USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rear usb ports of my pc. This mouse has never worked, however when I plug in another USB mouse in the front of my pc it works?! I wonder; how do I get the Razer Lachesis working without plugging it in the front? Furthermore I wondered if there is

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:53:03PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: I'm getting a lot of messages like this: Oct 4 14:30:00 hellas kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 250 to 200 packets/sec Is there some rule I can insert into /etc/pf.conf to reject these ap

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:53:03PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >>> I'm getting a lot of messages like this: >>> >>> Oct 4 14:30:00 hellas kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 250 >>> to 200

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If you want a "magic solution", see blackhole(4). block drop all looks fairly magical to me. Stick that at the top of your ruleset as your default policy, add more specific rules

Re: Touch screen ET&T on Clevo tn120r

2008-10-06 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 14:59 -0300, Sdävtaker wrote: > Hello, > I installed FreeBSD 7.0r in a Clevo tablet. > I works great, but i am missing the touchscreen. > Did someone make it work or got any idea where can i start to try? > I got the pciconf -lv and scanpci -v info: > Thanks in advance for an

The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSD release

2008-10-06 Thread kiffin.gish
Hi there. I tried to install 7.1-BETA from the CD I burned from 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso, but after I created all the partitions etc and then selected to install, I get the following error message: "The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSD release" Any idea what's wrong

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:07:04 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> This is incredibly draconian. :-) I was trying my best to remain >>> realistic. >> >> It's no such thing. This is the recommended standard practice when >> designing firewalls: always start from the premise that al

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 04:51:01 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I run my laptop with a `pf.conf' that (putting most of the comments and >> other disabled rules for one-off tests aside) looks pretty much like: >> >> set block-policy drop >> set require-order yes

stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I work remotely with a company that is across the international date line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if it is possible to add a clock to my xfce panel that shows the time their (and keep the one that has my time on it) _

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:33:38PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:26:11 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> block drop all > >> > >> looks fairly magical to me. Stick that at the top of

update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up

2008-10-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I am not sure why but whenever I do: $ freebsd-update fetch Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. but if type: $ portsnap fetch Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap.FreeBSD.org... done. Many thanks for any hint as t

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0200, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rear usb ports of > my pc. This mouse has never worked, however when I plug in another USB > mouse in the front of my pc it works?! I wonder; how do I get the > Razer L

Setting up skype

2008-10-06 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am running the most recent version of net/skype (not -devel) and do not have a mic or camera and want to know what people recommend. Ideally I would like a all in one phone type head set for the audio. bTW I am usinf xfce on 8-CURRENT (i386) ___

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:34:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If you want a "magic solution", see blackhole(4). block drop all looks fairly magical to me

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for > FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. > > R1soft says they need help to develop FreeBSD support in their product. > Do you know an

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:34:46AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > If you want a "magic solution", see blackhole(4). >>> block drop all >>> >>> looks fairly magical to m

continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Hello, Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. R1soft says they need help to develop FreeBSD support in their product. Do you know anybody who can help r1soft on this issue? Please see: http://forum.r1soft.

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:39:20 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work remotely with a company that is across the international date > line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if it > is possible to add a clock to my xfce panel that shows the time their >

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew D
Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Le Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0200, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rear usb ports of my pc. This mouse has never worked, however when I plug in another USB mouse in the front of my pc it works?! I wonder; how

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:26:11 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:19:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> block drop all >> >> looks fairly magical to me. Stick that at the top of your ruleset as >> your default policy, add more specific rules beneath it to

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:45:21PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:39:20 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I work remotely with a company that is across the international date > > line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if i

VNC server embedded into Xorg server

2008-10-06 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi All, There was a port called net/vnc that contained a vnc.so file. That file could be loaded into the Xorg server and then I was able to monitor the X desktop with VNC. Now I'm using gnome, and gnome2-fifth-toe installs tightvnc. It conflicts with net/vnc. So I cannot install net/vnc. W

