date:20030704

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:26:47AM +1000, JacobRhoden wrote:
 Even though this is getting waaay off topic...
 
   On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:46 pm, Matt Heath wrote:
Ever seen something like this :
$r = mysql_execute(select * from table_1 where id=$_GET[id];);
 
 Actually people do do the same thing and perl and you know it :P Both perl and 
 php support calling sql with parameters using ? to insert variables. If 
 someone does not know what language to use at all, I would suggest php simply 
 because its a good, quick, easy language to get started in without too much 
 difficulty. (In lots of ways including not needing to understand cgi 
 variables, and what the heck Content-type: text/html\n\n is, or learning how 
 to include perl librarys to do all that stuff for you!) 

You're missing the point.  $_GET[id] is one of the arguments used when
calling the PHP and as such is completely under the control of an
external user.  This permits all sorts of shenanigans that generally
go under the name SQL injection attacks.  For instance, in this
case, if you could arange for the $_GET[id] variable to have the value
'joe OR 1=1' then you could dump out the whole of table_1.  I'm sure
that with a little thought you could come up with something much more
damaging.

Exactly the same problem occurs with perl CGI --- any time you take
user input in an application, you've got to assume that there will be
hostile intent, and sanitize the input accordingly.  The basic step in
sanitization is to decide what characters are permitted in the input,
and filter out everything else.  You probably want to limit the length
of the input, and (depending on the precise circumstances) there may
be other criterea you can apply.  Only then should you pass the input
into your SQL select statement.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:21:13PM -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote:
 
 --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew
  Bettinger wrote:
   On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath
  wrote:
I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and
  Firebird (was Phoenix):
The browsers will stall in a seemingly
  non-deterministic fashion.
   
I get that too
   
   My mozilla will hang for a few minutes when I
  enter a url in the 
   location bar.  If I fire it up and click on the
  link that are already 
   there it's fine.  The moment I try to type a new
  URL in the bar it just 
   hangs.  I am using the nvidia drivers on bsd 4.8. 
  Never had a problem 
   (that I can recall) until I installed the nvidia
  drivers..  could be 
   wrong tho.  
  
  I you go into Mozilla preferences, under Advanced :
  Keyboard
  Navigation and disable Find As You Type, then you'll
  avoid the several
  minutes of hang the first time you try and type into
  a text field or
  the location bar.  Presumably the same trick would
  work with Firebird,
  but unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a
  control for disabling
  that feature.
  
  I don't think this has anything to do with the video
  hardware or
  drivers you're using -- I guess that was just a
  coincidence.  You must
  have installed or upgraded Mozilla around the same
  time.  This pausing
  thing was introduced around the same time as Mozilla
  1.3 was released.
  It's not just FreeBSD that suffers either.  There
  have been bug
  reports in Mozilla's Bugzilla DB for some time, but
  the problem still
  persists.

 there is no preferences   Advanced :
  Keyboard Navigation option in my mozilla preferences
 
 I am using mozilla-1.0.rc3,1 whatever that means :).

Your mozilla is too old to have the bug that Matthew Bettinger
reported.  However, from your other postings you're running into a
different issue.  Mozilla uses the standard FreeBSD gethostbyname()
implementation to convert host names into IP numbers.  Nowadays, this
involves attempting to find an IPv6 address -- as the standards say
should be done.  Now, most of the time, the resolvers in question will
simply respond not known when asked for an  or A6 record.  The
lookup will then proceed onto retreiving the IPv4 A records as per
usual.  The problem occurs when you run into certain broken DNS
resolvers that don't understand IPv6 at all, and not only that, they
don't even respond at all to a query for a record type they do
recognise.  That means your system has no option but to hang around
waiting for a minute or so untill the query times out and it can
assume that no reply is ever going to appear.

This isn't really a bug in Mozilla -- it's a bug in the DNS servers
that don't respond according to the DNS RFCs.  However, there are
various things that can be done to ameliorate the problem from the
user side.  My preferred option is to observe that the vast majority
of offenders are actually the sites that put banner adverts on pages.
Right clicking on the adverts and selecting Block images from this
server goes a long way to improving the web experience, and it sends
the message to the advertizers fix your DNS servers in the sort of
language they cannot afford to ignore.

Alternatively, you can compile your whole system without IPv6 support,
by removing:

options INET6

from your kernel config.  There's probably some other flags you could
set to strip IPv6 support out of other applications in the sources,
but I don't think there is a general knob to turn it off everywhere.
This options is undesirable IMHO -- why strip out working new
functionality from your system for the convenience of some dinosaurs
who can't keep up with changes in the Internet standards that have
been in play for getting on for nearly 10 years? -- see
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1886.html

If you're interested in this sort of thing, see
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3364.html for a good discussion of the
pros and cons of various methods of IPv6 support in the DNS

Cheers,

Matthew



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Re: Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distributions firma?

2003-07-04 Thread Rod Person

On 04 Jul 2003 07:11:59 +0200
Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 01:31, Niel wrote:
  Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distribution firms?
  Maybe under a cover name?
 
 I haven't heard such a thing, but as a conspiracy-lover it sounds not
 unreasonable.

didn't m$  have a stake in corel. but that distro failed.
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Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-04 Thread matt

Matthew Seaman wrote:

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:26:47AM +1000, JacobRhoden wrote:
 

Even though this is getting waaay off topic...

 On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:46 pm, Matt Heath wrote:
  Ever seen something like this :
  $r = mysql_execute(select * from table_1 where id=$_GET[id];);
Actually people do do the same thing and perl and you know it :P Both perl and 
php support calling sql with parameters using ? to insert variables. If 
someone does not know what language to use at all, I would suggest php simply 
because its a good, quick, easy language to get started in without too much 
difficulty. (In lots of ways including not needing to understand cgi 
variables, and what the heck Content-type: text/html\n\n is, or learning how 
to include perl librarys to do all that stuff for you!) 
   

You're missing the point.  $_GET[id] is one of the arguments used when
calling the PHP and as such is completely under the control of an
external user.  

exactly

perl has the tainted construct for this and will refuse certain 
operations with tainted data.

But my challenge was Kevin Kinsey's assertion :

[PHP is] likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI.


and I want to know why ?



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Help needed please - Thinkpad A31p FreeBSD 4.8 Installation (LONG)

2003-07-04 Thread Pisut Tempatarachoke

Hi,

I've just got my TP A31p and now look forward to installing FreeBSD
4.8 (4-CDROM set) on it.  I'm very new to FreeBSD and really hope
someone could give me some advices.  Thanks a lot in advance.

The laptop has no floppy drive and came with a 60 GB hard drive which
consisted of two FAT32 partitions (slices):
- 55 GB Windows XP Pro and
- 5 GB IBM recovery partition.
I used BootIT NG to shrink the XP partition down to 23 GB.  This left
me with a free space of 32 GB.  Then, I created a 9 GB FAT32 partition
within the free space hoping to use it as a data partition which can
be read and written from both XP and FreeBSD.  So, now I have
- 23 GB Windows XP Pro
- 9 GB FAT32 for sharing data between OS's
- 21 GB free space (unformatted) for FreeBSD (I havn't installed it
yet) and
- 5 GB IBM recovery partition

???My first questions - Is this a sound method of slicing my disk?
Does the 9 GB FAT32 partition really need to be there?  Am I wrong in
thinking that FAT32 is accessible from both XP and FreeBSD?

I've read posts somewhere that I MUST NOT install FreeBSD boot manager
during the installation because it will overwrite the master boot
record (MBR), and as a result XP will be unbootable.  I then must
leave the MBR untouched until I finish with the FreeBSD installation
and copy /boot/boo1 to another computer on a network (A31p doesn't
have a floppy drive).  Then, I have to boot from a FreeBSD CD to enter
FDisk and make sure the XP partition is set bootable.  Reboot it and
once I'm in XP, I can copy /boot/boot1 from the networked computer to
C:\BOOTSECT.BSD and include a line

C:\BOOTSECT.BSD=FreeBSD

in my BOOT.INI file.  This will give me a boot-from-FreeBSD-slice
option the next time I boot my laptop.

