Re: Backup of hd using DD. (james.cook@utoronto.ca)
Just a point of conversation, heres what I usually do... Partition the disc into C / D Copy all the files from the Windows CD in Win98 to a folder on D, say win98.src Install Windows from there D:\win98.src\setup.exe Now install the rest of your software and get the install just the way you want it. Now all you have to do is use Norton Ghost (its frequently bundled with new motherboards) to make an image of C onto D. If anything goes wrong* in the future, Ghost the image back onto C and 4 minutes later you have a working system just the way you created it. You might be able to use G4U for this tasks also? http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ *Not in cases of HDD failure obviously, you could burn the image onto a CD though ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
parallel making
I have small network at home (2 machines with PentiumII/64mb ram with RELENG_5). How I can build system REALLY parallel (e.g. remote building and swapping via NFS) I saw to make(1) sources and found macros REMOTE, which if defined, enables(?) it. How it works now and how, if works? Does make(1) have this feature in CURRENT? -- Best regards, Tarc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Setting hostname - fake and real
-Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a pretty name for logins from my XP machine: 192.168.0.6my-xp-machine.org - Mark Ok, what IP do I put? My dynamic IP in the real world (which is pretty static in practice), or something else? The address you've used in your example looks like my vmnet addresses. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:00:50PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:42:46 PM -0500 Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive Bind is still included with the base FreeBSD OS. I've used it in the past and never had any problems with it. As always, YMMV. Has had being the operative phrase - that would be bind 4 and bind 8 - bind 9 which is a rewrite has a pretty solid record - also in the ports tree. BIND 9 is not only in the ports tree, it's the default bundled with FreeBSD 5.x: % dig @localhost version.bind CHAOS TXT [...] ;; ANSWER SECTION: version.bind. 0 CH TXT 9.3.0 But, more to the point, running the stock BIND in a chroot jail is completely automatic nowadays. All you need do is put 'named_enable=YES' into /etc/rc.conf. Performs well enough to serve typical home uses no problem. Bind 9.3.1 is on the horizon, and I hear that the plan is to build that threaded by default, which will improve responsiveness for more demanding environments. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK pgp0v8Poqj3cD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sysinstall: No disks found. Please verify ...
Hi! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELASE on Compaq Deskpro 4000 model 5166 ... snip +- Message -+ |No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being | |properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the | |Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem. | +---(100%)--+ Did you try with the BIOS's PLUG-N-PLAY OS set to OFF/NO? Unfortunately, Compaq Deskpro 4000 haven't such option in their Setup. I have no idea what to do next, but still a I do want to install FreeBSD on this machine. Thank you in advance, Robert Grzyb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to deal with spam for good?
This is bullshit, milter-greylist is in the ports. Greylisting does not require postfix. Just because YOU are too lazy to understand sendmail doesen't mean everyone else is. Keep in mind that Greylisting isn't going to be very effective for long if a lot of people adopt it. We run, like most ISP's, a very busy mailserver. If 3/4 of the hosts we were sending mail to did this, our server would be completely overloaded. Every other ISP in the world of any size would be in the same boat. Why should we have to go spend a lot of money buying a new mailserver that's 5 times more powerful just to handle your goofy filter? Long before the number of hosts greylisting got to 3/4 of the hosts on the Internet we would just reconfigure to start returning the mails back to our customers when we got a 541 and telling the customer to contact their coorespondent and tell the cooresponent to switch ISP's. If only a few hosts on the Internet are doing it, (and none of the major ISP's are right now) then all the rest of the big ISP's (like Hotmail) will do the same thing. If our customer's coorespondent cannot get mails from us and from hotmail, how long do you think he's going to put up with his ISP running a greylist? Long before this happened of course the spammers would mod their software to simply start retrying more. If you think about it, if they are sending a million mails a minute, and the greylist delay is 5 minutes, they merely need to construct a server that stores 5 million mails for a set period and then retries. The server never has to store more than 5 million mails at a time. It's just one more anti-spam filter that is utterly dependent on nobody else on the Internet doing it. Typical bright idea from some tech somewhere that understands just enough of the SMTP standards to cause a lot of trouble for people. The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles Swiger Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:51 PM To: Luciano Musacchio Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? On Mar 9, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Luciano Musacchio wrote: I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? Consider greylisting, amavisd, SpamAssassin, and a virus scanner of your choice. Greylisting needs postfix as your MTA at the moment, but is extremely effective for very few resources. Perl-based scripts like amavisd and SA are a lot more resource-intensive, perhaps dspam or other tools might also be worth looking at if your mail volume is high -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Native POSIX threads + Java under FreeBSD 5.3 release i386
Hi all, As is typical, I have once again been given very limited time to get something running, and there are some interesting things to figure about about it. :) In brief, the application is a distributed one, loosely based on some CORBA concepts, though differently (fortunately!). The supported programming languages are C/C++/Java/Ada, of which Java will probably be the one we would like to use. Now, the issue is (or may be), that the recommended (and only tested) platforms are Solaris and Linux (particularly Red Hat and SuSe - kernel versions 9). The apparent reason for this, is that the platform requires the NPTL (Native Posix Threads Library). I'm looking somewhat into the support for NPTL under FreeBSD 5.3 release i386, and I have come across the following URL: http://www.unobvious.com/bsd/freebsd-threads.html From this, it sounds like the LinuxThreads (i.e. /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads) should do the trick. However, I have no experience with these threads and I wonder whether it is a good idea to try to get the platform working under FreeBSD (my favourite Unix), or whether it may be better to install Red Hat or SuSe this once. :) Can anyone tell me something about the following: 1) Does the linuxthreads library provide 100% NPTL support, as under Linux? 2) Does usage of the library incur a kernel recompilation, or will all scripts of the platform have to be changed such that the linuxthreads library is linked in? 3) A different question: what is the best JDK 1.4.x port to install, and does one of those perhaps have support for NPTL? I hope anyone can help me out a bit with this, even if it only is about whether to make the best choice between figuring out how to get this platform going under FreeBSD (being the Unix with which most experience I have), or whether to try to go Linux and have a -perhaps- more straightforward installation of the platform (at the expense of not knowing the particular intricacies of those Linuxes). Help/opinions are very much appreciated. :) Cheers! Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?
Hi On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:34, cyb wrote: Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/077838.h tml http://bsdnews.org/03/cryptusb.php An ancrypted filesystem on a USB stick is nice, but the main idea of a dongle is to store information, that only the owner can change. (The data on it needs to be protected from the customer, not somebody who might steal the dongle.) -- br. j. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
Ben Paley wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a pretty name for logins from my XP machine: 192.168.0.6my-xp-machine.org - Mark Ok, what IP do I put? My dynamic IP in the real world (which is pretty static in practice), or something else? The address you've used in your example looks like my vmnet addresses. Cheers, Ben You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
What I use: Laser: HP Laserjet 4+. Incredibly cheap on the used market, Postscript simms for these are also cheap, take off the shelf ram, toner cartridges are also incredibly cheap off Ebay, or even from the local Office Depot which sells refurb ones. The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. The print server cards that go in them speak LPR directly to your UNIX boxes. They speak to every Mac ever made if you like Apples, including the lastest OSX. They have a front panel that is configurable with your fingers you don't need to run some damn Windows program that speaks to the printer. Inputs include a parallel and a serial port in addition to the network port if you get the network card. The 4+ will take a duplexer, and an envelop feeder, and a high capacity paper tray. What more could you possibly want in a laser? Some colored printer: Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port. The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson language that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so when ONE color runs out you just buy a new one of that, you don't have to chuck out the entire thing. Ink (once it dries) is impervious to water. Can obtain ink levels from a program with gimp-print so you don't have to run Windows for that either. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sergei Gnezdov Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:05 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:03, Chris Hodgins wrote: You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org I'll give that a go next! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:53:58 -0300 Luciano Musacchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? mail/dspampd and mail/dspam-devel As for the lists, our postmaster has some nice header_checks (possibly body_checks also) and uses a few RBLs. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: This is bullshit, milter-greylist is in the ports. Greylisting does not require postfix. Just because YOU are too lazy to understand sendmail doesen't mean everyone else is. I've paid my dues to sendmail: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups? as_ugroup=comp.mail.sendmailas_uauthors=Chuck+Swiger ...shows about 900 postings from me. As of sendmail-8.11, and even early 8.12's perhaps, greylisting via sendmail wasn't possible because the MILTER API didn't support it. If the situation has been improved and you can greylist with sendmail now, that's fine. What isn't fine is your attitude: FOAD. Keep in mind that Greylisting isn't going to be very effective for long if a lot of people adopt it. Your opinion differs. If our customer's coorespondent cannot get mails from us and from hotmail, how long do you think he's going to put up with his ISP running a greylist? If a customer isn't happy with you, they'll take their business elsewhere. Lord knows I wouldn't blame them, either. Long before this happened of course the spammers would mod their software to simply start retrying more. If you think about it, if they are sending a million mails a minute, and the greylist delay is 5 minutes, they merely need to construct a server that stores 5 million mails for a set period and then retries. The server never has to store more than 5 million mails at a time. Let them retry more. There is more than one way to deal with UCE, and shifting the burden to the spammers, making them consume lots of time for minimal resources is amoung those ways. It's just one more anti-spam filter that is utterly dependent on nobody else on the Internet doing it. Typical bright idea from some tech somewhere that understands just enough of the SMTP standards to cause a lot of trouble for people. Someone whose SMTP engine is unwilling to retry delivering email after the first response is refused with a 4xx code is the one failing to understand RFC-822/2822. Real mailers retry at a recommended 1 hour interval for a recommended maximum queue length of 5 days, per RFC. Once you've whitelisted your clients and covered 95+% of incoming mail, up your greylisting time from 5 to say, 59 minutes, works wonders. The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. SPF is another way of dealing with UCE. It's not hard to find people who have implemented SPF in their DNS, either. I haven't seen it do much good as yet... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On 2005-03-10T01:49:20-0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip caustic commentary] [snip real-life facts] The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. Ted While not all-encompassing, I found the following site to be very useful, not just for finding problems with my own domains, but finding out why my draconian Postfix config would reject email from some friends (check the NANOG archives for Verizon's retarded SMTP tactics). http://www.dnsreport.com/ That site also turned me onto SPF[1] records in DNS, which I think is what Ted is talking about (or something similar). If not, I am sure that he will correct me. [1] http://spf.pobox.com/ -- Mike Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] pgpcwqBS2wdrK.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: t1000e tape drive
HP stopped supporting this drive after Windows 98, see here: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lp g15246locale=en_US What you have is basically a floppy controller tape drive. If you have a parallel port one then you have a floppy controller tape drive inside a case that has an interface card that on one side speaks parallel port and the other side speaks floppy port. Nothing like this was ever supported in FreeBSD. Years ago FreeBSD did have a floppy port tape drive driver. I only got it to work once on a 486/33. (I should have kept the machine as it was so rare to find one that worked) If you extracted your tape drive from it's case and plugged it into the floppy controller you might be able to load up a really old FreeBSD version and get it running. But this driver was removed from FreeBSD right around the time that HP stopped supporting your drive. This is why these tape drives are so cheap. If you really want to mess with a Travan tape drive under FreeBSD then find a used SCSI one like the following: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=39979item=5171718 413rd=1 But I would recommend against this for an experimenter - instead find a DDS3 12/24GB 4mm DAT drive off Ebay that hasn't been beat up too bad. The media is cheap and these are pretty compatible with everything. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: t1000e tape drive I just purchased a t1000e paralel port tape backup drive and cannot find any info on how to make it work on freebsd 4.10 stable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to deal with spam for good?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. Which, of course, will do nothing to stop spam, but only forgeries. This issue has been dealt with many times upon the anti-spam lists. -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: in-kernel pppoe ?
