Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the directories and files so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but after that at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server. if it could work for 2 months and then refused - something must have been changed on the client software side. No Mr. Puchar nothing changed on the client side. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: custom freebsd cd
Maybe you find usefull some of the scripts I'm using in my project, check under the development link: http://openmailserver.org Also, you will find very usefull the manpages for: ports, release and sysinstall. Regards. Valentin Bud escribió: Hello list, I have a FBSD box that runs as a web/mail server to provide access to a web based application. I want to build a custom FBSD 7.0 installation disk. By custom I mean: 1. automatic disk partition based on a scheme i provide. 2. automatic installation of the needed packages as well as the config files. I plan to update the packages which i might keep on a ftp server on remake the installation disk anytime i make package updates. 3. automatic installation of all the php/html/perl/sh scripts needed to run the application. Basically i want a disk that you put it in the cdrom and installs the system, packages and all the necessary scripts to run the application. More than that a modified kernel to allow pf, as well as the pf configuration file. The installation will always be on the same hardware in case of failure. So can you please give me hints as well as opinions how should i start this. What alternatives should i consider? thank you, v ___ 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: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:43:03 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the directories and files so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but after that at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server. if it could work for 2 months and then refused - something must have been changed on the client software side. Yes, something must have changed. Most likely the problem had nothing to do with FreeBSD against Linux. I appears that the fresh setup fixed it. -- Manfred Usselmann [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: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Manfred Usselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:43:03 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the directories and files so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but after that at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server. if it could work for 2 months and then refused - something must have been changed on the client software side. Yes, something must have changed. Most likely the problem had nothing to do with FreeBSD against Linux. I appears that the fresh setup fixed it. I have never said that it has something to do with FBSB. And unfortunately i didn't had the time to debug it to find out the problem. I would like to know what happened there. The good thing is that a future client of my company works with the same accounting software and the server runs FBSD so if something goes wrong i'll have the time to debug properly. all the best, v -- Manfred Usselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel
John Almberg wrote: I do know that Mysql supports SSL... somehow this got discounted early in the discussion, perhaps mistakenly? I believe the thinking was that although MySQL claims to support SSL, it does in fact make a pretty bodge of it, and a more effective approach is to pipe MySQL traffic through an encrypted tunnel. Personally I just use IPSec for this, but people might also like to consider stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) or OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/) Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Apache aliased directory invisible
David Karapetyan wrote: FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible from the directory root. An example: When I visit http://myserver.com/, I would like to see the 'icons' folder (suppose that in my document root I have directories 'bobo' and 'gogo', but that /icons is actually an alias for /usr/local/share/icons). Bobo and gogo show up in the directoroy listing when I access http://myserver.com, but not /icons. How can I remedy this? Options Indexes for the icons area? Create a stub directory icons under your web-root? Don't use Aliases within apache, but create symlinks instead and tell Apache to FollowSymLinks? One or other of those should work... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
need help with disklabel, expected rawoffset 0, found 32
Hi, I think sysinstall? got it wrong here and I get the complaint in the subject line on boot. This is amd64 if that matters. Nothing edited by hand. I must admit I don't fully understand what is going on here, found 32 but the offsets are 63... Filesystem on LSI controller amr(4): # /dev/amrd0s1a: type: ESDI disk: amrd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 65535 sectors/unit: 2929674240 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 4194304 634.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 b: 8388608 4194367 swap c: 2929661532 63unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 31457280 125829754.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 e: 2097152 440402554.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 f: 41943040 461374074.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 g: 2841581148 880804474.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities Filesystem on SmartArray controller ciss(4): # /dev/da0s1d: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 53544 sectors/unit: 860192344 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 860184297 63unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 860184297 634.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wpa_supplicant wired
Hi folks, can anyone manage to have wired driver enabled in wpa_supplicant? How to do this? I'm playing with wpa_supplicant and hostapd sources for a while but without any significant progress. Cheers, Michal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions
Laszlo Nagy wrote: So how do I achieve per-slice journaling instead of per-partition? The docs only says this: gjournal only supports UFS2. It does not specifically say that you cannot have per-slice journaling. However, since you could have other filesystems on your slice, I bet that slice based journaling is not supported. I thought I read somewhere that because gjournal is block based and not really part of the filesystem, that it could easily be extended for any other filesystem. My imagination said that gjournal was probably therefore only temporarily limited to a slice full of UFS partitions. Anyone know for sure? Another tricky question: why would you journal a SWAP partition? Well, I don't really want to, but how big does a partition like /var have to be before it's no longer ill-advised to journal it individually? A fair bit of writing can occur in /var and the scenario my server will occupy has me concerned about inglorious shutdowns. What are the actual reasons for why journaling a small partition is considered a bad idea? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpa_supplicant wired
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 10/21/08, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, can anyone manage to have wired driver enabled in wpa_supplicant? How to do this? I'm playing with wpa_supplicant and hostapd sources for a while but without any significant progress. What FreeBSD vesion? On CURRENT and 7.0= it is enabled by default, on older I think you need to rebuild it yourself. Enabling wired driver in wpa_supplicant is straightforward. well, it's not, at least not for me. I'm running 7.0, wpa_supplicant tells me that wired driver is not supported (BSD and NDIS are the only correct values). -- Michal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpa_supplicant wired
On 10/21/08, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, can anyone manage to have wired driver enabled in wpa_supplicant? How to do this? I'm playing with wpa_supplicant and hostapd sources for a while but without any significant progress. What FreeBSD vesion? On CURRENT and 7.0= it is enabled by default, on older I think you need to rebuild it yourself. Enabling wired driver in wpa_supplicant is straightforward. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wpa_supplicant wired
