Re: Vt102 at home

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Like Mr Wojciech Puchar, I have a VT100 clone here at home... that I use for kernel debug on a 9600 com1 port... and it works soo good.. May be when you are 55 (or 64 as the beatles song)... you will use konsole and the "boys" will use some kind of "brain cortex" wired interface and som

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-11 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi Paul, I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive. Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram drives, the rest is Read Only. When it shuts down (not very often), the ram drive contents are copied back to the CF card. You could backup t

Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-11 Thread Alexander Schlichting
On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the first time. With Linux I would look into config.status is there something si

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/03/07, Paulette McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the > manual/handbook is not great in detail, > > (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this > questions list for a lot > > of help. > > what's miss

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/03/07, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try

Re: The Best OS

2007-03-11 Thread Ray
On Sunday 11 March 2007 10:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/03/07, Susanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > > > Am a beginner to *BSD OS. > > > > Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server > > ( No GUI required ) > > > > Prime area is Webserv

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:16:22 -0600 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No luck, got the first timeout shortly (25 min) after boot without > > ACPI, again while mostly idle and I'm not able to repeat it more than > > once a day or so: > > > > Mar 12 01:49:19 imogen kernel: xl0: watch

Re: PHP 5.2.1 and the hard time with vbulletin 3.6.4 (solved)

2007-03-11 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 2/27/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/26/07, Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Have you recompiled all PHP extensions too? > > I believe the php5-pcre extension might handle perl regular > expressions (preg_

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/03/07, Brian J. Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 "Brian J. Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I > > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not > > related w

Re: The Best OS

2007-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/03/07, Susanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os Will be the BEST ?

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Zwart
Jeffrey, what you've suggested is what I've done. Thanks for the explanation! e. On 3/11/07, Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ed Zwart wrote: > I'm still a little fuzzy on legal entries for hostname and domain. I > set them to be

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ed Zwart wrote: I'm still a little fuzzy on legal entries for hostname and domain. I set them to be mine, and it worked, and then for kicks, set it to google.com, and that worked too. I looked at the headers, and can see that the source can be

gcc internal error on buildkernel

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Hello, After changing my make.conf to list my CPUTYPE as c3 on my VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) system. I did a cvsup for /usr/src tag=RELENG_6_2 and successfully did a make buildworld and make installworld I then thought that with my newly compiled tools tuned for the

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. what's missing? i think it's quite detailed I started with Linux years ago. I tried several versions and o

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Eric Schuele
On 03/11/2007 17:44, Wojciech Puchar wrote: a fair bit of eyecandy. I'll second the E17! i like to get all icons, menus, frames and windows to minimum, as it doesn't improve productivity, while taking space of the screen. as i found (at least with fvwm2) that minimum=ZERO i did this and u

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Zwart
Thanks Bill, Josh and Jeffrey for answering my question. It was my ISP. (So easy, I wish I had thought of that. I somehow managed to figure out they were blocking 80 a month or so ago.) I'm still a little fuzzy on legal entries for hostname and domain. I set them to be mine, and it worked, an

Re: Problems with SSHD

2007-03-11 Thread Jonathan horne
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:24:13 +0100 "Alexander Schlichting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having a big problem with the OpenSSH Daemon on my server. Whenever I > am connected to the server and the connection is idle for a few seconds it > gets disconnected. It's almost im

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-11 Thread Brian J. Conway
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 "Brian J. Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I > > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not > > related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. > > Inter

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: In this case the counter counter measures available to spammers is so much easier and cheaper than the verification system itself, that it's not really a good idea to try such verification. that is always true, at least with existing

Vt102 at home

2007-03-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
> > Maybe you are, but even so, do you still use V7 on a PDP/11 or 32V on a VAX, > make dumps to DECtape, or use a VT100? There's something to be said for > modern PC hardware, xterms/gnome-terminal/konsole/screen, and yes, ssh. > (Namely speed, convenience, and security, respectively). > > I w

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:27 PM, jekillen wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise [don't run your own direct to MX mail server] apply if you have static ip service and are running web servers from these addresses, with the ISP's blessing? (meaning you also ha

