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2011-05-12 Thread Ian Davies
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds. I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate by accepting to stand as the legal recipient to a

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 362, Issue 7

2011-05-12 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
I had to do this same thing over 10 years ago, once at work and once at home. At home, I copies ksh and gave it root privileges so it could do the suid . At work, a root person lent me the use of a binary program (with root privileges) that I used to execute ksh (I believe). My memory

Re: make the iso image

2011-05-12 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 11/05/2011 18:35, Mage wrote: On 05/11/2011 04:50 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 19:24:39 -0700, mohammad abedini abedini.erics...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to make the FreeBSD installation with facilities in my state This looks as if you want to create your own installation

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 11 May 2011 17:20:10 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org articulated: What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? Gary, if you want to get your fill of FUD on this issue, I would strongly recommended that you visit the Slashdot site. It has been filled with bull-shit on this

Installing .bin file?

2011-05-12 Thread Andy Wodfer
On one of my old servers I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 and I'm having some disk problems. The raid card is a Promise TX4310 and I'd like to install Webpam ( http://firstweb.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=136category=utilityos=100go=GO) to swap + rebuild two broken disks and to

Re: Installing .bin file?

2011-05-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:10:55 +0200, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: How do I install a .bin file on FreeBSD? I'm used to makefiles etc. First off all, check _what_ kind of file it is. % file filename If it's a Bourne shell script, run % sh filename If it's a binary that

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? /usr/ports/net/asterisk exists. Not used it, but compiling to try some time. It's been around years, eg

Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/11/2011 04:07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work

Hard drive detection

2011-05-12 Thread Dillin Smith
Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. But if you are

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Hey Guys, What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? I am sure MS will find a way to use it to

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs that are currently

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Telting
On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 12 May 2011 16:13:50 Chris Telting wrote: On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: I've googled for over an hour. I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:18:52AM -0400, Jerry wrote: Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:18:52 -0400 From: Jerry je...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: Skyip? question To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) On Wed, 11 May 2011

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (How hard/easy woold be be to hack out a better one...or do GOOG and YHOO already have their own versions of skyip?) Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based softphone). BTW, it does video too, though I've never tried that since I

Hard drive detection

2011-05-12 Thread Dillin Smith
Hi all, I'm having an issue getting my installation of FreeBSD to detect all the drives in the system. It has 48 total, 46 2TB, and 2 250GB. The system consists of six controllers, with eight drives on each. The two 250GB hard drives are the first drives on controllers 0 and 1. There are two

Re: Hard drive detection

2011-05-12 Thread Mark
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell --- On Thu, 5/12/11, Dillin Smith dilli.ns.m...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dillin Smith dilli.ns.m...@gmail.com Subject: Hard drive detection To:

annoyance; 3c905b-tx-nm silently drops first rx'd packet.

2011-05-12 Thread msmorsecode
I have a 3c905b-tx-nm, the nm means no power management. I've had occasion to use it in several pc's. I've tried to avoid using it due to this annoyance, but my present pc has a chipset which doesn't operate well with any of my other ethernet cards. The card has a pci-id of (10b7,9055)

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 23:24:11 Polytropon wrote: And keep in mind the data in the background: WHO communi- cates? WHERE does he communicate from, with WHOM, WHEN? Tech- nology allows answering questions even about WHAT has been spoken. Relations between individuals and there interests can

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Thursday, May 12, 2011 a las 08:22:42PM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: Check out Ekiga: /usr/ports/net/ekiga3 It is pretty good, as long as you can get your friends to use it too (or any other SIP- or H323-based

automounting of usb disks not working how to troubleshoot

2011-05-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have recently successfully updated an amd 64 bit machine from 8.1 to 8.2 release and reinstalled most of the previously installed ports. Now, I tried to use my usb disk and it is not automounting :( I like the convenience of automounting and I checked hal and dbus and they are both

How do you install utility built using gnu toolchain?

2011-05-12 Thread Dale Scott
It's pretty general question, but is it typically standard procedure for a utility building using the GNU tool chain to be able to install itself into /usr/local/bin? E.g. # gmake install ?? Is there anything a newb can check for without having to fully understand the complete build procedure

Installing FreeBSD on an encrypted volume

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Simmons
I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on an encrypted volume and I've run into an annoying problem. Before I describe the problem, let me explain what I have done so far. first I used gpart to make GPT partitions: one freebsd-boot, two freebsd-ufs. The freebsd-boot is 64k and the

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, May 13, 2011 a las 12:19:38AM +0200, C. P. Ghost escribió: multimedia/webcamd works fine in 8-stable and HEAD (I'm using HEAD); a list of supported webcams in FreeBSD and what you need or what should work rises up here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat Ah, great,

Encrypted Volume followup

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Simmons
As a followup to my earlier question, are there plans for a geli aware boot0 so /boot does not need to be unencrypted? I know that this functionality can be done with TrueCrypt with FreeBSD running inside a TrueCrypt system, but having it part of FreeBSD would be great!

Re: How do you install utility built using gnu toolchain?

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/05/2011 05:29, Dale Scott wrote: It's pretty general question, but is it typically standard procedure for a utility building using the GNU tool chain to be able to install itself into /usr/local/bin? E.g. # gmake install ?? Is there anything a newb can check for without having to fully