Re: DVD-RAM on FreeBSD 5.1R (LG 4040)?

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:26:11AM +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
 Hi all,
 
  just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and
 DVD-RAM) and wish to use it on FreeBSD 5.1. While still having to
 configure the system to address it in UDMA rather than PIO 4 mode, it
 installed fine. Reading and writing CDs in all possible variations works
 fine with burncd. Yet many of my scripts are written for cdrecord, so
 I'd rather stick with that tool instead of learing yet another one.
 
 Two questions arise
 
 (a) How do I get such a unit to treat DVD-RAM just as slow, random
 access optical media (much like an MO-Disk)?
 I do not wish to do burncd or cdrecord on it, I wish to write to it
 directly, if possible.
 Alas, I could not put a new disk label on the blank (disklabel says
 'unknown type: auto'), and newfs does not like it either. So I am
 stuck.
 
 (b) Google and the online handbook (for 4.x though) tell me that I
 need 
 
   device atapicam
   device scbus
   device pass
 
 in my kernel to get to use the ATAPI unit like a SCSI unit
 (e.g. with cdrecord and friends). However, on 5.1R I cannot find any
 mention of an atapicam device, neither in GENERIC nor in the hints
 nor NOTES. Now, what's a man to do?
 
 
 I checked the freebsd.org FAQs and archives, google and the news groups,
 but most stuff there is not really conclusive. In case this is a FAQ,
 after all, please just post a pointer.
 
 Any hints are much appreciated.
 
  Thanks in advance  cheers,
Stefan


Hi all,

   the issue has been resolved, thanks go to Kent and Marc for their
pointers.
 
Adding the following, as Kent suggested, put the drive in UDMA-33 mode:

  # cat /boot/loader.conf
  # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
  userconfig_script_load=YES
  hw.ata.atapi_dma=1

It's load on the system is now somewhere in the background noise.

Ignoring that the atapicam device is not mentioned in the GENERIC nor
hints nor NOTES files in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and instead following
the handbook (http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicamsektion=4)
by adding the line

  device atapicam # Allows ATAPI devices to addressed as if they were SCSI

to the kernel resulted after a kernel build and install in a system that
now

(a) does not block the eject button anymore

(b) shows the drive in the 'camcontrol devlist -v' listing as /dev/cd1

(c) allows me to actually write to and read from DVD-RAM is if it were a
slw hard drive.

disklabel -A cd1 # Tells me there is no label on the device
disklabel -w cd1 # labels the disk just fine
disklabel -A cd1 # shows the label
newfs /dev/cd1   # puts the file system on it
tunefs -n enable cd1 # enables softupdates
df /dev/cd1  # shows about 4.3 GB usable
mount /dev/cd1 /dvd  # mounts the device (-t cd9660 is rejected)



Tested on /usr with about 2.5 GB of data, the speed is
- tar -cvf /dvd/51usr.tar writes at about 1.4 MB/s (slow for a
  HD), i.e. 89 MB/min (as fast or slow as my DDS-3 DAT drive)
- tar -tvf /dvd/51usr.tar reads at about three times as fast at
  4.1 MB/s (i.e. 245 MB/min)

- cp -R /usr /dvd/ : writes slow, at about 110kb/s (or 6.6
  MB/min). 
  The first time around it got stuck after a couple of hours (when
  most of the data seemed to be transferred already), with ps
  telling its status being D+ (uniterruptible wait for device
  access) and MWCHAN as biowr. Neither camcontrol reset nor shutdown
  -r would work, had to power cycle the machine. Next time it
  worked. 


Thanks again to all  cheers,
 Stefan

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Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-23 Thread Rahul Fernandez

 
 The secret is that once you've installed the system, put away
 sysinstall(1).  Learn how to use the system level commands for
 installing packages -- particularly pkg_add(1).  Even better, use the
 ports tree.  This may sound terrifying to the uninitiated: what, you
 mean I should compile all this stuff from source?! but that's the
 beauty of the ports system. 

Hi, Thanks for the response. I understand that the ports system is the most
up-to-date. However, if I choose to install a package (to install very large
packages like openoffice or mozilla say), am I am correct in thinking that I must
install from the the directory set aside for my release? If this is the case why
is it not a good idea to use sysinstall?

Thanks, Rahul

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2003-11-23 Thread Dan Langille
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RE: Automatically encrypting data files in a partition.

2003-11-23 Thread Paul Hamilton
Thanks for that Lowell!  Looks like it might work.  I will have a play with
it!

Cheers,

Paul Hamilton

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Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2003 9:28 AM
To: Paul Hamilton
Cc: Freebsd-Questions
Subject: Re: Automatically encrypting data files in a partition.


Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I need a way to store different directory trees and files with different
 encryption keys, i.e..

 /data/mars  /data/mars/one /data/mars/two etc  all are encrypted with one
 key and

 /data/venus   /data/venus/one   /data/venus/two  etc, would have a
different
 key.

 Ideally, the directory structure, and file names wouldn't be encrypted.
 /data is an independent partition.

 Some of these files, could be MS Office data files, others might be MS
 program *.exe files etc.  It would be nice if this happened at the
 filesystem level, i.e., I would enter a key and the root dir name for each
 'data tree' into the config file, reload the config file into the
 'encryption filesystem program' and all would be sweet ;-)

The closest thing I know of is cfs (in the ports).  It encrypts some
of the directory structures as well, which is usually desirable
because they can contain secret information as well (think of a file
named CompanyX_Merge_Plans.doc).  I don't know if it's capable of
handling passphrases centrally as opposed to on a user-session basis,
but if so, you would need someone with the password present every time
you booted the machine.
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Re: Fwd: newbee help on freebsd email server setup

2003-11-23 Thread Dennis M. Yocum
thank you
there are many in ports
i am running a simple freebsd server dedicated for email
so far anyway
i want to have about 15 people getting email
do you have any reccommendations?
(wont hold ya to it)
thanks again
den
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  here is the problem i cant track down.when i send mail to an
  account set up on mailserver (thru adduser) and using an remote
  source email server.when i use a pc through windows 2000
  running outlook express i cannot retrieve the mail...it comes back
  with error message 550 host unknown

 Outlook Express is probably trying to use POP or some other mailbox
 protocol (maybe IMAP) to download the messages.  Sendmail has nothing
 to do with it at this level; you need a POP server to allow POP
 downloading of messages.  There are several in the ports system.
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PCI Raid 5 cards for FreeBSD

2003-11-23 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi,

I have seen both the Promise and 3ware raid cards mentioned over time in
this mailing list.

I would like to be able to run a 1-2TB raid 5 SATA on FreeBSD 4.9.  Is
anyone using a card from these suppliers?

Will FreeBSD install on a Raid 5 array (after it has been configured in the
Array BIOS)?

Does FreeBSD have any in built driver/mechanism to monitor the array's
health?

Is there another SATA Raid controller company out there I have missed, that
covers FreeBSD?

Cheers,

Paul Hamilton


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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
   What is the canonical way to monitor accesses to a file?
 You may want to take a look at 'fam,' in /usr/ports/devel/fam , as some 
 of the code's already been done for this type of monitoring AFAIK...

Yes, that is a nice framework to start with. It uses help from
the kernel (imon pseudo device on irix or linux), or polls the
files with lstat(). It could be extended to use kevent(2) on FBSD...

Unfortunately, it still doesn't know which process accessed the
files. Hmmm...

Thank you.

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Re: pidentd troubles

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 03:28:09PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote:
 I was running pidentd server in fbsd 5.1 and ran into a problem.  On reboot 
 thousands of identd processes would be created.  This caused an enormous 
 problem as you can imagine.  I ended up doing a pkg_delete of pidentd.  Has 
 anyone had this happen?
 
 I need a reliable ident server; can anyone recommend one from ports?

Why not use the ident server built into inetd(8)?  No extra ports
required.

From the default inetd.conf:

# Provide internally a real ident service which provides ~/.fakeid support,
# provides ~/.noident support, reports UNKNOWN as the operating system type
# and times out after 30 seconds.
#
auth   stream  tcp nowait  rootinternalauth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 
30
auth   stream  tcp6nowait  rootinternalauth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 
30

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by
an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately,
the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown.
 
 I'd think the failsafe way to approach this is with a wrapper so that when 
 process P accesses file F it's really accessing W(F), i.e. a software 
 wrapper which would then emulate F, only since W's a pgm it can also log 
 the activity as well as reply to P with basically whatever you want it to 
 reply with.

Unfortunately, FreeBSD doesn't have the equivalent of GNU/Hurd
translators. On the Hurd, the filesystems are served by userland
programs called translators. It is possible to set a translator
anywhere on the filesystem. This is similar to a mount(8), with
the difference that you can mount a program instead of a raw
device. This program (translator in Hurd parlance) would serve
VFS requests and actually reply to calls like open(), read(),
write(), etc...

A translator actually intercepts the VFS calls. In this case,
it would be trivial to do a ps [or on the Hurd to query the
proc server], and obtain at least a list of running processes
in a very timely fashion [P(u) would certainly be present
at that time!]. Because the translator replies directly to
P(u), it *may* be possible to identify P(u) this way...

Perhaps FreeBSD's mount_portal(8) could be used for this?
I'm not familiar with portalfs...

 Would ln(1) be able to serve as the setup for W? I've only done soft links 
 for directory aliasing on websites. So I don't know if you can get away 
 with e.g. having a shebang line on top W and expect it to execute; if you 
 could work it that way though you'd be golden afaict.

A she bang would be useless here, because P(u) uses, say, open()
and read(), not exec(). The kernel would never try to execute
the file, and would therefore not try to read the she-bang line.

 Rereading this I
 realize for W to work it'd also have to be able to know who P is, i.e. the 
 process and what it was wanting to do so it could emulate it. Or is there a 
 way to just have W pass F on to P after logging the activity? And why do I 
 suddenly crave a bowl of alphabet soup?

That is precisely the problem here.

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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
What is the canonical way to monitor accesses to a file?
 
  Problem description:
  
 
A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by
an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately,
the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown.
 
The goal is to catch P(u) red-handed, just the moment
it accesses /path/to/a/file, e.g. by looking up in the
process table with ps(1).
 
 That's not exactly red-handed, it's just not too long afterwards.

Right. Ideally, the kernel should block P(u), notify P(m), and
then unblock P(u). Of course, this doesn't happen with the
current kernels (?).

 I don't think you're going to find a simple answer to this one.  If I
 had this problem, I'd probably build a kernel with special code to
 recognize opens on this file (so that you can get the address of the
 file table) and writes to it (though this may be redundant).  The code
 would enter the kernel debugger or maybe just panic, depending on the
 environment.  That way you'd really catch the culprit red-handed.

Yes, that was the idea with the debug nfsd. P(u) would block as
long as debug-nfsd didn't reply, and would be hanging around in
the process table. Surely, P(u) would still not be directly
identifiable by debug-nfsd.

Modifying the kernel really seems to be the only solution here.

 An alternative might depend on knowledge of what the file does.

It is a DNS map. On that special host, named is not even running,
so I suspect some rogue program. And no, there's nothing in
crontab either However, the problem is more general than
this. I just hoped that a generic solution exists.

 Greg

Thank you for all the help.

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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
   A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by
   an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately,
   the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown.
 
