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Dialog on some ports looks odd

2012-12-13 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, Can people confirm some brokenness to me? When I'm on a system over SSH, I find that doing the following: cd /usr/ports/mail/alpine; make config looks fine, but cd /usr/ports/mail/opendkim; make config seems to corrupt the headings and not display correctly, the OK/Cancel

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2012-10-25 Thread admin
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portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun. With normal portupgrade, this forces you to go fix the

possbility of a port for older versions of libintl?

2012-06-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, I recently discovered that the vmware-tools package is compiled against libintl.so.8 -- yes, this is probably something that should be fixed at the vmware level, but VMware's love for FreeBSD isn't there. As a workaround, it might be useful to have a port which compiles an older

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SV: Breakin attempt

2011-10-25 Thread Admin ValhallaProjectet
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: William Myers [mailto:my...@crusader.bac.edu] Sendt: den 25 oktober 2011 00:08 Til: Admin ValhallaProjectet Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Emne: Re: Breakin attempt I'm seeing the same thing from the same IP adresses. William Myers Associate Professor, Computer Studies

Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Admin ValhallaProjectet
Hello all FreeBSD odin.thorshammare.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 22 10:14:48 CEST 2011 ha...@odin.thorshammare.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ODIN i386 Firewall PF. Blocking China and some other related countries in that region. Disabled ssh root logins Apparently, I'm

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2011-10-10 Thread admin
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disappearing files

2011-07-28 Thread admin
Hi, I am using FreeBSD 8.2 with an UFS filesystem containing a jail. I do a tar of the whole jail every night. Suddenly after a few weeks of operation, tar complains about being unable to stat /usr/lib/libmilter.so. From inside the jail: ls /usr/lib | grep ^libmilter.so$ returns libmilter.so ls

Re: disappearing files

2011-07-28 Thread admin
Hi, Dmesg returns no error. Also smartctl returns no errors. I will wait for other suggestion before unmounting the volume in this machine for the case someone else has another suggestion what to check for, because it might be that by umounting and remounting, it will take again a few month for

zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

2011-07-28 Thread admin
Hi, I wanted to experiment a bit with pxeboot. Therefore I created a zfs clone of a jail filesystem. The clone was shared as via nfs. Pxeboot complained that it can't load the kernel. The pxeboot ls command gave some correct and some really messed up filenames. I then deleted the clone and copied

Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Admin Cyanide
Le 23/06/2011 14:30, Jerry a écrit : On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:02:23 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: Jerry writes: From URL: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support. Obviously users of version 4 will be more or less forced to

Re: lockf command

2011-04-13 Thread Admin Cyanide
Hi Nikos, I was stupid not to think about this... And it is a nice tip to use a new shell as a running process. However, I re-read the lockf man and saw : By default, lockf waits indefinitely to acquire the lock. Everything is clear now. Thanks ! Le 13/04/2011 15:23, Nikos Vassiliadis a

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2010-02-10 Thread midwest-admin
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Re: PHP5 and ldap

2009-09-18 Thread FreeBSD admin
Hi folks, I don't know how to enable ldap for php5 on my Freebsd 7.2 system this is a client only ldap system. ldapsearch works well with tls on it. but I try to enable roundcube ldap, and roundcube says: LDAP Error: No ldap support in this installation of PHP (GET

Re: PHP5 and ldap

2009-09-18 Thread FreeBSD admin
SOLVED! i had an incorrect php.ini in front of my apache installation. You put me on the right tracks! problem solved. no I have a TLS negociation error, but this is another part. Cheers -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PHP5-and-ldap-tp22183625p25511444.html Sent from

Re: PHP5 and ldap

2009-09-18 Thread FreeBSD admin
and now it working... tls_ssf=256 ssf=256 great thanks for php.ini trick! @+ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PHP5-and-ldap-tp22183625p25511620.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

new machine trying to install /usr/ports

2009-08-05 Thread Admin
hi there, I am trying to get some basic ports tools installed on a new machine. I downloaded the entire ports.tar.gz and then placed all those contents in /usr/ports What are the best next steps to follow to get things up an running? I was hoping to install portsnap but here the error I