On 10/21/08, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 10/21/08, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, can anyone manage to have wired driver enabled in wpa_supplicant? How to do this? I'm playing with wpa_supplicant and hostapd sources for a while but without any significant progress. What FreeBSD vesion? On CURRENT and 7.0= it is enabled by default, on = should be just older I think you need to rebuild it yourself. Enabling wired driver in wpa_supplicant is straightforward. well, it's not, at least not for me. I'm running 7.0, wpa_supplicant tells me that wired driver is not supported (BSD and NDIS are the only correct values). Yes, 7.0 RELEASE do not have it. Here is patch: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/Makefile.diff?r1=1.11.2.2;r2=1.11.2.3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
if it could work for 2 months and then refused - something must have been changed on the client software side. No Mr. Puchar nothing changed on the client side. so what changed on server side so it stopped working after 2 months? in unix there are no magic things - things works or not. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions
Carl wrote: My goal is to build a 2-disk server configured with gmirror and gjournal for maximum reliability. There will never be a second operating system on the system, but I prefer not to freak out any non-FreeBSD repair tools that might be used, so I will use compatibility instead of dangerously dedicated mode. This means I need one slice, but see no reason for more. Inside that one slice will be the usual array of partitions (ie. /, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr, /data). Now, I think gmirror allows me to mirror the entire drive rather than forcing me to do per-slice or even per-partition mirroring. I'm looking for the simplest in-field replacement procedure when one of the drives dies and I imagine a whole drive mirror achieves this. Am I right? gjournal, OTOH, has me really confused. The man page for gjournal(8) specifically does not recommend that small partitions be journaled. I assume that's because the journal provider rivals the partition in size and is therefore overhead heavy. It seems to me, though, that if I can journal the slice as a whole instead of per-partition journaling, that there will essentially then be only one journal provider for the combination of all partitions (ie. slice) and that the aforementioned overhead becomes minor. Having smaller partitions included in journaling seems like a good thing to me. So how do I achieve per-slice journaling instead of per-partition? Every time I read up on someone else's gjournal implementation, it seems to end with adding partition.journal entries to /etc/fstab. Am I trying to achieve the impossible or ill-advised here? I have some setups were gjournal was put on device rather the on partition, i.e.: [umgah] ~ gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/umgah0 COMPLETE ad0 ad1 [umgah] ~ gjournal status Name Status Components mirror/umgah0.journal N/A mirror/umgah0 [umgah] ~ glabel status Name Status Components ufs/umgah0root N/A mirror/umgah0.journala label/umgah0swap N/A mirror/umgah0.journalb ufs/umgah0usr N/A mirror/umgah0.journald ufs/umgah0var N/A mirror/umgah0.journale [umgah] ~ mount /dev/ufs/umgah0root on / (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, asynchronous, local) /dev/ufs/umgah0var on /var (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) /dev/ufs/umgah0usr on /usr (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local) And yes, mirror autosynchronization is turned off, gjournal takes care of that too. It's not stated in manual, but gjournal is typically transparent for any type of access, just in case of UFS file system is marked as journaled so any metadata writes can be distinguished from data writes. Without that gjournal does literally nothing. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache aliased directory invisible
At 10:16 PM 10/20/2008, David Karapetyan wrote: FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible from the directory root. An example: When I visit http://myserver.com/, I would like to see the 'icons' folder (suppose that in my document root I have directories 'bobo' and 'gogo', but that /icons is actually an alias for /usr/local/share/icons). Bobo and gogo show up in the directoroy listing when I access http://myserver.com, but not /icons. How can I remedy this? add a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/local/share/icons [path to your doc root]/icons typically for apache22 this would be: ln -s /usr/local/share/icons /usr/local/www/apache22/data/icons -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Apache aliased directory invisible
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Ragona Sent: 21 October 2008 12:07 To: David Karapetyan; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache aliased directory invisible At 10:16 PM 10/20/2008, David Karapetyan wrote: FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible from the directory root. An example: When I visit http://myserver.com/, I would like to see the 'icons' folder (suppose that in my document root I have directories 'bobo' and 'gogo', but that /icons is actually an alias for /usr/local/share/icons). Bobo and gogo show up in the directoroy listing when I access http://myserver.com, but not /icons. How can I remedy this? add a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/local/share/icons [path to your doc root]/icons typically for apache22 this would be: ln -s /usr/local/share/icons /usr/local/www/apache22/data/icons You may also want to check your apache config that the FollowSymLinks option is on. Something like: Options FollowSymLinks is in the appropriate place. Otherwise, Apache will ignore symbolic links. - barry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dialin Service
Good Afternoon all, I want to setup a dialin server at my work place so i can do a dialup to my work place wherever i am. I picked up an old modem card and put it in my freebsd system, together with a phone line. What do i need to do to make that happen? Freebsd doesn't seem to be detecting my modem properly, perhaps its unsupported? pciconf -lv shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:11:0: class=0x078000 card=0x chip=0x40001813 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ambient Technologies Inc.' device = 'MD5628D-L-A intel V.92 HaM Modem' class = simple comms -- OKALANY DANIEL P.O BOX 26150 KAMPALA. http://okaman.one2net.co.ug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error installing kmymoney2 on amd64 system running freebsd 6.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mv wrote: Hello Greg, When I tried to upgrade kmymoney2 on my amd64 6.4-PRERELEASE using portmaster I also received the same error message as Dino. However, after I amended the Makefile as you had suggested portmaster worked as it should. Just wanted to let you know that you seem to be on the right track. With thanks and regards, Marek Hi Marek, Thanks for the confirmation. I plan to do some work on the port in the next day or two, as soon as I have some free time, and we'll get everything all dialed in as best as possible! Regards, Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj9zHkACgkQ0sRouByUApCb5gCgnl+dZ6VPUPaFdhh8S3mzxdXS rY4AoI3JnND+qWrmNAaq31ulix3yCrF8 =ZOEl -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help with disklabel, expected rawoffset 0, found 32
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I must admit I don't fully understand what is going on here ... The c partition should cover exactly the slice. For example, my ad0s1 is like that: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 81915372 (39997 Meg), flag 80 (active) Now let us look at the label on this slice: lilas# disklabel ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 104857604.2BSD 2048 16384 8 b: 4126240 1048576 swap c: 819153720unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 4159488 51748164.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 e: 72581068 93343044.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 You can see that the c) partition starts at offset 0 and has exactly the size 81915372 reported above. In your case you start at offset 63. Note that the first partition a) should start at offset 16 (see the offset entry in man bsdlabel) but this is not enforced in sysinstall. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting an MP3 player?
