On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Please
see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Just a side
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed
#1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't count
dragonflyBSD)
VMS would be #0, then? :-)
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Magdeburg,
Hello List
Having upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0 everything is running fine, I decided to
try the ahci_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf
The first machine was fine after a reboot,
Aside from different motherboards in the machines, the machine that is
not working is has 2 x 3bay icy dock hot swap bays.
Hi,
I'm looking to buy a tape drive and am currently looking at USB 2.0 DAT tape
drives from HP. I searched the hardware compatibility list and cannot locate
any information tape drives except the disclaimer that SCSI tape drives do
work on SCSI controller cards that are recognized by the
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:34:34PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I'm starting to wonder if the security manager really said what Anton
claims he said, or Anton is filtering his perceptions through the anger he
feels at being restricted in his ability to operate freely. If the latter
is the
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:41:41 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht
me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
From my information security manager:
FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a
(comparatively) poor security record. ..
Hi,
almost all of you remark how
At 2009-12-11 11:29:44+, $witch writes:
but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a great
evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple combination of
uid/pwd.
# always, everywhere:
PasswordAuthentication No
Nick B
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:29:44 +0100, $witch a.spine...@rfc1925.net wrote:
starting from Dec 8 01:00:34 (CET) hundreds of zombies are looking for a
valid username.
For example Administrator... :-)
i love the FreeBSD security while it is MOSTLY based on KNOWLEDGE of users
than on a
Honestly, did the 'X' developers go out of their way to break mouse,
and to a lesser degree, keyboard support when upgrading? This forum has
been riddled with questions on why their hardware (mouse) has stopped
working and how to get it working again. If Microsoft had pulled a
bone-headed stunt
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed
#1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I didn't count
dragonflyBSD)
VMS would be #0, then? :-)
I dunno.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Roger Agraviador
diminish...@gmail.com wrote:
I clicked the ISO link and I was brought to a directory, this to be exact (
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/)
Once I have downloaded all Iso Images do I burn the 'boot only.iso' file
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 00:08, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote:
Jakob Breivik Grimstveit said the following on 2009-12-05 20:16:
I have - after having upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0, started experiencing
system unstability, with crashes about every 12-24h. Last time my
system crashed, I
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100
From: smi...@nimnet.asn.au
To: son...@otenet.gr
CC: nick.chor...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009
Paul Schmehl writes:
And from I understand it's going to get worse.
Apparently the IT services are drawing up
plans to completely forbid use of non-autorized
OS. I imagine fbsd will not be authorized.
So I'm anticipating another battle already.
Does this extend to computers
$witch a.spine...@rfc1925.net writes:
but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a
great evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple
combination of uid/pwd.
starting from Dec 8 01:00:34 (CET) hundreds of zombies are looking
for a valid username.
Starting
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote:
I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to
make my mouse work in X again? This
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
$witch a.spine...@rfc1925.net writes:
but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a
great evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple
combination of uid/pwd.
starting from Dec 8
Svein Skogen svein-listm...@stillbilde.net writes:
The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes
locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that
simple.
*laugh*
I thought you were more of a baseball bat kind of guy :)
DES
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Warren Block wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote:
I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to
make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of
fbsd since 2.2.6, but
On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
From my information security manager:
FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a
(comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example:
I'm using audio/Yell a lot when I compile and run other scripted tasks.
On my laptop with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 I can't get yell to make any
sounds at all.
I'm wondering if you can give me any hints on how to make yell work on
my laptop, Dell Latitude E65000.
I have sound working but
I am running 8.0-RELEASE.
I am able to mount an nfsv4 share on a Debian GNU/Linux server, but I cannot
write to it. I realise that nfsv4 is experimental on FreeBSD, but I am
tantalisingly close to getting it working and thought that someone here could
advise, or point me to some (web)
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:46:38 -0500, Roger Agraviador
diminish...@gmail.com wrote:
I clicked the ISO link and I was brought to a directory, this to be
exact (
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/)
Once I have downloaded all Iso Images do I burn the 'boot only.iso'
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Please
see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 ?