   Have you tried moving the file elsewhere and seeing if anyone
 complains about the absence?

No, P(u) obviously fails silently. There's nothing recorded
by syslog, no messages on the console, and no core dumps...

   Or writing a program that locks the file?

That was a good idea. However, P(u) didn't seem to take a lock.
Advisory locks are just that: if P(u) doesn't lock the file,
existing locks don't matter at all. Do we have mandatory locks
in FreeBSD?

Thank you.

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Re: About setup FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE to Sony notebook PCG-R505GCK

2003-11-23 Thread toor
On 22 Nov 2003 09:20:09 -0500
 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
toor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

On 21 Nov 2003 09:06:31 -0500
  Lowell Gilbert 
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toor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 When I begin setup I see next message:
 eisa0: EISA bus on motherboard
 eisa0: unknown card [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x0808) at slot 1
 Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in 
kernel mode
 instruction pointer = 0x58:0x81d1
 stack pointer   = 0x10:0xeb8
 frame pointer   = 0x10:0xf0e
 code segment= base 0xc00f, limit 0x, 
type 0x1b
  = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 0, gran 0
 processor elfags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL 
= 0
 current process = 0 (swapper)
 trap number = 9
 panic: general protectin fault
 What must I do to setup freeBSD to my notebook.

Do you need 5.1?
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html

You mean that I must install FreeBSD ver 4.9 RELEASE???
I don't mean that at all.  Just that you should be aware 
that FreeBSD
5.x is not intended for production use at this time.
I install FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE, I patch pnpbios function in 
bios.c and bild kernel. When I can boot and install to my 
notebook. As it proved, boot image from 
CDROM/floppies/boot.flp content bad kernel or mfsroot, 
because when I install and reboot - FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE 
will load successfully:).
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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Cordula's Web wrote:
A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by
an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately,
the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown.
  
  Have you tried moving the file elsewhere and seeing if anyone
  complains about the absence?
 
 No, P(u) obviously fails silently. There's nothing recorded
 by syslog, no messages on the console, and no core dumps...
 
  Or writing a program that locks the file?
 
 That was a good idea. However, P(u) didn't seem to take a lock.
 Advisory locks are just that: if P(u) doesn't lock the file,
 existing locks don't matter at all. Do we have mandatory locks
 in FreeBSD?

Not a lock as such, but:

# chflags schg /path/to/a/file

should achieve the effect you desire.  Although this will cause any
write on the file to just fail, rather than causing P(u) to block
waiting for a lock.  You could try replacing /path/to/a/file with a
fifo (see mkfifo(1)), and maybe hang another process on the other end
of the fifo which can run ps(1) or fstat(1) when a write is detected.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-23 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello!


I wrote:

 If the majority is right and IDE drives cannot be hot swapped, this
 would indicate that we would need to power down the machine every time 
 we want to change the backup HDs. This would be less than 
 perfect, but since we are cheap we could live with it. 

 OTOH I read 'man atacontrol' and saw that there are commands like
 'atacontrol detach' and 'atacontrol attach' which seem to be meant 
 for detaching/attaching IDE devices while the machine is running. 
 Does this mean that I could actually run 'atacontrol detach channel', swap the
 drive and then run 'atacontrol attach channel' and be able to use
 the second HD after that? Is anyone doing something like that?

To which Scott W replied:

 I dislike IDE and tend ot avoid it like the plague when possible, 

Me too.

 but:
 1.  The 'generic' removeable drive trays for IDE that use a normal IDE 
 controller (like attaching to the slave or secondary channel on most 
 onboard IDE), with another disk or device attached that's being used, do 
 not support removeable devices.  It's _extremely_ likely that you'll 
 hang the IDE bus.

If there is only CD-ROM (which is almost never used) attached as 
primary master and the removable disk attached as secondary master then 
maybe I don't need to worry too much about that.

 2.  Having mentioned #1 already, it's _possible_ that using a secondary 
 controller (unsure if this can be the second channel of onboard or not, 
 but NOT simply the slave of a given channel with another device), and 
 atacontrol, it appears (no, I have not tried this), you can bring the 
 controller itself (or channel?) offline, attach or remove the drive, and 
 then reattach it.  I'd like to hear more details on this one myself, and 
 may have a system I can test it on if I get too bored, but have long ago 
 chucked my IDE trays..

I'll probably be forced to do some testing on this during next few 
weeks. I'll keep you posted on the results.

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booting freebsd and openbsd

2003-11-23 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hi,

I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot
freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but
does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I have to set any extra
parameter?

thanks,

Paulo

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Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Danny louis
Hi,

I recently Installed FreeBSD on my IBM THinkpad 
600x. How do I configure the 56K internal modem for
dial up and internet services from scratch?


Thanks,
Daniel Lewis
561-547-6647

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fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
   Hello all,

   I just had a crash, and upon reboot fsck displayed these gnarly 
errors that went by too quick for me to read, my different display
lines settings loading on the console making it worse. So I thought,
allright, just dmesg. Nothing about the errors there. /var/log/messages?
nothing either. Don't these messages get logged anywhere? This is all I 
get..

(..)
Nov 23 12:34:29 localhost kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
Nov 23 12:34:29 localhost kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Nov 23 12:34:29 localhost kernel: ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, 
rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging disabled
(..)

Thanks in advance for any help,
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Re: startx and numlocks

2003-11-23 Thread Dru


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chris Pressey wrote:

 On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:38:24 -0500 (EST)
 Dru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  Does anyone know how to keep numlocks on when using startx? I have
  numlocks on in all of my terminals, but when I start X, it goes off.
  Is there a line I can add to .xinitrc?
 
  TIA,
 
  Dru

 Hi Dru,

 Have you looked at /usr/ports/x11/numlockx ?

Thanks, that does the trick. For those that want to try it, after you've
installed the port, add this line to the beginning of your ~/.xinitrc:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/numlockx 

Dru
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RE: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread fbsd_user
Read the FBSD handbook.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.ht
ml

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Subject: Modem

Hi,

I recently Installed FreeBSD on my IBM THinkpad
600x. How do I configure the 56K internal modem for
dial up and internet services from scratch?


Thanks,
Daniel Lewis
561-547-6647

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Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On Saturday 22 November 2003 8:18, Charles Swiger wrote:
 /mnt should be reserved as a default temporary mount point-- it's silly
 to risk breaking existing tools or procedures.  Anyway, I suggest you
 solicit feedback from Solaris users and possibly MacOS X people as
 well.  Solaris features vold (implied by wanting to use /vol), and the
 latter OS places temporary removable mountpoints under /Volumes.

The point that /mnt should be left alone is pretty clear, but I'm glad to be 
able to say Folks on the FreeBSD questions list agree.

As for Mac OS X, they have no intention of being FHS-compliant, so while we 
may learn some lessons from them, they won't worrz about what we have to say.

 I happen to think that OS X handles things well from a user interface
 standpoint-- the Finder in Panther with Miller column display and an
 eject symbol next to the volume name, but I'm not sure how relevant
 that is.  Frank, is your group's standard concerned about physical
 volume names, logical volume names intended for human
 identification/access, or both?

 Physical device names ought to have unit numbers or even be part of a
 tree-like device hierarchy-- for instance, what does /cdrom refer to in
 a machine with two CD-ROM devices?

In the current version of the standard (2.2), nothing. But in the next 
revision, /foo/cdrom will be a symlink to /foo/cdrom0, and /foo/cdrom1 won't 
have a link. Managing these links is not the scope of the standard (yet). The 
priority for the next revision is to define what /foo should be.

 Human-readable names also run the risk of two removable devices having
 the same name; people are happy seeing a list containing duplicate
 names (eg, particularly if one name has a CDROM icon next to it, and
 the other has a floppy or USB pen icon :-), but that doesn't tell you
 what to do with your filesystem hierarchy layout.

The actual names of the directories will be undefined, but there will be some 
suggestions (cdrom, floppy, etc.)

 Obviously, a standard that says place mount points anywhere you want
 isn't very useful.  But if you did come up with a standard, who should
 follow it and what would they gain?

As for who should follow it, Linux distributions (Debian, Red Hat, SuSE) as 
well as the *BSDs (though I'm not sure exaclty what that means in the BSD 
world). What would be gained is more for application support. Basically, xmms 
and xcdroast could configure a /foo/cdrom as a default location, and it will 
be correct for all FHS-compliant systems.

Frank

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FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread D Velez
Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be
install on a laptop?

I appreciate any comments

Thanks
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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
 A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by
 an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately,
 the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown.
 Not a lock as such, but:
 
 # chflags schg /path/to/a/file
 
 should achieve the effect you desire.  Although this will cause any
 write on the file to just fail, rather than causing P(u) to block
 waiting for a lock.  You could try replacing /path/to/a/file with a
 fifo (see mkfifo(1)), and maybe hang another process on the other end
 of the fifo which can run ps(1) or fstat(1) when a write is detected.

Interesting, but the results were not conclusive.

I've finally found the culprit with a traditional method:
  * md5 (binary from an uncompromised machine) on all files
  * reinstalling from scratch (not buildworld, but really
installing from FTP)
  * md5 again and diff.

/bin/sh and cvsup (!!) were compromised on that machine.

The malicious code was in /usr/src/bin/sh/exec.c:shellexec()
Additionally, cvsup (and perhaps other programs) must have
been corrupt too, because code in /usr/src/bin/sh was never
updated.

Ugh... system clean again at last. :)

Thank you for all your help!

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Re: FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread Daniela
On Sunday 23 November 2003 16:21, D Velez wrote:
 Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be
 install on a laptop?

I installed 5.0 once, without any problems.
There will surely not be a great difference between them.

For more info:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html
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Mozilla and long time in resolving Hostnames

2003-11-23 Thread tullio pellicano


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advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread fbsd_user
My shop has been writing internal standards  tutorials in
MS/windows word. They now want to make these available online over
the internet as web pages. We use FBSD as our gateway and apache as
our web server. I know I can install apache with ms/FrontPage
extensions added and then use FrontPage to read the word docs to
build the FrontPage hmtl code automatically.

I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some
FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can
serve up natively.  Can any body suggest how to do this?

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Re: dmesg.today-dmesg.yesterday

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Lowell Gilbert wrote:

 Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 How does dmesg.today get rotated to dmesg.yesterday?
 
 I suspect my dmesg.today of being corrupted by old info.
 I have gotten the following message in my security output
 for the last four days:
 
 pid 4062 (clamd), uid 3848: exited on signal 11
 
 It appears in different places, but what are the chances of
 clamd acquiring pid 4062 four days in a row?
 
 That diff is taken as part of the periodic/security checks.
 I don't think it uses dmesg.today, though; I think it takes output
 directly from dmesg(8)...

From /etc/periodic/security/security.functions:


---
# Usage: COMMAND | check_diff [new_only] LABEL - MSG
#COMMAND  TMPFILE; check_diff [new_only] LABEL TMPFILE MSG
#   if $1 is new_only, show only the 'new' part of the diff.
#   LABEL is the base name of the ${LOG}/${label}.{today,yesterday} files.

check_diff() {
---

It would appear that it does indeed use .today and .yesterday.

And I think I just answered my own question. check_diff is the
function that creates the dmesg.today and dmesg.yesterday files,
and is in charge of rotating them.

