How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nis.html For how to disable logins, the recommended action is to set the shell to /sbin/nologin. However, this is sloppy as it allows the user to log in, get the motd,

Re: Hi

2008-12-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all Did anyone knows how to deny the TCP connection Without using hosts.deny and ipfilter. using ipfw for example ;) Thanks With Regards Pugal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Hi

2008-12-10 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:44 PM, pugal pugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all > Did anyone knows how to deny the TCP connection Without using > hosts.deny and ipfilter. Let the "service" listen on 127.0.0.1 or just don't start it:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +2547337

Re: Hi

2008-12-10 Thread pugal pugal
Hi all I will explain the scenario clearly. I have a server program say server.c listening on some XXX port-number.I accepts all the client. Now i want to DENY only the particular client say x.x.x.x/16 . I want to deny that Client by not using hosts.deny. For this scenario what can i do?? If an

Re: Hi

2008-12-10 Thread Sebastian Tymków
Hello, If you don't want to do this using server features you should do it in your program (like in config file). Best regards, Shamrock 2008/12/10 pugal pugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all > I will explain the scenario clearly. > > I have a server program say server.c listening on some XXX por

Re: FreeBSD, OMSA Live CD and DSET tools for Dell 2950 Server?

2008-12-10 Thread Moti Levy
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:01:42AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Any Help??? On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:15 PM, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help??? On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello there, To diagnose and solve a

Re: Hi

2008-12-10 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 08:07:39 Sebastian Tymków wrote: > Hello, > > If you don't want to do this using server features you should do it in your > program > (like in config file). > > Best regards, > > Shamrock > > 2008/12/10 pugal pugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi all > > I will explain th

Re: USB Keyboard is not working with a custom kernel

2008-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:33:44 +0200, "??? " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With this kernel, whenever I connect a USB keyboard, I see on > the console an alert ("USB keyboard device this and that, > connected to ") and even the make/model of the keyboard > is shown, but the keyboard doesn't wo

RE: USB Keyboard is not working with a custom kernel

2008-12-10 Thread נור דאוד
OK... This could work eventually, but think about another fact: With GENERIC kernel, everything works correctly. I plug and unplug the keyboard, and it interacts wonderfully. Noor -Original Message- From: Polytropon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:03 PM

Re: QEMU: increase image size with FreeBSD partitions ...

2008-12-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > --On Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:15:45 +0100 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> I have FreeBSD 7 running in a QEMU VM ... works like a charm, but I'm >>> wondering if there is some way of *increasing* the size of the image b

Employment............William Harvey Research Institute.

2008-12-10 Thread William Harvey Research Institute .
William Harvey Research Institute Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry John Vane Building Charterhouse Square London EC1M 6BQ Hello , My Boss and his fellow collaborators have been researching into possible ways to create Immunity to the HIV Virus, so far hi

Re: Hi

2008-12-10 Thread Ivan Voras
pugal pugal wrote: > Hi all > I will explain the scenario clearly. > > I have a server program say server.c listening on some XXX port-number.I > accepts all the client. > Now i want to DENY only the particular client say x.x.x.x/16 . It looks like you are writing a server, therefore you can chec

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-12-10 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello list, I apologize if I somehow highjack the thread. I just want to tell the list for further references one way (my way) of doing mysql backup and to ask you if it's safe or not. I have 2 server: one of which is the master (named for the sake of brevity with M) in mysql terms and the seco

Hi

2008-12-10 Thread pugal pugal
Hi all Did anyone knows how to deny the TCP connection Without using hosts.deny and ipfilter. Thanks With Regards Pugal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Monitoring Threshold Interface

2008-12-10 Thread Gian Paolo Buono
Hi, I would like monitoring an interface and allarm if it exceeds the threshold of 900 Mbit. Do you know any struments ? I can also create a bash script with some tool or command. Thanks...bye Gian Paolo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

omshell how to use

2008-12-10 Thread Pieter Donche
To use omshell for changing dhcpd.conf, one needs to use a TSIG key. Did the following: # dnssec-keygen -a HMAC-MD5 -b 512 -n HOST omapi_key responded with: Komapi_key.+157+18443 and created the files: -rw--- 1 root admin118 Dec 10 15:42 Komapi_key.+157+18443.key -rw--- 1 root

slim(Simple LogIn Manager) problem

2008-12-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
FreeBSD Fans, After a recent install I'm having trouble with slim. The last time I installed FreeBSD on my home desktop box slim worked well. I'm running RELENG_7 with xorg, slim, etc., installed from an up-to-date ports tree. I created my xorg.conf file via xorgconfig, and also tried Xorg

