NFS Client..attr caching..
here at work we want to compile deep trees of code on Fbsd boxes, but we are finding that the compiles on local disk are faster than via NFS (very very fast/new Netapp boxes) on the FreeBSD boxes (single spindle SATA drives). However, cross-compiling the same code on a linux box over NFS to the very same Netapp boxes is way faster than Fbsd on local disk. Im trying of course to get the mount options/etc that the linux boxes use, but any clues on how to mount a 150k file deep source tree to most effectively cache getattr/readdir metadata which seems to be an enourmous percentage of the total NFS calls in the compile process. Thanks in advance..as I get more data. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error upgrading python from ports
Hi list, /usr/ports/UPDATING reads: 20061009: AFFECTS: users of any ports using Python AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After upgrading of lang/python, you must rebuild all its consumer ports to make them get ready to Python 2.5. To do this, you will need to: pkgdb -uf cd /usr/ports/lang/python make upgrade-site-packages Doing this yields: --- Updating the pkgdb [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 147 packages found (-0 +147) ... done] Please install sysutils/portupgrade. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/python. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/ports/lang/python] # pkg_info -Ix portupgrade portupgrade-2.1.3.3_1,2 FreeBSD ports/packages administration and management tool s What's wrong? -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax :-3341 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: problems with a LaCie USB disk
I have further informations about a problem I described some days ago. With FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 on a Dell PowerEdge 850, when I plug a brand new LaCie 500 GB USB disk I have this: Sep 28 18:24:57 polaris kernel: umass0: LaCie Group.SA BigDisk Extreme, rev 2.00/1.18, addr 2 Sep 28 18:24:59 polaris kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Sep 28 18:24:59 polaris kernel: da0: LaCie BigDisk Extreme Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device Sep 28 18:24:59 polaris kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers Sep 28 18:24:59 polaris kernel: da0: 476950MB (976794112 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 60802C) After 'newfs /dev/da0' I'm able to mount it and use it. When I unplug it (after unmounting) and shut it down I'm unable to use it again. Here's all I get when I plug it in again: Oct 4 12:18:28 polaris kernel: ugen0: Texas Instruments TUSB6250 Boot Device, rev 2.00/3.00, addr 2 I tried with two different new LaCie disks and I have the same behavior. I tried both disks on a Dell Precision 650 with 6.1-RELEASE-p10 and everything works fine. I'm really confused and I would be grateful if someone could give me a clue. Regards, Thierry. ___ 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 maintain upgrade??
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 00:38, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:35:37PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 17:53, Gary Kline wrote: I kind of do the same thing on a weekly basis. I created a shell script that runs the following: cd /usr/ports/distfiles # Change to ports distfile directory rm -rdf * # Clean it out Why, exactly, you remove the distfiles? (I'm thnking of times when I haven't moved the hard-to-retrieve files [JAVA, e.g] to my other FBSD servers.) Is there something lurking there than might muck up builds?? I just like to remove files that are neither needed or more than likely outdated. No special reason other than that. I keep the files needed to build JAVA in a separate directory and copy them to the distfiles directory when required. It is pretty much up to the end user how they want to maintain their ports system I suppose. /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -CDLP# make sure the ports are clean I do this after an upgrade. ---Wouldn't hurt here, tho. /usr/sbin/portsnap cron # Run portsnap from CRON /usr/sbin/portsnap update # Install new updated ports tree /usr/local/bin/portmanager -u -l -y # Run portmanager to update the system I've come to prefer p'manager to portupgrade; each run takes endless hours--at least three days. Do you know if there is a way to upgrade only the dependencies that need it?? I used -f and portmanager seemed to upgrade eerything. Yes, it may have been my imagination! Portmanager -f will rebuild the system. I would only do that if it was absolutely necessary. The normal: portmanager -u -l -y will only update out of date items, create a log file and gives portmanager permission to handle moved items. I only run this weekly. If something like Open Office needs to be updated alone with KDE for instance, my system would not complete the process in 24 hours. Updating the ports tree while running an updating utility like portmanager or portupgrade is generally considered a bad thing. Thanks for your script ideas, gary -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whistler's mother is off her rocker. pgpiItxjvVlcD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface
I didn't follow all the dialog. But if the only thing desired is a cheapskate webmail interface, as the title suggests, would Usermin be an option? --- jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/9/06, Desmond Coughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did everything mentioned in that HOWTO. Still no luck. Following someone else's advice, I tried to install Thunderbird on another machine, and connect to the server on port 143. It failed. D. try to telnet port 143, if you can't connect it means you don't have an IMAP server running, i suggest you use dovecot or courier-imap, i prefer dovecot though. HTH *jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED]* a �crit : On 10/9/06, Desmond Coughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I've got that .. I tried logging in, and it took me directly to htdocs/index.html. Is it because the db isn't configured properly ?. D. were you able to install the roundcube database? did you configure db.inc.php? just follow this howto http://fak3r.com/?p=67 this is the same howto i've used. hth *jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED]* a �crit : On 10/8/06, jan gestre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/6/06, Desmond Coughlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may want to try roundcube http://www.roundcube.net although it's still on beta the interface's rocks, nothing you ever experienced before, certainly cooler than squirrelmail with AJAX like interface. Interesting... OK, I've got roundcube installed, the tables are created, postgreSQL is running, apache is recompiled for PhP4 (which is installed also) ... oh, and I've installed IMAP4. Now what ? My question, I suppose, is .. what is the address used to access the web interface? you need to configure main.inc.php and db.inc.php, usually just your username will do but if you can't, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] look for this part in roundcubemail/config/main.inc.php : // Automatically add this domain to user names for login // Only for IMAP servers that require full e-mail addresses for login // Specify an array with 'host' = 'domain' values to support multiple hosts $rcmail_config['username_domain'] = ''; // This domain will be used to form e-mail addresses of new users // Specify an array with 'host' = 'domain' values to support multiple hosts $rcmail_config['mail_domain'] = ' sample.org'; just replace sample.org with your fqdn and your done! username: user1 password: * HTH -- D�couvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quel que soit le sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/R�ponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos exp�riences. Cliquez icihttp://fr.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42054/*http://fr.answers.yahoo.com. -- D�couvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quel que soit le sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/R�ponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos exp�riences. Cliquez icihttp://fr.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42054/*http://fr.answers.yahoo.com. ___ 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 change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells. Why not? --Alex ___ 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 change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?
+++ Alex Zbyslaw [freebsd] [10-10-06 11:57 +0100]: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells. | | Why not? | | --Alex man pw and look for '-s' option Though it many need little bit of scripting. This may be useful to automate the process. But if for one time change, I would prefer vipw. -- Ignore everybody. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface
X-No-Archive: true try to telnet port 143, if you can't connect it means you don't have an IMAP server Thanks, yes I _thought_ that I had installed the Cyrus server from the ports collection A manual install is running, as I write these words. D. - Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Demandez à ceux qui savent sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface
X-No-Archive: true *sigh* rachi# ./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5 --with-sasl=/usr/local/include/sasl ... checking for sasl/sasl.h... no configure: error: Cannot continue without libsasl2. Get it from ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/. But ... rachi# ls /usr/local/include/sasl/sasl.h /usr/local/include/sasl/sasl.h D. - Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. ___ 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 maintain upgrade??
