Re: burncd and cdrecord
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I backed some files up using burncd and cdrecord. The files burned fine. But the problem that I am having. Is that I am unabel to see the files. The command I used for burn cd was: burncd -f /dev/asc1c -s max -e data *.* fixate. And the command I used for cdrecord i baleve was: cdrecord dev=1,1,0 *.*. I am not sure the exact command I did for cdrecord. Because I only have 1,1,0 written down. I am using FreeBSD 4.9 and have a Hewlett Packard Cd-Writer Plus 9100 series. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dude, you need to create an iso first. Look at man 8 mkisofs Also take some time and look here at the handbook Section 12.5 http://www.au.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:42:56 PM Barry Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 4, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.2.1 - RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 It seems that I can no longer log into my system. Upon boot-up, the usually login appears. I enter my normal login and then my password. I am then greeted with this error message: BudMan login: pam_acct_mgmt(1): user account has expired Login Incorrect. Shortly afterwards I receive these error messages: BudMan cron[538] _secure_path: /usr/home/ges/.login_conf is not owned by root The last error message will repeat with the number getting progressively higher. This is a fresh install of FreeBSD. The only thing I added was KDE 3.2 today. Can anyone tell me what has happened and how do I get back into my system? Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gerard, I am having a similar issue logging in on 5.2.1-RC2, and it seems to have happened around the time I added a user and some groups using the KUser utility in KDE. All accounts, including root, are expired. My error message is: login: pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired Login Incorrect. Then, a bit later, I receive messages like the following: kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != ) kernel: psmintr: discard a byte(1) On a side note, the message really does display accound instead of account; it's not a typo of mine. Searches on the following phrases within the questions and newbies mailing lists produced no leads for me to research: 'pam_acct_mgmt(): user accound has expired' 'pam_acct_mgmt():' 'psmintr' Regards, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com ** Reply Separator ** Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:44:11 PM That is exactly what I was doing when this problem occurred. I am going to the KDE site and report this problem. It might be a bug of some sort. You might want to do the same if you have not all ready. As a side bar, in the master.passwd file, near the top, is an entry that includes: Charlie . Is it possible, or should I say, advisable to change that entry manually or just leave it as is? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- message separator - I had a similar problem when I upgraded from FBSD 4.9/KDE 3.14 to 4-stable/ KDE 3.2 ie: I could not su from a console window it would give me the account expired msg and if tried to change consoles by ctrl,alt, Fx I could not log in as root I could login as root from kdm I used Kuser and reset the passwords for root and my other 2 users and it started working again, I can su and login to other consoles as expected dont know if this helps as I am a newbee and most of the stuff that people are asking about is either way over my head or the answer I know comes directly from the hand book. Larry Hammer ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:16:36AM +, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote:
Hi all
I've cvsup with below supfile. After finished,
The file:/usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh say
# @(#)newvers.sh 8.1 (Berkeley) 4/20/94
# $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.44.2.29.2.15 2003/11/27
16:34:21 nectar Exp $
TYPE=FreeBSD
REVISION=4.8
BRANCH=RELEASE-p14
RELEASE=${REVISION}-${BRANCH}
VERSION=${TYPE} ${RELEASE}
Even I specificed date in supfile (the date is from Security
Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat), it's RELEASE-p14 not
RELEASE-p15. Why and how do I get previous branch of source
tree.
##
# My supfile.
##
*default host=cvsup2.jp.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr/local/etc
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs date=2004.02.04.18.01.18 tag=RELENG_4_8
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
What are you trying to do? You have specified a date to cvsup to, so
you'll get the contents of the source tree at that point in time. If
you want a later date, specify it, or just don't specify a date at all
if you want the latest revision on that branch.
Kris
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Re: Postfix install questions..
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From: Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:37 AM
Subject: RE: Postfix install questions..
Try changing the file master.cf
The first unhashed line with smtp, change the smtpd command {at the end of
the line}
into smtpd -v,
Then reload postfix, now you have more verbose logging and it could tell
you
what typo you probably made,
When that does not work, perhaps displaying your main.cf could help
Oh, dont forget to turn off the verbose logging again by removing the -v
from
the changed line ;)
cheers
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Kind regards,
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hackerscene
I got it. I needed to run postmap on main.cf after configuring it.
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Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?
Hi, Kris
My objective is I want to get FreeBSD security branch
( 4.8-RELEASE-p15 ) and as the Security Advisory in
www.freebsd.org
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc)
stated that source tree after 2004-02-04 18:01:18 is corrected
so I specified above date in supfile but still get only
4.8-RELEASE-p14. Why isn't it 4.8-RELEASE-p15 ?
TIA,
Pote
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar
08, 2004 at 07:16:36AM +, Supote
Leelasupphakorn wrote:
Hi all
I've cvsup with below supfile. After finished,
The file:/usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh say
# @(#)newvers.sh 8.1 (Berkeley) 4/20/94
# $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.44.2.29.2.15
2003/11/27
16:34:21 nectar Exp $
TYPE=FreeBSD
REVISION=4.8
BRANCH=RELEASE-p14
RELEASE=${REVISION}-${BRANCH}
VERSION=${TYPE} ${RELEASE}
Even I specificed date in supfile (the date is from
Security
Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat), it's RELEASE-p14 not
RELEASE-p15. Why and how do I get previous branch of source
tree.
##
# My supfile.
##
*default host=cvsup2.jp.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr/local/etc
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs date=2004.02.04.18.01.18 tag=RELENG_4_8
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
What are you trying to do? You have specified a date to cvsup
to, so
you'll get the contents of the source tree at that point in
time. If
you want a later date, specify it, or just don't specify a
date at all
if you want the latest revision on that branch.
Kris
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Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:39:04AM +, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi, Kris My objective is I want to get FreeBSD security branch ( 4.8-RELEASE-p15 ) and as the Security Advisory in www.freebsd.org (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc) stated that source tree after 2004-02-04 18:01:18 is corrected so I specified above date in supfile but still get only 4.8-RELEASE-p14. Why isn't it 4.8-RELEASE-p15 ? You're probably off by a few seconds or minutes. Just update to the head of the branch and you'll be fine. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine
Martin, I think this is an error for sure, because I tested what you told me and it appears that even with -s option antivir doesn't perform recursive scanning on the directories, which is its normal behaviour. Also I think that H+B are using some old function in their code that has been modified in 5.X and that is the reason for this problems.( We get precompiled binary and they are doing it on 4.X .. ) I installed 5.X installation over 4.X file system and the error was still present! Personally moved the directories I need to be scanned on different partition and this solved my problem , but they should fix that thing. Regards, George Swentek ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java installation: pdmu not found
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:31:23AM +0100, Sven Hohage wrote: I'm a newbie using FreeBSD - almost using 5.2 for some days as a server in my homelan(Pentium 3 700). So I'm not sure if my question is more likely to be thrown in the Newbies list. I tried to install the linux-sun-jdk14. Before that I updated the port because I couldn't find 1.4.2_02 on the sun website which was neeced by the distfinfo checksum. I made a portupgrade -a and the started as root with make install but the compilation process stopped very quickly with: cd /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14/work/j2sdk1.4.2_03 /usr/bin/find . -print | -pdmu -R root:wheel /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 -pdmu: not found *** Error code 127 Any hint is very welcomed. You've updated just the java/linux-sun-jdk14 port, but not the common code in /usr/ports/Mk that it relies upon. The problem you're seeing is a missing definition of the $(CPIO) variable that was added to the bsd.port.mk file. Attempting to update the ports tree piecemeal as you are doing is unlikely to be very productive: as well as problems with the core build system you'll also run into troubles where dependencies have been updated -- particularly shared libraries. The most effective way of keeping up to date is to cvsup the *whole* ports tree -- doing this regularly: say once a week, will not overtax even a low bandwidth connection such as a POTS dialup, although pulling down the distfiles for updated ports can be another matter. The easiest way to get going with cvsup is: # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui Then edit /etc/make.conf to set the following variables: SUP_UPDATE= yes # SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 SUPHOST=cvsup.XX.FreeBSD.org #SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile #DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile where the SUPHOST setting should be set to your local cvsup mirror. I've shown entries for cvsup'ing src and docs commented out, but you can use those as well, if you want. Then whenever you want to update your ports tree, just do: # cd /usr/ports # make update # make index and then portupgrade(1) to your heart's content. One (entirely optional) tip that can save you some bandwidth is to tell cvsup not to update the files INDEX (used on 4.x) and INDEX-5 (which 'make index' will replace anyhow). Do that by adding the lines: ports/INDEX ports/INDEX-5 to the /usr/sup/refuse file -- just create one if it doesn't exist already. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mounting
I know there is there a way to mount a cd-rom drive automagiclly on reboot. However i need to know how to do it so that if the cd is scratched or the drive is busted my machine will not hang up. Also i have the same problems with my nfs mounts if a machine goes down somewhere now of my other machines will reboot. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wierd time changes
I'm completely baffled by this one. When FreeBSD shuts down/reboots it changes the system clock. It *always* sets the hours to 20 and changes the minutes and seconds (but I haven't worked out a pattern for that), but the date stays the same (see /var/log/messages below) although I once saw it keep the time and date correct, but set the year back *four* years(!) but that was when the correct time was 22:mm:ss. If you look at the extract from /var/log/messages below, the time changes on the third line but it _doesn't_ change the system clock at that point; if I go into the BIOS, or boot WinXP (the box dual boots), when it reboots then the time is still correct. However, the next time I boot FreeBSD (whenever that may be) all the boot messages in /var/log/messages have the same timestamp (the same (incorrect) one as when it last shutdown) until the end of the boot sequence when the timestamp jumps forward ~20 seconds (which reflects the time it takes to boot). It is during the boot that it sets the system clock. Since I can't find anyone else reporting this (in the mailing lists or searching on Google) I guess it is some strange interaction with my BIOS. I have seen WinXP do this *once* when it crashed with a BSoD (I've had several BSoDs though). The m/b is an Asus A7M266-D running dual Athlon MP2800+ CPUs with BIOS version 1011 beta 3. The fact that it is a beta BIOS (needed for the MP2800 CPUs) maybe related. Even so, FreeBSD is storing the corrupted time somewhere and using it to set the system clock at the next boot. FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #10: Tue Jan 13 19:36:15 GMT 2004 I have since u/g to 5.2.1 and still have the same problem which occurs with both the GENERIC kernel and my customized kernel. Can anyone shed any light on this at all please? Needless to say it causes problems, especially when it changes the clock by several years!!! Thanks. Regards, Mark --- begin /var/log/messages --- Feb 11 16:17:28 redshift reboot: rebooted by root Feb 11 16:17:28 redshift syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: boot() called on cpu#1 Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: syncing disks, buffers remaining... 3 3 Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: done Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. [There was ~1 hour before the reboot into FreeBSD - first booted WinXP] Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #10: Tue Jan 13 19:36:15 GMT 2004 Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REDSHIFT Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: cd2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: cd2: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-305 1.05 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: cd2: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 16) Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: cd2: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Feb 11 20:19:10 redshift kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da1s1a Feb 11 20:19:28 redshift login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 -- end /var/log/messages - ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix install questions..
I got it. I needed to run postmap on main.cf after configuring it. No, you need to run postfix reload after changing master.cf or main.cf. Read the postmap man page for details on it's use. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISO files
Hi all, What does the second disc 2 ISO file contain? I am talking about release 4.9. Thank you, Ioannis Vranos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?