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:45:21PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:39:20 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I work remotely with a company that is across the international date line from me and I can do the math in my hea

multihomed fbsd7 router with nat

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew D
G'Day all, Got a network that has 2 DSL connections. The 1st has cheap data and the 2nd is a more reliable provider. Basically all data goes out the first provider except some IPs which will use the second provider (just a ipfw fwd rule). If the cheap one goes offline data has to route out via th

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread James Seward
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never gotten a definite answer as to what happens if you use "flags > S/SA" on a rule that is for UDP, since UDP is a non-negotiated protocol. > That's why I split them up per protocol on RELENG_6 boxes. It intellig

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Julien Cigar
Bacula ? http://www.bacula.org I use it at work to backup linux and freebsd boxes and it works like a charm. On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 04:20 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a known continuous backup solution si

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:28:12 -0400, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you are using XFCE4 then you are reaping all the benefits of the >>> freely available work of others. This style of subject is offensive >>> to their efforts to provide a light-weight, beautiful, functional

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:44:54 +0100, "James Seward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never gotten a definite answer as to what happens if you use "flags >> S/SA" on a rule that is for UDP, since UDP is a non-negotiated pr

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. R1soft says they need help to develop FreeBSD support in their product.

Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400). The coretemp sysctls seem to always show 50C as the baseline temperature: $ sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp dev.cpu.0.temperature: 50 dev.cpu.1.temperature: 50 This is with a big PSU fan, a good CPU fan,

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Julien Cigar wrote: Bacula ? http://www.bacula.org I use it at work to backup linux and freebsd boxes and it works like a charm. On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 04:20 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, Is there a known continuous backup

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
> I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to > label it and mount it... > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. > > I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-06 Thread Jason C. Wells
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I work remotely with a company that is across the international date line from me and I can do the math in my head but want to know if it is possible to add a clock to my xfce panel that shows the time their (and keep the one that has my time on it) ___

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd ignored (-269.7C) Message in every 3 seconds .

2008-10-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 06 October 2008 02:07:17 am dhaneshk k wrote: > I installed freebsd-7.0 in a p4 machine , after installation when I > reboot the machine , I am getting the message > > acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd ignored (-269.7C) in every 3 seconds I have a machine that does this as well. I haven'

Re: Freebsd-update with a custom kernel and jails

2008-10-06 Thread FreeBSD
FreeBSD a écrit : FreeBSD a écrit : matt donovan a écrit : On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:58 PM, FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is my situation: I want to be able to use freebsd-update to update a FreeBSD 7.0-Release installation to the latest security patches (I want an update and n

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to > > label it and mount it... > > > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > > > If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't writ

Problem with Passive FTP through PF

2008-10-06 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: We are running the following: - FreeBSD 6.3 Release #1 - PF - pftpx for our ftp proxy We have several ftp servers of different flavors behind the PF firewalls and we are getting a lot of the following when users are trying to connect using passive mode. "Server sent passive reply wi

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:36:32PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup >>> for FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find any

Re: gmirror prerequisite question SOLVED

2008-10-06 Thread Dino Vliet
> I've bought a secondary HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0. > I want to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch), you don't have to. >but I want to know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for >doing this operation. > > The command > > dmesg | g

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to > > label it and mount it... > > > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > > > If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't wri

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:07:08PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to > > > label it and mount it... > > > > > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > > > > > b

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying > > > to label it and mount it... > > > > > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > > > > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > > > > > If I run sysinstall, it tells

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:36:19AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > > > > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying > > > > to label it and mount it... > > > > > > > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > >

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 13:09 +0200, Patrick Lamaizière wrote: > Le Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0200, > Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rear usb ports of > > my pc. This mouse has never worked, however when I plug in another USB > > mo

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:10 +1030, Andrew D wrote: > Patrick Lamaizière wrote: > > Le Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0200, > > Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > >> I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rear usb ports of > >> my pc. This mouse has never worked, however when I

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:45:52AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > There is one thing about later FreeBSDs which I am aware of: 48-bit LBA > addressing. I'm left wondering if what you're running into is a bug or > a problem with older FreeBSD (6.1) not supporting this. I would have to > go back t

