Re: Problems with Courier-Authlib-Userdb
On Oct 4, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Dantavious wrote: I am attempting to upgrade courier-authlib-userdb and I get this error message. I have an updated ports tree as of today. Here are the other courier related ports install on the system. Has anyone else saw this error or can help me out. I'm having the same problem. Anyone have a solution? --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?))
On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Svein Halvor Halvorsen Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:00 AM To: Lee Capps Cc: Thomas Dickey; Bill Moran; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research And also: Where is this professor's ethics? Does he also misinform the students in class, only to later accuse them of not verifying the facts? And did he even think about the fact that others may have read his misinformation? Why does this professor think that his agenda is more important than Wikipedia's? Did he later correct the articles? I hope this professor got some sort of reaction from his University due to his unethical attitude towards openness, knowledge and science. I'm afraid I have to agree. The Prof was as lazy as his students. The world abounds in misinformation, it doesen't take a lot of effort to find it. The prof could have spent the hour he spent forging info in Wikipedia, finding already forged misinformation and having his students research that. He could have started at the Scientology website, for example, then moved on to PETA and the NRA. I note with interest that, so far, none of us has tried to track down this professor's possibly apocryphal research ;-) --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?))
On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Bill Moran wrote: A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research assignment that involved that information. Apparently the number of students who trusted the false information without verifying it was quite high. I should take that as a lesson that most people _don't_ know how to verify the validity of information and be more careful when I make sarcastic statements. That's interesting, though, to pick a nit, it may just show that students were in a hurry, rather than that they necessarily trust the info or that they don't know _how_ to verify the info. --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Rsync w/ Windows
At 09:31 Fri 16 Mar 2007, Chris Maness wrote: I need to sync a directory with my freebsd box. In linux/bsd I use the command rsync -vaur [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris/beer /home/chris/beer and this works perfectly for me. However, using the cwrsync package in windows with this syntax does not work. Do you get an error message when you run the command above? Since it appears you are able sync to the FreeBSD box from other machines, it sounds like this question is maybe a little OT here. You might have better luck asking the cwrsync folks. That having been said, here's what I know. At work we use cwrsync to backup some Windows boxes to a NAS sharing directories over samba. Our rsync looks more or less like this (cutting some switches for clarity): rsync -rvt --delete "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lcapps" \ //SNAP203762/backups/staff/lcapps/pc_bak A couple of things -- are you sure you're specifying the "cygdrive" correctly? How are you accessing the remote box from Windows? SSH? (I don't have any experience using rsync that way.) Our Windows machines are already connected to the shared directory before rsync runs. Good luck, -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: libcrypto(3) and statically linked ports....
Hi, On Oct 11, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, Given the recent openssl advisory, and the note within: NOTE: Any third-party applications, including those installed from the FreeBSD ports collection, which are statically linked to libcrypto(3) should be recompiled in order to use the corrected code. How does one go about determining which of the installed ports on his machine are statically linked to libcrypto? This seemed to work for me: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006-September/ 035278.html --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD for kids...
At 11:09 Thu 06 Jul 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:23:19 -0400 > "Jim Stapleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know of any. You could do a minimal install, install X + WM of > > choice (probably one that dosn't add games), and thend add the > > educational and math/sci related packages in ports? I think the > > directories they are in are relatively limited, and so finding them > > shouldn't be too hard. > Would be neat if someone came up with a meta-port (like instant-workstation) to do this all at once. Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to check for a compromised system
At 08:40 Wed 28 Jun 2006, Brent wrote: > The symptom im seeing is yesterday all of a sudden the root user was removed > from the /etc/passwd file & Im not sure on how to track down what happened. I > managed to recover from this. Are there any other tools that i can use to > track down say who did what on the box? files that may have changed & time & > dates... There's another root kit search tool I've used called rkhunter. It's in ports. Have you rebooted the machine? Sorry if this is obvious, but if not, you could look for suspicous processes. 'Course, if you've been rooted, you can't trust any of your binaries, including 'ps.' What services was the machines running? Maybe you could check the modification time on /etc/passwd and look around that time in the apache (or whatever) log files? The one time I've dealt with a system compromise, I was able to track down what happened by loooking at the apache log files (they got in using a php exploit). But I caught it fairly quickly, and they never got root. Probably some others here are wiser and more experienced than I. HTH, Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pkgdb.db locked
On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Lewis McLouth wrote: [snip] Also, if pkgdb.db was deleted, how do I rebuild the pkgdb.db? (pkgdb -f does not rebuild pkgdb.db, I just checked) portupgrade -an In order for portupgrade to analyze your packages, it needs to update the pkgdb. It will create it if it doesn't exist. Nevermind. That's not working. pkgdb -fu is failing as well. Shouldn't it generate the pkgdb if it doesn't exist? I had the same trouble this morning. Apparently the 'portupgrade' port was broken this morning. a cvsup and desintall and reinstall of portupgrade worked for me. This will downgrade the port to the last stable version. Lee --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Changing shells (was: pkg_add not installing lsof (and other programs)?)
