Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
ssh using key authentication and sudo configured to allow a certain user to run the needed commands and only the needed commands as root. rsh? Are you living in a cave? :) Thanks for the replies. The original script was written at the cave era, only I am trying to improve it today. Would

Re: 2nd try : tap SIOCIFCREATE failure

2007-11-29 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:00:35PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: When creating the tap interface, my system gives the following FreeBSD# uname -a FreeBSD FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 11 0xc040 6f7554 kernel 21 0xc0af8000 140c0

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-29 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:04:57PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:58:48PM -0500, Jeremy Gransden wrote: I did some googling but nothing interesting turned up. I find it curious that the latest build of Thunderbird works, but linux-firefox fails like it's

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:13:21PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: His was a classic case of

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
root, that could be automated in a script (no password required). - have information input into browser - have web server save information to server disk in non-executable format - have script (or admin) authenticate/authorize commands to be performed (recommend doing this manually for a while

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is a partition close to full, use df to see that. doesn't matter as ls read, not writes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ls | wc strange. i did [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 1 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done completed 25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong.

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Wojciech Puchar wrote: ls | wc strange. i did [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 1 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done completed 25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong.

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ls | wc strange. i did [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 1 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done completed 25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Freminlins wrote: I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net.

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread cpghost
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:42:44 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ls | wc strange. i did [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 1 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done completed 25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU ls takes 0.1

Re: Xen howto: inexplicable Kernel image does not exist error

2007-11-29 Thread Matt Pounsett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-Nov-29, at 01:29, Le Cocq Michel wrote: I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ? No, I haven't found a solution, and haven't received any suggestions. I've moved on until the FreeBSD under Xen thing becomes a bit

Re: Xen howto: inexplicable Kernel image does not exist error

2007-11-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:04:37AM -0500, Matt Pounsett wrote: On 2007-Nov-29, at 01:29, Le Cocq Michel wrote: I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ? No, I haven't found a solution, and haven't received any suggestions. I've moved on until the FreeBSD under Xen

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-29 Thread Kevin Downey
On Nov 28, 2007 11:37 PM, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although sudo and SSH are part of the solution, providing a web server with full rights on a remote server if they can gain keyless entry is a large mistake. Steve, at no point does the original email say we need to

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Freminlins
On 29/11/2007, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I do a pkg_add -r xorg. After about 70 packages I give up. I only used to have about 65 packages in total on my old desktop, now I need more than 70 and I haven't even got x windows up yet. So I go off and have a look and

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong. Has anyone tried fsck and/or smartmontools on the drive? Maybe something like Spinrite? he stated that CPU load is near 100% so it's not disk problem

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong. Another possible scenario is that the directory is badly fragmented. Unless something has changed since I last researched this (which is it is for sure. the fix would be mv /usr/home /usr/oldhome;mkdir /usr/home;mv

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I guess that replacing qsort(3) in /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c:fts_sort() with another sort algorithm which doesn't expose this anomaly would solve that problem. for sure his /home wasn't worst case. it's just average case so it's not that problem.

Re: ataidle - causing apache cvs timeouts

2007-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm running ataidle on my personal server to save electricity. saving your drive instead of electricity is much more economic. all drives prefers running in stable environment - like being up 24h/day. average drive takes 10Watts , so it's 90kWh/year. in Poland it's about 30PLN/year, assuming

before I rebuild Gnome2....

2007-11-29 Thread Gary Kline
o The latest problem, first noted about 12 hours ago, is that while gdm worked, nothing else of gnome does. Not as kline, not as root. Am I missing some startup or initialization binary?? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org

Re: Broadcom

2007-11-29 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 18:52:06 schrieb Miguel Alcántara: Grettings to this list. Well, I have a doubt about Broadcom HOT_TOPIC and FBSD 6.2 Good for you. What's the question? -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development ___

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Derrick Ryalls
it is for sure. the fix would be mv /usr/home /usr/oldhome;mkdir /usr/home;mv /usr/oldhome/* /usr/home and after successfull move - rm -rf /usr/home I really hope you meant: rm -rf /usr/oldhome Also, mv just moves pointers around, wouldn't a cp -Rp be needed instead?

Re: before I rebuild Gnome2....

2007-11-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:21:06AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: o The latest problem, first noted about 12 hours ago, is that while gdm worked, nothing else of gnome does. Not as kline, not as root. Am I missing some startup or initialization binary?? I

Broadcom

2007-11-29 Thread Miguel Alcántara
Grettings to this list. Well, I have a doubt about Broadcom HOT_TOPIC and FBSD 6.2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Frank Staals
Freminlins wrote: snip Err, yeah. Look through hundreds of packages to see which dependencies they have. Helpful. Not. This way of doing X11 is seriously unhelpful to end users. If having individual packages for everything is so good, please tell me why everything in /bin, /usr/bin and so on

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-29 Thread Tino Engel
williamkow schrieb: I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command startx. and then i run command startkde and I received error message (kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server) However, if i run command

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread Tino Engel
the fix would be mv /usr/home /usr/oldhome;mkdir /usr/home;mv /usr/oldhome/* /usr/home and after successfull move - rm -rf /usr/home I like this idea very much... It results in 100% data loss of your /usr/home contents... ;-) ___

RE: Network Configuration with Jails. [Resolved]

2007-11-29 Thread Félix Langelier
Hello, I run a FreeBSD Jailer and I want to have multiple jails in 2 seperate networks. The server has 2 network interfaces and each of them are connected in a different network. Say vlan1 and vlan2. My problem is that all the network traffic is going through the first interface

Producing a staticly-linked package from ports

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Richards
I have Claws-mail installed on my workstation. It's compiled here from ports. I need to generate a statically-linked package, for installation on an older install of FreeBSD. (6.1 RELEASE, but running Xorg 6.9.0, I am running Xorg 7.3) Can this be done? If so, what's the general procedure.