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread Paulette McGee
--- Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > Hello Wojciech, > > Yes, the handbook is quite detailed; however there > are > > somethings missing. Not to start a flame war; > these > > are just a few thoughts and they are in my humble > > opinion. > > > > why you don't write such part

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-11 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:40:47 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have heard it does not scale well above 4 > > to be clear. > > kernel task (disk I/O, network etc.) is always on first processor, > everything else on any CPU. > > so as long as disk I/O network and other

RE: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I have played around with using an EPIA 600-PD (Fanless Dual NICS), with 256MB RAM. Works well, however, a buildworld takes around 4 hours ;-) I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive. Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram driv

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread jekillen
On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Ed Zwart wrote: I own my_domain.com. I've paid a hoster for the last couple years, but that's ending in a week or so. Meanwhile, I've used dyndns to point foo.homedns.org to my IP. If y

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Mar 10, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Kelly Jones wrote: To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does this? The basics are simple: to validate "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", I connect to the MX record

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-11 22:21, Susanth K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > Is FreeBSD Completely Written in C ? Sort of. Great parts of FreeBSD, in fact the vast majority of the source code, is written in C. But it is not *completely* written in C. > Is there any part of OS written in C++ ? Y

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
about FreeBSD (and possibly other systems)? It certainly seems that way to me. So from this point on, for any question for me it looks like writing well scored essay for computer lessons at school. it's very common on polish USENET on all computer groups, and it's clearly evident most case

Problems with SSHD

2007-03-11 Thread Alexander Schlichting
Hi, I am having a big problem with the OpenSSH Daemon on my server. Whenever I am connected to the server and the connection is idle for a few seconds it gets disconnected. It's almost impossible to work from remote on the server when the connection is always getting dropped. The server is r

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a fair bit of eyecandy. I'll second the E17! i like to get all icons, menus, frames and windows to minimum, as it doesn't improve productivity, while taking space of the screen. as i found (at least with fvwm2) that minimum=ZERO i did this and use that config for over 3 years (with netbsd

Re: Telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Once I setted up a mailserver with more that 2000 users with a single freebsd sendmailin a small machine (1Ghz,512Mb memory, Freebsd 4.X) one internet connection.. with virtual users, mailertable... and it worked for years... by the way... it had telnetd avaiable... exactly like me. i do p

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Susanth K wrote: Am new to FreeBSD; ( Sorry; if Any of u find this as a silly Question ) Have you been given a course assignment which involves describing things about FreeBSD (and possibly other systems)? It certainly seems that way to

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello Wojciech, Yes, the handbook is quite detailed; however there are somethings missing. Not to start a flame war; these are just a few thoughts and they are in my humble opinion. why you don't write such part and fixes? i am sure it will be included in new releases if you only post them

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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Re: Telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe you are, but even so, do you still use V7 on a PDP/11 or 32V on a VAX, make dumps to DECtape, or use a VT100? There's something to be said for i still have (in many places) Wyse 120 terminals i've got for free, including one at home :) works at vt220 at 38400 baud, very well

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Ed Zwart wrote: I own my_domain.com. I've paid a hoster for the last couple years, but that's ending in a week or so. Meanwhile, I've used dyndns to point foo.homedns.org to my IP. I am going to add my voice to those suggesting that you use

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Len Conrad
onfirmed that the mail is from you, after all No. His MX has only verified his email address, which does not say he sent the msg. Then what was the point? "His MX has only verified his email address" Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Eric Schuele
On 03/11/2007 13:28, Sean Bryant wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id

sound card ESI MAYA44MK2

2007-03-11 Thread Andrey Slusar
Hello! FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT is supported sound card ESI MAYA44MK2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/03/07, Sergio Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you gain by allowing telnet access to your hosts that you don't > get with ssh? > > Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ >

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread Paulette McGee
--- Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the > manual/handbook is not great in detail, > > (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this > questions list for a lot > > of help. > > what's missing? i think it's quite detailed > _