Thanks.

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Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:22:34PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
 I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some
 FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can
 serve up natively.  Can any body suggest how to do this?

http://wvware.sourceforge.net in ports as textproc/wv or textproc/wv2

These are Unix style programs suitable for scripting/automation. 
Otherwise, you can convert most MS formats to HTML using OpenOffice

All of these will aim to produce output that looks almost exactly
like the .doc input, rather than neat, tidy, minimal HTML.

Cheers,

Matthew


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Re: Modem problems

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Shaun Alcaster (ECI Support) wrote:

 We have a lease line directly connected to out internet survice provider.
 Both have 56k lease line modems, but can only connect at about 33.3Kbs how
 do we change this.

Most likely the problem is with your phone lines, not FreeBSD or your ISP.

I work at an ISP. I can connect at 48,000 bps with my FreeBSD laptop from downtown
- at work. If I take my laptop home, I can only connect at 24,600 bps. My house
is on the outskirts of town and I think we have more than our fair share of analog
to digital conversions between my house and the central office.

Same story with my Win98 box. But FreeBSD with my PCMCIA hardware modem actually
transfers data faster than my win98 box w/software modem.

If you really want to connect at 56k or higher, you generally have three options:

1.) ISDN. Full digital line ensures 64k connection speeds, and dual channels
with bonding means that you can get a 128k connection. Usually you won't
spend too much more for ISDN than you would for dual 56k connections, but
since ISDN actually connects at 64k, it'll be a lot faster.

2.) DSL. If available, it's always on, and generally the same price or cheaper
than ISDN. Just make sure you get a DSL router with an ethernet jack instead
of a USB DSL modem. AFAIK, DSL dongles aren't supported by FreeBSD.

3.) Partial or Full T1. Absolute fastest connection of the three, but also the
most expensive. This is total overkill for most small businesses.

Hope that helps.

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Re: FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
D Velez wrote:

 Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be
 install on a laptop?

I've been running 5.1-RELEASE on my IBM Thinkpad A30p
for 4 or 5 months now. I like it a lot. It's was a bit
trickier to get installed than 4.8-RELEASE, but once
it's installed it works well.

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Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-23 Thread Bob Collins
At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote:
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]

Quotation broken.

On Friday, 21 November 2003 at  9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
 At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]

 Quotation broken.

 On Wednesday, 19 November 2003 at  9:13:43 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
 At 10:46 PM 11/17/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

 Do you have device nodes for da4?  Has it been labelled at all?

 I did not have `all' the nodes for da4 in /dev. So, I ran #sh MAKEDEV da4
 in the /dev directory. After that, there were what appeared to be all the
 device nodes for da4.

 I was able to label the drive and use it with vinum under
 5.0-RELEASE FWIW.  Under 4.9-RELEASE (which is what I now run) it
 will not label through /stand/sysinstall.

 I can now newfs the drive and mount it and copy files to and fro,
 however I cannot use it with vinum. I did umount the drive and
 then disklabel -e da4 and changed the e: to h: and the filesystem
 type to vinum. It was da4s1e.

 When I create the vinum configuration, I either get that drive d
 (da4s1h) is referenced and in the down state while the other three
 drives are up, or the other three drives a b c are referenced and
 in the down state while drive d is up.

 I need the information I ask for in
 http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html.

 FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE

 No changes to sources

 vinum - list
 4 drives:
 D d State: up   Device /dev/da1s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)
 D c State: up   Device /dev/da2s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)
 D b State: up   Device /dev/da3s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)
 D a State: up   Device /dev/da4s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)

 1 volumes:
 V raid  State: down Plexes:   1 Size: 25 GB

 1 plexes:
 P raid.p0R5 State: init Subdisks: 4 Size: 25 GB

 4 subdisks:
 S raid.p0.s0State: emptyPO:0  B Size:   8747 MB
 S raid.p0.s1State: emptyPO:  512 kB Size:   8747 MB
 S raid.p0.s2State: emptyPO: 1024 kB Size:   8747 MB
 S raid.p0.s3State: emptyPO: 1536 kB Size:   8747 MB

This doesn't agree with what you say above.  It also looks fine to
me.

Greg
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My apologies, Greg. Quite right. I was messing with the system right before the 
response about sa4 device nodes in /dev. Once I made the da4 devices, then the 
disklabel worked. My mistake jumping the gun.

One follow-up question if I may.

I assume that the init process for a RAID5 takes quite some time, no? This has been in 
the init stage for 3 days. The vinum daemon is running as I can see it listed in ps 
-ax.

Thank you
Bob 

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RE: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
fbsd_user wrote:

 Read the FBSD handbook.
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.ht

Also, you might want to try kppp from the KDE project. It's a graphical
front end to Kernal PPP (pppd), and I find that it's much easier to use
than the CLI when I need to connect in a hurry on my laptop.

I think it's probably a good idea to get user ppp (FreeBSD Handbook)
working before switching to kppp though. That way you'll be able to
debug easier.

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daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Will Prater
List,

What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been 
loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there 
any others that you reccomend?

If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am 
primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus, 
saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin.

Thanks for any input

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Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-23 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello!

 Date:  Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:53:06 +0100
 From:  Robert Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 this is the problem:
 I had a machine running FreeBSD 4.7-Stable. There I added a 80GB 
 harddisk. This harddrive I wanted to install on my other machine running 
 FreeBSD 4.9-Release. This disk is ad6 so I added
 
   /dev/ad6/storageufs rw  2   2
 
 to fstab and rebooted.

Did I understand the situation right - the drive worked in 4.7 machine 
but the problem occurred when you moved it to the 4.9 machine?

The above fstab entry doesn't look quite correct to me. The filesystem 
that you mount should usually be contained in a partition (e.g. 
/dev/ad6s1e) not on entire disk (/dev/ad6).

If the drive worked in the 4.7 machine, what was the fstab entry there?

 While booting the kernel the following error came up:
   ...
   /dev/ad6: BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
   /dev/ad6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
   ** /dev/ad6
   BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
   /dev/ad6; NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused)
 
 I searched the intenet and found this way:
   fsck -b 32
 
 which gives this output for /dev/ad6:
   ...
   BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

This all seems to hint that /dev/ad6 does not contain an UFS file 
system.

 the output of
   fdisk -t ad6
 is the following:
   ...
   sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
   start 63, size 160071597 (78159 Meg), flag 80 (active)
   beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
   end: 1023/ head 254/ sector 63;

OK, there's a FreeBSD slice on the drive.

 the output of /stand/sysinstall -Configure-Fdisk-ad6 is:
 
 OffsetSize(ST)  END   Name   PType  Desc   Subtype  Flags
 0 63 62 - 6   unused   0  
 63 160071597  160071659   ad6s1   3   freebsd  165  C
 160071660  14868  160086527 - 6   unused   0  

That seems to be the same slice as listed by fdisk. Note that is's 
called ad6s1.

What is the output of 'disklabel ad6'?
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ftp/ftpd and kerberos5

2003-11-23 Thread
Why ftp and ftpd in FreeBSD 5.x does not support kerberos5 ?

Thanks!

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Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 9:22 AM, fbsd_user wrote:

I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some
FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can
serve up natively.  Can any body suggest how to do this?
One approach I've had some success with is to take the baroque HTML 
that Word generates and run it through htmltidy. It can strip out all 
the deprecated tags and generate CSS styles for you, giving you both 
the appearance and the maintainability you may need later.
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Boot manager clarification

2003-11-23 Thread Craig Caughlin
Hi folks,
I have 2 hard disks, each on their own channel. I have XOSL installed as my
boot manager, in Drive 1, Partition 1. I have Windows 2000-Pro on Drive 1,
Partition 2. I want to install FreeBSD 5.0 on Drive 2, but use XOSL to load
it. 

Should I install FreeBSD using the Standard MBR option, or should I use
the BootMgr option? I *think* I would want to use the standard, because it
seems like the BootMgr option would install in the MBR of Disk 1 and NOT
Disk 2, thereby goofing up XOSL (which is what I'm trying to avoid!).

Thank you,
Craig

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Novice needs advice building new kernel: UPG 4.7-RELEASE --- 4.9-RELEASE

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Bogari
Thanks in advance for the expert assistance:

I'm *halfway* knowledgeable with my 4.7-RELEASE system.  Built it on a
486/66 (16MB RAM) about a year ago.  It's time to upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE.
Here's what I've got so far:

1.  Set the options in sysinstall to retrieve 4.9-RELEASE instead of
4.7-RELEASE
2.  Used sysinstall to download the 4.9-RELEASE data via FTP
3.  Tried to rebuild the kernel with the first process as documented
4.  All steps proceed without error
5.  Kernel size after last step is 0KB, so reboot fails.  Fallback to
kernel.old
6.  GENERIC kernel installed with 4.9-RELEASE is kinda iffy - had to address
several issues with 4.7 GENERIC to arrive at the kernel conf I am happy
with under 4.7
7.  Ran through kernel conf again to confirm no new gotchas and all required
deviations for my setup were followed.  Nothing looks fishy.

Then:
1.  Tried second procedure as documented
2.  Failure at some point I don't recall due to physical memory or swap size

How/why is this kernel ending up 0-sized with no error message?

I played with the kernel protection as documented in the troubleshooting
sections.  Everything seems normal.  Must I set kern_security level  0
before
I begin?

Or should I lean on the second process to make it work?  The problem there
being that I do not have a kernel that allows me to increase swap by
creating a swap file   :(

Any help would be appreciated.

Jeff

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hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :)

Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ?
I don't need anything fancy, just something like hdparm -t under Linux.

Thanks.

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Material

2003-11-23 Thread NEED_FIRST NEED_LAST
Hi, I am a student at Minot State University in Minot,ND. I work in the
computer lab and was noticing all the posters that we have up are getting
old and out dated. Some one mentioned to me FreeBSD (rocks). I have never
heard about freebsd so I was wondering do you have any material that you
could send me about FreeBSD. Maybe you could send me some posters to
display in the lab. Thanks

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Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

2003-11-23 Thread Remington
George Hartzell wrote:

George Hartzell writes:
 
 I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
 laptop.
 
 I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
 w/out acpi, and safe.  Every option panic-ed, with essentially the
 same message (see below), although it followed a different driver
 depending on how it was booted.
 
 Then I installed 4.7 (since I had the CD), cvsup-ed my repository, and
 cvs up'ed /usr/src to the 5-current.  I followed the section on moving
 from 4 to 5-current in UPDATING to build the world, etc  I had to
 work around a bit of previously reported 4.7/5 weirdness in
 /usr/include, but it went w/out any trouble.
 
 When I reached the point where I was supposed to boot the new kernel
 in single user mode, the 5-current kernel paniced:
 
   miibus0: MII bux in fxp0
   inphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface on miibus0
   inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
   
   
   
   Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
   cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
   fault virtual address	= 0x63696d20
   fault code		= supervisor write, page not present
   instruction pointer	= 0x8:0xc0659df3
   stack pointer		= 0x10:0xc0c217ac
   frame pointer		= 0x10:0xc0c217cc
   code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
   			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
   processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
   current process		= 0 (swapper)
   kernel: type 12 trap, code=0
   Stopped at	ithread_add_handler+0x163:	movl	%ebx,0(%eax)
   db
 
 I've seen several similar reports in the archives for late last
 summer.  The general answer seemed to be that people were having
 hardware trouble.  I don't think that is the case in my case, unless
 -current is doing something very strange, since the same machine runs
 well enough under 4.7 to buildworld and buildkernel, and the same
 hardware has been running Suse and Win2000.
 