Gerard Seibert writes: Why, exactly, you remove the distfiles? I just like to remove files that are neither needed or more than likely outdated. Are you aware of the DD option for portsclean? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface
X-No-Archive: true uninstall cyrus and install dovecot from the ports tree. its small, lightweight, and fast. are you trying to install stuff without using the ports tree? Yeah. I used to do Solaris admin (Jesus, you'd never know it...), and usually prefer installing software the ./configure -- make make install route. Especially since a ports install doesn't tell you anything about where the software is put D. - Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Demandez à ceux qui savent sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cheapskate webmail interface
The Subject: header has gradually grown to: Subject: Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface Please, please, edit it or use an email client that does. It's in danger of getting silly now. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something Like Beagle
backyard wrote: --- Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle the evolutionary computation system? The personel data indexer seems cool to me. the evolutionary computation system isn't something I would personally find useful. my two cents -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am referring to the data indexer. I understand that it uses something called iNotify within the Linux kernel and that is why it may not be a very nice port to *BSD. I am wondering if it would be possible to use something like kqueue to notify the calling program of a disk write like iNotify does. Just throwing out thought because I think that a desktop search tool would be well received with the desktop BSD community. -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dovecot installed
Better ? :) Sorry, I'm using yahoo and IE. It sucks. D. - Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Demandez à ceux qui savent sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: cheapskate webmail interface
Desmond Coughlan wrote: X-No-Archive: true *sigh* rachi# ./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5 --with-sasl=/usr/local/include/sasl ... checking for sasl/sasl.h... no configure: error: Cannot continue without libsasl2. Get it from ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/. But ... rachi# ls /usr/local/include/sasl/sasl.h /usr/local/include/sasl/sasl.h uninstall cyrus and install dovecot from the ports tree. its small, lightweight, and fast. are you trying to install stuff without using the ports tree? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bind problem
i've configured dns server in freeBSD 6.1 but when i query the server it wont resolve my domain name. i've added in resolv.conf also and my bind daemon is also running without any errors. i couldnt figure out the problem. if any suggestion please help me ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)
any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see this betwe. I had this problem when DNS was broken for the FreeBSD server and the MacOS X client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh session will be fast and free of this error. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bind problem
Hi Robin, On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:22, Robin Tiwari wrote: i've configured dns server in freeBSD 6.1 but when i query the server it wont resolve my domain name. i've added in resolv.conf also and my bind daemon is also running without any errors. i couldnt figure out the problem. if any suggestion please help me Can you send us your configuration files (or at least the important parts of them)? -- Lothar pgph5hHaogxsc.pgp Description: PGP signature
aclocal19 doesn't find macros
Hi list, i'm trying to work on a configure.ac which contains the line AM_PATH_XML2(2.4.0,,AC_MSG_ERROR([*** LibXML version $XML_VERSION not found!])) When i process it with aclocal15 everything works fine. But if i take aclocal19 for that job, i'll get the error message: aclocal:configure.ac:8: warning: macro `AM_PATH_XML2' not found in library This seems to be because of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/]$ aclocal19 --print-ac-dir /usr/local/share/aclocal19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/]$ aclocal15 --print-ac-dir /usr/local/share/aclocal If i run aclocal19 --acdir=/usr/local/share/aclocal i get the message aclocal:configure.ac:3: warning: macro `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' not found in library What can i do to make that work (using aclocal15 isn't an option because automake19 won't work together with it)? Cheers, Lothar pgpFeGLAl97fG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: mount_msdosfs 240G
On 10/9/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 18:43, Kevin Sanders wrote: On 9/26/06, Alistair Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/09/06, sanya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a similar problem when trying to mount a 180G USB drive. Recompiling my kernel with the MSDOSFS_LARGE option allowed me to mount the drive. I wonder why this isn't the default? because support for this is not deemed stable in environments that have X number of files in the file system, where X is a number i cannot remember right now, but its a lot more than i have or ever will have. Good to know. It looks like there are a couple PR's related to large MSDOSFS's. I have a 400gb USB drive that I can use to check these problems out with if I have time this weekend. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unable to find makeobjops.pl
Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was reading about kernel objects in the FreeBSD Architecture Handbook and noticed that there is no src/sys/kern/makeobjops.pl in my src tree. The section I was looking at is 3.3.5 . Anyone knows where it went? Looks like it was turned into an awk script when perl was removed from the base system. How often is the Architecture book updated? Depends. Little details like this can be easily overlooked. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:29, David Robillard wrote: any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see this betwe. I had this problem when DNS was broken for the FreeBSD server and the MacOS X client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh session will be fast and free of this error. If you're not able (or don't want to =)) fix the DNS, you can reconfigure the sshd on the server. Add UseDNS no to it's /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the ssh daemon (this will make sshd stop to look up the hostnames of the connecting clients) Best regards, Lothar pgpsyuWBrbhd8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users
Niek Dekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new user is created in /var/mail. I assume you mean adduser(8). As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. Hmm, yes. My question is, where is this behavior of useradd configured? It isn't. It appears to be hardwired into pw(8), which is the basic tool around which adduser(8) is built. I cannot find this in the handbook. There is no /etc/useradd.conf neither an /etc/pw.conf on my system and also the contents of /usr/share/skel do not seem to make a difference. And none of those are documented to do anything of the sort. I think you should just write your own wrapper. You could write it as a wrapper for adduser, or you could make your own version of adduser (which is just a shell script). ___ 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 maintain upgrade??
