Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

is: i386 FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE Sun Jan 25 06:28:38 EST 2009 It not being CURRENT, I took the liberty of cc: freebsd-po...@freebsd.org. -- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: hex editors, disk info

That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device allows writes) write it back to the device. Of course, not all

hex editors, disk info

Friends, I need a hex editor able to work directly with disks, preferably those, which can be started without X. I tried hexcurse, chexedit, bpatch - and it seems that they are unable to open /dev/something. Also, I would like to know about a tool to show low-level disk information. For example,

Fwd: hex editors, disk info

I need a hex editor able to work directly with disks, preferably those, which can be started without X. I tried hexcurse, chexedit, bpatch - and it seems that they are unable to open /dev/something. Have you tried /usr/bin/hd? It seems it doesn't have any problem opening disk devices.

ipfw + bridge + pppoe

Hi guys! Just wondering if any of you know how to filter traffic (PPPOE,TCP,IP) by the means of ipfw, on bridge with FreeBSD 7.x installed, in the case when all traffic passing through the bridge is encapsulated in PPPOE. Thanks. ___

portmanager looping on libtool on 6.2 - 6.3 upgrade

upgraded, but obviously I'd rather progress sooner rather than later. Alex Kirk This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

How to install RPM file on FreeBSD?

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CARP-Like Solution With Machines On Different Networks?

if it's up, but go to the backup box if not)? Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide. Alex Kirk This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ freebsd

how much memory can be support in FreeBSD system?

Hi buddy. I'm a new comer and want to configure a Virtual server base on UNIX. The safe, steady and easy for maintenance is needed. Approximately 8GB memory will be mounted. Can anyone tell me how much memory can be supported in FreeBSD? Thanks. BR Alex

Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. BR Alex ___ freebsd

just a test mail

Hi, Dear admin I want to submit a question to Mail list; I hope to get help in time. Thanks BR Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: [Fwd: Suhosin Segmentation Fault]

should be nuked, especially if the patch works fine for everyone but the extension causes problems. See above. If I disable all other extensions and load only suhosin.so in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini the apache processes are still crashing. Apache version? -- Alex Dupre

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) To read further and create your own profile, go to http://aclion-e.com/dbm83/l.php?18560783051cam paign_id=33channel=mail and feel free to sign up. Free Registration until 9/1/08! All the best, Alex Martin | Director of Talent Acquisition We hope

natd and ipfw external hangs

IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=5 options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT options IPDIVERT How can I successfully eliminate the external hangs without loosing natd for the internal users? Any ideas greatly appreciated! Thanks, Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

on where to start, they'd be much appreciated. :-) Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

be mistaken, but it seems like that's a lot of unnecessary activity managing the threads; the confirmation I found came from http://arkiv.freebsd.se/?ml=freebsd-threadsa=2007-02t=3178634. Am I correct that this is abnormal behavior? If so, any idea what I may need to do to fix the issue? Alex

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

. I'll probably be upgrading to 7.0 in the next month or so, given that this is obviously a thread issue and that that release has much improved thread code. However, for the time being, the pressing issue is fixed, and for anyone in my position stuck on 6.2...this is night day. Alex

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

seeing, and specifically wanted to make note of it in the archives. Point very much taken, though. :-) Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

explaining how tools work when I can usually figure it out on my own). Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Too Much Context Switching?

way of telling if the values I'm seeing are abnormal or not. Can anyone tell me if these numbers look high, or if anything from the vmstat output above looks abnormal and should be followed up on? Thanks, Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Red5 working on FreeBSD 7.0?

Hello, I have installed Red5 from /usr/ports/www/red5. There were no errors during installation. I can go to port 8180 on that machine and I get the Red5 welcome screen. 'netstat -an' shows that the rtmp port 1935 is listening. However, none of the demos work. The RTMP simply timeouts and I

Sendmail Masquerade Problem

= public (node name) $k = private ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter ruleset address -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply

Re: Sendmail Masquerade Problem

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I have problem with sendmail that is giving me a headake. I can send mails als long when I give the from adres, but when I leave this out the server enters the localname and my

Alex from Romania II

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Alex from Romania

Hi My name is Alex and I am from Romania, Bucharest and I love FREEBSD My personal web site is www.alexshop.ro. I have on my web site a download link for FREEBSD 7. I hope it is OK with you. I want for future to offer, for free, CD with FREEBSD. So, can I use Ubuntu logos and banners, please? All

Re: List replies

own messages from the entaire list. I like having the option of juist following the discussions I took part in and juist view the list every now and then. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information

Re: mpd pptp server?

it a try. I have installed /usr/ports/mpd4 and have the following configuration: I run openvpn on FreeBSD and Windows XP. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting up a firewall

VPN setup with OpenVPN (was: mpd pptp server?)