You're specifying a date string right down to the precise second that the patches were applied to the tree, which I think is confusing cvsup, and getting you the state of things just before the update. All you need to do is specify a date *after* the patches went into the tree, but before the next set of patches. Try: date=3D2004.02.05.12.00.00 The next commits to RELENG_4_8 were as a result of FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc, which went into the tree at 2004-03- 02 17:27:47 UTC so you're no danger of overshooting and getting 4.8-RELEASE-p16. Cheers, Matthew To... Matthew Recently, I used below supfile (date after corrected date stated in Security Advisory but I can't get the branch I would like to get (4.8-RELEASE-p15). Anyway I can get most updated branch version (4.8-RELEASE-p16). Is it the my system date/time issue ? *default host=203.170.198.61 *default base=/usr/local/etc *default prefix=/usr1 *default release=cvs date=2004.02.05.12.00.00 tag=RELENG_4_8 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all TIA, Pote Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:11:14AM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: [snip] Also i have the same problems with my nfs mounts if a machine goes down somewhere now of my other machines will reboot. Have you tried mounting with the -s option? Check the man page for soft. -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: why can't I get FreeBSD-RELEASE-p14 with this cvsup file ?
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:22:51AM +, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: You're specifying a date string right down to the precise second that the patches were applied to the tree, which I think is confusing cvsup, and getting you the state of things just before the update. All you need to do is specify a date *after* the patches went into the tree, but before the next set of patches. Try: date=3D2004.02.05.12.00.00 The next commits to RELENG_4_8 were as a result of FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc, which went into the tree at 2004-03- 02 17:27:47 UTC so you're no danger of overshooting and getting 4.8-RELEASE-p16. Recently, I used below supfile (date after corrected date stated in Security Advisory but I can't get the branch I would like to get (4.8-RELEASE-p15). Anyway I can get most updated branch version (4.8-RELEASE-p16). Is it the my system date/time issue ? *default host=203.170.198.61 *default base=/usr/local/etc *default prefix=/usr1 *default release=cvs date=2004.02.05.12.00.00 tag=RELENG_4_8 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all Shouldn't be. The date is passed to the cvsup server, and it's the cvsup server's clock which would be used (if needed: the cvsup server will be comparing timestamps written into the CVS ,v files in the repository) -- as you seem to be using your own private cvsup server rather than one of the FreeBSD ones, check with the admins of that machine to be sure that the clock is set correctly. Note that if your system clock on your own machine is not set correctly, then while you can cvsup(1), you'll probably have all sorts of trouble actually compiling. About the only thing I can think of that may be affecting you is that cvsup may not believe it 'owns' all of the files under /usr/src -- see http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt and the following questions 11 and 12. The instructions date back a few years, but it should be fairly obvious how to adapt them for RELENG_4_8. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ISO files
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:22:34PM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote: What does the second disc 2 ISO file contain? I am talking about release 4.9. That's the 'Live Filesystem' CD -- it's a bootable CD with a fully working of the OS which you can use to fix systems /in extremis/. You don't need it during the normal course of installing the system: only when things go horribly wrong. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. Or, alternatively, we could just put a URL to the documentation... -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBsd and SCO
HI Jez Thanks for the quick Responce answer and the helpful and informitive link. Thanks again Ray From: Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Raymond Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBsd and SCO Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:47:38 + On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:06:32PM +, Raymond Wiegand wrote: I have a question for you ? I purchased FreeBSD from COMP USA and was wondering that seeing that SCO is going after Linux Users will they be going after BSD user next or is BSD not at all based on their kernal or what every they claim is theirs property. See here: http://www.lemis.com/grog/sco.html especially: http://www.lemis.com/grog/sco.html#BSD -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging _ Find things fast with the new MSN Toolbar includes FREE pop-up blocking! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200414ave/direct/01/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:06:38 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible handbook. ...which is why I always tell friends who ask about installing FreeBSD to print the relevant Handbook sections (and read them, and ask questions about what they've read) in advance so the information will be sitting there in front of them. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ISO files
-Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:38 PM To: Ioannis Vranos Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: ISO files On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:22:34PM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote: What does the second disc 2 ISO file contain? I am talking about release 4.9. That's the 'Live Filesystem' CD -- it's a bootable CD with a fully working of the OS which you can use to fix systems /in extremis/. You don't need it during the normal course of installing the system: only when things go horribly wrong. Cheers, Matthew Ok, thanks a lot. Ioannis Vranos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO files
Hi, it just contains additional binary packages. Frank Hi all, What does the second disc 2 ISO file contain? I am talking about release 4.9. Thank you, Ioannis Vranos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd and cdrecord
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I backed some files up using burncd and cdrecord. The files burned fine. But the problem that I am having. Is that I am unabel to see the files. The command I used for burn cd was: burncd -f /dev/asc1c -s max -e data *.* fixate. And the command I used for cdrecord i baleve was: cdrecord dev=1,1,0 *.*. I am not sure the exact command I did for cdrecord. Because I only have 1,1,0 written down. I am using FreeBSD 4.9 and have a Hewlett Packard Cd-Writer Plus 9100 series. The *.* in the above should be a prepared image of an ISO-9660 filesystem -- not just a set of ordinary files as they come. You need to make the image using mkisofs. Have a look at the man page. You might find the example script /usr/share/examples/worm/makecdfs.sh a useful starting point although not exactly what you want as it actually creates a bootable CD. If you have an ATAPI CD drive then burncd is straightforward and works well without the complication of atapicam. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: Installation - More user friendly]
Hello everybody. Ive been reading all comments onthis subject and just wanted to add my opinion. A couple of months ago i was only using windows. Only for downloading stuff and listen to music. My windows skills extended only to install windows and applications, I never messed with regedit or whatever its called. So I have a very limited os experience/skills. However I got sick of microsoft and wanted to try something else and I stumbled on FreeBSD. Without much reading of the handbook I found it quite simple to install. Even configuring X was no problem. My biggest problem was that I didnt know my hardware, monitor specs and so on. I did the installation a couple of times to practice and I havent had any big problems at all with sysinstall. After that I tried to install Debian Linux and found it more difficult. It was after installing FreeBSD my problems started, to configure things. Now I need to spend a lot of time, that I dont have (according to my girlfriend), reading the handbook (which I sometimes find confusing) and searching other sites for information. Also choosing apps is complicated, which to choose?!. So my conclusion is that installation is no problem, the handbook told me everything I needed to know. If somebody wants an OS and at the sametime learn it thoroghly FreeBSD is perfect but it will take some reading. I want to learn. If I wanted to be up and going quickly and only klicking my way through, I would stick to XP. I have also tried Mandrake, it is easy to install but one must still read and learn if you only know windows. So I go for FreeBSD to learn thoroughly (not popular with my girlfriend). I hope I havent insulted anyone or anything (except micro.). Kind regards Nicolas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAKEDEV question
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 02:09, Stephen Liu wrote: - snip - # grep ppc0 /var/run/dmesg.boot ppc0 port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/7 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 I suppose lpt0 is supported. If your kernel detects it it will be listed in the dmesg: lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Hi Kris, Turned on printer to make following tests # dmesg . ppbus0: HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C MLC,PCL,PML plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 .. ls -l /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Mar 8 22:48 /dev/lpt0 It is there. I skipped following steps 1) # ./MAKEDEV port and 2) # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 (to set interrupt-driven mode for lpt0) and 3) # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 (to set polled-mode for lptN) Jumped to; # lptest /dev/lpt0 only strange symbols printed and printing continued without stop until I removed the paper tray. Communication between printer and port seemed working It could be that your printer does not understand plain ascii text. What is the make and model. The other possibility is that there is something wrong in the communications path -- a dud or incorrectly wired cable. Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cross-compiling
Hi all, I have a litte problem. I try to compile the world and the kernel for my sparc64 on a Athlon 700MHz. The buildmachine is FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE ant the Sparc sould be 5.2.1-RELEASE. I cvsup the source into /usr/5.2. I change to 5.2/src and start the build: make -DNO_KERBEROS TARGET_ARCH=sparc64 buildworld But I read that I should use ARCH=sparc64. But all my buildings doesnt work. So I use the next: make -DNO_KERBEROS TARGET_ARCH=sparc64 CPUTYPE=sparc64 buildwold All the same. I mounted /usr/5.2 to /usr/5.2 on the Sparc64 and do a make -DNO_KERBEROS installworld I also try: make -DNO_KERBEROS TARGET_ARCH=sparc64 installworld On every install I become the following error: - cut - bash-2.05b# make -DNO_KERBEROS installworld mkdir -p /tmp/install.i17oPcSk for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown date echo egrep find grep ln make mkdir mtree mv pwd_mkdb rm sed sh sysctl test true uname wc zic; do cp `which $prog` /tmp/install.i17oPcSk; done cd /usr/5.2/src; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj MACHINE_ARCH=sparc64 MACHINE=sparc64 CPUTYPE= GROFF_BIN_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/legacy/usr/bin GROFF_FONT_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/legacy/usr/share/groff_font GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/legacy/usr/share/tmac PATH=/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/legacy/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/legacy/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/legacy/usr/games:/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/5.2/src/sparc64/usr/games:/tmp/install.i17oPcSk make -f Makefile.inc1 reinstall -- Making hierarchy -- cd /usr/5.2/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy cd /usr/5.2/src/etc;make distrib-dirs mtree -deU -f /usr/5.2/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist -p / mtree -deU -f /usr/5.2/src/etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var mtree -deU -f /usr/5.2/src/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist -p /usr mtree -deU -f /usr/5.2/src/etc/mtree/BSD.include.dist -p /usr/include mtree -deU -f /usr/5.2/src/etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist -p / cd /; rm -f /sys; ln -s usr/src/sys sys cd /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-1; ln -sf ../man* . cd /usr/share/man; set - `grep ^[a-zA-Z] /usr/5.2/src/etc/man.alias`; while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do rm -rf $1; ln -s $2 $1; shift; shift; done cd /usr/share/openssl/man; set - `grep ^[a-zA-Z] /usr/5.2/src/etc/man.alias`; while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do rm -rf $1; ln -s $2 $1; shift; shift; done cd /usr/share/openssl/man/en.ISO8859-1; ln -sf ../man* . cd /usr/share/nls; set - `grep ^[a-zA-Z] /usr/5.2/src/etc/nls.alias`; while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do rm -rf $1; ln -s $2 $1; shift; shift; done -- Installing everything.. -- cd /usr/5.2/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 install === share/info === include creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh touch: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/5.2/src/include. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/5.2/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/5.2/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/5.2/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/5.2/src. bash-2.05b# - cut - What is the problem or what I doesnt understand? Regards, Soeren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simplifying FreeBSD Installation