Re: OpenSSH Problem with disconnects

2007-03-11 Thread Norbert Papke
On Sunday 11 March 2007 09:52, Alexander Schlichting wrote: > I am having a big problem with the OpenSSH Daemon on my server. Whenever I > am connected to the server and the connection is idle for a few seconds it > gets disconnected. It's almost impossible to work from remote on the server > when

Sound Driver for REALTEK ALC660 ON BOARD

2007-03-11 Thread DANNY ALEXANDER
I'm looking for the driver files for the Realtek ALC660 onboard sound card. I'm using an ASUS M2V and it works great. Except the sound. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Len Conrad
onfirmed that the mail is from you, after all No. His MX has only verified his email address, which does not say he sent the msg. Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:55 PM, John L wrote: I phrased it wrong. You are not responsible for the content, but you are responsible for the mail domain and that includes verifying that mail is validly from your domain you are responsible for. Oh, OK. So if someone sends pump and dump with

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:46:50 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter. > > > > It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the > > foot. > > boom... i'm dead.. > at least for 4 years :) Sorry to hear th

Telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
> What do you gain by allowing telnet access to your hosts that you don't > get with ssh? > > Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > > --=7CEE76846768256DC8==-- > !DSPAM

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread John L
I phrased it wrong. You are not responsible for the content, but you are responsible for the mail domain and that includes verifying that mail is validly from your domain you are responsible for. Oh, OK. So if someone sends pump and dump with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] return address, and I do a ca

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jonathan, I had great help from this mailing list setting up wdm+fluxbox recently. They're minimalistic and slick to use. If you should need to connect with a windows box there's Xming. Look in the archives! Good luck! Jonathan Horne skrev: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can re

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. what's missing? i think it's quite detailed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter. It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot. boom... i'm dead.. at least for 4 years :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. you should first define what "desktop" is. i use xorg+fvwm2 with much

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread NetOpsCenter
Patrick Bowen wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to tr

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread dex
On 3/11/07, Andy Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. In my opinion it relies on far too high a plateau of knowledge by it's readers to b

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:08 PM, John Levine wrote: I have some fairly heavily forged domains, and on a bad day I see upwards of 300,000 connections from bounces, "validation", and the like attacking the little BSD box under my desk where the MTA is. Gee, thanks a lot. Verification has nothing to

Manual updates

2007-03-11 Thread Andy Kendall
As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. In my opinion it relies on far too high a plateau of knowledge by it's readers to be of initial use. Am I really that thick or does any

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread John Levine
>Sender verification works and works well. I suppose that if you define "works" to include mailbombing innocent third parties, then that might be true. I have some fairly heavily forged domains, and on a bad day I see upwards of 300,000 connections from bounces, "validation", and the like attacki

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:20:03 + Hugo Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Oh well, your server, your password. Just don't say you were not > warned. I believe the following sums up my feeling on the matter. It is not the OS's job to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot. Rather, if

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread John Levine
>> I have some fairly heavily forged domains, and on a bad day I see >> upwards of 300,000 connections from bounces, "validation", and the >> like attacking the little BSD box under my desk where the MTA is. >> Gee, thanks a lot. > >Verification has nothing to do with bounces and mail bombs. You m

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:43:22PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:41:48PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Justi

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:44 PM, John Levine wrote: Sender verification works and works well. I suppose that if you define "works" to include mailbombing innocent third parties, then that might be true. I have some fairly heavily forged domains, and on a bad day I see upwards of 300,000 connecti

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Len Conrad
Perhaps we are talking about different things, I am talking about systems which send me an email back requiring me to do steps a, b or c in order to complete delivery of the email. that's challenge/response, which has been widely discredited for years. SAV is a receiving MX probing the MX of

Re: [freebsd-questions] [freebsd-questions] root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Christian Walther
On 11/03/07, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been *many* problems over the years with rsh and telnet. rsh's > security model comes from a time when people thought computers would never exactly true. so i use rsh between MY machines and rsh and telnet when sniffing is not

Re: OpenSSH Problem with disconnects

2007-03-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007, Alexander Schlichting wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am having a big problem with the OpenSSH Daemon on my server. Whenever I >am connected to the server and the connection is idle for a few seconds it >gets disconnected. It's almost impossible to work from remote on the server.

