Re: kernel panic installing 5.4-release (2'nd attempt)
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:51:55PM -0400, m yelle wrote: I tried posting this earlier, but it appears my message didn't post. Please pardon if it did post without my noticing It did, and I already replied to you. Please read your email. Kris pgpMcBpZurU26.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: problem with modem
On 04/04/07, dark abeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i have one question ok i'm downloaded operating system freebsd release v6.0 and i have one problem in installation modem type sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please your help in this problem If possible, help me to install it. and thanck you We need some more information to be able to help you. For example, what is your specific setup? Especially, what kind of Modem is your Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Serial port modem, oder DSL modem? etc. etc... Did you read the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms.html Chapter 23 is about serial communication, it explains all the basics, while chapter 24 deals with PPP and SLIP - thus explaining how to connect to the internet. HTH Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel panic installing 5.4-release
Because it's an *old* server, and because 5.4-r should be a mature enough distribution by now that any bugs which were going to be fixed would already be fixed. I could only find one reference to a problem like this one, and in that case it was happening in 6.x, which indicates that whatever the problem is, it hasn't been fixed. Which implies that it's either considered to be not a problem by way of an easy workaround, or that it's not an important problem due to not happening very often. Either way, an answer to the question at hand would be much appreciated. --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:00:34PM -0400, m yelle wrote: I'm attempting to install 5.4-r on an old server which has been running 4.9-stable for the last few years without any problems, with longest uptime of just over 6 months. I'm installing to a tested clean/blank scsi hdd. Why are you installing a version of FreeBSD that is nearly 2 years old? How about trying modern versions before writing off FreeBSD on your hardware:) Kris __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup. [Please don't top post] Anyway, yes, I would say it depends on the situation, and it's even a matter of taste. I use sudo on my laptop, even if I'm the only user... de gustibus non disputandum est... -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup. On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group wheel to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security system. What when you have several people with different privileges wanting to do stuff that normally only root can? Would you give your root password to everyone, or rather install sudo and define exactly what a user can do? -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On 05/04/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Moved answer to the bottom -- please don't use top post] On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group wheel to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security system. What when you have several people with different privileges wanting to do stuff that normally only root can? Would you give your root password to everyone, or rather install sudo and define exactly what a user can do? True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup. Well, sudo makes execution of several commands or script as another user quite simple because there's no need to enter the root password. For example I've three Access Points at home, but my machine can't connect to the nearest one automatically. So I need to issue ifconfig ath0 scan as root. Since I'm not root all the time, I defined an alias that executes the command using sudo. It's just one word, and I'm set. My girlfriend is using my old Laptop know, and I installed FreeBSD on it, too. So she needs the command, too. Since she isn't used to the Console I defined a new program/button in KDE she can press. So you see, there are reasons to use sudo even if you're the only user on a system. But as anywhere else in the Unix world, there are several different ways of how to perform a certain task, and the way one chooses is up to him/her. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monitoring tool for Compaq Smart Array 5300
Hi we would like to monitor the status of a Compaq Smart Array 5300 installed on a HP Proliant DL360. Is there any tool for FreeBSD 6.2? Thanks for the help Valerio Daelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group wheel to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security system. su is standard, sudo is another binary to install. So I don't bother installing it. On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). Are you using sudo? If not, why? -- Victor Engmark ___ 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: Virtual Hosting Control Panel
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
DTC is the only decent one I've found OSS ... I have some updates to do, but
there is a /usr/ports/sysutils/dtc{-toaster} port available ... the -toaster
port does a complete install based on my setup (postfix, cyrus-imapd,
pure-ftpd, etc), while the dtc one requires you to define various options ...
--On Wednesday, April 04, 2007 15:53:42 -0700 Chris Hesselrode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good hosting control panel for
FreeBSD 6.x (GNU)?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Theres always raqdevil (www/raqdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/) although
i'm afraid its BSD not GPL Licenced ;)
Havent actually tried it but i did use to like the old cobalt raqs
Vince
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Re: Should sudo be used?
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group wheel to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security system. What when you have several people with different privileges wanting to do stuff that normally only root can? Would you give your root password to everyone, or rather install sudo and define exactly what a user can do? -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the standard argument is that with sudo you don't have to worry about executing something as root which you intended to execute as a normal user. That's good enough for me, but are there any disadvantages except just having another package config file? None that I know about Is sudo slow or incompatible with certain commands? None that I know about Does it have a bad security track record? http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/alerts/ Is it still maintained, and will it be maintained in the foreseeable future? Yes, it's still maintained, but as you can see from the CVS logs, not actively developed. I can't tell you if it's because sudo's pretty done, or because simply nobody's improving it. Does it conflict with other packages? Etc.. $ grep CONFLICTS /usr/ports/security/sudo/Makefile Exit 1 Apparently not.. Thanks for your answers! It seems this is not quite as resolved for FreeBSD as for Ubuntu et al.. Hope this helps.. -- Victor non desperandum Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.
Paris Jones wrote: */Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio input and output, (Which my headset requires) and I would rather not mess with the DSP hijacker so I installed the linux build for skype.com (The static with QT compiled in) but was also upset to find that I could not call or receive calls from anyone. I am using the linux_base-8, if someone could tell me how I can start calling people it would be very useful, I have read maybe 2 articles about this on google and both tell me to install ports that no longer exist. Thank you again. -ARCKEDA That's because OSS by itself doesn't support more than one channel at a time. You need to support virtual channels (a FreeBSD only feature AFAIK) by entering in the following lines in /etc/sysctl.conf: hw.snd.maxautovchans = 20 # Adjust to fit the number of simultaneous sound channels you want enabled at once. -Garrett I don't think that multiple sound channels are the problem. You see, in the port, there is only one sound device I can choose, even though my headset outputs to /dev/dsp and gets input from /dev/dsp1, so that I can only talk or hear, not both at the same time. The linux build will not even let me call anyone or recieve calls, not even the call testing service. Please feel free to tell me any thing that you think might help. -ARCKEDA Yes, it's most likely the problem if you can't play multiple audio sources at once. Just please try my suggestion before saying it's not possible. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Thu, April 5, 2007 09:42, Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). Are you using sudo? If not, why? I personally don't use sudo. From my perspective the only real advantage to using it is that it is possible to provide a fine-grained access to limited functions that would normally only be available to the root account. Thus, if you require more than one normal account to perform some aspect of system maintenance it is possible to do this via the sudoers file. As I'm the sole maintainer of /my/ systems I don't feel the need to utilize sudo. Instead I have a separate local account on each system added to the wheel group and use that to su to the root account to perform system maintainance. Therefore, I don't use my normal everyday account when performing system maintainance. -- kelvin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Hello, Are you using sudo? If not, why? Yes I am. I would say anything allowing not to use the root password is worth using. Just man 5 sudoers to properly setup your sudoers file.. -- Victor Engmark -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should sudo be used?
Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). Are you using sudo? If not, why? -- Victor Engmark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Virtual Hosting Control Panel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a good hosting control panel for FreeBSD 6.x (GNU)? For your email domains, have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/ It works great for me. Philippe Lang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports/progress bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On 04/04/07, Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to use the bar program to show a progress bar in my shell script. I tested with this command in console: bar -c 'csup -L 0 /root/csup/doc-supfile' I see the progress bar but she doesn't work. I think the syntax is correct no ? For informations, i use Zsh. If you are using textproc/bar, from reading the webpage http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html the answer seems to be no. That bar seems to work as a substitute for cat(1), or with the -c flag as a wrapper. Since you are not putting files into the pipe, but rather pulling them out, bar cannot see the size of the job and so determine what portion is finished or not. There also appears to be a misc/clpbar which may be closer to what you want here. Hello, thank you for your answer. I tested clpbar with this command: csup /root/csup/doc-supfile | bar -s 100m -nan but there is a problem and in console, i have this: 27.0B at 27.0B/s eta: +99:99:99 0% [= ] 27.0B at 27.0B/s eta: +99:99:99 0% [= ] 27.0B at 27.0B/s eta: +99:99:99 0% [= ] 27.0B at 27.0B/s eta: +99:99:99 0% [= ] perhaps, i can't use this program with csup ? Thank you :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid on Intel DG965OT Motherboard
Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:52:44 AM, Antony Mawer wrote: I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5 using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work fine. You may want to re-think that option... according to the ataraid(4) man page, RAID5 is not functional (ie. you have about as much data safety as a RAID0 stripe set does): CAVEATS RAID5 is not supported at this time. Code exists, but it neither uses nor maintains parity information. The ataraid driver provides *software* RAID. But doesn't Intel Matrix Storage gives *hardware* RAID support? How could I tell if software is at play? One drive failure and you will be in for a whole world of hurt... I was going to do a test and simulate a drive failure (and see how to rebuild the array). I haven't had a chance to try that yet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS problem
Ivan, On 4/5/07, Ivan Zenzerović [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, when I try to play music with xmms, i get the error: Please chech that: Your soundcard is configured. You have the correct output plugin selected. No other program is blocking the soundcard. My soundcard is working well, and in the console i see the xmms error: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy Then i stopped noatun and quit him, tryed again, but nothing. Help please... artsd is probably running, keeping your /dev/dsp busy. either kill it, or configure the kde-soundsystem to use /dev/dsp0.0. regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). Are you using sudo? If not, why? [...] I am the only user on my system and I use sudo for all commands that require root access. My primary reason is proper logging in the syslog. All commands that I execute using sudo are logged to the syslog - this way I know have an audit trail of my actions, when I am sudo to root. In contrast, doing a su and executing commands leaves back no trail whatsoever... Here is a snippet of my syslog, when I executed whoami (just as an example) with sudo: Apr 5 15:26:07 zimbu sudo: amar : TTY=ttyp4 ; PWD=/home/amar ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/whoami Cheers, Amarendra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Random reboots 5.4 with CPanel
Hi guys,
For a couple of years already I've been trying to find out why our
hosting machine reboots randomly. I posted some stuff to this list
too. Got some tips, mostly about hardware. What happens is that both
the main server and the backup server (which is just idling) just
reboot. Sometimes after 60 days, sometimes after one day. No logs, no
strange traffic patterns, nothing. I enabled kernel debugging. Caught
a crashdump on our backup machine which I will post below. The process
that crashes is the CPU monitor for Cpanel. I disabled that one, so it
crashed on any other process (httpd, perl, etc). I tried disabling
ACPI, rebuild world with just -O in make.conf, etc etc. This morning
the main server rebooted again, it didn't even leave a dump in
/var/crash. Hardware is not the same. This behavious I've seen on dual
athlons (two different mainboards) and dual Xeons. It seems related to
SMP code. Played around with idle and hyperthreading settings in
sysctl too. Nothing seems to make any difference at all. The crashump
is below, does anyone have ANY idea what might cause this?