 How can I help get this solved?

It turns out that the 5.0 release CD also boots successfully, so it
seems to be something that's happened in -current since then.
Help?

g.
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I have a GRX570, the problem can be fixed by adding the following to 
your device.hints

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

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Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

2003-11-23 Thread George Hartzell
Remington writes:
  George Hartzell wrote:
  
  George Hartzell writes:

I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
laptop.

I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
w/out acpi, and safe.  Every option panic-ed, with essentially the
same message (see below), although it followed a different driver
depending on how it was booted.
[...]
   [...]
  I have a GRX570, the problem can be fixed by adding the following to 
  your device.hints
  
  hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

Yay!  That got it.  Thanks!

g.
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POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
For some reason, my locally installed snmp daemons decided to renumber 
the elements in the hrStorageTable, meaning all the attached disks were 
being either misreported or just plain dropped from my graphs 
(paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/index.html). Not that the new numbering 
doesn't make sense but I didn't know this was going to happen.

How to discover and fix it? snmptable is my friend. As shown here, the 
memory used by the kernel is listed first, followed by the disks. The 
disks were numbered starting at 1 before . . . . .

[/www/mrtg/blue]# snmptable -c community name blue hrStorageTable
SNMP table: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageTable
hrStorageIndex hrStorageType hrStorageDescr hrStorageAllocationUnits 
hrStorageSize hrStorageUsed hrStorageAllocationFailures
1 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageOther Memory Buffers 256 Bytes ? 192 0
2 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageRam Real Memory 4096 Bytes ? 3241 ?
3 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageVirtualMemory Swap Space 4096 Bytes ? 
19625 ?
4 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk / 1024 Bytes ? 83592 ?
5 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /usr 1024 Bytes ? 3639961 ?
6 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /var 1024 Bytes ? 8015 ?
7 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /proc 4096 Bytes ? 1 ?
8 HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk /usr/ports 512 Bytes ? 
35548516 ?
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remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Is there a way to mount a cdrom or  remote file systems using fstab but 
not having it crash out the system.  example if i have a nfs share set 
up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i reboot  
my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the share and will not 
allow me to do anything and i have to hook up a monitor and keyboard to 
get it back the same happens when there is an error on a cd rom

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Re: hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
 Hi :)
 
 Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ?
 I don't need anything fancy, just something like hdparm -t under Linux.
 
 Thanks.


Hi Antoine,

 check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure the test files are
at least the size of your RAM. Otherwise you'll be measuring the speed
of the caching system, which is pretty fast on BSD.


 Cheers, Stefan

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Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Jonas Manalive
Hello,

I am having terrible time trying to figure out why I can't get any
emails. I used to be able to receive them before, but since reinstalling
FreeBSD (new harddrive), I am not able to get any emails again. I am
using FreeBSD 5.1 - standalone computer with me as the sole user. With
postfix, I want to use fetchmail to fetch mails and procmail to deliver
them and spamassassin to examine them. I want the procmail/postfix to
send them to /var/mail/manalive. Here are the configurations
(username/password changed of course :) ) and let me know where I am
doing wrong. There is no procmail.log file. I have stopped, started, and
reloaded the postfix after configuring. Any other configurations you
need to see, please let me know!

Thanks!

Jonas

--
.fetchmailrc
-
set logfile /home/manalive/Logs/fetchmail.log
set postmaster manalive
set no bouncemail

# Poll at 15 minute intervals
set daemon 900

poll pop.mail.com
proto POP3
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pass password
is manalive here
fetchall
no keep
poll pop.mail.com
proto POP3
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pass password
is manalive here
no fetchall
keep

--
.forward
-
|IFS=' '  p=/usr/local/bin/procmail  test -f $p  exec $p -Yf- ||
exit 75 manalive

---
.procmailrc

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/games
DEFAULT=/var/mail/manalive
LOGFILE=/home/manalive/Logs/procmail.log
VERBOSE=YES
 
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
*  100
| spamassassin

---
fetchmail.log
--
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon
fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying pop.mail.com (protocol POP3) at Sun Nov 23
13:12:33 2003: poll started
fetchmail: POP3 +OK MAIL POP3 StreamProxy ready
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail: POP3 CAPA
fetchmail: POP3 -ERR Unknown command.
fetchmail: Unknown command.
fetchmail: Repoll immediately on [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.mail.com
fetchmail: POP3 +OK GMX POP3 StreamProxy ready [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail: POP3 USER [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail: POP3 +OK May I have your password, please?
fetchmail: POP3 PASS *
fetchmail: POP3 +OK mailbox has 326 messages (1419792 octets)
fetchmail: POP3 STAT
fetchmail: POP3 +OK 326 1419792
fetchmail: 326 messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at pop.mail.com (1419792
octets).
fetchmail: POP3 LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3 +OK 1 4551
fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3 +OK message follows
fetchmail: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.mail.com:1 of 326 (4551
octets)
fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
fetchmail: terminated with signal 15
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon
fetchmail: 326 messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at pop.mail.com (1419792
octets).
fetchmail: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.mail.com:1 of 326 (4551
octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mail.com
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
fetchmail: 1 message for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at pop.mail.com (26611 octets).
fetchmail: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.mail.com:1 of 1 (26611
octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mail.com

---
main.cf for postfix (with #lines removed)

soft_bounce = no
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/local/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
myhostname = ancient.mariner.sea
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = all
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
alias_maps = dbm:/etc/aliases
home_mailbox = Mailbox
mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/procmail
debug_peer_level = 2
sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases
mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq
setgid_group = maildrop
manpage_directory = /usr/local/man
sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix
readme_directory = no

--
rc.conf 

hostname=ancient.mariner.sea
ifconfig_vr0=DHCP
ipv6_enable=YES
kern_securelevel_enable=NO
saver=daemon
sendmail_enable=NONE
sshd_enable=YES
usbd_enable=YES
linux_enable=YES
inetd_enable=NO

--
/etc/aliases
---
[among other things... I have included]
root: manalive
postfix: root

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Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote:
 List,
 
 What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been 
 loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there 
 any others that you reccomend?
 
 If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am 
 primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus, 
 saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin.

I would advise Nagios.

-- 
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Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread Kent Hauser
Hi,

Is there some trick to using USB devices? I'm trying to access my Nikon 
coolpix 5000 (latest firmware PTP mode) from 4.9-STABLE with no luck.

usbdevs sees the camera, as does gphoto2 --auto-detect. However, I'm unable 
to access the camera data with gphoto2 --auto-detect --summary (or via 
digikam or via konquerer). Having never done this before, I don't know if 
there is a usb config file I need to hack (usbd is running with unmodified 
usbd.conf). I've tried running as user  root and saw no change.

Any help appreciated.

%grep usb /var/log/messages
Nov 23 11:56:08 hnl /kernel: usb0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller 
on uhci0
Nov 23 11:56:08 hnl /kernel: usb0: USB revision 1.0
% usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x), rev 1.00
 port 1 powered
 port 2 addr 2: self powered, config 1, NIKON DSC E5000-PTP(0x0113), 
Nikon(0x04b0), rev 1.00

Kent


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Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 12:13 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

Is there a way to mount a cdrom or  remote file systems using fstab 
but not having it crash out the system.  example if i have a nfs share 
set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i 
reboot  my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the share and 
will not allow me to do anything and i have to hook up a monitor and 
keyboard to get it back the same happens when there is an error on a 
cd rom

make sure the entry on /etc/fstab is set to noauto: then the client 
won't try to mount the filesystem on boot.
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Running rbldnsd

2003-11-23 Thread Mark
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but since dynablock.easynet.nl's untimely demise, I
have been running the dynablock zone in BIND. Works great, but takes a
whopping 117MB! So, I tried using rbldnsd, which is about 10 times more
memory-efficient (!). I created a zone, dynablock.my-domain.info, and added
the zone-data, and start rbldns as follows:

rbldnsd -u bind:bind -r /usr/rbldns -b 127.0.0.1 -P 53 -c 0 \
dynablock.my-domain.info:generic:zoneheader.dynablock.my-domain.info \
dynablock.my-domain.info:ip4set:dynablock.my-domain.info

The zoneheader.dynablock.my-domain.info contains the following:

$NS 86400 ns1.my-domain.info
$SOA 1w ns1.my-domain.info admin.my-domain.info 0 2h 2h 1w 1h
@ 86400 A 127.0.0.1
dsl-cable-dhcp-dialup.ip 86400 A 127.0.0.2
dsl-cable-dhcp-dialup.ip 86400 TXT Dynamic/Residential IP range

Rbldsnd starts fine, without error, and says it loaded all zones:

rbldnsd: ip4set:dynablock.my-domain.info: 20031123 174253: \
e32/24/16/8=372826/241350/1001/0
rbldnsd: generic:zoneheader.dynablock.my-domain.info: 20031123 183814: e=3
rbldnsd: version 0.96 (29 May 2003) started (listening on [127.0.0.1]:53)

Yet, I cannot get any query to resolve on it:

% nslookup 218.65.86.15.dynablock.my-domain.info
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Query refused

I guess I misconfigured the zoneheader somehow. But I do not see how. Is
there anyone out there with a working knowledge of rbldns who can tell me
what I am doing wrong? It manages load load the whole dynablock zone in less
than 8MB (!), so it is worth trying to get to work, I'd say.

Thanks,

- Mark

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virus

2003-11-23 Thread Jackie S. McCracken
Somebody on this list has mimail virus could you all please scan your windows 
computers.  I've got about 100 of them in the last 4 days.  Hint I did NOT get any 
after yesterday morning until this morning so if your computer was off most of the day 
yesterday you're probably the one.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Jackie

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Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

Is there a way to mount a cdrom or  remote file systems using fstab 
but not having it crash out the system.  example if i have a nfs share 
set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i 
reboot  my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the share and 
will not allow me to do anything and i have to hook up a monitor and 
keyboard to get it back the same happens when there is an error on a 
cd rom

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Use the background (-b or bg) and interruptible (-i or intr) options, 
along with a reasonable timeout.  See
man mount_nfs for the specifics.

Scott

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Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
So if i set to noauto does it still get mounted or do i have to execute 
a command later

paul beard wrote:

On Nov 23, 2003, at 12:13 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

Is there a way to mount a cdrom or  remote file systems using fstab 
but not having it crash out the system.  example if i have a nfs 
share set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next 
time i reboot  my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the 
share and will not allow me to do anything and i have to hook up a 
monitor and keyboard to get it back the same happens when there is an 
error on a cd rom

make sure the entry on /etc/fstab is set to noauto: then the client 
won't try to mount the filesystem on boot.
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Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Simon Barner
Hi,

could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix
check'? Perhaps this will show some errors.

Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail
if you still can fix your problem).

Is the postfix daemon listening on port 25? Are you able to telnet
there:

% telnet localhost 25

Simon


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Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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Single-line paragraphs.