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:45:57PM +0100, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2008/3/23, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:43:58AM +0100, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: I have tried some different ways to make a working VPN server on FreeBSD 7.0. The main goal is to make

Re: Anyone have Comcast for an ISP?

of the local techs. Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Install CD To Prepare Hard Disk

to play around with sizes etc. without resorting to a calculator then sysinstall has always done the business for me, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: /usr/local/www a tradition?

and the like are easy to control, but large trees should be able to live wherever I want them to live. One can usually work around any issue that arise, and if you hit trouble, just mail back here :-) --Alex PS You said demons and I'd certainly draw a line between a demon like, say, postfix

Re: Low space on /

there and what they have in them. Then go in to root (/) and do ls -laF That may provide some clues. This seams to be be a partial account of /. Try 'du -x / | grep \[\ 0-9\]*M' instead or 'du -shx /.[^.]* /*'. You can safely remove /boot/kernel/*.symbols -- Alex

Re: SATA problems (Abit IP35-Pro)

which is near as dammit the same. --Alex *In ten years of FreeBSD I have seen the warning many times, and seen people asking about the warning many, many, many times. What I never remember seeing is any case where someone needed to do anything about that warning. That doesn't prove anything (my

Re: Low space on /

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:07:47PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:16:29PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:36:57PM +0200, Ghirai wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:15:22 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghirai writes

Re: Superuser password lost

and switches to that user ID (the default user is the superuser). A shell is then executed. I'd contend that the su manpage *should* say root not superuser, since root is hardwired as the default. But for other cases, any user with UID 0 might work just as well (e.g. toor). --Alex

Solution

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Re: VPN - Which way to go?

. Never tried it myself, though, just found links while investigating IPSEC. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote startup scripts

; if you can't find anything there then posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] might get you an answer if nothing more specific comes up here. You should also mention which version of FreeBSD you are running, since rc.d is has had numerous improvements in recent releases. --Alex

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 and apache 2.2.8 exited on signal 11

(and probably dozens more just like it). --Alex PS This php misfeature is so common that even though I've never run PHP in my life, it is burned into my brain that module ordering causes severe headaches. Hmmm... I've been thinking about methods to make sure the load order of PHP modules avoids

Re: ntptrace: Command not found.

/sbin/ntptrace /usr/sbin/ntptrace: Command not found. ntptrace is a perl script. On my system it starts: #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w and if that is missing the diagnostic is Command not found. Install perl! Looks like all base dependencies on perl haven't quite gone away. --Alex

Re: Question about freeBSD package.

-questions/20080210.freebsd-questions --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with su on 6.3

what you mean by you can't test these interactively with su. If you mean you can't su to them and get a shell; that's wrong. su -m account_with_fake_shell --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote Setuid/gid bits on shell scripts aren't considered safe, however and may even be disabled. THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS, JUST USE THE FILE-SYSTEM TO PROTECT THE FILES (MAKE THEM NOT WRITEABLE

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

the python backtrace. Maybe the mailman list, or a mailman admin here, can help with that, if you need it. Running out of ideas. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

. A open source website with tutorials and pointers would come in handy. This could be shared with the linux community. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting up a firewall and creating

Re: Xorg NV driver problems GeForce 6200

mins - haven't tried 7.3 yet. nvidia on i386 will stop getting interrupts after heavy ethernet traffic which only seemed to happen after I went SMP; thread on the nvidia forums ends with no particular resolution. Sympathy, but no help :-( --Alex

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

and see if it helps? (It's just a SWAG, and could be wrong!). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?

actually runs to process the email, you could ktrace that from the command line. Maybe the mailman mailing list could give you an incantation to try. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

and large amounts of dependencies all at once. They are more trouble than they are worth for a single package. That is, unless you are already using them. The other argument would be that there's no better time to get familiar with a tool than when you can use it to do something easy. --Alex [1

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

, it did nothing at all From man chown Symbolic links named by arguments are silently left unchanged unless -h is used. If you really care; say you want a find -user api to find that symlink then chown -h api /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sender.sh should do what you want. --Alex

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

, simply changing to another user when appropriate (see man 2 setuid). Setuid/gid bits on shell scripts aren't considered safe, however and may even be disabled. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

can su to whoever without a password, and api can su to api without a password, and everyone else gets prompted. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

that the file is both executable by root and setuid. Both root and anyone in group wheel can now run shutdown. and the setuid bit says that *whoever* runs the program will run it as if they were root. It's very similar for groups. hth, --Alex

