Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Thanks everybody for the info! I'll probably go with the TP-Links. Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: off topic: unmanageable switch?

2009-06-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
David N wrote: 2009/6/20 Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.com: Jerry B. Altzman wrote: Do you require Gigabit ethernet or no? That, I don't know yet... but given that they want to build a solid infrastructure that will be worth of using for the years to come, most probably yes. Environmental

problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread kenneth hatteland
Whenever I run portmaster -a it fails with several ports : The message I get is that someway cups interferes and the here it is : pkg_info: package cups-base-1.3.10_2 has no origin recorded If I use portmaster on single ports those who do not have any printing ability ( no cups dependancy I

fortran in AMD64 FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE

2009-06-22 Thread Jason Barnes
I have recently migrated to FreeBSD 7. In doing so I realized that g77 is no longer provided with the OS (no jokes about Fortran use, plz ;) this is legacy code). The online resources that I've found suggest installing the gfortran port, however I don't see one in my ports tree for

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:38:39 danny wrote: At the moment I am focuing the attention to the '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file. The question that arose is the following: is there any automated way to check if any of the port to be upgraded has specific upgrading notes written in that file ?

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-22 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 21 June 2009 09:11:51 Francisco Cabrita wrote: s/rc.cond/rc.conf :) On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Francisco Cabrita francisco.cabr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I had the same problem here. Just install those ports and add them to rc.cond or rc.conf.local

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:04:35AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: Whenever I run portmaster -a it fails with several ports : The message I get is that someway cups interferes and the here it is : pkg_info: package cups-base-1.3.10_2 has no origin recorded If I use portmaster on single

Re: fortran in AMD64 FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:47:29AM -0700, Jason Barnes wrote: I have recently migrated to FreeBSD 7. In doing so I realized that g77 is no longer provided with the OS (no jokes about Fortran use, plz ;) this is legacy code). The online resources that I've found suggest installing the

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:05:55PM -0400, Karl Vogel typed: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:13:32 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca said: S I've got a couple of jails now that I use exclusively for Perl S development. As soon as I log into the box via SSH, my first command is S _always_ cd

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:59:42AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: There is no listed origin in this either. I am not sure what this means ;( kenneth [r...@phobos /usr/ports/print/cups-base]# pkg_info -xo cups Information for cups-base-1.3.10_2: Origin: I'd try to 1. portmaster

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Leslie Jensen
Whenever I run portmaster -a it fails with several ports : The message I get is that someway cups interferes and the here it is : pkg_info: package cups-base-1.3.10_2 has no origin recorded If I use portmaster on single ports those who do not have any printing ability ( no cups dependancy

slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/slowloris.pl) and, like others before me, found that the -httpready switch (which uses POST instead of GET) renders

Re: problem upgrading ports : something wrong with cups ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:12:28 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:59:42AM +0200, kenneth hatteland wrote: There is no listed origin in this either. I am not sure what this means ;( kenneth [r...@phobos /usr/ports/print/cups-base]# pkg_info

freebsd cups port, pdf virtual printer, and encryption

2009-06-22 Thread Dave
Hello, I've installed cups-base on freebsd 7.2. I've also installed cups-pdf for virtual pdf printing and set an appropriate output directory for files. In cupsd.conf i've added in a Listen option for the network interface attached to the local subnet and tried to add the pdf virtual

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to prad p...@towardsfreedom.com: Sure, there's 10 things. Start by running a nmap scan from a different computer and see what ports are open. Investigate each program listening on those ports to ensure it's properly secured. ok this is really neat! we did the scan

RE: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Gatten
OK - this thread is scaring me. Anything that involves a backdoor threat is very concerning - I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure no one is sneaking up on me! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:01:21AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:23 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: one q, polyt. am i mis-reading the timestamp on your mail? it reads 05:24 which is getting pretty late. i admit to not sacking out until 04:09

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com: OK - this thread is scaring me. Anything that involves a backdoor threat is very concerning - I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure no one is sneaking up on me! My job here is done ... In my experience, most people don't take the steps

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread alexus
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Moranwmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com: OK - this thread is scaring me.  Anything that involves a backdoor threat is very concerning - I keep looking over my shoulder to make sure no one is sneaking up on me!

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Norbert Papke
On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/slowloris.pl) and, like others before me, found that the -httpready switch

RE: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Gatten
I guess you guys didn't get my humor in the backdoor threat? Geez, if funny jokes aren't funny when no one gets them, and this reference was marginal at best! -Original Message- From: alexus [mailto:ale...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 10:39 AM To: Bill Moran Cc: Gary Gatten;

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of flash/solid

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com: I guess you guys didn't get my humor in the backdoor threat? Geez, if funny jokes aren't funny when no one gets them, and this reference was marginal at best! Well, _now_ I get it. And jokes are almost never funny when you don't get them ...