At 13:58 Thu 15 Dec 2005, TuxGirl wrote: > > If you install bash, be aware that you have that you have to add it > > (with it's full path, /usr/local/bin/bash) to /etc/shells befor trying > > to change your shell (with 'pw usermod yourname -s bash'). > > amon-re# pw usermod erins -s zsh > pw: no default shell available or defined > > I've added it to /etc/shells: > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.5 2000/04/27 21:58:46 ache Exp $ > # > # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). > # Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using > # one of these shells. > > /bin/sh > /bin/csh > /bin/tcsh > /usr/local/bin/zsh > /usr/local/bin/rzsh > /usr/local/bin/bash > > When I log in as my user (erins), if I run ps, it shows sh as the > shell running. Am I missing an important step someplace here? Try: man chsh It's just an aspect of the same command, but chsh -s bash username should work. (Worked for me!) HTH, -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Solaris patches and Solaris Express
At 18:46 Tue 15 Nov 2005, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I still run 1 solaris machine and thats a sparc running 9.0 ...as > soon as the machine dies or the OS is no longer supported, the > machine will find a nice resting spot in some city dump (or recycler) > Not to start a holy war or anything, but if you're really feeling motivated, I believe you can run netbsd or one of several flavors of linux on that sparc. Not sure about FreeBSD. Regards, -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Printing quota ?
At 09:46 Thu 20 Oct 2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting > interface with CUPS welcome. > PyKota: http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
At 16:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > >Ah, then when the user 'cleans up' all those dot files from her > >Windows > >box that happens to be mounting the same volume exported via Samba, > >they become unusable! ;-) > > Not usually. meta data in resource forks is supposed to be non > essential data (window positions, etc). If they are using the stuff > cross platform they probably won't have resource forks in the first > place or can survive without them. > > In practice it is not a problem for most people. And on OS X most > apps do not create resource forked files anyway > Okay, this is getting pretty OT, but just let me say--don't lose the resource fork to a Mac Quicken file. I don't know what's in there, but it's more than the window positions and the color of the file. But you're right--most of the time it is no longer an issue. We just happen to have tons of legacy Mac files. Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
At 03:30 Tue 18 Oct 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Right, but a lot of Mac files still use that awful resource/data fork > thing > that some idiot at Apple dreamed up and that isn't supported under NFS > that I'm aware. Oh, how I loathe those resource forks. I've been experimenting with these resource forks a lot lately (why? a long, boring, and pitiful tale), and I'm happy to report that the Mac actually _does_ seem to preserve the resource forks over NFS. If I copy a file called "file" with a resource fork over NFS to the file server it also copies over a file called "._file" which seems to contain all that nice metadata. Still, I don't trust it. Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Can't see FreeBSD machine in Mac's Finder
At 17:31 Mon 17 Oct 2005, Per Johnson wrote: > Probably not if you cant use anything else than NFS. > Mac OS X supports Samba and AFP. I know there is some AFP server you can > install on FreeBSD but I cant recall the name. The server software is called netatalk, I think. Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup
At 14:04 Fri 14 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote: > > -Original Message- > > > > My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution > > for our largely > > FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, > > so I was hoping > > for some enlightend pointers from the list. > > > > We need the following features: > > 20GB+ capacity > > USB 2.0 > > External > > < $600CDN > > > > Unfortunately, I've only been able to find two drives that fit our > > requirements, one from Ceterance: > > http://www.certance.com/products/travan/travan40/STT6401U2-SST > > the other from HP who claims that theirs only works with > > HP-UX. Does anyone > > know if (a) either of those units play nice with FreeBSD? or > > (b) if there > > are other tape backup solutions available? > > > > Thanks for any insight. > > Have you considered an external USB2.0 hard drive? I love my Maxtor One > Touch. On nextag.com I see a 300GB for $218 USD at Newegg. It may be > worth rethinking your backup and archiving strategies. (I use removable > hard drives for archiving, but that's another story...) Ditto the recommendation of hard drives. I suppose there are times when you need tape (archiving?), but hard drives are very cheap now. When our tape drive died, We went to two 250GB Seagate drives which we rotate weekly. -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise
On 11:18 Wed 24 Aug , Chris St Denis wrote: > How can I easily auto deny after x failed attempts? Is this an sshd setting? > I could find it. > > Is there something in ports that will firewall off somebody who is brute > forcing? In addition to adding entries to /etc/hosts.allow you could try DenyHosts: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ I didn't find a port, but it works with FreeBSD and isn't too onerous to install. HTH, Lee ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Recommend a file manager
On 07:55 Wed 17 Aug , Mike Hernandez wrote: > On 8/17/05, Campbells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > I run Fluxbox and I'm looking for an efficient, complete and good looking > > file > > manager. Any suggestions? > > Rox-filer is nice... Also gentoo (the file manager, not the linux distro). Lee -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
