On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59:34PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010, Jon Radel wrote:
> > Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> ...
> > Hif you're doing the standard thing, and porting your phone
> > number to the cable company, they'll have to put some equipment of their
> > own on
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jon Radel wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >according to him, on each one copper circuit, there were two unused wires
> >that
> >could be used for a second phone number. so that afternoon I had a dialup
> >line
> >and the house had a voice line.
>
> Or m
b. f. wrote:
I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for
the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format
in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0?
If you have the xz port installed, yes. If you have liblzma
installed, you can even recom
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
>
>> Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works
>> with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance
>>
>
> Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010, Jon Radel wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>
...
> Hif you're doing the standard thing, and porting your phone
> number to the cable company, they'll have to put some equipment of their
> own on or in your house. They don't really take ownership of the
> "line", just
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:24:47 + krad wrote:
>2010/1/11 Scott Bennett
>
>> My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB
>> 2.0
>> ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The
>> three already present have quite a few partitions on t
Gary Kline wrote:
according to him, on each one copper circuit, there were two unused wires that
could be used for a second phone number. so that afternoon I had a dialup line
and the house had a voice line.
Or more
Each POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line takes one copper pair. The
something on the 12th, seattle time, the cable company may control both our
voice
lines. in '95 when we moved in, two lines were not available by the telco.
when they understood that I was physically disabled, the technician came out
the next day and gave us our second line.
according to him,
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:47:51PM +, Marwan Sultan thus spake:
This is a lesson for me and everyone to never run freebsd-update on a custom
kernel
I run FreeBSD on a custom kernel, and do binary updates. However, I can do
this because I run my own update server. So all kernels are rebu
Can you please document the process from the beginning to how you are receiving
this error?
This will greatly help in diagnosing the issue.
Thanks,
Jason
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:48:44PM -0800, Daniel Papadopoulos thus spake:
hello i have tried installing free bsd version 7.0 and 8.0 but
hello i have tried installing free bsd version 7.0 and 8.0 but when i try to
install the packages from the cd rom i get the message
permission denied
i just want a graphical interface or my version to work with kde
ps i am loged in as a root user
thank you
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Mike Clarke,
I'm seeing the same problem with pkg_info on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE.
However, I also found that even when running as the root user, if
I'm in a chroot jail, it does not fail.
Henry Wong
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Ok.. just for grins I installed a new instance of 6.1, NO Patches, just
straight off the ISO...
I loaded the ports that came WITH the distro, and was able to make php 5.1.2
ok...
When I did a portsnap fetch, portsnap extract, then went into the
/usr/ports/lang/php5 and just typed make I get the s
All,
I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can
import/mount the pool properly.
However, I designed this box originally so that it mounts / from
zfs:storage after booting from a USB stick.
After the upgrade of the disks, I'm stuck at a mountroot prompt when I
attempt t
On 1/11/10, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson wrote:
>>> I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems
>>> to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics
>>> the system). The Expresscard shows up as a PCI d
Hi--
On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Paul Halliday wrote:
> Is this warning as harmful as it sounds:
>
> WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
> WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
>
> More info:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 @ 2.40GHz (2304.83-MHz 686-class
> CPU)
> ACPI APIC Table:
You don't need ports for thatJust use fetch(1) and grab an ISO of
a DVD (or even a CD) from somewhere. Eg, a debian DVD image or freebsd
image or whatever. A lot of ISPs boost the first x MB of a transfer to
give the illusion that you can download faster when doing speed tests
(since speed t
On 1/9/10, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 12/16/09, Bob Johnson wrote:
>> I'm using an ExpressCard for wireless networking because there seems
>> to be no driver for the internal card in my laptop (and NDIS panics
>> the system). The Expresscard shows up as a PCI device and works fine,
>
> How are you
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, David Banning
wrote:
> I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed.
> I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash
> or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is
> a simpler solution.
> _
On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:45 AM, David Banning wrote:
> I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed.
> I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash
> or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is
> a simpler solution.
You can use ft
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works
> with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance
Pretty much anything that you consider to be a reliable supplier will do.
There are no specific FreeBSD requ
Is this warning as harmful as it sounds:
WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
More info:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 @ 2.40GHz (2304.83-MHz 686-class CPU)
ACPI APIC Table:
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 0 package(s
Hello,
I'm running Freebsd 8.0-Stable #9 Dec 17/09 on amd64. I'm running gnome, and at
the time i started my update i was at Gnome 2.26
I went through UPDATING and tried to switch from firefox 2 which is marked
ignore to libxul by changing WITH_GECKO=libxul removed firefox3 and installed
firef
I wonder if there is something in the ports that tests my DSL speed.
I am guessing that if I installed firefox3 and then installed flash
or Java then I could go to speedtest.net, but I wonder if there is
a simpler solution.
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
> I get brute force ssh attacks.
>
> HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
>
> # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
> # need to do it, here's how
> #sshd : .evil.c
We are upgrading our FreeBSD servers to FreeBSD8.0 and most of
the servers are 64-bit platforms. At one time, there was an
issue in which either bind or dhcpd actually ran a bit slower in
the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. Are there any similar issues
these days or should I use 64-bit where possible?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:33:07PM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16
> > to ascii? Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Schmehl,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16
> to ascii? Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive.