Am Mittwoch, 9. März 2005 17:32 schrieb J.D. Bronson: Does 5.4PRE offer in-kernel pppoe to use to connect to my DSL ISP (pppoe)? Yes, you can use kernelmode PPP (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.html) or netgraph (man 4 netgraph). For netgraph you need mpd from the ports to control it. -Harry I have userland pppoe configured and running and was wondering if anyone has this working and opinions... Thanks :) pgpGUpx6uXEdE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall on a machine that will host a webserver as well as my mailserver. I am interested in setting up IMAP access to email for my users (do not care for POP3 access). However, I found installation instructions on qmailrocks.org and followed them to the letter (note to the author - /usr/home/vpopmail does not exist - I had to create it by hand - maybe the first shell script on step 2 needs some editing ?), until I installed vqadmin and setup the passwd and placed .htpasswd in /usr/local/www/cgi-bin, restarted apache (built from ports), and tried to login through the cgi interface from another machine. Ports www, 8080 and https are open in /etc/pf.conf. But I keep getting Waiting for FQDN and never can authenticate with the right password. A couple of possibilities. The default installation of vpopmail puts the vpopmail directory in /usr/local and if you want to use /usr/home you have to supply the correct argument to vpopmail when you build it. From /usr/ports/mail/vpopmail/Makefile: [...] # User-configurable variables # # Define these to change from the default behaviour # [...] # PREFIX- installation area for vpopmail (see comment below) [...] # Uncomment this, or set PREFIX to /home if you have an existing # vpopmail install with the vpopmail users' home directory set to # /home/vpopmail - package rules dictate we default to /usr/local/vpopmail # #PREFIX?= /home Note that this will, in my experience, create some odd directory trees in /usr/home (such as /usr/home/lib and /usr/home/libexec) which can safely be deleted subsequently. I don't use vqadmin, but this would need to know where to find the vpopmail binaries, and I can't see any make options that might define this, so that might be a major stumbling block. A possible cause of the behaviour you report would be that vqadmin is trying to run vpopmail binaries with inappropriate paths, or to read directory structures in the wrong place. One workaround, if your real vpopmail directory is in /usr/local and you do need it to be in /usr/home is to symlink /usr/local/vpopmail to /usr/home/vpopmail. Incidentally, the FreeBSD installation of qmail recommends using /var/service and much of the qmail documentation assumes the existence of /service. My own approach to this is to use /var/service but then symlink it to /service so that anything that assumes the existence of this directory will work. However, neither vpopmail not vqadmin would give you an imap server, and you don't say whether you have installed one separately. You do need to and a commonly used option in this case would be courier-imap because it's written by the same folk who brought us vpopmail, and integrates well with this and qmail. It isn't the only choice, of course, and you're generally best advised to use something you're familiar with. The question is : What am I possibly doing wrong ? A port that is not open, or is it some other problem that a FreeBSD / Qmail newbie might have missed ? It's generally best to use default installation locations with ports, especially when you're installing a few that will work with each other. Then, before testing a cgi interface like vqadmin, make sure everything works. Test qmail, (telnet) test imap, test vpopmail with a domain and a user or two on the command line. If these things aren't working properly, then vqadmin won't either. www.lifewithqmail.org is probably the most authoritative site to use as a reference, together with inter7's website and http://cr.yp.to for some perhaps slightly terse but very good initial docs. If you need more help, maybe say whether you have installed an imap server, and whether the underlying technologies - qmail, vpopmail, imap - are working. Peter. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE
Hi, This is the output of top: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 40M Active, 63M Inact, 45M Wired, 16K Cache, 35M Buf, 99M Free Swap: 487M Total, 487M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 622 mysql 200 58104K 28040K kserel 0:01 0.64% 0.63% mysqld 587 root 960 16888K 10592K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd 652 root 960 6252K 4536K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% snmpd [...] Strange uh ? The system seems normal besides that. I only saw that because sendmail stopped aceppting connections because of the high load. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #6: Mon Feb 14 09:32:36 BRST 2005 -- Giovanni PS.: Please CC: me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPv6 setup script ... doesn't work!!
Mario,
Thank you! I am beyond appreciation and respect to you!
I feel I also learned a lot about shell scripting while doing this.
You are truly a kind soul for letting your experience influence
my life, man. Again, thank you.
1) How would this setup look in rc.conf?
Since FreeBSD 5 is all about centralizing, they say,
I'd appreciate being able to move all my vital configuration
into one place.
2) Does this code look OK now then?
case $1 in
start)
ifconfig gif create
ifconfig gif0 inet 213.187.181.70 213.121.24.85
ifconfig gif0 inet6 2001:618:400::d5bb:b546 prefixlen 128
route add -inet6 default 'fe80::%gif0'
ifconfig lnc0 inet6 2001:618:400:6ad9:: prefixlen 64
sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
/usr/sbin/rtadvd lnc0
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo IPv6 activated.
else
echo IPv6 activation failed. 12
exit 1
fi
;;
stop)
killall -m rtadvd
sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=0
ifconfig fxp0 inet6 2001:618:400:6ad9:: prefixlen 64 delete
route delete -inet6 default fe80::%gif0
ifconfig gif0 inet6 2001:618:400::d5bb:b546 prefixlen 128 delete
ifconfig gif0 delete
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo IPv6 deactivated.
else
echo IPv6 deactivation failed 12
exit 1
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
echo Pausing 5 seconds before restart ...
sleep 5
$0 start
;;
*)
echo Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop|restart} 12
exit 1
esac
exit 0
3) By the way, are you up for hire?
All the best,
-- Fafa
- Original Message -
From: Mario Hoerich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IPv6 setup script ... doesn't work!!
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:02:21 +0100
# Fafa Diliha Romanova:
# ifconfig gif create
Try uncommenting this (by removing the '#').
gifconfig gif0 inet 213.187.181.70 213.121.24.85
Looks like a typo, this is probably just ifconfig.
route add -inet6 default fe80::%gif0
The shell will mangle this. Quote it, like 'fe80::%gif0'.
ifconfig fxp0 inet6 2001:618:400:6ad9:: prefixlen 64
Replace every occurence of fxp0 with your ethernet NIC (i.e. xl0).
sysctl ?w net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1
^^
Another typo, this is supposed to be -w.
echo IPv6 activation complete! ||
{ echo IPv6 activation failed! 12; exit 1; }
;;
Eh? So if echo on stdout fails, we're moving to stderr?
What am I missing here?
I'd guess the actual intent was more like
/usr/sbin/rtadvd fxp0
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo IPv6 activated.
else
echo IPv6 activation failed. 12
exit 1
fi
gifconfig gif0 delete
echo IPv6 deactivation complete! ||
{ echo IPv6 deactivation failed! 12; exit 1; }
;;
More junk code.
echo Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}
echo Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop|restart} 12
Where did I go wrong?
You didn't. The script is rotten.
Regards,
Mario
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Re: How to identify xterm font
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: I like the size of the xterm window. It is small and it uses very easy to read font. Unfortunately, it does not play very well with emacs. For these reasons I use Gnome terminal. Gnome font is bigger, thus it takes more space on the screen. How do I identify which font is used by xterm, so I can apply it for gnome terminal? Gnome terminal uses Xft, so I'd say you'd first have to mess with fontconfig and alias your xterm core font to an appropriate Xft font. I also would like to know why my ~/.Xdefaults configuration is not applied in Gnome. It worked just fine in KDE and most other environments. try ln -s .Xdefaults .Xresources ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to deal with spam for good?