???My second questions - Is this approach workable?  How do I copy
/boot/boot1 to another computer on a network?  Can I copy it onto my 9
GB FAT32 slice instead, as I'm not sure if I will be smart enough to
set up the LAN connection correctly?  Could I write it onto a blank
CD?  What are the commands involved?

???My third questions - Could someone please suggest how I should
partition my FreeBSD slice?  As I have 768 MB RAM, here is what I have
in mind:-
/  512 MB
swap  2048 MB
/var  512 MB
/tmp  1024 MB
/usr  Rest of disk
I have no idea how much disk space I should allocate to /, /var, and
/tmp.  Can I change them at a later stage?  What are UFS and UFS+S and
how are they different?

???Forth question - Is it a good idea to just install everything
during the first installation?  Any recommendations on what I should
or should not install please?

???Last questions - During the monitor configuration stage, I have to
supply the infomation on a) the horizontal sync range, b) the vertical
sync range, and c) the LCD make.  How do I find out this information?
Does anyone with an A31p know please?

Thank you all very very much  any other tips are also welcome.

Best regards

Tempo

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Re: FreeBSD 5.1 on ASUS P4C800 (onboard NIC problems, 3Com 3C940)

2003-07-04 Thread Han Hwei Woo

I don't believe the 3C940 is currently supported in FreeBSD (nothing about
it in hardware notes for 5.1 i386). So, you can try googling to see if
anyone's working on a driver for it. Chances are however that you'll have to
use another NIC.

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Subject: FreeBSD 5.1 on ASUS P4C800 (onboard NIC problems, 3Com 3C940)

 Hello,

 I successfully installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my ASUS P4C800 motherboard. The
 only remaining problem is that sysinstall did not find any ethernet
 device during the installation. The onboard NIC is a 3Com 3C940.

 What should I exactly do in order to make the system detect this 3Com
 3C940 ethernet device and make it work properly?

 Many thanks for your help.

 Gab

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Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-04 Thread Joel Rees

Someone was offended by my tone in the following, so I will apologize to
all for any arrogance or rudeness displayed in it. 

It was not intended to be rude, just to point out that Perl is not
limited to CGI, to leave an opening for a discussion of danger spots in
mod_perl, and to acknowledge that PHP will have advantages over Perl for
the newbie (and I don't see anything wrong with that, by the way).

  The server-side pages
  you can use are PHP or JSP (ASP is posible but not the 
  natural choice for apache).
 
 What? You got something against mod_perl?
 
 Or are you assuming that a newbie doesn't want all that power, and that
 php is a good enough introduction to perl in the non-cgi context?
 
 Just curious ...

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Re: IDE versa Scsi freebsd

2003-07-04 Thread Paiva, Gilson de

I don't think so.
You need sized memory ( depending on your routing table ) and processor (
not that much ).

Regards,

 Using only freebsd for routing gated, BGP. Is there any reason to use
 Scsi over an IDE hard drive?

 Dan

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Does FreeBSD supports my hardware?

2003-07-04 Thread Ruben Thoré


   Hi,

   I'm interested in all unix-based OS's, so I'm now reading about
   FreeBSD. I would like to install it, but I would like to know if it
   will run (optimal) on my system.

   My PC is a Packard Bell Imedia5800 TNT RW, with a 20 Gb  harddrive,
   which is designed for WinME. My hardrive is split up in two FAT32
   partitions:

   C: = about 15 Gb, D: = about 4-5 Gb.

   My Graphical card is a NVidia TNT2 Model64.

   I have a bit knowledge of Linux, so I know already something about
   partitioning. But there were a few problems with this SuSE Linux 6.2.
   First of all, the program Fdisk of SuSE gave me an error while
   partitioning (I was creating a Linux Swap en Linux Native partition on
   D:). It was something like this:

   Your disk is setup to ..., there's nothing wrong with that, but it
   could cause certain setup problems with software that runs while
   booting, etc. ... It's recommend that you set the disk to 1024 (I
   think) cilinders.

   I hope you know what I mean, could this be also a problem while
   installing FreeBSD. Another problem was my graphical card, which
   wasn't supported yet, so I couldn't run KDE, etc. The third and last
   serious problem was, when linux was installed (however, not correct),
   that after I gave the command shutdown ..., I couldn't close my PC!
   Under Windows, if I want to shutdown my computer it does that
   automatically. Maybe it has something to do with my BIOS settings, can
   you help me if this could cause problems with FreeBSD?

   Another thing is my modem. In Windows I've my modem name: MR2800-W
   Data Fax Modem, and it's produced by AZT or Smartlink. Is that a
   winmodem or not?

   I hope you can help me!

   Regards,

   Ruben Thoré.

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Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-04 Thread Greg J.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:15:01 -0500
David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:01 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:
  On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58  PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote:
   I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard
   support to the
   kernel.?
  
   in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled
   but 5.1 is different
   and i dont want to do something to mess things up.
  
   dmesg follows.
 
  Just do what you've always done. Add device pcm to your kernel.
 
 I don't think its quite that easy, but its even easier now.
 
 % cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
 % grep -i pcm *
 GENERIC:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
 GENERIC:# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
 GRUMPY:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
 GRUMPY:# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
 NOTES:# pca: PCM audio through your PC speaker
 NOTES:# gp:  National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, PCMCIA-GPIB
 OLDCARD:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
 OLDCARD:device  pcic# PCMCIA bridge
 
 Does not appear to be a pcm device available for statically compiling 
 into the kernel. But never mind as its available as a kld in
 /boot/kernel/

sure it still works.. I use device pcm for the hacked up audigy2 sound driver. :-) 
I've noticed a lot of things that aren't in either NOTES or GENERIC... like options 
TCP_DROP_SYNFIN.

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Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-04 Thread Adam

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:59, Monte Milanuk wrote:
 So what makes pureftpd so much better tahn vsftpd?
 
 Seems to work well for RedHat, SuSE, and OpenBSD, to name a few.
 
 http://vsftpd.beasts.org/

Never got around to trying vsftpd. Looks like a nice server, though.
Definitely working checking out.

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Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-04 Thread Adam

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:59, Monte Milanuk wrote:
 So what makes pureftpd so much better tahn vsftpd?
 
 Seems to work well for RedHat, SuSE, and OpenBSD, to name a few.
 
 http://vsftpd.beasts.org/

I should ask you, what specific advantages does vsftpd have over
Pure-FTPd? I have been using Pure-FTPd for over a year and am very
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Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-04 Thread Laszlo Vagner

Greg J. wrote:

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:15:01 -0500
David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:01 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote:

I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard
support to the
kernel.?
in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled
but 5.1 is different
and i dont want to do something to mess things up.
dmesg follows.

Just do what you've always done. Add device pcm to your kernel.

I don't think its quite that easy, but its even easier now.

% cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
% grep -i pcm *
GENERIC:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
GENERIC:# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
GRUMPY:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
GRUMPY:# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
NOTES:# pca: PCM audio through your PC speaker
NOTES:# gp: National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board, PCMCIA-GPIB
OLDCARD:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
OLDCARD:device pcic# PCMCIA bridge
Does not appear to be a pcm device available for statically compiling
into the kernel. But never mind as its available as a kld in
/boot/kernel/

sure it still works.. I use device pcm for the hacked up audigy2 sound driver. :-) I've noticed a lot of things that aren't in either NOTES or GENERIC... like options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN.

I was looking for the LINT file but didnt find it, is the NOTES file the
LINT file now?

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RE: daily /security run output via periodic - stopped

2003-07-04 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]

we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output email each
day around 3am.  Recently one of them stopped sending these messages.  In
looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any
problems or changes that I am aware of.  There are no enrties in cron for it,
but then again there aren't any entries in the functional servers either.

Is it possible we have disabled something by accident which could stop this one
server from sending these messages?

double checked everything just after sending...

periodic.conf was missing. (doh!)

