Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Chad David wrote: A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the admin (half seriously) that he should just toss it on a PC with FreeBSD. Well they finally got tired of hearing FreeBSD this

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Chad David wrote: A local company has been having issues with samba for some time (it kills an e250, and has seriously stressed an e5000) and I've been telling the admin (half seriously) that he should just toss it on a PC with FreeBSD. Well

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a single client, windows puts all share access (net use,

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most definitely not. For a single

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Samba uses a seperate process for each connection, and Windows opens one connection per share. Yes to the first claim, no to the second. Most

No suid crontab(1).

2002-07-11 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Hello there. On end of this post You got diif how to remove set-uid-root bit from crontab(1). What You think about it? Some directory and files perms changes: leila:root:~# ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -r-xr-sr-x 1 root crontab 24804 11 Lip 12:37 /usr/bin/crontab leila:root:~# ls -ld /var/cron

Re: No suid crontab(1).

2002-07-11 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
I forgot, that should be always an empty file root in /var/cron/tabs and files of all users if we don't want to gives attacker their rights. But I think the best way is to change cron(8) that it will be check file owner. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: IDE EIDE ATAPI Low Level Format tools by vendor

2002-07-11 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Feel free to add to this list, and repost, to capture in the list archive. Excellent! Adding an untested Quantum tool to the list. I really could have used this last week, but couldn't find it until I followed the Maxtor link you gave. Doh!

security jobs

2002-07-11 Thread Peter Elsner
Hi Hackers... Recently, (this past Sunday), I CVS-upped my 4.5-STABLE to 4.6-STABLE. Everything is fine, except one thing... The security check jobs no longer run at 2:00 AM like they used to. I checked all the settings in /etc/periodic and also in root's crontab, and can't find anything wrong.

Re: security jobs

2002-07-11 Thread Michael Hostbaek
Peter Elsner (peter) writes: Here's the strange part. From the #, I can type: periodic daily and in about 30 seconds get an email with the security reports. However, the same line in crontab, sends me an email: periodic not found. Do you have /usr/sbin in the PATH statement ? Look

IN NEED OF HELP

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Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-11 Thread Chad David
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:33:30AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: ... Even with just one connection per machine, though, you're still going to

Re: A question about S/390 port

2002-07-11 Thread Jake Burkholder
Apparently, On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:11:47AM +0400, Serguei Tzukanov said words to the effect of; On Thursday 11 July 2002 02:45, Jake Burkholder wrote: I think this is because your console driver (hc) doesn't have a tty interface, just the low level cn* stuff. If you look at

Re: security jobs

2002-07-11 Thread Peter Elsner
I didn't have that line, but I also never had that line in my crontab file in the past, and the security jobs ran fine. Just for giggles, I added it. Checked my mail after it should have run, and nothing... At 03:50 PM 7/11/2002 +0200, you wrote: Peter Elsner (peter) writes: Here's the

Re: A question about S/390 port

2002-07-11 Thread Serguei Tzukanov
On Thursday 11 July 2002 18:43, Jake Burkholder wrote: Where exactly in init are you trying to print? If you're in the single_user function, you can only use stdio in the forked child after it calls setctty. Before that you have to open an fd on /dev/console yourself and write(2) to it, or

Re: security jobs

2002-07-11 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
Peter Elsner (peter) writes: I didn't have that line, but I also never had that line in my crontab file in the past, and the security jobs ran fine. Just for giggles, I added it. Checked my mail after it should have run, and nothing... Did you run mergemaster(8) after installworld ?

Re: Non suid crontab(1).

2002-07-11 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:03:56PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: http://garage.freebsd.pl/crontab.diff http://garage.freebsd.pl/crontab.README.eng There You got updated patch, added chroot() to /var/cron as soon as possbile and fixed note about permissions, for users files should be:

Re: termios guru ?

2002-07-11 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:13:18PM -0700, bruno schwander wrote: I making a port (not much really) of Irit (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~irit/) a modelling environment. I am having some problems with terminal handling, so all termios guru out there, please help ! :-) That's what I did for

Re: Motherboard temperature sensing

2002-07-11 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: I haven't been following this so now naturally it becomes important.. anyone have good pointers? If you're looking at server machines with IPMI I have some tools that can query the temperature sensors. Doug White| FreeBSD:

Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin

2002-07-11 Thread Terry Lambert
Alex Dupre wrote: Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 10:22:22 PM, you wrote: TL Sounds like Cygwin's terminal program fails to correctly implement TL the ANSI 3.64 standard. Could you use an ANSI 3.64 standard terminal, TL instead? Windows Telnet is standards compliant, for example. I can use

Re: termios guru ?

