Re: does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root

2008-05-07 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root? I know installX does but build? No, you can build kernel, world and ports as an ordinary user as long as permissions on the build directories are configured

Re: a monster stole my /

2008-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:54 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +1000, Hartleigh Burton wrote: Hiya! I have a problem with / currently being at 108% capacity. I have found a previous thread in the archives which explains a few questions but I can't find

Re: does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root

2008-05-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 07 May 2008 01:57:28 -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root? I know installX does but build? No, building everything does not require superuser rights. I usually build my src/ snapshots as 'build', at /home/build, by

Underscores in host names

2008-05-07 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've a host on the network called GC100_000C1E00AC3F_GlobalCache, and I'm getting interesting behaviour when I try to do DNS lookups on it. Under FreeBSD, ping fails with 'Unknown server error'(distinct from the standard 'Unknown host'), and nslookup succeeds. OSX and Windows

Automounting External USB Drive on FreeBSD 7.x

2008-05-07 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello list, I have a requirement to automatically mount a USB disk to, say, ~backup/data automatically when the device is plugged to into the machine. I can handle/manage the umount part. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Re: FreeBSD 7 enable ipaq driver

2008-05-07 Thread Vince Hoffman
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: also I just found out I bet this patch would fix my problem http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121184cat= Interesting, I have a HTC hermes (well orange spv m3100, same thing) and was going to try the /usr/ports/palm/uppc-kmod to get it working but I'll give

Re: Automounting External USB Drive on FreeBSD 7.x

2008-05-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 07, 2008 a las 01:32:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington escribió: Hello list, I have a requirement to automatically mount a USB disk to, say, ~backup/data automatically when the device is plugged to into the machine. I can handle/manage the umount part. You could use

ports missing after a upgrade

2008-05-07 Thread Geert Geurts
Hello, I've first upgrade my system using the method described at www.digitalrage.org/downloads/Upgrade.Freebsd.pdf I had some trouble cause i've in first instance downgraded it from 6.2 to 6.0 instead of upgrading it because I didn't change the 'default release' directive in my cvs-supfile. So

chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including. Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.lc-words.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Julien Cigar
sorry.. | xargs chmod instead of | xargs | chmod ... On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:14 +0200, Julien Cigar wrote: find your_dir -type (f|d) | xargs | chmod ... or find your_dir -type (f|d) -exec chmod {} \; On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:56 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, How do I

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Julien Cigar
find your_dir -type (f|d) | xargs | chmod ... or find your_dir -type (f|d) -exec chmod {} \; On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:56 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories assigning

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Baptiste Grenier pisze: Using find(1), you can try something like this: For files: find /plop -type f -exec chmod 644 '{}' \; For dirs: find /plop -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \; I have recieved many helpful replies. Thank you all. The above did the trick for me. I have saved

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Baptiste Grenier
Le 07/05/08 à 14:00, Zbigniew Szalbot téléscripta : Hello, Hi, How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including. Using find(1), you can try something like

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 13:56, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including. Use the symbolic form for permissions and use X, which is

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Gordon devel
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories assigning everything 644 permissions, directories including. How about? find . -type d -exec chmod 755

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Valerio Daelli
Try with find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Bye Valerio Daelli On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the

Re: ports missing after a upgrade

2008-05-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:42:00 +0200 Geert Geurts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was stupid enough to do it in X so it got stuck after some time... I killed it and started it again using That's not normally a problem. xorg-libraries-7.3_1 /x11/xorg-libraries restoring original port from

Re: Underscores in host names

2008-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've a host on the network called GC100_000C1E00AC3F_GlobalCache, and I'm getting interesting behaviour when I try to do DNS lookups on it. Under FreeBSD, ping fails with 'Unknown server error'(distinct from the standard 'Unknown

Re: Underscores in host names

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bill Moran wrote: In response to Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've a host on the network called GC100_000C1E00AC3F_GlobalCache, and I'm getting interesting behaviour when I try to do DNS lookups on it. Under FreeBSD, ping

RE: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Catalin Miclaus
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zbigniew Szalbot Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:57 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: chmod operation on directories / files Hello, How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use

Best Java 1.6 JDK for FreeBSD?

2008-05-07 Thread Gunther Mayer
Hi guys, We're currently running a busy java web application with diablo-jdk 1.5 and jboss 4.0.5 on FreeBSD 6.2 (yes it's outdated, will upgrade to 6.3 very soon). That combination has proven to be very stable in the past. Now we'd like to start making use of some 1.6 only features in the app

Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy

2008-05-07 Thread Modulok
On 5/6/08, Dsiuh Djsids [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, do you run something like

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread Yi Wang
sorry, I forgot to reply to all. for directorys, you can use: chmod 755 */ if the files have a suffix. you can use chmod 644 *.* for the files don't have the suffix, I guess a regex should solve it. But I'm not familiar with regex. :-) On 5/7/08, Catalin Miclaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread David Banning
For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up - large unimportant files - some cache and log files. I'll look at

