stable again for a day or so. It's always appears to be the DSL signal itself, as I can see the modem sync light starts flashing when

Re: Strange HDD order

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Bristow
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:22:30PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:40:53 -0600 Matt wrote: Is the concern with the apparent out-of-order numbering based on how you want to access these devices in areas like fstab? No, not really. Once I set them

Re: usb wifi

2008-02-04 Thread Peter Harrison
I don't know about the adaptor you've mentioned, but I'm using an Asus WL-167g (a ralink chipset) without problem using the native ural driver. Check the manpage for other supported devices. Peter Harrison Peter, Deb, Jessica, Alex Visit us online at www.4harrisons.blogspot.com -Original

Re: question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread Tim Daneliuk
David Banning wrote: SNIP e drop-in drop-out problem. To any average computer user, these lines might appear normal - when a page stops loading for a minute they just live with it, and forget about it. So here's my question: 1. is there anyone who has a lot of experience monitoring DSL lines

Re: question on DSL signal

2008-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Check that - it's not line problem but modem hardware problem or their routing problem. But isn't the sync going down a sign of a bad line connection? yes it is. i don't know what modem/router your ISP uses, but the one that polish telecom gives has 2 connection leds one is titled DSL

Perl error running lint on spamassassin?

2008-02-04 Thread Drew
Hi, I know I've been noisy of late, but that should slow down if I ever get things working around here again. I've given up on my old server hardware, and put another machine in it's place. Unfortunately, everything but mail is working for me on this server. The problem seems to be with

Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am having problem with /usr/sbin/makemap hash on huge databases under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.3 while it is working on 4.11. By huge I mean around 380,000 lines in the /etc/mail/access file. After approximately 375,000 lines added into access.db I get: makemap: access.db: line 375135: key

Re: 6.3-RELEASE, i915G, drm, dri

2008-02-04 Thread p9_gkvye
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Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2008, at 17:27, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am having problem with /usr/sbin/makemap hash on huge databases under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.3 while it is working on 4.11. By huge I mean around 380,000 lines in the /etc/mail/access file. After approximately 375,000 lines added into

Re: xterm question

2008-02-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Robert Huff wrote: Chris Whitehouse writes: it's a stupid little question really but I have an xterm filled with a log file (telnetted into another machine) which is scrolled off the screen. If you can telnet, can you ftp? Robert Huff

missing ttyv5 in freebsd 7.0 rc-1

2008-02-04 Thread tttttooooodddd ddddddvnek
loaded free bsd 7.0 rc1 and noticed on re-boots seems to be missing 1 ttyv* terminal almost every time when i hit alt F1, 2,3,4,5,6,7 all but one terminal will come up ... also ps listing shows all but one terminal ttyv* sometimes its ttyv5 sometimes missing ttyv2 other times (rarely) all 6

Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Falanga
HI, I just installed smartmontools from ports on my churches system and I think I'm glad I did. However, not being completely familiar with it, I'd like some help with the messages (and errors) that have been discovered thus far (since I installed it on Saturday, yikes!). First was this, and

Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am just under 300K lines in that map at present. While I have always wondered where hash was going to break, I hadn't found the limit yet. And what is even more weird is that last night it managed to build the hash, with yet about 385,000 lines in /etc/mail/access... Thanks any way.

Re: Libnet in FreeBSD

2008-02-04 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
Sorry I'm not getting this... what did u want me to try ? I'm not using the ports collection and have installed libnet 1.1.2.1 in root. Did u say I had to add these lines to the make-file of my app.c sample file or to the BSD make-file in usr/share/mk or is it something else ? .also

Re: missing ttyv5 in freebsd 7.0 rc-1

2008-02-04 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 04 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: loaded free bsd 7.0 rc1 and often wont boot with all terminal e boots then when i hit alt F1, 2,3,4,5,6,7 all but one will come up sometimes its ttyv5 sometimes missing ttyv2 other times (rarely) all 6 will hit like nothing is wrong ?

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-04 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz fusion on FBSD 6.3 / gnome or fluxbox. 1. Use the port/package. 2. Every now and then I see messages fly by in which you can find exactly which flags/options to use.

Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

2008-02-04 Thread Francois-Xavier Charpentier de Beauville
Hi, I have a box with three hard drives: /dev/da0 - dedicated to the OS /dev/ad4s1e - data drive - mounted as /store /dev/ad5s1e - hold a backup of /dev/ad4 - mounted as /backup I used 'dump' to backup everything from /store to /backup with the following command: dump -0aun -f

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