2002-07-11 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:13:18PM -0700, bruno schwander wrote: I making a port (not much really) of Irit (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~irit/) a modelling environment. I am having some problems with terminal handling, so all termios guru out there, please help ! :-) At stratup, irit

Re: termios guru ?

2002-07-11 Thread bruno schwander
thanks, I see the idea but cfmakeraw has some other effects... newlines output by the program are not translated, etc. My main program now is the VMIN/VTIME stuff. The way irit tries to use is, is basically to be able to do async stdin reading, but this does not work. Whenever I try those

Re: No suid crontab(1).

2002-07-11 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:52:14PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: [snip] @@ -592,11 +577,19 @@ } (void) sprintf(n, CRON_TAB(User)); + chflags(n, 0); please, backup old flags such as (oflags = chflags(n, 0)) since you don't know if only UF_IMMUTABLE is used. if

Re: Non suid crontab(1).

2002-07-11 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:07:12PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:03:56PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: http://garage.freebsd.pl/crontab.diff http://garage.freebsd.pl/crontab.README.eng PS. I'm still waiting for ANY comments:) done, but if you want your

Old libtool.

2002-07-11 Thread Christopher Nehren
Anyone have any ideas [when|if] the libtool in ports will be updated? It's preventing me from compiling CVS of various things, such as gaim, py-gtk, and other non-GNOME things as well. TIA for the info, and best regards. Chris Nehren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: No suid crontab(1).

2002-07-11 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:08:44AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: + please, backup old flags such as (oflags = chflags(n, 0)) since + you don't know if only UF_IMMUTABLE is used. + But this files should have ONLY UF_IMMUTABLE, I think... + does this work w/ `sysctl kern.securelevel' 0 ? + Yes,

CDR performance

2002-07-11 Thread Keith Pitcher
Just thought I'd report that using cdrecord on a netserver 5 with SCSI2 bus, I can do 8 CDs at 4 speed, 7 at 6 speed and 4 or 5 at 8 speed. It will start fine with 8, but after a few seconds I get bus errors and a few new coasters pop out. I've tried staggering startup a few seconds, but the

Re: CDR performance

2002-07-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Just thought I'd report that using cdrecord on a netserver 5 with SCSI2 bus, :I can do 8 CDs at 4 speed, 7 at 6 speed and 4 or 5 at 8 speed. It will start fine :with 8, but after a few seconds I get bus errors and a few new coasters pop :out. I've tried staggering startup a few seconds, but

Re: CDR performance

2002-07-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Keith Pitcher wrote: Just thought I'd report that using cdrecord on a netserver 5 with SCSI2 bus, I can do 8 CDs at 4 speed, 7 at 6 speed and 4 or 5 at 8 speed. It will start fine with 8, but after a few seconds I get bus errors and a few new coasters pop out. I've tried staggering startup

Re: termios guru ?

2002-07-11 Thread Terry Lambert
bruno schwander wrote: thanks, I see the idea but cfmakeraw has some other effects... newlines output by the program are not translated, etc. My main program now is the VMIN/VTIME stuff. The way irit tries to use is, is basically to be able to do async stdin reading, but this does not

Re: termios guru ?

2002-07-11 Thread Sergey Babkin
bruno schwander wrote: thanks, I see the idea but cfmakeraw has some other effects... newlines output by the program are not translated, etc. To get rid of the raw output effects, remove the line t-c_oflag = ~OPOST; My main program now is the VMIN/VTIME stuff. The way irit tries

Bad vnode causing crash in 4.x

2002-07-11 Thread Michael Adler
I've been suffering infrequent system crashes when running ange-ftp under emacs for some time and finally have a crash dump from a kernel with symbols. This crash dump was on 4.6-stable, though I've seen the bug off and on for at least a year. All the crashes have the following

Report to Sender

2002-07-11 Thread MCNSTL41
Incident Information:- Database: d:/notes/data/mail2.box Originator: hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Hello,let's be friends Date/Time: 07/11/2002 08:56:34 PM The file attachment target.scr you sent to the recipients listed above was

Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)

2002-07-11 Thread Robert Watson
Just a reminder that the deadline is on July 19; please submit status reports as soon as possible, thanks! Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002