I have read a few posting regarding the FreeBSD installation procedure. I thought that I might as well weigh in with my own comments since I am fairly new to FreBSD, although I have been using computers since 1984 (good old DOS). 1) The installation procedure is not as polished as say that of WinXP, but that is to be expected. It has been pointed out by others that while the routine does offer many useful configuration options, it fail to fully explain them to the user. The often-stated remark Read the Directions or words to that effect are not truly germane to this issue. The average user simply wants to plunk a disc into his computer and install an OS with minimum input. 2) While network support is robust, it is not easily configured within the OS. There are few if any wizards to guide the user. I have a simple home networking system. Three computers - 2 = WinXP 1 = FreeBSD 5.2.1 - up and running. They are connected via a hub and then to a router connected to a cable modem. It is not the most modern setup I agree, but it is functional. Just to get FreeBSD to do a correct DHCP took a custom script for the dhclient.conf file that someone was kind enough to give me. Then getting the three computers to actually network together is another story. Say what you want about networking, but since MS is the most used OS available today, it would behoove FreeBSD to have in place a system to routinely network with MS and not have to install additional software and then be forced to reconfigure all of the computers to work with it. I can attest to the fact that most individuals do not have the time or inclination to go about that chore. 3) From what I have been able to deduce, the packages available from FreeBSD are not as current as the ports collection. Downloading something like Open Office or the complete KDE 3.2 suite and then installing it from ports is not something most users would envy. It is a time consuming and possible tedious venture. The packages should be kept as current as the ports. 4) The installation procedure should offer the user a method of starting KDE, Gnome or whatever automatically upon boot-up. Having to do it all manually, whether adding the commands to the proper files or simply using the command line is not good enough. The average user has little time or patience to read through the XFree86 literature in addition to the KDE or Gnome paraphernalia then go through the configuration process which requires him/her to know specific monitor, and video card settings, etc to get the system up and running. This does not even include the additional effort of getting a 'wheel mouse' or 'optical mouse' properly configured. As we are all too well aware of, such problems rarely occur in the Microsoft OS. In any case, at least the latest versions. 5) Most non-Microsoft operating systems are three to five years, if not more, behind in PNP technology. It is something that all non Microsoft OS vendors should place greater effort on improving. 6) Greater effort should be put into getting the operating systems more fully aware of various ACPI procedures used by various vendors. I have seen when FreeBSD fails to use ACPI on several models of Compaq computers even though MS has no such deficiency. The often-stated remark that MS is simply working around a bug in the code is a cop-out by the developers. If MS can work around a bug, so can other vendors. 7) The bottom line is that if FreeBSD or any other OS vendor wants to become truly mainline, they have to get their products to work on the same platform and perform as easily as Microsoft's operating system does. Once they have reached that plateau, they can then proceed to improving on their overall product features and usability. Well that is enough of my ramblings. I just though that I might add my 2 cents to the mix. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portupgrade and binary packages
Hi everyone, I recently tried to switch from compiling everything myself from ports, to use portupgrade -PP package_name. However, after having run CVSUP on my ports tree, I run into the problem, that the binary packages from ftp.something.freebsd.org are far behind the version in the portstree. After a little bit of digging, I found out that ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/ has much newer binary packages. However it stills is a bit behind? What is the solution to this problem, or is there none? I would really like to avoid compiling things... Cheers, -- Michael Birkmose ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend MTA
Postfix is just as good, faster and free... without the quotes. search daemonnews for some good postfix articles. David Benfell wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 16:13:31 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote: Actually I'm a bit surprised that things didn't go with Qmail. Not only is it everything Postfix aspires to be, it has a zillion hours of runtime under its belt. Its been at the 1.03 release forever because there hasn't been anything to fix. If I had one complaint it would be to do an integration pass over the various pop3/imap/ssl/etc modifications to create an integrated pop3/mta that could allow for roaming delivery out of the box. First, Qmail is available via the port system. The installation does everything right. It is nice. It is painless. I run it. I wouldn't run anything else. It is what works for me. Some people, however, can't get along with Qmail's configuration. I don't know why. But I can't criticize, since I can't grok Postfix's configuration, let alone Sendmail's. But the main reason distributions don't offer Qmail as part of their standard installation, or even as an option on the installation, is because Dan Bernstein forbids the distribution of binaries or even patched sources. (The port fetches the source and then fetches any patches, separately.) He has his own license, which is not a free software license. (Irritating side question: Should this be an FAQ?) Finally, there are now some recommended patches. If you look at Life With Qmail, you'll find that the recommended installation procedure uses netqmail rather than vanilla qmail. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question on installing printer
Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD 5.2 I am now configuring printer and aware that 'MAKEDEV' has been replaced with 'devfs' According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 No, devfs should recognize the device on its own, without your having to do anything. Is there a /dev/lpt0 already? Also, see man devfs. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend MTA
* Are you concerned about security? sendmail is a big monolithic SUID-root programs, while postfix is a set of isolated processes/programs, so postfix _may_ be a better alternative. please don't post false/outdated information. Sendmail 8.12.* is SGID to a non-privilleged user only. this was released in September 2001. 8.12.2 was included in CURRENT in February 2002. 8.12.2 was included in STABLE in March 2002. Oops, you were right: % ls -l /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 587896 Mar 7 11:35 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail Sorry. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running Linux binaries
Hi all. I'm trying to run a Linux binary in FreeBSD 5.2. I have Linux compat installed and kld module linux.ko loaded I'm getting this error message: $ ./breve ./breve: error while loading sharing libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory It looks like it need libglut.so.3. I have it. I copy it from /usr/X11R6/lib to /compat/linux/lib and try to run the binary again: $ ./breve ./breve: error while loading sharing libraries: libglut.so.3: ELF file OS ABI invalid I tried branding it as written in Handbook but it changes nothing. Is there any way to use FreeBSD libraries to run Linux binaries or I have to get the Linux versions of them? And how to cross-compile libraries if i have sources? And the last question. If a binary uses a Linux proc filesystem will it be anought to mount linprocfs to /compat/linux/proc Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup mirror updates failing
ONe of my cvsup mirros is suddenly getting errors like this: SetAttrs ports/sysutils/lire/Makefile,v TreeList failed: Error in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client/cvs-all/checkouts.cvs : 124218: Invalid file type. Delete it and try again. CVSup update ends at 2004-03-08 07:41:16 What is this trying to tell me? And how do I fix this? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Simplifying FreeBSD Installation
Hi there, I understand what you're getting at, but I think that you may be overlooking one important fact: FreeBSD is developed by people with a passion for the operating system, who want nothing more than to make it the best they can. They volunteer their time to the project, foregoing financial renumeration and accolades, simply because they see potential in a project grown from the ground up by people who love it. You compare FreeBSD to Microsoft, but they're fundamentally different operating systems. I agree with you that perhaps the installation procedure should be more user friendly, but there are other areas where FreeBSD is MUCH stronger than Windows. I have yet to see a Windows machine outperform any of my FreeBSD servers under load... That said, if you believe that FreeBSD needs work, why not get involved and help to make it better? I have no doubt that there are other people interested in improving the same areas as you, so why not lend a hand and improve FreeBSD, so that everyone can benefit? :) That's _my_ 2c, Marc -Original Message- From: Gerard Seibert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:05 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Simplifying FreeBSD Installation I have read a few posting regarding the FreeBSD installation procedure. I thought that I might as well weigh in with my own comments since I am fairly new to FreBSD, although I have been using computers since 1984 (good old DOS). 1) The installation procedure is not as polished as say that of WinXP, but that is to be expected. It has been pointed out by others that while the routine does offer many useful configuration options, it fail to fully explain them to the user. The often-stated remark Read the Directions or words to that effect are not truly germane to this issue. The average user simply wants to plunk a disc into his computer and install an OS with minimum input. 2) While network support is robust, it is not easily configured within the OS. There are few if any wizards to guide the user. I have a simple home networking system. Three computers - 2 = WinXP 1 = FreeBSD 5.2.1 - up and running. They are connected via a hub and then to a router connected to a cable modem. It is not the most modern setup I agree, but it is functional. Just to get FreeBSD to do a correct DHCP took a custom script for the dhclient.conf file that someone was kind enough to give me. Then getting the three computers to actually network together is another story. Say what you want about networking, but since MS is the most used OS available today, it would behoove FreeBSD to have in place a system to routinely network with MS and not have to install additional software and then be forced to reconfigure all of the computers to work with it. I can attest to the fact that most individuals do not have the time or inclination to go about that chore. 3) From what I have been able to deduce, the packages available from FreeBSD are not as current as the ports collection. Downloading something like Open Office or the complete KDE 3.2 suite and then installing it from ports is not something most users would envy. It is a time consuming and possible tedious venture. The packages should be kept as current as the ports. 4) The installation procedure should offer the user a method of starting KDE, Gnome or whatever automatically upon boot-up. Having to do it all manually, whether adding the commands to the proper files or simply using the command line is not good enough. The average user has little time or patience to read through the XFree86 literature in addition to the KDE or Gnome paraphernalia then go through the configuration process which requires him/her to know specific monitor, and video card settings, etc to get the system up and running. This does not even include the additional effort of getting a 'wheel mouse' or 'optical mouse' properly configured. As we are all too well aware of, such problems rarely occur in the Microsoft OS. In any case, at least the latest versions. 5) Most non-Microsoft operating systems are three to five years, if not more, behind in PNP technology. It is something that all non Microsoft OS vendors should place greater effort on improving. 6) Greater effort should be put into getting the operating systems more fully aware of various ACPI procedures used by various vendors. I have seen when FreeBSD fails to use ACPI on several models of Compaq computers even though MS has no such deficiency. The often-stated remark that MS is simply working around a bug in the code is a cop-out by the developers. If MS can work around a bug, so can other vendors. 7) The bottom line is that if FreeBSD or any other OS vendor wants to become truly mainline, they have to get their products to work on the same platform and perform as easily as Microsoft's operating system does.
Re: Simplifying FreeBSD Installation
Some comments on your comments. Skipping lots. 1) The installation procedure is not as polished as say that of WinXP, but that is to be expected. It has been pointed out by others that while the routine does offer many useful configuration options, it fail to fully explain them to the user. The often-stated remark Read the Directions or words to that effect are not truly germane to this issue. I agree that the initial install time descriptions are weak in many places. When you come upon a choice and the built in help only says make a choice between whatever the listed items are and doesn't give any information about why one might want to choose one or another of the choices, it isn't much help.Now, I have noticed this same failing in MS installation help, but then it doesn't matter so much because you don't really have a choice there anyway. You're stuck with whatever you are preordained for. MS believes in predestination and they are god you know. 2) While network support is robust, it is not easily configured within the OS. There are few if any wizards to guide the user. I have a simple home networking system. Three computers - 2 = WinXP 1 = FreeBSD 5.2.1 - up and running. They are connected via a hub and then to a router connected to a cable modem. It is not the most modern setup I agree, but it is functional. Just to get FreeBSD to do a correct DHCP took a custom script for the dhclient.conf file that someone was kind enough to give me. Then getting the three computers to actually network together is another story. Say what you want about networking, but since MS is the most used OS available today, it would behoove FreeBSD to have in place a system to routinely network with MS and not have to install additional software and then be forced to reconfigure all of the computers to work with it. I can attest to the fact that most individuals do not have the time or inclination to go about that chore. It might help to have some wizards for network setup, but in the FreeBSD world, the network topologies are many and varied. So, just doing a MS predestination trick and creating a wizard that limits you to someone's narrow idea of a network would cause more trouble than just learning how to do it right. A couple of wizards to do a couple of very basic, no extras setups for say a dialup and a NIC hookup to an existing and well functioning lan might be useful, but FreeBSD goes so much beyond that that it leaves the world of wizards far behind. 3) From what I have been able to deduce, the packages available from FreeBSD are not as current as the ports collection. Downloading something like Open Office or the complete KDE 3.2 suite and then installing it from ports is not something most users would envy. It is a time consuming and possible tedious venture. The packages should be kept as current as the ports. I have downloaded a number of freeware things in the MS world from places like Tucows.com and Download.com and have also downloaded the precompiled package of openoffice from http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ and found the amount of effort to be about the same. I did need to know a little more about my directory paths doing the openoffice install, but otherwise it was no more than doing the ftp and running pkg-add on the downloaded file and then running the setup program. Those are exactly the same steps I would have to take to install some piece of MS world freeware. Plus, somewhere in the installation, maybe it was in the XFree86 setup, I don't remember, it offered me the choice of preferred windows manager and it installed and did real basic setups for both afterstep and KDE for me with no problem. It also offered Gnome, but that was just too much overkill for me the last time I tried it so I didn't bother with that. Later, I wanted to tinker with my afterstep, so I had to learn where to find some stuff, but gee whiz, not everyone is a dumb as you seem to think they are. 4) The installation procedure should offer the user a method of starting KDE, Gnome or whatever automatically upon boot-up. The installation procedure gives the oportunity to install and prepare some generic windows manager plus Afterstep whose simplicity I prefer for most things (though I do wish it had anchors for each window I open), as well as the desktop managers KDE and Gnome.It seems to happily install them and all the related dependancies with only the effort of clicking the selection boxes. As for starting them upon boot-up, that isn't a very good idea. As you must be aware by now, when you first boot up FreeBSD, no one is logged in. A user must log in to begin any work on the machine. You can modify a login session to start up one of these things if you want although having the user type startx is not much of a strain either. Whether you leave it as startx or put something in .login or whatever bash place it would have to go, the ability for each