Dave


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Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-04 Thread Hasse

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
make LINT

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On Friday 04 July 2003 14.27, Laszlo Vagner wrote:
 Greg J. wrote:
 On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:15:01 -0500
 
 David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:01 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:
 On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58  PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote:
 I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard
 support to the
 kernel.?
 
 in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled
 but 5.1 is different
 and i dont want to do something to mess things up.
 
 dmesg follows.
 
 Just do what you've always done. Add device pcm to your kernel.
 
 I don't think its quite that easy, but its even easier now.
 
 % cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
 % grep -i pcm *
 GENERIC:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
 GENERIC:# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
 GRUMPY:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
 GRUMPY:# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
 NOTES:# pca: PCM audio through your PC speaker
 NOTES:# gp:  National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board,
  PCMCIA-GPIB OLDCARD:# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
 OLDCARD:device  pcic# PCMCIA bridge
 
 Does not appear to be a pcm device available for statically compiling
 into the kernel. But never mind as its available as a kld in
 /boot/kernel/
 
 sure it still works.. I use device pcm for the hacked up audigy2 sound
  driver. :-) I've noticed a lot of things that aren't in either NOTES or
  GENERIC... like options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN.

 I was looking for the LINT file but didnt find it, is the NOTES file the
 LINT file now?

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Re: running fsck on root filesystem

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I have a remote machine on whose boot disk I want to run fsck. Is there any
way of booting freebsd form the network and then getting into fixit mode
without a cdrom or a floppy ?
I am using pxeboot so far. What is happening is that when I put
installFixitHoloShell in the install.cfg then sysinstall throws me to the
shell that is VERY barebones. I can't run even a 'ls'. In this case how do
I figure out what disk slices I have in the system and on which I want to
run fsck ?
A lot you don't say here.  One thing is _why_ you want to do this.  Another is
what you want to do.  Your description is pretty vague.
fsck is always run on the root filesystem at boot time, in preen mode.  If
you're having some sort of filesystem errors, setting fsck_y_enable=YES in
/etc/rc.conf will cause the startup scripts to automatically run 'fsck -y' if
fsck fails in preen mode.
If you want to change this behaviour, you _could_ edit /etc/rc to change the
default handling.
From any shell, you should be able to mount filesystems readonly.  When
mounted readonly, you can safely run fsck.  Use 'mount -r /mountpoint'.  Many
of your commands are not on the root filesystem, so you may need to mount (for
example) /usr before you can execute certain commands.
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Re: daily /security run output via periodic - stopped

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
 we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output email each
 day around 3am.  Recently one of them stopped sending these messages.  In
 looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any
 problems or changes that I am aware of.  There are no enrties in cron for it,
 but then again there aren't any entries in the functional servers either.
 
 Is it possible we have disabled something by accident which could stop this one
 server from sending these messages?
 
 double checked everything just after sending...
 
 periodic.conf was missing. (doh!)

... but that's OK, as the periodic system will just run using the
default settings from /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- note the
instructions in that file: /etc/periodic.conf should contain only
those entries you want to be different to the default values.

As for how the periodic scripts get run each night: they are run as
cron jobs, but out of the system crontab in /etc/crontab.  That's a
slightly different animal which lives in a parallel universe to the
normal per-user crontabs, which are stored in /var/cron/tabs and
generally accessed via crontab(1).

As for the missing mail, did you check the client mailqueue?

# mailq -Ac

or look at the contents of /var/spool/clientmqueue.  If the messages
are held up there, you should investigate what happened to the
sendmail msp queue-runner process which the system will run by default
so long as 'sendmail_enable=YES' or 'sendmail_enable=NO' is in
/etc/rc.conf.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-04 Thread Matt Heath

Joel Rees wrote:

PHP!!  All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more
secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI.
 

More secure, how so?
   

Less arcane syntax to hide holes in, maybe?


However, for people who know what they are doing, perl code can be made
more secure than php code. 
 

I'm not trying to be insulting but I think that you don't know what 
you're talking about.



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parallel ecp mode and vpo

2003-07-04 Thread Paulo Roberto

Hello,

I have searched the net and found nothing good.
I did set my mainboard BIOS to use ECP transfer mode (dma 3  irq 7).
I edited my kernel to:

device  ppc0at isa? flags 0x8 irq 7

(is there a way to declare the dma I want to use?)
and when I boot I get:

Jul  1 10:36:42 delta /kernel: ppc0: Parallel port at port
0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x8 on isa0
Jul  1 10:36:42 delta /kernel: ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP
mode
Jul  1 10:36:42 delta /kernel: ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
Jul  1 10:36:42 delta /kernel: ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0
Jul  1 10:36:42 delta /kernel: imm0: NIBBLE mode unavailable!

and my zip-100 drive does not get recognized. Is it possible to use vpo
in ECP mode?? EPP and compatible modes are just too damn slow.

thanks,

Paulo Roberto

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List friendliness

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Chvostek


Alex,

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:59:23AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
 
 I feel the following things are helpfull sending to 
 these list:
 1. Do send mail like this with a cc to the orginal list.
Others can learn from our exange of information.

You can encourage people to reply back to the list by including a
Reply-To line in your headers, as I've done with this message.  Some
list software will filter the header, but a Reply-To in the copy of the
message that's sent directly to someone will probably be respected by
their mail client.

Since you use mutt, you might find the following .muttrc lines helpful:

  lists freebsd-questions freebsd-current freebsd-chat
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This way, you can use the 'L' key to follow up to the list, the 'g' key
to do a group-reply, or the 'r' key to reply just to the sender, and
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ttpx

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Jones

Hi,

I've installed poppassd and am having problems getting it to work.

 $ telnet localhost 106
 Connected to foo.com
 Escape character is '^]'.
 200 poppassd v1.2 hello, who are you?
 user bar
 200 your password please.
 pass oldpassword
 200 your new password please.
 newpass newpassword
 500 Server busy - try again later.
 Connection closed by foreign host.

Then syslog shows:

 Jul  4 14:36:06 poppassd[774]: can't find pty
 Jul  4 14:36:06 dogstar kernel: Jul  4 14:36:06 foo poppassd[774]: can't find pty

A quick look in /dev shows that there are no ttyp[0-x]. I've created a
custom kernel to be sure that pty is included, and the same kernel
config works on two other boxes.

I guess what I'm asking is, how do I debug devfs for FreeBSD 5.1?

TIA,

Richard Jones

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Re: Diskless Operation Question

Benjamin Polidore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have a dedicated FreeBSD 5.1 server, and I am experimenting with a WinXP / 
 diskless-FreeBSD dual boot workstation.

I'm not running 5.1 myself, yet, but I'll drop in a few comments anyway.

 I have followed the instructions in the handbook and I get to a point that 
 makes me think I have done somthing wrong with my diskless kernel.  
 
 The workstation boots with an etherboot floppy, finds the dhcp server and 
 downloads the kernel from NFS.  It seems to contemplate loading the kernel for 
 about 5 seconds then reboots.  
 
 I have seen postings in the archives about recompiling the kernel with the 
 proper CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf.
 
 I have tried this and it makes no difference.

You wouldn't expect it to, in general.  This was probably working around
a compiler bug that I *think* was fixed by the last gcc update.

 The only thing I have been considering is that I have a bunch of modules that 
 were compiled  installed w/o CPUTYPE=p3, as they were imported with 
 clone_root.

Maybe, but I'm skeptical.

 So the only solution I can think of is to recompile/install these modules with 
 the proper CPUTYPE, but I'm not sure how to have make installkernel put the 
 modules / kernel in /misc/diskless/boot instead of /boot?

If I recall correctly (which I might not; I still seem to be short of
caffeine this morning) this is normally done with a jail(8) environment.

 I won't need to do this with userland, will I?  This would make diskless 
 operation impossible for my situation.

Again, jail or chroot might be a good shortcut here.  I think you're
right that it shouldn't be necessary, though.

 Below is a more detailed breakdown of what I am trying to do and some pieces 
 of my config files.
 