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Need to download FreeBSD

2008-05-07 Thread Ecole Point Bleu
Mr./Ms.: I am trying to download FreeBsd from http://www.freebsd.org/fr/where.html. But so far, I have been unsuccessful at it as I am asked to provide a user name and a password. Anonymous login does not work either. Though some few days ago I started downloading Disc1 (iso) just to find

Re: Need to download FreeBSD

2008-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ecole Point Bleu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mr./Ms.: I am trying to download FreeBsd from http://www.freebsd.org/fr/where.html. But so far, I have been unsuccessful at it as I am asked to provide a user name and a password. Anonymous login does not work either. Though some few

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Fahey
You can do all of this with amanda and simply run your backup from cron. amanda.org David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit

Re: Automounting External USB Drive on FreeBSD 7.x

2008-05-07 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello list, I have a requirement to automatically mount a USB disk to, say, ~backup/data automatically when the device is plugged to into the machine. I can handle/manage the umount part. Have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122726 This port

RE: Ports/Packages Philosophy

2008-05-07 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:53:37 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy On 5/6/08, Dsiuh Djsids [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating

Re: Best Java 1.6 JDK for FreeBSD?

2008-05-07 Thread Toomas Aas
Gunther Mayer wrote: Does anybody use 1.6 in production on FreeBSD? What have your experiences been? Our Tomcat-based website, which currently gets ca 75000 requests per day, has been running with native jdk-1.6.0.3p3 for 6 months. I haven't noticed any problems -- Toomas Aas ... I'd give

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:25:12AM -0400, David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up

Re: Best Java 1.6 JDK for FreeBSD?

2008-05-07 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 15:44:50 Toomas Aas wrote: Gunther Mayer wrote: Does anybody use 1.6 in production on FreeBSD? What have your experiences been? Our Tomcat-based website, which currently gets ca 75000 requests per day, has been running with native jdk-1.6.0.3p3 for 6 months. I

Re: Need to download FreeBSD

2008-05-07 Thread Jon Radel
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ecole Point Bleu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mr./Ms.: I am trying to download FreeBsd from http://www.freebsd.org/fr/where.html. But so far, I have been unsuccessful at it as I am asked to provide a user name and a password. Anonymous login does not work either.

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-07 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 06:16:19 Norbert Papke wrote: On May 6, 2008, Gilles wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? I run sshd via inetd rather than as a stand-alone daemon. inetd provides optional rate

SMB share not mounting at startup

2008-05-07 Thread Stephen Allen
I am trying to mount an SMB share at startup. I have configured (as root) .nsmbrc so I don't have to type a password. When I run mount -a, it mounts beautifully. However, when restarting the server, it will not mount automatically. According to rc.conf(5), smbfs is part of 'netfs_types' so

Fwd: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-07 Thread Norman Maurer
-- Forwarded message -- From: Norman Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/5/7 Subject: Re: Question about a recent installation To: Mario Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/5/6 Mario Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited

Delaying pf.conf loading

2008-05-07 Thread Justin Jereza
Hello. Is it possible to delay the loading of pf rules from pf.conf after ppp has connected and named is running through rc.conf? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Fwd: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norman Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Forwarded message -- From: Norman Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/5/7 Subject: Re: Question about a recent installation To: Mario Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/5/6 Mario Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On May 5, 2008, at

Re: SMB share not mounting at startup

2008-05-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stephen Allen wrote: I am trying to mount an SMB share at startup. I have configured (as root) .nsmbrc so I don't have to type a password. When I run mount -a, it mounts beautifully. However, when restarting the server, it will not mount automatically. According to rc.conf(5), smbfs is

Re: SMB share not mounting at startup

2008-05-07 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Stephen Allen wrote: I am trying to mount an SMB share at startup. I have configured (as root) .nsmbrc so I don't have to type a password. When I run mount -a, it mounts beautifully. However, when restarting the server, it will not mount automatically. According to rc.conf(5), smbfs is

Re: Delaying pf.conf loading

2008-05-07 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 19:21:22 Justin Jereza wrote: Hello. Is it possible to delay the loading of pf rules from pf.conf after ppp has connected and named is running through rc.conf? No, the design of the rc system does not allow for rc.conf to alter the order of the scripts executed,

Re: Delaying pf.conf loading

2008-05-07 Thread Justin Jereza
That ought to work. Thanks! :-) On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 07 May 2008 19:21:22 Justin Jereza wrote: Hello. Is it possible to delay the loading of pf rules from pf.conf after ppp has connected and named is running through rc.conf?

