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Derek Ragona | 1 Jun 2006 01:42

Re: Problems with sshd on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE

You may have an old key on the system you are ssh'ing to the downgraded 
server.  Clear your ssh keys and try it again.

         -Derek

At 05:26 PM 5/31/2006, Andrew Reitz wrote:
>Hello,
>
>For reasons that I don't want to go into here, I have recently
>downgraded my principal FreeBSD server from 6.1 to 4.11-RELEASE. I
>did this by installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD 4.11 on a clean HD,
>and then I rsync'd all of my data over.
>
>Everything has been working fine, until I tried to SSH to the box
>this afternoon. While everything was working fine this morning, now
>sshd hangs up immediately on all clients that attempt to connect. In / 
>var/log/messages, I see errors like this for every ssh connection
>attempt:
>
>May 31 15:21:06 redefine sshd[8543]: error: ssh_dss_sign: sign failed
>May 31 15:21:06 redefine sshd[8543]: fatal: mm_answer_sign: key_sign
>failed
>
>Google hasn't enlightened me at all. This was *just* working a few
>hours ago, and now, nada. Does anyone on this list have any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>         -Andy Reitz.
>
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Andrew McNaughton | 1 Jun 2006 02:54
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Re: getting alerts about system upgrades

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST)
> Andrew McNaughton <andrew <at> scoop.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed ports,
>> and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.  It's a whole
>> lot easier than the old situation of tracking the security lists every
>> day.
>>
>> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical upgrades
>> for the FreeBSD core?
>
> The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce <at>  and/or
> security-announce <at> freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but important
> stuff you need to know comes through those channels.

I do that, but my mailbox gets lots of traffic.  Sometimes I miss 
something, and as far as I know, there's then no way system to keep 
reminding me, nor a way to quickly check the current state of play.

Andrew

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Tamouh H. | 1 Jun 2006 02:59
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RE: Problems with sshd on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE


Curiously, I just restarted sshd, and now things are working again.  
Has anybody ever seen this before?

-Andy.

We had problems as well with FreeBSD 4.11 and sshd service hanging or breaking because of an OPENSSL lib
which are required to run OpenSSH. Since then we moved out of 4.11 to 5.x

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Murray Taylor | 1 Jun 2006 03:11
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RE: getting alerts about system upgrades

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Andrew McNaughton
> Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:54 AM
> To: Bill Moran
> Cc: freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: getting alerts about system upgrades
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST) Andrew McNaughton 
> > <andrew <at> scoop.co.nz> wrote:
> >>
> >> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed 
> >> ports, and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.  
> >> It's a whole lot easier than the old situation of tracking the 
> >> security lists every day.
> >>
> >> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical 
> >> upgrades for the FreeBSD core?
> >
> > The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce <at>  and/or 
> > security-announce <at> freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but 
> important stuff 
> > you need to know comes through those channels.
> 
> I do that, but my mailbox gets lots of traffic.  Sometimes I 
> miss something, and as far as I know, there's then no way 
> system to keep reminding me, nor a way to quickly check the
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Andrew McNaughton | 1 Jun 2006 03:32
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RE: getting alerts about system upgrades

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Murray Taylor wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
>> Andrew McNaughton
>>
>> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST) Andrew McNaughton
>>> <andrew <at> scoop.co.nz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed
>>>> ports, and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.
>>>> It's a whole lot easier than the old situation of tracking the
>>>> security lists every day.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical
>>>> upgrades for the FreeBSD core?
>>>
>>> The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce <at>  and/or
>>> security-announce <at> freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but
>> important stuff
>>> you need to know comes through those channels.
>>
>> I do that, but my mailbox gets lots of traffic.  Sometimes I
>> miss something, and as far as I know, there's then no way
>> system to keep reminding me, nor a way to quickly check the
>> current state of play.
>>
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Levi Campbell | 1 Jun 2006 03:48
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help


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doug | 1 Jun 2006 03:50

Re: Problem with wireless card drivers

In 6.1 you do not need to recompile the kernel. You can load the drivers. 
kldstat will tell you what you have loaded. check 'man if_ndis' and/or the 
handbook for configuration setting, chipsets, etc.

you can just do:

   cd /boot/kernel
   kldload wlan.ko
   kldload if_ndis.ko

You may need the wep dirver if you are using encryption. After all that works, 
you can load by adding to /boot/loader.conf:

   if_ndis_load="YES"
   wlan_load="YES"

This is just a guide. I have a thinkpad so I am not sure if the above is 
complete. In addition to the handbook and the man pages, you can find a lot of 
information via Google.

Hope this helps.

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Atanas Atanasov wrote:

> I am quite new to FreeBSD. Could you please explain what do you mean
> by "recompiled kernel to be sure that the wireless support is
> included". Do you mean to create a kernel config with ndis and if_ndis
> statically linked into it? I haven't done this one so far.
>
> Atanas
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Kris Kennaway | 1 Jun 2006 03:54

Re: pkg_upgrade?

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:05:28PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >Anyway, retry the binary upgrade as you say.
> 
> The binary upgrade started from the 6.0-RELEASE CD-ROM didn't work

Wait, you were trying to update to 6.1-RELEASE using the 6.0-RELEASE
CD-ROM? :)

Kris
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Nikolas Britton | 1 Jun 2006 03:58
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Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?

Hey did anyone see the article on /. about Sendmail being removed from
NetBSD, and being replaced with Postfix?

What advice can you offer about doing this on FreeBSD? What's
involved, How do you do it, are there any gotta's (cron scripts?),
etc?.... Is it just as simple as installing the Postfix port? How do
you stop buildworld from reinstalling sendmail? /etc/mail/mailer.conf?

Oh hmm, I see there's a section in the FreeBSD handbook that deals
with this topic... Oh well I've already wrote this much... maybe you
guy and gals have something more to add.

Thanks!

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Kevin Kinsey | 1 Jun 2006 04:08

Re: help

Levi Campbell wrote:
>  

911?

Seriously?  Type something, then push "send".

You might get a better result.

Nothing personal at all; but, your message was blank,
except for the subject line.

Kevin Kinsey

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