Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.
As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), I get the error Permission denied. Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that directory? To remove anything that is located in /home, including a directory such as /home/my_repos, user svn would need write permission in the /home directory. Probably only root has write permission there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitability question
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Patrick Baldwin patrick.bald...@studsvik.com wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited usefulness here. I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? What has he been running on? Windows XP? Give him an account without Administrative rights! Anything else will be too much work for you and him. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Okay guys. This is Kenya. You pay taxes because you feel philanthropic, unlike our MPs! -- Kenneth Marende, Speaker, 10th Parilament. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:55AM +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: i have space on a freebsd system in the states, i could do secondary for anybody, and we could create a new service, with a web based management facility its plainly a dns backup for us and a backup secondary failover web site for extremely low traffic, if you guys want to picth in, we can bring something together Count me in. i'll do whatever i can with my servers. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: Everyone: We just got word that Neustar, which bought DNS service provider Nominum a few years ago, is shutting down Nominum's secondary.com service. The service used to provide secondary DNS for users' zones at no charge. I and the other secondary.com users I know think it's reasonable for the company to charge a small but reasonable fee for the service instead of keeping it running for free. But alas, Neustar is getting greedy. The only alternative they offer is a $50-a-month managed DNS service, which we don't want or need. (We're fine maintaining our own master servers and zones; we just need a slave to use as a secondary.) So, we're looking for alternatives. Does anyone on this list know of a good, BSD-based service which offers reasonably priced secondary DNS? Or reasonably priced servers at a server farm, where I and others can set up a secondary DNS server? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple swap question
On Thursday 18 December 2008 17:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. How can I reset the swap? Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Martin Easy: # swapoff -a ; swapon -a It just removes all swap devices (with the content mapped back into memory) and then turns the swap devices back on. Just make sure you have enough RAM to run your system while it does this (since only the RAM will be available for the system [NO SWAP])!!! WARNING: This could kill your system and does eat babies!!! To others: There is one reason I can think of for doing this, if an irregularly used program (that is rather big) has been swapped out but requires a low latency when used (i.e. must not wait to be swapped back in...) then it would be desired to get the program swapped back into RAM as soon as possible after RAM has been freed. Regards, David signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Fwd: Re: Re[4]: can not start SVNserve
Здравствуйте, . -- Пересылаемое письмо -- От: David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com К: KES kes-...@yandex.ru А также к: us...@subversion.tigris.org Время создания: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:30:51 -0500 Тема:can not start SVNserve Прикрепленные файлы: none The problem is the su command. For some reason, it is refusing to execute the svnserve command. You can try to figure out why su isn't working or you can switch to sudo. I don't think we can give you any more help with this list. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:57 PM, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Здравствуйте, David. DW On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:03 AM, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 18 декабря 2008 г., 9:05:35: M On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:02:07 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 17 декабря 2008 г., 9:11:19: M On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:11:17 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Polytropon. Вы писали 14 декабря 2008 г., 15:11:35: P On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:58:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar P woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: su: Sorry kes# pw user mod svn -s /bin/bash kes# pw user show svn svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash kes# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start Starting svnserve. su: Sorry try to change directory to existent P (1) What's /bin/bash? Check existing shell. P (2) As you said: Check existing directory. P (3) Regarding su, check for wheel group inclusion. home# uname -a FreeBSD home.kes.net.ua 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 12 02:11:24 EEST 2008 k...@kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7 i386 home# pw user show svn svn:*:1003:1002::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin As you can see on 'home' machine svn user has no valid shell also it has not valid home directory and it is not included into wheel group But svnserve is started and works fine. With same settings svnserve does not work on kes# uname -a FreeBSD kes.net.ua 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #: Sun Nov 23 17:19:12 EET 2008 k...@home.kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7 i386 M echo 'rc_debug=YES'/etc/rc.conf M /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start M Show output from /var/log/messages. kes# kes# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve: DEBUG: checkyesno: svnserve_enable is set to YES. Starting svnserve. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: su -m svn -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690 --foreground -r /var/db/trunk' su: Sorry M Does this command work from the command line? M If not, does it work if called as su -fm rather then su -m? M If that does not work, does the primary group svn is supposed to be in exist? kes# su -m svn -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690 --foreground -r /var/db/trunk' su: Sorry kes# su -fm svn -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690 --foreground -r /var/db/trunk' su: Sorry kes# pw group show svn svn:*:1005: kes# cat /etc/group | grep svn svn:*:1005: kes# pw user show svn svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash As you see it does not work also with -fm option Also I notice next differences between FreeBDS 7.0 and 7.1 (detail below) Notice that on both system account is locked, has no valid shell and home directory on FreeBSD 7.0 when I try to login with svn user it says: This account is currently not available. on FreeBSD 7.1 when I try to login with svn user it says: su: Sorry Maybe there is a problem with su on FreeBSD 7.1? home# pw user show svn svn:*:1003:1002::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin home# su svn This account is currently not available. kes# pw user show svn svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash kes# su svn su: Sorry kes# pw user mod svn -s /usr/bin/nologin kes# pw user show svn svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/bin/nologin kes# su svn su: Sorry DW Why don't you setup sudo and see if that will work for you? I've DW always found sudo much less troublesome than su. DW Then, you can modify your startup script to use sudo instead of su. Why maintainer of rc.subr use 'su' instead of 'sudo'? Maybe su has some benefit I do not know. If I edit standart rc.subr to use sudo instead of 'su' there maybe other sripts will not sturtup. -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru -- -- David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com -- Конец пересылаемого письма -- -- С уважением, KES mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SIS191 Ethernet Controller Support
On 12/19/08, Abd Hamid Shamsi storage...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Admin, I just want to know does FreeBSD support SIS191 Ethernet controller. Because recently i just install PCBSD in my laptop, and there is no connection for internet. and of course my network card seem doesn't appear in networking configuration. Do you have any suggestion to foresee this situation. There is no native driver, you may try to play with ndis(4) -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Zope 2.10, MySQL and Python 2.5
Dear All, I am having trouble with using Zope 2.10 together with MySQL. I have _mysql Python support library for Python 2.5 from some previous port but Zope came with Python 2.4 and I do not have _mysql support for that. I guess that there will not be a Zope 2.10 port with Python 2.5 support in the near future because Zope 2.10 does not support Python 2.5 as they say at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.7/Zope-2.10.7-released . I tried to change Python used by Zope in Zope conf to Python 2.5 but it resulted in dramatic traceback. Has anybody solved this problem? Thanks in advance, Kristjan Sander ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitability question
On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? In this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer, pre-configured for desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, flash, etc. -- all will work out of the box... After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD -- Upgrade ports, build kernel, etc. Regards, O.K. -- Mõõda oma inteneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed http://tallinn.speedtest.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple swap question
To others: There is one reason I can think of for doing this, if an irregularly used program (that is rather big) has been swapped out but requires a low latency when used (i.e. must not wait to be swapped back so change this program if it requires low latency to do mlockall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Backing Up ZFS
As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how would one Backup ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server spontaneously bursts into flames. use tar it's filesystem independent if you have tape drives. actually you can tar to anything even multivolume backup using USB connected drivers. I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards. 1. ZFS - External HDD (External HDD aren't even big enough to handle greater than 2TB) Taken offsite daily 2. ZFS - Another ZFS box (Not sure how you take it off site daily) 3. ZFS - Remote ZFS using RSync (Living in Australia, there are limits on data transfer of a few hundred GB per month, to costs are prohibitive) you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. all your 3 solutions are filesystem-independent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Backing Up ZFS