Hello, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:39:04PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: ... Are there any filesystems on these devices? Try 'file -s /dev/da*' and post the results. my filesystems are mounted on /dev/ad0s...; $ file -s /dev/da* /dev/da1: writable, no read permission /dev/da2: writable, no read permission /dev/da3: writable, no read permission /dev/da4: writable, no read permission Aha! you have a permissions problem. Try running the following commands as root, with the device plugged in: chown root:wheel /dev/da* chmod 660 /dev/da* this doesn't solve the problem: # ls -l /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 128 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 129 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 130 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da3 crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 131 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da4 but the output of file -s /dev/da* ist still as above: # file -s /dev/da* /dev/da0: writable, no read permission /dev/da2: writable, no read permission /dev/da3: writable, no read permission /dev/da4: writable, no read permission (and the same if I chmod to 666) Trying to mount the mp3 player to one of these /dev/da#-files yields mount: /dev/da#: Device not configured (the same after the camcontrol comands proposed by Frank Shute in his reply.) [btw: now there is a /dev/da0 again, but no /dev/da1, last time I had no /dev/da0 but a /dev/da1, an so on; I've not yet found out under what condition a given /dev/da# is created at boot time. If I connect a usb memory stick then there appears automatically a /dev/da#s#, some examples: /dev/da1s1, /dev/da4s1, /dev/da0s1, /dev/da6s1 etc. The mounting of the memory stick to these dev-files is no problem; I've only problems with th usb mp3 player.] These permissions will last until you remove the device. Now you can try mounting the devices. (try file -s first, to see what kind of filesystems are on there!) To be able to mount USB disks as a regular user instead of root or to make the permissions permanent, there are several things that need to be done, especially editing the /etc/devfs.rules configuration file. These are explained (among other things) on my FreeBSD page (especially the devfs section): http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html Read this page and see if you can apply it. Don't hesitate to ask (me or the mailing list) if you have questions. it's sufficient to mount as root but at the moment I'm not able to mount at all Good luck! Thanks Johannes-Maria ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help with disklabel, expected rawoffset 0, found 32
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, I think sysinstall? got it wrong here and I get the complaint in the subject line on boot. This is amd64 if that matters. Nothing edited by hand. I must admit I don't fully understand what is going on here, found 32 but the offsets are 63... Filesystem on LSI controller amr(4): # /dev/amrd0s1a: type: ESDI disk: amrd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 65535 sectors/unit: 2929674240 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 4194304 634.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 b: 8388608 4194367 swap c: 2929661532 63unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 31457280 125829754.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 e: 2097152 440402554.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 f: 41943040 461374074.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 g: 2841581148 880804474.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities I do not know what is causing this, but I think the offset of the 'c' partition (and the first real partition (a in this case)) should be 0 I have seen this a couple of times a long time ago and don't remember what happened other than I think I just arbitrarily set those offsets to 0 and it worked. Can you try booting up the fixit shell and hitting the disk with a manual fdisk and bsdlabel to see what happens. Also, you might try doing the dd(1) thing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 bs=512 count=1000 before the fdisk and then another one after creating the slices manually dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0s1 bs=512 count=1000 Note, that count value is arbitrary. That should clean up any junk on the drive. Also, I haven't seen/dealt with a disk device called amrd0 before. It appears to be something from one of the raid setups? So, maybe doing the dd thing might mangle that although, once it is a device, it should work the same as a drive. I ain't rich enough to have one of those raids to play with, though, so if someone else says otherwise, believe them. jerry Filesystem on SmartArray controller ciss(4): # /dev/da0s1d: type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 53544 sectors/unit: 860192344 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 860184297 63unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 860184297 634.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities ___ 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]
PF Failover
Hi: Does someone have a document where explain how to use PF with two link failover? (I want to have redundancy if one internet conection fails use the other). i use FreeBSD 7 Release i386. I have looked at google but i only got CARP for firewall redundancy. I want to make something similar to the pfsense failover. -- mmm, interesante. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error with kernel PAE option
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 I removed the PAE option keeping my SMP option in the kernel configuration for this dual proc server and it builds fine. Any idea what I can do for this error? Have a look at: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE Is the device that is causing the problem listed with a nodevice entry? I guess in your case, it is the adv device, and it is listed. This means it does not work with a PAE kernel. How about going with the 64bit version of FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error with kernel PAE option
Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 I removed the PAE option keeping my SMP option in the kernel configuration for this dual proc server and it builds fine. Any idea what I can do for this error? -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing to a Lanier LD160c does not work
- Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the reccomendations that you guys have suggested with no luck. Here is my current printcap. admincolor|LANIER LD160c RPCS:\ :lp=\ :mx#0:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/admincolor:\ :rm=admincolor:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/crfilter:\ :sh:\ :tr=\f: Please trim your responses and don't top-post, as it makes responding to your messages difficult. The printcap still has no :rp=lp: line. HP printers aren't picky about that, but other brands sometimes are. You've also added a filter and kept the multiple printer names. Things like that make more complexity to debug. Wait until you have basic communication working. The exact suggested printcap entry: admincolor:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=admincolor:\ :rp=lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/admincolor:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: Note: one printer name (who needs more than one, really?). rm= and rp= entries. No filter; I think that printer can handle PostScript and PCL. Put that printcap entry in /etc/printcap, then send a PostScript test to the printer (all one line): printf %%\!PS\n/Courier findfont 20 scalefont setfont 72 72 moveto (Test!) show showpage\f | lpr -P admincolor -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I took your block above and replaced my block in the printcap, then sent the exact command above with the same failure. The queue is drained and the printer's log has a generic message The job was reset. message. My current printcap file. corp-admin|hp|laserjet|Hewlett Packard LaserJet 5Si:\ :lp=\ :sd=/var/spool/output/corp-admin:\ :rm=corp-admin:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/crlfilter:\ :sh:\ :tr=\f:\ :mx#0: admincolor:\ :lp=:\ :sh:\ :mx#0:\ :rm=admincolor:\ :rp=lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/admincolor:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: Queue status after print job is sent. # lpc status all corp-admin: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries in spool area printer idle admincolor: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries in spool area printer idle ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error with kernel PAE option
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:43 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 I removed the PAE option keeping my SMP option in the kernel configuration for this dual proc server and it builds fine. Any idea what I can do for this error? Have a look at: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE Is the device that is causing the problem listed with a nodevice entry? I guess in your case, it is the adv device, and it is listed. This means it does not work with a PAE kernel. Thanks, yes, I have nodevice in the PAE file for adv. What does this mean and/or how can I address this problem? Should I just remove the entry from the PAE file? How about going with the 64bit version of FreeBSD? That was my first try, but the CPU appears not to support amd64 as there are no AMD Features listed in dmesg. -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD by Brooks Davis. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone you know, then please pretend you don't know me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installworld fails - err code 71 - too many levels of symbolic links