I think it has to be the cpanel hosting panel, but such an application
shouldn't be able to to crash the OS...
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 01
fault virtual address = 0x98
fault code = supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06b7f1e
stack pointer = 0x28:0xece5f730
frame pointer = 0x28:0xece5f774
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 = 69885 (dcpumon)
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 2d22h1m13s
Dumping 2047 MB (2 chunks)
chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok
chunk 1: 2047MB (523904 pages) 2031 2015 1999 1983 1967 1951 1935
1919 1903 1887 1871 1855 1839 1823 1807 1791 1775 1759 1743 1727 1711
1695 1679 1663 1647 1631 1615 1599 1583 1567 1551 1535 1519 1503 1487
1471 1455 1439 1423 1407 1391 1375 1359 1343 1327 1311 1295 1279 1263
1247 1231 1215 1199 1183 1167 1151 1135 1119 1103 1087 1071 1055 1039
1023 1007 991 975 959 943 927 911 895 879 863 847 831 815 799 783 767
751 735 719 703 687 671 655 639 623 607 591 575 559 543 527 511 495
479 463 447 431 415 399 383 367 351 335 319 303 287 271 255 239 223
207 191 175 159 143 127 111 95 79 63 47 31 15
#0 doadump () at pcpu.h:165
165 __asm __volatile(movl %%fs:0,%0 : =r (td));
(kgdb) backtrace
#0 doadump () at pcpu.h:165
#1 0xc063efca in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:399
#2 0xc063f396 in panic (fmt=0xc0870bd4 %s) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:555
#3 0xc082e16c in trap_fatal (frame=0xece5f6f0, eva=0) at
/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:831
#4 0xc082de52 in trap_pfault (frame=0xece5f6f0, usermode=0, eva=152)
at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:742
#5 0xc082da02 in trap (frame=
{tf_fs = 8, tf_es = 40, tf_ds = 40, tf_edi = 4, tf_esi = 0,
tf_ebp = -320473228, tf_isp = -320473316, tf_ebx = 4098, tf_edx =
-1002850048, tf_ecx = 0, tf_eax = 4, tf_trapno = 12, tf_err = 2,
tf_eip = -1066696930, tf_cs = 32, tf_eflags = 66118, tf_esp =
-320473100, tf_ss = 1017})
at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:432
#6 0xc0817d0a in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:139
#7 0xc06b7f1e in vn_lock (vp=0x0, flags=4098, td=0xc439b900) at atomic.h:149
#8 0xc05eee46 in procfs_doprocfile (td=0xc439b900, p=0xc9068830,
pn=0xc35f3900, sb=0x4, uio=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/fs/procfs/procfs.c:73
#9 0xc05f3f5b in pfs_readlink (va=0x4) at pcpu.h:162
#10 0xc0841a13 in VOP_READLINK_APV (vop=0x4, a=0xc439b900) at vnode_if.c:1481
#11 0xc06b14e3 in kern_readlink (td=0xc439b900, path=0xc439b900
j\006É x\006É, pathseg=3292117248, buf=0x4 Address 0x4 out of
bounds, bufseg=4,
count=1024) at vnode_if.h:772
#12 0xc06b13e8 in readlink (td=0x4, uap=0xc439b900) at
/usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c:2261
#13 0xc082e573 in syscall (frame=
{tf_fs = 59, tf_es = 59, tf_ds = 59, tf_edi = 135512892, tf_esi
= 135663632, tf_ebp = -1077940936, tf_isp = -320471708, tf_ebx =
674109588, tf_edx = -1077941960, tf_ecx = 0, tf_eax = 58, tf_trapno =
0, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = 672579140, tf_cs = 51, tf_eflags = 647, tf_esp
= -1077942020, tf_ss = 59}) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:976
#14 0xc0817d5f in Xint0x80_syscall () at
/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:200
#15 0x0033 in ?? ()
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
/Robin
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XMMS problem
Hello, when I try to play music with xmms, i get the error: Please chech that: Your soundcard is configured. You have the correct output plugin selected. No other program is blocking the soundcard. My soundcard is working well, and in the console i see the xmms error: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy Then i stopped noatun and quit him, tryed again, but nothing. Help please... Ivan -- --- Correr, competir, eu levo isso no sangue, é parte da minha vida. - Ayrton Senna ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cardbus card driver problem
Hallo everybody, I have a problem with a ComBlock COM1300 cardbus card http://www.comblock.com/com1300.htm I need to get this card working on my laptop since I need to work on it for my thesis project. I wrote a driver for this card but I don't know if it works or not becouse a I get a cardbus detection error on booting. Dmesg with all hw.cbb and hw.cardbus debug options enabled gives me this output: cbb0: card inserted: event=0x, state=3821 cbb0: cbb_power: 3V TUPLE: LINKTARGET [3]: 43 49 53 Product version: 5.2 Product name: MSS | COM 1300 | Manufacturer ID: feff0101 TUPLE: Unknown(0x04) [6]: 03 01 00 00 00 00 TUPLE: Unknown(0x05) [11]: c1 39 71 b5 1e 66 76 54 02 a1 03 cardbus0: Opening BAR: type=IO, bar=10, len=0100 cardbus0: Opening BAR: type=MEM, bar=14, len=10 CIS reading done cardbus0: Non-prefetchable memory at 9000-900f cardbus0: IO port at 4000-40ff cardbus0: old, non-VGA display device at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: cbb_power: 0V Is this problem related to my laptop hardware configuration or is it a driver problem?? other?? What is TUPLE (0x04 o 0x05) problem?? Any suggestion?? Tanks in advance. Michele -- Michele Endrici Via carraia 4 - Don - TN tel: 348-7295670 [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: Virtual Hosting Control Panel
http://webmin.com (system panel) http://usermin.com (users control panel) http://virtualmin.com (hosting control panel). All written in perl. Uses its own https server (miniserv.pl), many hundreds of easy to install modules available. -Grant - Original Message - From: Chris Hesselrode [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:53 PM Subject: Virtual Hosting Control Panel Does anyone have any suggestions for a good hosting control panel for FreeBSD 6.x (GNU)? Thanks in advance, Chris ___ 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]
unroll-loops - Is it always safe?
Hi All, Is it always safe to use -funroll-loops as a flag to /etc/make.conf ? Does it realy improve the compiled programs? When should I avoid to use it? - Marcelo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS problem
Ivan Zenzerovic' wrote: Hello, when I try to play music with xmms, i get the error: Please chech that: Your soundcard is configured. You have the correct output plugin selected. No other program is blocking the soundcard. My soundcard is working well, and in the console i see the xmms error: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy Then i stopped noatun and quit him, tryed again, but nothing. Help please... Are you using Gnome or KDE? Most probably, a sound daemon like ESD is running, and it uses your hardware already. You configure your output plugin of xmms to use Esd/Arts instead of /dev/dsp. Alternatively, you can specify kernel parameters so it will allow sharing of your sound card(s). Please refer to the FreeBSD handbook about configuring multiple channels on a single sound card. Best, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitoring tool for Compaq Smart Array 5300
Hi we would like to monitor the status of a Compaq Smart Array 5300 installed on a HP Proliant DL360. Is there any tool for FreeBSD 6.2? Thanks for the help Check out this HP + FreeBSD site. It's a bit old, but looks like it has want you're looking for. http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ 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]
Running out of memory for mysql(dump)
I've asked this question on the mysql-users list, but there wasn't any more information than what I've seen on google. The problem is that I get an error when trying to use mysqldump to get a backup of our RT Attachments table (all other tables will process fine) /usr/local/bin/mysqldump: Error 5: Out of memory (Needed 14154840 bytes) when dumping table `Attachments` at row: 24285 mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.24, for portbld-freebsd5.3 (i386) mysqldump Ver 10.9 Distrib 4.1.12, for portbld-freebsd5.3 (i386) and mysqldump Ver 9.11 Distrib 4.0.24, for portbld-freebsd5.3 (i386) There are pages in the mysql online docs about setting variables in /boot/loader.conf to avoid the 512MB per-process limit in FreeBSD: seisei# more /boot/loader.conf set console=comconsole kern.maxdsiz=1G # kern.dfldsiz=751619277 # 750 MB kern.maxssiz=134217728 # 128MB No change after reboot. FreeBSD seisei.cs.myharris.net 5.3-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p9 #0: Wed Apr 20 13:14:54 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 vm.vmtotal: System wide totals computed every five seconds: (values in kilobytes) === Processes: (RUNQ: 1 Disk Wait: 0 Page Wait: 0 Sleep: 58) Virtual Memory: (Total: 1823K, Active 1132540K) Real Memory:(Total: 1009492K Active 708436K) Shared Virtual Memory: (Total: 40948K Active: 26944K) Shared Real Memory: (Total: 37572K Active: 24768K) Free Memory Pages: 48428K Any suggestions for dealing with this? Thanks, Graham ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw fwd not working in 6.2-release
I tried this on a second machine and it does the same thing.
ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument
Could someone try running this on a 6.2-RELEASE system and tell me what you get:
# ipfw add forward 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from not me to any 80 in via [interface
device]
Thanks,
Terry Todd
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:58:41AM -0500, Terry Todd wrote:
I have tried to get ipfw fwd to work in 6.2-release but it always barfs.
I have recompiled and installed a custom kernel with
options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
and I have added to the /etc/sysctl.conf file:
net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
Here's the rule that I'm trying to get to work.
$fwcmd add forward 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from not me to any 80 in via ${iif}
When I run it I get:
ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument
All the other rules I have work fine.
Am I doing something wrong here?
Anyone else see this behaviour?
TIA,
Terry Todd
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Re: problem with modem
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:41:56 +0200 Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/04/07, dark abeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i have one question ok i'm downloaded operating system freebsd release v6.0 and i have one problem in installation modem type sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please your help in this problem If possible, help me to install it. and thanck you We need some more information to be able to help you. For example, what is your specific setup? Especially, what kind of Modem is your Sagem [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Serial port modem, oder DSL modem? etc. etc... It's a cheap USB PPPoA modem, mostly given away by ISPs. There is a driver for this, but it's not in ports or the base system. If you google for eagle driver freebsd you should find it. It may be easier to get an adsl-router or something. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). It's not mentioned in the FreeBSD Handbook because it's not part of the FreeBSD base system. It would open up a rather big door that the FDP doesn't wish to run through if they began writing up instructions for software that's not in the base. I don't know if any research exists to tell us how many FreeBSD machines have sudo installed, though; I'd wager more than a few. Are you using sudo? If not, why? Absolutely. --- Pietro Cerutti: Yes I am. I would say anything allowing not to use the root password is worth using. Root passwords can be visually sniffed by someone nearby. Good reason. Christian Walther: Well, sudo makes execution of several commands or script as another user quite simple because there's no need to enter the root password. It's a handy tool for calling your own scripts, or running unprivileged scripts that need to perform a privileged operation. I believe Christian also mentioned shell aliases; one example from our usage is allowing a non-privileged user to establish a PPP connection; either a CLI alias or a GUI button aliased to sudo ppp -background myisp. In my GUI I don't wish to run as root; sudo is used so I can be me and still have pretty buttons that run Ethereal, format a floppy disk, etc.. And alias | grep -c sudo in my shell returns 11, although some of those aren't used frequently. Amarendra Godbole: My primary reason is proper logging in the syslog. Valid; another primary reason is keeping tabs on other people via the same mechanism. Technically, I'm the only user on my box, but it's the gateway and proxy server for our LAN, so I know if an employee is trying something with sudo; I'm teaching my 13-year old a little Unix-fu, and was gratified to get email from sudo last month letting me know he had attempted to unban an online game he's been grounded from by our Squid proxy. Obviously, there are differences of opinion about sudo; OpenBSD has it as part of their base system, but enough controversy (if that's the right word, and it probably isn't) exists that the BSD Certification group wrote this as a learning objective: ] Be familiar with standard system administration practices used ]to minimize the risks associated with accessing a system. These include: ] ]* using ssh instead of telnet ]* denying root logins ]* (possibly) using the third-party sudo utility instead of su, and ]* minimizing the use of the wheel group. As (I think?) someone else mentioned, tools, not policy is a UNIX axiom. So, it's up to you to make your own policy. #include disclaimer.h, YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- At social gatherings, I would amuse everyone by standing uponst the coffee table and striking meself repeatedly upon the head with a brick. -- H. R. Gumby ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw fwd not working in 6.2-release
On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:42, Terry Todd wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:58:41AM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: I have tried to get ipfw fwd to work in 6.2-release but it always barfs. I have recompiled and installed a custom kernel with options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD [adding a fwd rule] ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument [snip] Anyone else see this behaviour? I tried this on a second machine and it does the same thing. ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument Could someone try running this on a 6.2-RELEASE system and tell me what you get: # ipfw add forward 127.0.0.1,3128 tcp from not me to any 80 in via [interface device] I'm seeing the same thing having just upgraded a working 6.0-RELEASE box. Since the only kernel option I had set on either version of the OS was IPFIREWALL_FORWARD, the system is loading ipfw.ko, ipdivert.ko and dummynet.ko automatically. Has the way ipfw.ko is built changed? Do we need to compile ipfw into the kernel to use ipfw fwd rules now? Or can I force ipfw.ko to be rebuilt with forwarding included? Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
Hi again, I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D See: http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html Where I wrote about a quoting problem that occasionally confuses newbs like me. Also, I don't speak for the BSD certification project, although I have helped flesh out content on the wiki above. It appears that I changed the wording from using the possibly 3rd-party sudo to possibly using the 3rd-party sudo thinking that the objective's wording was in error, when actually those statements imply different meaning. I'm copying Jeremy Reed on this, who is closer to the Cert project and probably *can* speak for them. I'd imagine I need to find some way to fix that, because it sure seems to read as if *they* recommend using sudo ;-) Kevin Kinsey -- A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No buffer space available
Marc, My machine is working with the kernel that comes with 6.1-STABLE (I archived this good kernel before upgrade the OS to 6.2). No, I'm not using geom. Can you send your dmesg.boot and sysctl -a kern output? Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiago ... I'm just curious here, but are you by any chance using geom at all? The only machine I have that seems to be affected like this (where netstat -m doesn't seem to indicate a problem with mbufs) is using gmirror ... the rest all use hardware RAID controllers ... Its a long shot, but so far, its the only one I seem to be able to draw :( - --On Sunday, April 01, 2007 17:07:08 -0300 Thiago Esteves de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to increase the kern.ipc.nmbclusters value but it worked only when I changed the kernel to an older one. netstat -m (Now it's working with the same values.) - 515/850/1365 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 512/390/902/65024 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 512/243 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 1152K/992K/2145K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 2759 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 2982 calls to protocol drain routines Ethernet adapters - em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5 port 0xec80-0xecbf m em 0xfebe-0xfebf irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci7 em0: Ethernet address: 00:04:23:c3:06:78 em0: [FAST] skc0: 3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebd8000-0xfebdbfff irq 15 at device 6.0 on pci7 skc0: 3Com Gigabit NIC (3C2000) rev. (0x1) sk0: Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0a:5e:65:ad:c3 miibus0: MII bus on sk0 e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto P.S.: I am using the FreeBSD/amd64. Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Show us netstat -m on the broken kernel? Show us your dmesg(8) for em(4). TIA, ~BAS On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:13 -0300, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hello, I've had a problem with one of my FreeBSD servers, the machine has stopped its network services and then sent these messages: -Mar 27 13:00:03 anubis dhcpd: send_packet: No buffer space available -Mar 27 13:00:26 anubis routed[431]: Send bcast sendto(em0, 146.164.92.255.520): No buffer space available The messages were repeated a lot of times before a temporary solution. I've changed the kernel(FreeBSD 6.2) to an older one(FreeBSD 6.1) and since then it's been working well. What happened? P.S.: I can give more informations if necessary. -- Thiago Esteves de Oliveira ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw fwd not working in 6.2-release
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:01, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:42, Terry Todd wrote: [ipfw not accepting fwd rules when kernel built with options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD and I agreed, saying] Has the way ipfw.ko is built changed? Do we need to compile ipfw into the kernel to use ipfw fwd rules now? Or can I force ipfw.ko to be rebuilt with forwarding included? I'm on my way home now, but a quick look at the source suggests that unless ipfw.ko is built with this option set, rule-based forwarding is disabled - and indeed this message appears in my boot messages. Presumably the option is not fed to the module during a buildkernel. I'm going to try building just that module with the option set. Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No buffer space available
Marc, My machine is working with the kernel that comes with 6.1-STABLE (I archived this good kernel before upgrade the OS to 6.2). No, I'm not using geom. Can you send your dmesg.boot and sysctl -a kern output? Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiago ... I'm just curious here, but are you by any chance using geom at all? The only machine I have that seems to be affected like this (where netstat -m doesn't seem to indicate a problem with mbufs) is using gmirror ... the rest all use hardware RAID controllers ... Its a long shot, but so far, its the only one I seem to be able to draw :( - --On Sunday, April 01, 2007 17:07:08 -0300 Thiago Esteves de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to increase the kern.ipc.nmbclusters value but it worked only when I changed the kernel to an older one. netstat -m (Now it's working with the same values.) - 515/850/1365 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 512/390/902/65024 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 512/243 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 1152K/992K/2145K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 2759 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 2982 calls to protocol drain routines Ethernet adapters - em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5 port 0xec80-0xecbf m em 0xfebe-0xfebf irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci7 em0: Ethernet address: 00:04:23:c3:06:78 em0: [FAST] skc0: 3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebd8000-0xfebdbfff irq 15 at device 6.0 on pci7 skc0: 3Com Gigabit NIC (3C2000) rev. (0x1) sk0: Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0a:5e:65:ad:c3 miibus0: MII bus on sk0 e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY on miibus0 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto P.S.: I am using the FreeBSD/amd64. Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Show us netstat -m on the broken kernel? Show us your dmesg(8) for em(4). TIA, ~BAS On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:13 -0300, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hello, I've had a problem with one of my FreeBSD servers, the machine has stopped its network services and then sent these messages: -Mar 27 13:00:03 anubis dhcpd: send_packet: No buffer space available -Mar 27 13:00:26 anubis routed[431]: Send bcast sendto(em0, 146.164.92.255.520): No buffer space available The messages were repeated a lot of times before a temporary solution. I've changed the kernel(FreeBSD 6.2) to an older one(FreeBSD 6.1) and since then it's been working well. What happened? P.S.: I can give more informations if necessary. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: kernel panic installing 5.4-release
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:28:56PM -0400, m yelle wrote: Because it's an *old* server, and because 5.4-r should be a mature enough distribution by now that any bugs which were going to be fixed would already be fixed. Sorry, that's just not how it works :) FreeBSD 6.2 supports the same hardware, and has 2 years of further bug fixes. In addition 5.4 is no longer supported (it is not even the most recent 5.x release!) I could only find one reference to a problem like this one, and in that case it was happening in 6.x, which indicates that whatever the problem is, it hasn't been fixed. No, it indicates that there was another problem which: * may or may not be the same as yours. Similar panic string is no indication of cause. * may or may not be fixed, because 6.x encompasses several years of releases and bugfixes. Which implies that it's either considered to be not a problem by way of an easy workaround, or that it's not an important problem due to not happening very often. Either way, an answer to the question at hand would be much appreciated. Please update to 6.2 and file a bug report if the problem persists. Kris pgpXD7OoWJrAl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unroll-loops - Is it always safe?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:54:08AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Is it always safe to use -funroll-loops as a flag to /etc/make.conf ? Does it realy improve the compiled programs? No and usually not. When should I avoid to use it? You should never use it unless you have measured an improvement on specific code. Kris pgpzVLTzbA7zC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Should sudo be used?