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
> > > > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm > > > > trying to label it and mount it... > > > > > > > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > > > > > > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > > > > > > > If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. > > > > >

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:52:22PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:10 +1030, Andrew D wrote: > > Patrick Lamaizière wrote: > > > Le Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:59 +0200, > > > Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > > >> I have one Razer Lachesis USB mouse attached to the rea

analyzing freebsd core dumps

2008-10-06 Thread Mister Olli
hi list... I have a freebsd maschine running for more 6 months without any problems. the machine's only service is to be an openvpn gateway for a hand of users. 2 weeks ago the first problems started. the openvpn exited with signal 11 and 4 and core dumps were written. the same happend yesterday

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
First of all, I am not an r1soft advocate, but they seem to be making a software which is popular and affordable and interested in giving FreeBSD support... r1soft is not the issue here, the problem is that there is no way to do near continuous backups on FreeBSD servers. Jeremy Chadwick wrote

carp no working after upgrade

2008-10-06 Thread Gábri Máté
Dear List, i have a FreeBSD 7-release cluster firewall using carp for the public IP addresses. Last evening i've upgraded one of the firewalls to 7-release-p5 and after that carp stopped working. The two nodes can't understang each others cap packets so both of them are in master state. Does p5 dif

Re: analyzing freebsd core dumps

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:04:07AM +0200, Mister Olli wrote: > hi list... > > I have a freebsd maschine running for more 6 months without any > problems. > the machine's only service is to be an openvpn gateway for a hand of > users. > > 2 weeks ago the first problems started. the openvpn exited

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I don't think this has something to with a bios setting/jumper. My > > other USB ports are working fine ( I also have an USB keyboard plugged > > in). > > > > Furthermore in Linux nor Vista I've encountered this problem. Therefor I > >

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for > FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/). My

Re: analyzing freebsd core dumps

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:18:09AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:04:07AM +0200, Mister Olli wrote: > > hi list... > > > > I have a freebsd maschine running for more 6 months without any > > problems. > > the machine's only service is to be an openvpn gateway for a han

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:07:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > First of all, I am not an r1soft advocate, but they seem to be making a > software which is popular and affordable and interested in giving > FreeBSD support... r1soft is not the issue here, the problem is that > there is no wa

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Mel
On Monday 06 October 2008 19:07:30 Evren Yurtesen wrote: > First of all, I am not an r1soft advocate, but they seem to be making a > software which is popular and affordable and interested in giving > FreeBSD support... r1soft is not the issue here, the problem is that > there is no way to do near

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:23:00PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > I don't think this has something to with a bios setting/jumper. My > > > other USB ports are working fine ( I also have an USB keyboard plugged > > > in). > > > > > > Furth

Re: Coretemp seems to be off quite a bit

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel ICH-9 chipset, and a 3.0GHz > Core 2 Duo (E8400). The coretemp sysctls seem to always show 50C as the > baseline temperature: > > $ sysctl dev.cpu | grep temp > dev.cpu.0.temperature: 50

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:45:52AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > There is one thing about later FreeBSDs which I am aware of: 48-bit > > LBA addressing. I'm left wondering if what you're running > into is a > > bug or a problem with older FreeBSD (6.1) not supporting this. I > > would h

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Julien Cigar
Sorry for once more but: you can make incremental backups every x minutes with Bacula too .. it only takes one or two minutes on my box to scan for changed files for ~150GB (even faster if you tweak it a bit). It's not really a "true" continuous backup solution, but it's perfectly possible to resto

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:08:34AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > The hardware I have is the built in SATA controller on the motherboard, > which is GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3. With the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 and > Super I/O chip: ITE IT8716. > > Oct 4 04:07:30 kermit kernel: atapci0: port > 0x

Re: Problem with Passive FTP through PF

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:00:11AM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > Hello All: > > We are running the following: > - FreeBSD 6.3 Release #1 > - PF > - pftpx for our ftp proxy > > We have several ftp servers of different flavors behind the PF firewalls and > we are getting a lot of the f

has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Craig Butler
Hi Guys I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I was hoping to get the first issue sent to me I am still waiting. Looking on their website they have the second issue published again I am waiting to receive it. I have tried emailing them but have not had any

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:00 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:23:00PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > I don't think this has something to with a bios setting/jumper. My > > > > other USB ports are working fine (

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:53:30PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:00 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:23:00PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > I don't think this has something to with a

what are the top few mp3[4] Podcast helpers-apps for firefox-3.03?