-Original Message- From: Charles Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:17 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions list Subject: Re: how to deal with spam for good? On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: This is bullshit, milter-greylist is in the ports. Greylisting does not require postfix. Just because YOU are too lazy to understand sendmail doesen't mean everyone else is. I've paid my dues to sendmail: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups? as_ugroup=comp.mail.sendmailas_uauthors=Chuck+Swiger ...shows about 900 postings from me. As of sendmail-8.11, and even early 8.12's perhaps, greylisting via sendmail wasn't possible because the MILTER API didn't support it. FreeBSD 4.EIGHT came with Sendmail 8.12.8 out of the box. OK, so now your not too lazy to understand Sendmail, you just have a gigantic chip on your shoulder against it so your going to ignore the most popular MTA on the planet and pretend it doesen't exist. Fine, just don't contaminate anyone else particularly a newbie. If the situation has been improved and you can greylist with sendmail now, that's fine. Not a question of -if-. What isn't fine is your attitude: FOAD. I FOAD any technical idea that the cure is as bad or worse than the disease. Spammers waste everyone else's network resources for their own gain. A greylist on a mailserver, particularly a busy one, causes an enormous waste of bandwidth because every legitimate mailserver that is sending to you has to re-initiate the connection to you - meaning they have to send the same handshake packets all over again that you had properly received in the beginning. If you have a small mailserver that processes few mails you might argue that this is of no consequence to the rest of the world and be correct. But if you have a large mailserver, the amount of bandwidth chewed up on the Internet by this kind of a trick, espically if everyone in the world does it, you can perhaps see that greylisting is nothing more than a scheme to waste other people's resources and bandwidth for your own personal gain. The differences between spammers and greylisters is very thin indeed. Keep in mind that Greylisting isn't going to be very effective for long if a lot of people adopt it. Your opinion differs. Yup, and since my opinion is based on logic, and yours (apparently) is based on emotion, your opinion is worthless and mine is valuable. That's the case until you start substantiating your opinion with some logical explanations of how Greylisting is going to scale to the entire Internet. Remember, unless everyone on the Internet can run a greylist, it is nothing more than an elitist solution that works for a few people at everyone else's expense. If our customer's coorespondent cannot get mails from us and from hotmail, how long do you think he's going to put up with his ISP running a greylist? If a customer isn't happy with you, they'll take their business elsewhere. Lord knows I wouldn't blame them, either. Are you being deliberately dense? I'm not talking about OUR customer I'm talking about the coorespondent of our customer and his relationship with his ISP. On the Internet there are a handful of ISPs or ASPs or whatever you call them who send out _enormous_ numbers of _legitimate_ mail. AOL, is one, Hotmail is another, MSN is another. Long, long before greylisting starts wasting too much of our bandwidth it will be wasting huge amounts of bandwidth of these companies. They are not going to want that, and they are going to retaliate. And the easiest way of retaliating is when they identify a greylisting mailserver, to just stop even attempting to send mail to it. Particularly hotmail, which has NOTHING WHATSOVER to lose since they give out e-mail accouts FOR FREE. Do you think that Hotmail gives a shit if some puffed up crumb announces to them that they are pulling their e-mail account out of Hotmail and finding another ISP because Hotmail has stopped delivering mail to greylisters? Of course not. And in the meantime the other 99% of hotmail subscribers that cannot send mail to the greylister - well they are too stupid to understand what good e-mail is (otherwise why do you think they have hotmail accounts to begin with) and they will simply swallow it when Hotmail blames the greylisters mailserver, they will then complain to their coorespondent who is using the greylister, and that coorespondent even if he loves his ISP's greylisting mailserver, if he wants to keep getting mail from the moron hotmail users, he's going to tell his ISP to knock it off with the greylisting. I an sorry you don't seem to understand this. It is possibly all because it is part of what is called SCALABILITY in networking. Greylisting is NOT scalable. It ONLY WORKS if a few people running very low volume mailservers do it. It will fall apart if a lot of people try
/usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup
hello. i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup. like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo daemon, while some echo daemon, so on startup whereas it should look like: daemon daemon deamon it may look like: daemondaemon daemon 1.2 Loaded successfully!daemon is there a uniform way to identify echos and make them display properly? thanks! all the best, fafa -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
LM Hi, LM I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), LM I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give LM me a hint on this? LM thanks Spamers are too lazy to subscribe freebsd-questions, so they can't post here :) -- WBR, Dmitry Kozhevnikovmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to deal with spam for good?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Horsfall Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:42 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: how to deal with spam for good? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. Which, of course, will do nothing to stop spam, but only forgeries. This issue has been dealt with many times upon the anti-spam lists. Correct, however when I go to the police to report criminal spamming activity, it gets a lot better response when I can tell them who is doing it. :-) Don't be impatient. There are a lot of pieces that still have to be placed before the spam is going to start dropping. We aren't going to see much change until at least 2010 because by then most of the Windows XP desktop systems will be flushed out of the network, and replaced with the next version of Windows which will be much harder to find holes in. I don't have a lot of respect for Microsoft but I will say that once they get moving in a general direction, they are like the Borg they don't stop until everything has been assimilated. Microsoft only gave lip service to computer security until just a couple years ago, but they are finally moving in that direction, and they are not going to stop for a long time yet. Once you see most of the desktops on the Internet behind firewalls and translators, and being forceably updated with security patches, without the consent or even knowledge of their owners, a lot of this hit and run spamming is going to die down. That will flush out the amateur spammers that operate out of their garages and make a few extra bucks at it, and push a lot of the spam to the professionals, who will get a lot richer and thus make far more attractive targets to the collection of state DA's who's job it is to go after them. And the more agressive those people get the more the large networks are going to be encouraged to be nasty also. Red China is pretty successful at filtering stuff that goes into that country, they are proof that the technology exists to clamp down on offshore spammers. It is merely a political problem of generating the necessary will among the ISP's and their customers to deploy that technology in the US, but that will is slowly being developed. It would have happened sooner but for the pioneer wild west mythos attached to the Internet in the US, just because it started here, and it's taken a long time to stamp that out. Also don't forget too that the war on drugs would be pointless if they didn't arrest the people buying the stuff as well as the people selling the stuff. So far the lawmakers have focused on the spammers selling the spam, but what isn't discussed is that spam wouldn't happen if people wern't buying the stuff spammers are pushing. It's not out of the realm of possibility to make it illegal to buy products from a spammer, and a few high profile prosecutions of purchasers would do wonders to reduce the revenue stream that feeds spammers, don't you think? I better stop now before you think I'm a total devil. :-) But seriously the problems with spam are growing to be more of a political/economic/criminal nature than a technical nature. Solutions are going to have to come from the governments, not from the techs. And they will unfortunately be solutions that are not as clean as ones the technical community will want to use, but they will be more effective, in the same way a club is more effective at opening a door than a lockpick is. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: FreeBSD 4.EIGHT came with Sendmail 8.12.8 out of the box. OK, so now your not too lazy to understand Sendmail, you just have a gigantic chip on your shoulder against it so your going to ignore the most popular MTA on the planet and pretend it doesen't exist. Dude, half my mailservers are running sendmail. Sendmail's fine. As for chips on the shoulder: pot, kettle, black. Fine, just don't contaminate anyone else particularly a newbie. When was the last time someone thanked you for diatribes like these, Ted? You're wasting more time than just mine with this drivel, and frankly, your rabid personal attacks say more about you then they do about me. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:13:53 -0300 Giovanni P. Tirloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is the output of top: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 48 processes: 1 running, 47 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 40M Active, 63M Inact, 45M Wired, 16K Cache, 35M Buf, 99M Free Swap: 487M Total, 487M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 622 mysql 200 58104K 28040K kserel 0:01 0.64% 0.63% mysqld 587 root 960 16888K 10592K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd 652 root 960 6252K 4536K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% snmpd [...] Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same. from the handbook is what comes to my mind. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look at www.linuxprinting.org. Anything that is claimed to work perfectly will probably work well with FreeBSD - go for ones with commonly-used drivers. In general, HP and Epson printers usually work; Canon and Lexmark are more problematic. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ng_netlow and mpd
Hello Freebsd-questions, I have ip statistics collector based on ng_netflow. It was working on old server, but now (server was reinstalled due to HDD failure). But now it is working with ethernet interfaces and not working with pptp (mpd). All configs and kernel was restored from backup. Is there any ideas? -- Best regards, Alexandr mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup
On 2005-03-10 06:45, Fafa Diliha Romanova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup. like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo daemon, while some echo daemon, so on startup whereas it should look like: daemon daemon deamon it may look like: daemondaemon daemon 1.2 Loaded successfully!daemon is there a uniform way to identify echos and make them display properly? thanks! I usually edit the offending scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: # cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d # vi * and make them all use a uniform notification: echo -n foo This does require a bit of shell scripting foo, but it shouldn't be that hard. If it proves more difficult than you expected, feel free to post the script here or personally to me and ask for help. - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts: echo on startup
On Thursday 10 March 2005 06:45 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: hello. i'm just wondering how to deal with the way the rc.d scripts echo on startup. like, some of the rc.d scripts contain the echo daemon, while some echo daemon, so on startup whereas it should look like: daemon daemon deamon it may look like: daemondaemon daemon 1.2 Loaded successfully!daemon is there a uniform way to identify echos and make them display properly? thanks! all the best, fafa You could edit rc.d remove the spaces and replace them with . so it would make it look like: daemon.daemon.daemon.daemon. You could also edit the echo strings so that the spaces are at the beginning/end for all of them... Either way, the output would essentially be the same: daemon deamon daemon daemon deamon daemon man echo? Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:50, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD? See http://www.safenet-inc.com. They make dongles and (USB) hardware keys for software products and they mention support for Linux and OS X, so they may have something. Great! Those guys seem to have drivers for FreeBSD 5.0+ for programming their USB dongles. Thanks Anthony -- br. j. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Mar 9, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Mike Hauber wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 10:53 pm, Luciano Musacchio wrote: Hi, I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? thanks heh... I'm working on that right now, actually... :) There are so many options and combinations out there, it wouldn't be worth it to list them. From my experience (somewhat limited)... If you're running sendmail on FreeBSD, then SpamAssassin and clamav running thorugh MIMEDefang is probably the best way to go (MIMEDegang is pretty cool and it simplifies the whole process... and it supports a lot of other stuff too) At the moment we're running FreeBSD 4.x with postfix, clamav, and spamassassin via amavisd-new; after processing the message is injected into another postfix queue where it's forwarded to an internal mail server. Is there an easy way to plug mimedefang into that kind of setup? Is there a nice howto on the subject? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipfw tango
Hello, I have a legacy application that makes a direct connection to a hardcoded IP address and port. I need this connection to be made instead transparently through a SSH tunnel. For this to work, I need to tell the kernel to forward all packets destined to myserver:myport instead go to localhost:mySshTunnelPort. So far so good. The tunnel works correctly yet I can't rewrite those packets to go through the tunnel. Here's the rule sudo ipfw add fwd localhost, tcp from any to 12.129.232.116 3724 All goes well, the rule is added, it's even hit, but it fails to work. To make matters even more confusing, I've tried to forward ports only on localhost i.e. a telnet on localhost 555 gets transparently rewritten to localhost 333. Again, the rule is hit since the counter is incremented in ipfw show, yet the connection is NEVER completed. Any ideas? -- Andrei Faust Tanasescu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same. from the handbook is what comes to my mind. I've also seen ridiculously-high load numbers when NFS-mounted filesystems are inaccessible. Usually that degrades system performance, though. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installworld fails (5.4-PRE)
I cvsup'd to 5.4-PRE and built world. (I was already in 5.4-PRE).. I have never had any issues until today World and kernel built fine. I follow the same steps as always but this time I have a twist: # make installkernel - that works fine # make installworld ... ... ... cd: can't cd to /usr/include/dev/acpica *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/src/include. *** Error code 1 Humm... shadow# cd /usr/include/dev shadow# ls -al total 38 drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 512 Mar 9 20:37 . drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 4608 Mar 9 20:37 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 an drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 bktr drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 firewire drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 ic drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 9 20:37 ieee488 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 27 20:09 iicbus drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 ofw drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 ppbus drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 27 20:09 smbus drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Mar 2 17:00 usb drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 utopia drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:04 wi Well...why is it trying to cd into a directory that does not exist? and how do I fix this? Thanks :) -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Pager: 414.314.8282 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE
David Fleck wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same. from the handbook is what comes to my mind. I've compiled from the same source. I've also seen ridiculously-high load numbers when NFS-mounted filesystems are inaccessible. Usually that degrades system performance, though. It's strange because everything is working fine and I don't use NFS on it. For example, the load hits 900 and suddenly it's 3. -- Giovanni ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port. The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson language that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so when ONE color runs out you just buy a new one of that, you don't have to chuck out the entire thing. Ink (once it dries) is impervious to water. Can obtain ink levels from a program with gimp-print so you don't have to run Windows for that either. Yes, just to confirm that I have a C84 and I am very happy with it. Works fine on FreeBSD 5.3. Ramiro. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:27:05 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd: can't cd to /usr/include/dev/acpica *** Error code 2 shadow# cd /usr/include/dev shadow# ls -al -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica and how do I fix this? The problem here is that the acpica folder is not executable (you can not cd into it). chmod 755 acpica should solve it. Thanks :) -- J.D. Bronson -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Stickers
I would like to know where I can buy FreeBSD stickers. Please let me know, thank you. Respectfully, Tracy Antonio Barella ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)
At 07:48 AM 03/10/2005, Pietro Cerutti wrote: shadow# cd /usr/include/dev shadow# ls -al -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica and how do I fix this? The problem here is that the acpica folder is not executable (you can not cd into it). chmod 755 acpica should solve it. Thanks :) drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 512 Mar 9 20:37 . drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 4608 Mar 9 20:37 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica But acpica is -not- a directory ??? -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Pager: 414.314.8282 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Stickers
Antonio Barella (tbar628) writes: I would like to know where I can buy FreeBSD stickers. Please let me know, thank you. http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdsticker?id=gDB8Sjtxmv_pc=94 /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.FreeBSD.org */ PGP-key available upon request /* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer I am not able to work whith all in one : HP1210 or lexmark x75. -- (° Dhénin Jean-Jacques / ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!