 TIA-
 Ben Polidore
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 --Hardware
 My server:
 Via C3 800 
 CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = CentaurHauls  Id = 0x678  Stepping = 8
   Features=0x803035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX (from dmesg)
 
 My workstation: Pentium III 933
 
 --Configs
 *dhcpd.conf:
 option swap-path code 128 = string;
 option swap-size code 129 = integer 32;
 #snip
 host inferior {
   hardware ethernet 00:03:6d:00:18:40;
   fixed-address 10.0.0.100;
   next-server 10.0.0.1;
   filename /misc/diskless/kernel;
   option root-path 10.0.0.1:/misc/diskless;
   option swap-path 10.0.0.1:/misc/diskless/netswap;
   option swap-size 128000;
 }
 
 *kernel config for DISKLESS:
 machine i386
 #cpuI486_CPU
 #cpuI586_CPU
 cpu I686_CPU
 ident   DISKLESS
 maxusers0
 
 options INET#InterNETworking
 options INET6   #IPv6 communications protocols
 options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
 options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
 options UFS_ACL #Support for access control lists
 options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories
 options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
 options NFSCLIENT   #Network Filesystem Client
 options NFSSERVER   #Network Filesystem Server
 options NFS_ROOT#NFS usable as root device, requires 
 options BOOTP
 options BOOTP_NFSROOT
 options BOOTP_COMPAT
 #that's all that seems pertinent
 
 -I have diskless root at /misc/diskless:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# ls /misc/diskless/
 bin confkernel  sbintmp
 bootdev mnt stand   usr
 cdrom   etc procswap.10.0.0.100 var
 compat  homerootsys
 
 -I compiled DISKLESS kernel like so:
 make buildkernel KERNCONF=DISKLESS CPUTYPE=p3
 #i also had CPUTYPE=p3 in make.conf
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Re: user ppp cable

FBSD_User [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Any body using user ppp/nat on cable isp? Is this what Netgraph is
 used for? An example of a working ppp.conf would be appreciated. A
 pointer to a how-to would be great.

If your ISP uses PPP (probably PPP over Ethernet), then see the the
FreeBSD Handbook section titled Using PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE).
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html
If the ISP doesn't use PPP, then you won't use it either.
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Re: Throttled ethernet connection

Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have the ethernet card forced to 100mbit full duplex via rc.conf. The
 switch is a Netgear FS108. How would i solve a duplex mismatch?

If you've got a duplex mismatch, it's because the switch isn't doing
its own autosensing properly.  Try forcing the switch to the same
settings as those to which you forced the NIC, if you can.  If you
can't (which I would expect in a device at such a low price), then
set different settings on the NIC, or even try letting the card
autosense too.

Unfortunately, autosensing has always had a few interoperability
problems, although they are *much* less common than they were five
years ago.  [Five years ago was the last time I worked on it myself...]

Good luck.
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Re: current locale is not supported in X11, locale is set to CX

Is the locale set in your environment?
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Re: ipfw troubles

Dan Phiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I guess this means I'm not serving DHCP - what kind of rule would fix
 that?

There are two sides.  You need to accept the packets coming in to
dhcps, as well as the ones going out to dhcpc.  There are a number
of different ways to do this, but make sure you keep it limited to
the interface on which you intend to supply these addresses.

   I read somewhere that simply using natd adds statefulness to an
 otherwise stateless ipfw configuration. Would an unstateful ipfw setup be
 less secure in this case?

Not necessarily, no.  The kinds of state being kept are quite
different, and there isn't any particular relationship between
them.  In fact, it's a lot more difficult to use stateful rules
with natd running, because the packets match differently depending
on whether they've been NAT'd already or not.
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Winmodem ltmdm dirver what device to use?

I've been working on setting up an new laptop as a background task for a
couple of months now.

All of a sudden today, I find I have to go out of town early in the morning.

I've installed FreebSD a couple of times, and once I got the winmodem
working using the ports/comm/ltmdm module. I the wiped the disk clean, and
started over. I see that I have installed the port again this time, and
dmesg looks like it's working. 

However, I can't for the life of me remember the device to use for this. The
machine has one real serial port, so i suspect this should be the 2nd
serial port.

If I cu -l cuaa0, I get a connection, but no response to AT commands. If I
try to cu cuaa1, I get line bust.

Can somebody please re-educate me on this?

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Is the mailing list search system broken?

I can't seem to get any results, no matter what I search for.

Is this broken?

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Re: help - it hangs hard

Ron Riese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Got Freebsd 4.8 disk from cheapbytes.  When I install I go through
 driver selection in Kernel Configuration Menu and adjusted all but
 address for floppy drive which is 03F0.  It cannot be changed.  All of
 my systems (win) show this as 03F2.  Even tried to eliminate the driver
 entirely.  Same result.  Tried on my amd k6/2 and Pentium  200 MHz
 platform with same result.  Tried OpenBSD and it hangs too after it
 displays its automatic (I guess) configuration.  Can't determine how
 to narrow the problem to disk or my hardware.  Any help appreciated.

Does it have a problem without adjusting the parameters at all?
Can you install with the floppy disconnected?

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Re: Is the mailing list search system broken?

stan wrote:
I can't seem to get any results, no matter what I search for.

Is this broken?
It certainly appears so ... your email is about the fifth complaining
of this in the last 48 hours.
A few temporary workarounds are:
1) Go to the mailman home page for the particular list you want to
   search and use that local search.  For example:
   http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
2) Use the advanced search on a search engine (such as google)
I've cc'd the webmaster and doc@ as I have yet to see any response that
anyone is looking in to this.  It's quite possible that the folks
responsible for this have yet to be alerted to the breakage.  If fixing
the general search page will take some time, I'd be willing to generate
a patch to redirect users from that page to individual search pages for
the lists.
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getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

I need to have the Return-Path: header to added to my emails.

Any idea what is needed to configure sendmail to do that?

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Re: Recovering ext2fs partitions after crash

2003-07-04 Thread W. Sierke

Update:

I booted with tomrsrtbt disk:

http://www.toms.net/rb/

and successfully ran the included e2fsck which appears to be the same
version as I have installed on my 4.8 box.

However I still get the same error when I try to run e2fsck under FBSD:

# e2fsck /dev/ad0s5
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1281175 blocks
The physical size of the device is 0 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
Aborty?


The ext2fs partitions exist in an extended partition. Am I missing some
knowledge about using extended partitions? They mount normally and have
otherwise (until the system crashed/hung) operated flawlessly to date. Does
anyone know why I'm unable to use the ext2fs utilities (installed from
/usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs)?


Thanks,

Wayne

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Re: no /usr/src/etc/

John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I was trying a 'mergemaster' as seen here but kept getting the following error:
 cp: /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory
   *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot copy files to the temproot environment
 I verified that this file indeed does not exist, then realized something else when 
 trying to 'cd' to /usr/src/etc/: the entire /usr/src/etc/ directory doesn't exist!
 The only subdirectory of /usr/src/ is sys/conf/ .
 Have I broken something???

No.  You only need to use mergemaster if you have downloaded and are
installing an updated version of the whole system.
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Re: Fwd: Newbie Right of Passage -- Kernel Compilation Problems :-)

Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have forwarded a message that's about two weeks old from the -newbies list.  
 As you'll see, the problem is related to kernel compilation.

The way to track down this kind of problem is to start with a
known-working configuration, like GENERIC, and then make your changes
one (or a few) at a time.  This way, when it breaks, you know which
changes to look at as the cause of the problem.
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Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-04 Thread Lucas Holt

Regardless what server side language is chosen, it is important to read 
the documentation associated with the language.  Any language can be 
insecure if used improperly.  User input and considerations for attacks 
such as SQL Injection must be taken into account for any accessible web 
app on the internet.

Personally, I used C and PHP on my website as I found it to be simple.  
I am in the process of switching to Java technologies which are much 
more complex, but seem much faster.

Professionally I have to use .NET :(

Less arcane syntax to hide holes in, maybe?