2008-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Even tho firefox3 doesn't do all that (I think) it should, my main use for the web is listening to audio streams. So: what should I select to be my default mp3/postcast player? thanks, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.t

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Monday 06 October 2008 4:24:47 pm Craig Butler wrote: > Hi Guys > > I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I > was hoping to get the first issue sent to me I am still waiting. > > Looking on their website they have the second issue published again > I am wai

widescreen: np, :-)

2008-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
[np (in the Subject:line) does not refer to a category of algorithm. it means: "No Problem"] Some time back I was determined to get rid of that battle-ship anchor 19" CRT and upgrade to at least a 20" LCD, preferably widescreen. An older, even nerdier fr

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:08:34AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:45:52AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > There is one thing about later FreeBSDs which I am aware of: 48-bit > > > LBA addressing. I'm left wondering if what you're running > > into is a > > > bug or

Re: what are the top few mp3[4] Podcast helpers-apps for firefox-3.03?

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:05:15 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what should I select to be my default mp3/postcast player? mplayer? Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpmDv7tKzDgJ

Re: USB mouse problems

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:03 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > It means the original fix was applied to CURRENT (what is also known as > HEAD), and then "backported" to RELENG_7 (what you would call FreeBSD > 7.x-STABLE) on 2008/03/20. "MFC" stands for "Merge From CURRENT". > > You can confirm this

Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Kelly Jones
Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a machine: cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems: % It's ugly. I'd prefer "cd /usr/ports; make foo/prog1 foo/prog2 ..." % "make instal

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
> > The hardware I have is the built in SATA controller on the > > motherboard, which is GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3. With the NVIDIA GeForce > > 6100 / nForce 430 and Super I/O chip: ITE IT8716. > > > > Oct 4 04:07:30 kermit kernel: atapci0: controller> port > > 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x

Re: kde4 question

2008-10-06 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 05 October 2008 19:42:36 Gary Kline wrote: > Over the past four days I've managed to get my FreeBSD server running > KDE > up by installing kde4. Now, for some reason, konqueror fails to > conntect > anywhere. > > How can I free up my old kde3 files and get konq

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Kelly Jones wrote: > Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a > machine: > > cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install > > and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems: > > % It's ugly. I'd prefer "cd /usr/ports; make foo/prog1

TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is it possible on FreeBSD i run asterisk with realtime priority. it works perfectly no matter how much CPU is loaded by other non-telephony tasks. but with lots of VM pressure it starts to so... like like tha..that... what causes it to behave like that and how to fix it. for example when lot

Re: USB mouse problems (SOLVED)

2008-10-06 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 21:58 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:03 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > It means the original fix was applied to CURRENT (what is also known as > > HEAD), and then "backported" to RELENG_7 (what you would call FreeBSD > > 7.x-STABLE) on 2008/03/20. "MFC"

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Huff
Vincent Hoffman writes: > > I want to install 50 apps on a new server, but not have to watch it > > constantly. I want to tell ports: "just use the default options for > > now: if I'm unhappy w/ them, I'll come back, do a 'make rmconfig' and > > rebuild". > > > > How can I do this? > > add

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread matt donovan
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2008 4:24:47 pm Craig Butler wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I > > was hoping to get the first issue sent to me I am still waiting. >

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Mel
On Monday 06 October 2008 21:28:25 Kelly Jones wrote: > Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a > machine: > > cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install > > and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems: > > % It's ugly. I'd pr

compat/linux program claims "no write access to ~"

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Franks
Sounds like a bogus error to me. I just downgraded amd64 to i386, reinstalled a linux program and it claims it can't write to ~ now. I'm running it, and I have no reason to think it wouldn't run as me. ~ is 775 anyway. Also, running the linux program as su or sudo gives the same error. Any ideas