Re: cvsup mirror updates failing
On Monday 08 March 2004 06:31 am, stan wrote: ONe of my cvsup mirros is suddenly getting errors like this: SetAttrs ports/sysutils/lire/Makefile,v TreeList failed: Error in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client/cvs-all/checkouts.cvs : 124218: Invalid file type. Delete it and try again. CVSup update ends at 2004-03-08 07:41:16 What is this trying to tell me? And how do I fix this? It looks like cvsup doesn't like a line in your cvs-mirror's checkouts.cvs;. file. It is a text file. You can edit it and remove the line and try to update your mirror. There have been times when people have deleted their checkouts file. The next mirror update goes pretty slow but works. I was trying to update my mirror with a -s option on cvsup but it didn't save anytime, so I removed the option. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAKEDEV question
- snip - I skipped following steps 1) # ./MAKEDEV port and 2) # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 (to set interrupt-driven mode for lpt0) and 3) # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 (to set polled-mode for lptN) Jumped to; # lptest /dev/lpt0 only strange symbols printed and printing continued without stop until I removed the paper tray. Communication between printer and port seemed working It could be that your printer does not understand plain ascii text. What is the make and model. The other possibility is that there is something wrong in the communications path -- a dud or incorrectly wired cable. Hi Malcolm, FreeBSD 5.2 Printer HP Desktop 690c === Thanks for your response. I missed steps 2) and 3) mentioned above. I performed further test as follows; step-2 # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 step-3 # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 both without printout rebooted PC because having got printer turned on. The later could not be detected with 'dmesg' ** how can I detect the printer to avoid 'reboot' ?? After reboot # dmesg Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C MLC,PCL,PML plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 # ls -l /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Mar 9 01:17 /dev/lpt0 Repeated step-2 and step-3 above (also no printout) # lptest /dev/lpt0 One line printed on 1st paper as follow; !#$%'()* +,-./0123456789:;=[EMAIL PROTECTED] It seemed OK but feed-in paper continued with 'no_paper' light on (I put only 1 paper in the tray) B.R. satimis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GUI for user authentication
My company is moving to our web services Verio which uses FreeBSD on their servers. They do not provide a GUI for securing directories from unauthorized access (htaccess). Is there a GUI application that you recommend or that is preferred by the FreeBSD community? Any help or advice would be appreciated. Out previous web hosting company provided one and I'm lost without it. Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. Or, alternatively, we could just put a URL to the documentation... That works if it can read locally, can sysinstall handle html? If it must go out to the net, can it do that?Probably not at that stage. Many of us can not afford to have an extra machine around to read online documentation while doing an install. The install is on the only machine we have. Of course, I know some of you are flush with extra HW just setting around just waiting to do some browsing, but I for one, find food and even housing to be important expenses that need to be covered. jerry -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question on installing printer
- snip - According to handbook I should run # ./MAKEDEV lpt0 (para port) whether to be replaced with # ./devfs -m lpt0 No, devfs should recognize the device on its own, without your having to do anything. Is there a /dev/lpt0 already? Also, see man devfs. Hi Lowell, Tks for your response. FreeBSD 5.2 HP Deskjet 690C = I performed following test; # dmesg ... Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C MLC,PCL,PML plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 ... # ls -l /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Mar 9 01:17 /dev/lpt0 # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 both without printout # lptest /dev/lpt0 One line printed on 1st page as follow; !#$%'()* +,-./0123456789:;=[EMAIL PROTECTED] It seemed OK but paper feed-in continued with 'no_paper' light on (I put only 1 paper in the tray) B.R. Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI for user authentication
Cookski - RR wrote: My company is moving to our web services Verio which uses FreeBSD on their servers. They do not provide a GUI for securing directories from unauthorized access (htaccess). Is there a GUI application that you recommend or that is preferred by the FreeBSD community? Any help or advice would be appreciated. Out previous web hosting company provided one and I'm lost without it. Best regards, Chris If I understand correctly, you want a remote front-end to console-level operations (e.g., chmod(1)) on a webserver? Hmm, I always wonder about the security of this, but I think that Webmin (/usr/ports/sysutils/webmin; www.webmin.com) might be something you could use. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI for user authentication
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:51:40AM -0500, Cookski - RR wrote: My company is moving to our web services Verio which uses FreeBSD on their servers. They do not provide a GUI for securing directories from unauthorized access (htaccess). Is there a GUI application that you recommend or that is preferred by the FreeBSD community? Any help or advice would be appreciated. Out previous web hosting company provided one and I'm lost without it. PHPAccess: http://www.krizleebear.de/phpaccess/dynamisch/index.php?pageID=5 http://www.google.com/search?q=htaccess%20gui ... Not to mention the relation of htaccess and FreeBSD. -- Robert Barten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. This is a good idea. Go ahead and submit an update for it. That should be followed with option for standard basic install using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions, disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root password and timezone. Ehhh.Maybe as only one last option. Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about what this option enables and why one would enable it. I think all documentation should include more 'why' and 'why not' discussion.So, sure. Go ahead and write it all up and submit the update.Try to be systematic in your writing style though and make sure it does not reflect personal prejudices about particular software and styles of system use, etc. The below paragraph is a start, but is a little ragged and would need some work before including it in an update submission, for example. jerry Example enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server) An advanced function where by this system you are installing will have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate future. This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible handbook. That is what I see is missing from the sysinstall process and why it is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Donald Turnbull Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull Donald Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? It seems pretty friendly to me. It really helps to read the directions first, though. By user friendly do you mean pretty, or do you have a specific complaint about some aspect that needs to be improved? Which SPECIFIC part of the install should be changed, and how should it be changed? - Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation - More user friendly
WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of W. D. Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Installation - More user friendly At 22:28 3/7/2004, JJB, wrote: Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. That should be followed with option for standard basic install using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions, disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root password and timezone. Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about what this option enables and why one would enable it. Example enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server) An advanced function where by this system you are installing will have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate future. This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible handbook. That is what I see is missing from the sysinstall process and why it is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users. Man! This would be great! I am trying to convert from the evil Windows world, and online comments like this would be great. If we really want to make FreeBSD more popular, we should make it easy for people to change from Windows and/or Linux, right? Start Here to Find It Fast!(tm) - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
S/KEY ftp logins
Is there some way to tell if ftp logins are successfully using S/KEY or falling back to cleartext? Is there some way to require S/KEY only? Cliff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSD Question
Hi, My name is Tosin and I just have three questions regarding the FreeBSD operating system? I intend on starting a business in the summer and I plan on using a secure operating system (definitely not MS Windows). 1. Is FreeBSD useful for a desktop environment for people to use in a workplace, (e.g. secretary, accountant, and manager) ? 2. Is FreeBSD completely free to download and use for commercial use? If so, are there licensing issues to worry about? 3. Is FreeBSD a 64bit operating system, because I may also think of having a lot of the projects on a server for accessing from other computers or even at home? Thank you. - Tosin A. Atolagbe, MPH - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
* On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:17:00AM -0500 JJB wrote: WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. Hey JJB, fbsd_user, Barbish or whoever you are this week, You had to use a web spider to find your OWN (pay for use written using MS FrontPage) web site? $ whois a1poweruser.com [snip] Technical Contact: BARBISH JOSEPH BARBISH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +1.14407294115 Fax: +1.NONE 8732 CAMELOT DRIVECHESTERLAND, OH 44026 US -- Mark Frank Director of Technical Services - eDoxs Corp. Please send all service requests/issues to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cdrecord -scanbus problem...
Hello all,
I just recently upgraded my system to 5.2-RELEASE, as evidenced by uname -a:
FreeBSD mephisto.qg.com 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 27
16:05:26 CST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEPHISTO
i386
I was able to burn CDs in my previous installation, but now I am getting
nothing but trouble with cdrecord whenever I try to execute it, so I decided
to try scanning the bus, and here is my output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2002
J\x{}rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
I looked in /dev and I saw all the devices defined that I needed, like:
crw-r- 1 root operator4, 18 Jan 27 16:58 acd0
crw-r- 1 root operator4, 19 Jan 27 16:58 acd1
Cdrecord is installed along with xcdroast and other gui front-end apps, all
of them fail. Both of the drives are good because I can mount CDs in them. I
am also attaching a copy of my /var/run/dmesg.boot and a copy of my kernel
config in case I did something wrong there.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated greatly, also, please cc me, I
am not a part of this list.
Thanks,
AJ Schroeder
dmesg.boot
Description: Binary data
MEPHISTO
Description: Binary data
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Re: Cdrecord -scanbus problem...
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:49:04 -0600
Schroeder, AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I just recently upgraded my system to 5.2-RELEASE, as evidenced by uname -a:
FreeBSD mephisto.qg.com 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 27
16:05:26 CST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEPHISTO
i386
I was able to burn CDs in my previous installation, but now I am getting
nothing but trouble with cdrecord whenever I try to execute it, so I decided
to try scanning the bus, and here is my output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.2) Copyright (C) 1995-2002
J\x{}rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
I looked in /dev and I saw all the devices defined that I needed, like:
crw-r- 1 root operator4, 18 Jan 27 16:58 acd0
crw-r- 1 root operator4, 19 Jan 27 16:58 acd1
Cdrecord is installed along with xcdroast and other gui front-end apps, all
of them fail. Both of the drives are good because I can mount CDs in them. I
am also attaching a copy of my /var/run/dmesg.boot and a copy of my kernel
config in case I did something wrong there.
Any help on this matter would be appreciated greatly, also, please cc me, I
am not a part of this list.
Thanks,
AJ Schroeder
su to root then use cdrecord scanbus
or
add yourself to the wheel group, then do 'sudo cdrecord scanbus'
or
(most unsecure option) su to root, chmod +s /usr/local/bin/cdrecord,
exit root, cdrecord is now usable by 'regular' user's.