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 28 July 2009 20:24:27 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: make: don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build_done.bind96._usr_local. Stop *** Error code 2 Someone else had the same problem, and they also chose

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I believe Mel is right here. 'make clean ; make config ; make' worked for me. As does a second make after getting this error, but it's nonintuitive, and probably a ports bug. I'm not sure why 'make clean

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009 10:57:05 Doug Barton wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I believe Mel is right here. 'make clean ; make config ; make' worked for me. As does a second make after getting this error, but it's nonintuitive

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: The fact that the error occurs AT ALL is the bug and what is counterintuitive, and many people would not think to try typing make again, and instead would just assume the thing's broken. Ok, I actually misunderstood

Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-28 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm having a problem on multiple systems: With a clean port, in dns/bind96: I get the options screen, I select only overwrite base in addition to the defaults:, and after, I get this: make: don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build_done.bind96._usr_local. Stop ***

BSD Discs

2009-05-08 Thread Admin
Hi I just started a BSD 'Download-Burn-Mail' service for downloading ISO's for people. It's not a free service, but its very very cheap, and we get the discs in the mail next-day. So if you are interested in linking to our service, please feel free to do so :-)

Re: Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

2009-03-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:04:45 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney, System Admin d...@prime.gushi.org wrote: Hey all, I've got a dell 600SC in a remote location, and it's started freezing up (I'm thinking I've got a dying fan). I'm not familiar with this special

Re: Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

2009-03-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin d...@prime.gushi.org wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:04:45 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney, System Admin d...@prime.gushi.org wrote

Health Monitoring on Dell 600SC

2009-03-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I've got a dell 600SC in a remote location, and it's started freezing up (I'm thinking I've got a dying fan). I've seen a thread from this user: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2004-September/001883.html But seem to recall that non of this worked for me either.

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RE: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-23 Thread SDH Admin
The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can you try to paste exactly what was on the screen before the freeze for both 6.4 and

RE: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-23 Thread SDH Admin
How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. --- Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.stardothosting.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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2008-12-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
group ownership as a check I recently could not get an admin account (defined in NIS) to su to root. Even though groups username showed he was in wheel (and the wheel group has been propagated into NIS), pam_group and pw groupshow show him as not.) This is probably because the local wheel group

How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nis.html For how to disable logins, the recommended action is to set the shell to /sbin/nologin. However, this is sloppy as it allows the user to log in, get the motd,

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nis.html For how to disable logins, the recommended action is to set the shell

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en

/var/yp/securenets and ipv6?

2008-12-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all... I searched for this everywhere and I guess it's a question that's never been asked. What's the syntax under FreeBSD for ipv6 addresses in securenets? Please reply off-list. -Dan Mahoney -- Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-12-01 Thread admin
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:57:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and You should use dump and restore to copy

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-11-29 Thread admin
Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and You should use dump and restore to copy the root partition, see: I'd done that before trying cp -pR, as outlined by rse@:

[PC] booting RAID before IDE

2008-11-28 Thread admin
Hello, we have a PC with LSI RAID adapter and two SCSI disks. The disks in the array have been giving hardware errors recently, so we've decided to copy them using dump to another IDE disk. The problem is that when both the RAID array and the IDE disk are plugged in PC, it's unable to boot

IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I have the following rule set up in ipfw to limit the exposure of bad php scripts and trojans that try to send mail directly. allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 uid root deny log tcp from any to any dst-port 25 out However, the log messages I get look like this: Sep 8 13:21:11

Re: IPFW uid logging...