>
> --
> Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
> As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
>
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to
> ascii?
> Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive.
Try uconv(1) from the devel/icu port.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
Can anyone point me to an online or unix utility that decodes utf-16 to ascii?
Or unicode? My google searches have been nonproductive.
--
Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
**
Dan Naumov wrote:
What exactly is "gart" and where do I find it's manpage,
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does
this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug?
That's gpart(8). With a 'p'. gpart has had significant amounts of
work put into it for
I had the same ssh-bruteforce troubles.
Here's the script I use against that.
It's in cron, launched every 2 minutes.
#!/bin/sh
AUTH=/var/log/auth.log
BKLST=/var/log/blacklist.log
HOSTS=/etc/hosts
DHOSTS=/etc/hosts.deny
cat $AUTH | egrep -i "(illegal|invalid|failed)" | awk -F "from" '{print $2}'
Anton Shterenlikht writes:
> I'm very grateful for all advice, but I'm still unsure
> why denying ssh access to a particular host via /etc/hosts.allow
> is a bad idea.
As far as I recall, the reason the warning was added to the manual was
that it's fairly heavy on resources to implement that way
I have a few questions about this PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406&cat=bin
1) Is this bug now officially fixed as of 8.0-RELEASE? Ie, can I
expect to set up a completely GPT-based system using an Intel
D945GCLF2 board and not have the installation crap out on me later?
2) The
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:25:04PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
> > I get brute force ssh attacks.
> >
> > HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
> >
> > # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
>
Quoting Paul Shi :
Dear All,
I have tried to setup a wireless network consist of a server, AP, a router
machine and wireless client. Here is setup and configuration of my design.
Please correct me if I am wrong about anything.
Server
IP: 192.168.2.1, Gateway: 192.168.2.2, Netmask: 255.255.255.
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
I get brute force ssh attacks.
HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
# Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
# need to do it, here's how
#sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny
Why is it not a goo
Dear All,
I have tried to setup a wireless network consist of a server, AP, a router
machine and wireless client. Here is setup and configuration of my design.
Please correct me if I am wrong about anything.
Server
IP: 192.168.2.1, Gateway: 192.168.2.2, Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Tim Judd wrote:
I've been meaning to check this out. My firewall ssh rules are very
strict, in fact, if the remote IP is "unknown" meaning, I don't know
where the heck it's coming from, it's blocked. It's easier to say it
this way: I allow ssh connections from IPs I know, preferably static
IP
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:18:04AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
> On 1/11/10, David Southwell wrote:
> >> I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
> >> I get brute force ssh attacks.
> >>
> >> HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
> >>
> >> # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but
On 1/11/10, David Southwell wrote:
>> I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
>> I get brute force ssh attacks.
>>
>> HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
>>
>> # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
>> # need to do it, here's how
>> #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.c
David Southwell wrote:
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
I get brute force ssh attacks.
HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
# Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
# need to do it, here's how
#sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny
Why is it not a good i
> I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
> I get brute force ssh attacks.
>
> HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
>
> # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
> # need to do it, here's how
> #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny
>
> Why is it not a good idea?
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
I get brute force ssh attacks.
HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow:
# Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you
# need to do it, here's how
#sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny
Why is it not a good idea?
Also, apparently in
Michael Powell wrote:
Greetings everyone:
This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for
me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and
for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit.
These are server boxen with
> David Southwell wrote:
> > Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address
> > removed and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] :
> >
> > Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if
> > any) I should be taking.
> > Thanks in advance for any replies
> > Ja
David Southwell wrote:
Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address removed
and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] :
Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if any) I
should be taking.
Thanks in advance for any replies
Jan 11 10:41:57 dns1 kerne
Hello,
Can someone recommend a good external USB disk for backups which works
with FreeBSD 8.0 and has more than 512 GByte? Thx in advance
matthias
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2010/1/11 Dan Naumov
> Hello list.
>
> My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to
> continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of
> your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used
> to update from official binaries to other offici
2010/1/11 Scott Bennett
> My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB
> 2.0
> ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The
> three already present have quite a few partitions on them, nearly all of
> which
> already contain file systems w
Greetings everyone:
This is probably a pretty dumb question, but it's never really come up for
me before. I am at a crossroads with regard to some hardware upgrades, and
for a couple of them I have been putting off making the change to 64 bit.
These are server boxen with no concerns for desktop
Hello list.
My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to
continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of
your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used
to update from official binaries to other official binaries. I am also
gathering (
Here are some example entries in /var/log/messages (server ip address removed
and replaced by [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] :
Can anyone please tell me what thses messages mean and what action (if any) I
should be taking.
Thanks in advance for any replies
Jan 11 10:41:57 dns1 kernel: TCP: [113.53.173.247]:6
My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB 2.0
ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The
three already present have quite a few partitions on them, nearly all of which
already contain file systems with lots of files in them. I would l
S Pavan wrote:
Currently we are finalizing the release version of our courseware that
prepares aspirants for the certification *‘CEHv7’* as awarded by EC-Council.
In this context, we would like to seek your permission to include references
to your work *“Wireless Networking"* published at ‘*
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