Hello, I just switched my computer to a new case yesterday and now it won't boot. However, Windows boots fine (I dual boot). Here are some of the messages that FreeBSD has while it is starting up: ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 Then there are a couple more messages and it goes to this prompt: mountroot What can I do to get this working again? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuration of current kernel
# Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. # Followups set to freebsd-questions. On 2005-03-10 10:25, h p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to recompile my kernel for disk encryption support (options GEOM_BDE). I am right now running an out-of-the-box 5.3-RELEASE kernel. I noticed that some kernel modules I use are missing in the GENERIC kernel configuration file (such as ext2fs and snd_emu10k1). The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel configuration. It's also the one that is distributed with the FreeBSD release CD-ROMs as the default kernel. You can always add whatever you want to a custom kernel configuration file, say LOCAL, and use the kernel built from that config file. I am worrying that these features will not work if I install a new kernel. Of course, I could just try and restore the old kernel, if not. With Linux, there is a solution to get the current kernel configuration (in /proc/config.gz). Is there such a thing under FreeBSD? The kernel installation process, if you follow the instructions from /usr/src/UPDATING or the Handbook, should be: # cd /usr/src # make KERNCONF=LOCAL installkernel This will keep a backup of the GENERIC kernel in: /boot/kernel.old You can also make a backup copy of the GENERIC kernel, if you want to keep it safe from continuous installkernel runs, by manually copying /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.GENERIC right after FreeBSD has been installed: # cd /boot # cp -Rp kernel kernel.GENERIC Then, if anything does wrong, you can always interrupt the boot loader before a broken kernel boots and boot into kernel.GENERIC. This is as easy as hitting ESC or any key that is not ENTER, and writing at the OK prompt of the loader: OK unload OK boot kernel.GENERIC I admit I haven't yet quite understood how the kernel recompilation works. How do I configure features as a module? Anything that is not compiled in the kernel by the kernel config file is built as a module and installed as a *.ko file in /boot/kernel. Also, there are some features, which don't seem to be documented... at least not in the NOTES file. You're looking at the wrong NOTES file. There are two NOTES files on any given architecture that FreeBSD supports: 1) The architecture-independent NOTES file, listing options common to all the possible architectures: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. 2) The architecture-dependent NOTES in /usr/src/sys/ARCH/conf/NOTES, where ARCH is one of: i386, sparc64, amd64, alpha, powerpc, etc. ext2fs is an example. Is there a comprehensive list anywhere? The two NOTES files (architecture independent and architecture dependent) should be all you need. - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. Am thinking we dropped a couple of orders of magnitude. 10k copies should be two toner cartridges. And while I agree there are probably a lot on the market with less than 10k pages I can hardly ever remember using a printer at work with less than 100k. 300k was common. I do agree, a printer with ethernet and built-in Postscript will result in the best output and easiest support. Current employer has a Canon imageRunner 330 all in one fax, copier printer, beast. Only speaks PCL5e because they are a Windows shop and don't understand the notion of accurate output. Tell it to print duplex from Windows XP with a 0.500 gutter margin to punch holes in and it will dutifully put the margin on the left on both sides. Prints the backside shifted into the holes. Am exploring CUPS on the FreeBSD machine I brought from home. Looking to use it as a Postscript RIP to see if I can get better copy out of the Canon. Its not important enough to spend more than a few spare moments here and there as I am NOT I.T. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ng_netlow and mpd
, Alexandr. AL Hello Freebsd-questions, AL I have ip statistics collector based on ng_netflow. AL It was working on old server, but now (server was reinstalled due to AL HDD failure). AL But now it is working with ethernet interfaces and not working with AL pptp (mpd). AL All configs and kernel was restored from backup. AL Is there any ideas? Yes, look if your server sends UDP packets to collector host (even it is local host). If not, try to cvsup and reinstall net/ng_netflow port. If yes, look where this packets are dropped. -, :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Strange load averages on 5.3-STABLE
please show us 1. cat /var/run/dmesg.boot 2. uname -a 3. egrep (^REVISION|^BRANCH) /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh GPT David Fleck wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Ross wrote: last pid: 771; load averages: 176.65, 770.13, 926.55 up 0+00:03:13 08:11:07 Your may have compiled kernel and userland from different sources. and programs like ps(1) and top(1) will fail to work until the kernel and source code versions are the same. from the handbook is what comes to my mind. GPT I've compiled from the same source. I've also seen ridiculously-high load numbers when NFS-mounted filesystems are inaccessible. Usually that degrades system performance, though. GPT It's strange because everything is working fine and I don't use NFS on GPT it. For example, the load hits 900 and suddenly it's 3. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
simple www forum software ?
Hi I'm searching for a simple www forum software I've found phpBB but it seems overkill for my needings flat files would be enough as the forum will serve 20 users max and a very low traffic. The goal is to share technical problems/solutions between around 20 sysadmins of multiples sites. I need a very basic forum that could manage several groups and a basic authentication with apache2. Thanks for any help , the server runs 5.3 -- Cordialement/Regards Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install FreeBSD 5.2R under Bochs-2.1.1
Hi! I want to install FreeBSD 5.2R within Bochs. I inserted FreeBSD bootable CD , and created a new 500Mb image file for virtual HD via bximage.exe tools. When I dedicated bochs boot from cd-rom , it seems un-bootable. Alternatively, I copied boot.flp to Bochs folder and booted from virutal floppy , it's bootable. but when it want to install whole system, I chose CD-ROM media , sysinstall said cannot mount /dev/acd0c , Input/Output error . what's happen ?! Do you have any the successful experience or any suggestion ?! R.G. ps. My bochs configuration is as following: megs: 64 # filename of ROM images romimage: file=$BXSHARE/BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf vgaromimage: $BXSHARE/VGABIOS-elpin-2.40 # what disk images will be used floppya: 2_88=boot.flp, status=inserted # hard disk ata0: enabled=1, ioaddr1=0x1f0, ioaddr2=0x3f0, irq=14 ata0-master: type=disk, path=c.img, cylinders=1015, heads=16, spt=63 ata0-slave: type=cdrom, path=/dev/acd0c, status=inserted boot: floppy log: b.txt mouse: enabled=1 keyboard_mapping: enabled=1, map=$BXSHARE/keymaps/x11-pc-us.map ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Firefox problem
Warren wrote: Each time i start Mozilla Firefox it starts from scratch and asks if i want to import my previous bookmarks etc .. why is this occurying and how do i fix it ? Most likely you don't own your own .mozilla directory. Try this: $ cd $ ls -ld .mozilla If it is owned by root (most likely case if you ran Mozilla while under su), do the following: $ su # chown -R username:group .mozilla # exit $ mozilla ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
Oh, and c) djbdns isn't Free or Open Source by any definition of either phrase. That's not important to some people, but others consider it kind of important. Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. The only restriction is that you may not distribute any modified code (enterprising people could modify and distribute the source with deliberately placed bugs in order to try to claim the djb 'Security Guarantee' - at least that's the theory). http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgppLEHvBV8dN.pgp Description: PGP signature
X apps timeout on IPv6 after cvsup to Xfree86-4-clients-4.4.0.5
Guys/Gals;
I recently cvsup'ed my 4.11 machine to the latest XFree86 source - and ran into
a snag.
I don't typically sit at console, so I didn't have a full X install (I do now -
as part of debugging this problem...) Instead, I use Xwin32/Putty's automatic
ssh tunnelling feature, and launch apps from my Windows desktop with icons
(really slick).
After the upgrade, though; apps take over 30 seconds to launch. This doesn't
happen locally - I tested this by completing the X installation, and launching
xterms from the console, and I didn't see any delay.
So, I ran xterm under truss from a SSH session, and discovered that it was
timing out on a connect with an IPv6 address. It later tried to connect using
an IPv4 address, and everything went fine. This makes sense - I don't have IPv6
configured on this system (though it is in the kernel).
Truss output:
output snipped
socket(0x1c,0x1,0x0) = 3 (0x3)
setsockopt(0x3,0x6,0x1,0xbfbff67c,0x4) = 0 (0x0)
open(/etc/host.conf,0x0,0666) = 4 (0x4)
fstat(4,0xbfbfef50) = 0 (0x0)
break(0x8097000) = 0 (0x0)
read(0x4,0x8093000,0x4000) = 205 (0xcd)
read(0x4,0x8093000,0x4000) = 0 (0x0)
close(4) = 0 (0x0)
open(/etc/hosts,0x0,0666) = 4 (0x4)
fstat(4,0xbfbfd2d0) = 0 (0x0)
read(0x4,0x8093000,0x4000) = 1085 (0x43d)
read(0x4,0x8093000,0x4000) = 0 (0x0)
close(4) = 0 (0x0)
setsockopt(0x3,0x,0x8,0xbfbff5ac,0x4)= 0 (0x0)
connect(0x3,{ AF_INET6 [::1]:6010 },28) ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
close(3) = 0 (0x0)
nanosleep(0xbfbff768,0xbfbff760) = 0 (0x0)
socket(0x1c,0x1,0x0) = 3 (0x3)
setsockopt(0x3,0x6,0x1,0xbfbff67c,0x4) = 0 (0x0)
close(3) = 0 (0x0)
socket(0x2,0x1,0x0) = 3 (0x3)
setsockopt(0x3,0x6,0x1,0xbfbff4fc,0x4) = 0 (0x0)
setsockopt(0x3,0x,0x8,0xbfbff5ac,0x4)= 0 (0x0)
connect(0x3,{ AF_INET 127.0.0.1:6010 },16) = 0 (0x0)
getsockname(0x3,{ AF_INET 127.0.0.1:4512 },0xbfbff4bc) = 0 (0x0)
getpeername(0x3,{ AF_INET 127.0.0.1:6010 },0xbfbff4bc) = 0 (0x0)
__sysctl(0xbfbff5c8,0x2,0xbfbff634,0xbfbff5c4,0x0,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
What is odd is that this DIDN'T happen before the update. I am going to try
disabling ipv6 support in the kernel, with the hopes that this will fix the
problem.
Has anyone else seen this?