On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 13:03:47 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
 At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote:
 On Friday, 21 November 2003 at  9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote:
 vinum - list
 4 drives:
 D d State: up   Device /dev/da1s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)
 D c State: up   Device /dev/da2s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)
 D b State: up   Device /dev/da3s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)
 D a State: up   Device /dev/da4s1h  Avail: 0/8747 MB 
 (0%)

 1 volumes:
 V raid  State: down Plexes:   1 Size: 25 GB

 1 plexes:
 P raid.p0R5 State: init Subdisks: 4 Size: 25 GB

 4 subdisks:
 S raid.p0.s0State: emptyPO:0  B Size:   8747 MB
 S raid.p0.s1State: emptyPO:  512 kB Size:   8747 MB
 S raid.p0.s2State: emptyPO: 1024 kB Size:   8747 MB
 S raid.p0.s3State: emptyPO: 1536 kB Size:   8747 MB

 This doesn't agree with what you say above.  It also looks fine to
 me.

 My apologies, Greg. Quite right. I was messing with the system right
 before the response about sa4 device nodes in /dev. Once I made the
 da4 devices, then the disklabel worked. My mistake jumping the gun.

 One follow-up question if I may.

 I assume that the init process for a RAID5 takes quite some time,
 no? This has been in the init stage for 3 days. The vinum daemon is
 running as I can see it listed in ps -ax.

This is the init state, which means it needs initializing.  To
initialize, issue the 'init' command.  The state will change from
'init' to 'initializing', and the list command shows the progress of
the initialization.  This writes zeroes to the drives in parallel;
expect it to take an hour or two on drives of this size.

Greg
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Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003, Kent Hauser wrote:
Hi,

Is there some trick to using USB devices? I'm trying to access my Nikon 
coolpix 5000 (latest firmware PTP mode) from 4.9-STABLE with no luck.

I've found the easiest way to deal with digital cameras is to buy the
appropriate USB flash memory adapter.  They typically have an MSRP around
$20.00 US.  I also have a PCMCIA smartmedia adapter for my laptop that I
bought about three year ago when Linux support for USB was iffy at best.

Bill
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Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:31 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

So if i set to noauto does it still get mounted or do i have to 
execute a command later

sure, just use mount /mount/point If the fstab works now, you won't 
need to do anything else. There may be more sophisticated ways 
(automounters and such that mount the filesystem as you traverse into 
it) but I've never used them.

man 8 amd, for example.

DESCRIPTION
 Amd is a daemon that automatically mounts filesystems whenever a 
file or
 directory within that filesystem is accessed.  Filesystems are 
automati-
 cally unmounted when they appear to be quiescent.

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Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Jonas Manalive
 could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix
 check'? Perhaps this will show some errors.

No errors.

 Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail
 if you still can fix your problem).

A'ha! What do I do here to fix this? (I think I should have changed the
alias database from alias_maps = dbm:/etc/aliases to alias_maps =
hash:/etc/aliases - or should that be nis or netinfo?) Here is the
output:
--
Nov 23 14:44:12 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 81358 exit status 1
Nov 23 14:44:12 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov 23 14:45:12 ancient postfix/smtpd[81362]: fatal: unsupported
dictionary type: dbm
Nov 23 14:45:13 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 81362 exit status 1
Nov 23 14:45:13 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov 23 14:46:13 ancient postfix/smtpd[81363]: fatal: unsupported
dictionary type: dbm
Nov 23 14:46:14 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 81363 exit status 1
Nov 23 14:46:14 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov 23 14:47:14 ancient postfix/smtpd[81367]: fatal: unsupported
dictionary type: dbm
Nov 23 14:47:15 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 81367 exit status 1
Nov 23 14:47:15 ancient postfix/master[69957]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling



 Is the postfix daemon listening on port 25? Are you able to telnet
 there:
 
 % telnet localhost 25

Telnet'd with no problems.

 Simon

Best regards,

Jonas

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Re: booting freebsd and openbsd

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paulo Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot
 freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but
 does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I have to set any extra
 parameter?

Funny, I didn't think that should be a problem.
What partition type is OpenBSD creating?
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Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:02 am, Kent Hauser wrote:
 usbdevs sees the camera, as does gphoto2 --auto-detect. However, I'm
 unable to access the camera data with gphoto2 --auto-detect --summary (or
 via digikam or via konquerer). 

I used to use gphoto to read my photos, but these days I just have a compact 
flash card reader plugged in via usb, it lets you browse/view/copy your 
photos just like they were on a floppy, much easier, simpler, and faster. You 
can even write a script to automate it, so plugging in your usb card reader 
automounts your photos somewhere.


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Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I just had a crash, and upon reboot fsck displayed these gnarly
 errors that went by too quick for me to read, my different display
 lines settings loading on the console making it worse. So I thought,
 allright, just dmesg. Nothing about the errors there. /var/log/messages?
 nothing either. Don't these messages get logged anywhere? This is all
 I get..

They're usually interactive.

 (..)
 Nov 23 12:34:29 localhost kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
 Nov 23 12:34:29 localhost kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
 Nov 23 12:34:29 localhost kernel: ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled,
 rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging disabled
 (..)
 
 Thanks in advance for any help,

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Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
this is my fstabs file could you please explain where i enter and set 
values for the -R and -b options

# See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts
# of network filesystems before modifying this file.
#
# DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options Dump
Pass#
/dev/ad0s2b noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/ad0s1a /   ufs rw  1   1
/dev/ad0s4e /usrufs rw  2   2
/dev/ad0s3e /varufs rw  2   2
proc/proc   procfs  rw  0   0

#--
#remote mounts
#--
v21.higcoup.ca:/usr/src /mnt/v21.highcoup.ca/usr/src
nfs r noauto0   0
v21.higcoup.ca:/usr/local/ect /mnt/v21.highcoup.ca/usr/local/etc
nfs r noauto0   0

#--

Scott W wrote:

RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

Is there a way to mount a cdrom or  remote file systems using fstab 
but not having it crash out the system.  example if i have a nfs 
share set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next 
time i reboot  my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the 
share and will not allow me to do anything and i have to hook up a 
monitor and keyboard to get it back the same happens when there is an 
error on a cd rom

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Use the background (-b or bg) and interruptible (-i or intr) options, 
along with a reasonable timeout.  See
man mount_nfs for the specifics.

Scott

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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cordula's Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I've finally found the culprit with a traditional method:
   * md5 (binary from an uncompromised machine) on all files
   * reinstalling from scratch (not buildworld, but really
 installing from FTP)
   * md5 again and diff.

[snip]

 Ugh... system clean again at last. :)

You can't be sure.  The attacker probably put an suid binary somewhere
besides the normal system binaries, in which case it's still there and
you may still be vulnerable.  When you know you've been hacked, you
need to wipe the disk and *really* reinstall from scratch.  And be
very careful about what you restore from backups, too.
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while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
Hi all,

given how clearly you-all answered my query about 'hostname' (thanks folks) I 
thought I'd chance my luck.

so, let me get this straight...

in the IPv4 world there is this thing called DNS and domain names... I can buy 
my self a name off a name vendor - eg. bergen.org... I then get to own that 
name...  so, 
Question 1) where does the DNS record for that name reside? with my ISP? with 
the name vendor?

lets say I have a network and wish to name the boxen depending on the OS 
running on them thus...
microsoft.bergen.org
SCO.bergen.org
Sun.bergen.org

Question 2)
where do those DNSrecord reside?

Question3)
surely I'm breaking copyright or trademark laws here? whats to stop me being 
sued? for that matter, whats to stop vexatious litigation? and what about the 
name brokers? do they have legal responsibilities? and if I run DNS server on 
my network am I then a name provider for myself and have to worry about 
litigation?

Question4)
or to put it another way, what is the relationship between trademark control 
institutions and name brokers?


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Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
  I've finally found the culprit with a traditional method:
* md5 (binary from an uncompromised machine) on all files
* reinstalling from scratch (not buildworld, but really
  installing from FTP)
* md5 again and diff.
 
 [snip]
 
  Ugh... system clean again at last. :)
 
 You can't be sure.  The attacker probably put an suid binary somewhere
 besides the normal system binaries, in which case it's still there and
 you may still be vulnerable.  When you know you've been hacked, you
 need to wipe the disk and *really* reinstall from scratch.  And be
 very careful about what you restore from backups, too.

I've inherited a set of 280 1U rack mount boxes, and I am in the
process of reinstalling from scratch every single server. Started with
infrastructure (DNS and firewalls), then working down to every server
with a fresh FTP install from the first recovered box. Yes, newfs
everything, and recompiling _all_ binaries from scratch. I even
reconfigured VLANs on the switches to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks
like tcp hijacking, while ftp installing, and locked the subnets
to these racks until everything's restored.

The only backups were databases in SQL and LDIF format and lots of
text data. No binaries and no compromised sources to recover from.
Of course, the data could've been hacked too, but that would take
more time to fix.  I've only checked (and cleaned!) authorization
and authentication data so far.

Sometimes, small incidents trigger major reconfigurations. Good
that this happened before monday! ;)

Thank you.

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Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-23 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:16:50PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
  1.  The 'generic' removeable drive trays for IDE that use a normal IDE 
  controller (like attaching to the slave or secondary channel on most 
  onboard IDE), with another disk or device attached that's being used, do 
  not support removeable devices.  It's _extremely_ likely that you'll 
  hang the IDE bus.
 
 If there is only CD-ROM (which is almost never used) attached as 
 primary master and the removable disk attached as secondary master then 
 maybe I don't need to worry too much about that.

Just for the record I have the kind of setup you're talking
about - I successfully 'hot swapped' a 40Gb IDE disk using a hdd
caddy tray but there are caveats (mostly highlighted above) - using the
term 'hot swap' loosely here because it just doesn't feel too clever
doing it :P

I found the following:

- I could remove/reinsert the device only if it was originally in the machine on
  boot - this is fairly obvious I suppose.  Otherwise the device just
  doesn't show up.

- I could re-insert the device successfully but only if I'd umounted it
  first before removing it.

- Removing the disk without umounting produced random results -
  sometimes the disk could be re-inserted ok, other times not, as the
  previous poster mentioned the IDE controller appears to hang.

For the record iirc the disk was attached to the secondary ide
controller with a hdd and a cdrom drive on the first ide controller.

Best thing is to play - doesn't make as much noise (or smoke) as
hot-swapping PCI cards!

-- 
Jez Hancock
 - System Administrator / PHP Developer

http://munk.nu/
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order in fstab and md/mfs

2003-11-23 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello,

Today I noticed my mfs on /tmp not mounting properly, because of the order 
of the entries in fstab.
Mfs can't be mounted too early. Is this meant to be or should there be a 
second stage for this mount, just like nfs mounts which are deferred until 
after the network is up.

I saw it is documented in one line in 'man fstab', that order is 
important, but not many examples about this.

Running 5.2-BETA cvsupped today on P-II 400Mhz (UP), 256 MB, IDE.

Ronald.