Eric
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RE: Installation - More user friendly
Need more info about what you mean by write it up and submit it. Who or where do I submit it? By write it up you mean, write the short text for each sysinstall option. How about reorganizing the sysinstall process. Like moving all the non critical install options from the main process stream to the post install category? I looked in the /stand directory and it contains binaries. Where is the source for the sysinstall process, maybe I can just change it at it's source? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Donald Turnbull; Bob Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. This is a good idea. Go ahead and submit an update for it. That should be followed with option for standard basic install using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions, disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root password and timezone. Ehhh.Maybe as only one last option. Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about what this option enables and why one would enable it. I think all documentation should include more 'why' and 'why not' discussion.So, sure. Go ahead and write it all up and submit the update.Try to be systematic in your writing style though and make sure it does not reflect personal prejudices about particular software and styles of system use, etc. The below paragraph is a start, but is a little ragged and would need some work before including it in an update submission, for example. jerry Example enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server) An advanced function where by this system you are installing will have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate future. This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible handbook. That is what I see is missing from the sysinstall process and why it is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Donald Turnbull Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull Donald Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? It seems pretty friendly to me. It really helps to read the directions first, though. By user friendly do you mean pretty, or do you have a specific complaint about some aspect that needs to be improved? Which SPECIFIC part of the install should be changed, and how should it be changed? - Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAKEDEV question
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:59, Stephen Liu wrote: - snip - I skipped following steps 1) # ./MAKEDEV port and 2) # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 (to set interrupt-driven mode for lpt0) and 3) # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 (to set polled-mode for lptN) Jumped to; # lptest /dev/lpt0 only strange symbols printed and printing continued without stop until I removed the paper tray. Communication between printer and port seemed working It could be that your printer does not understand plain ascii text. What is the make and model. The other possibility is that there is something wrong in the communications path -- a dud or incorrectly wired cable. Hi Malcolm, FreeBSD 5.2 Printer HP Desktop 690c === Thanks for your response. I missed steps 2) and 3) mentioned above. I performed further test as follows; step-2 # lptcontrol -i -d /dev/lpt0 step-3 # lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0 both without printout rebooted PC because having got printer turned on. The later could not be detected with 'dmesg' ** how can I detect the printer to avoid 'reboot' ?? After reboot # dmesg Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C MLC,PCL,PML plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 # ls -l /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Mar 9 01:17 /dev/lpt0 Repeated step-2 and step-3 above (also no printout) # lptest /dev/lpt0 One line printed on 1st paper as follow; !#$%'()* +,-./0123456789:;=[EMAIL PROTECTED] It seemed OK but feed-in paper continued with 'no_paper' light on (I put only 1 paper in the tray) If you just run the utility lptest without redirecting the output you will see on the screen what you should expect to print. Do you get one printed line or a full page? One line implies that 2nd and subsequent lines have disappeared of to the right as BSD does not supply a CR, only LF, at end of line. You may find a you can set up your printer to interpret LF as CR-LF. As for running out of paper -- lptest produces 200 lines -- and even if these have disappeared off the right then they need about 3 pages of A4. I gather you have not yet got as far as setting up /etc/printcap or starting the print daemon lpd. Once you do this you can insert setup codes via an input filter ahead of the data to be printed and most printers including many HP models have a code which switches the interpretation of the LF character. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
binding ips to accounts
hi ya, recently ive had a problems with people binding to ips that are not issued then, has any one written a script where i can the server reads for example /etc/ip.conf before binding any user files, and in /etc/ip.conf ude have eg ricky:66.66.66.21 and ricky can only bind to that or vhost:66.66.66.1 every one cause use as a vhost only but wont allow any think to bind to it, Cheers Ricky ~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~ HypoShells Hosting Services www.hyposhells.com ~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~$~ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
E-Mail Gateway
I would like to use FreeBSD (4.9) as the platform on which to run an secure e-mail gateway. At least that is what I think I would like to do. The reason for FreeBSD is that I much more familiar with it than other free Unix like operating systems. I have worked with DEC Ultrix, Digital Unix and AIX in the past so have some knowledge of Unix. But the real goal is to put some sort of secure mail server/forwarder between my internal MS Exchange system and the Internet. I don't want to connect Exchange directly to the Internet if at all possible. What I'm looking for are recommendations for free SMTP servers that I can use for this purpose. I would like to include basic anti-virus and SPAM control as well. Unfortunately, I have no money (other than my time) to do this project so am looking at minimal cost products. Any suggestions for e-mail gateways. I've looked at postfix and qmail but am not sure that they are appropriate. I could use the built in sendmail, but worry about security. Thank you for any suggestions. Greg Wright BC Rail *** Disclaimer *** The information in this Email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the named recipient. Access to this Email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the recipient named, please note that any use, disclosure, copying, distribution of this Email or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us by returning a copy of the Email with the subject line marked wrong address and then deleting the Email, and any attachments and any copies of it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times
Ryan Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Leftwich wrote: [snip] getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 seconds. [snip] H, Review your #/etc/ttys and comment out any questionable lines. -Ryan Merrick / [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was able to get at my raw data (via mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s2a fbsd) by booting up into a CD-R I burned of FreeSBIE (www.FreeSBIE.org) and will arrange data on the drive nicely, then reinstall an OS. Fixing the current FreeBSD install would require too much knowledge! FYI. -- Peter Leftwich, President Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
JJB wrote: WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. 1) Surreptitiously plugging your own site, is crass, at best. 2) Not telling him you charge for everything there, is devious. Perhaps you should also tell him that when you respond to posts for help, on this list, that you frequently ignore the person's questions and instead rant on about the evils of whatever it is they are trying to do/use. Perhaps you should tell him that, at least in the area of networking, you haven't got a clue about what you are talking about (I specifically refer you to the completely inaccurate information you gave me regarding, for instance, the generation of fragments.) Based on the many posts of yours that I've seen, on this list and another, I've concluded that you do know some things and have some usefull information to impart, but that your ranting and mis-information obscure them to such a degree that you're comments are not worth paying much attention too. -ste ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation - More user friendly
Thanks Mark Frank for pointing that out. Yes I have just put my web site online to sell my FreeBSD Stable 4.9 Release Install guide. An Up to date, Step by Step, How-To, Instructional Guide to Installing FreeBSD from scratch, Specifically written with background information covering the why and how the different components are used together to create an home or small enterprise network for the new-be and inexperienced FreeBSD computer hobbyist. Not an General reference type of document, but an true learning aid containing details unique to the stable version of FreeBSD your installing. After 30 months of answering the same questions over and over again on this questions list, It became apparent that some thing must be wrong with the current documentation that so many people are having problems with it. No matter how many times I read posts from stanch supports of the sysinstall process and the current documentation, their posts can not dispute the statistical facts so apparent in this questions list. Every thing is reference material for the experienced user and not written to the knowledge level appropriate to the first time installer. So I addressed that problem. It may not be appropriate for you, but there are many who it is appropriate for. Those who are interested can check it out at www.a1poweruser.com -Original Message- From: Mark Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:45 AM To: JJB; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly * On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:17:00AM -0500 JJB wrote: WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. Hey JJB, fbsd_user, Barbish or whoever you are this week, You had to use a web spider to find your OWN (pay for use written using MS FrontPage) web site? $ whois a1poweruser.com [snip] Technical Contact: BARBISH JOSEPH BARBISH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +1.14407294115 Fax: +1.NONE 8732 CAMELOT DRIVECHESTERLAND, OH 44026 US -- Mark Frank Director of Technical Services - eDoxs Corp. Please send all service requests/issues to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simplifying FreeBSD Installation
On 8 Mar 2004, at 22:44, Jerry McAllister wrote: It might help to have some wizards for network setup, but in the FreeBSD world, the network topologies are many and varied. So, just doing a MS predestination trick and creating a wizard that limits you to someone's narrow idea of a network would cause more trouble than just learning how to do it right. A couple of wizards to do a couple of very basic, no extras setups for say a dialup and a NIC hookup to an existing and well functioning lan might be useful, but FreeBSD goes so much beyond that that it leaves the world of wizards far behind. I like the point you make there. Wizards can't cover all the network configurations that some people may want. There is a simple wizard which will get you started, did the job for my workstation-cum-fileserver. But you're given the tools to do what we want. That's the value proposition for FreeBSD, it's meant to be configurable. Perhaps at the expense of 'friendliness', but it's never friendly at the expense of being open to configuration. No one is going to move to FreeBSD if all they want is someone to do everything for them. That type of person will not be swayed by evidence of a more powerful, better supported, more secure system. They are only interested in not doing anything. Most of them would prefer not to even have to stick in a CD or DVD if possible. So, FreeBSD or any of the other real OSen will not attract them. I thought that was a bit harsh. Different things for different people and I'm sure if all people could, they would love to prevent their computers from doing harm. You (Gerard) also should consider that there is a vast difference between the *BSD culture and the Linux culture, IMHO. There isn't the same desire to convert everyone, there's no jumping up and down screaming about the GPL etc. etc. The *BSD community wants the best OS not the most widely used OS. Being the best takes effort on everyone's part. Using a computer should be easy, but a *BSD is intended for a massive array of purposes. Many of which are hard, no other way of looking at it. My loose change :) James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
Need more info about what you mean by write it up and submit it. Who or where do I submit it? By write it up you mean, write the short text for each sysinstall option. Since FreeBSD is completely a volunteer project, everyone can contribute. Make the changes necessary and submit them as updates. There is information on the FreeBSD web page about contributing to the project. Check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html Don't feel limited by the what is needed list. But, be prepared to find people who disagre, often with good cause, with suggested changes. How about reorganizing the sysinstall process. Like moving all the non critical install options from the main process stream to the post install category? I looked in the /stand directory and it contains binaries. Where is the source for the sysinstall process, maybe I can just change it at it's source? I haven't looked specifically for /stand/sysinstall , but pretty much everything is somewhere under /usr/src - of course, you will have had to opt to install source for it to be there. NOTE, It is not quite as simple as one program. The installation program uses major chunks of the OS. But, the messages it uses mostly come from just a few places. jerry McAllister Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Donald Turnbull; Bob Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to be improved? Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. This is a good idea. Go ahead and submit an update for it. That should be followed with option for standard basic install using whole hard drive from cdrom, and no questions from that point on. Behinds the scenes, fdisk deletes all hard drive partitions, disklable uses auto config, skip config is taken, distro of kernel source, no x-server, and no to all other questions, except set root password and timezone. Ehhh.Maybe as only one last option. Then for the original way, for each option question, give info about what this option enables and why one would enable it. I think all documentation should include more 'why' and 'why not' discussion.So, sure. Go ahead and write it all up and submit the update.Try to be systematic in your writing style though and make sure it does not reflect personal prejudices about particular software and styles of system use, etc. The below paragraph is a start, but is a little ragged and would need some work before including it in an update submission, for example. jerry Example enable NFS server (yes / NO) NFS stands for (Network File server) An advanced function where by this system you are installing will have an (Local Area Network) behind it and you want this system to share It's disk space with the other FBSD PC's on the lan. Answering yes will start the NFS server on this system and all the FBSD pc on the Lan must have the NFS client running to access and share the NFS servers disk space. Will not work with MS/windows PC on the Lan. Can be enabled later by rc.conf statements. Only answer yes if you know for certain you are going to use this function in the immediate future. This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer with the info necessary to make an informed chose right there in front of them where it belongs and not off in some un-accessible handbook. That is what I see is missing from the sysinstall process and why it is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Donald Turnbull Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull Donald Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? It seems pretty friendly to me. It really helps to read the directions first, though. By user friendly do you mean pretty, or do you have a specific complaint about some aspect that needs to be improved? Which SPECIFIC part of the install should be changed, and how should it be changed? - Bob
RE: Installation - More user friendly
There's no need to be so down right rude. I could say the same thing about you. So keep your un-professional comments to your self. There is no place on an open list for such behavior. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shaun T. Erickson Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: W. D.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly JJB wrote: WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. 1) Surreptitiously plugging your own site, is crass, at best. 2) Not telling him you charge for everything there, is devious. Perhaps you should also tell him that when you respond to posts for help, on this list, that you frequently ignore the person's questions and instead rant on about the evils of whatever it is they are trying to do/use. Perhaps you should tell him that, at least in the area of networking, you haven't got a clue about what you are talking about (I specifically refer you to the completely inaccurate information you gave me regarding, for instance, the generation of fragments.) Based on the many posts of yours that I've seen, on this list and another, I've concluded that you do know some things and have some usefull information to impart, but that your ranting and mis-information obscure them to such a degree that you're comments are not worth paying much attention too. -ste ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:38:39AM -0800, Tosin A. Atolagbe wrote: Hi, My name is Tosin and I just have three questions regarding the FreeBSD operating system? I intend on starting a business in the summer and I plan on using a secure operating system (definitely not MS Windows). 1. Is FreeBSD useful for a desktop environment for people to use in a workplace, (e.g. secretary, accountant, and manager) ? Basically, yes, but it depends on the abilities of your staff and their willingness to adapt to what may be a foreign environment for them. OpenOffice provides a very good stab at the same sort of functionality as Microsoft Office: it's usable, but there may be a few odd corners and rough spots. Other applications -- like web browsers -- far outclass the standard Microsoft equivalents. You'll find that FreeBSD based systems need someone knowledgeable to build them into a network-wide structure (ie. setting up LDAP, mail systems, file shares etc.) -- there aren't any point'n'drool interfaces for setting that sort of thing up. (One unexpected bonus of that is that you will be able to build something that precisely matches your needs, instead of bodging your organization around the closest pre-canned setup you can afford to buy). 2. Is FreeBSD completely free to download and use for commercial use? If so, are there licensing issues to worry about? It's absolutely free in monetary terms, for whatever use you want to make of it. No licensing costs for anything under the BSD license. That license says in essence: Here is the software. Do with it what you will, just don't claim you wrote it, and don't blame us if you break it. Bits of the system, and many 3rd party add-on packages use the Gnu Public License, which is very similar and usually equally free of cost, but has extra restrictions that probably won't affect you limiting the manner in which you may redistribute software. (ie. you have to provide it under the same license and you must provide source code). 3. Is FreeBSD a 64bit operating system, because I may also think of having a lot of the projects on a server for accessing from other computers or even at home? FreeBSD runs on a number of 64-bit platforms, yes. Tier 1 platforms at the moment include: Alpha, AMD64, IA64 and Sparc64 (See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html) with work on PPC and MIPS in the pipeline. However, the best supported, most reliable system for running FreeBSD on is still the IA32 platform. The UFS2 filesystems in FreeBSD 5.x are fully 64bit in their internals on all platforms, and capable of providing terabyte scale filesystems. FreeBSD also supports the PAE extensions on IA32 machines, meaning that the OS can make use of more than 4Gb RAM on a 32bit platform. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: E-Mail Gateway