Thanks,
Seth Henry
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Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 21:53, Luciano Musacchio wrote: I'm wondering, how does this mailing list doesn't get any spam? :), I need to set some filter on my mail server, can some one here give me a hint on this? I just wrote an article for Free Software Magazine on this subject. It's available online at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/focus_spam_postfix . While it's largely aimed at Postfix users, every method I use is available in other MTAs. -- Kirk Strauser pgpCQtbNU3vhO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:53:17 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 512 Mar 9 20:37 . drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 4608 Mar 9 20:37 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica But acpica is -not- a directory ??? It should be a directory, in my 5.4-PRERELEASE: cd /usr/include/dev/ ls -al | grep acpica drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 9 15:57 acpica ls -al acpica/ total 10 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 9 15:57 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Mar 9 15:54 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 9 15:57 acpiio.h Try to cvsup once more the source! Hope this helps... -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:22, you wrote: Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and redistribute it. DJB prohibits distribution of modified code and so programs which are so-licensed are not open source. In other words, people who aren't the Free Software Foundation or OSI also agree that Dan's license isn't an Open Source license. As I said, though, whether that's good, bad, or irrelevant is up to the administrator. It's just something that many people aren't aware of but would be interested in. -- Kirk Strauser pgpjGKGQuYDdn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Native POSIX threads + Java under FreeBSD 5.3 release i386
In the last episode (Mar 10), Olaf Greve said: As is typical, I have once again been given very limited time to get something running, and there are some interesting things to figure about about it. :) In brief, the application is a distributed one, loosely based on some CORBA concepts, though differently (fortunately!). The supported programming languages are C/C++/Java/Ada, of which Java will probably be the one we would like to use. Now, the issue is (or may be), that the recommended (and only tested) platforms are Solaris and Linux (particularly Red Hat and SuSe - kernel versions 9). The apparent reason for this, is that the platform requires the NPTL (Native Posix Threads Library). Why would they require an OS-specific threads library, instead of simply requiring Posix threads? I can tell you right now that Solaris doesn't support NPTL, just the same way Linux doesn't support Solaris's thread library :) If you have limited time, I'd say just use either Solaris 10 or Linux. If you have problems on FreeBSD, they won't help you. If it was a longer-term project where you had time to resolve problems yourself, I'd say spend the time to get it working on FreeBSD. I'm looking somewhat into the support for NPTL under FreeBSD 5.3 release i386, and I have come across the following URL: http://www.unobvious.com/bsd/freebsd-threads.html From this, it sounds like the LinuxThreads (i.e. /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads) should do the trick. That page is 2 years old, and even says right in the middle, before comparing libc_r and linuxthreads: WARNING: The rest of this document does not describe thread support in FreeBSD 5.x . You have been warned. However, I have no experience with these threads and I wonder whether it is a good idea to try to get the platform working under FreeBSD (my favourite Unix), or whether it may be better to install Red Hat or SuSe this once. :) Can anyone tell me something about the following: 1) Does the linuxthreads library provide 100% NPTL support, as under Linux? Linuxthreads is the Linux 2.4 and below threads package. NPTL is the name for the threads implementation in Linux 2.6 kernels. As far as I know, linuxthreads and NPTL are relatively ABI-compatible. 2) Does usage of the library incur a kernel recompilation, or will all scripts of the platform have to be changed such that the linuxthreads library is linked in? The kernel don't come into the equation. If you want to use Linuxthreads with an existing threaded application, you will need to recompile (take a look at one of the mysql ports to see how to configure a program for linuxthreads). All the native FreeBSD threads libraries (libpthread, libthr, libc_r) are ABI-compatible with each other (so you can switch between them via libmap.conf) but not with Linuxthreads. 3) A different question: what is the best JDK 1.4.x port to install, and does one of those perhaps have support for NPTL? The native one (ports/java/jdk14), and no. I hope anyone can help me out a bit with this, even if it only is about whether to make the best choice between figuring out how to get this platform going under FreeBSD (being the Unix with which most experience I have), or whether to try to go Linux and have a -perhaps- more straightforward installation of the platform (at the expense of not knowing the particular intricacies of those Linuxes). Help/opinions are very much appreciated. :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox and flash on freebsd
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:47:20 -0500, Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you actually get it to work with firefox ? Hello Antoine, I have this in my /etc/libmap.conf # Flash6 with Mozilla/Firebird/Galeon/Epiphany/Konqueror [/usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 pluginwrapper/flash6.so libdl.so.2pluginwrapper/flash6.so libz.so.1 libz.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libstdc++.so.4 libm.so.6 libm.so.3 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash6.so Best Regards, Antoine W. Solomon Jr. -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
Dan has given explicit permission to read, compile, modify and use the source code of djbdns. From http://www.qmail.org/not-open-source.html: For a program to be open source, you must be able to, among other things, change the source and redistribute it. DJB prohibits distribution of modified code and so programs which are so-licensed are not open source. In other words, people who aren't the Free Software Foundation or OSI also agree that Dan's license isn't an Open Source license. As I said, though, whether that's good, bad, or irrelevant is up to the administrator. It's just something that many people aren't aware of but would be interested in. Good point. I suppose it's also a matter of the definition of 'Open Source'. For me, open source equates to 'I can read the code to see if it's trustworthy and can compile it so I know that I got what I read' but you're right, it doesn't pass the 'official' definition. Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 pgpdK93RGWXnK.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!
-Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the expert... But is it possible you have your hard disk plugged in differently? From master primary bus to master secondary bus? ad0 to ad3 for example? I'd look at the boot messages for what is the hard disk being detected as and compare with what was? Maybe somebody else has come across this before though and could offer more insight... But hopefully this can help Andrew -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 3/9/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11
Hello, I am trying to create a floppy with boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11. I am using fdimage as described in the handbook. But it says that there is not even space on my floppy. I had no problem to create floppies for msfroot.flp and kern.flp. Do you know why i don t succeed with boot.flp ? Thanks, Olivier - Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Host unknown (Name server:XXXXXX no data known
Hi, I am use sendmail Version 8.12.11 recently I have lived such error What is the meaning of this error mesages The following addresses had permanent fatal errors [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Transcript of session follows 550 5.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Host unknown (Name server: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no data known j24Ar6Vo069160: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (514/10), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=48595, relay=02online.de, dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: 02online.de: no data known) j24DeTs1089745: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (514/10), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=32975, relay=mail.02online.de. [163.14.26.89], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK id=1D7D6E-0008QO-00) j13Ag3tT030048:[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (514/10), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=31805,[EMAIL PROTECTED], dsn=5.1.2, stat=Host unknown (Name server: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host not found) j13Ag1Uh030018: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01,mailer=amavis, pri=31435, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Feb 3 12:42:03 hypatia sendmail[30050]: j13Ag3tT030048: j13Ag3tS030050: DSN: Host unknown (Name server: aaa.com: host not found) j13DtgiW057676: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=wwxw.com reject=553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WebDAV on Freebsd
Hello, I apologize for the intrusion, but I got your email off a Google search for WebDAV on FreeBSD. I just bought a virtual server and need to install webdav and then allow Sunbird to publish and share calendars. I am all about using IMAP and I think I need to start using this for better efficiency. Would it be possible for you to help out? I'll be happy to help you out but you really should join one or more mailing lists. Joining a mailing list (related to your subject) gives you input from more than one person so if there is a problem that I am not familiar with, someone else can help. It also means that in the future, others who search for the same subject can benifit from e-mail discussions in archives (like you did). So, how about we start with the basics: When you say 'virtual server', do you mean an Apache Virtual Server or a FreeBSD jail? If you are not sure, ask the folks supplying the virtual server. What version of Apache is it (1.3 or 2.0)? If you are using an Apache Virtual Server, you are going to have to ask your supplier if they include support for dav module for apache. To learn some more about what I'm asking check out these websites: Apache Virtual Server: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#virtualhost Dav module for Apache: http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/ FreeBSD Jail: http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to install Windows on an existing partition?
Hi List, I need to install Windows on an existing partition of my laptop. At the moment I have this label: laptop# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 30720004.2BSD0 0 0 b: 3072000 307200 swap c: 1172101770unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 10485760 33792004.2BSD0 0 0 e: 41943040 340992004.2BSD0 0 0 f: 41167937 760422404.2BSD0 0 0 g: 20234240 138649604.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 a: / b: swap c: extended d: /var e: /usr f: /home g: where I want to install windows I tried to format g: as FAT32, and I think it worked: laptop# newfs_msdos /dev/ad0s1g /dev/ad0s1g: 116981728 sectors in 14622716 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=16 hid=4197991296 bsec=117210240 bspf=114240 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2 But when I run bsdlaben /dev/ad0s1 I have the same result as above, so the g: partition is still formatted with 4.2BSD filesystem, so that Windows won't see this partition. How can I format this partition and make it visible to the Windows CD-ROM? Thank you! -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVSup versions?