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Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

this is my fstabs file could you please explain where i enter and set 
values for the -R and -b options

# See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic 
mounts
# of network filesystems before modifying this file.
#
# DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options 
DumpPass#
/dev/ad0s2b noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/ad0s1a /   ufs rw  1   1
/dev/ad0s4e /usrufs rw  2   2
/dev/ad0s3e /varufs rw  2   2
proc/proc   procfs  rw  0   0

#-- 

#remote mounts
#-- 

v21.higcoup.ca:/usr/src 
/mnt/v21.highcoup.ca/usr/srcnfs r 
noauto0   0
v21.higcoup.ca:/usr/local/ect 
/mnt/v21.highcoup.ca/usr/local/etcnfs r noauto
0   0

change this:
v21.higcoup.ca:/usr/src /mnt/v21.highcoup.ca/usr/src
nfs r noauto0   0

to:
v21.higcoup.ca:/usr/src /mnt/v21.highcoup.ca/usr/src
nfs   r,bg,intr   0   0

and likewise for the second NFS entry...you should still specifiy a 
timeout, but you'll have to decide on one..and the system will boot with 
those options with the NFS server down..

Scott



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mounting windows FS questions

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
Hi all,

I have a dual boot machine Win2k + BSD...

obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD.
can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows?

I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda 
dubious. why is this? is it possible to work around this?



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Re: order in fstab and md/mfs (extra info)

2003-11-23 Thread Ronald Klop
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:02:09 +0100, Ronald Klop 
ronald_at_echteman_dot_nl wrote:

Hello,

Today I noticed my mfs on /tmp not mounting properly, because of the 
order of the entries in fstab.
Mfs can't be mounted too early. Is this meant to be or should there be a 
second stage for this mount, just like nfs mounts which are deferred 
until after the network is up.

I saw it is documented in one line in 'man fstab', that order is 
important, but not many examples about this.

Running 5.2-BETA cvsupped today on P-II 400Mhz (UP), 256 MB, IDE.
It still fails with:
mfs: mdconfig (attach) exited with error code 1
Mounting /etc/fstab filesystems failed, startup aborted
Any hints? Same experiences?

Ronald.
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Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
Ooops...

I forgot the most important part of my question... IPv6

how does this all work under IPv6?  is the IPv6 domain name allocation as 
fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the 
restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6?  what are the 
likely gottchas?





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Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
 Question 1) where does the DNS record for that name reside? with my ISP? with 
 the name vendor?

Let's assume that the name is bergen.org.

bergen.org is stored in three places:
  * the registry for .org (http://www.pir.org/)
points bergen.org to a registrar.
  * the registrar pointed to by the registry
contains the name, along with your contact data,
and DNS nameservers.
  * the DNS nameservers for bergen.org will answer
queries to everything related to *.bergen.org.

The name vendor registers your name with a registrar, which
in turn registers the name with its registry (for org, its
PIR, for .com and .net it's VeriSign, and for ccTLDs like
.fr, .de. ,us, ... its the national registry for that country).

Now, the registry responsible for e.g. .org will use the
information stored to configure the DNS name servers for
.org by adding name server records for bergen.org. In
other words, the .org name servers are configured to
point to the DNS nameservers for bergen.org.

 lets say I have a network and wish to name the boxen depending on the OS 
 running on them thus...
 microsoft.bergen.org
 SCO.bergen.org
 Sun.bergen.org
 
 Question 2)
 where do those DNSrecord reside?

On the nameservers of bergen.org. These are the name servers
you configured at your registrar when you manage your domain.

 Question3)
 surely I'm breaking copyright or trademark laws here? whats to stop me being 
 sued? for that matter, whats to stop vexatious litigation? and what about the 
 name brokers? do they have legal responsibilities? and if I run DNS server on 
 my network am I then a name provider for myself and have to worry about 
 litigation?

You are totally responsible for respecting coyright and trademark laws.
Registrars (and registries) are not responsible for this. In the
agreements you electronically sign, you confirm that you are responsible
for the names that you choose.

If a company discovers that you've registered their name in your
name, they'll contact you (using the admin address contact that
you submitted at your registrar), and will require you to return
or give them this name. You would then agreen to a transfer of
domain to the company, if you think that their claim is justified.

But if you disagree, you'd enter a formalized procedure called
UDRP (Uniform Domain Resolution Policy) so solve the issue:
  http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
but be careful: nothing prevents a legal name owner for suing
you anyway, and you'll have to prove that you acquired/registered
the name in good faith. So don't register ibm.com [if it were
not already registered!] :-)

 Question4)
 or to put it another way, what is the relationship between trademark control 
 institutions and name brokers?

I don't know an answer to this. I'd just assume that there are no
relationships at all, and that you are responsible for the names
that you acquire, from whatever source (name brokers, or self
registration).

Of to put in another way: the domain namespace is not directly
related to the trademark, or registered mark namespace; but
generally, TM or (R)'s have precedence over DNS domain names.

You would need to seek legal assistance here, if you are not
sure about the status of a DNS name!

 Dr Paul van den Bergen
 Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
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telnet and ssh problem.

2003-11-23 Thread falaki
Hi Every body;
   I have a FreeBSD Server. It has telnet and ssh up. They work, but not
properly. When I ssh to the server or telnet from Linux shell by each
Enter I see the following message:

bash: \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007: bad substitution

  But when I telnet from Windows no such error is shown, but obviously
the terminal does not work properly, especially
when using things like less, vim and ...

I would be thankful if someone help me.

Yours,
Mohammad H. Falaki.

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vinum configuration

2003-11-23 Thread dave
Hello,
Trying to get vinum going on a 5.1 machine, with two IDE 40 gb hard
drives at the moment, two more will be added later once i know my setup is
working. Below are my disklabels for ad0s1 and ad1s1 as well as the vinum
configuration. I need to know if all of this is right and if not what is not
up? Also, how do i get the data from one drive to the other? As of now
drive2 is empty.
Thanks.
Dave.

#
# bsdlabel ad0s1 |more
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:   245760  10485764.2BSD 2048 16384 15368
  b:  1048295  281  swap
  c: 781561620unused0 0 # raw part, don't
edit
  d:   245760  12943364.2BSD 2048 16384 15368
  e:   204800  15400964.2BSD 2048 16384 12808
  f:  6291456  17448964.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
  g: 70119810  80363524.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
  h: 78156146   16 vinum


# bsdlabel ad1s1 |more
# /dev/ad1s1:
8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  b:  10485760  swap
  c: 781561620unused0 0 # raw part, don't
edit
  d:   245760  10485764.2BSD 2048 16384 15368
  e:   204800  12943364.2BSD 2048 16384 12808
  f:   204800  14991364.2BSD 2048 16384 12808
  g:  6291456  17039364.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
  h: 70160770  79953924.2BSD 2048 16384 28552

# more /etc/vinum.conf
drive Vinum1 device /dev/ad0s1h
volume root setupstate
plex org concat
sd len 245760s driveoffset 1048576s
volume home setupstate
plex org concat
sd len 70119810s driveoffset 8036352s
volume swap setupstate
plex org concat
sd len 1048295s driveoffset 281s
volume tmp setupstate
plex org concat
sd len 204800s driveoffset 1540096s
volume var setupstate
plex org concat
sd len 245760s driveoffset 1294336s
volume usr setupstate
plex org concat
 sd len 6291456s driveoffset 1744896s



# vinum
vinum - list
1 drives:
D Vinum1State: up   /dev/ad0s1h A: 38162/38162 MB
(100%)

6 volumes:
V root  State: up   Plexes:   1 Size:  0  B
V home  State: up   Plexes:   1 Size:  0  B
V swap  State: up   Plexes:   1 Size:  0  B
V tmp   State: up   Plexes:   1 Size:  0  B
V var   State: up   Plexes:   1 Size:  0  B
V usr   State: up   Plexes:   1 Size:  0  B

6 plexes:
P root.p0 C State: up   Subdisks: 0 Size:  0  B
P home.p0 C State: up   Subdisks: 0 Size:  0  B
P swap.p0 C State: up   Subdisks: 0 Size:  0  B
P tmp.p0  C State: up   Subdisks: 0 Size:  0  B
P var.p0  C State: up   Subdisks: 0 Size:  0  B
P usr.p0  C State: up   Subdisks: 0 Size:  0  B

0 subdisks:
vinum -
#


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Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote:

Hi all,

given how clearly you-all answered my query about 'hostname' (thanks folks) I 
thought I'd chance my luck.

so, let me get this straight...

in the IPv4 world there is this thing called DNS and domain names... I can buy 
my self a name off a name vendor - eg. bergen.org... I then get to own that 
name...  so, 
Question 1) where does the DNS record for that name reside? with my ISP? with 
the name vendor?

 

Well, the short version is there are several 'root servers' which anyone 
running BIND/DNS should laready have a list of- they are the initially 
consulted servers with respect to which servers are 'authoritative' for 
a given TLD(Top level domain, eg .com, .net, .edu, )

If you registered a .org domain, one of the TLD Domain servers for .org 
would be queried, and then down to your domain, eg bergen.org, which 
would point to who is registered as being Authoritative for the 
bergen.org domain.  This is generally handled when you register the 
domain name- you're given the option in many cases to have the registrar 
(eg, Network Solutions, GoDaddy.com (sucky name, but very inexpensive 
domain registrations), etc) handle DNS for your domain, or to specify 
your own name servers (which can be hosted by yourself, or someone that 
has agreed to providfe DNS services for your domain(s)).  In theory, and 
generally in practice, these changes can take up to ~12 hours or so to 
propgate, up to 48-72 hours to propogate your DNS records to the rest of 
the nameservers online. 

lets say I have a network and wish to name the boxen depending on the OS 
running on them thus...
microsoft.bergen.org
SCO.bergen.org
Sun.bergen.org

Question 2)
where do those DNSrecord reside?
 

On whomever is authoritative for the bergen.com domain.  type at a Unix 
prompt:
dig bergen.org

and you'll see the system ns.bergen.org is Authoritative for that 
domain...although you may want to do a 'dig bergen.com' for comparison :-)

Question3)
surely I'm breaking copyright or trademark laws here? whats to stop me being 
sued? for that matter, whats to stop vexatious litigation? and what about the 
name brokers? do they have legal responsibilities? and if I run DNS server on 
my network am I then a name provider for myself and have to worry about 
litigation?
 

This is  a grey area (surprise), with both the Trademark owners as well 
as the 'little people' winning in various cases.  AFAIK, I haven't seen 
anyone go to court over the hostname portion of their site- remember, 
'the Net as we know it' has now almost been reduced to simply 
ftp.domain.TLD and www.domain.TLD at this point, with 'the world at 
large' rarely using hostnames other than ftp or www.  Also, see:
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/help/legal-info.jhtml
and
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/help/domain-magistrate.jhtml
for some info on domain disputes, or Google for 'domain disputes'

Question4)
or to put it another way, what is the relationship between trademark control 
institutions and name brokers?
 

See above, it's still being figured out ;-)

Scott

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Re: telnet and ssh problem.

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Every body;
  I have a FreeBSD Server. It has telnet and ssh up. They work, but not
properly. When I ssh to the server or telnet from Linux shell by each
Enter I see the following message:
bash: \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007: bad substitution

 But when I telnet from Windows no such error is shown, but obviously
the terminal does not work properly, especially
when using things like less, vim and ...
I would be thankful if someone help me.

Yours,
Mohammad H. Falaki.
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Sounds like a classic terminal emulation issue.  On your Linux system, do:
export TERM=xterm
and then telnet or ssh in.  Let me guess, you're using a 'funky' 
terminal like GNOME Terminal or KTerm?