(also posted to freebsd-current) I'm rebuilding the world on i386 FBSD 8.0-currnet following the manual. I cvsup'ed the source on 20-OCT-2008, made buildworld, built kernel, installed kernel, rebooted into single user mode, and tried to installworld. I got: install: /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME: Too many levels of symbolic links *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/srs/share/timedef. *** Error code 1 What am I doing wrong? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade problems
Hello, I have a botched upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0-release on my hands. I followed the handbook instructions, but I I think I forgot to drop into single-user mode to install the new kernel. Two relevant files: dmesg(mod).out and fstab. The fstab doesn't show that this machine has one 70gb drive and two 286gb drives, which are supposed to be in software raid 1 (duplex). The raid was broken before I started the upgrade and I was hoping that the updgrade might fix the raid. See more on gmirror below. The 'make buildworld' and 'make installkernel' went fine - see the log file 'make buildworld, buildkernel and install kernel.out' attached. There were many error messages in 'make installkernel' - see attached. The error messages are basically: kldxref /boot/kernel kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked I see from the errata that this might be unrelated to the problems below: [20080307] Source upgrades from FreeBSD 6./X/ to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will generate warnings from kldxref(8) http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kldxrefsektion=8manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-stable during the installkernel step. These warnings are harmless and can be ignored. Dropping into single-user mode per handbook 24.4.5, I received these error messages: # fsck -p /dev/ad0s1a: NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/ad0s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. The attached file fsck2.out is the output from fsck. On reboot, there was a kernel panic. I tried to use dumpon but the crash occurred too early in the boot process. Here are the error messages transcribed by hand: ad0ata0master ad1ata0slave acd0 cdrwata1 master ad3 ata1 ata1 slave geom_mirror: component ad3 (device gm0) broken, skipping geom_mirror: device mirror /gm0 launched 1/2 geom_mirror: upgrading metadata on ad3 (v3 - v4) fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode [misc error messages] panic panic: page fault cpuid=0 I can reboot in safe mode. Here is the boot sequence text in safe mode: ad3: 286,168 MB at ata1_slave PI04 geom_mirror: component ad3 (device gm0) broken, skipping geom_mirror: device mirror/gm0 launched (1/2) geom_mirror: upgrading metadata on ad3 (v3 - v4) geom_mirror: cannot write metadata on ad3 (device=gm0) geom_mirror: cannot update metadata on disk ad3 (error=1) trying to mount root from ufs: /dev/ad0s1a [etc] I can't proceed further with the installation nor can I mount disks in single-user mode: #make installworld make: don't know how to make installworld. Stop I can't re-do the 'make buildworld' sequence - see error messages in makeworld_b.out, attached. In trying to clean up the duplex, gmirror is now giving me the following message: server# gmirror remove gm0 ad3 Userland and kernel parts are out of sync. server# exit Blech. I've floundered about without success. How can I clean up this mess? All comments and thoughts welcome. I have not tried a binary upgrade. Will re-install but as a last option. Many thanks, Cam Copyright (c) 1992-2008 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 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Tue Oct 14 10:16:32 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1993.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febfbffFPU,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 real memory = 536608768 (511 MB) avail memory = 511205376 (487 MB) ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Oct 14 2008 10:15:55) cpu0 on motherboard p4tcc0: CPU Frequency Thermal Control on cpu0 pcib0: Host to PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 10 Entries on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge on hostb0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xe800-0xefff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1 pcib2: PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: PCI bus on pcib2 [snipped ohci0, usb0, uhub0, ohci1, usb1, uhub1, ohci2, usb2, uhub2, ehci0, usb3, uhub3] rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfeaff800-0xfeaff8ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci2 miibus0: MII bus on rl0 rlphy0: RealTek internal media interface PHY 0 on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:a8:7b:f6:77 rl0: [ITHREAD] isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel ICH2 UDMA100 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata0:
Re: PF Failover
We use pfSense for this. Works like a charm. Regards. Diego F. Arias R. escribió: Hi: Does someone have a document where explain how to use PF with two link failover? (I want to have redundancy if one internet conection fails use the other). i use FreeBSD 7 Release i386. I have looked at google but i only got CARP for firewall redundancy. I want to make something similar to the pfsense failover. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting an MP3 player?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:05:24PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, Roland Smith wrote: $ file -s /dev/da* /dev/da1: writable, no read permission /dev/da2: writable, no read permission /dev/da3: writable, no read permission /dev/da4: writable, no read permission Aha! you have a permissions problem. Try running the following commands as root, with the device plugged in: chown root:wheel /dev/da* chmod 660 /dev/da* this doesn't solve the problem: # ls -l /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 128 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 129 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 130 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da3 crw-rw 1 root wheel0, 131 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/da4 but the output of file -s /dev/da* ist still as above: # file -s /dev/da* /dev/da0: writable, no read permission /dev/da2: writable, no read permission /dev/da3: writable, no read permission /dev/da4: writable, no read permission Looking into the source code for the file command, this is an indication that the file command cannot open the files, even with the correct permissions. I guess that this device has some quirks that need to be addressed in the driver. Maybe you can find more help on the freebsd-usb list. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpGcPswHdFEt.pgp Description: PGP signature
downloading linux_base-fc4
After I had tried to download linux_base-fc4 I got file unavailable not found no access...I need to put my printer to work! What`s the matter? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help with disklabel, expected rawoffset 0, found 32
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:53:52AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, I think sysinstall? got it wrong here and I get the complaint in the subject line on boot. This is amd64 if that matters. Nothing edited by hand. I must admit I don't fully understand what is going on here, found 32 but the offsets are 63... snip I do not know what is causing this, but I think the offset of the 'c' partition (and the first real partition (a in this case)) should be 0 I have seen this a couple of times a long time ago and don't remember what happened other than I think I just arbitrarily set those offsets to 0 and it worked. Can you try booting up the fixit shell and hitting the disk with a manual fdisk and bsdlabel to see what happens. Also, you might try doing the dd(1) thing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 bs=512 count=1000 before the fdisk and then another one after creating the slices manually dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0s1 bs=512 count=1000 Note, that count value is arbitrary. That should clean up any junk on the drive. Also, I haven't seen/dealt with a disk device called amrd0 before. It appears to be something from one of the raid setups? So, maybe doing the dd thing might mangle that although, once it is a device, it should work the same as a drive. I ain't rich enough to have one of those raids to play with, though, so if someone else says otherwise, believe them. This is a backup server that uses da0 as a spool disk, we recreated that one so it looks ok. However, we still see expected rawoffset 0, found 32 when booting and shutdown. It appears to me that sysinstall rewrote the MBR for amrd0 even if to my best knowledge it was not touched by us. Below is some information in case someone with insight might see the issue. Please let me know what more I can provide, thanks! camcontrol devlist -v scbus0 on ciss0 bus 0: COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) scbus1 on ciss0 bus 32: scbus2 on mpt0 bus 0: HP UHDL-LTO 0014 at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,ch0) HP Ultrium 2-SCSI F68W at scbus2 target 5 lun 0 (sa0,pass2) at scbus2 target -1 lun -1 () scbus3 on mpt1 bus 0: QUANTUM DLT VS160 2200 at scbus3 target 2 lun 0 (sa1,pass3) QUANTUM DLT VS160 2200 at scbus3 target 3 lun 0 (sa2,pass4) at scbus3 target -1 lun -1 () scbus4 on amr0 bus 0: SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003 at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (pass5) SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003 at scbus4 target 1 lun 0 (pass6) SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003 at scbus4 target 2 lun 0 (pass7) SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003 at scbus4 target 3 lun 0 (pass8) SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003 at scbus4 target 4 lun 0 (pass9) SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003 at scbus4 target 5 lun 0 (pass10) scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0: at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0) disklabel -A amrd0s1: # /dev/amrd0s1: type: ESDI disk: amrd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 65535 sectors/unit: 2929674240 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 419430404.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 b: 8388608 4194304 swap c: 29296615320unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 31457280 125829124.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 e: 2097152 440401924.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 f: 41943040 461373444.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 g: 2841581148 880803844.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities disklabel -A da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 8160 cylinders: 105414 sectors/unit: 860184297 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 8601842970unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit d: 860184233 634.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 fdisk -tv *** Working on device /dev/amrd0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=182363 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=182363 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63,
