Re: Reference to your Work

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
S Pavan wrote: Currently we are finalizing the release version of our courseware that prepares aspirants for the certification *‘CEHv7’* as awarded by EC-Council. In this context, we would like to seek your permission to include references to your work *“Wireless Networking* published at ‘*

glabel label questions

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB 2.0 ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The three already present have quite a few partitions on them, nearly all of which already contain file systems with lots of files in them. I would

syncache_timer: errors; What do they mean?

2010-01-11 Thread David Southwell
Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address removed and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] : Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if any) I should be taking. Thanks in advance for any replies Jan 11 10:41:57 dns1 kernel: TCP:

a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello list. My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used to update from official binaries to other official binaries. I am also gathering

Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-11 Thread Michael Powell
Greetings everyone: This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit. These are server boxen with no concerns for

Re: glabel label questions

2010-01-11 Thread krad
2010/1/11 Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB 2.0 ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The three already present have quite a few partitions on them, nearly all of which already contain

Re: a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread krad
2010/1/11 Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com Hello list. My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used to update from official binaries

Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU

Re: syncache_timer: errors; What do they mean?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Southwell wrote: Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address removed and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] : Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if any) I should be taking. Thanks in advance for any replies Jan 11 10:41:57 dns1

Re: syncache_timer: errors; What do they mean?

2010-01-11 Thread David Southwell
David Southwell wrote: Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address removed and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] : Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if any) I should be taking. Thanks in advance for any replies Jan 11 10:41:57

Re: Converting i386 to amd64

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Michael Powell wrote: Greetings everyone: This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit. These are server boxen

denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good idea? Also, apparently

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread David Southwell
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good idea? Also,

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Kaya Saman
David Southwell wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/11/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd :

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:18:04AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: On 1/11/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea,

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Judd wrote: I've been meaning to check this out. My firewall ssh rules are very strict, in fact, if the remote IP is unknown meaning, I don't know where the heck it's coming from, it's blocked. It's easier to say it this way: I allow ssh connections from IPs I know, preferably static

Setup of Router machine with FreeBSD

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Shi
Dear All, I have tried to setup a wireless network consist of a server, AP, a router machine and wireless client. Here is setup and configuration of my design. Please correct me if I am wrong about anything. Server IP: 192.168.2.1, Gateway: 192.168.2.2, Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a

Re: Setup of Router machine with FreeBSD

2010-01-11 Thread nvidican
Quoting Paul Shi shih...@hkusua.hku.hk: Dear All, I have tried to setup a wireless network consist of a server, AP, a router machine and wireless client. Here is setup and configuration of my design. Please correct me if I am wrong about anything. Server IP: 192.168.2.1, Gateway: 192.168.2.2,

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:25:04PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to

bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
I have a few questions about this PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin 1) Is this bug now officially fixed as of 8.0-RELEASE? Ie, can I expect to set up a completely GPT-based system using an Intel D945GCLF2 board and not have the installation crap out on me later? 2) The

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: I'm very grateful for all advice, but I'm still unsure why denying ssh access to a particular host via /etc/hosts.allow is a bad idea. As far as I recall, the reason the warning was added to the manual was that it's fairly heavy on resources to

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
I had the same ssh-bruteforce troubles. Here's the script I use against that. It's in cron, launched every 2 minutes. #!/bin/sh AUTH=/var/log/auth.log BKLST=/var/log/blacklist.log HOSTS=/etc/hosts DHOSTS=/etc/hosts.deny cat $AUTH | egrep -i (illegal|invalid|failed) | awk -F from '{print $2}' |

Re: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dan Naumov wrote: What exactly is gart and where do I find it's manpage, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug? That's gpart(8). With a 'p'. gpart has had significant amounts of work put into it for

UTF-16 decoder

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to ascii? Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer.

Re: UTF-16 decoder

2010-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to ascii? Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive. Try uconv(1) from the devel/icu port. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: UTF-16 decoder

2010-01-11 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to ascii? Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my

Re: UTF-16 decoder

2010-01-11 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:33:07PM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to ascii? Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior

64-bit or 32-bit bind and DHCP

2010-01-11 Thread Martin McCormick
We are upgrading our FreeBSD servers to FreeBSD8.0 and most of the servers are 64-bit platforms. At one time, there was an issue in which either bind or dhcpd actually ran a bit slower in the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. Are there any similar issues these days or should I use 64-bit where possible?

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how

speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread David Banning
I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed. I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is a simpler solution. ___

Serious problems updating 8.0-Stable after switching to with_gecko= libxul.

2010-01-11 Thread keneasson
Hello, I'm running Freebsd 8.0-Stable #9 Dec 17/09 on amd64. I'm running gnome, and at the time i started my update i was at Gnome 2.26 I went through UPDATING and tried to switch from firefox 2 which is marked ignore to libxul by changing WITH_GECKO=libxul removed firefox3 and installed

FreeBSD 8.0, HyperV and non-uniform processors.