Scott

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Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Lowell Gilbert wrote:

You can't scroll the window back to the messages?

I just found out about Scroll Lock, checking better.. was convinced I 
had some sort of keyboard problem because Shft-PgUp never worked :). 
Well, tough luck.. I had already booted again, so the messages are gone.
It would be nice to have them logged.

Thanks,
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Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote:

Ooops...

I forgot the most important part of my question... IPv6

how does this all work under IPv6?  is the IPv6 domain name allocation as 
fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the 
restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6?  what are the 
likely gottchas?

 

Paul- AFAIK, IPv6 is in fact enabled/capable in BIND currently, but no 
one uses it- IPv6 will be a LONG time in coming to everyone, with the 
major challenge being a 'transition phase' where devices (routers for a 
prime example) are able to handle both ipv4 and ipv6...without that, 
ipv6 is useless outside of 'playing with it locally.'

This shouldn't have any effect on name registrations, they will just 
eventually map to both ipv4 AND ipv6 addresses..

Scott

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Re: mounting windows FS questions

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote:

Hi all,

I have a dual boot machine Win2k + BSD...

obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD.
can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows?
I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda 
dubious. why is this? is it possible to work around this?



 

Unsure if there's anything to mount BSD partitions from within Windows- 
I wouldn't be surprised, but as Windows uses broken/different 
permissions and file attributes, I wouldn't really want to do this.

For mounting Windows filesystems, you can mount fat/vfat/fat32 
partitions all day long read-write, but NTFS uses some sort of sequence 
IDs in their file attributes, which if ignored or screwed up, can cause 
serious issues on the filesystemso in short, I don't mount NTFS 
read/write ;-)

Scott

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Re: IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
 how does this all work under IPv6?  is the IPv6 domain name allocation as 
 fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the 
 restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6?  what are the 
 likely gottchas?

I don't know for sure here, so please take this with a grain of salt:

IPv6 addresses are represented by  instead of A records in
DNS nameservers. Right now, I think that you can only point
.org (and other [cc]TLD) nameservers to nameservers residing
on an IPv4 address [anyone correct me if I'm wrong here].
But you could always configure your nameservers (let's say
ns1.bergen.org, ns2.bergen.org) to return IPv6 addresses
to some names, by adding  records to them.

But since IPv6 names are not (yet) globally routed on the Internet,
this will have local meaning only (e.g. on an intranet).

Generally speaking: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are _never_
allocated by name brokers or DNS systems. They reside at
a much lower level, which has nothing to do with _names_.
If you connect to the Internet, your upstream provider(s)
will assign to you IPv4 address blocks automatically.
You would normally not be able to influence this, because
it is deeply intertwined with the routing protocols that
all network operators use to transmit data on the Internet.

You may ask how network operators get their IP address
blocks. Check out IANA: http://www.iana.org/  especially:
http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm

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Re: hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 23:01:21 +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
 Hi :)

 Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ?
 I don't need anything fancy, just something like hdparm -t under Linux.

  check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure the test files are
 at least the size of your RAM. Otherwise you'll be measuring the speed
 of the caching system, which is pretty fast on BSD.

Bonnie is for measuring system throughput, not disks.  Try rawio for
disks alone.

Greg
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Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
  microsoft.bergen.org
  SCO.bergen.org
  Sun.bergen.org

  Question3)
  surely I'm breaking copyright or trademark laws here? whats to stop me being 
 
 You are totally responsible for respecting coyright and trademark laws.
 Registrars (and registries) are not responsible for this. In the
 agreements you electronically sign, you confirm that you are responsible
 for the names that you choose.
 
 If a company discovers that you've registered their name in your
 name, they'll contact you (using the admin address contact that
 you submitted at your registrar), and will require you to return
 or give them this name. You would then agreen to a transfer of
 domain to the company, if you think that their claim is justified.
 
 But if you disagree, you'd enter a formalized procedure called
 UDRP (Uniform Domain Resolution Policy) so solve the issue:
   http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
 but be careful: nothing prevents a legal name owner for suing
 you anyway, and you'll have to prove that you acquired/registered
 the name in good faith. So don't register ibm.com [if it were
 not already registered!] :-)

The UDRP applies only to top level names, like bergen.  Using
trademarks from within your own domain name (as in SCO.bergen.org)
does completly fall within your responsibility. Technically, the legal
name owners could sue you for infrigement, but it's not clear how the
courts would decide on a case-by-case basis. Add to this widely
differing legislations all around the world, you're absolutely
uncertain here.

You should really seek legal advice to be sure.

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Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Will Prater
Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make 
sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as 
well?

Thanks

On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote:

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote:
List,

What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been
loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there
any others that you reccomend?
If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am
primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus,
saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin.
I would advise Nagios.

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Re: vinum configuration

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 19:15:30 -0500, dave wrote:
 Hello,
 Trying to get vinum going on a 5.1 machine, with two IDE 40 gb hard
 drives at the moment, two more will be added later once i know my setup is
 working. Below are my disklabels for ad0s1 and ad1s1 as well as the vinum
 configuration. I need to know if all of this is right and if not what is not
 up? Also, how do i get the data from one drive to the other? As of now
 drive2 is empty.

So is drive Vinum1 from Vinum's point of view.

 # more /etc/vinum.conf
 drive Vinum1 device /dev/ad0s1h
 volume root setupstate
 plex org concat
 sd len 245760s driveoffset 1048576s

You haven't told Vinum where to put the subdisk.  You must have
received an error message telling you about that.  The result is
correct:

 0 subdisks:
 vinum -

That's not your question, but I'm surprised it isn't.  

To your question: if you add a second plex, it'll come up in corrupt
or some such state.  With 'start plex.p1' (for example) you can bring
it up, which involves copying the data.

Greg
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RE: NEED_FIRST NEED_LAST

2003-11-23 Thread john
From one computer lab monitor to another, BSD is good stuff. I've recently
wiped my RH 9.0 machine to install BSD on the recommendation of one of my
professors and now most of the advanced lab machines are running it, much to
the delight of the users. 

Key points:
1.) The ports collection. Forget searching around the web for some package,
downloading it, ./configuring it, all that junk. With the bsd ports
collection, stored in /usr/ports, you cd to the directory of the application
you want to install and make install clean. Build and run dependancies are
checked and (more often then not) taken care of, and the program is
installed and integrated into your system. Same applies for deinstalling.
More info and a listing/search of current ports at freebsd.org/ports 

2.) Stability. freeBSD may not be the most cutting edge build out there,
considering it's unix, not linux (and thus requires linux emulation
packages), but it's probably one of the most stable and secure. 

3.) Community. I, for one, would get quite frustrated when looking for linux
info that pertained to MY SPECIFIC DISTRO. It wasn't enough to just search
for info on linux.. The community seems to be much more centralized and in
touch with the BSD community in my experience. 

Of course, I'm fairly newbie, so I'm sure there's a lot more info you can
get if you're looking for more advanced reasons. There's always freebsd.org
for you to peruse and look things up.

~john

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 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:08:14 -0600 (CST)
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 Hi, I am a student at Minot State University in Minot,ND. I 
 work in the
 computer lab and was noticing all the posters that we have up 
 are getting
 old and out dated. Some one mentioned to me FreeBSD (rocks). 
 I have never
 heard about freebsd so I was wondering do you have any 
 material that you
 could send me about FreeBSD. Maybe you could send me some posters to
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xcdroast + IDE drive possible?

2003-11-23 Thread Phoetoid
I was wondering if there is any way I can use xcdroast with an IDE
drive? I read something the other day about using atapicam in your
kernel to allow atapi devices to be used like scsi devices, but eh I
cant remember it!  Anyways, if anyone has tips on how to do this or
perhaps a suggestion for another X11 app to burn CD's please let me
know!

Thanks in advance

-phoetoid

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Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 It would be nice to have them logged.

Any serious errors will stop the fsck to prompt for what to do next,
so it's not as bad as it seems...
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Re: xcdroast + IDE drive possible?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Phoetoid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I was wondering if there is any way I can use xcdroast with an IDE
 drive? I read something the other day about using atapicam in your
 kernel to allow atapi devices to be used like scsi devices, but eh I
 cant remember it!  Anyways, if anyone has tips on how to do this or
 perhaps a suggestion for another X11 app to burn CD's please let me
 know!

Try man atapicam.

Also, ATAPICAM is discussed in the handbook.
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Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:51:30PM -0800, Jonas Manalive wrote:
  could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix
  check'? Perhaps this will show some errors.
 
 No errors.
 
  Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail
  if you still can fix your problem).
 
 A'ha! What do I do here to fix this? (I think I should have changed the
 alias database from alias_maps = dbm:/etc/aliases to alias_maps =
 hash:/etc/aliases - or should that be nis or netinfo?)

If you want to use the existing alias_map from sendmail in /etc/mail,
the entry should be:

alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases

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Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Will,

I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readable for other.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote:
 On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote:
 List,
 
 What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been
 loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there
 any others that you reccomend?
 
 If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am
 primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus,
 saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin.
 
 I would advise Nagios.

 Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make 
 sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as 
 well?
 
I don't *think* so.

You could write a sh script (or any other) that does this. It could
contain this line:
result=px aux | grep SomeDaemon | wc -l

If the result is zero than SomeDaemon is not running.


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5.0 vs. 5.1

2003-11-23 Thread john
I'm currently running 5.0 release and am wondering about the possible
positives/negatives of switching to another release, particularly 5.1
current. 

I'm running it as my work machine for programming and school type things,
side by side with my windows machine, so it's not *essential*, but I would
definitely like to eventually be done with windows all-together. Strangely,
I've never been able to get this system to boot to the sysinstall menu with
any 4.8 or 4.9 build, so provided I'm not just doing something horribly
stupid they're not an option. 

My end goals would be to have this machine see and be visible to my windows
network, set up email, ftp, and web servers, and have as much multimedia
functionality and windows program accessibility as possible.

~john


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Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:11:39AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote:
  On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
  On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote:
  List,
  
  What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been
  loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there
  any others that you reccomend?
  
  If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am
  primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus,
  saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin.
  
  I would advise Nagios.
 
  Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make 
  sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as 
  well?
  
 I don't *think* so.
 
 You could write a sh script (or any other) that does this. It could
 contain this line:
 result=px aux | grep SomeDaemon | wc -l
 
 If the result is zero than SomeDaemon is not running.

Alternatively you could just write a script that polls a number of
pid-files, one per daemon you want to monitor, and checks if the daemon
is still running - if not it restarts the daemon.

The gist of the script would be:

- for each pid, send a CHLD signal to the pid
- if the return code is 0, the process is still running so do nothing,
  otherwise restart the daemon

I've not used daemontools too much away from djbdns suite, but
presumably you could use supervise to do the work.

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Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
as usual, there has been a bit of a misunderstanding... being a loosely typed 
language, Engliosh is difficult to communicate in :-0

Names, addresses and DNS are obviously different things.