I'd have no problem with the assertion that newbies writing php are
likely to produce less holes per thousand lines of code. However, I
think the OP was trying to cover too much territory with too few
sentences. (I do that myself a lot, so I'm not one to complain.)
Lucas Holt
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vi

2003-07-04 Thread adrian kok

Can I avoid this warning message from vi?
When I run vi in.txt
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

Thank you


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Re: Does FreeBSD supports my hardware?

2003-07-04 Thread Vulpes Velox

Providing more detailed info on the machine would be of use... such as chipset and 
ect...

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:52:45 +0100
Ruben Thoré [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
Hi,
 
I'm interested in all unix-based OS's, so I'm now reading about
FreeBSD. I would like to install it, but I would like to know if it
will run (optimal) on my system.
 
My PC is a Packard Bell Imedia5800 TNT RW, with a 20 Gb  harddrive,
which is designed for WinME. My hardrive is split up in two FAT32
partitions:
 
C: = about 15 Gb, D: = about 4-5 Gb.

Neither of those should be a problem. I have 4 much larger drives in my server.

My Graphical card is a NVidia TNT2 Model64.

FreeBSD, just like linux and other unix clones, is not responsible for this for
the large part. This is handled by the X server. There is a bit handled by the
OS, but that is mainly the drm kernel module, which is needed for X to do some
things. This card is supported under X using the nv drivers and there are drivers
available from NVidia that will that may or may not work from that card.

I have a bit knowledge of Linux, so I know already something about
partitioning. But there were a few problems with this SuSE Linux 6.2.
First of all, the program Fdisk of SuSE gave me an error while
partitioning (I was creating a Linux Swap en Linux Native partition on
D:). It was something like this:

Your disk is setup to ..., there's nothing wrong with that, but it
could cause certain setup problems with software that runs while
booting, etc. ... It's recommend that you set the disk to 1024 (I
think) cilinders.

Sounds like something was done wrong when setting it up...
 
I hope you know what I mean, could this be also a problem while
installing FreeBSD. Another problem was my graphical card, which
wasn't supported yet, so I couldn't run KDE, etc. The third and last
serious problem was, when linux was installed (however, not correct),
that after I gave the command shutdown ..., I couldn't close my PC!
Under Windows, if I want to shutdown my computer it does that
automatically. Maybe it has something to do with my BIOS settings, can
you help me if this could cause problems with FreeBSD?

FreeBSD should most likely work. BTW that gfx card should be supported by X. It
sounds like something was wack with the linux distro, which is not really
surprising.

BTW if you are thinking about using KDE, I would really suggest not and trying
some blackbox clone. Fluxbox is nice.
 
Another thing is my modem. In Windows I've my modem name: MR2800-W
Data Fax Modem, and it's produced by AZT or Smartlink. Is that a
winmodem or not?
 
I hope you can help me!
 
Regards,
 
Ruben Thoré.
 
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How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

I'm trying to get a new laptop set up for a quick out of town trip.

Can anyone help me with the ppp.conf syntax to clear/replace an existing
default rout for the duration of a ppp linkup?

That is, the machine starts off with a default route, which I want to
delete and replace with the ppp route for the duration of the conection.
Then I wnat to put the orignal route back.

Sugestions?

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RE: daily /security run output via periodic - stopped

2003-07-04 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
 we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output 
email each
 day around 3am.  Recently one of them stopped sending these messages.  In
 looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any
 problems or changes that I am aware of.  There are no enrties in 
cron for it,
 but then again there aren't any entries in the functional servers either.
 
 Is it possible we have disabled something by accident which could 
stop this one
 server from sending these messages?
 
 double checked everything just after sending...
 
 periodic.conf was missing. (doh!)

... but that's OK, as the periodic system will just run using the
default settings from /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- note the
instructions in that file: /etc/periodic.conf should contain only
those entries you want to be different to the default values.

and the different values were where each of the reports should be emailed to.

As for how the periodic scripts get run each night: they are run as
cron jobs, but out of the system crontab in /etc/crontab.  That's a
slightly different animal which lives in a parallel universe to the
normal per-user crontabs, which are stored in /var/cron/tabs and
generally accessed via crontab(1).

that I didn't know, but do now.  Thanks

As for the missing mail, did you check the client mailqueue?

probably dunped into whatever the default is...  root?

Thanks

Dave

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Re: vi

2003-07-04 Thread Paul Chvostek

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:15:06AM +0800, adrian kok wrote:

 Can I avoid this warning message from vi?
 When I run vi in.txt
 Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

The man page for vi says:

   Vi is a screen oriented text editor.  Ex is a line-oriented text edi-
   tor.  Ex and vi are different interfaces to the same program, ...

VI is a VIsual editor.  If you have commands you'd like to execute on
stdin, try using ex.  If your stdin uses commands that exist in vim but
not in ex, I'd recommend rewriting your stdin

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Re: Help needed please - Thinkpad A31p FreeBSD 4.8 Installation(LONG)

2003-07-04 Thread kitsune

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:23:56 +1000
Pisut Tempatarachoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I've just got my TP A31p and now look forward to installing FreeBSD
 4.8 (4-CDROM set) on it.  I'm very new to FreeBSD and really hope
 someone could give me some advices.  Thanks a lot in advance.
 
 The laptop has no floppy drive and came with a 60 GB hard drive which
 consisted of two FAT32 partitions (slices):
 - 55 GB Windows XP Pro and
 - 5 GB IBM recovery partition.
 I used BootIT NG to shrink the XP partition down to 23 GB.  This left
 me with a free space of 32 GB.  Then, I created a 9 GB FAT32 partition
 within the free space hoping to use it as a data partition which can
 be read and written from both XP and FreeBSD.  So, now I have
 - 23 GB Windows XP Pro
 - 9 GB FAT32 for sharing data between OS's
 - 21 GB free space (unformatted) for FreeBSD (I havn't installed it
 yet) and
 - 5 GB IBM recovery partition
 
 ???My first questions - Is this a sound method of slicing my disk?
 Does the 9 GB FAT32 partition really need to be there?  Am I wrong in
 thinking that FAT32 is accessible from both XP and FreeBSD?

Yes, FreeBSD can make use of FAT32 partitions. IIRC it is possible of also
installing XP on a FAT32.
 
 I've read posts somewhere that I MUST NOT install FreeBSD boot manager
 during the installation because it will overwrite the master boot
 record (MBR), and as a result XP will be unbootable.  I then must
 leave the MBR untouched until I finish with the FreeBSD installation
 and copy /boot/boo1 to another computer on a network (A31p doesn't
 have a floppy drive).  Then, I have to boot from a FreeBSD CD to enter
 FDisk and make sure the XP partition is set bootable.  Reboot it and
 once I'm in XP, I can copy /boot/boot1 from the networked computer to
 C:\BOOTSECT.BSD and include a line
 
 C:\BOOTSECT.BSD=FreeBSD
 
 in my BOOT.INI file.  This will give me a boot-from-FreeBSD-slice
 option the next time I boot my laptop.
 
 ???My second questions - Is this approach workable?  How do I copy
 /boot/boot1 to another computer on a network?  Can I copy it onto my 9
 GB FAT32 slice instead, as I'm not sure if I will be smart enough to
 set up the LAN connection correctly?  Could I write it onto a blank
 CD?  What are the commands involved?
 
 ???My third questions - Could someone please suggest how I should
 partition my FreeBSD slice?  As I have 768 MB RAM, here is what I have
 in mind:-
 /  512 MB
 swap  2048 MB
 /var  512 MB
 /tmp  1024 MB
 /usr  Rest of disk
 I have no idea how much disk space I should allocate to /, /var, and
 /tmp.  Can I change them at a later stage?  What are UFS and UFS+S and
 how are they different?

I would just allocate 512Mb to swap should be fine. I have just slightly more
than 512Mb and  512Mb of ram and I have never had a problem.

 UFS is the file system FreeBSD uses. The +S means with soft updates. This
provides something that does basically the same thing as journalling, but with
out speeding up the booting proccess when it is powered down with out being
unmounted.