I would suggest Bacula, a bit hard to config but very flexible On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how would one Backup ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server spontaneously bursts into flames. use tar it's filesystem independent if you have tape drives. actually you can tar to anything even multivolume backup using USB connected drivers. I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards. 1. ZFS - External HDD (External HDD aren't even big enough to handle greater than 2TB) Taken offsite daily 2. ZFS - Another ZFS box (Not sure how you take it off site daily) 3. ZFS - Remote ZFS using RSync (Living in Australia, there are limits on data transfer of a few hundred GB per month, to costs are prohibitive) you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. all your 3 solutions are filesystem-independent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jci...@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Backing Up ZFS
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how would one Backup ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server spontaneously bursts into flames. use tar it's filesystem independent if you have tape drives. actually you can tar to anything even multivolume backup using USB connected drivers. I'm just curious at what others are currently doing to back up huge amounts of data. eg. 2TB and onwards. 1. ZFS - External HDD (External HDD aren't even big enough to handle greater than 2TB) Taken offsite daily 2. ZFS - Another ZFS box (Not sure how you take it off site daily) 3. ZFS - Remote ZFS using RSync (Living in Australia, there are limits on data transfer of a few hundred GB per month, to costs are prohibitive) you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. Quite wrong. If you want to use the zfs send | zfs receive along with zfs snapshots tools the backup target *needs* to be ZFS. If you plan to use the zfs send | [ tar | gz ] then you can backup the snapshots anywhere you want in a compressed form. a great day, v all your 3 solutions are filesystem-independent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
6.2-6.4 network oddities
Hi all Just tried to do a 6.2-6.4 upgrade using the freebsd-update.sh script from http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz. However i got really odd network things going on, main one seems to be lo0 doesn't get it's ip-address. Other things like syslogd don't start or indeed namedb. The nameservers in resolv.conf don't get queried after the first nameserver entry. anyone seem anythign like this before. Googling doesn't provide any obvious results. I've restoring to 6.2 before the users come in, but any pointers would be helpful for the near future when I try and build a test server to do this again. -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitability question
Quoting Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee: On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? In this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer, pre-configured for desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, flash, etc. -- all will work out of the box... After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD -- Upgrade ports, build kernel, etc. Does anyone know if Flash 9 works on pcbsd? In fact, I use current and it works but hangs probably 4 times a day and I have to kill the linux pviewer.bin processes and restart apache to continue. It is much better than nothing though. I'm still using wine with windows firefox and flash doesn't give me any problems but I have problems with character sets so I use it only for flash. ed Regards, O.K. -- Mõõda oma inteneti kiirust / Test Your Internet speed http://tallinn.speedtest.net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 6.2-6.4 network oddities
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hepworth wrote: Hi all Just tried to do a 6.2-6.4 upgrade using the freebsd-update.sh script from http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz. However i got really odd network things going on, main one seems to be lo0 doesn't get it's ip-address. Other things like syslogd don't start or indeed namedb. The nameservers in resolv.conf don't get queried after the first nameserver entry. anyone seem anythign like this before. Googling doesn't provide any obvious results. I've restoring to 6.2 before the users come in, but any pointers would be helpful for the near future when I try and build a test server to do this again. Hi Martin, Please post relevant bits of dmesg output and /var/log/messages, and that will help everyone give you advice about how to fix the upgraded OS. Also, did you capture the output of freebsd-update during the upgrade? Best regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJS7Cn0sRouByUApARAtkEAJ93yOYX6eLpdPunYHz1HjqVUqxZegCcCRPN bzVpYARtUd2vQ95FHBPVfcU= =Gu/g -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bridge ipfw also protect set
