Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-22 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:14 -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > I posted this about a month ago, but haven't heard anything, so I'm > trying again: > > > When trying to re-install ruby on my system, I receive this error: > > On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default > X11B

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings > (caight by grep) of the sort: > > part5.chapter2.text- > > where "5" and "2" can be any integer below 10? > > (I know how to delete the *entire*

user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-22 Thread freebsd
I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link properly -- or at least it reports it as up (DSL led steady; modem status report shows it as up, rfc 148

Re: X looks strange after restarting it

2007-10-22 Thread Coleman Kane
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi list, I don't actually know how to explain this problem in an understandable way... I have an external 24' Sun monitor running at 1280x800 plugged into my laptop (1280X800). I start X without the external monitor, I plug it in, and press the keys combination to enable it

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:25:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: > > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > > I ask all who already tried it how

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:33:57 +0100 "Donovan R. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or > current Linux users here and could you tell me how h

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
> I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there > any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it > is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular > which has been w

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
>>> I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from >>> a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. >> >> You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt >> separate slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff like / or /usr; >> what is there that needs to be k

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread John Murphy
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:39:19 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James writes: > > > Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name > > I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what > > the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD histor

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:43 AM, DAve wrote: >> It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a >> domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but name >> server records. This happens when the root servers refer the query to >> TLSx.Ultradns

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Woolley
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:10:49 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:06 -0500 > DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing > > Bind. In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new > > servers we began ge

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? > > Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/ > Does

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:06 -0500 DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing Bind. > In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new servers we > began getting intermittent failures for some clients. > > It is only dot org domains,

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or > current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 22, 2007 03:58:35 pm Rolf G Nielsen wrote: > Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? > > > > > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo

user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-22 Thread freebsd
I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link properly -- or at least it reports it as up (DSL led steady; modem status report shows it as up, rfc 148

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 22, 2007 02:33:57 pm Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or > current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the > shift

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:39:19PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > James writes: > > > Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name > > I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what > > the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians > > her

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or > current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to ma

user ppp and PPPoE bridging

2007-10-22 Thread Gary Aitken
I'm attempting to change a DSL link from using PPPoE in the DSL modem to doing PPPoE on 6.1, with the modem in bridging mode. I've put the DSL modem in bridging mode, and it brings up the link properly -- or at least it reports it as up (DSL led steady; modem status report shows it as up, rfc 148

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons > become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or > current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the >

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Vermillion
"Ang utong ko ay sasabog sa sarap!" exclaimed [EMAIL PROTECTED] while reading this message on Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 21:33 and then responded with: > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:05:54 +0100 > From: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release > Tuc at

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-22 Thread Juri Mianovich
--- Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 22), Juri Mianovich said: > > I am used to using this command in Linux, using > GNU > > dd: > > > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > > > The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand > the > > "oflag" argu

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Eric F Crist wrote: >Hey folks, > >We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs >(private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office >for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the >172.30.x network to work. > >Typing 'host

Per-port options in make.conf?

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
Is there any way to specify options in make.conf on a per-port basis? For example, if I want Vim built without X11, I can specify the WITHOUT_X11 flag, but putting that in make.conf will affect every port. I'm aware it's possible to do it with portupgrade, but I was hoping for a method that would

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 22, 2007 12:44:18 pm Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? > > Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/ > Does in this wor

Re: USB disk causes panic in 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
James wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:33 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >> xptioctl: pass driver is not in the kernel >> xptioctl: put "device pass0" in your kernel config file > > > Have you tried putting "device pass0" into your kernel config file and > seeing if that solves it? Yes, I

help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-22 Thread Gary Kline
Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings (caight by grep) of the sort: part5.chapter2.text- where "5" and "2" can be any integer below 10? (I know how to delete the *entire* line using ed, but not just the first part? thanks

FreeNX

2007-10-22 Thread Novembre
Hi, Is there going to be an updated version of the FreeNX port? The version in the FreeBSD port tree is 0.4.4_3 which hasn't been updated in two years. The current version is 0.7.1 though. Thanks a lot, Novembre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Martin Tournoij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? > > Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/ > Does in this work

Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:43 AM, DAve wrote: It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but name server records. This happens when the root servers refer the query to TLSx.Ultradns.net. I see ultradns failing