 
 ???Forth question - Is it a good idea to just install everything
 during the first installation?  Any recommendations on what I should
 or should not install please?

I personally would install most everything I want to begin with then take the
time later to edit make.conf and use the portstree to compile and reinstall
optimized binaries of various ports.

 ???Last questions - During the monitor configuration stage, I have to
 supply the infomation on a) the horizontal sync range, b) the vertical
 sync range, and c) the LCD make.  How do I find out this information?
 Does anyone with an A31p know please?

I don't know, but it may be worth checking to see what windows is using. If that
does not work, there is all ways messing with it till you find one that works
nicely.

 Thank you all very very much  any other tips are also welcome.


BTW I would not suggest using KDE, despite being a well known wm/desktop
enviroment, it is eats a lot of resources and is slow. I would suggest using
Fluxbox or another Blackbox clone.
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Re: Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distributions firma?

2003-07-04 Thread Bill Campbell

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:41:57AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
Before the antitrust trial, Bill Gates did own SCO Stock.  I don't know 
if he was forced to sell it or not.  Bill or another family member may 
still own stock in SCO.

Microsoft sold most of its SCO stock long before the Caldera buyout, and if
I remember correctly, never owned more that 15%.

As for me, I chose FreeBSD over linux on my server simply because I 
have faith in Unix.  Its time tested.  Linux on the other hand tends to 
be a war of personalities.. and the kernel shows it.  It didn't hurt my 
feelings that Apple uses FreeBSD code in Mac OS X either.

If you want personality wars, how 'bout openbsd/netbsd :-).

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Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-04 Thread Monte Milanuk

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:12:00AM -0400, Adam wrote:
 I should ask you, what specific advantages does vsftpd have over
 Pure-FTPd? I have been using Pure-FTPd for over a year and am very
 pleased; should I switch?

Heck no, man, use whatever floats your boat.  I use ftp intermittently,
usually when there is something that needs transferred or installed on
my little home LAN and there isn't another easier way to do it.

I just find it interesting to see people recommending pureftpd as the 
end-all, be-all of secure, unbreakable ftp daemons.  Then I go to the 
project site, and the 'big' name user is the Spanish Nat'l Research
project.  No offense to anyone associated w/ said group, but I'm thinking
seeing projects like OpenBSD, RedHat, SuSE, SANS, and IBM recommending
vsftpd as the ftpd of choice (heck, even the LinuxMafia article you cited
mentioned vsftpd was the authors preferred option) makes me think vsftpd,
not pureftpd.  

Does pureftpd have an impeccable security record?  Sure looks like it.
Does it have a lot of nice feature and add-ons available.  Appears so.
vsftpd, from the little bit I've seen setting it up on Linux boxes, is
pretty bare bones, w/ no frills.  So again, if pureftpd is what works for 
you, keep on truckin' ;)

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Re: Help needed please - Thinkpad A31p FreeBSD 4.8 Installation(LONG)

2003-07-04 Thread Joshua Oreman

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:23:56PM +1000 or thereabouts, Pisut Tempatarachoke wrote:
 Hi,

Yay -- another installation question :-) Good luck with BSD!

 
 I've just got my TP A31p and now look forward to installing FreeBSD
 4.8 (4-CDROM set) on it.  I'm very new to FreeBSD and really hope
 someone could give me some advices.  Thanks a lot in advance.
 
 The laptop has no floppy drive and came with a 60 GB hard drive which
 consisted of two FAT32 partitions (slices):
 - 55 GB Windows XP Pro and
 - 5 GB IBM recovery partition.
 I used BootIT NG to shrink the XP partition down to 23 GB.  This left
 me with a free space of 32 GB.  Then, I created a 9 GB FAT32 partition
 within the free space hoping to use it as a data partition which can
 be read and written from both XP and FreeBSD.  So, now I have
 - 23 GB Windows XP Pro
 - 9 GB FAT32 for sharing data between OS's
 - 21 GB free space (unformatted) for FreeBSD (I havn't installed it
 yet) and
 - 5 GB IBM recovery partition
 
 ???My first questions - Is this a sound method of slicing my disk?
 Does the 9 GB FAT32 partition really need to be there?  Am I wrong in
 thinking that FAT32 is accessible from both XP and FreeBSD?

Maybe 9GB is a little big, but I would say definitely have *some* fat32
partition there. Both FBSD and XP can access it. However, considering that
as of now you have no data on either your FAT32 partition or your unformatted
FBSD partition, I would suggest shrinking that FAT32 down to oh, 3gigs or so.
Remember, you'll only need it for data you need to share between FreeBSD and XP.

 
 I've read posts somewhere that I MUST NOT install FreeBSD boot manager
 during the installation because it will overwrite the master boot
 record (MBR), and as a result XP will be unbootable.

Quite correct.

 I then must
 leave the MBR untouched until I finish with the FreeBSD installation
 and copy /boot/boo1 to another computer on a network (A31p doesn't
 have a floppy drive).  Then, I have to boot from a FreeBSD CD to enter
 FDisk and make sure the XP partition is set bootable.  Reboot it and
 once I'm in XP, I can copy /boot/boot1 from the networked computer to
 C:\BOOTSECT.BSD and include a line
 
 C:\BOOTSECT.BSD=FreeBSD
 
 in my BOOT.INI file.  This will give me a boot-from-FreeBSD-slice
 option the next time I boot my laptop.
 
 ???My second questions - Is this approach workable?  How do I copy
 /boot/boot1 to another computer on a network?  Can I copy it onto my 9
 GB FAT32 slice instead, as I'm not sure if I will be smart enough to
 set up the LAN connection correctly?  Could I write it onto a blank
 CD?  What are the commands involved?

I would recommend putting it on your fat32 partition. Here's how to do
that (after the installation):

Boot from the FreeBSD CD1, in Fixit mode. Use the Emergency Holographic
Shell if you don't have CD2; use Fixit CD if you do have CD2. Press ALT+F2
(or whatever it says to press) to switch to the Fixit prompt. Then do this:
# mkdir -p /mnt/system
# mount /dev/ad0s3a /mnt/my-system
# mkdir -p /mnt/transfer
# mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/transfer
# cp /mnt/my-system/boot/boot1 /mnt/transfer/BOOTSECT.BSD
# umount /mnt/transfer
# umount /mnt/system
# exit
Then reboot into XP. You'll find BOOTSECT.BSD on the shared partition.

 
 ???My third questions - Could someone please suggest how I should
 partition my FreeBSD slice?  As I have 768 MB RAM, here is what I have
 in mind:-
 /  512 MB
 swap  2048 MB
 /var  512 MB
 /tmp  1024 MB
 /usr  Rest of disk
 I have no idea how much disk space I should allocate to /, /var, and
 /tmp.  Can I change them at a later stage?  What are UFS and UFS+S and
 how are they different?

This is a good partitioning layout; here's mine:
Filesystem   Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad2a3.9G   847M   2.7G23%/
/dev/ad2e 63G22G36G38%/usr
/dev/ad2d3.9G   2.8G   799M78%/var

I put /tmp as a symlink to /var/tmp; I suggest you merge /tmp and /var/tmp.

Also notice that I use dangerously dedicated partitioning - DON'T DO THAT!
You'll have partition names like /dev/ad0s3X where X is a letter a-h.

To answer your question, you cannot resize the BSD partitions without
backing up all your BSD data, erasing it, and repartitioning it. However,
that would not affect your Windows data.

UFS is the Unix File System -- what BSD uses (XP uses NTFS).
UFS+S is UFS with Softupdates -- it's sort of like journalling, but you
still have to fsck (think ScanDisk).

 
 ???Forth question - Is it a good idea to just install everything
 during the first installation?  Any recommendations on what I should
 or should not install please?

I recommend installing all the base distributions (bin, crypto, games,
man, info, things like that). Which of the packages you install is up
to you.