2008-09-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 08), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: I have the following rule set up in ipfw to limit the exposure of bad php scripts and trojans that try to send mail directly. allow tcp from any to any dst-port 25 uid root deny log tcp from

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Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes I know how to use the OS, I'm more sking for historical rivia reasons. -Dan I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list

Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the arguments and/or output of a base perl function having

mailcap documentation?

2008-05-01 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, There's apparently an RFC-standard file called /etc/mailcap (as well as .mailcap), but I can't find any docs on this file. Would it be worthwhile to rework the RFC into a manpage (I am willing to do it), or should I bother the providers of ports that use it (such as, say, alpine

Manpage for rpc.ypupdated?

2008-04-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
With all the recent changeover in namespace for rpc/yp stuff, there's been a lot moved around, but in all my searches, the ypd.upupdated daemon is completely undocumented. (even with a grep through the rest of the man directories provides no mention). Near as I can tell, it allows nis

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Tinybsd ports (dhcpd3)

2008-03-23 Thread Sys Admin
I suppose this is more a question on ports than on Tinybsd. I'm trying to build a Tinybsd 0.9 system with DHCP-server (isc-dhcpd3) and included it in tinybsd.ports file. When the system builds though, there is an on-screen configuration menu for the dhcpd3 port. This screen appears, but is not

ports fetch timeout

2008-03-23 Thread Sys Admin
I've been trying to install a bunch of packages on a freshly built 7.0-REL machine. The ports make install command has been consistently failing to download files from ftp servers on Internet. I can however ftp to the servers and get the files manually into /usr/ports/distfiles directory, and

Your message to Outlook awaits moderator approval

2008-03-15 Thread outlook-admin
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2008-02-13 Thread macfilmmakers-admin
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Shell Menu that populates from /var/db/pkg

2008-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I'd like to have a shell menu on my system that gives them available programs they can learn, but that also learns from ports/packages which options are available. (I.e. it won't list every branch port, but will list things from, say, editors, games, and possibly only certain

DigiBoard Classic

2008-01-01 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello All, I have a digiboard classic PCI, and I am trying to build a system to monitor many serial systems (UPSes) using FreeBSD. I cannot find any documentation referring to this driver -- it seems that everything digi related in the BSD tree refers to the intelligent cards, whereas the

Portsnap -- update claims up to date but it's not.

2007-12-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong: prime# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. prime# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon

Re: Portsnap -- update claims up to date but it's not.

2007-12-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Jay Chandler wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong: prime# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. prime# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3

Notes for a first-time porter

2007-12-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, I am thinking of doing a quick port of the zsu zone file serial number bumper for FreeBSD. However, I have a couple of questions regarding ports that aren't clear to me, nor do they seem to be in the porter's handbook. 1) What provision is made for when a port's distsite is simply

Passwd and pam?

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, In looking through some pam stuff I find that there's a pam_passwdqc module to do password quality control. However, in reading the passwd man page, NO mention is made of either pam, or /etc/pam.d/passwd Is passwd a legacy tool which doesn't support this pam feature? -Dan --

FreeBSD mail forwarder and SPF

2007-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I secure my outbound e-mail with SPF. One of the ports maintainers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) also secures his INBOUND e-mail with SPF. I tried to e-mail garga about a minor doc-bug, and got a bounce, since his mailserver didn't recognize mx2.freebsd.org as a valid MX for [EMAIL

Maybe this is a bug, should I report it?

2007-12-04 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
But why is it that portupgrade feels the need to upgrade gpg to gpg2, when gpg is still in the tree? I'm running a portupgrade -rf gettext, and didn't previously have gpg2 installed. -Dan -- this is too stupid even for irc -mtreal, EFnet #macintosh, 09/15/2K, 12:33 AM Dan

viability of QUOTA support as a KLD?

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, It seems most of the things I want to do under freeBSD have been turned into nice KLD modules. However, I'm still forced to do a kernel recompile for QUOTA support. Is there some major reason it cannot be made into a KLD as well? -Dan Mahoney -- It would be bad. -Egon Spengler,

What's unknown about i386-unknown?