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:43:22PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:41:48PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net > >LLC wrote: > >> > >>On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Justin Mason wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>for w

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:41:48PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Justin Mason wrote: for what it's worth, I would suggest *not* adopting this as an anti-spam technique. Sender-address verification

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:41:48PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > >for what it's worth, I would suggest *not* adopting this > >as an anti-spam technique. > > > >Sender-address verification is _bad_ as an anti-spam technique,

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Paulette McGee
--- Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. > this week, im off from > work, and want to spend some time trying something > new with my laptop. so > far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up > to the minimal desktop. > > id li

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Justin Mason wrote: for what it's worth, I would suggest *not* adopting this as an anti-spam technique. Sender-address verification is _bad_ as an anti-spam technique, in my opinion. Basically, there's one obvious response for spammers looking to evade it -- u

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Susanth K wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Is FreeBSD Completely Written in C ? Almost. The kernel and most parts are. > Is there any part of OS written in C++ ? There are some but there are not many of them. It's not a matter of policy but of the individual choice of a developer. > And I Guess GCC

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Sean Bryant
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not gno

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from > work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so > far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. > > id like to try

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Patrick Bowen
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not gno

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Dear Friends, Is FreeBSD Completely Written in C ? Is there any part of OS written in C++ ? see the sources. And I Guess GCC Compiler is used for compilation; ( Is it so ? ) Please correct me; if am not. Am new to FreeBSD; ( Sorry; if Any of u find this as a silly Question ) you need

polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not gnome, or basically id like

Assemblers for FreBSD

2007-03-11 Thread Patrick Bowen
If one wanted to learn Assembly Language Programming, would he be better served starting with as(1) or nasm(1)? Also, are either of those applicable to AMD64, or just i386? TIA, Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

OpenSSH Problem with disconnects

2007-03-11 Thread Alexander Schlichting
Hi, I am having a big problem with the OpenSSH Daemon on my server. Whenever I am connected to the server and the connection is idle for a few seconds it gets disconnected. It's almost impossible to work from remote on the server when the connection is always getting dropped. The server is r

Re: root login with telnetd The FINAL SOLUTION

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 11, 2007 11:22:42 AM -0300 Sergio Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 7) telnet to your server should now allow root login What do you gain by allowing telnet access to your hosts that you don't get with ssh? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst Th

The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-11 Thread Susanth K
Dear Friends, Is FreeBSD Completely Written in C ? Is there any part of OS written in C++ ? And I Guess GCC Compiler is used for compilation; ( Is it so ? ) Please correct me; if am not. Am new to FreeBSD; ( Sorry; if Any of u find this as a silly Question ) SUSANTH K _

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Hugo Silva
Sergio Lenzi wrote: Hello... I see you issues about telenet... I use the inetd+telnet for more than 20 years and using BSD with RSA, and obviiously with a good password. I have never been cracked down... and I have 10 of my /etc/ttys entries setted to "secure" ttyp0 none

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Hugo Silva
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Err, sure; and for completeness, be sure and send the IP back to this list, and publish it on the front page of your website/blog/whatnot. and what if i will? do you know my root password? OK, cynicism aside, why on earth would you want to do this? That's a fool's e

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 11 March 2007 10:45, Ed Zwart wrote: > I use freebsd on an older computer in my home network to run a > webserver, a few web apps (bugzilla, tikiwiki), and samba. I just > installed postfix via the ports collection so I can use the mail > functionality of bugzilla. > > Bugzilla does its

Re: installing i386.rpm files on FBSD-6.1 amd64

2007-03-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:44:38 + Luiz A B de Campos wrote: > Is it possible to do this? I've already installed linux_base-8 and rpm ports It is recommended to use linux_base-fc4 nowadays. > but when I try to install a "i386.rpm" file the system claims for some libs > (libpopt, libtiff, glibc.s