Re: downloading linux_base-fc4
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:49:01 -0200 luizbcampos wrote: After I had tried to download linux_base-fc4 I got file unavailable not found no access...I need to put my printer to work! You may try to use packages: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html What`s the matter? You didn't show any diagnostics (exact commands, exact output, etc.) so it's hard to say anything. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error with kernel PAE option
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:43 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 I removed the PAE option keeping my SMP option in the kernel configuration for this dual proc server and it builds fine. Any idea what I can do for this error? Have a look at: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE Is the device that is causing the problem listed with a nodevice entry? I guess in your case, it is the adv device, and it is listed. This means it does not work with a PAE kernel. Thanks, yes, I have nodevice in the PAE file for adv. What does this mean and/or how can I address this problem? Should I just remove the entry from the PAE file? No. The idea behind the PAE file is that whatever you see with nodevice is not supported by PAE kernels. Even if you manage to compile a kernel with the device, you will just get into trouble. The idea behind this file is that you change the line: include GENERIC on the top, to your own custom kernel configuration file. Then you compile with make buildkernel KERNCONF=PAE which gets all your settings from your own file *minus* the ones that are incompatible with PAE (the ones identified with nodevice) How about going with the 64bit version of FreeBSD? That was my first try, but the CPU appears not to support amd64 as there are no AMD Features listed in dmesg. Is it a 64bit CPU? The AMD64 version of FreeBSD supports the Intel 64bit (Core2 / Quad / Xeon / Pentium 4 / Pentium D) processors as well, regardless of the AMD in its name. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Monday 20 October 2008 08:52:07 pm Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: i386 cannot address more than 4GB unless the kernel is built with PAE mode enabled. This isn't enabled in GENERIC for many (justified) reasons. If you have more than 4GB, you should be using amd64, so you made the right decision there. If you aren't using kernel modules, then PAE should work fine. You can make kernel modules work with PAE as well, but that takes more work. Thanks for the help, I am missing AMD Features for this CPU in dmesg, so it looks like the CPU does not support amd64. I tried to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 Any idea what I can do for this error? Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't use PAE. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error with kernel PAE option
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:30 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Is it a 64bit CPU? The AMD64 version of FreeBSD supports the Intel 64bit (Core2 / Quad / Xeon / Pentium 4 / Pentium D) processors as well, regardless of the AMD in its name. It is an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz processor, but I was told yesterday here on the list that if LM does not appear in the AMD Features line of dmesg, then it does not support amd64. I looked at another server we have here now running amd64 FreeBSD and I see the AMD Features line with LM, but on this server, no AMD Features line whatsoever. I am getting 'BTX halted' when trying to install FreeBSD-amd64 on this server. The other server we have running it has Xeon 3.0GHz procs, I thought that was kinda weird that the two servers were really close in spec, but one would not run amd64 :/ This would be my preferred option if I can get it to install. -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error with kernel PAE option
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:30 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Is it a 64bit CPU? The AMD64 version of FreeBSD supports the Intel 64bit (Core2 / Quad / Xeon / Pentium 4 / Pentium D) processors as well, regardless of the AMD in its name. It is an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz processor, but I was told yesterday here on the list that if LM does not appear in the AMD Features line of dmesg, then it does not support amd64. I looked at another server we have here now running amd64 FreeBSD and I see the AMD Features line with LM, but on this server, no AMD Features line whatsoever. I am getting 'BTX halted' when trying to install FreeBSD-amd64 on this server. The other server we have running it has Xeon 3.0GHz procs, I thought that was kinda weird that the two servers were really close in spec, but one would not run amd64 :/ This would be my preferred option if I can get it to install. Well, LM is the flag for x86-64. You are probably running a 32bit Xeon CPU. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 7.0R on EeeBOX
hi list! I am trying to install my favor FreeBSD on EeeBOX via CD-ROM it's ok during boot, but sysinstall can't write discklabel in FreeBSD Discklabel Editor it said: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! the creation of filesystems will be aborted I try to boot with ACPI disable, but it's no good. How can I do for write discklabel in HDD? Regards, jyuny1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Expanding slice/partition on SPARC64 with gmirror
Hi all, I am still fairly new to FreeBSD but here is the situation I have a sparc Netra T1 AC 200, running FBSD 6-stable. It had dual 18GB disks in a gmirror raid 1, As can be imagined, ran out of space quickly. I purchased 2x73GB scsi drives. I removed 1 of the 18GBs, placed 73GB in, rebuilt the mirror, removed the other 18GB, inserted 73GB, rebuilt mirror. Ok, so I have 2 73GB drives in there in a mirror (/dev/mirror/gm0) they are partitioned as such: Otter# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0a501M 70M392M15%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/mirror/gm0e501M356K461M 0%/tmp /dev/mirror/gm0f 11G9.8G771M93%/usr /dev/mirror/gm0d1.9G165M1.6G 9%/var I want to grow the /usr partition to fill the rest of the 73gb. What do I need to do. sunlabel always complains about geom not found whenever I try to do anything so I assume I need to break the mirror and change things then rebuild the mirror? Not sure how to do this and even when I do get it to work I'm not sure what I need to do with sunlabel. Thanks -=Tom Donnelly Please CC me as I am not on the list. Relevant info: Sunlabel shows: # /dev//mirror/gm0: text: FreeBSD17G cyl 2200 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63 bytes/sector: 512 sectors/cylinder: 16065 sectors/unit: 35343000 8 partitions: # # Size is in sectors. # Offset is in cylinders. #size offset #-- -- a:1060290 0 b:4144770 66 c: 35343000 0 d:4176900324 e:1060290584 f: 24900750650 dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2008 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 6.4-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Oct 2 11:40:35 CDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter tick frequency 5 Hz quality 1000 real memory = 1073741824 (1024 MB) avail memory = 1031413760 (983 MB) cpu0: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIe Processor (500.00 MHz CPU) kbd0 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, REGOPS_FUNC) nexus0: Open Firmware Nexus device pcib0: U2P UPA-PCI bridge on nexus0 pcib0: Sabre, impl 0, version 0, IGN 0x7c0, bus A, 66MHz pcib0: [FAST] pcib0: [FAST] pcib0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcib0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcib0: DVMA map: 0xc000 to 0xc3ff pci0: OFW PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: APB PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.1 on pci0 pci1: OFW PCI bus on pcib1 ebus0: PCI-EBus3 bridge mem 0xf000-0xf0ff,0xf100-0xf17f at device 12.0 on pci1 ebus0: idprom: incomplete ebus0: flashprom addr 0x10-0x1f (no driver attached) eeprom0: EEPROM/clock addr 0x14-0x141fff on ebus0 eeprom0: model mk48t59 ebus0: SUNW,lomh addr 0x140020-0x140023 irq 42 (no driver attached) pci1: old, non-VGA display device at device 3.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci1 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 gem0: Sun ERI 10/100 Ethernet mem 0xe040-0xe041 at device 12.1 on pci1 miibus0: MII bus on gem0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto gem0: 2kB RX FIFO, 2kB TX FIFO gem0: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:fd:f7:9c ohci0: Sun PCIO-2 USB controller mem 0xe200-0xe2007fff at device 12.3 on pci1 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: Sun PCIO-2 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (0x108e) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered atapci0: AcerLabs M5229 UDMA66 controller port 0x400-0x407,0x418-0x41b,0x410-0x417,0x408-0x40b,0x420-0x42f at device 13.0 on pci1 atapci0: using PIO transfers above 137GB as workaround for 48bit DMA access bug, expect reduced performance ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 gem1: Sun ERI 10/100 Ethernet mem 0xe044-0xe045 at device 5.1 on pci1 miibus1: MII bus on gem1 ukphy1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus1 ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto gem1: 2kB RX FIFO, 2kB TX FIFO gem1: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:fd:f7:9c ohci1: Sun PCIO-2 USB controller mem 0xe500-0xe5007fff at device 5.3 on pci1 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: Sun PCIO-2 USB controller on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: (0x108e) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pcib2: APB PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci2: OFW PCI bus on pcib2 sym0: 896 port 0xc0-0xc000ff mem 0x2000-0x23ff,0x4000-0x5fff at device 8.0 on pci2 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym0: [GIANT-LOCKED] sym1: 896 port 0xc00100-0xc001ff mem