On Fri 2009-12-11 07:30:01 UTC-0500, Carmel (carmel...@hotmail.com) wrote:
It is really hard to push the merits of an operating system when you
have to give detailed instructions to the potential end user on how to
get a mouse to work, when all they have to do in a Win32 based system
Last
Hi all,
I'm running 8.0-RELEASE for amd64. I want to use either gnash or swfdec to view
flash contents instead of using the libflashplayer and linux
compatibility layer.
However, with both of them, all I get is a black window where the
video should be
played. Using gnash if I run firefox3 from a
Warren,
Got XFCE4 installed after a get amount of tweaking. It turns out
Portsnap did not update all the appropriate files so installed
portupgrade and did a portupgrade glib. Glib was not the current
version needed for usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4. After the portupgrade
make install clean worked
Diego Montalvo wrote:
Warren,
Got XFCE4 installed after a get amount of tweaking. It turns out
Portsnap did not update all the appropriate files so installed
portupgrade and did a portupgrade glib. Glib was not the current
version needed for usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4. After the portupgrade
make
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:49:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
I dunno. Haven't seen many MS-DOS exploits recently either...
That's true, it would be difficult to find a local privilege escalation
exploit in an operating system without the concept of limited user
accounts :)
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Mark Shroyer
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Carmel wrote:
Honestly, did the 'X' developers go out of their way to break mouse,
and to a lesser degree, keyboard support when upgrading?
No, they were trying to upgrade a very old, static system (X11) to
support their users. One thing that had been lacking was any
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:23:30PM -0500, Nick Dalsheimer wrote:
So we are saying, that bsdlabel and fdisk are broken? This is *very*
disappointing.
Huh?
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:52:37AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:56 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
I don't think you will have a problem using a USB2 interface.
But, I really cannot recommend DAT. That type of system seems
to have been pushed beyond
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Diego Montalvo wrote:
Got XFCE4 installed after a get amount of tweaking. It turns out
Portsnap did not update all the appropriate files so installed
portupgrade and did a portupgrade glib. Glib was not the current
version needed for usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4. After the
options for setting up gmirror include DD or standard mode. i don't know
about others.
i'm about to install 8.0-RELEASE on a system with two 750g sata disks that i
want to run as a mirrored pair.
what are the pros/cons of the different options?
and what about the installation process? set up
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:49:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be the undisputed
#1 track record in terms of security and FreeBSD is #2 (I
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:50:40 -0500
Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I
wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the
underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually
learning XML...
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote:
I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present.
Do you have device SPEAKER in your kernel config,
or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module?
You can alway check it with something like
# echo
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:49:50 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:49:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr.
sfour...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried looking around and OpenBSD
Our dozen diskless FreeBSD 7.0 machines are all able to diskless boot just
fine. However, when we tried to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 root for them to boot
from, the boot process would load up all the devices, and then fail right
after the line NFS ROOT: ...
We boot using pxeboot. pxeboot then
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Svein Skogen svein-listm...@stillbilde.net writes:
The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes
locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that
simple.
*laugh*
I thought
On Friday 11 December 2009 18:13:04 Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote:
I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present.
Do you have device SPEAKER in your kernel config,
or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module?
If memory serves me right, sometime around 10:49am, Jerry McAllister told me:
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:49:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to
Boris Samorodov wrote:
...and remove /compat/linux/home if it exists.
You should make sure that installer doesn't create /compat/linux/home.
Because I never created it myself, must have been installer.
Yuri
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:34:51 -0800 Yuri wrote:
Boris Samorodov wrote:
...and remove /compat/linux/home if it exists.
You should make sure that installer doesn't create /compat/linux/home.
Because I never created it myself, must have been installer.
Please show me how can I repeat that case.
2009/12/11 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net
The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes
locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that
simple.
http://xkcd.com/538/
indeed.
Tom Worster wrote:
options for setting up gmirror include DD or standard mode. i don't know
about others.
i'm about to install 8.0-RELEASE on a system with two 750g sata disks that
i want to run as a mirrored pair.
what are the pros/cons of the different options?
and what about the
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:50:40AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I
wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the
underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually
learning XML... our main
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:53, J Sisson sisso...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/12/11 Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net
The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes
locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that
simple.