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 22 October 2007 17:42:44 Daniel Bye wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > > > Remote PuTTY: > > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > > > At computer terminal: > > PAM auth

Support for SBLive 5.1

2007-10-22 Thread Emanuel Marufo
Hello everybody!! I have PC-BSD 1.3 it is based on FBSD 6.1, i want to play dvd's on kaffeine with dolby-digital 5.1, but i seem FBSD does not support dolby. is it true? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Matt
On 10/22/07, Martin Tournoij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? > > Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/ > Does in this wo

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-22 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Eric F Crist wrote: > Hey folks, > > We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs > (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office > for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the > 172.30.x network to work. > > Typing 'host ' returns a valid re

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:02 PM 10/22/2007, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the 172.30.x network to work. Typing 'host ' returns

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? > > Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/ > Does

How to match /proc/#/map entries to the library/executable file name

2007-10-22 Thread Yuri
Hi, I need to find the file name for every /proc/#/map entry for a program linked statically. But some of them end with '-'. Where can I find documentation describing /pcor/#/map file format, explaining why these dashes are there? And how to find the corresponding filenames? I found a method bas

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 22, 2007 2:21:04 AM -0500 "W. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Any ideas?

Re: do I *really* need xorg 7.x?

2007-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steve Franks wrote: Seems every time I try to install a pkg or make a port lately, I get this: ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries in /usr/ports/x1 1/xorg-libraries /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletel

can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
I posted this about a month ago, but haven't heard anything, so I'm trying again: When trying to re-install ruby on my system, I receive this error: On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in

Re: do I *really* need xorg 7.x?

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 21, 2007 10:29:36 PM -0700 Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems every time I try to install a pkg or make a port lately, I get this: ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries in /usr/ports/x1 1/xorg-libraries /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlin

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:51:48PM +, Mayank Jain wrote: > Hi all, > > I have run chown -R uname:wheel . as root in the / directory. Now it is not > allowing me to log in as su. > Giving the following error > > su > su: not running setuid > > I have also tried su -l but still same error. Ca

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Danielisz Laszlo wrote: Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail

ipfw keep-state + IPv6 on FreeBSD 7

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Kieser
Hello, I'm having problems with ipfw + IPv6 keep-state rules, if I use a keep-state rule on IPv6 it will only work intermittently (eg. I can connect to an FTP site with IPv6 and start to grab a file, but it will stall after a few seconds). I am using deny all by default on ipfw, my ruleset is

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-22 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:53:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI > > encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. > > You don't need to encryp

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Huff
James writes: > Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name > I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what > the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians > here - you'd be welcome to let us know!) Not sure, but I believe "whee

Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular which has been wri

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread Eric Crist
If you executed the command you claim you did, you're system permissions are really screwed up. You've changed ownership of *EVERY* file on the system to uname:wheel. My best guess is that su is trying to run as uname (setuid) and it's not getting the permissions is needs. 4th and long

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 22), Juri Mianovich said: > I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU > dd: > > dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc > > The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the > "oflag" argument. > > Is there some equivalent in the FreeBSD 'dd' syntax >

Install on new INTEL motherboard, can't find ATA devices

2007-10-22 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I just got a new INTEL motherboard - chock full of these new-fangled SATA connectors... and one "legacy" ATA connector. I moved a disk drive from an older box to this new one.. The machine can boot from the disk drive, but then after the kernel is up-and-running - it can't find the drive to moun

ipfw keep-state + IPv6 on FreeBSD 7

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Kieser
Hello, I'm having problems with ipfw + IPv6 keep-state rules, if I use a keep-state rule on IPv6 it will only work intermittently (eg. I can connect to an FTP site with IPv6 and start to grab a file, but it will stall after a few seconds). I am using deny all by default on ipfw, my ruleset is

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

2007-10-22 Thread Matt Pounsett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get FreeBSD running under Xen on a RedHat RHEL5 box. I seem to be stumped really early in the process by something... strange. I don't have a good explanation for it, other than Xen doing something weird, and thought I'd ask if

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:51 +, Mayank Jain wrote: > Hi all, > > I have run chown -R uname:wheel . as root in the / directory. Now it is not > allowing me to log in as su. > Giving the following error > > su > su: not running setuid > > I have also tried su -l but still same error. Can any