Re: Building a linuxbase-*****
Hi there I have a bit of an odd question and hopefully this will be the right place to ask (please bare with me) I'd like to know how to build a Linuxulator OS image of a custom GNU/Linux distro I've inherited the maintenance of. On top of this distro several binary only applications are run. HOWEVER I'd like to take advantage of the fBSD 7 kernel and IP_Filter in the next release,... while maintaining compatibility with the Linux API/ABI. Does anyone have some pointers as to where to find some /GOOD/ docs on how to build the Linuxulator linuxbase- packages??? Many thanks Ross ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't use PAE. Thanks for the help. Excuse the ignorance, I'm more a programmer than system guy. How do I purge a driver, or know which driver to look for, from the config and know what the driver supports? Do you mean, in this case, remove 'nodevice adv' from the PAE file? If so, I don't know what that supports :/ -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel
On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: John Almberg wrote: I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to debug it... Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the database is located, because init is run as root. If you need another key, then you need to specify this with the -i parameter. Ah... that makes sense. I had set up the keys for 'admin', but of course init is run by root. Duh. That raises another issue... I don't allow root logins on either server, for security reasons... Peter, I appreciate your ideas and help, but I think I will stick with autossh, probably by finally learning how to create an rc.d script (not sure the actual name for these, but you know what I mean.) I've actually got autossh working, and think it's a simpler solution for me. Thanks. Brgds: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building a linuxbase-*****
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:25:37 +0200 Ross Cameron wrote: I have a bit of an odd question and hopefully this will be the right place to ask (please bare with me) I'd like to know how to build a Linuxulator OS image of a custom GNU/Linux distro I've inherited the maintenance of. On top of this distro several binary only applications are run. HOWEVER I'd like to take advantage of the fBSD 7 kernel and IP_Filter in the next release,... while maintaining compatibility with the Linux API/ABI. Does anyone have some pointers as to where to find some /GOOD/ docs on how to build the Linuxulator linuxbase- packages??? I'm not aware of such docs. If you need a custom linux_base-XXX package then use those packages that contains binaries (don't forget to brandelf them) and libraries (don't brandelf them) you need. Take a look at those linux_base ports (available at the ports tree) as an example. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using packages compiled for 7.0-RELEASE in 8-CURRENT
Hi all, I'm having a confusion about installing packages compiled in 7.0-RELEASE in 8.0-CURRENT. I've 2 boxen, a 7.0-RELEASE-p5 and a 8-CURRENT. The 7.0-RELEASE-p5 is fully updated as of now, and has all updated ports available in the form of binary packages. Now, I'm wondering if it is okay to install those binary packages on my 8-CURRENT box. Has anyone tried this ? And what kind of issues you experienced. Issues to dependencies on libraries in base install, hmm...? Thanks in advance, Ashish -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- % dig +short cname cdac.in @::1 ms.gov.in pgpwsz60gf20h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel
On Oct 21, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: John Almberg wrote: I do know that Mysql supports SSL... somehow this got discounted early in the discussion, perhaps mistakenly? I believe the thinking was that although MySQL claims to support SSL, it does in fact make a pretty bodge of it, and a more effective approach is to pipe MySQL traffic through an encrypted tunnel. Personally I just use IPSec for this, but people might also like to consider stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) or OpenVPN (http:// openvpn.net/) Stunnel and OpenVPN are on my list, in case autossh has unexpected problems, but I figured I'd try the simplest approach first. Other than figuring out what holes to poke in the firewalls, autossh was pretty simple to set up. Now I just need to figure out how to start it on reboot, but that is something I've been meaning to learn, anyway, so I don't mind. I appreciate your help. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't use PAE. Thanks for the help. Excuse the ignorance, I'm more a programmer than system guy. How do I purge a driver, or know which driver to look for, from the config and know what the driver supports? Do you mean, in this case, remove 'nodevice adv' from the PAE file? If so, I don't know what that supports :/ Yeah, I don't think anyone's really explaining this very well to you, so I'll try a different approach: Certain FreeBSD drivers do not work in PAE mode. The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE file. They're prefixed by the word nodevice, which tells the kernel config reader DO NOT build this device, because it won't work. You will need to take the nodevice lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and put them into your kernel config file. (There are alternative methods such as using include directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep this explanation simple.) Make sense now? :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE file. They're prefixed by the word nodevice, which tells the kernel config reader DO NOT build this device, because it won't work. You will need to take the nodevice lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and put them into your kernel config file. (There are alternative methods such as using include directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep this explanation simple.) Make sense now? :-) Perfect sense now, believe it or not I was beginning to think along these lines as I was doing some searching and found 'device adv' in my config file and there was a description of the hardware it was for, which I don't have. Thanks for the clarification, now let's see if I can get this build done...thanks to all! -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:47:11 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't use PAE. Thanks for the help. Excuse the ignorance, I'm more a programmer than system guy. How do I purge a driver, or know which driver to look for, from the config and know what the driver supports? Do you mean, in this case, remove 'nodevice adv' from the PAE file? If so, I don't know what that supports :/ Yeah, I don't think anyone's really explaining this very well to you, so I'll try a different approach: Certain FreeBSD drivers do not work in PAE mode. The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE file. They're prefixed by the word nodevice, which tells the kernel config reader DO NOT build this device, because it won't work. You will need to take the nodevice lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and put them into your kernel config file. (There are alternative methods such as using include directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep this explanation simple.) Make sense now? :-) Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports. In this case, adv(4) supports mostly ancient Advansys SCSI host adapters. The manpage has a full list of the various model numbers, etc. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports. In this case, adv(4) supports mostly ancient Advansys SCSI host adapters. The manpage has a full list of the various model numbers, etc. Yes, that is what I thought. Right now, I am just commenting them out, now I know what people mean when they say they are running a trimmed/clean kernel. I did see one potential issue... # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) I see all of these with nodevice lines in the PAE file. Although I have USB ports, I don't use them, but I was concerned by the 'required' on the last one, is it OK to remove? Also, would I then need to disable USB in the BIOS to avoid errors? -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Nagios timeouts
Earlier this morning I was getting Nagios alerts about potential issues with my FreeBSD 6.1 servers. All the emails I got had this problem: Connection refused by host I did some digging around today and I didn't get anything definitive, but I did notice there was a time correlation between the messages and certain log entries that seem to be associated with various cron jobs. Is it possible that I'm getting false positives due to my servers servicing these jobs and not being able to respond to Nagios queries? - Joe _ Want to read Hotmail messages in Outlook? The Wordsmiths show you how. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/wedowindowslive.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!20EE04FBC541789!167.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_092008___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5?