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you aware of the DD option for portsclean? Yes, I have read the 'man' pages, or as they are routinely referred to: 'Much About Nothing' documentation. -- Gerard Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dovecot installed -- WAS: Re: cheapskate webmail interface
Desmond Coughlan wrote: Better ? :) Sorry, I'm using yahoo and IE. It sucks. 1) Why did you change the subject? 2) I have used IE with Yahoo and have not experienced the problems that you seem to be experiencing. Are you sure that this is not a case of 'PEBKC' phenomena? -- Gerard Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dovecot installed -- WAS: Re: cheapskate webmail interface
Microsoft has an extra security pack for IE and if you download it and install it, it will break a lot of these kinds of webinterface sites. Sorry I cannot be more explicit, the only machine I am responsible for that has this thing on it which breaks ssites, was setup by one of the other admins and he forgot what exactly he did to fix it. Ted - Original Message - From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:51 AM Subject: Re: dovecot installed -- WAS: Re: cheapskate webmail interface Desmond Coughlan wrote: Better ? :) Sorry, I'm using yahoo and IE. It sucks. 1) Why did you change the subject? 2) I have used IE with Yahoo and have not experienced the problems that you seem to be experiencing. Are you sure that this is not a case of 'PEBKC' phenomena? -- Gerard Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ___ 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]
how to route my public IP
hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and divide to 4 branch, each branch has 3 public ip's. my problem is, I want to make all branch connect to the main office's router, but what I found is, all branch is showed by the internet using one public IP (my main router IP) not their own Public IP. Anyone can help me resolve this ? Regards, Dzak ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Niek Dekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new user is created in /var/mail. As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. And none of those are documented to do anything of the sort. I think you should just write your own wrapper. You could write it as a wrapper for adduser, or you could make your own version of adduser (which is just a shell script). Why not just store your mail in a different directory - say /var/exim? Does it hurt your eyes if it's not called /var/mail? In login.conf you set user environment path to the user's mailbox (don't know if this is worth anything with Maildir), and configure exim to use that directory - this sounds like the easier solution. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Something Like Beagle
--- Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: --- Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something like beagle that runs on FreeBSD? If not is it something that people would like to see ported? -Tom Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle the evolutionary computation system? The personel data indexer seems cool to me. the evolutionary computation system isn't something I would personally find useful. my two cents -brian I am referring to the data indexer. I understand that it uses something called iNotify within the Linux kernel and that is why it may not be a very nice port to *BSD. I am wondering if it would be possible to use something like kqueue to notify the calling program of a disk write like iNotify does. that sounds logical, but since beagle is a gnome item isn't there an existing gnome function that wraps kqueue into its API to do somekind of fast indexing or track file changes? Not a programmer sorry, but I seem to recall something along those lines when I was reading the descriptions to the ports I had installed while setting the knobs for my rebuild. I could look into that more if so desired... Just throwing out thought because I think that a desktop search tool would be well received with the desktop BSD community. -Tom I would tend to concur with that. -brian ___ 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 route my public IP
On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:58 AM, runlevel 3 wrote: hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and divide to 4 branch, each branch has 3 public ip's. my problem is, I want to make all branch connect to the main office's router, but what I found is, all branch is showed by the internet using one public IP (my main router IP) not their own Public IP. Anyone can help me resolve this ? Talk to your ISP. A VPN technology such as OpenVPN in the ports might be helpful... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using portconf and /usr/local/etc/ports.conf
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/usr/local/etc/ports.conf
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if ruby uses ncurses, that blue menu thing, you
have
to add BATCH=Yes as a build option to skip the
menu
and build it with the options you have selected.
You missed the point. If I were to set batch mode
on, then
I meant set BATCH as an option only to the ruby knob,
then it would only apply to that build.
it would just build WITHOUT the options I selected.
The fact
that the config box came up with RDOC and IPV6 still
selected
suggests to me that portconf isn't recognizing my
entries in
ports.conf.
maybe but if portconf doesn't automatically apply a
BATCH build then you WILL ALWAYS get a screen that
will default to what is in the Makefile, not what you
passed to make -DFOO -DBAR. Unless you use the
previous options but I'm not certain how to tell make
to use the existing options file.
don't know much about portconf
Thanks all the same.
is portconf supposed to automagically apply a batch
build??? I'm confused...
that is why I keep it simple with stuff like this
.if {CURDIR:M/usr/ports*}
include /foo/bar/ports.conf
.endif
in make.conf
I also do stuff like that to include sup files so I
can independantly update ports and src because when
both are set in the make.conf it seems to always
update both. sometimes this is not what I really want.
and in ports.conf
.if {CURDIR:M*/lang/ruby18}
# comment out all the build options
# from the Makefile copyed in for reference
#
BATCH=YES
WITHOUT_IPV6=yes
WITH_FOOBAR=YES
WITH_STUFF=no # == WITH_STUFF=YES, use WITHOUT_STUFF
.endif
there was a nice thing I found on google when
searching
retaining options portupgrade
or something along those lines. Why use ports to do
something make already understands. At least that is
my logic. especially if you have to type up a
configuration file anyway... You could keep things in
just make.conf but things get messy after a while.
good luck
-brian
Jim
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Segfaulting perl
When trying to run fetchyahoo (from ports), perl dumps core. It appears to be dumping core in OpenSSL. I've tried recompiling/ reinstalling all ports related to fetchyahoo, perl, and openssl. This happens whether or not I enable SSL in fetchyahoo's configuration. It gets as far as: ~% fetchyahoo Logging in insecurely via plaintext as username on Tue Oct 10 09:49:20 2006 zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) fetchyahoo Perl and OpenSSL have been compiled with: ~% egrep -i '^(COPT|CFLAG)' /etc/make.conf CFLAGS+=-O -pipe -mtune=i686 -g COPTFLAGS=-O -pipe -mtune=i686 -g Here's the output of GDB and a backtrace Core was generated by `perl5.8.8'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/ libperl.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.4...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.4 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libutil.so.5...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libutil.so.5 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/IO/ IO.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/IO/IO.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Fcntl/ Fcntl.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ MIME/Base64/Base64.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ MIME/Base64/Base64.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Time/HiRes/ HiRes.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Time/HiRes/ HiRes.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Socket/ Socket.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Socket/Socket.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Sys/ Hostname/Hostname.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/auto/Sys/Hostname/ Hostname.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ HTML/Parser/Parser.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ HTML/Parser/Parser.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/auto/ Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.5...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.5 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x2839d420 in SSL_CTX_ctrl () from /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5 [New LWP 100179] (gdb) bt #0 0x2839d420 in SSL_CTX_ctrl () from /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.5 #1 0x01c0 in ?? () #2 0x000d in ?? () #3 0x28325000 in ?? () #4 0x in ?? () #5 0x283683b4 in __JCR_LIST__ () from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/ 5.8.8/mach/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so #6 0x0017 in ?? () #7 0x in ?? () #8 0x283608af in XS_Crypt__SSLeay__CTX_new (my_perl=0x8058000, cv=0x86b47b0) at SSLeay.xs:133 #9 0x2810fd9f in Perl_pp_entersub (my_perl=0x8058000) at pp_hot.c:2913 #10 0x280f22d9 in Perl_runops_debug (my_perl=0x8058000) at dump.c:1459 #11 0x2809e6b1 in S_run_body (my_perl=0x8058000, oldscope=4095) at perl.c:2366 #12 0x2809e222 in perl_run (my_perl=0x8058000) at perl.c:2283 #13 0x080492bc in main () Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=freebsd, osvers=6.1-release-p10, archname=i386-freebsd- thread-multi-64int uname='freebsd melchoir.ketralnis.com 6.1-release-p10 freebsd 6.1-release-p10 #5: mon oct 9 09:44:49 pdt 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:usrobjusrsrcsysmelchoir i386 ' config_args='-sde -Dprefix=/usr/local -Darchlib=/usr/local/lib/ perl5/5.8.8/mach -Dprivlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 -Dman3dir=/usr/ local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/perl/man/man3 -Dman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 - Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach -Dsitelib=/usr/ local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -Dscriptdir=/usr/local/bin - Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/ local/man/man1 -Ui_malloc -Ui_iconv -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dcc=cc - Duseshrplib -Dccflags=-DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ BSDPAN -Doptimize=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -O -pipe -
Re: how to route my public IP
This is a problem with your router's configuration. You may need better routers, that can handle the routing of your subnet in addition to your internet usage. -Derek At 10:58 AM 10/10/2006, runlevel 3 wrote: hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and divide to 4 branch, each branch has 3 public ip's. my problem is, I want to make all branch connect to the main office's router, but what I found is, all branch is showed by the internet using one public IP (my main router IP) not their own Public IP. Anyone can help me resolve this ? Regards, Dzak ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.dmg files?
Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Drew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimum requirements
On 10/9/06, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/09/06 12:00, free bsd wrote: Thank you everyone for responding to my initial question. In hindsight I realize I worded my original inquiry inaccurately. What I am attempting to determine is how well or if ver 6.1 will work on a 4GB hard drive with a Pentium 4 - 3.06GHz cpu and 1GB ram? The machine has a 232GB hard drive but I have another 4GB drive sitting around being unused that I was thinking of adding to the machine to configure in a dual boot setup with the 4GB drive being totally allocated to FreeBSD. Well, as everyone has stated... It depends on what you are doing with the machine. I have a 512MB USB device running 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg, Fluxbox, nessus, nmap, firefox, and a few other tidbits (no ports tree). Its darn slow off USB, but it works. So yeah, 4GB is sufficient... for some amount of functionality. If *I* wanted to use a machine, say for a desktop, I'd want no less than 20GB. I have a 20GB disk for a machine, yet I ran out of space while trying to set it up the way I wanted. I had most things setup, then tried to compile OO. I fell back to the package though. Either way, everyones point is... It depends. But I think most would say to have a truly useful Desktop, 4GB is a bit slim. My vote... 20GB+ HTH. However, before attempting that task I am trying to determine whether or not it would be even feasible to use a 4GB drive to install v 6.1 or should I use a larger drive to install the many of FreeBSD's features? And if a larger drive how large of a drive would I need to utilize many or any of its features without limiting myself to a bare bones setup? Additionally, if the 4GB drive will work how limited would the install/capabilities/features be? I am not at all opposed to using a larger drive but at the present time do not have a clue as to what size drive I should use for the most flexibility regarding type of installation options. -art I didn't see it mentioned (may have missed it), I just wanted to point out one thing. There is a bit of a speed difference between a 4gig drive and a 200gig drive. If you are using a 3gig CPU, it would be a shame to have such a huge bottleneck with the hard drive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE Control Center
When I bring up the Control Center in KDE the left column is now blank, and I have no options for changing preferences. Anyone know what happened there? Everything else seems to be functioning fine. Rem ___ 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 change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?
Because that's what pw is for...you don't need to worry about accidentally deleting a colon, for example. A script using pw would also be a huge timesaver over manually editing hundreds of entries, I'd think as well. Of course, sed can do it even quicker, but with the same risks. On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells. Why not? --Alex James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .dmg files?
--- Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Drew http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ your lucky work is slow... :) cause a quick google on extension dmg found this little website. there are source files and perl scripts that supposedly do it for you. enjoy -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.1-stable + Wireless + ndiswrapper kernel crash
Hello all, I am experiencing a very strange problem with FreeBSD 6.1-stable. I do not know if this could be a bug report, so please tell me what you think. I have a D-Link G520+ wireless card configured and running with ndiswrapper. The network seems stable and if there is not many network traffic, the interface will run for days. However, I have noticed that problems appear when there is a lot of network traffic for a big amount of time. I have noticed this when transferring files via NFS or scp. An exact same problem I found in the mailing list: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 6.1-Stable + named ndis + nfsd == System crash ? After experimenting quite a bit, I can know reproduce a kernel crash. my setup involves 2 machines: a Linux Machine (linux) the FreeBSD 6.1 machine (freebsd) I can flood ping (ping -f) the linux machine from the freebsd just fine and there is no problem whatsoever. However, and here is the tricky part, if I login from linux to the freebsd machine via ssh and then do a flood ping from the freebsd to linux machine, I get a system crash. It is noteworthy that I have done some experiments with the wireless card running on Linux and no problems occur, so I do not think there is a bug in the Windows driver supplied with the card. Please note that I am not an experienced FreeBSD user, I am know learning the insights of it. Thank you all in advance for your support. Some information about my system: uname: FreeBSD rugad.lan 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 10 01:44:03 EEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 pciconf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0:class=0x028000 card=0x3b041186 chip=0x9066104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)' device = 'TNETW1130(ACX111) 802.11b/g Wireless Cardbus/PCI Adapter' class= network the kernel crash: [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol ps_pglobal_lookup] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd. Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x14 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc069dbe0 stack pointer = 0x28:0xd13deac4 frame pointer = 0x28:0xd13deaf4 code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 2242 (Windows DPC 0) trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 13h20m50s Dumping 255 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (160 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 255MB (65280 pages) 240 224 208 192 176 160 144 128 112 96 80 64 48 32 16 #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:165 165 __asm __volatile(movl %%fs:0,%0 : =r (td)); (kgdb) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help
Hi for the first time i have install FreeBsd 6.1 and i have a problem. I use standard setup and when a make all partition for BSD root swap usr then the problem begins. The messege Unable to write data to disk ad2! I make just one partition on the disk. CAN you help me Please write to me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creating a Super user Account
Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? Thank you in advance, Alena (305) 940-7299 ext. 2422 This email is confidential and it is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by a Reply. If this email is addressed to or sent by an attorney, this email is either an attorney-client privileged communication or a work-product privileged communication, or both. The United Automobile Insurance Company as well as the sender and intended recipient of this email expressly reserve any and all rights to assert the aforesaid privileges, and do not waive any such rights thereto by virtue of an erroneous email transmission. This statement shall not hereafter be construed as limiting the assertion of any additional and further legal rights that the parties may have to limit or prohibit any further dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this email. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users
Hi Lowell, thanks for the clarification. I'll have a look at the adduser script and probably make my own version. Regards, Niek Lowell Gilbert wrote: Niek Dekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new user is created in /var/mail. I assume you mean adduser(8). As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. Hmm, yes. My question is, where is this behavior of useradd configured? It isn't. It appears to be hardwired into pw(8), which is the basic tool around which adduser(8) is built. I cannot find this in the handbook. There is no /etc/useradd.conf neither an /etc/pw.conf on my system and also the contents of /usr/share/skel do not seem to make a difference. And none of those are documented to do anything of the sort. I think you should just write your own wrapper. You could write it as a wrapper for adduser, or you could make your own version of adduser (which is just a shell script). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
alena eckert wrote: Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? can you just ask the employee his password? there are ways to do this, but not without at least a little bit of FreeBSD/UNIX experience. How comfortable are you with working in the BSD environment with boot CDs, etc? Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unattended restore in script
Hi all I've got commands like this in a script which is supposed to do an unattended clone of a hard disk dump 0af - /usr |restore xf - It does the dump and restore ok but then stops and prompts me with something like DUMP: DUMP IS DONE set owner/mode for '.'? [y/n] Can I modify the command so it doesn't prompt? I couldn't see anything in restore's man page except -x restores ownership and modes where possible. Is it not possible on my system for some reason? I've also tried to include an 'echo y' in the command but without success. Thanks very much, sorry for such a trivial question. Chris FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Sep 16 12:05:57 BST 2006 i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? Have a look at the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny - Kin Hubbard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD
Mike Friedman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle client-only with encryption support. First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. But my database support person tells me that's quite old and, in fact, he couldn't be sure it would work (especially the encryption part) with the Oracle database I'd be using (which he helps support). And I was getting some strange symptoms when I tested it. So, he recommended that I download the Oracle 10g Client for Linux. Since my FreeBSD system is configured for Linux compatibility, I'm hoping this will work. However, I can't even get the Installer to complete! It keeps telling me that I may not have enough space in my root partition, even though I'm not trying to install into the root partition. (The partition in which I'm installing has lots of space). In addition, I should say that the machine on which this Oracle client will be installed is not running X Windows. This means I can't use the installation menus, so I've been running the Installation tool with a 'response file'. The response file, however, doesn't have much flexibility. In particular, when I'm told I may not have enough space, it asks me if I want to continue, but there's no way for me to reply 'yes' from the response file. In any case, based on the installation logs, it really looks like the Installation tool is looking at the root partition for how much space is available. I've found in the FreeBSD handbook an article on installing Oracle 8.0. But it appears that there have been changes with 10g. Also, those instructions seem to assume a server install, so they talk about setting some shared memory values and other things that may not apply to me anyway. Do I have any other options? I don't want to install the full Oracle package (client and server), just the client, so that I can write some perl scripts to query a remote Oracle database. Any suggestions? Thanks. Mike Mike, have you considered linux-oracle-instantclient-* ports ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OOo-204rc3, package
Is there a means of downloading the 2.0.4rc3 package for openoffice? The latest on the OO website is 2.0.3. portupgrade shrugs. I think this is the last thing to replace/upgrade. thanks, people, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
alena eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? The is a Frequently Asked Question: I have forgotten the root password! What do I do? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW This email is confidential and it is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by a Reply. That entity is a public e-mail list, and as such, the whole message will be archived permanently on hundreds of web sites... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dual core AMD chips
How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual core AMD chips
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Brian wrote: How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Fine. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating a Super user Account
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:57:54PM -0400, alena eckert wrote: Hello, I work for United Automobile Insurance Group. We recently had our only employee with a super user account leave the company. No here knows this employees id or password to update information. Can you please advise how we can create new accounts and give someone a super user account without this information? Look up information on booting in to single user mode. When you do this, you are effectively in root at the console with no network services or extra stuff running. Then, you merely need to: make sure the filesystems are clean - fsck(8) remount root with reae/write permission - mount(8) mount other filesystems you might need - mount(8) might as well turn on swap space- swapon(8) eg. fsck -p mount -u / mount -a swapon -a At this point you can use vipw(8) to add an account and passwd(1) to set or change passwords. vipw is a special version of the 'vi' editor that handles the passwd file. It takes care of locks, and updating the master passwd file and the password database so you don't have to do anything with them by hand. The editing rules in vipw are the same as in regular vi. The ideal thing is to copy the line with the root account on it and then dup it. Change the id name field and possible the home directory if you want to keep them separate. Then once you get out of vipw with a 'ESC : w q' (no spaces, I just put them there to be clear) which cause the changes to be written to the file, you then need to run passwd to set a password on the new account. passwd newid follow the prompts. Then, edit the /etc/group file and put your regular non-root id in the wheel group - just add it on the end of the list if any with a comma separating it from previous ones. Then, reboot. shutdown -r now log in as your regular id - that you just added to wheel group. then su to the new root id to do root work. su newid then give the newid password when it asks. When you get done with the work, leave the root account by typing exit at a system shell prompt This is better and a small amount more secure than setting a password on the regular root account. But, you can just put a password on the root account and su to it - just do the su without an id on the line. jerry Thank you in advance, Alena (305) 940-7299 ext. 2422 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 20:03, Drew wrote: Hi, I've got a box that's nat'd out to the internet. It is occassionally neccessary for me to access this box remotely. The obvious answer is: ssh -R :localhost:22 remote.box cat run from the nat'd box where remote box is a place I pretty much always have access too from anywhere, anytime. The problem is that the connection between these two boxes is famously unreliable - so I need to ensure that this connection stays available. Unfortunately, the procedure for this is not obvious to me. I've thought about a cron job, as the connection would simply fail if it couldn't bind to on the remote box to listen. But I'm thinking there has to be something that makes more sense. Suggestions? Feedback? Thanks in advance for any pointers. you can do something like this in bourne-like shells: while true; do ssh -N ... sleep 1 done and something like this in csh: while ( 1 ) ... end from ssh manual: -N Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just for- warding ports (protocol version 2 only). The sleep command is used to add a little delay in case there is some- thing really wrong and ssh returns immediately, resulting in looping very fast. Then you just have to ensure that ssh will be aware of a dropped connection (by the means of keep-alives) and exit. You can do this with ssh, but you have configure keep-alives on both machines, client and server. An alternative method would be ipfw keep-alives for dynamic rules and you have to configure it only on the box you're ssh'ing from. It works very nice. In both cases you have to use public key authentication in order to log on automatically after a network failure. I guess it's already set up. A few pointers, read ssh, sshd, ssh-keygen and ipfw manuals HTH, Nikos Hello, I was just thinking along these lines this evening -- putting ssh in loop so that the tunnel is recreated whenever connection drops. However, I'd like to automate it somehow so that the machine creating tunnel can be restarted and it tries to open up tunnel when it boots up. The thing is that if I just simply create an rc script to achieve this, the script is run under root and ssh cannot make use of public key authentication which is set up now for a user running it manually. Or is there a way to change identity somehow or to run an rc script under different user account ?? Cheers, Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat
On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:55 PM, martinko wrote: [ ... ] The thing is that if I just simply create an rc script to achieve this, the script is run under root and ssh cannot make use of public key authentication which is set up now for a user running it manually. Or is there a way to change identity somehow or to run an rc script under different user account ?? Of course. One can use su - to run a command under another user, or use the ssh -i option to pass the user's identity (ie, their SSH private key) directly... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual core AMD chips
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Brian wrote: How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Fine. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you had better stability with the i386 or 64 bit releases? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual core AMD chips
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:04:44PM -0700, Brian wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:21:51PM -0700, Brian wrote: How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? Fine. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you had better stability with the i386 or 64 bit releases? They're both equally stable. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59:34PM +0200, martinko wrote: Mike Friedman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle client-only with encryption support. First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. But my database support person tells me that's quite old and, in fact, he couldn't be sure it would work (especially the encryption part) with the Oracle database I'd be using (which he helps support). And I was getting some strange symptoms when I tested it. So, he recommended that I download the Oracle 10g Client for Linux. Since my FreeBSD system is configured for Linux compatibility, I'm hoping this will work. However, I can't even get the Installer to complete! It keeps telling me that I may not have enough space in my root partition, even though I'm not trying to install into the root partition. (The partition in which I'm installing has lots of space). In addition, I should say that the machine on which this Oracle client will be installed is not running X Windows. This means I can't use the installation menus, so I've been running the Installation tool with a 'response file'. The response file, however, doesn't have much flexibility. In particular, when I'm told I may not have enough space, it asks me if I want to continue, but there's no way for me to reply 'yes' from the response file. In any case, based on the installation logs, it really looks like the Installation tool is looking at the root partition for how much space is available. I've found in the FreeBSD handbook an article on installing Oracle 8.0. But it appears that there have been changes with 10g. Also, those instructions seem to assume a server install, so they talk about setting some shared memory values and other things that may not apply to me anyway. Do I have any other options? I don't want to install the full Oracle package (client and server), just the client, so that I can write some perl scripts to query a remote Oracle database. Any suggestions? Thanks. Mike Mike, have you considered linux-oracle-instantclient-* ports ? If all you want to do is use Perl to access the database, then why are you bothering with Oracle's client software? Just use the CPAN module to build and install DBD::Oracle. Just curious, but how were you able to perform a silent install wihout a frame buffer? I ran into this problem installing Oracle 9i, but used xvfb as a workaround. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .dmg files?