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:19:31 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: [kho...@singnet.com.sg wrote:] I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup also ensure that my Freebsd set is firewalled? Could now figure it out reading the book and article. You don't want to use bridge! Certainly true in this instance. 1) as far as I remember, ipfw works poorly with bridge: it would filter only based on layer 2, not based on IP (need to confirm). Not true. I've managed a filtering bridge (also providing web and samba servers) with ipfw+dummynet for 5+ years since FreeBSD 4.8, and it works very well indeed. You can filter at layer 2 or 3, bridged and unbridged traffic, though you can only filter bridged traffic that's coming 'in'. 2) bridge means that packets traverse the FreeBSD machine without any modification (think of the bridge like a 2 ports Ethernet switch). Unless you use and ADSL modem (but then you can use a switch and connect your PC and your FreeBSD box each on one port of the switch) it will not work. If your FreeBSD machine is in charge of making the ADSL connection, it will not work. Not as a bridge, no. 3) as suggested in the prvious reply, you need some NAT and some routing in your FreeBSD machine. Routing is not bridge. The 'simple' ruleset in rc.firewall provides a good basic setup to protect a small network as described, including the router of course. You'll want to add a couple of rules allowing some ICMP traffic, remove rules for inbound DNS and web if you're not running those servers, etc. Read ipfw(8) about 10 times, largely ignore the current ipfw section in the handbook, and prosper .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)
AMD64/7.1RC1 I couldn't find documentation as to what the boot only CDs are. So I tried it. Now I know. They boot, start setup, and then must get the setup source from the network (or perhaps swap CDs). My machine's onboard ethernet controller is apparently not supported,or not quite working. It was working fine from Linux.It is a Sun machine with onboard nVidia ethernet. So I connected a USB to ethernet adapter.It works.But I had to reboot the computer.It would a little nice if setup would re-probe devices. Also, when you boot the boot only CD, and say to use the CDfor the install source, it errors, repeatedly, for every package.You have to know to push control-c. I also don't see information as to what is on CD1 vs. 2 vs 3. In the visual fdisk, I deleted a partition, then tried undo, it said it couldn't, that it had commited/written already. I later restarted setup and the deleted partition was back. It seems its understanding of what has been written is wrong. (I ran FreeBSD a bunch years ago, around 3.x, but stopped once I found pulling out a USB device paniced. Ready to give it another try..well, for some porting work..) - Jay___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
I have a 250GB drive that I use exclusively for unimportant data. I run smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like: smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and don't particularly care. I'd like to know if the drive's about to roll over and die, but I really don't need to know about the same 4 offline uncorrectable errors. Is there a way to clear that message while leaving SMART enabled on the drive? I didn't see anything specifically answering it in smartctl(8) but wondered if I missed something. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Simple swap question
RW a écrit : On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500 FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not listed. FreeBSD only swaps in extreme cases - most of the time it's paging instead. If it really worries you: swapoff -a ; swapon -a Thanks a lot, it worked great! Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SOLVED: Simple swap question
Jerry McAllister a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. How can I reset the swap? You don't. The system will handle it for you, I promise. :-) And very well, too. You can prompt it to move pages back into RAM if you start using a swapped- out process again - say, for example, a quiescent word processor had been swapped out, you could get it back by raising it and starting to type. But as Kirk said, there really is no need. It's one of the kernel's many jobs, and I'm inclined to leave it get on with it! Dan Thanks for your answer. I'm asking here because it's been several days and there is still used swap for data that should never be used anymore. If the kernel wants to keep it, why not move it to RAM now that there is some free? Why bother if it isn't being currently used? jerry Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). I just tried swapoff -a ; swapon -a and it worked great. Thanks everyone for your answer. Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:37 AM, FreeBSD wrote: Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). Martin, I'm not trying to be harsh, honestly, but stop doing things like that until you understand them. FreeBSD will *copy* (not *move*, but *copy*) stuff to swap as it sees fit. I have 6GB of RAM in my home server, and at this moment top says this: Mem: 1060M Active, 1712M Inact, 549M Wired, 5352K Cache, 214M Buf, 2600M Free Swap: 16G Total, 3068K Used, 16G Free I know for a fact that I've never used 100% of the RAM since the last reboot, but it's still played around with 3MB of swap. This is not hurting anything, and absolutely is *not* an indication that anything is wrong or sub-optimal. Seriously, get over your obsession with keeping swap utterly empty before it drives you nuts. FreeBSD isn't designed to work that way and you'll be fighting it for no good reason whatsoever. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?