RW wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:28 -0500 Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). It's not mentioned in the FreeBSD Handbook because it's not part of the FreeBSD base system. Although neither are Gnome, mplayer or growisofs, and they are covered. Hmm, indeed. I'm guessing that someone took it upon themselves to write up these packages, and the FDP accepted their contributions, but I'm not sure. I've not time ATM to find where the flamewars start on the sudo question, though. Probably tossing some meat to doc@ I could get one started, but I'm not sure that's a good use of anyone's time, exactly. Besides, the standard issue over there is, write it yourself anyway. However, for my own growth I should find out when (if?) such a discussion was held and try and understand the the sudo should be/should not be in base issue - not that one exists necessarily on this Project, but it certainly does on Open- It's a handy tool for calling your own scripts, or running unprivileged scripts that need to perform a privileged operation. I believe Christian also mentioned shell aliases; one example from our usage is allowing a non-privileged user to establish a PPP connection; either a CLI alias or a GUI button aliased to sudo ppp -background myisp. In my GUI I don't wish to run as root; sudo is used so I can be me and still have pretty buttons that run Ethereal, format a floppy disk, etc.. I think you have to be careful about what you are allowing to be done from general purpose accounts. If you give these authority to install or upgrade software, you might just as well be using Windows XP. Well, that doesn't exactly follow, logically; file permissions et al are only one piece of the *BSD puzzle and weren't the primary reason (and maybe weren't much of a consideration at all) for my choice of using FreeBSD when possible instead of Windows. Also, general purpose could mean many things; if it means me, I'm not the least bit worried about it. If it means someone who's similar to a typical Windows user, I'm not *that* worried about it, either, although it requires some extra precaution. In my experience, those users don't want to know how things work and aren't likely to attempt make(1). It's the people with some amount of curiosity and/or basic Unix-fu (like my aforementioned 13-year old) who are most dangerous when sudo is installed. And, those people are likely aware of the existence of su as well, so the only thing barring havoc where they are concerned is the lack of knowledge of the root passphrase. Which, it seems, is why finer-grained controls such as those offered by sudo (and better examples exist: MAC, ACLs, etc.) are necessary anyway. BTW ppp can run as any user listed in allow users in ppp.conf. Handy to know; thanks. Of course, sudo can control PPP, ifconfig, mount, squid, Apache, rc files, cp/scp/tar/cpio/dump, ... err, anything. ;-) Tools, not policy still stands. Kevin Kinsey -- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unroll-loops - Is it always safe?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:54:08AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Is it always safe to use -funroll-loops as a flag to /etc/make.conf ? Does it realy improve the compiled programs? When should I avoid to use it? If you are using gcc42 -funroll-loops can be a win. gcc3.x is less savvy about knowing the limits of complexity to unroll which loops. I'm doing some tests with gcc34 (default) and gcc42. The latter can yield significant improvements iff you know what you're doing. It's no magic bullet. gary - Marcelo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
Connecting to usb serial device
I have a Keyspan usb serial port connected to a FreeBSD 6.1 server and wondering how I can connect to it. Using minicom from a connected Linux box, do I connect to a COM port, and how do I know what COM port? This is what I see in dmesg: ugen0: Keyspan, a division of InnoSys Inc. Keyspan USA-19H, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 Thanks for any help! -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:28 -0500 Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). It's not mentioned in the FreeBSD Handbook because it's not part of the FreeBSD base system. Although neither are Gnome, mplayer or growisofs, and they are covered. It's a handy tool for calling your own scripts, or running unprivileged scripts that need to perform a privileged operation. I believe Christian also mentioned shell aliases; one example from our usage is allowing a non-privileged user to establish a PPP connection; either a CLI alias or a GUI button aliased to sudo ppp -background myisp. In my GUI I don't wish to run as root; sudo is used so I can be me and still have pretty buttons that run Ethereal, format a floppy disk, etc.. I think you have to be careful about what you are allowing to be done from general purpose accounts. If you give these authority to install or upgrade software, you might just as well be using Windows XP. BTW ppp can run as any user listed in allow users in ppp.conf. ___ 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 SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608
More info on my problem. I swapped out the MB, CPU's, RAM, Power Supply and I still have the problem with the kernel panicing when running on SMP. When I re-build the kernel for NO SMP, the machine is rock solid, even under VERY high loads. I setup the old MB, CPU's, RAM Power Supply on the bench, with a new 6.1-STABLE-200608 AND 6.2-RELEASE install and run dozens of copies of the stress port. Even with it bringing loads up to 250, and eating up all available RAM and SWAP I could not get the kernel to panic. The ONLY difference between the bench setup and the production setup is a 3-Ware Escalade RAID card. I am going to setup another array on the bench with a spare card I have and see if I can get it to panic under that setup (which will be identical hardware wise to the production box). The only thing I can think of right now is one of the following: 1) Bad RAID card or cables - unlikely since it should show up even in uniprocessor mode 2) Problem with the TWE driver in SMP mode - more likely I'm leaning towards #2, especially with the other recent reports of someone else getting kernel panics with 3ware products. Anyone else have any thoughts as to what scenarios/tools I should try to isolate the problem? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:48 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608 On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been having problems with my server freezing up, having the #2 CPU 'shut down', kernel panics, and all sorts of nastyness Originally I thought it was exim, or possibly bind, or bad hardware (mb, cpu or memory)... I've swapped out the motherboard CPU's memory from an old server that was running 4.11 ROCK SOLID for years... At first I thought the problem was solved, but now it's popping up again... The 2nd CPU gets 'shut down', or kernel panics, esentially taking the system offline. There are lots of things this could be, and I certainly wouldn't rule out hardware problems (power supply?). Figuring out the problems directly would certainly involve looking at more details than you're listing here. If I install a single CPU (non-smp) kernel, then the system works fine... (I did this on the old motherboard before I swapped it out, and it worked fine too).. So I'm wondering if there is an SMP bug or problem I'm running into. I'm running 6.1-STABLE-200608, an ISO image I downloaded from the archives when I built the box (NOT 6.1-RELEASE). The whole point of making releases is that it's much easier to support a small number of known reference software configurations. I'm runining an Intel Serverworks motherboard with 2 1.4 GHz PIII's... The problem only seems to show up under high load. I don't think I've heard of anything similar. I think there are a bunch of these boards out there. I'm wondering what I should do here... I'm concerned about doing a binary upgrade to 6.2 won't fix the problem, and I've tried using freebsd-update, but it complains about the version not being compatible. If I do a binary upgrade from CD, will it also update the kernel sources so I can build a new one? Will it complain about it not being compatible? It can give you the sources; that's a menu option during the install. That should work fine. Is there a way to 'force' the ID of the system to be 6.1-RELEASE so that freebsd-update will work? Well, yes, but there's a reason for the check, you know... Will doing the 6.1-6.2 binary upgrade as posted by Colin also update the kernel sources? I don't know what procedure he described, so I don't know. But if you update to 6.2-RELEASE, then it will be easy to get the right sources afterwards. Again, that is the advantage of having releases. Would my best option really be to start over with a fresh install rather than upgrade? (this would be painful) If it's that painful, you'd probably be well served to have a spare system to stage changes on. In addition to being good risk management, it saves you time, which is worth something too. I'm going to try to test out 6.2 on the old MB/CPU combo to see if I can re-create it under 6.2 as well before I do anything. As well as try doing an upgrade on the bench from CD from 6.1-STABLE-200608 to 6.2-RELEASE... Since this is a production server (and for months it was burned in with no apparent issues) I only have 1 shot at this to do it right. Any help/recomendation would be appreciated. Good luck. Honestly I would probe around your motherboard a bit checking voltages (power supply) and/or heat dissipation, because those are the most likely cases if it _only_ fails under high load. Next thing to check would be RAM integrity. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Recommended SMP Hardware
