Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?

2010-02-15 Thread Yuri
I am looking at one file which is actually a unix socket: /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6. lsof | grep dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 shows that it's open by a particular process many times: ibus-daem 48407 yuri4uunix 0xc966019c0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 ibus-daem 48407 yuri5u

Re: NTOS: Timer fired even though it was canceled

2010-02-15 Thread Eitan Adler
Can you explain what you did in detail and it have something to do with ndis(4)? Did you ever used ndisgen(8)? Last June I used ndisgen and my computer has been running fine since then. When I saw the NTOS warning I emailed this list. When I got your reply I removed if_bwi_ndis_load from

Cleaning up after attack?

2010-02-15 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I have an up-to-date FreeBSD 7.2 box that has been compromised. Someone aparently got in to an account with certain admin priveleges and has been sending spam. I disabled the account, shut off my MTA and used pf to block all traffic to port 25 out for good measure. How do i analyse what

Re: Cleaning up after attack?

2010-02-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 15/02/10 11:13, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. I have an up-to-date FreeBSD 7.2 box that has been compromised. Someone aparently got in to an account with certain admin priveleges and has been sending spam. I disabled the account, shut off my MTA and used pf to block all traffic to port

Re: Question about Freebsd 7.2 and Zend framework

2010-02-15 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:29:04 +0100 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org articulated: Samuel Martín Moro wrote: It's not officialy supported, but it still works. You have to link some libraries to give them their freebsd 6.2 names. I had to do it for the servers we sell at work. It works

Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

2010-02-15 Thread Eray Aslan
On 15.02.2010 09:21, Nerius Landys wrote: But in the case where you're assigning the output of ls directly to a variable like this: FOO=`ls` vs FOO=`ls` the text assigned to FOO is the same, right? Apparently, it is: sh-4.0$ touch x * sh-4.0$ FOO=`ls`;echo $FOO|od 000 020170

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe

Re : Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?

2010-02-15 Thread Alexandre L.
I can play Youtube movies using Firefox 3.5.x or Firefox 3.6, and linux-f10-flashplugin10 10.0r45. I followed the tutorial : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 I'm pretty sure this will work for you. --- Alexandre --- En date de : Lun 15.2.10, Yuri y...@rawbw..com a écrit : De:

Re: Why Linux Firefox doesn't play flash movies?

2010-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 15 February 2010 13:53:27 Alexandre L. wrote: I can play Youtube movies using Firefox 3.5.x or Firefox 3.6, and linux-f10-flashplugin10 10.0r45. I followed the tutorial : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5786 There are also good instructions at

Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?

2010-02-15 Thread John Almberg
I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something like: ln -s /home/wwwlog /var/log/www This

Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

2010-02-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: #!/bin/sh DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\` cd $DIRNAME SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` What if I got rid of extra double quotes? Like this: DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\` cd $DIRNAME SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` That is perfectly fine. Word-splitting and filename expansion are not

Re: Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 15), Yuri said: I am looking at one file which is actually a unix socket: /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6. lsof | grep dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 shows that it's open by a particular process many times: ibus-daem 48407 yuri4uunix 0xc966019c 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6

Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?

2010-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:46:09AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved

Re: Why does soft link in /var/log disappear?

2010-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com writes: I didn't make my /var partition big enough, way back when, and have had to move my /var/log/www directory to another partition. I did this by moving the directory, and then adding a soft link from /var/log to the moved directory, using something

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/15/10, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Without even clicking his link, I've had

Re: Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?

2010-02-15 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
Yuri wrote: But when I run fstat /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 it doesn't return anything, like this file isn't open at all. I'm not sure that this will answer your question but bear with me. Usually I use lsof to list any listening TCP or UDP ports, with following command: lsof -P -i -n The result

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-15 Thread Matt Reimer
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have succesfully tested and used a full ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.0 on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and GPT partitioning. AFAIK, with the more recent -CURRENT and -STABLE it is

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:07 -0800, Matt Reimer wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have succesfully tested and used a full ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.0 on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and GPT

cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-15 Thread William Bulley
I am trying to build the GIMP on 8.0-STABLE but had a problem. For what it's worth, I have these ports installed: gtk-1.2.10_21 gtk-2.18.6_1 It is not clear to me why GIMP (or webkit-gtk2) depends on having Gnome2 (gnome-config) installed (I use open-motif): checking for GSTREAMER...

amd64 gives panic message when booting CD

2010-02-15 Thread Michael T Ehlert
Hello- I have a server box with an Intel s5000vcl motherboard and 2 dual-core Xeon procs. I was hoping to run FreeBSD 8 on it, but when I try to boot the amd64 media I get panic: No BIOS smap info from loader: I've Googled about and found chatter relating to the message, but no