Hi Guys, I am trying to get a copy of the CVS tree on my local machine. I would like to use the CVSup utility since it is supposed to be much faster. Can I use CVSup from my Windows XP machine? Or is there a version(binary) that runs on GNU/Linux? Thanks! Clem-- Clem Izurieta PhD Student Department of Computer Science Colorado State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail / FreeBSD / vqadmin problem
On Thursday 10 March 2005 05:57, Peter Risdon wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:12 -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to both FreeBSD and qmail. However, I am definitely not new to unix/linux (2 years of HP-UX and 7 years of Linux experience). I am using a pf firewall on a machine that will host a webserver as well as my mailserver. I am interested in setting up IMAP access to email for my users (do not care for POP3 access). However, I found installation instructions on qmailrocks.org and followed them to the letter (note to the author - /usr/home/vpopmail does not exist - I had to create it by hand - maybe the first shell script on step 2 needs some editing ?), until I installed vqadmin and setup the passwd and placed .htpasswd in /usr/local/www/cgi-bin, restarted apache (built from ports), and tried to login through the cgi interface from another machine. Ports www, 8080 and https are open in /etc/pf.conf. But I keep getting Waiting for FQDN and never can authenticate with the right password. A couple of possibilities. The default installation of vpopmail puts the vpopmail directory in /usr/local and if you want to use /usr/home you have to supply the correct argument to vpopmail when you build it. From /usr/ports/mail/vpopmail/Makefile: [...] # User-configurable variables # # Define these to change from the default behaviour # [...] # PREFIX- installation area for vpopmail (see comment below) [...] # Uncomment this, or set PREFIX to /home if you have an existing # vpopmail install with the vpopmail users' home directory set to # /home/vpopmail - package rules dictate we default to /usr/local/vpopmail # #PREFIX?= /home Note that this will, in my experience, create some odd directory trees in /usr/home (such as /usr/home/lib and /usr/home/libexec) which can safely be deleted subsequently. I don't use vqadmin, but this would need to know where to find the vpopmail binaries, and I can't see any make options that might define this, so that might be a major stumbling block. A possible cause of the behaviour you report would be that vqadmin is trying to run vpopmail binaries with inappropriate paths, or to read directory structures in the wrong place. One workaround, if your real vpopmail directory is in /usr/local and you do need it to be in /usr/home is to symlink /usr/local/vpopmail to /usr/home/vpopmail. Incidentally, the FreeBSD installation of qmail recommends using /var/service and much of the qmail documentation assumes the existence of /service. My own approach to this is to use /var/service but then symlink it to /service so that anything that assumes the existence of this directory will work. However, neither vpopmail not vqadmin would give you an imap server, and you don't say whether you have installed one separately. You do need to and a commonly used option in this case would be courier-imap because it's written by the same folk who brought us vpopmail, and integrates well with this and qmail. It isn't the only choice, of course, and you're generally best advised to use something you're familiar with. The question is : What am I possibly doing wrong ? A port that is not open, or is it some other problem that a FreeBSD / Qmail newbie might have missed ? It's generally best to use default installation locations with ports, especially when you're installing a few that will work with each other. Then, before testing a cgi interface like vqadmin, make sure everything works. Test qmail, (telnet) test imap, test vpopmail with a domain and a user or two on the command line. If these things aren't working properly, then vqadmin won't either. www.lifewithqmail.org is probably the most authoritative site to use as a reference, together with inter7's website and http://cr.yp.to for some perhaps slightly terse but very good initial docs. If you need more help, maybe say whether you have installed an imap server, and whether the underlying technologies - qmail, vpopmail, imap - are working. Peter. Thanks for your informative response. I apologize if I did not stress this point enough in my initial email. I was following instructions on freebsd.qmailrocks.org to the *letter* and building from source as is strongly recommended there. The install is currently in an interrupted state. Setting up IMAP *would have been* one of the next steps. I am right now at the following step : http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/vqadmin.htm For an overview of the entire installation, please see : http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/install.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SAMBA newbie
I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA newbie
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Firefox problem
Warren wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 1:05 am, Jason Andresen wrote: Warren wrote: Each time i start Mozilla Firefox it starts from scratch and asks if i want to import my previous bookmarks etc .. why is this occurying and how do i fix it ? Most likely you don't own your own .mozilla directory. Nope i own it and permissions r fine. drwxr-xr-x 8 shinjii shinjii 512 Mar 7 20:59 .mozilla The other possibility is that you have a Zombie mozilla process hanging around in the background and it's trying to create a new profile. Normally you'd get the profile manager if this happened though. Also, do you own the files inside of .mozilla? There are several directories in there. Chowning the whole thing might not be a bad idea regardless, just to rule out any ownership possibilities. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer I have recently bought a HP Color LaserJet 2550L, which could work for both your needs. It prints fast in B/W, and not-so-fast in colour, but both in great quality. I have used it with DOS, FreeBSD, OS/2, MacOS9 and MacOSX so far. It supports both PostScript and PCL. Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parallel making
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:20:48PM +0300, Tarc wrote: I have small network at home (2 machines with PentiumII/64mb ram with RELENG_5). How I can build system REALLY parallel (e.g. remote building and swapping via NFS) I saw to make(1) sources and found macros REMOTE, which if defined, enables(?) it. How it works now and how, if works? Does make(1) have this feature in CURRENT? I don't believe this works. Look into using distcc - it's been discussed on mailing lists before how to build with it. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA newbie
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise The guest account sounds interesing. I've commented out the following in smb.conf # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory. guest/guest and nobody/nobody both fail -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: feedback on a good DNS server
sn1tch writes: I am looking into setting up a DNS server on our network using an existing FreeBSD box. I have been looking around and reading comments on different DNS servers out their but everyone has mixed feelings. I know someone who uses BIND and is happy with it .. is their any reason why BIND wouldn't be a good choice? All i need is to have DNS running on a webserver so we can host our site internally...any feedback on this setup and/or DNS server is appreciated BIND works great for me on my little LAN. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA newbie
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise The guest account sounds interesing. I've commented out the following in smb.conf # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory. guest/guest and nobody/nobody both fail OK, I got that to work by changing the line security = user to security = share Is this safe ? -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA newbie
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:45 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise The guest account sounds interesing. I've commented out the following in smb.conf # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory. guest/guest and nobody/nobody both fail OK, I got that to work by changing the line security = user to security = share Is this safe ? I should think that it is not that good an idea to use /tmp unless you have it on it's own partition as otherwise you could potentially allow someone to upload a large file and fill the root partition at which point a few other things might break too. HTH LukeK -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA newbie
Is this safe ? Obviously security isn't really a priority in your situation. It sound like you are really looking for convenience. That said there are a large number of options out there for you, samba is one of them and can easily be configured with a utility called webmin (http://www.webmin.com/). A more secure option could be OpenSSH. --Nick On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:45 +, David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise The guest account sounds interesing. I've commented out the following in smb.conf # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory. guest/guest and nobody/nobody both fail OK, I got that to work by changing the line security = user to security = share Is this safe ? -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuration of current kernel
# Redirected to freebsd-questions, from freebsd-newbies. # Please do NOT post technical questions to the freebsd-newbies list. Uh, OK, I don't quite get what freebsd-newbies is for then... thought this was a newbie question. The GENERIC kernel is just what the name suggests: a generic kernel configuration. It's also the one that is distributed with the FreeBSD release CD-ROMs as the default kernel. Thanks for answering my implicit question as well :-) Anything that is not compiled in the kernel by the kernel config file is built as a module and installed as a *.ko file in /boot/kernel. Great. Shouldn't that mean I could use gdbe right away, though? I can't. I'm not going to go OT now, though, I'll recompile, reboot and see what happens. Also, there are some features, which don't seem to be documented... at least not in the NOTES file. You're looking at the wrong NOTES file. There are two NOTES files on any given architecture that FreeBSD supports: 1) The architecture-independent NOTES file, listing options common to all the possible architectures: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES. Ah right. There we are. Interesting. Thanks! Helge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installworld fails (5.4-PRE)
Make sure that your system is time synchronized then cvsup, rm files in /usr/obj, etc... This has helped me in the past. --Nick On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:46:04 +, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:53:17 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 512 Mar 9 20:37 . drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 4608 Mar 9 20:37 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 2 17:00 acpica But acpica is -not- a directory ??? It should be a directory, in my 5.4-PRERELEASE: cd /usr/include/dev/ ls -al | grep acpica drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 9 15:57 acpica ls -al acpica/ total 10 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 9 15:57 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Mar 9 15:54 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4210 Mar 9 15:57 acpiio.h Try to cvsup once more the source! Hope this helps... -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Size of FreeBSD
THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS installations. I'm frustrated that they have to be so big. THank you again for responding. FreeBSD has great logical appeal to me, notwithstanding.) Mark Mark Goodell Richmond, VA --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:04:11AM -0800, Mark Goodell wrote: Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in terms of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run applications and (2) the typical installation. How many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. Isn't this information available on the website? Kris Hi, This is either in the webpage or in the docs, but I forget where. Back in the days of ~4.5 I was able to install a stripped down version in about 76MB. I think the last time I tried sometime around 5.0 to do this it was up to about 90MB That's a really stripped down installation though. Between all binaries, plus source, plus ports tree and X and KDE I probably use around 1.2 Gigabyte for typical install. Install a few ports (Apache, MySQL, PHP, browser, etc) and a medium database and it can easily use a couple of Gigabytes. Add media files (sound, video) and the sky is the limit. jerry - Philip M. Gollucci Senior Developer - Liquidity Services Inc. Phone: 202.467.6868 x 268 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://www.liquidation.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Mar 10, 2005, at 01:49, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The only long term solution that is going to work is modding the DNS records to designate an official SMTP server for each domain, such a plan has been in the works for a while among the standard bodies that know what they are doing. SPF is only going to address one form of spam distribution. Unfortunately it does nothing for the spammers who get their own domain and establish their own SPF records. They can continue to spam away at will. Likewise SPF will not close any of the open relays run by the organizations that are pushing SPF. Those will continue to forward spam like they do today. I suspect the open relays are ahead of their SPF checking as we continue to receive mail through them even theough they claim SPF is in use. Spam will only go away when people no longer respond to it. When there is no revenue generated to cover the cost of spamming then it will end. Since spamming is so cheap, it only takes a couple of responses to cover the costs. Probability of finding a couple of morons out there is 1.00. People still respond to the Nigerian scams. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SAMBA newbie
David Larkin wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box, but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Nothing wrong with it that you've described so far. For example, I've not yet read whether you trust the wire or not Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? How about using the SharedDocs folder on the XP box? From FBSD, as root: # mount_smbfs -N //XPbox/SharedDocs /mnt I have cron do this at every reboot. If I need to put anything on my XP Box, it's as simple as using tar, cp, whatever. Won't help in the vice versa case, of course... HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD and RSA SecurID Authentication
List, This post is really for archival purposes in the event that someone else is looking into centralized authentication with RSA SecurID and FreeBSD (or any other *nix platform for that matter).. The organization I currently work for has a large ($$$) investment in RSA SecurID (for VPN use mainly) and like most technology deployments around here it is not used to it's full capability. With the onset of SOX and the like, password use/policy/management has become a rather large headache. So for us, SecurID made sense (at least in theory): centralized, one time passwords. ( Yes, I know there are other options for centralized Unix account administration, but to this point we have only used local accounts and some SecurID. And our goal was to leverage existing infrastructure. ) Our Unix environment, in a phrase: you build it, we'll run it. So it was off to RSA to see what agents/clients are currently available. Now we've be running older versions, in a limited capacity, of the RSA agents for some time (sdshell: a shell that requires SecurID authentication), but the support is limited (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX). Then I noticed an available PAM module, joy! But the joy was short lived, it only supports Solaris and RHE Linux. So, when all else fails you head to google... What I found was a lot of people in the same boat (on various platforms). I found a few possible solutions, but not anything I felt confident about. So back to square one. Then I remembered that our VPN environment uses SecurID, but via RADIUS. Ahhh... Knowing that FreeBSD already had a RADIUS PAM module, it was my first test platform (5.3). Once everything was configured it worked like a charm. Now for the rest of the environment... Linux: Not a Problem (most distros come with the FreeRadius PAM module), Solaris: Used PAM module from FreeRadius, HP-UX: Also used module from FreeRadius (it was a bear to get compiled), AIX: Haven't gotten to this one yet, but I have my fingers crossed ;-). Everything at this point appears to work well and the best part is that the solution/setup is the same for all! A 'very quick' overview of the configuration... 1 - A RSA ACE Server running and configured with RADIUS (currently runs on Solaris/HP-UX and WIndows?) 2 - A client server with a Radius PAM Module 3 - Create a 'Shared Secret'. 4 - Configure the RSA ACE/RADIUS server and the client server with 'shared secret'. (PAM module uses /etc/radius.conf for 'shared secret', servername, etc) 5 - Configure PAM/sshd (or whatever PAM aware services) to require RADIUS authentication 6 - Configure your local users. (local username must be there SecurID username) here are some links... http://www.freeradius.org/ http://www.freeradius.org/pam_radius_auth/ http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2865.html http://www.rsasecurity.com/ (limited documentation here, it's all on the install cd's) ... and of course various local manpages. A quick note on security... RADIUS is not the most secure protocol out there. As a matter a fact data is hidden via a md5 hash. (more details: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2865.html ). But our feeling was since it's SecurID and the generated passcode is only used one time, the risk is acceptable/minimal! (better then a lame password any day ;-) HTH -jw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:28 +
Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List,
I need to install Windows on an existing partition of my laptop.