I'm getting ready to obsolete one of my old dual P2-800 servers and wanted to get some suggestions from you all... I'm going to be building a new server to replace it and need more power, but not a TON more power... Something along the lines of dual 2.5 GHz processors with 4 GB RAM should be more than enough. Any one have some suggestions for lower priced dual processor motherboards and CPU combos? Athlon, Xeon, P4, whatever, doesn't really matter. I'd like to hear from some of you who are actually using certain combos in production and your experiences (good or bad) with them and FreeBSD 6.2. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D See: http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html Where I wrote about a quoting problem that occasionally confuses newbs like me. Hi Kevin, I wasn't following this thread, but I read some of it now. I had a quick look at your text ... I think it would be easier to just use: echo 'natd_enable=YES' | sudo tee -a /etc/rc.conf Also, I don't speak for the BSD certification project, although I have helped flesh out content on the wiki above. It appears that I changed the wording from using the possibly 3rd-party sudo to possibly using the 3rd-party sudo thinking that the objective's wording was in error, when actually those statements imply different meaning. I'm copying Jeremy Reed on this, who is closer to the Cert project and probably *can* speak for them. I'd imagine I need to find some way to fix that, because it sure seems to read as if *they* recommend using sudo ;-) The objective covers sudo no matter what. Our job task survey indicated that sudo is very important and essential for junior admins and intermediate/advanced admins. The possibly emphasis should be on third-party. So the Concept on the wiki page is wrong, but the More information at the bottom is correct. Thanks for sending the email. Jeremy C. Reed p.s. And thank you Kevin for your work there. I have a lot of work to do and as you know the deadlines have past. If anyone else is interested in helping get this finished, please email me. No matter what I will publish the book (and then publish a new book when updated maybe 6 months or a year later). ___ 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 SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:45:15AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: More info on my problem. I swapped out the MB, CPU's, RAM, Power Supply and I still have the problem with the kernel panicing when running on SMP. When I re-build the kernel for NO SMP, the machine is rock solid, even under VERY high loads. I setup the old MB, CPU's, RAM Power Supply on the bench, with a new 6.1-STABLE-200608 AND 6.2-RELEASE install and run dozens of copies of the stress port. Even with it bringing loads up to 250, and eating up all available RAM and SWAP I could not get the kernel to panic. The ONLY difference between the bench setup and the production setup is a 3-Ware Escalade RAID card. I am going to setup another array on the bench with a spare card I have and see if I can get it to panic under that setup (which will be identical hardware wise to the production box). The only thing I can think of right now is one of the following: 1) Bad RAID card or cables - unlikely since it should show up even in uniprocessor mode 2) Problem with the TWE driver in SMP mode - more likely I'm leaning towards #2, especially with the other recent reports of someone else getting kernel panics with 3ware products. Anyone else have any thoughts as to what scenarios/tools I should try to isolate the problem? Update to 6.2-RELEASE or RELENG_6. It's really very easy, and you will quickly be able to evaluate whether someone has already fixed this bug. If it persists, then we have a known data point to proceed with fixing it. FYI I run twe on an extremely heavily loaded SMP system (master build server for the package builds) and it has had no relevant driver issues for at least the past 2 or 3 years that I can recall. Kris pgpKv4rKcscB8.pgp Description: PGP signature
slightly OT - my freebsd email topology
currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? does anyone have any setups that are similar to this, and could advise me or point me in the right direction? thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with HT
You also need to add: kern.smp.active = 1 kern.smp.cpus = 1 What? I've never added lines like those... They always seem to have the correct values for me: Here it is on 4.8: # sysctl -a | grep smp machdep.smp_active: 1 machdep.smp_cpus: 2 and 5.3: # sysctl -a | grep smp kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 kern.smp.active: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.cpus: 2 kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1 kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1 and 6.1: # sysctl -a | grep smp kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 kern.smp.active: 1 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.cpus: 4 kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1 kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1 and 6.2: # sysctl -a | grep smp kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1 kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1 kern.smp.cpus: 4 kern.smp.disabled: 0 kern.smp.active: 1 kern.smp.maxcpus: 16 Now, on that 6.1 system, it boots as: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz (3391.51-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf4a Stepping = 10 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC, SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI, MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x649dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Logical CPUs per core: 2 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 but all I ever see in 'top' is cpu 0 and 2 doing anything. Meanwhile, on a 6.2 Dempsey system with this: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5130 @ 2.00GHz (2000.08-MHz K8- class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE ,MCA,C MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4e33dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,TM2,b9,CX16,b14,b15,b 18 AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 I see CPU 0,1,2 and 3 in the top output. What's up with that 6.1 machine showing only cpu 0 and 2? The CPU are listed here: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL8P4 Thanks, -mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freebsd-questions] slightly OT - my freebsd email topology
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? I did this for our backup MX using qpsmtpd and a plugin I wrote to check against an automatically updated file. qpsmtpd can deliver onwards to any SMTP server after running whatever filtering/fussiness you specify. I believe there is a milter plugin that can do onward queries before accepting mail, too, although I don't use sendmail, so I couldn't tell you the name of it... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Hi I have a problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf, I wanted to enable a boot splash picture. So when I rebooted, I coudnt boot :s After selecting the booting type (normal boot or something) It showe loading kernel text = 0x. mem=0x. and then it freezed. I can reboot it pressing ctrl + alt + supr. Is there any way to fix it? Thanks. -- http://feudaltimes.com.ar - Feudal Times `s webmaster and programer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:44:24PM -0300, freenity wrote: Hi I have a problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf, I wanted to enable a boot splash picture. So when I rebooted, I coudnt boot :s After selecting the booting type (normal boot or something) It showe loading kernel text = 0x. mem=0x. and then it freezed. I can reboot it pressing ctrl + alt + supr. Is there any way to fix it? Thanks. Well for starters you are not supposed to edit /boot/defaults, that is for default settings, not customized ones :) Override in /boot/loader.conf according to the directions in splash(4). I guess you might need to better follow the other directions there too, so if the problem persists then get back to us. Kris pgpADi0Gbt89x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: trouble with HT
On 6.X including RELENG_6 you need to use the SMP kernel config in src/sys/i386/conf and on CURRENT just use GENERIC kernel config. then add machdep.hyperthreading_allowed =1 to /boot/loader.conf reboot the other factor in HyperThreading which some forgot is whether you BIOS has support, and whether it is enabled. works for me on a 2.8GHz Northwood on Intel 865G. HTH, -- Kimi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Own ports organization
On Wednesday 04 of April 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Milan Knizek wrote:
Hello,
are there any recommendation how to organize own ports?
For what it's worth, if you use cvsup then you can store your own ports
safely under /usr/ports. You can also store extra files (like extra
patches, for example), though I'm not sure what would happen if that
port got deleted. Probably just your patch would remain.
There's already support in the tree for adding local ports, or even
entire local categories of ports.
Simply create /usr/ports/Makefile.local containing eg:
SUBDIR += my-ports
and make /usr/ports/my-ports a link to your directory of local ports.
Thank you for the info.
Best regards,
Milan
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Re: Recommended SMP Hardware
Don O'Neil wrote: I'm getting ready to obsolete one of my old dual P2-800 servers and wanted to get some suggestions from you all... I'm going to be building a new server to replace it and need more power, but not a TON more power... Something along the lines of dual 2.5 GHz processors with 4 GB RAM should be more than enough. Any one have some suggestions for lower priced dual processor motherboards and CPU combos? Athlon, Xeon, P4, whatever, doesn't really matter. I'd like to hear from some of you who are actually using certain combos in production and your experiences (good or bad) with them and FreeBSD 6.2. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that all depends on what you mean by 'lower priced'... We're using home-built dual AMD Opteron boxes that have performed excellent over the last two years. Mind you, when we built them here they were a bit more pricey than they can be had for now - but even then complete in rack mount chassis with ECC registered memory and a terabyte of RAID 5 using 3Ware Escalades - we still came in under $4500 (Canadian; approx $3200 US at the time). We based them on MSI motherboards (K8D-Master's which have S-ATA or SCSI built in), using WDC RAID Edition S-ATA drives and 3Ware 9500 series controllers (which were VERY new at the time ~ $500 /each). If I had to do it all over again - I'd go the same route, although perhaps with a slightly cheaper motherboard (the ones we used were $720/each and we utilized very few of the on-board goodies - they support up to 24GB ram, we've got 4gb in them so kinda overkill). Also - most newer boards support dual-core cpu's as well... if you're looking for top-notch, but bottom dollar SMP - try a higher end single opteron board with dual core CPU. Just my two cents - hope it helps. BTW - we're running 6.1 - 6.2 and variants on them now with no difficulties. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TFTP and RIS for Windows Installation (Broadcast ACK Problem)
Hello, Just curious, did you ever get this RIS working? Frank Tavenner http://safenet-inc.com/ Sr. Network Administrator 937-425-6860 x 4620 937-425-6864 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://safenet-inc.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?