--On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 13:51:46 -0500 Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Won't this do it? /usr/ports/archivers/stuffit Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: dual core AMD chips
--On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 14:21:51 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How good is the SMP support now for AMD X2 chips? I'm running 6.0 RELEASE and not having any problems. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
problems using gmirror
i've been trying to use the procedure described at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html i followed it to the letter. i'm using the install cd from from the freebsd 6.1-release iso. my primary disk is on sata-0 which is /dev/ad4 on my dell poweredge 400sc. in the label editor i used the auto defauts giving 5 slices for / swap /tmp /var /usr. everything goes according to plan for page 1 of that article. but the machine does not reboot. it fails while: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a because that device doesn't exist. the computer hangs at the mountroot prompt because of the keboard bug in 6.1-release. when i reboot in safe mode and enter ? to list geom managed disk devices i see only mirror mirror/gm0s1c mirror/gm0s1 mirror/gm0 and all the ad4 devices. in other words: mirror/gm0s1a and the other three slices are not listed in /dev/mirror. i've been through the install process about 5 times now carefully checking everything and i can see from ls /dev/mirror that the command: gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4 generates only the /dev/mirror/gm0s1c in /dev/mirrior, the other four slices are not there. any suggestions? thanks tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .dmg files?
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 13:51:46 -0500 Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Won't this do it? /usr/ports/archivers/stuffit Probably not. Stuffit is a zip like format. .dmg are like .iso more or less (mountable disk images) Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:55 PM, martinko wrote: [ ... ] The thing is that if I just simply create an rc script to achieve this, the script is run under root and ssh cannot make use of public key authentication which is set up now for a user running it manually. Or is there a way to change identity somehow or to run an rc script under different user account ?? Of course. One can use su - to run a command under another user, or use the ssh -i option to pass the user's identity (ie, their SSH private key) directly... ---Chuck su(1) usually asks for password. but it does not when run by root, of course. :-) i like `ssh -i`, too. only that i'll have to check whether it won't complain that identity file ownership doesn't match user running it. (which would be root i expect) also, i've been kindly reminded of cron(8) and its @reboot option. thank you all for your input! (i'd better go to bed now..;)) m. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .dmg files?
On 2006/10/10 14:10, Paul Schmehl seems to have typed: --On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 13:51:46 -0500 Drew Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Won't this do it? /usr/ports/archivers/stuffit I don't believe so: http://www.stuffit.com/compression/fileformats.html .dmg is a Disk iMaGe fairly similar to a BSD *.iso file. Stuffit supports compressed archives, but afaik, does not support any disk image file formats. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client
On Monday 09 October 2006 19:43, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: Hello, I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via etherboot. After power up the client boots and gives me a login prompt. At that time I enter 'root' and I am presented with a command prompt. I then enter 'X -query server ip' and X starts and it works as expected. I would like to add sound. Unfortunately, I can't find documentation describing this process. So, could someone explain to me how to configure the client/server? My server is FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. BTW: I installed an ISA soundblaster sound and compiled these lines into my kernel. The kernel detects the sound card during boot-up. # Add the generic audio driver device sound device snd_sbc device snd_sb16 I have had good results using /usr/ports/audio/esound. Install on both the client and the server. On the client, run something like this before you start X: client% esd -tcp -public -promiscuous -beeps -trust -bind 10.0.0.1 where 10.0.0.1 is the IP address of the client's network interface. Connect to the server just as you have described. When ever you run a program that has esd support compiled in, the audio will be directed to the client. Programs compiled with ESD support appear to direct sound to the host indicated by the DISPLAY environment variable. That should set correctly if the server you're attaching to is running xdm, gdm, or kdm. You may also have to set ESPEAKER, but I've found that just DISPLAY works for me. I'm not having much luck. I installed esound on both client and server. I start esound on the server; esd , the server responds with several beeps. On the client I start esd as described above, I also hear beeps when esd starts. I start X, then login to KDE. I start Xmms with esound enabled. I get an error saying 'can't open audio'. any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wxGlade error
thanks I only had wxPython-common installed. I had to install wxPython-2.6, now it works. On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:03 -0400, Michael S wrote: Have you just installed wxPython? Maybe you need to execute the rehash command? What if you try running python from the command line, and try importing the package from within the interpreter, i.e. typing from wxPython.wx import *? Does it load the module? --- Rod Person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to run wxGlade on FreeBSD 7 Current I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxglade/wxglade.py, line 148, in ? run_main() File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxglade/wxglade.py, line 135, in run_main import main File /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wxglade/main.py, line 9, in ? from wxPython.wx import * ImportError: No module named wxPython.wx wxPython is installed via the ports. Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this?? -- Rod it takes an unusual mind to see the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead -- Rod it takes an unusual mind to see the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability
This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged bug gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone know any details? FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06 http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Oct 10, 2006 I. BACKGROUND FreeBSD is a modern operating system for x86, amd64, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and SPARC architectures. It's based on the UNIX operating system, BSD, which was created at the University of California, Berkeley. More information can be obtained from the FreeBSD Project web site at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ II. DESCRIPTION The PT_LWPINFO ptrace command allows a tracer to get information on a running thread. Due to the use of signed integers and a lack of proper input validation, a situation can occur in the kernel where a panic will cause DoS. The affected code follows. 953 case PT_LWPINFO: 954 if (data == 0 || data sizeof(*pl)) 955 return (EINVAL); Since the data variable is a signed integer, the check on line 954 can easily be bypassed. Eventually, the negative value is passed to copyout(), which will result in a kernel panic or corruption of the user space memory. III. ANALYSIS Exploitation of this vulnerability would result in a denial of service condition on the affected host. In some cases exploitation resulted in a hard lock up of the machine, where as other times a kernel panic was caused leading to reboot. iDefense considers this a LOW severity vulnerability due to the local access requirement. IV. DETECTION iDefense has confirmed the existence of this problem in FreeBSD version 6.0-RELEASE. FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE is not affected. It is suspected that other versions are also affected. V. WORKAROUND iDefense is not aware of any workaround for this issue. VI. VENDOR RESPONSE The policy of the FreeBSD Security Team is that local denial of service bugs not be treated as security issues; it is possible that this problem will be corrected in a future Erratum. VII. CVE INFORMATION The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2006-4516 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes names for security problems. VIII. DISCLOSURE TIMELINE 08/18/2006 Initial vendor notification 10/06/2006 Initial vendor response 10/10/2006 Public disclosure -- Bill Moran Sometimes I think I'm stupid. The rest of the time I'm sure of it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability
Bill Moran wrote: This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged bug gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone know any details? This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD and RELENG_6. There is no opportunity for either remote denial of service or any privilege escalation. VI. VENDOR RESPONSE The policy of the FreeBSD Security Team is that local denial of service bugs not be treated as security issues; it is possible that this problem will be corrected in a future Erratum. If there was any potential for (a) privilege escalation, (b) disclosure of potentially sensitive information, or (c) denial of service by a non-authenticated attacker, we would have issued a security advisory. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:09 -0500, Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59:34PM +0200, martinko wrote: Mike Friedman wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle client-only with encryption support. First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. But my database support person tells me that's quite old and, in fact, he couldn't be sure it would work (especially the encryption part) with the Oracle database I'd be using (which he helps support). And I was getting some strange symptoms when I tested it. So, he recommended that I download the Oracle 10g Client for Linux. Since my FreeBSD system is configured for Linux compatibility, I'm hoping this will work. However, I can't even get the Installer to complete! It keeps telling me that I may not have enough space in my root partition, even though I'm not trying to install into the root partition. (The partition in which I'm installing has lots of space). In addition, I should say that the machine on which this Oracle client will be installed is not running X Windows. This means I can't use the installation menus, so I've been running the Installation tool with a 'response file'. The response file, however, doesn't have much flexibility. In particular, when I'm told I may not have enough space, it asks me if I want to continue, but there's no way for me to reply 'yes' from the response file. In any case, based on the installation logs, it really looks like the Installation tool is looking at the root partition for how much space is available. I've found in the FreeBSD handbook an article on installing Oracle 8.0. But it appears that there have been changes with 10g. Also, those instructions seem to assume a server install, so they talk about setting some shared memory values and other things that may not apply to me anyway. Do I have any other options? I don't want to install the full Oracle package (client and server), just the client, so that I can write some perl scripts to query a remote Oracle database. Any suggestions? Thanks. Mike Mike, have you considered linux-oracle-instantclient-* ports ? If all you want to do is use Perl to access the database, then why are you bothering with Oracle's client software? Just use the CPAN module to build and install DBD::Oracle. He can't, DBD::Oracle uses oci underneath so he needs the Oracle client to get the shared libraries. Mike you also need to compile or install a linux perl and then install DBI DBD::Oracle with the linux perl. You could use DBD::Proxy instead of installing DBD::Oracle. It installed with DBI. Type 'perldoc DBD::Proxy' to see the docs. If you need help, you can email me or join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just curious, but how were you able to perform a silent install wihout a frame buffer? I ran into this problem installing Oracle 9i, but used xvfb as a workaround. -Damian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-database To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Scott T. Hildreth [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: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability
Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: This report seems pretty vague. I'm unsure as to whether the alleged bug gives the user any more permissions than he'd already have? Anyone know any details? This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD and RELENG_6. There is no opportunity for either remote denial of service or any privilege escalation. VI. VENDOR RESPONSE The policy of the FreeBSD Security Team is that local denial of service bugs not be treated as security issues; it is possible that this problem will be corrected in a future Erratum. If there was any potential for (a) privilege escalation, (b) disclosure of potentially sensitive information, or (c) denial of service by a non-authenticated attacker, we would have issued a security advisory. That was what I expected. Section III seems to hint that it could be used by an unprivilidged user to crash or lock a system. I suspect they used it as root to crash/lock the OS. But I don't need any bugs to do that as root, so it doesn't really count as a security issue. BTW, are you going to be at NYCBSDCon? If so, seek me out -- I owe you a beer at the least. As always, thanks for the quick response. -- Bill Moran That seem right to you? Jubal Early ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAILURE - READ_DMA error
Hello, Just a quick question, on this one server ( custom server in a 1U supermicro case p4 3.0ghz 1gb ram) I keep on getting HD errors… I replaced many drives and I always get the same error. I just replaced my motherboard and went to a SATA drive from IDE… In the middle of a FreeBSD install... I got the following error: FAILURE - READ_DMA What can the issue be? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/470 - Release Date: 10/10/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting started with FreeBSD
I am a complete newb to BSD trying to get started learning a bit about how to make my way in it. I have been using Slackware over the last four years or so, and this has made me a bit used to one way of doing things and now the FreeBSD way is kind of rattling me. For some background, I installed from the FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE discs, and this is also what I get from uname -r. What I don't understand is the relationship between ports, packages and security. For instance, I am currently using firefox 1.5.0.1, which I keep seeing online is not terribly secure. However, I am confused about what FreeBSD makes available to update this and other similar packages. I installed this, and most of the rest of the system, from the discs via packages, and hope to keep packages as my main method. I have had some experience in the past with twenty hour compiles of kdelibs on Gentoo and really don't want that again but I cannot find any info anywhere on how to approach updating for security via packages. I installed once previously as a test, and in that system followed the only online information I could find which seemed relevant, and that was regarding cvsup. I backed up the ports directory and setup a supfile according the handbook and a couple of examples, and went ahead and ran it. From there I started checking how things would go if I ran portupgrade on a couple of apps. I chose the infamous kdelibs as my sample. When I ran portupgrade -P, just to check things out and see what I would get, it failed to find a package and started grabbing the source. No, couldn't do that, so I killed it. I then tried again with portsnap and got the same result. When I looked at the complaint I found that it was looking for what appeared to be a nonexistent file. I am not sure now, but it was something like kdelibs-3.5.4 and the server it was searching on, something which ended in ...packages-6.1-release I think, had only kdelibs-3.5.1. As a matter of fact, I went through all the directories I could find online (including 6 and 7 stable, release and current) and was unable to find the package my system was looking for in any of them. This failure, and the confusion which ensued, are what cause me to wonder just how to keep things like the aforementioned firefox up to date. I am now in a situation where I am unsure of what to do as regards updates, and can really find nothing which clarifies things much online. Everything I find says to run cvsup and use a supfile entirely like that which I used before, and that did not work out. How do I use new, more secure ports and yet still be able to use binary packages? Is updating ports with cvsup the only way? And if so, what did I do wrong before? The inability to use binary packages for giant, though in my case needed, bloatware like kde made me leave Gentoo behind and I want to know whether that is the only future for FreeBSD too. I am assuming that since there are binary packages online for these files they must be usable, I just don't know how to get to them from tools like portupgrade. Or if that is how you even try to upgrade a system from packages. I just can't find any really relevant guides for this type of thing, so I am supposing that everyone just compiles everything. Any help in this is very much appreciated, and sorry if I am overlooking super obvious information somewhere about this. I probably am, but I just can't find it. Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .dmg files?