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

/rc.d/. It's there for backwards compatibility and you'll be bit when it goes away. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

df du showing different usages for /var

space in use as reported by these two tools? Which is right? More importantly, how do I fix this? Thanks, Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: df du showing different usages for /var

reply, it looks like I've inadverdently asked an FAQ...and reading the entry he pointed me to, it makes perfect sense what's going on, and a simple restart of Apache fixed things up. Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Nice for IO

I'm looking for tool that limit the IO acces to a process similair as what nice / idprio does with the CPU but only ten for IO. Any pointers? -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting

Re: SATA question

the manpage and don't forget to mention the version of FreeBSD you have (6.3?) See also this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01706.html hth, --Alex On a random SATA150 disk I get ~60017191 bytes/sec for a dd, which ~= 6 kbytes/sec from diskinfo and ~= 60MB/s

Re: Apache Error Authentication (Nagios)

Allow from all /Directory Alias /nagios /usr/local/www/nagios Directory /usr/local/www/nagios Options None AllowOverride AuthConfig Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Apache Error Authentication (Nagios)

[Wed Jan 30 22:12:58 2008] [error] [client 67.190.229.227] access to /nagios/cgi-bin/tac.cgi failed, reason: require directives present and no Authoritative handler. What does your .htaccess file in /usr/local/www/nagios/cgi-bin look like? Alex, it was a typo in my .htaccess file! Again

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

(/windows) to /tmp/foo DUMP: Cannot find file system superblock DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. I don't know if there are NTFS utils running on FreeBSD that could do similar - others may, or search the ports for NTFS related software and see what the pkg-descr files say. --Alex PS A question

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

if the directory has the flag neither it nor anything in it will be dumped (assuming correct use of -h flag. -h 0 ensuring *never* dumped). Have you tried just setting the flag on the directories? It works for me... --Alex PS It's a slightly different problem if you do want the directory dumped

Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible? -- SOLVED

. Or you could singularise to content)./spod In addition, if all you are doing is *testing* the dump then -rN in any directory you please will work as well, since nothing gets extracted. Useful if you're just concerned about tape errors and the like. --Alex

Re: old kernel's name

not work. hth, --Alex PS Re: your earlier question, I'm pretty sure you can use ls and cd to see what files you have if you can't remember the name of the kernel directory. Depends exactly what point your boot got too, but it sounds like the right place for those to work

Sound problems on Thinkpad T43

using FreeBSD as a desktop machine, but I might have to use Linux again if I can't get my sound working. Thanks! Alex Kloss ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Sound problems on Thinkpad T43

done I suppose. Thanks anyway everyone! Alex Kloss On Jan 28, 2008 1:58 PM, Mark D. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kloss wrote: Ok, never mind. After changing my settings to those of Wojciech's, the sound still didn't work. I booted the system with a Fedora 7 Live CD and tried playing

Re: Sound problems on Thinkpad T43

Ok, never mind. After changing my settings to those of Wojciech's, the sound still didn't work. I booted the system with a Fedora 7 Live CD and tried playing some music, but I didn't get any sound out of it then, either. It looks like the card on this Thinkpad has died. Shame, too, I just unboxed

Re: spamd-setup can't find spamd.conf

running it under ktrace to double-check what is actually being opened. Simple to try. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

connect to a a Windows machine and see what it thinks it is? I fail to remember how you figure out file system type in Windows but right-click-properties on the disk might do it. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

addresses also hosts the main site, I end up blocking that too. I don't see how a firewall is appropriate for this (hosts.allow, likewise). The point of the exercise is to never even contact the ad host. If I've misunderstood something about your approach, please enlighten me. --Alex

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 13:01:14 schrieb Alex Zbyslaw: snip explanation I don't see how a firewall is appropriate for this (hosts.allow, likewise). The point of the exercise is to never even contact the ad host. Transparent proxy with squid

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

Erich Dollansky wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Assuming I've understood your initial post correctly, then I do the same, redirecting some dozen ad sites to a local web server. With a this is how I started. Then friends did the same. We exchanged the files. We added

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

with opera when I use it. Best, --Alex PS The /etc/hosts solution must be described plenty of places that are google-able since I found it through none of the resources mentioned in this discussion. I wish I could say I'd thought of it for myself, but like so many good ideas I just borrowed

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

RW wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:31:08 + Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have zero experience of squid beyond reading about it, but it has always sounded like a major resource hog. It depends how you use it. I think you can probably get it down to about 15 MB, if you

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

pages because I don't break the layout (usually), and the post about squid talked about clear gifs as replacements which again would not break anything. AdblockPlus is a valid alternative *if you are just a Firefox user*, but for everyone else, some other solution is required. --Alex

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

a valid hosts file at boot time. Fiddling with symlinks in rc scripts could do that, I'm sure. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to replace two strings in a file in the same time with sed command ?