At the moment I have this label:
laptop# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
#size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 30720004.2BSD0 0 0
b: 3072000 307200 swap
c: 1172101770unused0 0 # raw part,
don't edit
d: 10485760 33792004.2BSD0 0 0
e: 41943040 340992004.2BSD0 0 0
f: 41167937 760422404.2BSD0 0 0
g: 20234240 138649604.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
a: /
b: swap
c: extended
d: /var
e: /usr
f: /home
g: where I want to install windows
I tried to format g: as FAT32, and I think it worked:
laptop# newfs_msdos /dev/ad0s1g
/dev/ad0s1g: 116981728 sectors in 14622716 FAT32 clusters (4096
bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=16
hid=4197991296 bsec=117210240 bspf=114240 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2
But when I run bsdlaben /dev/ad0s1 I have the same result as above, so
the g: partition is still formatted with 4.2BSD filesystem, so that
Windows won't see this partition.
How can I format this partition and make it visible to the Windows
CD-ROM?
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Hello,
Windows (and also a msdos filesystem, I think) needs a whole slice
(thoose you edit with 'fdisk', called partition by Windows) to install
(it does not understand a BSD slice with labels). You can also just
leave some free space in the disk (the BSD slice must not cover the
whole disk) and then Windows should create another partition (slice) to
install itself.
For example, I have the following slices (called partitions by
Windows) in my first disk:
#fdisk -s /dev/ad0
/dev/ad0: 77504 cyl 16 hd 63 sec
PartStartSize Type Flags
1: 6337158282 0x0c 0x80 (fat32)
2:3715834540949685 0x0f 0x00 (ntfs)
And the following in my second disk (ignore the numbering):
# fdisk -s /dev/ad2
/dev/ad2: 79656 cyl 16 hd 63 sec
PartStartSize Type Flags
1: 6320466747 0x83 0x00 (ext2fs)
4:4094968538909430 0xa5 0x80 (BSD slice)
Slice 4 is a FreeBSD slice containing (and only BSD slices have labels):
# bsdlabel /dev/ad2s4
# /dev/ad2s4:
8 partitions:
#size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 52428804.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
b: 2045568 524288 swap
c: 389094300unused0 0 # raw part,
don't edit d: 524288 25698564.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
e: 524288 30941444.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
f: 35290998 36184324.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
I think your partition layout is as follows (sizes in Mbytes):
| a 150 | b 1500 | d 5120 | g 9880 | e 20480 | f 20101 | END 0 |
0 150 1650 6770 16650 37130 57231
So you will have to delete 'g', and move all the partitions before near
to 'd'. Or in the other direction. Change the slice size ('fdisk').
And then you will be able to create a slice for Windows. Note that I
have *never* tested this procedure and all recommendations I have
received are to back up the data, recreate all and then restore it. So I
do *not* recommend it.
When installing Windows keep this in mind: it will overrite the MBR, so
perhaps you want to install Windows first (and leave free space for
FreeBSD), otherwise you can restore it later with a bootable CD. It can
be done with 'sysinstall' or from command-line (you can use a LiveCD,
like the second FreeBSD ISO or FreeSBIE), there are instructions in the
Handbook, section The FreeBSD Booting Process.
If something of this looks unclear mail me.
Hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Ale
P.S.: how did you do to resize the partition 'd' to put 'g' after it
(just changing the BSD labels)?
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Re: SAMBA newbie
David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. Any advice ? ___ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise The guest account sounds interesing. I've commented out the following in smb.conf # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no public = yes should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory. guest/guest and nobody/nobody both fail OK, I got that to work by changing the line security = user to security = share Is this safe ? It isn't necessarily *that* bad security-wise, but if anyone else might get access to the network over which they are communicating, they could make trouble. On my own home network, I have mitigated (but not eliminated) this problem by making a very small filesystem just for this Samba share. [I built the filesystem from file-backed mdmfs(8).] And make *very* sure that your Samba is not reachable from other networks. If you're really the only user of both systems, I would expect ssh (with public key authentication, to avoid the passwords you said you didn't want to type) would be easier (because it will work in either direction, from either machine). But that depends on your actual usage patterns, of course. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:04:55 -0300, Alejandro Pulver
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Hello,
Hi there, thank you for your reply.
Windows (and also a msdos filesystem, I think) needs a whole slice
(thoose you edit with 'fdisk', called partition by Windows) to install
(it does not understand a BSD slice with labels). You can also just
leave some free space in the disk (the BSD slice must not cover the
whole disk) and then Windows should create another partition (slice) to
install itself.
This was my fear
I think your partition layout is as follows (sizes in Mbytes):
| a 150 | b 1500 | d 5120 | g 9880 | e 20480 | f 20101 | END 0 |
0 150 1650 6770 16650 37130 57231
Right!
So you will have to delete 'g', and move all the partitions before near
to 'd'. Or in the other direction. Change the slice size ('fdisk').
I can delete 'g' withoud problems, but then:
- how do I move the partitions?
- how do I resize the slice (which takes the whole disk) ?
If something of this looks unclear mail me.
Sure!
Best Regards,
Cheers.
Ale
P.S.: how did you do to resize the partition 'd' to put 'g' after it
(just changing the BSD labels)?
I deleted 'd', created a smaller 'd', and then created 'g'.
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Re: Size of FreeBSD
At 12:38 3/10/2005, Mark Goodell wrote: THank you Philip, Jerry, Kris: (Actually, I went back and forth through the website literature trying to figure this out, and finally gave up. It may be that the question itself treads on an issue that no longer is challenged - the size of OS installations. I'm frustrated that they have to be so big. THank you again for responding. FreeBSD has great logical appeal to me, notwithstanding.) Mark Mark Goodell Richmond, VA Could you please tell me how big FreeBSD is, in terms of both (1) the bare minimum needed to run applications and (2) the typical installation. How many 1.44MB diskettes, for example. At the bottom of this page is the recommended sizing: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html However, you can get a version of FreeBSD to run from a single floppy disk: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html There are various versions in between these sizes: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ A Google search: http://www.Google.com/search?q=%22FreeBSD-Small%22+site%3AMail-Archive.com To subscribe to the 'FreeBSD-Small' list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH Start Here to Find It Fast! - http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names - http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to deal with spam for good?
On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:40, Doug Hardie wrote: Unfortunately it does nothing for the spammers who get their own domain and establish their own SPF records. Not necessarily true. If you can *force* senders to tie themselves to their own domain, then it becomes rather easy to blacklist that particular domain. Imagine having a DNS blackhole list that was 100% accurate with no chance of collateral damage. If SPF (or another similar system) were universally deployed, then such things would be possible. Likewise SPF will not close any of the open relays run by the organizations that are pushing SPF. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Could you elaborate? Spam will only go away when people no longer respond to it. You know, I'm no longer sure that's true. I think that spam will stick around as long as stupid business owners continue to get suckered into thinking that it's a legitimate means of marketing. One of my associate's customers (a brick and mortar store) was being sweet-talked by a spammer into sending a series of broadcasts. In this situation, the spammer would profit off the ignorance of that *business owner*. Even if 100% of the messages were blocked, he'd still get his pay for performing the service. -- Kirk Strauser pgpO5DMMwWu5c.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel problems on 5.3.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:25:02 -0500 David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jacob, Hello David, You should try to CVSup your FreeBSD machines to get the latest code. Read section A.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Here's the link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I can't say this will fix your current problem, but for sure it can only be good, at least from a security stand point. Ok. I had been meaning to learn cvsup anyway. Your instructions for setting it up are great - I was having trouble finding documentation for that step. You can proceed to do so via ssh. What you want to do is this: a) Create the file /root/cvs-supfile which contains the following: sudo vi /root/cvs-supfile snip - cvsup-supfile c) Create the cvsup directory. sudo mkdir -p /var/db/cvsup/sup d) Now copy the refuse file to your cvsup directory. sudo cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/refuse /var/db/cvsup/sup e) Setup your environment. You should set this up in your favorite shell's rc file. This here is for sh(1) and bash(1). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs export CVSROOT f) Proceed with cvsup. Note, the first time you run things, you will be prompted to accept the RSA signature of the server you connect to. sudo cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvs-supfile g) When the download finishes, rebuild the world and the kernel. Note, you have a custom built kernel, so you must change KERNCONF=GENERIC to KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_CONFIG_FILE_NAME cd /usr/src sudo make -j2 buildworld sudo make -j2 buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC sudo make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC sudo mergemaster -p sudo make installworld sudo mergemaster h) Finally, reboot the machine. Once your machines come back online, run `uname -r` and you will notice that the current release level of the operating system has changed. For example, my servers have changed from 5.3-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE-p5. I have had contact with another FreeBSD user running 5.3 on Xeon machines that make it look like the HyperThreading (SMP) support might be suspect in the kernel. I hope to test this tomorrow, but had to schedule the downtime with the client first. Oh, and between the other user and reading /usr/src/Makefile I was able to learn about mergemaster, which fixes another of my concerns related to the upgrade. Thanks again, Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot.flp for FreeBSD 4.11
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FreeBSD-4.11 - Need help with booting with an MD_ROOT
I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to boot a kernel with an embedded root filesystem. I've searched the mailing lists and the web without finding an answer. I hope someone here can help. Here's the procedure I have used: 1. My kernel is built with options: MFS, MD_ROOT and MD_ROOT_SIZE=32768. 2. A disk image is produced using: cd / dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=32768 of=mdimg vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 mdimg disklabel -rw vn0 auto disklabel -e vn0 copy the c: to a: and change the FS type to 4.2BSD newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 -U /dev/vn0a mount /dev/vn0a /mnt tar cf - bin etc sbin | ( cd /mnt tar xpf - ) umount /mnt vnconfig -u vn0 The filesystem contents aren't supposed to be useful at this point - I just want to get it to mount 3. I install the filesystem image into the kernel using: /usr/src/release/write_mfs_in_kernel kernel mdimg 4. In /boot/loader.conf I add: vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a Now I reboot with the kernel, and I get: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0a Root mount failed: 22 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c Root mount failed: 22 ... and then it prompts for a root filesystem. The EINVAL (error 22) is coming from kern/subr_diskslice.c:806: if (part != RAW_PART (sp-ds_label == NULL || part = sp-ds_label)) return (EINVAL);/* XXX needs translation */ Specifically, part = 0 (!= RAW_PART) and sp-ds_label = NULL. I hope it's a trivial step I am missing, but right now I am stuck. Sage advice is appreciated. Regards, David. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing p5-File-Temp from portversions upgrade list ?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:17:21 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:00:55PM +0100, FreeBsdBeni wrote: So, how do I get the p5-File-Temp out of the portversion-list of files that need to be upgraded ? Since File::Temp is bart of the base perl now, your best bet is to: # pkg_delete -f p5-File-Temp # pkgdb -F # portupgrade -f lang/perl5.8 The pkg_delete told me that I didn't had such a package installed (yes I got the Capitals right). The pkgdb worked fine, just like the portupgrade of perl5.8. But a portversion afterwards still showed that p5-File-Temp needed to be upgraded... Guess I'll have to live with an unexisting package that needs to be upgraded then. Thx for the tips ! Beni. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:12 +
Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:04:55 -0300, Alejandro Pulver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Hi there, thank you for your reply.