 
 ???Last questions - During the monitor configuration stage, I have to
 supply the infomation on a) the horizontal sync range, b) the vertical
 sync range, and c) the LCD make.  How do I find out

Re: Compiling

2003-07-04 Thread Ronny Hippler

On 04 Jul 2003 10:24:10 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

  I am having a problem compiling several programs. I keep getting the 
 error can't find expat, but I have it installed. pkg_info lists it and if I 
look 
 /usr/local/include there is an expat.h file what am I missing? I am trying 
to 
 compile fontconfig 2.2.1, also while trying to compile  xmule 1.5.2 I get the 
 error:
 make: can not allocate memory 
  Error code 1

Is there anything more informative in the output before the errors you
showed?  Do you get the same errors from the different things you try
to compile, or are the symptoms (even slightly) different?  Do you
have process limits on memory (e.g., from login.conf: check the output
of limits(1) to be sure)?  Have you upgraded your base system?

Well apache compiles fine. it's just emule that gives the mem error. there are 
a couple of progs that can't find the expat libs though. font config being one. 
when compiling e(x)mule I get:
vr5# make
make  all-recursive
Making all in intl
Making all in m4
Making all in src
Making all in wx
Making all in xrc
make: Cannot allocate memory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/xmule-1.5.2/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/xmule-1.5.2.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/xmule-1.5.2.
---
 here are my limits this is a new install on a new machine and I made no 
changes to the limits.

Resource limits (current):
  cputime  infinity secs
  filesize infinity kb
  datasize   524288 kb
  stacksize   65536 kb
  coredumpsize infinity kb
  memoryuseinfinity kb
  memorylocked infinity kb
  maxprocesses 3675
  openfiles7351
  sbsize   infinity bytes
  vmemoryuse   infinity kb

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Re: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

stan wrote:
I'm trying to get a new laptop set up for a quick out of town trip.

Can anyone help me with the ppp.conf syntax to clear/replace an existing
default rout for the duration of a ppp linkup?
That is, the machine starts off with a default route, which I want to
delete and replace with the ppp route for the duration of the conection.
Then I wnat to put the orignal route back.
Sugestions?
Please forgive me if I'm saying something you already know.

The default ppp.conf file has a line:
add default HISADDR
Which should do what you want.
I'm not 100% sure that this will actually delete a previous route.
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colorized tail.

2003-07-04 Thread lewiz

Hi,

  I've seen a few people that have tail outputs on their desktop (root
window) all nice, transparent and even colorized.  I've found roottail
which does the basics (tail -f's a log straight to the rootwindow), but
I wanted to know how I could colorize the output?  I've seen colortail,
but the only way to get this to work is using an aterm, etc.  Is there
anything like a colorroottail in existence?

  Thanks very much,

-lewiz.

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Re: vi

2003-07-04 Thread Fernando Gleiser

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, adrian kok wrote:

 Can I avoid this warning message from vi?
 When I run vi in.txt
 Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

Run vi in.txt

If you need to edit a file from a script, use ex or sed instead


Fer

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RE: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

2003-07-04 Thread FBSD_User

Try adding this to your ppp.conf


 enable dns   # Gets the ISP's DNS IP address  places them
# in resolv.conf for reference by FBSD box.

 disable iface-alias# Stop adding old IP addr as alias when ppp
# redials because line was lost. These old
ips
# showed using  ifconfig -a   on tun0.

 iface clear# Remove all previous IP address

 add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route (Mandatory)



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Subject: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

I'm trying to get a new laptop set up for a quick out of town trip.

Can anyone help me with the ppp.conf syntax to clear/replace an
existing
default rout for the duration of a ppp linkup?

That is, the machine starts off with a default route, which I want
to
delete and replace with the ppp route for the duration of the
conection.
Then I wnat to put the orignal route back.

Sugestions?

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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:19:57AM -0400, David Banning wrote:
 I need to have the Return-Path: header to added to my emails.
 
 Any idea what is needed to configure sendmail to do that?

Return-Path: is meant to be inserted into the message headers by the
sendmail that does final delivery -- it's not something you should set
on all of the e-mail you send out.  The machinery to handle all this
should already be in your sendmail.cf -- if there's a line:

H?P?Return-Path: $g

in the 'Format of Headers' section, then any delivery mailer with 'P'
in the F= flags (which is the default for the local and prog mailers)
will insert the Return-Path: header -- eg.

Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, 
S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
 
T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
A=mail.local -l

These are the default settings, and it would take sufficient effort to
generate a sendmail.cf without something like those in it that you
would surely remember doing so...

See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html, section 4.4 for the chapter
and verse about the Return-Path: header.

Cheers,

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Can't boot kernel from boot prompt :(

2003-07-04 Thread agent smith

Hello,

Have a 5.1 install on a two HD machine. disk1 is
winXP, disk2 is FreeBSD. I couldn't get the install to
write to the MBR on disk1, so I tried booting from the
CD and at the boot prompt trying to load the kernel
from my BSD partition. Can't get it. I've read a few
things I could find on google and they didn't work,
kept looking on the CD I think. Sorry, not very savy
at this yet, though I didn't think it would matter
between 4.8 and 5.1, so didn't try a older release
version. I just need some info on the correct method
for booting from the prompt.

lsdev at the prompt lists something like
Disk0:  drive A:
Disk1:  drive C:
 shows two partitions ( thiis is XP drive) 

Disk2: 
 shows my BSD partions:
 ad1s1a  UFS ( or whatever the partition is...)
 ad1s1b  swap
 ...

I've tried the following at the boot prompt (prefaced
with 'boot' or
'load'):


disk2s1a:/kernel
disk2s1a:kernel
disk2s1a:/boot/kernel
   ''/boot/kernel/kernel

2:ad(1,a)/kernel
...

and many variations of this.

I know it's kinda funny looking at all the things I
tried, I'm new! :)

Anyway, like I said, it would seem to access the CD
and after a bit I would get the message can't find
insert above attempt .. 

Any help would be appreciated, I just wanna boot from
my HD!  /w! 

Thanks for any assistance. I've looked in the archives
and haven't came across anything that worked. 

JD


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Re: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

stan wrote:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:52:43PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:

stan wrote:

I'm trying to get a new laptop set up for a quick out of town trip.

Can anyone help me with the ppp.conf syntax to clear/replace an existing
default rout for the duration of a ppp linkup?
That is, the machine starts off with a default route, which I want to
delete and replace with the ppp route for the duration of the conection.
Then I wnat to put the orignal route back.
Sugestions?
Please forgive me if I'm saying something you already know.

The default ppp.conf file has a line:
add default HISADDR
Which should do what you want.
I'm not 100% sure that this will actually delete a previous route.


That's the issue. It will not. Yo get an error message about route 0.0.0.0
already existing.
Acording to the ppp.conf man page the line
 delete default
 or
 delete ALL
 _should work, but I'm having troubel getting them to work for me.
Hmmm ... it's been a while, but ...

Doesn't ppp have a scripting interface?  If so, you should be able to run
a script that does 'route delete default'?
Just thinking out loud.

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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

 Return-Path: is meant to be inserted into the message headers by the
 sendmail that does final delivery -- it's not something you should set
 on all of the e-mail you send out.  The machinery to handle all this
 should already be in your sendmail.cf -- if there's a line:
 
 H?P?Return-Path: $g
 
 in the 'Format of Headers' section, then any delivery mailer with 'P'
 in the F= flags (which is the default for the local and prog mailers)
 will insert the Return-Path: header -- eg.
 
 Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, 
 S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
  

OK. I've got the same entries as you, but I am not getting the 
Return-Path: put in the header. Now I am reading my mail -on- the server.
Since it is mail.local or in my case procmail that reads it, it -should-
put it in before depositing it in /var/mail for pickup, shouldn't it?

I have tried compiling with the procmail option out, like yours and it
makes no difference.

My sendmail.cf shows;

Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/Hdr
FromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
Mprog,  P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D
=$z:/,
T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix,
A=sh -c $u
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app startup on boot problem

2003-07-04 Thread george donnelly

hi

I have a server on which i run MySQL and Zope. I start MySQL from
/usr/local/etc/rc.d and zope from cron with an @reboot. Zope has a module
with let's it interface with MySQL.