Re: Delaying pf.conf loading

2008-05-07 Thread Justin Jereza
BTW, you might want to fix your reply-to address. I got the following: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: Gmail tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. The error

about seamonkey

2008-05-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey with ports, but everytime I start it up, two windows pop up (the browser and the mail window). Seeing as I don't want the mailer EVER to pop up (I use thunderbird for that),

HDD missing from sysinstall

2008-05-07 Thread Troels Kofoed Jacobsen
On Thursday 01 May 2008 22:31:13 Cameigons wrote: I just want to say I'm having the same problem. I have an asus p5n-e SLI, two seagate 250GB sata2 HD's. When trying to install FreeBSD 7.0-Release, the sysinstall pops up the message No Disks Found!(...). And after that I can't boot up neither

about seamonkey

2008-05-07 Thread Robert Huff
Chuck Robey writes: I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey with ports, but everytime I start it up, two windows pop up (the browser and the mail window). Seeing as I don't want the mailer EVER to pop up (I use thunderbird for that), anyone know how I

Re: Delaying pf.conf loading

2008-05-07 Thread RW
On Thu, 8 May 2008 01:21:22 +0800 Justin Jereza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Is it possible to delay the loading of pf rules from pf.conf after ppp has connected and named is running through rc.conf? What you probably need is to do a pf resync; rc.d/ppp already does this, but too early

minpasswordlen and login.conf not working on 6 or 7 series

2008-05-07 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I wanted to set the minimum length of passwords of my users so I have done the followings in login.conf 1) added :minpasswordlen=5:\ todefault like: default:\ :passwd_format=md5:\ :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ :welcome=/etc/motd:\

Re: minpasswordlen and login.conf not working on 6 or 7 series

2008-05-07 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 23:00:04 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: I wanted to set the minimum length of passwords of my users so I have done the followings in login.conf 1) added :minpasswordlen=5:\ todefault like: Am I missing something here? Or this may be a bug on FreeBSD 6.X and 7.X You

Re: minpasswordlen and login.conf not working on 6 or 7 series

2008-05-07 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Actually I have read it but haven't read all the man pages because even in 7.0 manual page for login.conf still have: minpasswordlennumber6 The minimum length a local password may be. I think that line should be removed from manual page too. Regards, thanks for the fast

Re: minpasswordlen and login.conf not working on 6 or 7 series

2008-05-07 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 23:23:54 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Actually I have read it but haven't read all the man pages because even in 7.0 manual page for login.conf still have: minpasswordlennumber 6 The minimum length a local password may be. I think that line should be

Re: about seamonkey

2008-05-07 Thread Christer Hermansson
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone here knew the answer, I have built seamonkey with ports, but everytime I start it up, two windows pop up (the browser and the mail window). Seeing as I don't want the mailer EVER to pop up (I use

plagued by bad hdr length

2008-05-07 Thread Reinhold
Hi I'm getting loads of bad hdr length from pf on our router running freebsd 7.0 I've tried just about everything I could find with google. Lowering the mtu on my ng devices from 1492 all the way to 1485, anything lower then that and we can't ssh out of our network and I get loads of time outs

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:47 -0500 Gordon devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: How do I chmod separately files and directories? If I use chmod -R 644 then it will go through all the subdirectories assigning everything 644

Re: chmod operation on directories / files

2008-05-07 Thread RW
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:17:12 +0200 Julien Cigar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry.. | xargs chmod instead of | xargs | chmod ... It will still fail on a directory name that contains a space (this is a difference between Gnu and BSD). You need: find ... -print0 | xargs -0

Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, To get right to the chase, FBSD 7.0, I plug in an external USB CD-ROM device with a CD (of FreeBSD 7.0) and I want to mount it manually into the filesystem. The device shows up with a label, and appears as /dev/cd0 (in dmesg). # mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom ...fails, with a: mount:

Re: Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-07 Thread David M. Patronis
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, To get right to the chase, FBSD 7.0, I plug in an external USB CD-ROM device with a CD (of FreeBSD 7.0) and I want to mount it manually into the filesystem. The device shows up with a label, and appears as /dev/cd0 (in dmesg). # mount /dev/cd0 /cdrom

Re: Mounting USB CD-ROM manually, after boot

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
mount: /dev/cd0 : Invalid Argument Can anyone shed some quick light onto the solution that I am likely purely overlooking? Try this: mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt Thank you for the very quick reply. The above command that David stated worked immediately. Thanks everyone, Steve

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-07 Thread Norbert Papke
On May 7, 2008, Mel wrote: On Wednesday 07 May 2008 06:16:19 Norbert Papke wrote: On May 6, 2008, Gilles wrote: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? I run sshd via inetd rather than as a stand-alone daemon.

Re: MP3/MP4

2008-05-07 Thread G Grace
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Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
ssh stream tcp nowait/20/4/10 root /usr/sbin/sshd sshd -i into /etc/inetd.conf set a limit of * 20 overall ssh connections * 4 connection attempts per minute * at most 10 connections from a single IP This works very well on a personal server, not sure how it scales up. So if I copy

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-07 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 09:59 -0800 on 05/06/2008, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, David Kelly said: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Gilles said: Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Depending on how you use ssh from

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-07 Thread Peter Boosten
Vince Sabio wrote: Note if you choose to do this: scp'ing files becomes a four-step process (i.e., scp file(s) to intermediate server, log in to intermediate server, scp to destination server, delete file(s) from intermediate server). Still worth it, though. Never thought of port