On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Wright, Greg wrote: I would like to use FreeBSD (4.9) as the platform on which to run an secure e-mail gateway. At least that is what I think I would like to do. The reason for FreeBSD is that I much more familiar with it than other free Unix like operating systems. I have worked with DEC Ultrix, Digital Unix and AIX in the past so have some knowledge of Unix. But the real goal is to put some sort of secure mail server/forwarder between my internal MS Exchange system and the Internet. I don't want to connect Exchange directly to the Internet if at all possible. What I'm looking for are recommendations for free SMTP servers that I can use for this purpose. I would like to include basic anti-virus and SPAM control as well. Unfortunately, I have no money (other than my time) to do this project so am looking at minimal cost products. Any suggestions for e-mail gateways. I've looked at postfix and qmail but am not sure that they are appropriate. I could use the built in sendmail, but worry about security. I'm in the middle of this kind of project right now. Using postfix-SMTP server clamav-free antivirus amavisd-new-plugin daemon that redirects mail to spamassassin and the clamd antivirus for checking Mail comes in, gets checked for viruses, and then checked and scored as spam. Quarantines things that don't pass, forwards everything else to our internal Exchange server. Postfix is a good choice for me; it's a drop in replacement for sendmail and tends to be simpler to configure. All absolutely free...we only paid for the server hardware to do this. -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update utility
Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug fixes via internet? Regards, Ioannis Vranos ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update utility
On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug fixes via internet? I *think* have have kind of a handle on this on the server I just installed... I usually do a cvsup to update the list of the ports tree, then use a procedure I picked out of http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php to update applications with portupgrade. If anyone else has a method other than this, I'd love to know the procedure :-) This only updates ports. Updating FreeBSD, I don't know of anything other than if you find a security advisory, you have to have the src tree and patch that portion and recompile whatever had the vulnerability, following the advisory instructions. I'm thinking that since most daemons/applications are from ports, keeping your ports tree updated should limit most remote exploits...I would be interested in knowing of a way to check whether the installation of the OS is up to date, though. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
Shaun T. Erickson wrote: JJB wrote: WD My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. 1) Surreptitiously plugging your own site, is crass, at best. 2) Not telling him you charge for everything there, is devious. Yet another 2c' worth... If anyone writes any documentation for FreeBSD, an operating system they got for free and learned about for free, partly through reading free documentation submitted by others, I'd personally admire their efforts more if it was submitted to the handbook. Luckily for us all, some people have taken this view already. The reason FreeBSD does not have graphical tools and wizards for the installation (or anything else, really) is that nobody who could has felt inclined to write the code for them. That's for some pretty obvious reasons. For example, no functional advantage would be gained from hundreds of hours of work. A bigger user base comprising more unskilled users would not work, even with smart graphical tools, without some kind of support infrastructure. Where's that going to come from? A lot of people are sick of wrestling with systems that have gui tools that either don't work properly or don't work at all (though this has improved in recent years), and don't let you beneath them so you can fix the problem directly. But there's nothing stopping anyone using the existing code and writing some snazzy tools, then selling it as a commercial distribution. It's almost worth typing that again for emphasis. A commercial distro would be the channel through which support infrastructures could be developed. The various Linux distros illustrate this. Red Hat, Mandrake and others charge money and provide graphical installs. Debian, probably the Linux distro closest to FreeBSD in orientation, does neither. Hardware compatibility aside, it's arguable that the answer to this is that if you want a graphical, simple to use version of FreeBSD, then buy Apple OS X. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: E-Mail Gateway
Bart, thanks for the reply !! I had been looking at qmail with clam and spamassassin, but somebody told me that qmail might not be appropriate as a secure mail gateway. It was not designed to route mail, but instead to act as just a mail server for local mailboxes. I'll take another look at postfix. Thanks again. Greg Wright BC Rail Vancouver, Canada -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 8, 2004 09:15 To: Wright, Greg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E-Mail Gateway On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Wright, Greg wrote: I would like to use FreeBSD (4.9) as the platform on which to run an secure e-mail gateway. At least that is what I think I would like to do. The reason for FreeBSD is that I much more familiar with it than other free Unix like operating systems. I have worked with DEC Ultrix, Digital Unix and AIX in the past so have some knowledge of Unix. But the real goal is to put some sort of secure mail server/forwarder between my internal MS Exchange system and the Internet. I don't want to connect Exchange directly to the Internet if at all possible. What I'm looking for are recommendations for free SMTP servers that I can use for this purpose. I would like to include basic anti-virus and SPAM control as well. Unfortunately, I have no money (other than my time) to do this project so am looking at minimal cost products. Any suggestions for e-mail gateways. I've looked at postfix and qmail but am not sure that they are appropriate. I could use the built in sendmail, but worry about security. I'm in the middle of this kind of project right now. Using postfix-SMTP server clamav-free antivirus amavisd-new-plugin daemon that redirects mail to spamassassin and the clamd antivirus for checking Mail comes in, gets checked for viruses, and then checked and scored as spam. Quarantines things that don't pass, forwards everything else to our internal Exchange server. Postfix is a good choice for me; it's a drop in replacement for sendmail and tends to be simpler to configure. All absolutely free...we only paid for the server hardware to do this. -Bart *** Disclaimer *** The information in this Email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the named recipient. Access to this Email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the recipient named, please note that any use, disclosure, copying, distribution of this Email or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us by returning a copy of the Email with the subject line marked wrong address and then deleting the Email, and any attachments and any copies of it. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fetchmail + Postfix + Amavisd-new
Hello, After doing some research, I still cannot figure out how to have fetchmail feed messages to postfix (running anti-virus and anti-spam filters through amavisd-new), which, in turn, would feed it to procmail for the local delivery. Could anybody help me with that? -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Handling mail on a dialup connection
Hello, I would like to create an hourly cron to have the machine bring up the dialup connection, check for the new mail (with fetchmail), send any outgoing messages (with postfix) and then bring the connection down. To make things more complicated, I would like to use this dialup session to automatically update my virus databases for clamav, f-prot, and Panda AV. I think I could figure out how to set each of these processes in cron, but I am not sure how to tell the script that it should wait for one process to finish before it starts performing the second task. What is the best place to look for more information on that? -- -=Robert Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Embedded%20key ~~ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail + Postfix + Amavisd-new
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello, After doing some research, I still cannot figure out how to have fetchmail feed messages to postfix (running anti-virus and anti-spam filters through amavisd-new), which, in turn, would feed it to procmail for the local delivery. Could anybody help me with that? If you already have a .fetchmailrc file, please copy it here and perhaps say slightly more specifically what the problem is. If not, you need one. But to help write it I'd need to know a little bit about what you're trying to do. Is fetchmail to collect from one or more specific mailboxes and deliver to corresponding users, or from a single mailbox and deliver to multiple users, or...? PWR ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Linux binaries
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:26:53 +0300 Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: It looks like it need libglut.so.3. I have it. I copy it from /usr/X11R6/lib to /compat/linux/lib and try to run the binary again: Almost definitely a wrong way to go... Is there any way to use FreeBSD libraries to run Linux binaries or I have to get the Linux versions of them? $ pkg_which /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so Mesa-3.4.2_2 A small search in /usr/ports gets /usr/ports/graphics/linux_mesa3, which might be what you want. HTH, -- DoubleF A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Handling mail on a dialup connection
Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello, I would like to create an hourly cron to have the machine bring up the dialup connection, check for the new mail (with fetchmail), send any outgoing messages (with postfix) and then bring the connection down. To make things more complicated, I would like to use this dialup session to automatically update my virus databases for clamav, f-prot, and Panda AV. I think I could figure out how to set each of these processes in cron, but I am not sure how to tell the script that it should wait for one process to finish before it starts performing the second task. What is the best place to look for more information on that? I'd write a shell script that did everything, then invoke that script with cron. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alias in different subnet on card
Hi all, I'm running a firewall at the moment using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and IPFW. I have 3 interfaces in the machine. I need to be able to firewall a 4th range of IP's. I have tried to do this by adding an alias to xl1, but this hasn't worked. If I add the alias with a mask of 255.255.255.255, no other machine can ping the alias. I also see the following in /var/log/messages Mar 8 18:02:13 styx-tmp kernel: arplookup 19x.xxx.xxx.196 failed: host is not on local network The primary IP on xl 1 is currently 19x.xxx.xxx.1 and the mask on there is 255.255.255.128 (/25) If I add the alias with a mask of 255.255.255.240 (/28) which is the correct mask for this subnet, and the mask that all other machines use, then I am able to ping this address. However, at this point, no forwarding appears to take place for machines using this IP address as their default route. Is there any way to use an alias to do firewalling like this or do I have to get another network card? The problem with another network card is that will mean a whole new machine as I'm out of slots in this one. Thanks in advance ? -- Wayne Pascoe Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black - adamba on k5 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tcpflow and lo0
Hi list, Just want to make sure this is not a FreeBSD issue: Is anyone using tcpflow to sniff packets on loopback interface? When I try # tcpflow -c -v -i lo0 (-v to get all possible debug messages) and then ping localhost for example, I always get: tcpflow[31634]: warning: received non-AF_INET null frame (type 33554432) I am using FreeBSD -stable. Thanx Ksenia. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binding ips to accounts
HypoMaster wrote: hi ya, recently ive had a problems with people binding to ips that are not issued then, has any one written a script where i can the server reads for example /etc/ip.conf before binding any user files, and in /etc/ip.conf ude have eg ricky:66.66.66.21 and ricky can only bind to that or vhost:66.66.66.1 every one cause use as a vhost only but wont allow any think to bind to it, It sounds like you might want to create a jail for each of your users. Have a look at http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html and jail(8). Cheers. Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:17 AM, JJB wrote: My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. Please do not astroturf the FreeBSD mailing lists. By endorsing your own commercial site as if you had no connection with it, you are violating 15 U.S.C. 52, see http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/endorse: §255.5 Disclosure of material connections. When there exists a connection between the endorser and the seller of the advertised product which might materially affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement (i.e., the connection is not reasonably expected by the audience) such connection must be fully disclosed. [ ... ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update utility
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug fixes via internet? I *think* have have kind of a handle on this on the server I just installed... I usually do a cvsup to update the list of the ports tree, then use a procedure I picked out of http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php to update applications with portupgrade. If anyone else has a method other than this, I'd love to know the procedure :-) For third party applications, portupgrade should be the tool of choice... This only updates ports. Updating FreeBSD, I don't know of anything other than if you find a security advisory, you have to have the src tree and patch that portion and recompile whatever had the vulnerability, following the advisory instructions. I'm thinking that since most daemons/applications are from ports, keeping your ports tree updated should limit most remote exploits...I would be interested in knowing of a way to check whether the installation of the OS is up to date, though. This is what the so-called security branches are good for: Just CVSup your source tree, do a full buildworld cycle, and you should be fine. Valid security branches (for use in your supfile) are for example RELENG_4_9 or RELENG_5_2. If you prefer binary updates, there is a special port (security/freebsd-update), but it will only work on an unaltered installation (i.e. you did not do any buildworlds), and of course, you can run the freebsd-update port incrementally. However, once you use a source based update method, the port will not work any longer, since your installation will consist of custom binaries that do not match the recorded checksums. Simon pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: E-Mail Gateway
Wright, Greg wrote: But the real goal is to put some sort of secure mail server/forwarder between my internal MS Exchange system and the Internet. I don't want to connect Exchange directly to the Internet if at all possible. What I'm looking for are recommendations for free SMTP servers that I can use for this purpose. I would like to include basic anti-virus and SPAM control as well. Unfortunately, I have no money (other than my time) to do this project so am looking at minimal cost products. Any suggestions for e-mail gateways. I've looked at postfix and qmail but am not sure that they are appropriate. I could use the built in sendmail, but worry about security. I'm sure either qmail or postfix are perfectly capable of doing what you want - indeed there are many posts about this very subject to the postfix mailing list. I'd suggest looking back through the postfix-users archive to read what has been said in the past. In particular you'll want to consider how to let postifx know what addresses @yourdomain are valid, so that it only accepts emails that are being sent to valid users. An example of how to do this can be found on http://www.plusone.com/gaptuning/postfix/ I looked at both postfix and qmail for dealing with email for my own small email server, and much prefered postfix. Oh and, insert standard comment about how you should just replace Exchange with Postfix anyway ;) Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation - More user friendly
Now just where does what you quote say anybody is endorsing anything. It's just an pointer to something that may meet the needs of the poster. Just like what happens hundreds of times every day in this list. Please drop your un-professional attack and take it offline, it does not belong here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles Swiger Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Free BSD Questions list' Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:17 AM, JJB wrote: My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the search engines yet. www.a1poweruser.com Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD. Please do not astroturf the FreeBSD mailing lists. By endorsing your own commercial site as if you had no connection with it, you are violating 15 U.S.C. 52, see http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/endorse: §255.5 Disclosure of material connections. When there exists a connection between the endorser and the seller of the advertised product which might materially affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement (i.e., the connection is not reasonably expected by the audience) such connection must be fully disclosed. [ ... ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DHCP issue with comcast.