On December 17, 2008, kosuke.okis...@toshiba.co.jp wrote: Is Free BSD 6.3-release subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulation ? If the FreeBSD 6.3-release includes encryption software, it may be subject to the EAR. Following is extract part of the EAR. Part 734.3 : Items subject to the EAR (b) The following items are not subject to the EAR: ・ ・ (3) Publicly available technology and software, except software controlled for EI reasons under ECCN 5D002 on the Commerce Control List and mass market encryption software with symmetric key length exceeding 64-bits controlled under ECCN 5D992, that: I am not a lawyer, but I would stipulate that FreeBSD falls into the publicly available category and would therefore be exempt. -- Norbert Papke. Grand Master Turing once dreamed that he was a machine. When he awoke he exclaimed: I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machine, or a machine dreaming that I am Turing! (The Tao Of Programming) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
jerry Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). I just tried swapoff -a ; swapon -a and it worked great. under completely normal operation when programs fit in real memory swapping CAN occur because of file caching. while programs have priority over file cache in memory, long-unused parts of system can be swapped out. i don't know what's nagios, but configure it to warn you not because there are swap used, but if there is more than a little swapping activity. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
but it's still played around with 3MB of swap. This is not hurting anything, and absolutely is *not* an indication that anything is wrong or sub-optimal. Seriously, get over your obsession with keeping swap utterly empty before it drives you nuts. FreeBSD isn't designed to work that way and you'll be fighting it for no good reason whatsoever. -- or simply turn off swap and set up per-user limits. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like: smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and don't particularly care. I'd like to know if the drive's about to roll over and die, but I really don't need to know about the same 4 offline uncorrectable errors. Is there a way to clear that message while leaving SMART enabled on the drive? I didn't see anything specifically answering it in smartctl(8) but wondered if I missed something. maybe some time there was an error while writing something, or maybe media failed in that place. by rewriting whole drive you should be able to remove them ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Backing Up ZFS
prohibitive) you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. Quite wrong. If you want to use the zfs send | zfs receive along with zfs quite right. i was NOT answering to zfs send/receive case! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)
AMD64/7.1RC1 I couldn't find documentation as to what the boot only CDs are. So I tried it. Now I know. They boot, start setup, and then must get the setup source from the network (or perhaps swap CDs). My machine's onboard ethernet controller is apparently not supported,or not quite working. It was working fine from Linux.It is a Sun machine with onboard nVidia ethernet. well nvidia ethernet chips are well... specific. some works SOMEHOW, some not at all. mine works about 1 minute after starting, then it stops ;) (nve driver) So I connected a USB to ethernet adapter.It works.But I had to reboot the computer.It would a little nice if setup would re-probe devices. exit just setup and get back. kernel do autoattach, just setup scans devices once. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: by rewriting whole drive you should be able to remove them I tried running dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8 bs=1m a while back but I'm still getting them. At this point, I imagine that I really do have bad sectors. I'm fine with that. I just don't want to hear about them any more. :-) -- Kirk Strauser PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Crunchgen Init
Hi, I've been attempting to build a very minimal FreeBSD memdisk image to boot to and I've been having some difficulties with a few things, particularly it seems that when I attempt to use a custom made crunchgen binary (Based off of the rescue config) init crashes with signal 6 and an exit code of 0, and the system informs me it will reboot after 15 seconds. No other errors appear on the screen at the time. Does anyone know why init would do this? Signal 6 appears to be a SIGABRT. Thank you, Bryce Simonds ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Netstat command output