Preparing to Install MFSBSD Loader on Disk

2010-02-15 Thread Martin McCormick
When one is logged in to a FreeBSD system, an attempt to write to the mounted file systems on /dev/ad0, for example, fails with Operation not permitted. This is a wonderful feature 99% of the time because this is disastrous to any future access after that point. The only exception

freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread tristan
i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

FreeBSD 8.0 and CDN connection issue

2010-02-15 Thread Vikash Badal
Hi We are having a strange problem with FreeBSD 8.0 ( problem is not seen on 7.X or 6.X ) and its behavior towards what appears to be a problem with the footprint cdn which hosts sites such as: http://www.formula1.com http://www.vw.com http://www.rca.com The issue can be seen below: PF enabled

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:12 AM, tristan wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Install and configure an X11

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:12 PM, tristan tristan@hotmail.com wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Not

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Randy Schultz
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, tristan spaketh thusly: -}i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Freebsd does not install a window

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hello! tristan schrieb: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? ___

Re: Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?

2010-02-15 Thread Yuri
Dan Nelson wrote: It looks like fstat doesn't work on unix sockets at all; I tried on /tmp/mysql.sock and some X11 sockets. I filed a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143962 Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0500, tristan wrote: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? FreeBSD does not twist

Undocumented Userland Change ?

2010-02-15 Thread perrimd
/usr/bin/window is missing as is the man page for window on FreeBSD 8.0R. I do not see this change documented anywhere, was the file dropped by accident ? Thanks. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

free bsd license

2010-02-15 Thread tristan
is the FreeBSD-8.0-amd.iso itself under the bsd license? i mean the free bsd operating system, not the software i plan to modify then redistribute it, under a new name. it will remain under the same license, with the same copyright docs, but the help or other docs will be gone, my own put in.

Re: free bsd license

2010-02-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:38 AM, tristan wrote: is the FreeBSD-8.0-amd.iso itself under the bsd license? Mostly; there's a compilation copyright associated with the FreeBSD ISO images, but some of the components of FreeBSD are under the GPL (notably the GCC compiler toolchain), and possibly CDDL

Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

2010-02-15 Thread Nerius Landys
#!/bin/sh DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\` cd $DIRNAME SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` What if I got rid of extra double quotes?  Like this: DIRNAME=`dirname \$0\` cd $DIRNAME SCRIPTDIR=`pwd` That is perfectly fine.  Word-splitting and filename expansion are not performed for variable assignments.  Also

Re: Undocumented Userland Change ?

2010-02-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 15 February 2010 18:08:01 perr...@copesd.org wrote: /usr/bin/window is missing as is the man page for window on FreeBSD 8.0R. I do not see this change documented anywhere, was the file dropped by accident ? It was documented in /usr/src/UPDATING: 20090602: window(1) has

Fn key events in Devd

2010-02-15 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? I have loaded the acpi_asus module, but the default devd rules in /etc/devd/asus.conf don't seem to match for my Fn keys. How can I find out what Fn key produces which event in devd? Cheers, Anselm

iso license

2010-02-15 Thread tristan
the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz is under some compilation copyright. what does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename it, and sell it? can i get a copy of the license for the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz? i want to do what Apple did with FreeBSD - edit, rename, and sell, can i do

Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

2010-02-15 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, William Bulley wrote: I am trying to build the GIMP on 8.0-STABLE but had a problem. For what it's worth, I have these ports installed: gtk-1.2.10_21 gtk-2.18.6_1 It is not clear to me why GIMP (or webkit-gtk2) depends on having Gnome2 (gnome-config) installed (I use

[Solved] Re: SpamAssassin 3.3.0/sa-update problem

2010-02-15 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, Since the update of SpamAssassin to 3.3.0, spamd doesn't start anymore and exits with an error: child process [x] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 25 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 2544. It seems that

Re: iso license

2010-02-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
tristan == tristan tristan@hotmail.com writes: tristan the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz is under some compilation tristan copyright. what does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename tristan it, and sell it? You're asking *us* instead of a lawyer? :) But what did you not

Re: NOW what?

2010-02-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:34:45AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 04:38:54AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10:38AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: [... long line

Re: Fn key events in Devd

2010-02-15 Thread David Horn
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? cat /var/run/devd.pipe should work for what you need too see from devd. See the documentation for more details: man 8 devd I have loaded the acpi_asus module,

Re: NOW what?

2010-02-15 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: [...] If you look is /usr/ports/audio you will find the festival ports. 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel512 Jan 25 20:13 festival 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 Jan 27 03:07 festival-freebsoft-utils 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
tristan tristan@hotmail.com writes: i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Have a look at