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:48:36 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com replied:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Carmel wrote:
Honestly, did the 'X' developers go out of their way to break mouse,
and to a lesser degree, keyboard support when upgrading?
No, they were trying to upgrade a very old, static
--On Friday, December 11, 2009 07:59:00 -0600 Glen Barber
glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose this falls under the works for me category - I haven't
ever used HAL on FreeBSD.
I have, and I would say that it's not quite ready for primetime. So I'm back
to manual configuration and happy
Hi,
csup /etc/cvsupfile stopped working today. I don't know why, it's been
working for years.
Connected to 129.241.103.69
Updating collection src-all/cvs
Updater failed: Protocol error
-
# cat /etc/cvsupfile
*default host=cvsup.no.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out.
I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4.
When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist.
It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition.
Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist.
Why didn't these
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out.
I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4.
When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist.
It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5
It was really big surprise for me to find Your topic!
Because many people at forums said me a lot of times that my drive is
probably broken and this is not a problem related to freebsd.
Had same results as Yours on ubuntu linux month ago - noise absent at
all. But, I understood so You have no
Andrea Venturoli ha scritto:
Tijl Coosemans ha scritto:
On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:47:00 Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386?
I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into
it, I thought I just ask.
You probably need the FreeBSD 6.x patch at
Hi,
The at command sends and email with the output of the scheduled job.
I've experienced inconsistent results when running jobs, receiving
emails in accounts not associated with the user currently logged in.
To reproduce in FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2
Case #1
login as user a (new shell through
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139363
suggests
the fix is to set boot.nfsroot.options=nfsv2 in
/boot/loader.conf or via dhcp.
I can see how to set options in /boot/loader.conf, but I don't see how
boot loader options can be set in dhcpd.conf. All I have is:
Boris Samorodov wrote:
Please show me how can I repeat that case. Or at least show
# ls -l /compat/linux
The problem is actually a bug (?) in googleearth, that it leaves the
lock file when it finishes ungracefully, and after it is restarted it
complains about this file without
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +
From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk
Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried looking around and OpenBSD appears to be
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Carmel wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:48:36 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com replied:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Carmel wrote:
No, they were trying to upgrade a very old, static system (X11) to
support their users. One thing that had been lacking was any support
for
My SMB share, a 320GB WD NetCenter, fails to mount because the rl ethernet
isn't up yet. I dual-boot 7.2 and 8.0.
I've addedd noauto to the declaration in fstab, and I'll just mount it when I
need it.
I know usb has been completely re-written, but is that the cause?
Leslie,
/boot/loader.conf has to contain:
speaker_load=YES
and even the little beep is a port to install:
/usr/ports/audio/beep
Cheers
herb langhans
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I'm using audio/Yell a lot when I compile and run other scripted tasks.
On my
I am running 7.2-Stable with pf. I have the following pf.conf:
no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white-local to any port smtp
no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white to any port smtp
rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port smtp - 127.0.0.1 port spamd
This is the basic spamd configuration
Regarding the sage of the migration to a new server, I thought
things were working when I went to bed. Turns out this was
only because I had the old server going too. (I did some edit
on my new web server but the chances didn't show up. Only the
old
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:23:56PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:49:42 +
From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk
Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:36 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr.
Ulf Zimmermann writes:
Just go to Fry's Electronic. Most of their systems are still
MS-Dos with Novell for network, running text based
inventory/quote/sales app.
Ca _lot_ of small businesses have something similar.
Robert Huff
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I am running 7.2-Stable with pf. I have the following pf.conf:
no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white-local to any port smtp
no rdr inet proto tcp from spamd-white to any port smtp
rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0800 Yuri wrote:
Now I found who creates /compat/linux/home. It's skype. After I delete
/compat/linux/home and relaunch skype it recreates it.
That's possible only if you are root. That's the most essential info.
Please, annouce it everytime you have any error at
Boris Samorodov wrote:
That's possible only if you are root. That's the most essential info.
Please, annouce it everytime you have any error at the very beginning
of an e-mail with capital letters.
Never work as root. Never-never work as root under X.
I don't work as root. /compat/linux
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