Hello - Warning - I am new to FreeBSD. I am not sure this is the correct forum for this post - forgive me if it is not and please direct me to the correct area. I have installed FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server with (2) NICs. I have also installed Dummynet and NetSNMP as my ultimate goal is to use this as a WAN emulator. I was doing some initial testing where the FreeBSD box acts as a router between two subnets where an ftp client is on one subnet and an ftp server is on the other. I kick off an ftp get of a 9 MB file and at the same time initiate a netstat -w1 -Ibge0 command on the FreeBSD. The outputput of the command indicates a relatively small number of input errors (10 per interval). The same command on the bge1 interface is all zeros. This is repeatable every time I perform the ftp get. I performed the same test without the FreeBSD box by having the client and server connected to the same subnet through the same switch ports and no errors according to the trace analysis - no retransmissions, etc shown in the trace. My questions are related to the meaning and interpretation of the output of the netstat command and how to resolve the errors. 1) What is the meaning of input errors? Is it bad CRC at layer 2? What would be meant by output errors in the command? The interface cannot see the packets after they have been transmitted. I would like a technical explanation of the output of this netstat command. 2) How to alleviate the errors? Is this a buffer issue? How to determine the NIC type? Any feedback would be most appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Netstat-command-output-tp21094731p21094731.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
On 12/19/08 10:37 AM, FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). if a swap space is available and swapping not turned off, it seems reasonable to expect the OS to use it as it sees fit. rather than trying to tinker with the kernel's swapping policy on the fly every time you get a warning, perhaps think about either telling nagios not to worry about it or don't use swapping. i'd go with the former. but you say you want to ensure that swap doesn't get used -- so maybe get rid of the swap slice? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
On 12/19/08 11:46 AM, Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: I just don't want to hear about them any more. :-) reconfigure smartd? i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value even on disks with important data. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:10 AM, James Tanis wrote: To answer your question, I don't believe smartd is sophisticated enough to filter out specific errors. It's meant to warn you at the first sign of drive failure so you will have time to replace the drive. It doesn't exactly provide a meter of how imminent drive failure is. If your going to start ignoring it's advice it isn't going to be very useful to you at all. I beg to differ. smartctl -H /dev/ad8 says that it passes its self- assessment and doesn't expect the drive to flat-out die any day soon. I'd still like to know if the error count increased, or if it started to detect imminent failure. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
Hi, i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value even on disks with important data. It is if taken seriously. A smartd error was once ignored, the rest (including data) is history. Thank you for FreeBSD! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.fairtrade.net.pl www.slowo.pl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Linking libraries for compat_linux
I've bumped into a library I can't resolve and I must have a disconnect in how the linux_compat works because I can't see how it could be solved. I have the following: * compat_linux enabled in the kernel, * /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base_fc7 * sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand=3 * rpm2cpio to alter rpms * cpio to create the directories and place the files where they belong in /compat/linux. I have a program that now has all it's libraries resolved but one in preparation to attempt to run the Linux Quickbooks install on FreeBSD. The ldd output, prior to installing /usr/ports/devel/fam (a required shared library) looks like this. ldd ./opt/qbes7/util/qbmonitord ./opt/qbes7/util/qbmonitord: libfam.so.0 = not found libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x28072000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x28088000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x28171000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x28198000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x281a4000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x28054000) I install fam to get rid of the not found, perform the following link: ln /usr/local/lib/libfam.so.0 /compat/linux/lib/libfam.so.0 and then I get this: ldd ./opt/qbes7/util/qbmonitord ./opt/qbes7/util/qbmonitord: ./opt/qbes7/util/qbmonitord: error while loading shared libraries: / lib/libfam.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid ./opt/qbes7/util/qbmonitord: exit status 127 which kind of makes sense since this library is not a linux library. I'd read that I don't need to brandelf -t linux a library but I tried that anyway, realizing it was likely meaningless (or harmful). It didn't help of course. My next thought was to try and get a libfam.so.0 binary from a linux distro but stopped when it occurred to me that it would be illogical since fam uses kqueue on FreeBSD rather than something called imon. imon is not available for FreeBSD so a linux version shouldn't be able to function if it expects that. On FreeBSD, fam configures itself to not use imon. What is the appropriate course of action to get a linux flavor shared library for fam (or anything which runs into such conflicts) that will work on FreeBSD yet be recognized as suitable for linux under the compat mode? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