Re: omshell how to use

2008-12-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I am not an expert nor have I even used this software in question. However... Pieter Donche wrote: To use omshell for changing dhcpd.conf, one needs to use a TSIG key. Did the following: # dnssec-keygen -a HMAC-MD5 -b 512 -n HOST omapi_key This appears to be an MD5 encrypted key. responde

update packages or reinstall

2008-12-10 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Ok I've got a system running 6.0-release, it is an internal server and has nothing important on it. I'm running into problems where a lot of the packages are old and out of date, and everyday it seems I'm having to update 5-6 of em for something or another. I'm considering just wiping th

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nis.html > > For how to disable logins, the recommended action is to set the shell to > /sbin/nologin. > > However

Re: update packages or reinstall

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:08:02AM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > Hi all; > > Ok I've got a system running 6.0-release, it is an internal server and has > nothing important on it. > > I'm running into problems where a lot of the packages are old and out of > date, and everyday it seems I'm having to

RE: update packages or reinstall

2008-12-10 Thread Gary Hartl
> Hi all; > > Ok I've got a system running 6.0-release, it is an internal server and has > nothing important on it. > > I'm running into problems where a lot of the packages are old and out of > date, and everyday it seems I'm having to update 5-6 of em for something or > another. > > I'm consid

I need Install DB2 in Freebsd with a tool administration like webmin but for database DB2

2008-12-10 Thread Tomás Rodriguez
Hi, everyone. I wanna install DB2 in my unix freebsd, but I never doing that, in fact I need a tool like GUI or like webmin, for the adminsitration of the DB2. who can help me with that. I'll appreciate any help, because I have been very hurry with that I'll developer a tools in DB2 butnever wo

Which ISO do i need

2008-12-10 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Ok so I 'm going with the reinstall option me thinks and I'm gonna try 7.0. I want to do a install over ftp since my just too lazy to burn all those disks. Would I just need the bootonly.iso? I'm doing a sparc64 install. Thanks Gary ___

Developer's Handbook doubt

2008-12-10 Thread pablo caballero
Hi comunity. I'm a developer new in the FreeBSD world and I'm reading the handbook. I have a doubt regarding the following code example (page 103): open: push dword mode push dword flags push dword path mov eax, 5 push eax ; Or any other dword int 80h add esp, byte 16 Why is required the "push e

Re: update packages or reinstall

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:25:57AM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > Ok I've got a system running 6.0-release, it is an internal server and has > > nothing important on it. > > > > I'm running into problems where a lot of the packages are old and out of > > date, and everyday it seems

Re: Which ISO do i need

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:49:52AM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > Hi all; > > Ok so I 'm going with the reinstall option me thinks and I'm gonna try 7.0. > > I want to do a install over ftp since my just too lazy to burn all those > disks. > > Would I just need the bootonly.iso? Use the disc 1 and

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 with more than 2GB shared memory

2008-12-10 Thread Hell, Robert
Hi, I'm trying to run PostgreSQL 8.3 on a FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 server with more than 2GB shared memory. The machine has 32GB RAM installed. After setting kern.ipc.shmmax and kern.ipc.shmall to the appropriate values, I still had no chance to start postgres with more than 2GB of shared memory. I wrot

Re: Which ISO do i need

2008-12-10 Thread Corey Chandler
Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; Ok so I 'm going with the reinstall option me thinks and I'm gonna try 7.0. I want to do a install over ftp since my just too lazy to burn all those disks. Would I just need the bootonly.iso? I'm doing a sparc64 install. Thanks Gary If sparc64 has a bootonlyi

Re: USB Keyboard is not working with a custom kernel

2008-12-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. נור דאוד <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK... This could work eventually, but think about another fact: > With GENERIC kernel, everything works correctly. I plug and unplug the > keyboard, and it interacts wonderfully. Right. The generic kernel has kbdmux these days. > N

Re: Which ISO do i need

2008-12-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ok so I 'm going with the reinstall option me thinks and I'm gonna try 7.0. get 7-branch through CVS or 7.1-BETA2 ISO. I want to do a install over ftp since my just too lazy to burn all those disks. Would I just need the bootonly.iso? yes. ___ fr

Re: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 with more than 2GB shared memory