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all. I see i386-unknown as a build target all the time. So my (possibly silly) question is: what's the unknown variable here? And why isn't it? -Dan -- Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site:

Re: Build Frustrations

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: Apache2 is a complete piece of crap. Portable Runtime my ass. Was there something so wrong with APACI? Apache1.3 built out of the box on every system in the world. Using ports is no better. And again, I'll take anything anyone can offer to

Re: Build Frustrations

2007-11-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: This allowed apache2-non-ports to compile. However the question in my mind that still bears answering is: why apr would FIND such a library as installed (i.e. not fail at configure-time) but then fail to compile. I.e. why does the APR not set

Build Frustrations

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, I'm of the realization that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but there's a recent issue I've hit, and I've contacted nearly EVERYONE I can think of about it to try and fix, and the response I've gotten has been a deafening silence. I'm having trouble building apache2.2.6, it relates I

Re: Build Frustrations

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: All, I'm of the realization that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but there's a recent issue I've hit, and I've contacted nearly EVERYONE I can think of about it to try

Re: Build Frustrations

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: You can tell ports where to install something. We used to install all of Apache in its own directory to make it easy to manipulate in a system we were installing in a lot of places. Check the ports doc and such. Actually, I just tried this.

6.3-PRERELEASE

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey All, I recently CVSUPPED to what I thought would be 6.2-STABLE but instead got 6.3-PRERELEASE. However, I look at www.freebsd.org/releng and I see no reference to the release cycle of 6.3. Was this a mistake of some sort? -Dan -- Man, this is such a trip -Dan Mahoney, October 25,

Re: 6.3-PRERELEASE

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Tino Engel wrote: No, I wanted to track the 6-release chain, but was just a little surprised...I thought this kind of CVS naming scheme didn't take place till much later in the release engineering process. -Dan Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: Hey All, I recently

Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: It costs a lot of money. That said, if in theory one were to try to get the operating system certified (say, to increase awareness and market share versus

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. UNIX Certified what the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ does that mean as far I know no one is in a position to make such a statement except maybe

Re: Problems with Courier-Authlib-Userdb

2007-10-05 Thread Aldisa Admin
On 04-Oct-07 6:52 PM, Dantavious wrote: libtool: link: cannot find the library `userdb/libuserdb.la' or unhandled argument `userdb/libuserdb.la' gmake[2]: *** [libauthuserdb.la] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/databases/courier-authlib-userdb/work/courier-authlib-0.60.0'

IPFW with DNSBL

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, Has anyone found a way to have ipfw work with a DNS blocklist? I realize the core functionality is not in IPFW, but I am thinking somehow, of having a table dynamically maintained by some kind of divert daemon? Couple this with some kind of a connection delay (perhaps also in the

Re: Problem with logs

2007-09-13 Thread Aldisa Admin
Hello Derek, I don't use hosts.allow. I use the AllowUsers directive in the sshd.conf file to limit the actual username/ip combinations. As a rule, I also close port 22 on the router. When I need external access (e.g. when I am travelling) I will open some other port and have sshd Listen

Problem with logs

2007-09-12 Thread Aldisa Admin
Hello All, I am having trouble understanding what is going on and how to solve the problem: For the last few days, I am getting the following messages (some names removed for privacy) in the daily security run output: [hostname].ca login failures: Sep 11 10:36:52 server su: BAD SU abid to

Re: Problem with logs

2007-09-12 Thread Aldisa Admin
Hello Denis, I am using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. You have correctly identified the problem. My log files are small as well, and the entries in the daily security relate to the previous year. Thank you for your help...it has put my mind to rest. Abid On 12-Sep-07 1:29 PM, Denis wrote: I had such

Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

2007-09-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. As a work around, if I go into the

Floppy IO Errors

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted). Is there anything special I have to do to format these disks, or make them readable? I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by XP) but BSD returns an IO error when trying to read any floppy. I've

