Re: FBSD - Listen on IP Block

2010-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2010 21:32, Adam Landry wrote: > Is it possible to have freebsd 8 listen on a complete IP range? Yes. You can add alias addresses for all of the IPs in a network on to the same machine. Easiest way to do that is with something like the foll

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Bogdan Webb
Edit the /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd records to change the uid and gid of the "root" account BUT FIRST MAKE SURE YOU ADD (or changed password of) ANOTHER UID0 ACCOUNT here's an example: etc/master.passwd: root:*PASSWORD HASH*:99:99::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh and /etc/passwd root:*:99:99:

Re: VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-10 Thread Yuri
Bernhard Froehlich wrote: Have a look at /var/log/messages and see what gets logged there when trying to load the module. Probably your Kernel sources and the vbox module are out of date or you hit a bug. This is the only line that gets printed into the log on module load: Feb 9 13:24:35 myh

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturallynot the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
Lin Taosheng wrote: >Is that possible to implementated? No. I think not. But I have not tried it either. Can I ask what do you want to achieve? Because I had the same thought once, concerning how to combat once-increasing script-driven SSH brute-force attack. But I was instead have a better so

cannot start VirtualBox-3.1.2 !

2010-02-10 Thread zaxis
VirtualBox works great under FreeBSD-8.0 using the `GENERIC` kernel. Today i customize the kernel using a copy of /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC. I havenot changed anything except its name modified as `MYKERNEL`. After `buildkernel` and `installkernel`, the new kernel works well. However, when ru

Re: HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:18:30 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >Lin Taosheng writes: >> Is that possible to implementated? > > For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, > but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, > create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but

HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Lin Taosheng writes: > Is that possible to implementated? For most purposes, what's important is not the account name, but the User II. "Root" is special because it has UID 0. You can, create other accounts with UIS 0 ... but it's usually a Very Bad Idea. As far as I know,

HELP! Is that possible "creating a user named root but acturally not the administrator root"

2010-02-10 Thread Lin Taosheng
Hi all, Is that possible to implementated? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FBSD - Listen on IP Block

2010-02-10 Thread Gary Gatten
I'm sure there are several ways, but you could always setup NAT so your box thinks it owns all the IP's and will reply to ARPs for every address. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Wed Feb 10 15:32:42 2010 Subject: FBSD

FBSD - Listen on IP Block

2010-02-10 Thread Adam Landry
Is it possible to have freebsd 8 listen on a complete IP range? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Mac address changed ??

2010-02-10 Thread James Smallacombe
Please disregard this...sleep deprication...the IP in questions (which I should have disfuised anyway) was not my server's IP, but that of the default gateway...the problem was external. On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, James Smallacombe wrote: This freaked me out a bit, so I'm just running it past th

Mac address changed ??

2010-02-10 Thread James Smallacombe
This freaked me out a bit, so I'm just running it past the list to make sure this is just a hardware issue...I've never seen it before. My dedicated server provider replaced my defective server that had been up for 6 months after it had apparent failures of a NIC and hard drives. It had als

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2010-02-10 Thread midwest-admin
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Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
So I just tested the CD and it works perfectly. It boots, automatically configure the interface and launches the SSH daemon. For me this is the perfect tool to perform remote installations/fixing of FreeBSD. I just send the compressed 100 MB ISO image to someone, have him to boot the machine us

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
J65nko writes: > IMHO it is easier to to install FreeBSD without using sysinstall at all. > > See the "FreeBSD Install Without Sysinstall" guide at > http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538 This looks very possible with a couple of changes. Am I right in my reading of the man pa

Re: openal-soft

2010-02-10 Thread b. f.
>I did as UPDATING says and everything were look okay but when I update (big >update) the system "mplayer" complain that cannot install openALL because >openal-soft is installed. I went bacjk to the openALL and it is okay but my >question is it is possible to build mplayer with openal support and

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:59:32AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Could do something simple with a Perl script as such: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > my @filenames = `ls`; > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > > print "See the list below, click an item to open it: \n\n"; > foreach

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Powell
b. f. wrote: > On 2/8/10, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:37:30PM -0500, b. f. wrote: [snip] >>> If you're laying out a new disk, you may as well take a few minutes >>> and get the most out of it, even if you're not going to invest in a >>> lot of new hardware. >> >> The sys