On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: First of all, I think sendmail is great, so this is a minor issue. The problem is that the spammers can cause local delivery of their junk by using the name of an account on the system. From: Weekly News [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are four places where I spammer could be forging your domain, and each method requires different responses. First the spammer could be saying HELO your.domain I remember discussion of this on comp.mail.sendmail five or six years ago. I know that in that discussion I contributed some rules (that others improved upon) to check to see whether the HELO string claimed to be from the receiving host itself. I expect that by now there is a packaged FEATURE or CONFiguration for doing this kind of check. I know that exim and postfix have both had easy configuration for this kind of checking for a very long time, so I'm confident that it's there for sendmail. The second is that the spammer could be forging in the sender address (envelope FROM) MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For this, I suspect that someone has put together a milter or a set of rules. Again, the option to block such things has been available in postfix and exim for a while. If you do this, you have to pay some attention to whether any of your users legitimately have mail automatically forwarded to them from other parts of the net. A more general solution (still has the forwarding problem) is to use SPF http://www.openspf.org/ This will allow you to not only block forgeries from your own domain, but to also block forgeries from my domain (and from everyone else who publishes SPF records). SPF is a general anti-forgery tool for domain in Sender. There are sendmail milters for doing SPF. The third type of forgery is in the header From address. I don't think that this kind of detection and filtering should be done by the MTA directly. That kind of thing should be done with whatever content filtering tool you are using (e.g., spamassassin) The fourth kind of domain forgery is so unlikely (and easy to detect) that it's negligible. If (And this is extremely unlikely) the spammer controls the reverse DNS for the IP address that is sending the spam, the spammer could set up a bogus DNS PTR record so that a lookup of the numerical IP address will return something with your domain. It's unlikely a spammer would do this, and the normal default process of checking DNS resolvability will catch it anyway. Anyway, I recommend SPF. But for alternatives you may wish to post your query to the newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syslogd process
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:43:55AM -0700, ann kok wrote: I check the syslog process is running high in top in my box. What is it doing? Maybe your server generates huge logfiles or syslog is misconfigured. Check out /var/log or provide us your /etc/syslog.conf. -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgp5vIr2n2qaC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology
Jonathan Horne wrote: [snip] i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? does anyone have any setups that are similar to this, and could advise me or point me in the right direction? The simplest way I've found is to assemble your own access file (either from /etc/passwd or LDAP) and distribute that to your MX hosts. Graham ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology
At 12:36 PM 4/5/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? does anyone have any setups that are similar to this, and could advise me or point me in the right direction? thanks, jonathan Generally you want to filter and bounce mail at the point of origin, so your mail server that first accepts the mail. As long as you have the bandwidth on that server you would spam check, virus check there, bouncing any bad ones. Then forward to your internal server only clean mail for delivery. However unless you have terribly underpowered servers, or a lot of email (like 50,000 messages a day) running on two servers should not be necessary. -Derek -- 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]
Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? does anyone have any setups that are similar to this, and could advise me or point me in the right direction? thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's really too many variables in your question to provide a good answer. ideally, the 'internal' server should be configured as normal, but not exposed on a public interface; sendmail should not be listening for incoming connections from anything other than your two 'outside' boxes if it has a valid public IP address. If the previous sceenario is true, then all you've really gotta do on the 'outside' boxes, is add the domain names for which the 'inside' box is going to relay mail for, and set the two outside boxes as MX hosts in your public DNS records, while they receive internally the hostname/address of the internal MX host. You could go a step further, by using virtusertable within sendmail to redirect incoming mail for a domain to a specific host on the inside instead of just relaying, which could provide a more flexible filtering mechanism; something like: @whatever.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Essentially instructing sendmail on the external machine to forward along '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ... or you could go beyond that to only filter specific addresses and error out everything else. Well, you get the idea - there's more than one way to do this. You need to really specify your goals more clearly: Are you trying to simply offset the load? Are you trying to make a redundant setup for a failover setup? Are you trying to be more secure by filtering before handling email? Are you trying to avoid having all your eggs in one basket? Do you desire a single point of configuration, or are you expecting to configure each new account on all servers? These are all things you have to consider. Bottom line is, you need to really sit down and put to thought exactly what you're trying to accomplish. If the load created by spamassassin is your sole problem - then you can run just spamassassin's filtering daemon on another machine - it is capable of running spamd over a network (see: spamd/spamc: http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/spamd/README for more info). My advice would be to decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then come back and ask for further suggestion from this list. There are many talented, experienced administrators here - who chances are, have come accross an almost exact case that could help you out - they all just need a little more to go on before they can tell you what they'd do in your case. Ultimately, it's up to you and RTFM'ing the heck out of it before you implement it in production is always a good choice. P.S. - sorry if this double-posts, realized I sent from the wrong account and tried to cancel - not sure if it did, so figure better two copies than none. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do that, i could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 external. all those configurations is really not my issue here... what im really pondering is how would external servers that are seperate from where the target mailboxes are, know which addressess are acceptable and which to return a 550? does anyone have any setups that are similar to this, and could advise me or point me in the right direction? thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's really too many variables in your question to provide a good answer. ideally, the 'internal' server should be configured as normal, but not exposed on a public interface; sendmail should not be listening for incoming connections from anything other than your two 'outside' boxes if it has a valid public IP address. If the previous sceenario is true, then all you've really gotta do on the 'outside' boxes, is add the domain names for which the 'inside' box is going to relay mail for, and set the two outside boxes as MX hosts in your public DNS records, while they receive internally the hostname/address of the internal MX host. You could go a step further, by using virtusertable within sendmail to redirect incoming mail for a domain to a specific host on the inside instead of just relaying, which could provide a more flexible filtering mechanism; something like: @whatever.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Essentially instructing sendmail on the external machine to forward along '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ... or you could go beyond that to only filter specific addresses and error out everything else. Well, you get the idea - there's more than one way to do this. You need to really specify your goals more clearly: Are you trying to simply offset the load? Are you trying to make a redundant setup for a failover setup? Are you trying to be more secure by filtering before handling email? Are you trying to avoid having all your eggs in one basket? Do you desire a single point of configuration, or are you expecting to configure each new account on all servers? These are all things you have to consider. Bottom line is, you need to really sit down and put to thought exactly what you're trying to accomplish. If the load created by spamassassin is your sole problem - then you can run just spamassassin's filtering daemon on another machine - it is capable of running spamd over a network (see: spamd/spamc: http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/spamd/README for more info). My advice would be to decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then come back and ask for further suggestion from this list. There are many talented, experienced administrators here - who chances are, have come accross an almost exact case that could help you out - they all just need a little more to go on before they can tell you what they'd do in your case. Ultimately, it's up to you and RTFM'ing the heck out of it before you implement it in production is always a good choice. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do we need this junk?
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? No. Modern i386 and amd64 still have an ISA bus, and devices connected to that bus, even if they don't have ISA slots. And even if that was not the case there are still lots of not-quite-as-modern i386 systems that are perfectly suitable for running FreeBSD 7.x that *do* have ISA-slots. (ISA-slots were still often included on motherboards as late as the Pentium III/AMD Athlon era.) Lest we forget passive backplane/SBC/industrial computer setups which use an ISA bus. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: advice on anti-spam tools
On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Gary Kline wrote: What I got caught on was client, altho from the context, here ``client'' seems to mean the mail-server-sending-spam.' In the unix world, my server is the client--unless the client-server model is different with email. Your mail server is constantly listening on port 25. When some other process (typically on some other host) connects to the service you are running on port 25, then the thing making the connection is the client. Even if it is a full blown MTA. Likewise when your mail server wants to pass mail on to some other server your server initiates a connection with a destination port (typically) of 25. During that activity your MTA is acting as a client. For mail the terms client and server have the usual unix meaning, it's just that most things that act as SMTP servers (sendmail, postfix, etc, etc) also act as SMTP clients. But note that this isn't the case the other way around. Many things that act as SMTP clients (pine, mutt, thunderbird, Outhouse) do NOT act as SMTP servers. I guess what might be confusing here is that it is typically to client that sends the most information during an SMTP session. With HTTP it is the other way around. But think instead of doing uploading with FTP. The client sends most of the information. I hope this helps. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended SMP Hardware
On 4/5/07, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting ready to obsolete one of my old dual P2-800 servers and wanted to get some suggestions from you all... I'm going to be building a new server to replace it and need more power, but not a TON more power... Something along the lines of dual 2.5 GHz processors with 4 GB RAM should be more than enough. Any one have some suggestions for lower priced dual processor motherboards and CPU combos? Athlon, Xeon, P4, whatever, doesn't really matter. I'd like to hear from some of you who are actually using certain combos in production and your experiences (good or bad) with them and FreeBSD 6.2. I've had good luck with multi core processors esp. the Intel 5130's. They are a x86_64 capable CPU that will give you a SMP system in one socket. This should make the machine draw less power, require less cooling, and hopefully the motherboard will be less expensive than a multi-socket board. Not sure where you are located - but I saw an add for a Southern Californian Fry's that had the an Intel Core2Duo motherboard/cpu combo for pretty cheap (~$190US). I assume you can find similar deals on the 'net as well. Hope this helps! -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No buffer space available
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:06:30 + Thiago Esteves de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc, My machine is working with the kernel that comes with 6.1-STABLE (I archived this good kernel before upgrade the OS to 6.2). No, I'm not using geom. Can you send your dmesg.boot and sysctl -a kern output? pid 8 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8577 on /var: filesystem full pid 84023 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8587 on /var: filesystem full pid 81719 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8591 on /var: filesystem full pid 85247 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8593 on /var: filesystem full pid 86881 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8596 on /var: filesystem full pid 90114 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8580 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 92861 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8365 on /var: filesystem full pid 96933 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8439 on /var: filesystem full pid 2289 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8480 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 4664 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8572 on /var: filesystem full pid 4965 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8581 on /var: filesystem full pid 5228 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8588 on /var: filesystem full pid 5970 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8592 on /var: filesystem full pid 8960 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8595 on /var: filesystem full pid 11981 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8565 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 14065 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8597 on /var: filesystem full pid 15495 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8600 on /var: filesystem full pid 15532 (kiplingOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 15909 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8601 on /var: filesystem full pid 18424 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8510 on /var: filesystem full pid 21371 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8559 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 23625 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8572 on /var: filesystem full pid 24260 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8588 on /var: filesystem full pid 25003 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8592 on /var: filesystem full pid 27135 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8578 on /var: filesystem full pid 29086 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8596 on /var: filesystem full pid 30176 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8597 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 33170 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8581 on /var: filesystem full pid 35631 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8365 on /var: filesystem full pid 39216 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8439 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 41773 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8480 on /var: filesystem full pid 42005 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8572 on /var: filesystem full pid 44505 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8510 on /var: filesystem full pid 45410 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8580 on /var: filesystem full pid 47630 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8582 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 49712 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8588 on /var: filesystem full pid 51003 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8593 on /var: filesystem full pid 51467 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8594 on /var: filesystem full pid 51804 (kiplingOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 53577 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8559 on /var: filesystem full pid 54476 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8579 on /var: filesystem full pid 55549 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8601 on /var: filesystem full pid 56090 (bigOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 57137 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8604 on /var: filesystem full pid 58015 (kiplingOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled GEOM_MIRROR: Device vm: provider mirror/vm destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device vm destroyed. Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop... Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 done All buffers synced. /vm: unmount pending error: blocks -64 files 0 GEOM_MIRROR: Device md2: provider mirror/md2 destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device md2 destroyed. GEOM_STRIPE: Disk mirror/md2 removed from md0. GEOM_STRIPE: Device md0 removed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device md1: provider mirror/md1 destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device md1 destroyed. GEOM_STRIPE: Disk mirror/md1 removed from md0. GEOM_STRIPE: Device md0 destroyed. Uptime: 3d8h23m45s Rebooting... cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #5: Tue Mar 13 02:29:37 ADT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kernel Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R)
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Victor Engmark wrote: Are you using sudo? If not, why? I am using sudo. In /usr/local/etc/sudoers I have %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL Even though I'm the only person logging in, I still prefer to just remember my password instead of having to remember root's. Of course I have the root password nicely stored away somewhere in a password management system, it is one less password that I actually have to use. I became a fan of sudo from my experience with Apple's OS X. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D See: http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html Where I wrote about a quoting problem that occasionally confuses newbs like me. Finally got around to reading the wiki page. It is good. I noticed one grammatical thing of question. In the first paragraph under Use ssh instead of Telnet or rsh/rlogin it says they should never be used to administrate a machine over a network, I think the word should be 'administer' instead of 'administrate' unless this is some sort of British thing. I know, picky picky, but it just stood out to me as I was reading. Also, although telnet is a hole nowdays for logging in to a system with an id and password for the very reasons you have given, it still has a use. You can use it to easily poke at a port and check the response to see if something is up and working. Of course, in that case you would probably not be sending an id and password, just some common handshaking strings that don't reveal any secrets to anyone. This is really a different issue from what was the OP or the intent of the wiki article, of course. jerry Hi Kevin, I wasn't following this thread, but I read some of it now. I had a quick look at your text ... I think it would be easier to just use: echo 'natd_enable=YES' | sudo tee -a /etc/rc.conf Also, I don't speak for the BSD certification project, although I have helped flesh out content on the wiki above. It appears that I changed the wording from using the possibly 3rd-party sudo to possibly using the 3rd-party sudo thinking that the objective's wording was in error, when actually those statements imply different meaning. I'm copying Jeremy Reed on this, who is closer to the Cert project and probably *can* speak for them. I'd imagine I need to find some way to fix that, because it sure seems to read as if *they* recommend using sudo ;-) The objective covers sudo no matter what. Our job task survey indicated that sudo is very important and essential for junior admins and intermediate/advanced admins. The possibly emphasis should be on third-party. So the Concept on the wiki page is wrong, but the More information at the bottom is correct. Thanks for sending the email. Jeremy C. Reed p.s. And thank you Kevin for your work there. I have a lot of work to do and as you know the deadlines have past. If anyone else is interested in helping get this finished, please email me. No matter what I will publish the book (and then publish a new book when updated maybe 6 months or a year later). ___ 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: TFTP and RIS for Windows Installation (Broadcast ACK Problem)
In response to Frank Tavenner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Just curious, did you ever get this RIS working? Sure. We just set the TOG to the BID setting, which allowed the DCOG to pass unmolested through the GDEC devices. After that, the RIS worked without a problem. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf
yes i tried to load /boot/loader.conf but it says that there was syntax error while loading vesa module, the same problem happened with /boot/defaults/loader.conf I didnt edit /boot/loader.conf =) Is there any way I can edit those files? Im on winxp now, is there any program that can read/write fbsd partition? On 4/5/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:44:24PM -0300, freenity wrote: Hi I have a problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf, I wanted to enable a boot splash picture. So when I rebooted, I coudnt boot :s After selecting the booting type (normal boot or something) It showe loading kernel text = 0x. mem=0x. and then it freezed. I can reboot it pressing ctrl + alt + supr. Is there any way to fix it? Thanks. Well for starters you are not supposed to edit /boot/defaults, that is for default settings, not customized ones :) Override in /boot/loader.conf according to the directions in splash(4). I guess you might need to better follow the other directions there too, so if the problem persists then get back to us. Kris -- http://feudaltimes.com.ar - Feudal Times `s webmaster and programer. http://gamescreators.sourceforge.net - linux games programing community. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf
freenity wrote: yes i tried to load /boot/loader.conf but it says that there was syntax error while loading vesa module, the same problem happened with /boot/defaults/loader.conf I didnt edit /boot/loader.conf =) Is there any way I can edit those files? Im on winxp now, is there any program that can read/write fbsd partition? boot to the bsd install CD and run the live file system from the FixIt menu. Mount your drives and edit away. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paris Jones wrote: */Garrett Cooper /* wrote: Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my dismay the port of Skype will only accept one device for audio input and output, (Which my headset requires) and I would rather not mess with the DSP hijacker so I installed the linux build for skype.com (The static with QT compiled in) but was also upset to find that I could not call or receive calls from anyone. I am using the linux_base-8, if someone could tell me how I can start calling people it would be very useful, I have read maybe 2 articles about this on google and both tell me to install ports that no longer exist. Thank you again. -ARCKEDA That's because OSS by itself doesn't support more than one channel at a time. You need to support virtual channels (a FreeBSD only feature AFAIK) by entering in the following lines in /etc/sysctl.conf: hw.snd.maxautovchans = 20 # Adjust to fit the number of simultaneous sound channels you want enabled at once. -Garrett I don't think that multiple sound channels are the problem. You see, in the port, there is only one sound device I can choose, even though my headset outputs to /dev/dsp and gets input from /dev/dsp1, so that I can only talk or hear, not both at the same time. The linux build will not even let me call anyone or recieve calls, not even the call testing service. Please feel free to tell me any thing that you think might help. -ARCKEDA Yes, it's most likely the problem if you can't play multiple audio sources at once. Just please try my suggestion before saying it's not possible. -Garrett I am afraid that playing multiple audio sources is not my problem, the problem is I don't have the option to select more than one source at a time in the Skype native port. In the linux build, I have that option, but I can't call or receive calls from anyone. Thank you. -ARCKEDA - Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem after editing /boot/defaults/loader.conf
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:58:41PM -0300, freenity wrote: yes i tried to load /boot/loader.conf but it says that there was syntax error while loading vesa module, the same problem happened with /boot/defaults/loader.conf I didnt edit /boot/loader.conf =) Then you were really doing something wrong. Please read that manpage carefully. Kris pgpqpzap0IIxi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Abit KN9 + FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
*Puts on dunce cap* When I turned on the onboard RAID, and created the RAID arrays, the BIOS decided Well you simply must want to boot off the RAID, right? So, that being fixed, I popped in the amd64 distro and proceeded to do the install. System is installed, up and running.. I couldn't believe how fast the amd64 branch installed off the CD (about 7 minutes)! Now to get used to the new /etc/rc.d scheme.. :) (I'm coming from 4.11-RELEASE--luckily I enjoy learning new things, especially when they make life easier!) Thanks, dev team! :) You rock! Best, --Glenn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Hosting Control Panel
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
DTC is the only decent one I've found OSS ... I have some updates to do, but
there is a /usr/ports/sysutils/dtc{-toaster} port available ... the -toaster
port does a complete install based on my setup (postfix, cyrus-imapd,
pure-ftpd, etc), while the dtc one requires you to define various options ...
--On Wednesday, April 04, 2007 15:53:42 -0700 Chris Hesselrode
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Does anyone have any suggestions for a good hosting control panel for
FreeBSD 6.x (GNU)?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Theres always raqdevil (www/raqdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/) although
i'm afraid its BSD not GPL Licenced ;)
First thing in favor of it, the BSD license ... second, developed under FreeBSD
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backup solution for home FreeBSD server
[please CC: me, I'm not on the list] Hi! I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site storage, so external HDD won't probably work for me. My data size is currently about 50G, but I expect it to grow to about 250G. My price range is below $300. Suggestions? Thanks! -- Vlad Skvortsov, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://vss.73rus.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:42:27AM +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old). Are you using sudo? If not, why? I administer a tiny LAN. Usually, I'm the only one fooling with the servers (IMAP, file sharing for classic Mac Windows, routing, Internet access, other lesser things). However, it's nice to go on vacation occasionally. I have a small number of accounts, each of which uses sudo to give the account the rights necessary to administer one part of the overall system. I can pass off the mail duties to someone else, and know that the worst damage they can do is limited to the mail system, and restricted by the rights granted via sudo. As long as the firewall and other security measures are in place, my biggest concern is clumsy fingers. Sudo limits the harm that can occur and backups ensure recovery. Bob Hall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup solution for home FreeBSD server
Vlad Skvortsov writes: I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site storage, so external HDD won't probably work for me. My data size is currently about 50G, but I expect it to grow to about 250G. My price range is below $300. Suggestions? Check out Addonics, particularly the Saturn system. I have one of these: http://www.addonics.com/products/Saturn/aeschd.asp and it's worked just fine - with one exception - for the last several months. The exception is transfer speed: for reasons confounding diagnosis, I am only getting ~2mbytes/sec across a USB 2.0 connection. Now if I could only find a source for inexpensive ($20) 80 Gbyte IDE hard drives 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: backup solution for home FreeBSD server
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site storage, so external HDD won't probably work for me. My data size is currently about 50G, but I expect it to grow to about 250G. My price range is below $300. Get a couple of 150G USB disks. They work great, you can use dump/restore or just pax -r -w to copy stuff to the disks. I'm a big fan of offsite storage, so I actually have three USB disks. I leave two plugged into the computer so it can dump on alternate nights, and put one in my bank safe deposit box. Every week or so I take one of the two disks down to the bank and swap. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:18:33 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second is that the spammer could be forging in the sender address (envelope FROM) MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The third type of forgery is in the header From address. Bear in mind that both of these are often done legitimately; for example by people working from home and using their ISP's server to send an email to a colleague. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feedback for live CD
Some weeks ago, if I read the thread correctly, the committer who works on the live CD side of the installation media requested feedback for odd bits that don't behave correctly in the fixit environment. I find that 'scp' won't run because it can't find /usr/bin/ssh. The workaround is 'ln -s /dist/usr/bin /usr/bin' This is when I boot from a 6.0-RELEASE CD. If this has already been addressed in later versions, please excuse the noise. I don't have a 6.2 CD at hand to test with. Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should sudo be used?