Hello, I am new to using FreeBSD, and I am trying to use a FreeBSD box as a firewall/router. I am trying to get the router working correctly first. My issue is that my box will not receive an IP address from Comcast when the dhclient starts. I commented out all of the firewall commands in my rc.conf file, but left the ifconfig_ep0=DHCP. The machine is running 2 NIC's and I have verified that the correct one has the cable plugged into it. I am running release 5.2.1. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java installation: pdmu not found
Thanks!! I'll try it as soon as possible. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Monday 08 March 2004 12:26 pm, JJB wrote: Now just where does what you quote say anybody is endorsing anything. It's just an pointer to something that may meet the needs of the poster. Just like what happens hundreds of times every day in this list. Please drop your un-professional attack and take it offline, it does not belong here. What I find amusing about this, is there is a Copywrite on this?!?! I have been under the impression (as I checked into this a number of years back) You can't Copywrite public domain material. I also don't see any credits listed pertaining to the name FreeBSD, it's handbook or anything relating to BSD, it's images, and most importantly - posting the written permission to use Beastie (and I might add, I think it must be done in a not-for-profit mannor) from Kirk McKusick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just my .02 -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hacked
hello despite having ipfilter blocking all ports except 80 21 and 22, tripwire, and scoring 99 in nmap, my website got defaced. the box is currently unplugged. i wanted to know what is the best way to find out who did it and how they got in, and what to do from here. tripwire shows a lot of files changed, most of which could be attributed to cvsup'ing recently. any other security precautions to take disaster recovery guides? i've already changed p/w's on my other boxes. thanks -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: hacked
you should make a copy of your current harddrive, and lock the otherone in a safe or something , so that you can always make additional copy's. This requires a same sized harddisk in a other working system.. But that is propably not what you have, You should check your webserver logs/ftp logs, for bogus entries Note that firewalling does not prevent webdefacements, why? Well port 80/20/21 is allowed traffic, so people can get in. IT might be possible that your ftp server got breached, what version did you run? What webserver did you run? with php? Is there even the slightest possibility that you had rwx settings on the tree where your webfiles are in, so that one could have written code to it, or even worse, changing your index file. I had it myself with a bogus Slashdot topic script, that allowed remote users to write into my files, one of my includes was overwritten and i got a website your.com, instead of my three tabled layout ... oops, was the script and rwx permissions in the tree.. Goodluck !! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] re re Verzonden: maandag 8 maart 2004 19:56 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: hacked hello despite having ipfilter blocking all ports except 80 21 and 22, tripwire, and scoring 99 in nmap, my website got defaced. the box is currently unplugged. i wanted to know what is the best way to find out who did it and how they got in, and what to do from here. tripwire shows a lot of files changed, most of which could be attributed to cvsup'ing recently. any other security precautions to take disaster recovery guides? i've already changed p/w's on my other boxes. thanks -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Mar 8, 2004, at 1:26 PM, JJB wrote: Now just where does what you quote say anybody is endorsing anything. It's just an pointer to something that may meet the needs of the poster. Just like what happens hundreds of times every day in this list. You've been advised of the law; if don't think the FTC has jurisdiction over such comments, go ask your laywer or the people from a company named Central Command, based in Ohio, who tried astroturfing comp.mail.sendmail about a product of theirs called Vexira MailArmor. Please drop your un-professional attack and take it offline, it does not belong here. What are you talking about? Please do not astroturf the FreeBSD mailing lists constitutes a polite request in response to deceptive behavior on your part. It is not an attack, professional or otherwise. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:53:15AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS type set to non-windows, ect. Give then option to cancel sysinstall to set bios. Or, alternatively, we could just put a URL to the documentation... That works if it can read locally, can sysinstall handle html? If it must go out to the net, can it do that?Probably not at that stage. Many of us can not afford to have an extra machine around to read online documentation while doing an install. The install is on the only machine we have. I was making the point that few people read the documentation /before/ they pop the CD in the drive. If a lot of people (I'm not saying this is you, at all) bothered to do this it really would save them a lot of hassle. As for PnP, IRQ assignments, etc. -- these would /all/ be sorted /before/ the disc was booted from. Your idea is quite nice though -- the Handbook could easily be converted to plaintext and fired up on a virtual terminal. -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Hello, I am new to using FreeBSD, and I am trying to use a FreeBSD box as a firewall/router. I am trying to get the router working correctly first. My issue is that my box will not receive an IP address from Comcast when the dhclient starts. I commented out all of the firewall commands in my rc.conf file, but left the ifconfig_ep0=DHCP. The machine is running 2 NIC's and I have verified that the correct one has the cable plugged into it. I am running release 5.2.1. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DHCP issue with comcast (FreeBSD router).
Hello, I am new to using FreeBSD, and I am trying to use a FreeBSD box as a firewall/router. I am trying to get the router working correctly first. My issue is that my box will not receive an IP address from Comcast when the dhclient starts. I commented out all of the firewall commands in my rc.conf file, but left the ifconfig_ep0=DHCP. The machine is running 2 NIC's and I have verified that the correct one has the cable plugged into it. I am running release 5.2.1. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hacked
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:02:02 +0100 Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please set your date right. tnx -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hacked
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:22:24 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:02:02 +0100 Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please set your date right. tnx And of course that should have been sent on private. Sorry. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation - More user friendly
SNIP Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? /SNIP Before the flames start, let me state that I am a HUGE FreeBSD fan. I use it at home. I use it at work. We are migrating away from RedHat (since it's no longer open source) to FreeBSD. I also own a Mac with OS X. I think that the point here is to coax the average Windows user, who has an innate fear of the command line, to use FreeBSD. The problem is that we can discuss this as a technical issue until Satan hands out snow shoes, but it won't change the fact that this is a HUMAN issue. While I agree that an OS without a GUI is by far TECHNICALLY superior, it is NOT the superior in the minds of most end users. It's a terror inducing, awe-striking behemoth. Most non-technical people like GUI's because they neither want to know nor should they need to know the gazillion command line entries and options. That's the kind of thing that makes us the pros at what we do. PC's didn't become popular for home use until the advent of the GUI. Apple, despite many technical decisions that I can't agree with, are still with us because of the wonderful user interface. Windows, all bashing aside, is not the most desirable operating system for a variety of TECHNICAL reasons, but it still maintains it market share. Why? Because it offers two things 1) the comfort factor that comes with familiarity and 2) the wizards to accomplish fairly complex tasks by making selections in a GUI. This alone should point out that the user interface is NOT a technical issue. I think that the ultimate flaw in much of the logic I see here is in assuming that we, being the programmers, system administrators, hackers, etc., that we all are on list, know what end users want. We soo are NOT the average end user. I think I can safely say that we left being end users ourselves behind so long ago that we've forgotten what it's like. Think about what your Mother (or at least mine :)) would want to use. Actually having to go to the command line, when you've been trained by decades of M$ products that this a very bad thing to do, and type stuff in terrifies her. She's always certain that she's going to make a mistake and blow things up. 2 cents, Jimi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alias in different subnet on card
- Original Message - From: Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Alias in different subnet on card Hi all, I'm running a firewall at the moment using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and IPFW. I have 3 interfaces in the machine. I need to be able to firewall a 4th range of IP's. I have tried to do this by adding an alias to xl1, but this hasn't worked. If I add the alias with a mask of 255.255.255.255, no other machine can ping the alias. I also see the following in /var/log/messages Mar 8 18:02:13 styx-tmp kernel: arplookup 19x.xxx.xxx.196 failed: host is not on local network The primary IP on xl 1 is currently 19x.xxx.xxx.1 and the mask on there is 255.255.255.128 (/25) If I add the alias with a mask of 255.255.255.240 (/28) which is the correct mask for this subnet, and the mask that all other machines use, then I am able to ping this address. However, at this point, no forwarding appears to take place for machines using this IP address as their default route. Is there any way to use an alias to do firewalling like this or do I have to get another network card? The problem with another network card is that will mean a whole new machine as I'm out of slots in this one. Thanks in advance ? -- Wayne Pascoe Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black - adamba on k5 You have 3 networks in a firewall, and since we don't know the full topology, I'll use these network ranges for my example: 192.168.1.0, 192.168.2.0, and 192.168.3.0. You now want to add a 4th range, let's say, 192.168.4.0. ipconfig_xl1=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 ipconfig_xl1_alias0=inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 ipconfig_xl1_alias1=inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 ipconfig_xl1_alias2=inet 192.168.4.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 The only time you would use a netmask of 255.255.255.255 is if the aliased IP is a member of a subnet that is already assigned on the interface. ipconfig_xl1_alias3=inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 Then you will need to add the appropriate firewall rules to allow those networks to either talk / no talk to the remaining network segments. It would help to have all of the ip information that you're using and your current alias maps to see just what's going on. Although, I'd guess that the first problem may be a subnetting issue. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cisco 350 card with 128-bit WEP?