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Mayank Jain wrote: I have run chown -R uname:wheel . as root in the / directory. Now it is not allowing me to log in as su. Giving the following error Ouch-- you've managed to reset the setuid/setgid bits for the entire system. You'll probably need to do a bu

Novatel Merlin S720 on FreeBSD

2007-10-22 Thread Sung Park
I try to use Sprint Novatel Wireless Merlin S720 Aircard, but it is not recoginized at the first time. Does anyone know about it or what kind modification do I need to do on kernel to make it work? Any kind comment will help me. ___ freebsd-questions@fr

X looks strange after restarting it

2007-10-22 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi list, I don't actually know how to explain this problem in an understandable way... I have an external 24' Sun monitor running at 1280x800 plugged into my laptop (1280X800). I start X without the external monitor, I plug it in, and press the keys combination to enable it on my laptop. Everything

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:38:35PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: > On 2007-10-22 W. D. wrote: > > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > > > Remote PuTTY: > > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > > > At computer terminal: > > PAM authentication error f

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:10:02PM -0700, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? That's just a fork bomb. Try looking at tuning(7) and login.conf(5) to reduce the maxproc limit for

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On Monday 22 October 2007 3:00:56 pm Johan Hendriks wrote: > >Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > > >Remote PuTTY: > >Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > > >At computer terminal: > >PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > > >An

OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

2007-10-22 Thread DAve
We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing Bind. In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new servers we began getting intermittent failures for some clients. It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a domain query from dnsstuff for any org

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? D

Re: I performed an rm -r on /var/lib/pkg

2007-10-22 Thread James
> > > > Feeding pkgdb/pkg_which a port creates a directory for that port > in /var/db/pkg. > > It then returned a question mark, which kind of sucked, silence being > golden in unix, but I had an entry for openmpi appear in /var/db/pkg > > Is this really just meaningless grasping at straws?

bge Broadcom network card problem

2007-10-22 Thread svetimas alien
Hello, I have lenovo v200 laptop with boardcom network card but my FreeBSD 6.2 does not detect it. I tryed loading win drivers, with kldload, converted with ndisgen but always get kernel panic. pciconf -lv shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0 class=0x02 card=0x3c2c17aa chip=0x1713144e4 rev=0x02

reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-22 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey folks, We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the 172.30.x network to work. Typing 'host ' returns a valid result, however output from wh

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Remote root acces

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:10:02PM -0700, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? rm /bin/sh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote: > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/ Does in this work on other OS's as well (ie. GNU/Linux)? Or just (Free?)BSD? I rea

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. That is normal. The default is to disallow remote login as root. The normal procedure is to ssh in on a normal id and then do su. You have to put that normal user in the wheel gro

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;

2007-10-22 Thread Josh Carroll
> Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? man login.conf Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Cloning a Windows Xp single hard drive to RAID 0 array

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:30:38PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Sunday 21 October 2007 08:55:31 Frank Gaenger wrote: > > I have a system built on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard. At > > present it has only one 250GB SATA hard drive. I would like to modify > > the system by installing tw

Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Danielisz Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. Why not? It's just a fork() bomb. > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? Defend from what? Make a policy that form() bombs are not funny and launch

Filtering IPv6 with ipfw or ip6fw

2007-10-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi, I'm a little bit confused about the purpose of ip6fw(8). The manual page suggests that the standard ipfw(8) supports both IPv4 and IPv6, so why is there a seperate ip6fw? Can it do anything that ipfw can't do? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29,

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, W. D. wrote: >Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > >Remote PuTTY: >Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. The sshd_config file on the target machine must be configured to allow root logins (generally considered a Bad Idea(tm)). Man

Re: Software to print vouchers from large amount of txt data

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, simon butsana wrote: >Hi, >I am looking for a software that will read repetitive data from a text file >and send it to a preformated fanfold paper (impact printer). The software >must be customizable as to be told on which area of the paper to print a >given field from the so

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 22 October 2007, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! If you rea

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
W. D. wrote: Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Any ideas? Sound like maybe password auth is disabled? Relevant li

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-22 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: > Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with FreeBSD? It doesn't work, unless you install the oss driver from http://www.4front-tech.com Note that in my opinion the native FreeBSD drivers are a lot better. Regards, Pieter d

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > > You are probably trying to

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 02:21 -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? > > T