How risky is it to jump directly to 7.0 on a 5.5 system? Upgrade would be by cvsup. I expect mergemaster issues anyway but this system is relatively vanilla in it's configuration. It's duty is just rsyncing other servers. The kernel is GENERIC minus drivers plus ipfw and there are no kldloads. Can this jump be made? I was hoping to avoid having to make two major release jumps by doing only one. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:22:28PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports. In this case, adv(4) supports mostly ancient Advansys SCSI host adapters. The manpage has a full list of the various model numbers, etc. Yes, that is what I thought. Right now, I am just commenting them out, now I know what people mean when they say they are running a trimmed/clean kernel. I did see one potential issue... # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) I see all of these with nodevice lines in the PAE file. Although I have USB ports, I don't use them, but I was concerned by the 'required' on the last one, is it OK to remove? Also, would I then need to disable USB in the BIOS to avoid errors? If you remove device usb, you will also need to remove uhci, ohci, ehci, umass, ukbd, etc. etc. etc... from your config as well. You do not need to disable USB support in the BIOS; the kernel will simply state that it sees devices on the PCI bus but lacks a driver to attach to them. This will not harm anything. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED], FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 9:18 AM You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD by Brooks Davis. From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every common man needs a cluster. In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. Gerardo Paredes Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone you know, then please pretend you don't know me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every common man needs a cluster. In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides already exist. You can also grab their old paper at http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit out-dated. My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone you know, then please pretend you don't know me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?
i didn't had the time to debug it to find out the problem. I would like to know what happened there. The good thing is that a future client of my company works with the same accounting software and the server runs FBSD so if something goes wrong i'll have the time to debug properly. it may be some new problems with locking if you say about accounting software. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page fault while in kernel mode
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 03:22:28 pm Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports. In this case, adv(4) supports mostly ancient Advansys SCSI host adapters. The manpage has a full list of the various model numbers, etc. Yes, that is what I thought. Right now, I am just commenting them out, now I know what people mean when they say they are running a trimmed/clean kernel. I did see one potential issue... # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0) device usb # USB Bus (required) I see all of these with nodevice lines in the PAE file. Although I have USB ports, I don't use them, but I was concerned by the 'required' on the last one, is it OK to remove? Also, would I then need to disable USB in the BIOS to avoid errors? Actually, USB is ok with PAE. I recently updated the PAE configs to not disable PAE and at work we've run PAE kernels with USB enabled for a few years now on 6.x w/o any problems. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mirror site
Hello, I am very interested in any mirror site opportunities you have. Hivelocity would be interested in providing a server(s) to FreeBSD. Please let me know what to do from here. Thanks Steve Eschweiler General Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 888 869 4678 ext 224 E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.10950 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mirror site
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Steve Eschweiler wrote: I am very interested in any mirror site opportunities you have. Hivelocity would be interested in providing a server(s) to FreeBSD. Please let me know what to do from here. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/hubs/ should have all of the necessary details, including who you should contact (not -questions). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading linux_base-fc4
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:49:01 -0200 luizbcampos wrote: After I had tried to download linux_base-fc4 I got file unavailable not found no access...I need to put my printer to work! You may try to use packages: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html What`s the matter? You didn't show any diagnostics (exact commands, exact output, etc.) so it's hard to say anything. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the problem with the port your installing is that it takes 5 mirrors or so to even find .rpms that even work ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel
Now I just need to figure out how to start it on reboot, but that
is something I've been meaning to learn, anyway, so I don't mind.
I hope you guys will bear with me just a little more... I have spent
the day trying to figure out how to create an rc script for autossh.
Very cool, and not as hard as I'd anticipated. It is attached below.
The script works perfectly *iff* I run it from the command line as a
non-root user, like so:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/autossh start
However, it does NOT work when executed by root. Instead, I get the
following error message in /var/log/messages
messages:Oct 21 19:01:38 on autossh[89267]: ssh exited prematurely
with status 255; autossh exiting
So (my understanding), autossh is starting, and tries to create the
tunnel, but the tunnel creation fails with the unhelpful 255 error
message.
But only when executed by root. That's the puzzling part.
I don't allow root logins on this server, but don't see how that
could cause this problem
I'm stumped. Any hints, much appreciated.
-- John
--
#!/bin/sh
# PROVIDE: autossh
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown
. /etc/rc.subr
name=autossh
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
start_cmd=${name}_start
stop_cmd=:
load_rc_config $name
eval ${rcvar}=\${${rcvar}:='NO'}
command=/usr/local/bin/autossh
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${command} ${command_args}
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}
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Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: I have some setups were gjournal was put on device rather the on partition, i.e.: [umgah] ~ gmirror status NameStatus Components mirror/umgah0 COMPLETE ad0 ad1 [umgah] ~ gjournal status Name Status Components mirror/umgah0.journal N/A mirror/umgah0 [umgah] ~ glabel status Name Status Components ufs/umgah0root N/A mirror/umgah0.journala label/umgah0swap N/A mirror/umgah0.journalb ufs/umgah0usr N/A mirror/umgah0.journald ufs/umgah0var N/A mirror/umgah0.journale Does the above suggest that you've ended up with individual journal providers for each partition anyway? If so, where are they and have you really achieved anything functionally different? Are they at the end of their individually associated partitions or all together somewhere else? Has the ill-advised journaled small partition issue been successfully overcome through what you've done? [umgah] ~ mount /dev/ufs/umgah0root on / (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, asynchronous, local) /dev/ufs/umgah0var on /var (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) /dev/ufs/umgah0usr on /usr (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal) devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local) And yes, mirror autosynchronization is turned off, gjournal takes care of that too. It's not stated in manual, but gjournal is typically transparent for any type of access, just in case of UFS file system is marked as journaled so any metadata writes can be distinguished from data writes. Without that gjournal does literally nothing. And what does this mean for your swap partition? Laszlo Nagy wrote earlier: Another tricky question: why would you journal a SWAP partition? Volodymyr, does your assertion that gjournal does nothing when a file system is not UFS mean that there is no penalty with regard to your swap partition despite the existence of mirror/umgah0.journalb? Any chance you'd like to share your command sequence for constructing your gmirror'd and gjournal'd filesystem, Volodymyr? :-) Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel
John Almberg said the following on 2008-09-23 15:54: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql through an SSH tunnel. Being a newbie admin, I've never set up an SSH tunnel. I've been reading about them all morning and (as always) there seems to be more than one way to skin this cat. I'm looking for ease of set up and maintenance, as well as security (which I assume is a given.) I'd prefer NOT to have to recompile the kernels (pure cowardice... the application server is a production server that I don't want to experiment with.) Both servers have OpenSSL. Any recommendations, much appreciated. Maybe this can bee of interest. http://www.stunnel.org/examples/mysql.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: Setting up gmirror
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Identical drive models so their sizes are the same. Is this the command, from gmirror(8), the one I'll want to use? Create a mirror on disk with valid data (note that the last sector of the disk will be overwritten). Add another disk to this mirror, so it will be synchronized with existing disk: gmirror label -v -b round-robin data da0 add -s very large value like -s 1048576 to prevent splitting one request on 2 disks. I thought the -s option was only applicable when using -b split for the balancing algorithm. Does round-robin not mean simply alternating between the two disks without ever splitting requests? What are the considerations in choosing between load, prefer, round-robin, and split balance algorithms? Carl / K0802647 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading linux_base-fc4
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, luizbcampos wrote: After I had tried to download linux_base-fc4 I got file unavailable not found no access...I need to put my printer to work! What`s the matter? Please read http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/128160 You can set MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX to the URL of the archive-site: # make install \ MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/%SUBDIR%/; Cheers, ch ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP KeyID 0x1A9BE943 OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
David Robillard wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Gerardo Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what i have read, Matt Olander and Brooks Davis are the foremost experts at cluster building on FreeBSD. However i believe a document needs to be written explaining in detailed steps how to do it, so the common user can do it. Obviously not every common man needs a cluster. In my case i am pitching the project of a big cluster to our University here in Honduras to run some kinds of apps we have, like a Trade Exchange Market Simulation written in Python we have about two years developing which we plan to run distributed across the cluster. Since I cannot attend that seminar, i will be expecting for at least the presentation to be posted. Actually, this was a presentation I attended last year. So the slides already exist. You can also grab their old paper at http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ but this is a bit out-dated. My advice would be to try and contact Mr. Brooks Davis directly. If you can't find him, try and send an email to the organisers of BSDCan from http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/contact.php. I believe you should talk to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David It seems the same presentation was given at AsiaBSDCon 2007: it's linked to from http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html The slides are at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UFS2 or ZFS for 3TB disk?