Re: TCP packets don't flow from external hosts to WinVista clientsbehind

2007-08-26 Thread mich . admin
MIZ0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could be TCP window scaling. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option Or the plain old PMTUD problem described in http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk870/tk877/tk880/technologies_tech_note09186a008011a218.shtml#backinfo

TCP packets don't flow from external hosts to WinVista clients behind

2007-08-25 Thread mich . admin
Hello... I've got a strange trouble... FreeBSD 6.2 amd64 as nat-router: rl0 85.249.249.249 - ISP fxp0 10.0.0.1 - My Internal Net natd/ng_nat ipfw: allow all from any to any WinXP client machines work fine behind nat, but WinVista, FreeBSD (5.5/6.2) clients don't. It's very strange but it's

Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?

2007-08-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello, I am encountering a bug with named-9.4.1-P1 that I am attempting to work with ISC on, that I have built from ports (dns/bind94). However, I need a non-stripped version of the binary to get a backtrace. I can't roll my own binary because it may be related to some way that the port is

Your message to Teaching_Basic_Writing awaits moderator approval

2007-02-23 Thread teaching_basic_writing-admin
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Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-21 Thread admin
Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: admin wrote: Wrong: the implied check-state done by the limit lets the connection through (i.e. performs the action) iff there's state recorded for it (src-addr+src-port+dst-addr+dst-port). If however it's a SYN packet

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-20 Thread admin
Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread admin
Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp from x.x.x.x/x,y.y.y.y/y,z.z.z.z/z to any dst-port 80

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread admin
Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment

ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-18 Thread admin
Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp from x.x.x.x/x,y.y.y.y/y,z.z.z.z/z to any dst-port 80 in via if0 setup limit src-addr 10 00401 fwd local.ip.ad.dr,8080

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-18 Thread admin
admin wrote in msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp from x.x.x.x/x,y.y.y.y/y,z.z.z.z/z to any dst-port 80 in via if0 setup limit

ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-17 Thread admin
Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp from x.x.x.x/x,y.y.y.y/y,z.z.z.z/z to any dst-port 80 in via if0 setup limit src-addr 10 00401 fwd

Re: number of processes reported by top versus ps

2007-02-15 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Christian Walther wrote: Aah, that's right, threads. Forgot about those. -Dan On 15/02/07, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm getting about a hundred more processes reported by ps aux|wc -l versus the total number of processes in top

number of processes reported by top versus ps

2007-02-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm getting about a hundred more processes reported by ps aux|wc -l versus the total number of processes in top. Is this a normal thing? My system's been under some heavy load in the past couple days, but it's all presumably stable now. -Dan -- Man, this is such a trip -Dan

commented LINT?

2007-01-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, Back in 4.x, LINT was a fully-commented entity. Now it appears to be built-on-the-fly, which is great for being sure every-option is in in a programmatic manner, but bad as far as being able to look at LINT for syntax or notes as to which options need to be added together (or are

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
? -Dan Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 11 Message: 31 On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:20:47 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all. In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called /etc

Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all. In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called /etc/ipfw.rules However, it seems even though I copy my rules perfectly to that file, the system freezes up and locks me out when I do: ipfw -f flush; ipfw /etc/ipfw.rules I've also tried doing it as ipfw -f flush

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called /etc/ipfw.rules However, it seems even though I copy my rules perfectly to that file, the system freezes up and locks me out when I do: ipfw -f flush; ipfw /etc/ipfw.rules I've also

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all. In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called /etc/ipfw.rules However, it seems even though I copy my rules perfectly to that file, the system freezes up and locks me out when I do: /usr

Re: Broadcom Nics in Tyan Transport GT24 (B3992)

2007-01-18 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: yes, but guess what - FBSD 6.2 is now released, so just install that and the updated driver is already in the kernel You were just waiting to say that weren't you :) -Dan Ted - Original Message - From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL

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