Is there any way to unpack a .dmg file (mac) on FreeBSD? I have checked in ports/archivers and can't find anything that looks like it will do it, and google turns up nothing of any use that I've found yet. Have I missed something, or can this really not be done? Take a look at http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/, the dmg2iso.pl might help you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting started with FreeBSD
Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user to install/configure their own desktop experience. If you want a good desktop that does provide updates to some apps (firefox included), start with PC-BSD, http://www.pcbsd.org. This is built on FreeBSD 6.x and keeps the base enough as in the FreeBSD.org release so as to enable you a true freebsd system so you can still use ports or packages in addition to PC-BSD's PBI installerbut without the trouble of integrating and maintaining your own desktop experience. enjoy, ke han On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:10 AM, cothrige wrote: I am a complete newb to BSD trying to get started learning a bit about how to make my way in it. I have been using Slackware over the last four years or so, and this has made me a bit used to one way of doing things and now the FreeBSD way is kind of rattling me. For some background, I installed from the FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE discs, and this is also what I get from uname -r. What I don't understand is the relationship between ports, packages and security. For instance, I am currently using firefox 1.5.0.1, which I keep seeing online is not terribly secure. However, I am confused about what FreeBSD makes available to update this and other similar packages. I installed this, and most of the rest of the system, from the discs via packages, and hope to keep packages as my main method. I have had some experience in the past with twenty hour compiles of kdelibs on Gentoo and really don't want that again but I cannot find any info anywhere on how to approach updating for security via packages. I installed once previously as a test, and in that system followed the only online information I could find which seemed relevant, and that was regarding cvsup. I backed up the ports directory and setup a supfile according the handbook and a couple of examples, and went ahead and ran it. From there I started checking how things would go if I ran portupgrade on a couple of apps. I chose the infamous kdelibs as my sample. When I ran portupgrade -P, just to check things out and see what I would get, it failed to find a package and started grabbing the source. No, couldn't do that, so I killed it. I then tried again with portsnap and got the same result. When I looked at the complaint I found that it was looking for what appeared to be a nonexistent file. I am not sure now, but it was something like kdelibs-3.5.4 and the server it was searching on, something which ended in ...packages-6.1-release I think, had only kdelibs-3.5.1. As a matter of fact, I went through all the directories I could find online (including 6 and 7 stable, release and current) and was unable to find the package my system was looking for in any of them. This failure, and the confusion which ensued, are what cause me to wonder just how to keep things like the aforementioned firefox up to date. I am now in a situation where I am unsure of what to do as regards updates, and can really find nothing which clarifies things much online. Everything I find says to run cvsup and use a supfile entirely like that which I used before, and that did not work out. How do I use new, more secure ports and yet still be able to use binary packages? Is updating ports with cvsup the only way? And if so, what did I do wrong before? The inability to use binary packages for giant, though in my case needed, bloatware like kde made me leave Gentoo behind and I want to know whether that is the only future for FreeBSD too. I am assuming that since there are binary packages online for these files they must be usable, I just don't know how to get to them from tools like portupgrade. Or if that is how you even try to upgrade a system from packages. I just can't find any really relevant guides for this type of thing, so I am supposing that everyone just compiles everything. Any help in this is very much appreciated, and sorry if I am overlooking super obvious information somewhere about this. I probably am, but I just can't find it. Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [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: Getting started with FreeBSD
ke han wrote: Patrick, Since you are already knowledgeable of X-11 apps on slackware, this opinion may not concern you. My opinion of FreeBSD is do not try to configure X-11 desktops and apps with it. Its just too much effort. I have the same opinion of any *nix system that require the user to install/configure their own desktop experience. If you want a good desktop that does provide updates to some apps (firefox included), start with PC-BSD, http://www.pcbsd.org. This is built on FreeBSD 6.x and keeps the base enough as in the FreeBSD.org release so as to enable you a true freebsd system so you can still use ports or packages in addition to PC-BSD's PBI installerbut without the trouble of integrating and maintaining your own desktop experience. enjoy, ke han On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:10 AM, cothrige wrote: I am a complete newb to BSD trying to get started learning a bit about how to make my way in it. I have been using Slackware over the last four years or so, and this has made me a bit used to one way of doing things and now the FreeBSD way is kind of rattling me. For some background, I installed from the FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE discs, and this is also what I get from uname -r. What I don't understand is the relationship between ports, packages and security. For instance, I am currently using firefox 1.5.0.1, which I keep seeing online is not terribly secure. However, I am confused about what FreeBSD makes available to update this and other similar packages. I installed this, and most of the rest of the system, from the discs via packages, and hope to keep packages as my main method. I have had some experience in the past with twenty hour compiles of kdelibs on Gentoo and really don't want that again but I cannot find any info anywhere on how to approach updating for security via packages. I installed once previously as a test, and in that system followed the only online information I could find which seemed relevant, and that was regarding cvsup. I backed up the ports directory and setup a supfile according the handbook and a couple of examples, and went ahead and ran it. From there I started checking how things would go if I ran portupgrade on a couple of apps. I chose the infamous kdelibs as my sample. When I ran portupgrade -P, just to check things out and see what I would get, it failed to find a package and started grabbing the source. No, couldn't do that, so I killed it. I then tried again with portsnap and got the same result. When I looked at the complaint I found that it was looking for what appeared to be a nonexistent file. I am not sure now, but it was something like kdelibs-3.5.4 and the server it was searching on, something which ended in ...packages-6.1-release I think, had only kdelibs-3.5.1. As a matter of fact, I went through all the directories I could find online (including 6 and 7 stable, release and current) and was unable to find the package my system was looking for in any of them. This failure, and the confusion which ensued, are what cause me to wonder just how to keep things like the aforementioned firefox up to date. I am now in a situation where I am unsure of what to do as regards updates, and can really find nothing which clarifies things much online. Everything I find says to run cvsup and use a supfile entirely like that which I used before, and that did not work out. How do I use new, more secure ports and yet still be able to use binary packages? Is updating ports with cvsup the only way? And if so, what did I do wrong before? The inability to use binary packages for giant, though in my case needed, bloatware like kde made me leave Gentoo behind and I want to know whether that is the only future for FreeBSD too. I am assuming that since there are binary packages online for these files they must be usable, I just don't know how to get to them from tools like portupgrade. Or if that is how you even try to upgrade a system from packages. I just can't find any really relevant guides for this type of thing, so I am supposing that everyone just compiles everything. Any help in this is very much appreciated, and sorry if I am overlooking super obvious information somewhere about this. I probably am, but I just can't find it. Patrick A few misconceptions I wanted to help clear up for you: FreeBSD, like Gentoo Linux, (and most other Unix variants) compiles ports from source and installs them for the most up to date versions possible provided by the ports maintainer. It seems that PCBSD actually has an extra layer for package maintenance called PBI files, which are essentially precompiled binary packages from the looks of it. Not sure if you want that sort of simplistic pre-packaged scheme though, but (at first glance) it seems like a good package maintenance system.. The best means to update FreeBSD's ports (bandwidth wise if you update frequently) is using portsnap. I don't have the conf file right in front of me,
Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.10.06: FreeBSD ptrace PT_LWPINFO Denial of Service Vulnerability
Bill Moran wrote: Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a local denial of service bug, which was fixed 6 weeks ago in HEAD ^^^ That was what I expected. Section III seems to hint that it could be used by an unprivilidged user to crash or lock a system. Yes. An unprivileged user who is able to execute code on an affected system can cause a kernel panic. There are a variety of reasons for not treating bugs like this as security issues; the strongest reason imho is that if one of your users is making a system crash, you can disable his account and call the police. BTW, are you going to be at NYCBSDCon? No -- I only go to conferences if I have a paper to present. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help
On 10/10/06, Nikola Popovski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi for the first time i have install FreeBsd 6.1 and i have a problem. I use standard setup and when a make all partition for BSD root swap usr then the problem begins. The messege Unable to write data to disk ad2! I make just one partition on the disk. CAN you help me Please write to me. [...] Kindly read the FreeBSD handbook, here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best, Amarendra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
idle auto logoff
Hi there, I recently took over the adminstration of a FreeBSD machine at work and cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the machine. Might somebody have some ideas about how I can hunt this down so I can stop it? cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: idle auto logoff
I recently took over the adminstration of a FreeBSD machine at work and cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the machine. Are you ruunning something called idled? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