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Craig Butler
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 17:48 -0400, matt donovan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 06 October 2008 4:24:47 pm Craig Butler wrote: > > > Hi Guys > > > > > > I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I > > > wa

Re: TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:21:01PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > is it possible on FreeBSD No, I think. > i run asterisk with realtime priority. it works perfectly no matter how > much CPU is loaded by other non-telephony tasks. > > but with lots of VM pressure it starts to so... like like t

Cant remove /var, in relocating /var to a symbolic link

2008-10-06 Thread jaymax
I am attempting to relocate /var to avoid files system full issues. Using a - mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var approach at the rm -rf /var step, the following was received rm

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread kenneth hatteland
Bought printed copy quite a while before the first release and have gotten both released issues delivered flawlessly here in Norway. I am very pleased with the magazine and recommend everyone to subscribe. They were a bit slow to reply on emails but always comes around at a later timethat i

Re: Cant remove /var, in relocating /var to a symbolic link

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:31:42PM -0700, jaymax wrote: > > I am attempting to relocate /var to avoid files system full issues. > Using a - > mkdir /usr/var > cd /var > tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) > cd / > rm -rf /var > ln -s /usr/var /var > approach

Re: Cant remove /var, in relocating /var to a symbolic link

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:31:42PM -0700, jaymax wrote: > > I am attempting to relocate /var to avoid files system full issues. > Using a - > mkdir /usr/var > cd /var > tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) > cd / > rm -rf /var > ln -s /usr/var /var > approach

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot (http://www.rsnap

kgdb debugging

2008-10-06 Thread alan yang
hi, there, wonder people can shed some lights on remote debugging. i have freebsd7 configured with option DDB / KDB / GDB but after entering the db on the target system the command gdb gives "the remote GDB backend could not be selected". i browsed through the mailing list, and do find 1 similar

Re: kgdb debugging

2008-10-06 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 alan yang wrote: | hi, there, | | wonder people can shed some lights on remote debugging. i have | freebsd7 configured with option DDB / KDB / GDB but after entering the | db on the target system the command gdb gives "the remote GDB backend | coul

Re: what are the top few mp3[4] Podcast helpers-apps for firefox-3.03?

2008-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:40:23PM +0200, Andreas Rudisch wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:05:15 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what should I select to be my default mp3/postcast player? > > mplayer? > > Andreas Well, I tried Kmplayer; it works for some sites and ha

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-06 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 06 October 2008 21:48:12 matt donovan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 06 October 2008 4:24:47 pm Craig Butler wrote: > > > Hi Guys > > > > > > I have been subscribed to BSD Magazine since the start of September, I > > > was h

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: What I'm saying is that Linux has the upper hand here. More eyes, more people, more developers, larger community, larger vendor support, and much **much** faster turn-around time on fixes/bugs. We can sit here and argue about those facts all we want (it's the equivalent

Re: kde4 question

2008-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:37:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2008 19:42:36 Gary Kline wrote: > > Over the past four days I've managed to get my FreeBSD server running > > KDE > > up by installing kde4. Now, for some reason, konqueror fails to > > conntect > > anyw

Re: kde4 question

2008-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:55:56PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:37:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: > > On Sunday 05 October 2008 19:42:36 Gary Kline wrote: > > > Over the past four days I've managed to get my FreeBSD server running > > > KDE > > > up by installing kde4. N

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
Mel wrote: I think once you and R1soft step out of the "I need a block level device" paradigm, you will see that modifying ggate with a "copy and fall through" mode, as well as a mechanism to block writes to the local provider, when the remote provider wants to write is the best solution all a

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Oct 6, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Mel wrote: On Monday 06 October 2008 21:28:25 Kelly Jones wrote: Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a machine: cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). T

Re: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass

2008-10-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you please show me how to generate the password hashes? There are many tools; I use security/makepasswd. -- Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

2008-10-06 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of server doing all manner of things! It's been working great up until today when it, well, didn't. Here's what I see in top -S. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND

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