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Josh Carroll
> At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX ssh access for root is disabled by default, for good reason. ssh as a normal user, then su to root instead. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-22 Thread Juri Mianovich
I am used to using this command in Linux, using GNU dd: dd if=/blah of=/bleh oflag=append conv=notrunc The problem is, FreeBSD 'dd' does not understand the "oflag" argument. Is there some equivalent in the FreeBSD 'dd' syntax that I can use, or am I forced to install GNU utils ? _

su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread Mayank Jain
Hi all, I have run chown -R uname:wheel . as root in the / directory. Now it is not allowing me to log in as su. Giving the following error su su: not running setuid I have also tried su -l but still same error. Can any body suggest me some solution to this problem. uname -a FreeBSD mayankjai

Re: Xmodmap (or .xinitrc?) broken after xorg upgrade

2007-10-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:38:33PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > About a week ago, I updated my ports, including xorg. Now xmodmap isn't > running from ~/.xinitrc like it used to. > > My .xinitrc is the same as it's been for years, so it includes the lines > if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then > xmodmap

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? D

Re: OpenLDAP 2.3/pam_ldap/nss_ldap: not working in FreeBSD 7.0-PRE!

2007-10-22 Thread O. Hartmann
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: For weeks now I tried to get an OpenLDAP-server on a local FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box running, but with no success. Within the last 8 weeks I tried nearly EVERY tutorial and there explained setups, but whenever I try to authenticate or find an ID for an ex

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-22 W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > In /etc/ssh/sshd_config: PermitRootLogin yes

RE: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Johan Hendriks
>Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. >Remote PuTTY: >Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. >At computer terminal: >PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX >Any ideas? >Thanks! You cannot login directly with root over ssh You will ne

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-21 16:42, "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2007-10-21 11:28, "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the >>> next release of the OS. >> >> Why? > > I can afford the time to star

a dead process (a ``zombie'')

2007-10-22 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
One day I was at a restaurant explaining process control to one of my disciples. I was mentioning how we have to kill the children (child processes) if they become unresponsive. Or we can even set an alarm for the children to kill themselves. That the parent need to wait (wait3) and acknowledge

defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine. I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __

USB disk causes panic in 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hello, list! Jeg just bought a LaCie external USD hdd to store my pictures. When I plug it in, it causes my laptop to panic after ~15-20 seconds. After a reboot (with the disc still plugged in) it functions properly. These are the messages I get when I plug it in: umass0: on uhub3 da0 at umass

Bringing Hot Stock News to investors inboxes!

2007-10-22 Thread rae7035
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Software to print vouchers from large amount of txt data

2007-10-22 Thread simon butsana
Hi, I am looking for a software that will read repetitive data from a text file and send it to a preformated fanfold paper (impact printer). The software must be customizable as to be told on which area of the paper to print a given field from the source text file. The data in the t

Re: compile error LyX 1.5.1

2007-10-22 Thread Ullrich Franke
Hi Marco, could you give me complete build logs as well as some more information about your system? What version of boost do you have installed? I currently have no direct access to the internet, so things are a bit difficult for me. Please add me to CC as I'm not on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards,

Re: Xmodmap (or .xinitrc?) broken after xorg upgrade

2007-10-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, October 21, 2007 a las 08:38:33PM -0400, Chris Hill escribió: > About a week ago, I updated my ports, including xorg. Now xmodmap isn't > running from ~/.xinitrc like it used to. > > My .xinitrc is the same as it's been for years, so it includes the lines > if [ -f $usermodmap ];

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > I don't want to build out of ports because it is set up not to > override the base install. Actually, I think your perception is incorrect here. If you want sendmail-8.14.1 on a FreeBSD 6.x system, then install

Re: Linux samba server, Freebsd client

2007-10-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:37 PM 10/19/2007, Jason Dobyns wrote: Hello, My smb server is run from a linux CentOS 5 machine. When I mount the share in Freebsd all the files are owned by root SMB Server permissions -rwxrwxr-x 1 httpd httpd21868 Oct 17 22:06 index.php Freebsd Client Share permissions -

Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread W. D.
Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX Any ideas? Thanks! Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best

INIC162x SATA Controller

2007-10-22 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Hi all, I recently got a SATA INIC162x controller PCI card, and I am trying to know if it is usable in a FreeBSD box. (See Hardware Note below, if relevant.) After few minutes of internet search, I am quite pessimistic about this. I would however be very interested to hear from list members who

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