/string2/replacement2/g --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to compile and install a new driver

be easier to comprehend. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD questions

are desperate. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

around :-) Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 16:34, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ discussing `su -m' option ] Also the only way I know on FreeBSD to interactively become a user with no real shell (true, nologin etc). It should be possible to type: su username i.e

Re: install

an immediate fix and a change of preferred medium? I think not. Me, even with several reasonably fancy PCs, have no DVD burning capability whatsoever, and I doubt I'm alone in that. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: install

use often, as opposed to an installer that gets used almost never, especially when the current one does appear to work and do what I want. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: how to change next boot from windows to freebsd?

-4 from the command line, and also adds an automatic 5: Next disk option in the in the interactive invocation. Now to figure out how to shut down/reboot windows from a bat file so I can do one double-click and not faff around with the Start menu... --Alex --- nextboot.c.orig Wed Nov 7 18

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 and PERC 5i controller

?) works fine in a 2850 under 5.4, but 5.4 is no longer supported at all, so no security fixes, so you'd better keep the machine well insulated. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Official mirror source

Hello, I am one of the sys admin looking after mirror.aarnet.edu.au which is also ftp2.au.freebsd.org. We have had issues with upstream mirrors we have used locally. Can you suggest a good mirror to rsync from internationally? Thanks, Alex Alex Dodson System Administrator AARNet Pty Ltd Ph: 61

Kopete MSN

Hi, I have trouble to use MSN with kopete for some time now. I was wondering: Am I the only one? Or my this be something FreeBSD related? Tanks for your responce, Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

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

-generated test page for when new paper is fed in). Once you know what your troff looks like, any scripting language should be able to turn the text file into troff and print it. Perl is probably the obvious one. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Strange perl script

perl sleep 120; $ perl bar.prl $ ps 7575 p1 S 0:00.00 perl ./bar.prl If sploger really was malware, then it was probably picking some name at random to show in ps. The difference between the ps outputs when changing $0 hints at that, but I haven't done exhaustive tests. --Alex

pkg_deinstall --exclude Question

help me with such problem plz. I need to pkg_deinstall all packages from my FreeBSD and exclude some. I make pkg_deinstall -arnx xorg firefox assumes pkg_deinstall leave xorg and firefox with their dependencies. but results differs is there any possibility to filter some packages from

Re: How to install third party software (format .tar.bz2)

Could you please advise on how to install the software with format .tar.bz2 For Example, file downloaded from the below link : [1]http://www.gprsec.hu/downloads/GPRS_Easy_Connect_301.tar.bz2 cd /directory-whith-GPRS_Easy_Connect_301.tar.bz2 bzip2 -d GPRS_Easy_Connect_301.tar.bz2

Re: determing space in the / partition

access to this information). --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: libX11 configure error

On 9/28/07, John E Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex P wrote at 18:33 +0400 on Sep 27, 2007: hi. My system can`t to update libX11. FreeBSD 6_2 p7. logs attached. setenv XORG_UPDATE yes ports is up to date Can you help me to clear problem

Re: vpn which freeBSD 6.2

that VPN comes with. Here's a bunch of links I found useful when setting up VPN: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg19089.html http://www.lacave.net/~fred/racoon/config.html http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/ipsec/ --Alex ___ freebsd

Re: temporary su login

to shutdown. But no general purpose login. Also, on my system, shutdown already is in group operator, but maybe I just did it by hand and forgot. 10 -r-sr-x--- 1 root operator - 10200 Sep 30 2006 /sbin/shutdown* --Alex ___ freebsd-questions

Re: [Fwd: Re: What is a 'normal' amount of un-solicited connection attempts?]

in the past so try the archives for more info. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: load script at bootup

prefer it. (I symlink from a CVSed area). rc.d is very flexible and everything that happens at boot time is all in one (or two :-)) places. And you can run something every time the machine is shut down as well as when it's rebooted. Can't do that with cron :-) £0.02 --Alex

Re: Test on FreeBSD site

Bill Moran wrote: I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. They do. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

not allow that to be changed independently. I know of no reason why you wouldn't want the MBR on all your disks, even if you don't technically need it. Sorry, no idea if this helps with the original question, which I too had trouble following. --Alex

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

become disk1, would that explain what you saw? The only was that I found to rectify this was use a boot from a USB device with boot0 on it: USB: F5 - disk1 Disk1: F1 - boots FreeBSD And now, subsequent reboots work fine: Disk1: F1 - boots FresBSD --Alex

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