2008-12-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
fails again with ENOMEM. Is there any easy way to use a shared memory segment which is larger than 2GB? getting two smaller ? :) no idea - maybe it's bug of SHM. as you already checked it please do sent-pr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

RE: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 with more than 2GB shared memory

2008-12-10 Thread Hell, Robert
I just found a bug report for that issue: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121423&cat= Thanks, Robert -Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 18:30 To: Hell, Robert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postg

Re: Which ISO do i need

2008-12-10 Thread Glen Barber
Gary Hartl said: > Hi all; > > Ok so I 'm going with the reinstall option me thinks and I'm gonna try 7.0. > > I want to do a install over ftp since my just too lazy to burn all those > disks. > Since 7.1 is in -RC1 status, why not go with that? > Would I just need the bootonly.iso? > > I'm

RE: USB Keyboard is not working with a custom kernel

2008-12-10 Thread נור דאוד
> > > OK... This could work eventually, but think about another fact: > > With GENERIC kernel, everything works correctly. I plug and unplug > the keyboard, and it interacts wonderfully. > > Right. The generic kernel has kbdmux these days. > I see... this is one piece of info that I needed, th

Re: I need Install DB2 in Freebsd with a tool administration like webmin but for database DB2

2008-12-10 Thread michael
you want to install ibm db2 server? or you want to install db2 client? Tomás Rodriguez wrote: Hi, everyone. I wanna install DB2 in my unix freebsd, but I never doing that, in fact I need a tool like GUI or like webmin, for the adminsitration of the DB2. who can help me with that. I'll appreci

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nis.html For how to disable logins, the recommended action is to set the shell

Re: I need Install DB2 in Freebsd with a tool administration like webmin but for database DB2

2008-12-10 Thread Tomás Rodriguez
thanks Michael well I wanna install ibm db2 server for developer one application in PHP or Java, but I need a graphic tools for his administration. thanks again sincerely TOMAS - Original Message > From: michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tomás Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: free

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > >> I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: > >> > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-ni

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Cowart
Olivier Nicole wrote: >>> I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers >>> captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). >> >> We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the >> users, that really just introduces needless complexity that cou

Re: slim(Simple LogIn Manager) problem

2008-12-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: If I disable slim in /etc/ttys and start it via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slim I can sign on and everything works except the mouse, and in terminal sessions I start my path is wrong. Okay, I think I figured out where the path I'm getting when using slim i

Re: behavioral change of "read" builtin for sh on 8-CURRENT

2008-12-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Hi Michael, This looks like a bug in 8.0-CURRENT. Can you please file a bug report and include the text you sent below? On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:49:58 -0500, "Michael Proto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed a behavioral difference of the "read" builtin statement within > /bin/sh on CURREN

Re: I need Install DB2 in Freebsd with a tool administration likewebmin but for database DB2

2008-12-10 Thread Matt Emmerton
Tomas, DB2 comes with a Java-based GUI administration tool called the DB2 Control Center. Unfortunately, it can only be installed on a supported DB2 client platform, such as Linux, Windows or various commercial UNIX platforms. DB2 does not currently have any other type of GUI administration

mounting /usr/local on separate drive

2008-12-10 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Ok i'm working on this netra here. There are a couple of annoying things about these things and one of em is that you can only have a single drive on either IDE controller (masters only no slaves allowed). So my goal was to have two 20g drives on this machine one of them being dedicated

Re: mounting /usr/local on separate drive

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:04:03PM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > Hi all; > > Ok i'm working on this netra here. > > There are a couple of annoying things about these things and one of em is > that you can only have a single drive on either IDE controller (masters only > no slaves allowed). > > So

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Re: behavioral change of "read" builtin for sh on 8-CURRENT

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Proto
Thanks! PR 129566 filed on this issue. -Proto On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Michael, > > This looks like a bug in 8.0-CURRENT. > > Can you please file a bug report and include the text you sent below? > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:49:58 -0500, "

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-10 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: > IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, > it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed > a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization > to improve its basic produc

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 10), Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/

gnome process taking too much cpu in freebsd 7.1-BETA2

2008-12-10 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi I just installed freebsd 7.1-BETA2. After starting GNOME, my CPU usage remains very high and top shows that the process polkit-gnome-manage is using up a lot of CPU (around 51%) when the laptop is idle. Any idea what might cause this? After logging into GNOME from gdm, the splash screen does n