Hi all, Trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto my laptop. I have a LinkSys WRT54G wireless gateway, and the Cisco 250 card which should support 802.11b mode into the Linksys (running in mixed mode). I'm researching options to get the NIC working...but from the manual page(s) of ifconfig I've only found this tidbit, which makes me wonder... A WEP key will be either 5 or 13 characters (40 or 104 bits) depending of the local net- work and the capabilities of the adaptor. My LinkSys has the options for 128 bit or 64bit WEP, naturally I went with 128. This works great for all my Windows boxes...but how do I get FreeBSD to light up the card? Thanks in advance. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + ralph[!at]boundariez[dot!]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
free DB designer
Does anyone know a freeware database designer (e.g. capable to create nice ir-models) for at least MySQL? Visual SQL Designer can be a good commercial example. Bets regards, Kyryll Mirnenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
parted-like partitions editor for UFS
Is there a Partition Magic (or parted)-like FreeBSD port capable to handle UFS (1,2) partitions FFS slices within it (e.g. moving, resizing merging)? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp + routeing question
I'm trying to build a vpn from home to work using ppp tuneled over ssh. I'm able to get the ppp link up, and ssh to the IP address of the ppp session at home, but I must have something wrong in the routeing, as I can't even telent to it by it's address on the home LAN (the box running ppp that is). Here's what I've got. ppp.conf on home mahcine: wvpn: set timeout 6000 enable proxy set ifaddr 192.168.0.1 192.168.1.1 add 192.168.1.1/24 HISADDR add! XXX.85.0.0 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.1 ppp.conf on work machine (originates link) wvpn: set timeout 6000 set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.1.1.2/0 add 0 0 127.1.1.2 set dial set device !runsocks ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] And here are the routes at home with this up: Script started on Mon Mar 8 15:31:20 2004 ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED];/home/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/stan $ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default205.159.77.234 UGSc 66 5295ed0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 228543lo0 XXX.85 192.168.1.1UGSc03ed0 XXX.85.109/24 192.168.0.1UGSc0 11ed0 192.168.1 192.168.1.1UGSc10ed0 192.168.1.1192.168.0.1UH 1 163 tun1 205.159.77 link#1 UC 100ed0 205.159.77.58 link#1 UHLW13ed0 205.159.77.60 00:50:ba:52:af:24 UHLW1 584094ed0927 205.159.77.224 00:50:ba:52:69:f1 UHLW7 481149818lo0 205.159.77.225 00:20:af:a7:49:5e UHLW1 2770016ed0137 205.159.77.228 00:50:ba:52:6a:22 UHLW1 7243508ed0 1063 205.159.77.231 00:50:ba:52:ac:0c UHLW0 8128510ed0 1197 205.159.77.232 00:10:60:c2:c3:b7 UHLW2 102804ed0578 205.159.77.234 00:90:27:a5:7d:ba UHLW 64 1954368ed0811 205.159.77.237 00:50:ba:52:ac:0d UHLW1 7457855ed0 1181 205.159.77.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 110722ed0 ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED];/home/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/stan $ Script done on Mon Mar 8 15:31:28 2004 And on the machine at work: Script started on Mon Mar 8 15:31:41 2004 ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED];/home/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/stan $ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default170.85.109.1 UGSc6 19ed1 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 262lo0 XXX.85.109/25 link#3 UC 40ed1 XXX.85.109.1 00:e0:16:75:06:84 UHLW61ed1 1125 XXX.85.109.104 00:e0:98:04:28:0c UHLW22lo0 XXX.85.109.109 00:60:97:15:e8:da UHLW0 335ed1811 XXX.85.109.127 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 2 191ed1 192.168.0.1192.168.1.1UH 1 237 tun0 205.159.77 192.168.1.1UGSc0 20ed1 ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED];/home/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/stan $ Script done on Mon Mar 8 15:31:48 2004 What am I doing wrong? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update Utility
On Monday, March 08, 2004 1:56:24 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:22:09 -0500 |From: Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: Update utility |To: Ioannis Vranos [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed | | |On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: | | Is there any utility in FreeBSD 4.9 to check for possible updates/bug | fixes | via internet? | | |I *think* have have kind of a handle on this on the server I just |installed... | |I usually do a cvsup to update the list of the ports tree, then use a |procedure I picked out of http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php |to update applications with portupgrade. | |If anyone else has a method other than this, I'd love to know the |procedure :-) | |This only updates ports. Updating FreeBSD, I don't know of anything |other than if you find a security advisory, you have to have the src |tree and patch that portion and recompile whatever had the |vulnerability, following the advisory instructions. I'm thinking that |since most daemons/applications are from ports, keeping your ports tree |updated should limit most remote exploits...I would be interested in |knowing of a way to check whether the installation of the OS is up to |date, though. ** Reply Separator ** Monday, March 08, 2004 3:24:31 PM I use what many might consider a rather contorted mix of programs to update my system. First, I log in as root. I could use 'sudo' but I have found that at times portupgrade does not work correctly with it. Even when I add the '-s' switch. In any case, I run them in the following order as specified. 1) cvsup 2) pkgdb -aFfuv 3) portsdb -Uu 4) portupgrade -aDDPrRvy 5) periodic weekly I am not sure if this is the absolute correct way to do things; however, so far I have not experienced any problems doing it this way. You could skip step five if your system is on 24/7 or at least when the cron job is scheduled to run. You might want to throw a 'portsclean -CDDLPP' into the mix also prior to step five. I am sure that others will have far better suggestions. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portsdb issues
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 17:00, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I waited a bit, then ran cvsup on the ports, once more, and this time there was more to download, including a new INDEX-5 file. I ran portsdb -Uu once more, and it worked perfectly. I guess my ports tree was out of sync somehow. Whoa... if that was out of sync, then cvsup2 is _still_ out of sync. I'm running make describe to find the broken ports. So far I found: /usr/ports/devel/sparc-rtems-gdb /usr/ports/databases/namazu2 /usr/ports/net/samba-devel /usr/ports/www/mozilla-bonobo /usr/ports/converters/ktextdecode /usr/ports/devel/kdesdk3 /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop /usr/ports/devel/linux-glib2 /usr/ports/devel/linux-libglade /usr/ports/devel/qt-designer /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gconf2 /usr/ports/devel/ruby-glib2 /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gnomevfs /usr/ports/devel/ruby-libglade /usr/ports/devel/ruby-libglade2 /usr/ports/lang/klogoturtle /usr/ports/ftp/kbear /usr/ports/mail/kshowmail /usr/ports/misc/bookcase /usr/ports/misc/katalog /usr/ports/misc/kde3-i18n-af make describe complains on each of them. I have already dumped the ports tree and cvsup'ed it completely fresh. (First cvsup yesterday afternoon, last cvsup today around noon.) Is there something wrong with cvsup2 perhaps? BTW: All on 4.8-RELEASE-p15 if that matters. I never had that many issues with the ports in the past. It all started recently when sparc-rtems-gdb and namazu2 went belly up. Regards, Frank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hacked
At 2004-03-08T18:56:15Z, re re [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello despite having ipfilter blocking all ports except 80 21 and 22, tripwire, and scoring 99 in nmap, my website got defaced. Despite locking my door to my house, pulling the curtains, and sitting in a dark living room with a loaded gun and a Dobermann Pinscher, someone broke into my office. Your server is probably relatively secure - congratulations on proactively defending your system. However, even the most secure system in the world can run cruddy applications. If your website was running PHPNuke or something from Matt's Script Archive, then don't be surprised if your website (and possibly other files readable or writeable by the user Apache runs under) have been altered. This can be annoying, but doesn't mean that the rest of your system is 0wn3d. You mention that you have Tripwire. Excellent! The very first step is to audit that changelog like the life of your server depends on it (hint: it does). Personally, if there are more than a handful of changes to /usr/src or /usr/ports, then I'd nuke those subdirectories and repopulate them from a trusted backup or another server. Basically, don't waste hours trying to decide whether cvsup or a cracker altered /usr/ports/shells/bash2/Makefile when it's very simple to restore a known-good copy. Also, get in the habit of checking and updating your Tripwire database immediately before major file-updating processes like make update, make installworld, etc. That way, you can reduce a vast number of false-positives from the change list so that this is an easier task next time. Next, Keep Your Public Services Updated (tm). Don't run an old version of Apache or PHPBB if you value your security. Any skript-kiddie has an arsenal of web service attacks for popular systems. Repeat: keep up with those security patches! Good luck. It sounds like you're doing the right things. Just keep current, keep your firewall tight, don't run stuff you don't need, and keep using Tripwire. -- Kirk Strauser 94 outdated ports on the box, 94 outdated ports. Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done, 82 outdated ports on the box. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
network type console and /etc/ttys
/etc/ttys has a field called type and says that network is an option, but I can't find that expanded upon in its manpage or in the Handbook or FAQ. I've tried googling, but my searches either return a small list with no relevant info or a huge list that seems to be all off topic. The file has network for Pseudo terminals (ttyp#), but that isn't enough of a clue for me, either. The basic question is whether and how one can set up a remote (LAN) terminal, probably using that network type in /etc/ttys (without using X11). How does one specify which network port, for example? It seems like it should be handled very much like setting up a RS-232-type serial terminal. The original problem was whether and how one can do that for the console terminal, to support even single-user mode. Seems like basic stuff, but I've never seen mention of it before. Thanks. (And a guy on a local mailing list who's about to buy a multiport serial card might thank you too.) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why can't I write this file?
Hi, I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied writting to this file even though I'm in the group and the group has write permissions. Did I forgot something or is this strange? I thougth I should be able to write as user akruijff ls -loa drwxrwxr-x 2 www www - 512 Mar 8 21:57 ./ drwxr-xr-x 16 akruijff akruijff - 1024 Mar 6 18:48 ../ -rwxrwxr-x 1 www www - 4743 Mar 8 21:52 file.php* -rwxrwxr-x 1 www www - 2431 Mar 8 21:53 functions.php* -rwxrwxr-x 1 www www - 299 Mar 7 00:20 preview.php* cat /etc/group www:*:80:akruijff cat /etc/passwd akruijff:*:1001:0:Alex de Kruijff:/home/akruijff:/bin/csh -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: /root file system full
Yes, Bob you are right. The real problem was running KDE while logged in as root, not installing ports. I deleted all the files that KDE placed in / and now everything is fine. Once again, thanks Ron -Original Message- From: Bob Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 6 March 2004 3:24 PM To: Ron Joordens Subject: Re: /root file system full On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:55 pm, you wrote: Bob, Thanks for taking the time to answer my query. My filesystem setup is the default one as suggested during the installation. IE. 128mb for /root, 512mb for /swap, 256mb for /var, 256mb for /tmp and the rest of the 6gb partition (slice) for /usr. A detail: / and /root are not the same thing. The root partition is /, while /root is a directory named root in that partition. I currently think as a result of some of the answers I have received, that the problem is that I have been logging in as root to install ports etc, when I should have been logging in as a user and doing an su to root to install. I don't believe this is your problem. It is a good security precaution, but AFAIK, it won't affect where files end up when you install ports. Some of the security issues are: doing routine operations as root creates the risk that a minor typing error will do major damage that an unprivileged user wouldn't be able to do; if an attacker manages to steal your password, hijack a remote login session, or whatever, they still won't have root access (make them work for it); on multi-administrator systems it provides some degree of accountability; it lets you prohibit remote logins by root (the FreeBSD default, by the way); and more that don't come to mind at the moment. Also running KDE etc while logged in as root may have written KDE files to me / directory. I know, silly boy, but to a beginner when the handbook says that ports can only be installed while logged in as root then I log in as root. The subtle difference between the two is nowhere explained. At least I haven't seen it. This part is accurate. Logging in to KDE as root will add some cruft to your / partition. And KDE always writes stuff into /var/tmp (or /tmp in older versions), regardless of which user invokes it. I shall certainly take note of your advice and have a look at deleting any temp and uneccessary files, creating symlinks and making the filesystems larger when I reinstall, as I inevitably will. Probably sooner rather than later. The whole point to this installation was to evaluate and learn Linux and BSD OSes. I have started with FreeBSD (in at the deep end -:) and will soon try out some of the Linuxes such as Redhat, Slackware, Mandrake and Gentoo. I will then choose a couple I like and reinstall in a more permanent manner. Thus I will have more space to play with later. So far I really like FreeBSD and plan to stick with it. I'll upgrade to 5.2 next install though. Thanks again, Ron Good luck. - Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Equalizer
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-10 06:57]: hi, i'm running what you might call a minimalist freebsd system for audio playback and i'm currently not running an x server. do you know of any audio equalizers which i could install without a lot of bulk? one that can be adjusted from a command line? i'm running a pcm-enabled kernel and oss on freebsd 4.7. /usr/ports/audio/umix I love it! -- Joshua Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him. -- Spock, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4729.4 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