I understand where IPv6 addresses come from (sort of). 
I understand (sort of) how IPv6 works for DNS records relating names to IPv6 
addresses

what I was really asking is: in the IPv4 world, name brokers sell names that 
are then related to IPv4 addresses. Legality of the name choice etc. is 
generally owner onus... Is there a similar sort of (or coincident) naming 
authority for IPv6 based names?

example.

if I operate a network, boxen1.example.org, boxen2.example.org, etc., as an 
IPv4 address space and a second coincident network, boxen1.example6.org, 
boxen2.example6.org, etc., as an IPv6 based address space, where does the 
authority to allocate the IPv6-network based names reside? 

the technical side of it is clear... someone somewhere needs to keep a track 
of the names...

anyway, this is straying somewhat from the core subject matter of this list...


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:30 am, Cordula's Web wrote:
  how does this all work under IPv6?  is the IPv6 domain name allocation as
  fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the
  restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6?  what are
  the likely gottchas?

 I don't know for sure here, so please take this with a grain of salt:

 IPv6 addresses are represented by  instead of A records in
 DNS nameservers. Right now, I think that you can only point
 .org (and other [cc]TLD) nameservers to nameservers residing
 on an IPv4 address [anyone correct me if I'm wrong here].
 But you could always configure your nameservers (let's say
 ns1.bergen.org, ns2.bergen.org) to return IPv6 addresses
 to some names, by adding  records to them.

 But since IPv6 names are not (yet) globally routed on the Internet,
 this will have local meaning only (e.g. on an intranet).

 Generally speaking: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are _never_
 allocated by name brokers or DNS systems. They reside at
 a much lower level, which has nothing to do with _names_.
 If you connect to the Internet, your upstream provider(s)
 will assign to you IPv4 address blocks automatically.
 You would normally not be able to influence this, because
 it is deeply intertwined with the routing protocols that
 all network operators use to transmit data on the Internet.

 You may ask how network operators get their IP address
 blocks. Check out IANA: http://www.iana.org/  especially:
 http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm

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Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 23), Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto said:
 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 
 You can't scroll the window back to the messages?
 
 I just found out about Scroll Lock, checking better.. was convinced I 
 had some sort of keyboard problem because Shft-PgUp never worked :). 
 Well, tough luck.. I had already booted again, so the messages are gone.
 It would be nice to have them logged.

They should go into /var/log/console.

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Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Luke Kearney

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:43:11 +1100
paul van den bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:

 as usual, there has been a bit of a misunderstanding... being a loosely typed 
 language, Engliosh is difficult to communicate in :-0
 
 Names, addresses and DNS are obviously different things.
 
 I understand where IPv6 addresses come from (sort of). 
 I understand (sort of) how IPv6 works for DNS records relating names to IPv6 
 addresses
 
 what I was really asking is: in the IPv4 world, name brokers sell names that 
 are then related to IPv4 addresses. Legality of the name choice etc. is 
 generally owner onus... Is there a similar sort of (or coincident) naming 
 authority for IPv6 based names?
 
 example.
 
 if I operate a network, boxen1.example.org, boxen2.example.org, etc., as an 
 IPv4 address space and a second coincident network, boxen1.example6.org, 
 boxen2.example6.org, etc., as an IPv6 based address space, where does the 
 authority to allocate the IPv6-network based names reside? 
 
 the technical side of it is clear... someone somewhere needs to keep a track 
 of the names...
 
 anyway, this is straying somewhat from the core subject matter of this list...
 
 
 On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:30 am, Cordula's Web wrote:
   how does this all work under IPv6?  is the IPv6 domain name allocation as
   fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the
   restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6?  what are
   the likely gottchas?
 
  I don't know for sure here, so please take this with a grain of salt:
 
  IPv6 addresses are represented by  instead of A records in
  DNS nameservers. Right now, I think that you can only point
  .org (and other [cc]TLD) nameservers to nameservers residing
  on an IPv4 address [anyone correct me if I'm wrong here].
  But you could always configure your nameservers (let's say
  ns1.bergen.org, ns2.bergen.org) to return IPv6 addresses
  to some names, by adding  records to them.
 
  But since IPv6 names are not (yet) globally routed on the Internet,
  this will have local meaning only (e.g. on an intranet).
 
  Generally speaking: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are _never_
  allocated by name brokers or DNS systems. They reside at
  a much lower level, which has nothing to do with _names_.
  If you connect to the Internet, your upstream provider(s)
  will assign to you IPv4 address blocks automatically.
  You would normally not be able to influence this, because
  it is deeply intertwined with the routing protocols that
  all network operators use to transmit data on the Internet.
 
  You may ask how network operators get their IP address
  blocks. Check out IANA: http://www.iana.org/  especially:
  http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm
 
AFAIK domain names have little to do with your choice of IPV4 or IPV6. 
There can be only one registered owner of any given domain name and that
domain name space  could be either v4 or v6 at the discretion of the
owner. 

LukeK

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Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 23), paul beard said:
 For some reason, my locally installed snmp daemons decided to
 renumber the elements in the hrStorageTable, meaning all the attached
 disks were being either misreported or just plain dropped from my
 graphs (paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/index.html). Not that the new
 numbering doesn't make sense but I didn't know this was going to
 happen.
 
 How to discover and fix it? snmptable is my friend. As shown here,
 the memory used by the kernel is listed first, followed by the disks.
 The disks were numbered starting at 1 before . . . . .

I don't think snmp tables have any defined order.  I don't even know if
the index for a particular resource is guaranteed to be stable across
filesystem dismount/remounts.  Something like this should work:

snmptable -Cf : blue hrStorageTable | grep :/var: | awk -F : '{print $4 * $5}' 

I use something similar in a script to graph disk usage in mrtg.  It
sould be really nice if snmptable had a built-in flag to print a
particular cell from a table, though.

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Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
 if I operate a network, boxen1.example.org, boxen2.example.org, etc., as an 
 IPv4 address space and a second coincident network, boxen1.example6.org, 
 boxen2.example6.org, etc., as an IPv6 based address space, where does the 
 authority to allocate the IPv6-network based names reside? 

AFAIK, there is only one DNS system, which is designed to serve
names for both IPv4 and IPv6. It is the client who asks either
for A records (IPv4 resolution) or  records (IPv6 resolution),
from the SAME set of DNS servers.

Let's assume that you want to operate *.example.org as IPv4 and
*.example6.org as IPv6 networks. You would have two domains
in the .org TLD:

  example.org  - NS ns1.example.org
   - NS ns2.example.org

  example6.org - NS ns1.example6.org
   - NS ns2.example6.org

It is important to realize that ns1 and ns2 must resolve
to IPv4 addresses for both example.org and example6.org.

Now you could populate the DNS maps of ns{1,2}.example6.org
with  records holding IPv6 addresses, and the DNS maps
of ns{1,2}.example.org with A records, holding IPv4 addresses.

Nothing prevents you from doing both on the same domain!

  example46.org - NS ns1.example46.org
   NS ns2.example46.org

ns{1,2}.example46.org could contain both A and  records,
like, say:

  hybrid   A  some-ipv4-address
  hybrid      some-ipv6-address

The host hybrid.example46.org would have an IPv4 and an
IPv6 address (they don't need to overlap!).

Now the clients' resolver library would generally ask
for A records, if it should resolve hybrid.example46.org.
It would therefore obtain an IPv4 address from
ns{1,2}.example46.org for the host name hybrid.example46.org.

A client could still ask for IPv6 addresses, e.g.:

  % host -t  hybrid.example46.org (ask for IPv6 address)
  % host -t a hybrid.example46.org(ask for IPv4 address)
  % host hybrid.example46.org (same as host -t a ...)

 the technical side of it is clear... someone somewhere needs to keep a track 
 of the names...

You are responsible for keeping track of the names
under *.example.org, *.example6.org, *.example46.org.
There is no such thing as an IPv6[-only] domain name.

If you asked about PTR records, this would be more
interesting... [Hint: ip6.arpa.] ;-)

 anyway, this is straying somewhat from the core subject matter of
 this list...

Well, yes...

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Fwd: [bn@vastnet.co.uk: Re: Question]

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Nelson
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:47:14 -
From: VastNET [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000

GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type show copying to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type show warranty for details.
This GDB was configured as i386-unknown-freebsd...Deprecated bfd_read
called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c line
2627 in elfstab_build_psymtabs
Deprecated bfd_read called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c line
933 in fill_symbuf

IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x0074
initial pcb at physical address 0x00371000
panic messages:
---
dmesg: kvm_read: invalid address (c0365a98)
---
#0  0xc034d3e0 in sysctl___compat ()
(kgdb) where
#0  0xc034d3e0 in sysctl___compat ()
#1  0xc0389600 in sysctl__kern_children ()
#2  0xc03104fc in
__set_sysctl_set_sym_sysctl___vfs_nfs_nfsv3_commit_on_close ()
cannot read proc at 0
(kgdb)



 In the last episode (Nov 20), VastNET said:
  Hello!
 
  Do you know what's the reason of it? My machine is rebooting few times a
day.
 
  If answer is YES, what should I do?
 
  savecore: reboot after panic: page fault
  118savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0 || mb 0xc1818500 ||
mbcnt 2304
  118Nov 20 17:21:10 gateway savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0
|| mb 0
  xc1818500 || mbcnt 2304
  118savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0 || mb 0xc1818500 ||
mbcnt 2304
  118Nov 20 17:21:10 gateway savecore: reboot after panic: sbflush: cc 0
|| mb 0
  xc1818500 || mbcnt 2304

 Since if looks like you have crashdumps already enabled, follow the
instructions at

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PA
NIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
 , and let us see the stack trace that gdb prints.

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Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
 You are responsible for keeping track of the names
 under *.example.org, *.example6.org, *.example46.org.
 There is no such thing as an IPv6[-only] domain name.
 
 If you asked about PTR records, this would be more
 interesting... [Hint: ip6.arpa.] ;-)

The reference is:
  RFC 3596: DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6
  October 2003. http://www.rfc-editor.org/

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Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 6:00 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

I don't think snmp tables have any defined order.  I don't even know if
the index for a particular resource is guaranteed to be stable across
filesystem dismount/remounts.  Something like this should work:
My issue was that they shouldn't change once defined: otherwise, how 
can you reliably use something if it adopts different behavior with 
each new release/build?

After all, we're not talking about Windows here . . . .  ;-)

It would be useful if / were always 1, for example. It looks like, with 
the inclusion of RAM and swap in the table, / might be 3.

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Questions regarding use of 'gdb -k'

2003-11-23 Thread Kent Kuriyama
I am having difficulty in using 'gdb -k' to track down a kernel panic.  I 
have built a version of the kernel with the debugging symbols.  After 
the crash I use the 'gdb -k' command but get the following output:

--
chinmon1# gdb -k /data1/src/sys/compile/ata/kernel.debug /var/crash/kernel.29   
GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)  
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are  
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.  
Type show copying to see the conditions.  
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type show warranty for details.  
This GDB was configured as i386-unknown-freebsd...Deprecated bfd_read called a
t /data1/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c line
 2627 in elfstab_build_psymtabs  
Deprecated bfd_read called at /data1/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../co
ntrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c line 933 in fill_symbuf  

IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x
initial pcb at physical address 0x0048cee0

cannot read proc at 0
(kgdb) where   
#0  0x0 in ?? ()
(kgdb) exit   
Undefined command: exit.  Try help.
(kgdb) chinmon1#
--

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?  Thanks.

Kent Kuriyama
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