The subject says it all. I will soon be installing an Areca ARC-1110 and 3x 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda SATAs into a 3.2GHz Northwood P4 with 1GB of RAM, and I'm wondering which would be the most stable filesystem to use. I've read the bigdisk page [1] and the various information about ZFS on the FreeBSD Wiki [2]. I'm aware of the tuning requirements that ZFS requires, and upgrading to 4GB of RAM would be quite possible as it was understood beforehand that ZFS requires a large quantity of it. My questions are as follows. 1. I'm aware of the fact that ZFS works better on 64-bit platforms, and that alone has me thinking that it's not a good fit for this particular machine. But apart from that, it seems that ZFS is not yet stable enough for my environment (only about 25 users but in production nonetheless). To me, [3] paints all sorts of ugly pictures, which can be summarized as count on ZFS-related panics and deadlocks happening fairly regularly and disabling ZIL in the interest of stability will put your data at risk. Comments about live systems using ZFS (on 7.0-RELEASE or 7-STABLE) would be appreciated. 2. [1] appears to be a bit dated. Nevertheless, I'm inclined to think that the status described there (as well as in various man pages) still applies to UFS2 on 7.0-RELEASE. Please correct me if I'm wrong or let me know if the state of affairs has improved significantly in 7-STABLE. 2a. Does the information contained in [1] apply to ZFS as well? 3. As the array will be for data only and not be booted, will it be possible to use fdisk to slice it up, or will I need to use gpt? 4. My planned course of action will be to attempt to newfs the device itself (da0, all 3TB of it) or 1 full-disk slice (da0s1). Failing that, I will attempt to gconcat da0s1 and da0s2 (1.5TB each), although I suspect that may not work since for one thing, growfs is not yet 64-bit clean. In either case, I'm very interested in using gbde/geli to encrypt the fs. If either of these paths are not possible or recommended, are there any suggestions for alternate means of creating a 3TB fs? 4a. If gconcat'ing 2 slices together (or some other suggetion) will in fact work, would doing so effectively work around the userland tool incompatibilities mentioned in [1]? Thank you! [1] http://freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk [2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS [3] http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems -- Anthony Chavez http://hexadecagram.org/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]xmpp:[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: UFS2 or ZFS for 3TB disk?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:06:07PM -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote: The subject says it all. I will soon be installing an Areca ARC-1110 and 3x 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda SATAs into a 3.2GHz Northwood P4 with 1GB of RAM, and I'm wondering which would be the most stable filesystem to use. I've read the bigdisk page [1] and the various information about ZFS on the FreeBSD Wiki [2]. I'm aware of the tuning requirements that ZFS requires, and upgrading to 4GB of RAM would be quite possible as it was understood beforehand that ZFS requires a large quantity of it. The official Solaris ZFS Wiki answers this question. The I really don't want to this to get pedantic answer is: caching. 1. I'm aware of the fact that ZFS works better on 64-bit platforms, and that alone has me thinking that it's not a good fit for this particular machine. But apart from that, it seems that ZFS is not yet stable enough for my environment (only about 25 users but in production nonetheless). To me, [3] paints all sorts of ugly pictures, which can be summarized as count on ZFS-related panics and deadlocks happening fairly regularly and disabling ZIL in the interest of stability will put your data at risk. Comments about live systems using ZFS (on 7.0-RELEASE or 7-STABLE) would be appreciated. You should review the past 3-4 months of freebsd-fs and freebsd-stable mailing list posts. Stabilising ZFS has been thoroughly discussed there. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/ To date I've only heard of one person having to disable the ZIL to get stability on RELENG_7. Everyone else has followed the standard tuning procedures, which is to tune kmem_size, kmem_size_max, arc_min, and arc_max. prefetch_disable being set can also help performance-wise (many of us find that disabling prefetching provides less stalls or interruptions during extreme disk I/O). Remember that kmem_size and kmem_size_max cannot be increased past 2GB (and you should NOT set them to 2048M!) on RELENG_7 (i386 and amd64). If you want more memory made available to the kernel, you'll need to run CURRENT. None of this affects userland. What you need to keep in mind is that you need to tune things to get ZFS stable on RELENG_7, and you will need to keep tune it if you experience panics relating to ZFS or kmem exhaustion. The way to avoid panics is to start with something very restrictive (I advocate 1536M for kmem_size and kmem_size_max, 16M for arc_min, and 64M of arc_max, on a machine with 2GB of RAM), and then gradually increase arc_max by ~16M increments. You cannot tune this, reboot, let it run for 24 hours and go IT WORKS. You will need to seriously test this over a period of many days, if not weeks. Each person's environment is slightly different, and it depends greatly upon the type of data being accessed, how often, and what sort of workload. There is no standard. I use ZFS to manage a raidz1 zpool across 4 500GB disks (all SATA) on my home machine, which gets thrashed pretty hard due to the content sizes (500-600MB files). This machine has 2GB of RAM, and runs amd64. I also use it in my co-lo as a replacement for /home and on another machine to be used for backups (rsnapshot+rsync across ssh, results stored on a ZFS filesystem). This machine has 2GB of RAM, and runs i386. The it works better on amd64 platforms is true, but there is absolutely nothing that stops you from using it on i386. You should feel confident using it on both. If you really want to know of the performance difference of ZFS on amd64 vs. i386, assuming Google has nothing, you might ask pjd@ directly. I think the general deal is that ZFS was developed with 64-bit pointers and 64-bit values in mind, and while those are not entirely available on x86 (sans MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 registers) without a bit more work, long long on i386 works fine. IMHO, you should be using ZFS for what you want to accomplish. If you do go the UFS2 route, I would recommend you set background_fsck=no in your rc.conf, especially since it's obvious data integrity matters a lot to you (but then again, if it does matter that much, ZFS's checksum ability should trump your interest in UFS2 entirely). That's really all I'm going to say on the matter. (Sorry if that sounds rude, I'm just incredibly scared that my above comments will induce some pedantic flame war or battle of sort, which is not my intention.) [1] http://freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk [2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS [3] http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSKnownProblems -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
open-iscsi ?
Hello Does open-iscsi has been ported to FreeBSD at 7.x ? it doesn't seems to be at 6.x thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