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
"Ed Zwart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use freebsd on an older computer in my home network to run a > webserver, a few web apps (bugzilla, tikiwiki), and samba. I just > installed postfix via the ports collection so I can use the mail > functionality of bugzilla. > > Bugzilla does its part c

Re: When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Dear Friends, When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released ? when it will be ready. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: root login with telnetd The FINAL SOLUTION

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
works fine. thank you very much (point 6 wasn't needed) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

getting mail to work

2007-03-11 Thread Ed Zwart
I use freebsd on an older computer in my home network to run a webserver, a few web apps (bugzilla, tikiwiki), and samba. I just installed postfix via the ports collection so I can use the mail functionality of bugzilla. Bugzilla does its part correctly; I can see the message in the mailq, but a

Re: portupgrade bombing out for java

2007-03-11 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: portupgrade is bombing due to the file tzupdater-1.1.0-2007c.zip not being found in /usr/ports/distfiles. however, when i visit http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml, there appears to be no link or no information about such a file. Typ

jails and crashes

2007-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is there any fix for crashing when using jails i have few jails on one machine, almost nothing running outside jails, and it crashes. as far as i found - crash is always when allocating pty - when logging with ssh telnet etc. to one of jails. any fixes?

Daylight Savings Time -- /etc/localtime and what else?

2007-03-11 Thread V.I.Victor
A month ago I downloaded tzdata2007b.tar.gz, compiled it and installed a new /etc/localtime. All seemed OK. Now, after the time change, I've had to restart both 'fetchmail' and 'sendmail' to get '/var/log/maillog' in-sync with the new time. Not a problem; apparently these processes use time-

Re: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome

2007-03-11 Thread Edward Ruggeri
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:04:48 -0600, Edward Ruggeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:54:55 -0600, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main application I run is Vim, which I run through Gnome- Terminal. I frequentl

portupgrade bombing out for java

2007-03-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
portupgrade is bombing due to the file tzupdater-1.1.0-2007c.zip not being found in /usr/ports/distfiles. however, when i visit http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml, there appears to be no link or no information about such a file. does anyone know what the story is, and where

Re: When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released

2007-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-11 15:14, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Susanth K wrote: >> Dear Friends, >> >> When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released ? > > Check: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html > > Appears the release process is set to start in june. > > What is not yet clear is if RELENG_7

Re: root login with telnetd The FINAL SOLUTION

2007-03-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
So. resuming: 1) change some lines in /etc/ttys to: ttyp0 nonenetwork off secure ttyp1 nonenetwork off secure ttyp2 nonenetwork off secure ttyp3 nonenetwork off secure ttyp4 none

Re: When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released

2007-03-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released ? Check: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Appears the release process is set to start in june. What is not yet clear is if RELENG_7 has been branched off yet so we should all update our supfile? I suppose this w

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Hello... I see you issues about telenet... I use the inetd+telnet for more than 20 years and using BSD with RSA, and obviiously with a good password. I have never been cracked down... and I have 10 of my /etc/ttys entries setted to "secure" ttyp0 nonenetwork off secure

clean-hoststat

2007-03-11 Thread Drew Jenkins
Hi; Just built a new server and got this error: Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache: /etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat: purgestat: Permission denied # ls -al /etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 588 Jan 12 07:42 /etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Justin Mason
for what it's worth, I would suggest *not* adopting this as an anti-spam technique. Sender-address verification is _bad_ as an anti-spam technique, in my opinion. Basically, there's one obvious response for spammers looking to evade it -- use "real" sender addresses. Where's an easy place to fin

When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released

2007-03-11 Thread Susanth K
Dear Friends, When Will The FreeBSD 7.0 be released ? SUSANTH K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

installing i386.rpm files on FBSD-6.1 amd64

2007-03-11 Thread Luiz A B de Campos
Is it possible to do this? I've already installed linux_base-8 and rpm ports but when I try to install a "i386.rpm" file the system claims for some libs (libpopt, libtiff, glibc.so.6 , libxml, bash) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

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