Re: Script to generate names

2006-02-03 Thread Will Maier
| uniq > ${LIST3}-sorted notify "Created ${NEWWORDCT} new words in file ${LIST3}; a sorted version" notify "can be found at ${LIST3}-sorted." -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[

Re: SSH with Public Key Authentication (Was: Re: Attention: Giorgos Keramidas (Was: CVS Import Permissions))

2006-02-01 Thread Will Maier
for me. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]--* ___ f

Re: "screen" alternative

2006-01-26 Thread Will Maier
pplication. screen works fine on FreeBSD -- the package building process just doesn't make it possible for FreeBSD to provide a pre-compiled version. As I said, you're welcome to compile your own. It's the first thing I do when I set up a new system. -- o--{

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

2006-01-18 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:38:50PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 16:25, Will Maier pondered: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Kilian Hagemann wrote: > > > I have never even heard of "frox" before, but after some > > &

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

2006-01-18 Thread Will Maier
tter ideas. Certainly, I'd add updating the system to your list. Even if the Security Alerts don't seem to effect your set up, I find it's good practice to apply them in a reasonable amount of time. At the very least, it keeps me in touch with my boxes and lets me develop a rou

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Will Maier
ent are shorthand for the test(1) utility. The man page has a list of the different primaries available. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL P

Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

2005-12-17 Thread Will Maier
with FreeBSD that describes just this type of thing; it's also available online: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/index.html -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Will Maier
be fine with a lesser amount of swap, unless you'll be running applications which will overload the memory. [0] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to configue ssmtp for authentication?

2005-12-12 Thread Will Maier
x27;m not sure if ssmtp can do authenticated SMTP relay, but msmtp can. It's also in the ports tree; I think you'll find its man page more useful. -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PR

Re: simple shell script

2005-12-08 Thread Will Maier
10 2 * * * /path/to/ftp -o /dev/null http://www.google.com/index.html > /dev/null Or, using curl: 10 2 * * * /path/to/curl -s http://www.google.com/index.html > /dev/null -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROT

Re: PC-BSD and Request Tracker

2005-12-07 Thread Will Maier
hough I can't find anything on their site to corroborate that. Again, you'll have better luck asking PC-BSD. > Thanks, Good luck! -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

Re: Can't run scripts no more: "permission denied"

2005-12-01 Thread Will Maier
ng shell scripts for sh (and not bash, ksh or whatever) is a good idea as it will make your scripts easier to port to other systems. bash is similar to sh, so you might not need to change anything (unless you're using lots of bashisms or arrays or whatnot). -- o--{

Re: pf blocking nfs

2005-11-30 Thread Will Maier
ling this. I don't use pf (or NFS), but UDP is a stateless protocol. I wouldn't be surprised if pf couldn't keep track of its state... -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Need urgent help regarding security

2005-11-16 Thread Will Maier
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Re: Need urgent help regarding security

2005-11-16 Thread Will Maier
t (from the OP's message) it seems like the basic problem is known. Crufty machines attract attacks. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAI

Re: ifconfig mystery card

2005-11-09 Thread Will Maier
ate | ~ % That should also give you a hint as to the type of card you have (a rather common one, at that). > Hmm ... what am I missing? ; ) -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL

Re: To little swapspace...

2005-11-01 Thread Will Maier
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Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Will Maier
. I'm a little surprised there isn't (AFAICT) anything descriptive in file(1)'s manpage or /u/s/mi/magic that would explain the discrepancy. Didn't see anything in quick looks through gcc(1) or make(1), either. Weird. -- o--{ Will Maier }---

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-27 Thread Will Maier
diff'ing the /usr/share/misc/magic file from a system that works and a system that doesn't work. I'd expect the difference to be evident there. It works find on all my machines, though. -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAI

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-26 Thread Will Maier
expansion, including expansions used in the referenced function. -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[ BSD Unix: Live Fr

Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for?

2005-10-25 Thread Will Maier
% uname -a | FreeBSD vger.caenn.wisc.edu 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 | #1: Tue Oct 11 20:19:50 CDT 2005 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VGER20050925 i386 -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread Will Maier
; not found. sftp> put "this is a test" Uploading this is a test to /home/$USER/this is a test this is a test 100%0 0.0KB/s 00:00 sftp> -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bash Pattern Matching Syntax

2005-10-15 Thread Will Maier
of any characters (*) and a period (.). Here are some examples to demonstrate what I've written above; they conclude with a pattern that will match the files you're looking for. sh-3.00$ ls a all test.JPG test.jpg sh-3.00$ ls [a-z] a sh-3.00$ ls [all] a sh-3.00$ ls

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-14 Thread Will Maier
nt: not found $ ^[[A^C $ count=$(( $count + 1 )) # note: 'count=' $ echo $count 2 -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMA

Re: Help With 'for' Loop

2005-10-14 Thread Will Maier
ocal/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/:/usr/games/ -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

2005-10-14 Thread Will Maier
ceath > line in my config file and recompile? (as per ath(4)) Yes. -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *

Re: D-Link wireless LAN card not working in 5.3-R

2005-10-14 Thread Will Maier
There are multiple versions of the card, so I can't guarantee that your version will work with the ath driver, but there's a good chance you can get it to work. -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ? (NOTE - I am not an IDIOT)

2005-10-13 Thread Will Maier
, which often is the scroll wheel or both left and right buttons pressed simultaneously. This may differ depending on the mouse. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Playing Flash and video media in Firefox

2005-10-07 Thread Will Maier
gure out what file is actually being loaded. Once you know that, it's simple to stream it in eg Mplayer. I needed to do this to watch film trailers at Apple.com or stream soccer games from mls.com. $ curl http://the.site.com | grep '\.\(rm\|wmv\|mov\)' -- o

Re: passwd file corrupted

2005-10-06 Thread Will Maier
your $EDITOR variable set correctly? -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[

Re: Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Will Maier
ad, as recommended elsewhere in this thread. I can confirm that the port works just fine. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[ BSD Unix: Live F

Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives

2005-09-30 Thread Will Maier
em. RAID1 ('mirroring') should do just fine mitigating this issue. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Want to symbolic link 2-3 hard drives

2005-09-30 Thread Will Maier
going through the install as normal, except designate one of the two drives as your /home. I'm not sure what you mean by linking *both* of the drives (it doesn't work that way); just setting one of the other big drives as the /home mountpoint should do the trick.

Re: FBSD 5.4 - netstat -p tcp

2005-09-30 Thread Will Maier
don't top post -- I've reordered the quoted sections above) lsof often works for me where sockstat (sockstat -4) or netstat haven't: # lsof -ni -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: NFS export problem

2005-09-29 Thread Will Maier
ou meant to write > /raid/lower/data -maproot=root -network 10.210.0.0 -mask 255.255.0.0 > instead i assume !? That's actually what he did write; Gmail munges outgoing messages, adding those annoying tags. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | ja

Re: new error message from latest xorg-server?

2005-09-15 Thread Will Maier
lthough I was trying to run aterm. I switched to using to xterm for that session; next time I started X, the problem was gone. -- o------{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL

Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-12 Thread Will Maier
bsd-hackers/2004-February/005800.html -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]--* ___

Re: 5.4 SSH Timeout help

2005-09-12 Thread Will Maier
set), the tty is a pseudo-tty (pty) or the shell was | not so compiled (see the version shell variable). See also the | afsuser and logout shell variables. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL

Re: Thanks a lot!!!

2005-09-11 Thread Will Maier
, in particular); FreeBSD runs on my servers and work laptop. There are folks who use at least some of the games you mentioned above on FreeBSD; hopefully they'll chime in. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL

Re: Compatibility

2005-09-10 Thread Will Maier
it running on various other machines. Good luck! -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]--*

Re: and the winner is...

2005-09-01 Thread Will Maier
h, interesting. Doesn't seem appropriate for freebsd-*questions*, though, as you don't seem to really ask anything at all. Could we move this thread to one of the lists better suited for it? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: SSH times out - "Server unexpectedly closed network connection"

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
r-a-while-then-die thing. If that doesn't help, look at the output of ssh -vvv $REMOTE_HOST. -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTE

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
ear phishing' attack. As far as stopping those mails, treat them like any other spam. If they have viral payloads, you should be using virus detection somewhere in the chain (preferably near the mail server) to weed them out anyway. -- o--{ Will Maier }-

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:32:17PM +0200, martin hudec wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:28:03AM -0500 or thereabouts, Will Maier wrote: > > So what happens when you run: > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update > They are both

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
un `portsnap extract`? -- o--{ Will Maier }--o | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]--* ___

Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:52:22AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Will Maier wrote: > > Indulge a newb, then: how did that come about? I'm still figuring > > out port and packages and how they relate to the different releases. >

Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4

2005-08-30 Thread Will Maier
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:16:18PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm. I base my statement off the output from `uname -a`: > > FreeBSD `hostname` 5.4-SECURITY FreeBSD 5.4-SECURITY #0: Wed Jul > > 20 08:57:11 \ UTC 2005 > &g

Re: Setting up a home network with FreeBSD (not connected to the Internet yet)

2005-08-30 Thread Will Maier
running as few services as possible (`sockstat -4` to see what's listening on the network), prepare an update and backup scheme for the system and its applications (apply updates now and plan for updates in the future), lock down user accounts, etc. Subscribe to the FreeBSD security mailing list[0]

Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4

2005-08-30 Thread Will Maier
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running a ~2 days old FreeBSD 5.3-SECURITY install; I'm still getting my ^^^ My apologies -- should read: 5.4-SECURITY.

Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4

2005-08-28 Thread Will Maier
*- I'm running a ~2 days old FreeBSD 5.3-SECURITY install; I'm still getting my feet wet with FreeBSD. Here's the process I've been using to keep my ports tree up-to-date: # portsnap fetch # portsnap update # make fetchindex # portsdb -u # portupgrade -varRPP I've also been re