The problem is that everytime i reboot Zope says that its connection to
MySQL is broken because it can't find libmysqlcient. I restart zope and it
works fine, problem gone.

I'd like to make this problem go away. I suspect it has to do with the order
in which these apps start at boot time but I'm not sure. Can anyone suggest
what I can look at to solve this?

Thanks

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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:28:48PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
  Return-Path: is meant to be inserted into the message headers by the
  sendmail that does final delivery -- it's not something you should set
  on all of the e-mail you send out.  The machinery to handle all this
  should already be in your sendmail.cf -- if there's a line:
  
  H?P?Return-Path: $g
  
  in the 'Format of Headers' section, then any delivery mailer with 'P'
  in the F= flags (which is the default for the local and prog mailers)
  will insert the Return-Path: header -- eg.
  
  Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, 
  S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
   
 
 OK. I've got the same entries as you, but I am not getting the 
 Return-Path: put in the header. Now I am reading my mail -on- the server.
 Since it is mail.local or in my case procmail that reads it, it -should-
 put it in before depositing it in /var/mail for pickup, shouldn't it?
 
 I have tried compiling with the procmail option out, like yours and it
 makes no difference.
 
 My sendmail.cf shows;
 
 Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/Hdr
 FromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
 T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
 A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
 Mprog,  P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D
 =$z:/,
 T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix,
 A=sh -c $u

Actually, I use procmail as the default delivery agent myself --- that
example came from /etc/mail/freebsd.cf --- but even so, the
Return-Path: stuff is inserted correctly.  How are you checking for
the presence or absence of the header?  Most mail applications will
weed it out of what they display to you -- bouncing on the 'h' key in
mutt shows it, generally as the 2nd line of header right underneath
the 'From ' line.  Otherwise, grep'ing the mbox file directly is
probably the thing to do.

Cheers,

Matthew

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RE: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

2003-07-04 Thread fbsd_User

Try adding this to your ppp.conf


 enable dns   # Gets the ISP's DNS IP address  places them
# in resolv.conf for reference by FBSD box.

 disable iface-alias# Stop adding old IP addr as alias when ppp
# redials because line was lost. These old
ips
# showed using  ifconfig -a   on tun0.

 iface clear# Remove all previous IP address

 add default HISADDR# Add a (sticky) default route (Mandatory)



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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 12:13 PM
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Subject: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?

I'm trying to get a new laptop set up for a quick out of town trip.

Can anyone help me with the ppp.conf syntax to clear/replace an
existing
default rout for the duration of a ppp linkup?

That is, the machine starts off with a default route, which I want
to
delete and replace with the ppp route for the duration of the
conection.
Then I wnat to put the orignal route back.

Sugestions?

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Re: app startup on boot problem

2003-07-04 Thread Adam McLaurin

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:36, george donnelly wrote:
 I have a server on which i run MySQL and Zope. I start MySQL from
 /usr/local/etc/rc.d and zope from cron with an @reboot. Zope has a module
 with let's it interface with MySQL.
 
 The problem is that everytime i reboot Zope says that its connection to
 MySQL is broken because it can't find libmysqlcient. I restart zope and it
 works fine, problem gone.
 
 I'd like to make this problem go away. I suspect it has to do with the order
 in which these apps start at boot time but I'm not sure. Can anyone suggest
 what I can look at to solve this?

This might sound a little hackish, but I think it would work. Move the
two startup scripts for Zope  MySQL *outside* of rc.d. Then, write a
script in rc.d with start  stop targets, which execute/terminate Zope 
MySQL in the order you prefer. 

Of course, this will only be effective if indeed it is the order of
execution that is causing your problems.

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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

 Actually, I use procmail as the default delivery agent myself --- that
 example came from /etc/mail/freebsd.cf --- but even so, the
 Return-Path: stuff is inserted correctly.  How are you checking for
 the presence or absence of the header?  Most mail applications will
 weed it out of what they display to you -- bouncing on the 'h' key in
 mutt shows it, generally as the 2nd line of header right underneath
 the 'From ' line.  Otherwise, grep'ing the mbox file directly is
 probably the thing to do.

There's no mistaking it. I've used vi and grep.
Here, is the message as I received it from you;


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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:28:48PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
  Return-Path: is meant to be inserted into the message headers by the
  sendmail that does final delivery -- it's not something you should set
  on all of the e-mail you send out.  The machinery to handle all this

and so on...
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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

Now it seems to be working. I inserted it in the F section of the 
settings below the one we discussed and it seems to work.

  Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/Hdr
  FromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
  T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
  A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
  Mprog,  P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/H...
 HERE^

I am not sure what I did, or what the purpose of Mprog is.
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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:06:45PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
  Actually, I use procmail as the default delivery agent myself --- that
  example came from /etc/mail/freebsd.cf --- but even so, the
  Return-Path: stuff is inserted correctly.  How are you checking for
  the presence or absence of the header?  Most mail applications will
  weed it out of what they display to you -- bouncing on the 'h' key in
  mutt shows it, generally as the 2nd line of header right underneath
  the 'From ' line.  Otherwise, grep'ing the mbox file directly is
  probably the thing to do.
 
 There's no mistaking it. I've used vi and grep.
 Here, is the message as I received it from you;
 
 
 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul  4 16:40:08 2003
 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Yup.  It's definitely not there.  This has me completely perplexed.
You seem to be doing everything correctly, and all of the right things
are appearing in the sendmail.cf file, but the fault is definitely
occurring.

All I can conclude is that there is some trivial boo-boo somewhere
that will have you slapping your forehead and shouting D'Oh! in the
approved Homer-Simpson-esque style.  It's going to be something on the
level of you're not using the sendmail binary you think you are, or
it's not reading /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.  Have you sanity checked
/etc/mail/mailer.conf ?  Does anything untoward appear in
/var/log/maillog ? How about the maillog entries when you restart the
MTA?

Can you try this: run sendmail in address test mode:

% /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt

and check the output of dumping the mailer definitions:

 =M

(ie. make sure that the local mailer definition being used by sendmail
is actually the same as in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf) Also try:

 /parse [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which should give you Parse1 and parse lines like so:

Parse1   returns: $# local $: david
parsereturns: $# local $: david

indicating that your sendmail will use the local mailer to do the
final delivery.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:38:13PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
 Now it seems to be working. I inserted it in the F section of the 
 settings below the one we discussed and it seems to work.
 
   Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/Hdr
   FromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
   T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
   A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
   Mprog,  P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/H...
  HERE^
 
 I am not sure what I did, or what the purpose of Mprog is.

The prog mailer is generally for aliases that pipe mail into programs
-- eg:

   msgs: | /usr/bin/msgs -s

It's not often used --- too much opportunity for abuse over the
network.  About the only thing I remember ever using it was majordomo,
but I suppose it could be something to do with anti-spam or anti-virus
scanning.

The question now must be why your system is using the 'prog' mailer to
do final delivery of your e-mail?  Got any interesting entries in
/etc/mail/mailertable or /etc/mail/aliases ?

Cheers,

Matthew

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Solved --- FreeBSD 5.1 and Promise TX4

2003-07-04 Thread Andrew Batson

Hello,

Ok, I figure out my problem as to why FreeBSD 5.1 release would not
install with both a Promise Ultra 66 and a TX4 controller card in the same
PC. The short of the long, it was and ID10T error. 

I realizes the problem after I install FreeBSD 4.8 release and was
preparing to build a custom kernel. I used the dmesg command too see what
FreeBSD had found and that when I saw the answer. The hard disk drive
attached to the Promise Ultra 66 controller is ad12 not ad10 as I
thought - ad10, ad4, ad6, ad8 where the individual disk on the Promise TX4
controller.

Once I realized this, I did another install of FreeBSD 5.1 Release
and the install work.

Thanks,
Andrew AKA Dyslextic


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Re: How to delete/replace default route using ppp?