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Halliday
Is this warning as harmful as it sounds: WARNING: Non-uniform processors. WARNING: Using suboptimal topology. More info: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 @ 2.40GHz (2304.83-MHz 686-class CPU) ACPI APIC Table: VRTUAL MICROSFT FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will do. There are no specific FreeBSD

Re: speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:45 AM, David Banning wrote: I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed. I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is a simpler solution. You can use ftp

Re: speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, David Banning david+dated+1263663921.920...@skytracker.ca wrote: I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed. I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if

NDIS panics (Was: Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?)

2010-01-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics the system). The Expresscard shows up as a PCI device and

Re: speed test in ports?

2010-01-11 Thread David Banning
You don't need ports for thatJust use fetch(1) and grab an ISO of a DVD (or even a CD) from somewhere. Eg, a debian DVD image or freebsd image or whatever. A lot of ISPs boost the first x MB of a transfer to give the illusion that you can download faster when doing speed tests (since speed

Re: FreeBSD 8.0, HyperV and non-uniform processors.

2010-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Paul Halliday wrote: Is this warning as harmful as it sounds: WARNING: Non-uniform processors. WARNING: Using suboptimal topology. More info: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 @ 2.40GHz (2304.83-MHz 686-class CPU) ACPI APIC Table: VRTUAL

Re: NDIS panics (Was: Can I rescan for new PCI devices? Or should hotplugging Expresscards work?)

2010-01-11 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 1/11/10, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics the

Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
All, I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can import/mount the pool properly. However, I designed this box originally so that it mounts / from zfs:storage after booting from a USB stick. After the upgrade of the disks, I'm stuck at a mountroot prompt when I attempt

RE: [PHP] RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping / Can't Build Port - FreeBSD 6.1

2010-01-11 Thread Don O'Neil
Ok.. just for grins I installed a new instance of 6.1, NO Patches, just straight off the ISO... I loaded the ports that came WITH the distro, and was able to make php 5.1.2 ok... When I did a portsnap fetch, portsnap extract, then went into the /usr/ports/lang/php5 and just typed make I get the

pkg_info fails with leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''

2010-01-11 Thread Henry Wong
Mike Clarke, I'm seeing the same problem with pkg_info on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE. However, I also found that even when running as the root user, if I'm in a chroot jail, it does not fail. Henry Wong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

permission denied

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Papadopoulos
hello i have tried installing free bsd version 7.0  and 8.0  but when i try to install the packages from the cd rom i get the message permission denied i just want a graphical interface or my version to work with kde ps i am loged in as a root user thank you

Re: permission denied

2010-01-11 Thread Jason
Can you please document the process from the beginning to how you are receiving this error? This will greatly help in diagnosing the issue. Thanks, Jason On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:48:44PM -0800, Daniel Papadopoulos thus spake: hello i have tried installing free bsd version 7.0  and 8.0  but

Re: After freebsd-update - all went wrong.

2010-01-11 Thread Jason
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:47:51PM +, Marwan Sultan thus spake: This is a lesson for me and everyone to never run freebsd-update on a custom kernel I run FreeBSD on a custom kernel, and do binary updates. However, I can do this because I run my own update server. So all kernels are

partly offtopic, but need feed back now.

2010-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
something on the 12th, seattle time, the cable company may control both our voice lines. in '95 when we moved in, two lines were not available by the telco. when they understood that I was physically disabled, the technician came out the next day and gave us our second line. according to

Re: partly offtopic, but need feed back now.

2010-01-11 Thread Jon Radel
Gary Kline wrote: according to him, on each one copper circuit, there were two unused wires that could be used for a second phone number. so that afternoon I had a dialup line and the house had a voice line. Or more Each POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line takes one copper pair.

Re: glabel label questions

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:24:47 + krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/1/11 Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB 2.0 ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The three already present

Re: partly offtopic, but need feed back now.

2010-01-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010, Jon Radel wrote: Gary Kline wrote: ... Hif you're doing the standard thing, and porting your phone number to the cable company, they'll have to put some equipment of their own on or in your house. They don't really take ownership of the line, just the

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Bas Smeelen
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will do.

Re: pkgtools and xz compressor

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Kientzle
b. f. wrote: I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0? If you have the xz port installed, yes. If you have liblzma installed, you can even

Re: partly offtopic, but need feed back now.

2010-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jon Radel wrote: Gary Kline wrote: according to him, on each one copper circuit, there were two unused wires that could be used for a second phone number. so that afternoon I had a dialup line and the house had a voice line. Or more

Re: partly offtopic, but need feed back now.

2010-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010, Jon Radel wrote: Gary Kline wrote: ... Hif you're doing the standard thing, and porting your phone number to the cable company, they'll have to put some equipment of their own on or in your