Re: kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server

2007-11-29 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:25 +0100, Tino Engel wrote: williamkow schrieb: I am newbie, recently I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-Stable, and manage to configure and display the x window manager (X11) using command startx. and then i run command startkde and I received error message

Re: Broadcom

2007-11-29 Thread Miguel Alcántara
Sorry, I don't know what could happen, it's no the first time(maybe gmail, or safari browser). Well, I must rewrite all over again. I have a laptop compaq presario f500 with a wireless integrated chip, which is a Broadcom one, it has winxp, fbsd6.2, rofreesbie. I had tested many times trying to

Re: Broadcom - complete version

2007-11-29 Thread Miguel Alcántara
Sorry, I don't know what could happen, it's no the first time(maybe gmail, or safari browser). Well, I must rewrite all over again. I have a laptop compaq presario f500 with a wireless integrated chip, which is a Broadcom one, it has winxp, fbsd6.2, rofreesbie. I had tested many times trying to

Upgrading to 6.3-RC1 using freebsd-upgrade.sh Problem

2007-11-29 Thread slunky
Hello. After hearing FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 was released, I wanted to upgrade to that from my 6.3-BETA2 installation. This worked fine when I went from 6.2-RELEASE to 6.3-BETA2, but after trying to follow the directions at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html I

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:43:27AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is always polite to traffic cops. That's a very good point (barring edge cases like belligerent idiots who aren't polite to traffic cops, either, but tend to

Getting DHCP to 'update' DNS records locally

2007-11-29 Thread Clint Olsen
Apologies if this isn't the correct forum. I'd like to configure DNS on my home network but make it work simultaneously with DHCP. So, when hosts are plugged into the network and issued an IP, DNS is updated to reflect the hostnames. That way I can refer to all my machines by name in all

Re: Getting DHCP to 'update' DNS records locally

2007-11-29 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Clint Olsen wrote: Apologies if this isn't the correct forum. I'd like to configure DNS on my home network but make it work simultaneously with DHCP. So, when hosts are plugged into the network and issued an IP, DNS is updated to reflect the hostnames. That way

Re: Getting DHCP to 'update' DNS records locally

2007-11-29 Thread Steven Ringwald
On Nov 29, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Clint Olsen wrote: Apologies if this isn't the correct forum. I'd like to configure DNS on my home network but make it work simultaneously with DHCP. So, when hosts are plugged into the network and issued an IP, DNS is updated to reflect the hostnames.

Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread John Murphy
Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working well until I portupgraded yesterday. Now amarok shuts down X server: Nov 30 00:14:37 asus kdm-bin[1146]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly I get a couple of lines of text if I start it from an xterm, but they are

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:47:01 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working well until I portupgraded yesterday. Now amarok shuts down X server: Nov 30 00:14:37 asus kdm-bin[1146]: X server for display :0 terminated

Re: Getting DHCP to 'update' DNS records locally

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:09:00PM -0800, Clint Olsen wrote: Apologies if this isn't the correct forum. I'd like to configure DNS on my home network but make it work simultaneously with DHCP. So, when hosts are plugged into the network and issued an IP, DNS is updated to reflect the

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread John Murphy
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:30:22 -0500 Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:47:01 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing 7.0 beta2 so I should upgrade to beta3, but all was working well until I portupgraded yesterday. Now amarok shuts down X server: Nov

Re: Amarok crashes X (since portupgrade)

2007-11-29 Thread Tino Engel
John Murphy schrieb: Very useful script that. Many thanks. The only ports upgraded at the time were: Nov 29 01:23:55 2007 samba-3.0.26a_2,1 Nov 29 01:27:05 2007 samba-libsmbclient-3.0.26a_2 Nov 29 01:36:03 2007 xorg-server-1.4_3,1 Nov 29 01:42:21 2007 wxgtk2-2.6.3_5

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:26:11 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: the hitler example remain with it because it establishes a very strong case-in-point example. Yep, shoot someone and then say -- hey, that's the best example of what shouldn't be done! WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research

serious problems

2007-11-29 Thread Jack Raats
Hi While running make installworld my computer crashed. (FreeBSD 6.2-p9 kernel) At this moment the system misses some of the elf libs. Running in single user mode and running make installworld again gives all kind of errors Any leads to solve this problem?? Jack

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:14:30 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Fundamentally, you have to be educated to understand it. FreeBSD is first and formost, for the educated computer user. Ted, you may exchange famous Hitler's quotes with your highly educated friends, laugh at Hirosima's anecdotes with

Re: PDF_toTEXT Port /Package Is ther For FreeBSD-6.2 version ?

2007-11-29 Thread Predrag Punosevac
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi fiiends; I need PDF to Text converter Program in My FreeBSD6.2 Server : CAn any one please point out is ther a PORT for PDF_to_TEXT conversion OR how to install this utility . Any hints most welcome Thanks in Advance Dhanesh My friend, You already

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:37:24 +0800 Erich Dollansky wrote: sensorship starts in the mind of the people. True. That's why: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=www/118284 WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer,

PDF_toTEXT Port /Package Is ther For FreeBSD-6.2 version ?

2007-11-29 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi fiiends; I need PDF to Text converter Program in My FreeBSD6.2 Server : CAn any one please point out is ther a PORT for PDF_to_TEXT conversion OR how to install this utility . Any hints most welcome Thanks in Advance Dhanesh

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:14:30 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Fundamentally, you have to be educated to understand it. FreeBSD is first and formost, for the educated computer user. Ted, you may exchange famous Hitler's quotes with your highly educated friends, laugh