Christian Walther wrote: On 05/04/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Moved answer to the bottom -- please don't use top post] On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group wheel to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security system. What when you have several people with different privileges wanting to do stuff that normally only root can? Would you give your root password to everyone, or rather install sudo and define exactly what a user can do? True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup. Well, sudo makes execution of several commands or script as another user quite simple because there's no need to enter the root password. For example I've three Access Points at home, but my machine can't connect to the nearest one automatically. So I need to issue ifconfig ath0 scan as root. Since I'm not root all the time, I defined an alias that executes the command using sudo. It's just one word, and I'm set. My girlfriend is using my old Laptop know, and I installed FreeBSD on it, too. So she needs the command, too. Since she isn't used to the Console I defined a new program/button in KDE she can press. So you see, there are reasons to use sudo even if you're the only user on a system. But as anywhere else in the Unix world, there are several different ways of how to perform a certain task, and the way one chooses is up to him/her. One thing I find that hasn't really been mentioned is that: a) sudo can run programs under different user credentials that aren't possible with non-wheel users. For instance if I had a binary, and I told someone hey, use sudo for this and added them and the binary / command to a script, everyone with access as specified via the sudo file could run it. b) sudo can run commands directly instead of having to type in su, and then run the command from the su'ed shell. Unless you're trying to get root access and fall under point b., and this is your own personal machine, there's basically no use in using sudo. Besides, one less binary on your machine with those sorts of privileges offers less methods of attacking your machine in order to get elevated privileges. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype will can't connect.
Using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. Using the linux_base-8 port. I have decided to make a new post about this problem because my old one was very badly written and I am sure no one could figure out my problem. I would like to try Skype, but the port will only allow me to use ONE of my devices at a time, so my headset can't hear and talk at the same time, I have to manually swich between the headset and speaker device. (There is something called DSP hijacker for this which I do not want to mess with.) I thought that perhaps using the linux version would help, I downloaded the linux static tar.gz with QT compiled in, and when I opened it, I was please to find that in the tools section there is an option for both your input and output device. However, I was upset to find out that I could not call or be called in this version. So, do wrap things up, my problem is: When using the linux build of skype, I can not call or be called, I can't even call the voice testing service. My question is: How can I start calling people and be called? Again, I am using FreeBSD 6 and the linux-base-8 port. Any help would be appricated, thanks. -ARCKEDA PS: Sorry about sending you so many emails dude, I kept pressing the wrong button... - Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any Way to Plug This Hole in Local Sendmail Delivery?
On Apr 5, 2007, at 8:14 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:18:33 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second is that the spammer could be forging in the sender address (envelope FROM) MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The third type of forgery is in the header From address. Bear in mind that both of these are often done legitimately; for example by people working from home and using their ISP's server to send an email to a colleague. Yes. If you set up something like this it is important to provide an SMTP submission service. This allows your off-site users to use your mail server by authenticating with it. -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No buffer space available
On 05/04/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:06:30 + Thiago Esteves de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc, My machine is working with the kernel that comes with 6.1-STABLE (I archived this good kernel before upgrade the OS to 6.2). No, I'm not using geom. Can you send your dmesg.boot and sysctl -a kern output? pid 8 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8577 on /var: filesystem full pid 84023 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8587 on /var: filesystem full pid 81719 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8591 on /var: filesystem full pid 85247 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8593 on /var: filesystem full pid 86881 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8596 on /var: filesystem full pid 90114 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8580 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 92861 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8365 on /var: filesystem full pid 96933 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8439 on /var: filesystem full pid 2289 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8480 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 4664 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8572 on /var: filesystem full pid 4965 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8581 on /var: filesystem full pid 5228 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8588 on /var: filesystem full pid 5970 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8592 on /var: filesystem full pid 8960 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8595 on /var: filesystem full pid 11981 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8565 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 14065 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8597 on /var: filesystem full pid 15495 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8600 on /var: filesystem full pid 15532 (kiplingOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 15909 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8601 on /var: filesystem full pid 18424 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8510 on /var: filesystem full pid 21371 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8559 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 23625 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8572 on /var: filesystem full pid 24260 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8588 on /var: filesystem full pid 25003 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8592 on /var: filesystem full pid 27135 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8578 on /var: filesystem full pid 29086 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8596 on /var: filesystem full pid 30176 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8597 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 33170 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8581 on /var: filesystem full pid 35631 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8365 on /var: filesystem full pid 39216 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8439 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 41773 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8480 on /var: filesystem full pid 42005 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8572 on /var: filesystem full pid 44505 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8510 on /var: filesystem full pid 45410 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8580 on /var: filesystem full pid 47630 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8582 on /var: filesystem full fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled pid 49712 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8588 on /var: filesystem full pid 51003 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8593 on /var: filesystem full pid 51467 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8594 on /var: filesystem full pid 51804 (kiplingOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 53577 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8559 on /var: filesystem full pid 54476 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8579 on /var: filesystem full pid 55549 (sendmail), uid 25 inumber 8601 on /var: filesystem full pid 56090 (bigOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 57137 (dd), uid 2 inumber 8604 on /var: filesystem full pid 58015 (kiplingOuija.cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled GEOM_MIRROR: Device vm: provider mirror/vm destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device vm destroyed. Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop... Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 done All buffers synced. /vm: unmount pending error: blocks -64 files 0 GEOM_MIRROR: Device md2: provider mirror/md2 destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device md2 destroyed. GEOM_STRIPE: Disk mirror/md2 removed from md0. GEOM_STRIPE: Device md0 removed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device md1: provider mirror/md1 destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device md1 destroyed. GEOM_STRIPE: Disk mirror/md1 removed from md0. GEOM_STRIPE: Device md0 destroyed. Uptime: 3d8h23m45s Rebooting... cpu_reset: Stopping other CPUs Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #5: Tue Mar 13 02:29:37 ADT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kernel Timecounter
Re: Should sudo be used?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:54:06PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: b) sudo can run commands directly instead of having to type in su, and then run the command from the su'ed shell. From man su: If the optional args are provided on the command line, they are passed to the login shell of the target login. Note that all command line argu- ments before the target login name are processed by su itself, everything after the target login name gets passed to the login shell. This lets you run commands without obtaining a full shell. Unless you're trying to get root access and fall under point b., and this is your own personal machine, there's basically no use in using sudo. Besides, one less binary on your machine with those sorts of privileges offers less methods of attacking your machine in order to get elevated privileges. I like the logging ability. If I fatfinger a command line, I can easily go back and see exactly what I did(in case the output of the command doesn't make it obvious), and when. It's all personal preference, though. -Garrett Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skype will can't connect.
Paris Jones skrev: Using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. Using the linux_base-8 port. I would like to try Skype, but the port will only allow me to use ONE of my devices at a time, so my headset can't hear and talk at the same time, I have to manually swich between the headset and speaker device. Have you tried the suggestion you got from Garret Cooper? If your not willing to try the suggestions you get the chances of fixing problems is very small. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Hosting Control Panel
O/H Marc G. Fournier έγραψε: Theres always raqdevil (www/raqdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/) although i'm afraid its BSD not GPL Licenced ;) First thing in favor of it, the BSD license ... second, developed under FreeBSD :) ...third it is abandoned http://www.freshports.org/www/raqdevil I have sworn to never touch a web interface for an application again, unless it is something in the lines of SWAT for Samba or qmailadmin. Other web-based panels although nice and handy, they just add another layer of complexity and bugs. My main experience is with webmin. I remember a couple of months ago when I installed squid and webmin to create a proxy product. I tried to implement bandwidth management through webmin and failed for no apparent reason. Not to mention clicking various buttons for more than ten times, to change the appropriate values. After too much effort, I manually edited squid.conf and realized that all the bandwidth management was done in a single three-digit line of text, which webmin kept screwing arround. So why bother with the extra bloat? Furthermore, try to setup a mail server using a web panel. When the server breaks you will have two things to consider: a) if the mail package caused the problem b) if the web-panel caused the problem I have seen webmin adding crontab entries by wrapping all of them into a perl script and cronning this particular script. Imagine the frustration when for some reason perl gets hosed. Suddenly your crontab is not working, how could you possibly imagine that the above perl-wrapping exists so that you can correct it? Webmin is nice, I have installed it several times back in my learning days and it has helped me get a jumpstart in testing. But now when considering professional use, I'd rather skip it so that I have less things to worry about. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _ Thanasis Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Hosting Control Panel
O/H Apatewna έγραψε: O/H Marc G. Fournier έγραψε: Theres always raqdevil (www/raqdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/) although i'm afraid its BSD not GPL Licenced ;) First thing in favor of it, the BSD license ... second, developed under FreeBSD :) ...third it is abandoned http://www.freshports.org/www/raqdevil *correction* it appears there's a lot of underground work going on for raqdevil, I just googled for it http://www.raqdevil.com/pipermail/raqdevil-commit/2007-March/37.html -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _ Thanasis Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