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I > followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 > > > minus the fdi

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 minus the fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs part . I just set up rc.conf to configure

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 10/02/2010 11:56 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp > used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not > seem to work with mkisofs. I did > > mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the > kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? > How exactly are you creating your image? The basic directories in a FreeBSD install iso are 'boot' (contai

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I just realized that cdboot does not contain the kernel as boot.flp used to, so I guess /boot/kernel has to be there... So it does not seem to work with mkisofs. I did mkisofs -J -R -no-emul-boot -b ./cdboot -iso-level 3 -V FreeBSD_Custom -o custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i386_cd.iso custom_FreeBSD_8_0_i3

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:35:17 +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: >> I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed >> that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the >> alternative to get a boot image to create my CD

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that th

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed > that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the > alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? > > Thanks! You just use the boot/cdboot file f

How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

2010-02-10 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Mike Clarke wrote: It does seem a pity though that we have to rely on the side effect of having no support for writing to block devices instead of having a specific means of detecting or checking for a media change in the card reader. I agree that attempting a write to an u

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:03, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 10), Kurt Buff said: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson wrote: >> > In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: >> >> Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" >> >> question. >> >> >>

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Kurt Buff said: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: > >> Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" > >> question. > >> > >> I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown i

Re: Detecting cards in USB card reader

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 07 February 2010, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > While it may feel dangerous, is perfectly safe. There is no > way doing an IO operation on a disk-like device using requests > othen than multiplies of the physical block which currently is > 512 bytes. Opening the disk for writing and trying

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: >> Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" >> question. >> >> I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on >> our network, so I've put curl on the

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Nathan Vidican
Could do something simple with a Perl script as such: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my @filenames = `ls`; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "See the list below, click an item to open it: \n\n"; foreach my $F (@files) { print " $F\n"; } print "\n"; # EOF You could, of course, get muc

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:35:12PM -0300, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010, > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > > > > I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-10 Thread krad
On 9 February 2010 16:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:58:07 -0700, Chad Perrin > wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +, Frank Shute wrote: > >> > >> AFAIK, the system compiler is going to be clang in the future and for > >> ports you'll install a compiler from po

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Anton Shterenlikht writes: > > > I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web > > > server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory > > > an index.html with a simple list of files in this > > > directory for a simple browsing. > > > > > > This sounds like a perl or shell script, but >

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > > > I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web > > > server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory > > > an index.html with a s

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Best
*hehehe* right. that would have been the easiest solution. thanks a bunch. alex andrew clarke schrieb am 2010-02-10: > On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best > (alexbes...@wwu.de) wrote: > > thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that > > -delete doesn't > > delete

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:27:26PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:13PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: > > > > TZAV> firefox3 & > > [6] 91741 > > TZAV> Bus error (core dumped) > > > > [6]Exit 138 f

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > > > I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web > > server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory > > an index.html with a simple list of files in this > > directory for a simple browsing. >

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web > server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory > an index.html with a simple list of files in this > directory for a simple browsing. > > This sounds like a perl or shell script, but > I was wondering if th

creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'd like to upload a directory structure to a web server. I'd like to create in each subdirectory an index.html with a simple list of files in this directory for a simple browsing. This sounds like a perl or shell script, but I was wondering if there is someting like this already available from po

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:13PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: > > TZAV> firefox3 & > [6] 91741 > TZAV> Bus error (core dumped) > > [6]Exit 138 firefox3 > TZAV> gdb /usr/local/bin/firefox3 ./firefox-bin.core > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [Free

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best (alexbes...@wwu.de) wrote: > thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't > delete directories recursively. > > so what i'm bow using is > > sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Best
thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't delete directories recursively. so what i'm bow using is sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {} + cheers. alex Jason schrieb am 2010-02-10: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:51:52AM +0100,

Filesystem problem

2010-02-10 Thread Matias
Hi, I know this may not be the correct place to post this, but I feel like I'm going to get more help here than in the ejabberd forums. Maybe you can help me to debug what is going on here: I'm runing ejabberd-2.1-2 on FreeBSD it05 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Best
thanks. but i moved away from using ports-mgtm/portupgrade so i don't really want to use portsclean, but use something else. i thought `find` should to be able to accomplish the job. maybe this is a bug in find? because actually the `find` command i'm using should work. cheers. alex Jason schrie