Windows (and also a msdos filesystem, I think) needs a whole slice
(thoose you edit with 'fdisk', called partition by Windows) to
install(it does not understand a BSD slice with labels). You can
also just leave some free space in the disk (the BSD slice must not
cover the whole disk) and then Windows should create another
partition (slice) to install itself.
This was my fear
I think your partition layout is as follows (sizes in Mbytes):
| a 150 | b 1500 | d 5120 | g 9880 | e 20480 | f 20101 | END 0 |
0 150 1650 6770 16650 37130 57231
Right!
So you will have to delete 'g', and move all the partitions before
near to 'd'. Or in the other direction. Change the slice size
('fdisk').
I can delete 'g' withoud problems, but then:
- how do I move the partitions?
- how do I resize the slice (which takes the whole disk) ?
If something of this looks unclear mail me.
Sure!
Best Regards,
Cheers.
Ale
P.S.: how did you do to resize the partition 'd' to put 'g' after it
(just changing the BSD labels)?
I deleted 'd', created a smaller 'd', and then created 'g'.
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Hello,
If you want to use the free space of 'g' you will have to delete it and
collapse all the partitions near 'd'. But is *dangerous*, and in fact
there are *no* tools (I searched and it is often said) to resize
filesystems (even if you resize the partition, the filesystem thinks
the space is still assigned to it, I think). The only think I believe is
possible (with raw tools: 'dd') is moving partitions, but if you
are moving less space than the size of the partition itself, it is only
possible to do it backwards, and the copied bytes will be overritten
(after copied) so if the process is interrupted you will lose all the
data (half in the destination, the rest in the original place, and one
immediatly following the other).
I found a (possible) better way to do this:
1) Revert the changes with the partitions 'd' and 'g' (back-up, delete,
create only 'd', restore).
2) Save the data in 'f' ('/home') to somewhere (like '/usr').
2) Delete 'f' ('/home') and create it with less space (like 10 GB, or
less, if you do not need much space there).
3) Then the BSD label entry 'c' should have less size.
4) Use 'fdisk' to resize the slice. It should be equal to the size of
partition 'c' (that is not a real partition, but the size sum of all
of them). Then the slice must not cover the entire disk, and you will
be able to create a 'msdosfs' slice after it (in the unallocated space).
I never tried this and I do not know if it is possible, so I *recommend*
you to back up your data.
Good Luck!
Best Regards,
Ale
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Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:48:37 -0300, Alejandro Pulver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Hello,
If you want to use the free space of 'g' you will have to delete it and
collapse all the partitions near 'd'. But is *dangerous*, and in fact
there are *no* tools (I searched and it is often said) to resize
filesystems (even if you resize the partition, the filesystem thinks
the space is still assigned to it, I think). The only think I believe is
possible (with raw tools: 'dd') is moving partitions, but if you
are moving less space than the size of the partition itself, it is only
possible to do it backwards, and the copied bytes will be overritten
(after copied) so if the process is interrupted you will lose all the
data (half in the destination, the rest in the original place, and one
immediatly following the other).
I found a (possible) better way to do this:
1) Revert the changes with the partitions 'd' and 'g' (back-up, delete,
create only 'd', restore).
2) Save the data in 'f' ('/home') to somewhere (like '/usr').
2) Delete 'f' ('/home') and create it with less space (like 10 GB, or
less, if you do not need much space there).
3) Then the BSD label entry 'c' should have less size.
4) Use 'fdisk' to resize the slice. It should be equal to the size of
partition 'c' (that is not a real partition, but the size sum of all
of them). Then the slice must not cover the entire disk, and you will
be able to create a 'msdosfs' slice after it (in the unallocated space).
I never tried this and I do not know if it is possible, so I *recommend*
you to back up your data.
Good Luck!
Best Regards,
Ale
It sounds quite complicated... I need some more experience before doing that!
Thank you, I'll take in consideration in the future!
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Re: RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!
- Original Message - -Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the expert... But is it possible you have your hard disk plugged in differently? From master primary bus to master secondary bus? ad0 to ad3 for example? I'd look at the boot messages for what is the hard disk being detected as and compare with what was? Maybe somebody else has come across this before though and could offer more insight... But hopefully this can help Andrew -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.1 - Release Date: 3/9/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You were right. I accidentally mixed up the primary and secondary IDE cables. However, I switched them back and now I am still getting tons of these errors: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works just fine. I tried running fsck and I still get the errors. Does anyone have any clue what I can do about this? Thanks /Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with pf.conf
Hello all, I'm trying to reconfigure a more restrictive packet filtering firewall for my home network but am running into some trouble. When I run dhclient dc0 at an attempt to obtain an IP address from my ISP I receive the normal: DHCPREQUEST on dc0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on dc0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER eventually fails after the fourth or fifth try. When I run tcpdump at the same time as dhclient dc0 I receive the following arp requests. The 70.xxx.xxx.x is my gateway I'm trying to communicate with. 14:59 arp who-has 7.x.xxx.xxx tell 70.xxx.xxx.x ... I see about 3-400 of these. Here is a partial excerpt of my pf.conf with what I believe to be the most relevant sections needed to obtain an ISP on the WAN nic. pass out on $ext_if proto tcp from any to x.x.x.x port 53 keep state pass out on $ext_if proto udp from any to x.x.x.x port 53 keep state The above lines are duplicated as I have two nameservers that I am able to use. To contact my ISPs DHCP I use the following pass out on $ext_if proto udp from any to x.x.x.x port 68 keep state pass in on $ext_if from x.x.x.x to any port 68 keep state I also seem to be having a problem with the same NAT directive I've used on less restrictive firewalls. nat on $ext_if from $int_if:network to any - ($ext_if) Any help is greatly appreciated Reagrds, Gardner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to change process limits?
Hi The following is aon 5.3-RELEASE-p5 If I do a limits command I get # limits Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kb datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb coredumpsize infinity kb memoryuseinfinity kb memorylocked infinity kb maxprocesses 5547 openfiles 11095 sbsize infinity bytes vmemoryuse infinity kb # However, login.conf has (and no other classes defined) default:\ :passwd_format=md5:\ :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ :welcome=/etc/motd:\ :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\ :path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin ~/bin:\ :nologin=/var/run/nologin:\ :cputime=unlimited:\ :datasize=unlimited:\ :stacksize=unlimited:\ :memorylocked=unlimited:\ :memoryuse=unlimited:\ :filesize=unlimited:\ :coredumpsize=unlimited:\ :openfiles=unlimited:\ :maxproc=unlimited:\ :sbsize=unlimited:\ :vmemoryuse=unlimited:\ :priority=0:\ :ignoretime@:\ :umask=022: -- I am wondering where the datasize and stacksize get set. These have limits when listed with limits but they do not appear to be getting set through login as the login.conf has unlimitged. I have looked at the output of sysctl -a with grep for various things (limit, datasize, 512 524288 etc and not seen any obvious candidates) I am trying to run stuff from the Coroner's Toolbox and am getting Out of memory! and so would like to try this with some adjusted process values. Any help on where these get set and how to change them would be appreciated. Thanks Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pki-team] FreeBSD and RSA SecurID Authentication (fwd)
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:14:52 -0800, Mike Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Webster forwards: 'shared secret'. (PAM module uses /etc/radius.conf for 'shared secret', servername, etc) 5 - Configure PAM/sshd (or whatever PAM aware services) to require RADIUS authentication 6 - Configure your local users. (local username must be there SecurID username) have you given any thought to interoperation with an environment where local name cannot = securid username ? Not really, but my guess is that you would need to add another piece to the puzzle. Possibly LDAP? I researched using LDAP very briefly ( i.e. LDAP PAM Mod - Central LDAP - RADIUS - RSA ACE ) with hopes of leveraging additional LDAP functionality. Could be possible to store the SecurID username within a user's LDAP entry? Just a thought... We have, but we haven't figured out what (or which) is the satisfactory solution(s). Or done enough work yet either, for that matter. good luck. - jw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Location of disklabel
Hi all! To all your FS guru's outthere, I desperately need to know where the disklabel is stored (since my disk is in trouble!) Situation: My /dev/ad0s1 has 2 partitions: a (FS) followed by b (swap). By using disklabel -r, I see my a and b indeed take up the entire slice. My desperate question: Where, then, is the disklabel stored? Somewhere in the partition table? The Master Boot Record? The reserved cylinder #0? Or is it stored somewhere inside /dev/ad0s1a ?? (if that's the case, does that mean the UFS1 intentionally left some space unused, for this purpose? And if so, is it always at a fixed location within a UFS1 slice?) What if in my slice, I have SWAP first, and then UFS1, then does that mean the SWAP Format also reserves some unused space for the disklabel to go??? Sorry if the question is stupid. I just somehow couldn't logically see where it would be stored, and yet be compatible with having other OS on the same drive... etc. Thanks! - Carl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chroot jail and syslogd
Hello,
I'm trying to setup bind in a chroot jail, and have it log to syslogd.
I'm using fbsd5.3 and the syslogd option:
root 22858 0.0 0.1 1312 780 ?? Ss 12:19AM 0:00.16
/usr/sbin/syslogd -l /var/run/log -l /var/named/var/run/log -
I have bind running with the following options:
/usr/sbin/named -c /etc/namedb/named.conf -u bind -t /var/named
The jail is located in /var/namedb, and the socket for syslogd is
/var/named/var/run/log:
srw-rw-rw- 1 bind bind 0 Mar 10 00:19 log
When I try to start bind I receive the following:
Mar 10 00:20:38 taco named[22919]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -c
/etc/namedb/named.conf -u bind -t /var/named
Mar 10 00:20:38 taco named[22919]: command channel listening on
127.0.0.1#953
Mar 10 00:20:38 taco named[22919]:
/usr/src/lib/bind/isc/../../../contrib/bind9/lib/isc/unix/errno2result.c:109
: unexpected error:
Mar 10 00:20:38 taco kernel: pid 22919 (named), uid 53: exited on signal 6
Mar 10 00:20:38 taco named[22919]: unable to convert errno to isc_result:
45: Operation not supported
Mar 10 00:20:38 taco named[22919]: logging channel 'audit_log' file
'/var/run/log': unexpected error
Bind's config:
channel audit_log {
// Send the security related messages to a separate file.
file /var/run/log;
severity debug;
print-time yes;
};
Running BIND 9.3.0
Anyone have any ideas why this aint working? Tried to dig up some
information on google but no luck
-JT
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Re: how to change process limits?
In the last episode (Mar 09), Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC said: The following is aon 5.3-RELEASE-p5 If I do a limits command I get # limits Resource limits (current): datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb # However, login.conf has (and no other classes defined) default:\ :datasize=unlimited:\ :stacksize=unlimited:\ I am wondering where the datasize and stacksize get set. These have limits when listed with limits but they do not appear to be getting set through login as the login.conf has unlimitged. I believe those are extra-hard limits enforced by the kernel. You can raise them by adding this to /boot/loader.conf: kern.maxdsiz=2147483648 kern.maxssiz=2147483648 Then you can edit login.conf to set whatever soft and hard limits you want (remember to run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf when you're done). I'm not exactly sure why those limits are boot-time tunables as opposed to regular sysctls, or why they exist at all. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