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, June 22, 2009 a las 08:45:47AM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Norbert Papke typed: On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the slowloris DOS tool

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread prad
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:52:24 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: And jokes are almost never funny when you don't get them ... quite true. furthermore, i have gotten some ideas from you, bill that had never occurred to me and i appreciate them very much. thanks to your wisdom as

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:23:37PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, June 22, 2009 a las 08:45:47AM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió:

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread The Ghost
The Ghost wrote: Hello, I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. After a whole night from dusk till dawn of searching the Web like a furious spider, I got the following results: it can be done via either ISA or SMB, with one of the ports: lmmon, healthd, consolehm or mbmon, and

Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-22 Thread Paul van der Zwan
The last few days I see a dozens of Checksum mismatches when csup-ing src-all from cvsup.freebsd.org. No errors appear on ports-all. Is there a problem with the cvs repository ? The fact that all errors are on src-all and none on ports-all make me suspect it is not a local problem on my

Re: Changing my login directory

2009-06-22 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:12:20 +0200, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org said: R No need for any external programs. The following shell script [accepts R one key, no need to hit return] R % more readkey.sh R echo -n Press any key: R stty cbreak -echo R KEY=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2/dev/null) R stty

Inexpensive PCI-X SCSI Card

2009-06-22 Thread Jay Hall
I am looking for an inexpensive, but reliable, PCI-X SCSI card that will support an HP Autoloader. Any suggestions? Am I best to go with an HP card? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: Hi list members , I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade. At the

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports just by doing

Analog Inputs over Ethernet-WiFi-Cellular

2009-06-22 Thread Exemys
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Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it was. I've upgraded ports just by doing

cups no origin problem SOLVED :)

2009-06-22 Thread kenneth hatteland
None of Antons solutions worked. I read the UPDATING file and didn`t get any smarter. After plodding through several older discussions on similar subjects I found this command given by Paul Chvostek may 2008 on the mail-archive.com : make all install clean FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=1 I executed it

CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread The Ghost
Hello, I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. After a whole night from dusk till dawn of searching the Web like a furious spider, I got the following results: it can be done via either ISA or SMB, with one of the ports: lmmon, healthd, consolehm or mbmon, and there are also few

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, The Ghostthe-gh...@inbox.ru wrote: I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. If you have ACPI enabled, try: sysctl -a hw.acpi | grep temperature -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-22 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 13:48:02 PDT RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever

Re: slowloris, accf_http and POST requests

2009-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), Ruben de Groot said: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Norbert Papke typed: On June 22, 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: Can enybody explain why the http accept filter only works on GET/HEAD requests? The reason I ask is I was checking up on the

Disk Quota Full Error

2009-06-22 Thread Karp
FreeBSD spark.ofloo.net 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Mon Jun 22 14:20:07 UTC 2009 of...@spark.ofloo.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ OFL amd64 - -(kar...@spark.ofloo.net)-(22:06:40) -(~)- mkdir vor2 mkdir: vor2: Disc quota exceeded Any help appricated. Is this a problem on my end,

you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
you guys aren't going to believe what i just found on the web for the ASUS Eee-901 [or is it the 900]. it was for the 9- and 10-inch screens. i was using konq which just segv'd so i am taking a break and thought i'd share this. last night, i could barely

RE: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Gatten
How fast is it though? Fast enough, or will the r/w/access times make everything slow? Not all SSD is created equal. There's a new SD format too - up to 2TB Prolly within a couple years, or maybe someone will get some federal stimulus funds and manufacture it sooner! After all, it could

Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel Underwood
On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by IP). I will always, however, use the same laptop to connect to

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by IP). I will

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Moti
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Benjamin Lee b...@b1c1l1.com wrote: On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread TJ Varghese
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Benjamin Leeb...@b1c1l1.com wrote: On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server.  I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:21:33PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: How fast is it though? Fast enough, or will the r/w/access times make everything slow? Not all SSD is created equal. Ah, yes, that was the key to this site, then. it said that with their newer, faster speed--i

Re: CPU temperature on TUSL2-C

2009-06-22 Thread The Ghost
Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, The Ghostthe-gh...@inbox.ru wrote: I am trying to find out the temperature of my CPU. If you have ACPI enabled, try: sysctl -a hw.acpi | grep temperature I also tried, and sysctl -a |grep temp returns nothing - I don't know why or what

Need somw further help on ipfw rules

2009-06-22 Thread Anton
Hello freebsd-questions, Finally, I ve got to work my ipfw firewall with two NATs (one for local resources, provided by ISP, one for VPN - which leads me to Internet= ). But I need further help on it :-( Here is my rules: #!/bin/sh ipfw='/sbin/ipfw -q'

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Earl E. Gay III
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf

Re: Checksum mismatches when csup-ing.

2009-06-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:17:40PM +0200, Paul van der Zwan wrote: The last few days I see a dozens of Checksum mismatches when csup-ing src-all from cvsup.freebsd.org. No errors appear on ports-all. Is there a problem with the cvs repository ? Most people will use a local mirror as listed

Help with Mini HP 1000

2009-06-22 Thread Al Plant
Aloha Gurus, I run FreeBSD servers and desktops and now I have an HP Mini 1000 netbook with Ubuntu OS. I know some of you have worked with Linux. There are little or no manuals or on HP site instructions. I even called HP support and I knew more than they did. Gary Klein on our FreeBSD list

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/22/09, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by

cannot find -lltdl

2009-06-22 Thread kalin m
hi all.. this is a bit awkward i'm building php 5.2.10 from source on freebsd 7.0. using: ./configure --with-layout=GNU --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php --disable-all --enable-libxml --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local --enable-reflection --program-prefix= --disable-cgi

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread prad
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:16:35 -0400 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Due to the speed and location of the connection, it's a relatively high-risk target. why does the speed of a connection make it a higher risk? is it because bruteforce techniques can capitalize on the speed? --

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server. I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are behind a dynamic IP (so I can't set pf rules to filter by IP). I will always, however, use the