Tom Worster a écrit : On 12/19/08 10:37 AM, FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). if a swap space is available and swapping not turned off, it seems reasonable to expect the OS to use it as it sees fit. rather than trying to tinker with the kernel's swapping policy on the fly every time you get a warning, perhaps think about either telling nagios not to worry about it or don't use swapping. i'd go with the former. but you say you want to ensure that swap doesn't get used -- so maybe get rid of the swap slice? This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is getting used it shows that something is going wrong. This warning already proved usefull once, so I don't think I'm going to change it. I don't want to mess with the kernel actions, but there was no reason to keep this in swap. I understand that the kernel can't know that, that's why I wanted to know the way to reset the swap. There is always a lot of free or inactive RAM and, in normal condition, the swap should not be used. It's been like that for months, so I think it's a good idea to be notified if the swap is used. Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Netstat command output
Karrj wrote: Hello - Warning - I am new to FreeBSD. I am not sure this is the correct forum for this post - forgive me if it is not and please direct me to the correct area. I have installed FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server with (2) NICs. I have also installed Dummynet and NetSNMP as my ultimate goal is to use this as a WAN emulator. I was doing some initial testing where the FreeBSD box acts as a router between two subnets where an ftp client is on one subnet and an ftp server is on the other. I kick off an ftp get of a 9 MB file and at the same time initiate a netstat -w1 -Ibge0 command on the FreeBSD. The outputput of the command indicates a relatively small number of input errors (10 per interval). The same command on the bge1 interface is all zeros. This is repeatable every time I perform the ftp get. I performed the same test without the FreeBSD box by having the client and server connected to the same subnet through the same switch ports and no errors according to the trace analysis - no retransmissions, etc shown in the trace. My questions are related to the meaning and interpretation of the output of the netstat command and how to resolve the errors. 1) What is the meaning of input errors? Is it bad CRC at layer 2? What would be meant by output errors in the command? The interface cannot see the packets after they have been transmitted. I would like a technical explanation of the output of this netstat command. 2) How to alleviate the errors? Is this a buffer issue? How to determine the NIC type? Any feedback would be most appreciated. Hmm... well, to determine the NIC type, look at the interface name. In FreeBSD, the i/f device depends on the chipset of the NIC. There are manual pages for all of the available types: bge(4) in your case. If you need more detail, look at the boot-time dmesg output -- ie /var/run/dmesg.boot -- or you can extract PCI ID numbers etc. using 'pciconf -lv'. If you're only seeing errors on the input side on bge0, that sounds like a duplex mismatch to me. What's the output of 'ifconfig bge0'? If it claims the connection is running at 100Mb/s half duplex then you've almost certainly got a mismatch between switch and server -- one is trying to autoneg, and the other is wired to a fixed speed. Either set them both to autoneg, or wire them both down. (100Mb half duplex is the default setting a NIC will use when it fails to negotiate correctly with a switch.) Same sort of effect /can/ be caused by a dodgy patch lead, but I assume that's one of the first things you'ld have swapped out in trying to debug this. To tell exactly what the errors are you're going to need some more sophisticated analysis tools than netstat(1). tcpdump(1) and/or wireshark (from ports) are probably your best bet. If you don't want to put an X environment on your FreeBSD box, then use 'tcpdump -i bge0 -s 0 -w /some/filename' to capture the packet flows, then copy the file to another machine where you have wireshark running. Note that some modern NICs with hardware checksum offloading can give false checksum errors on locally generated traffic -- essentially tcpdump grabs a copy of the outgoing packet before the NIC can calculate the checksum and insert it. This will only affect programs like tcpdump(1). It won't cause the error counters netstat(1) reports to be incremented. If you do see this sort of thing, then you just need another machine you can do packet capture on to prove to yourself that the checksums are correct over the wire. 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: Backing Up ZFS
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: prohibitive) you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. Quite wrong. If you want to use the zfs send | zfs receive along with zfs quite right. i was NOT answering to zfs send/receive case! that's the purpose of quite. didn't know for sure what you were referring to. a great day, v ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca wrote: Everyone: We just got word that Neustar, which bought DNS service provider Nominum a few years ago, is shutting down Nominum's secondary.com service. The service used to provide secondary DNS for users' zones at no charge. I and the other secondary.com users I know think it's reasonable for the company to charge a small but reasonable fee for the service instead of keeping it running for free. But alas, Neustar is getting greedy. The only alternative they offer is a $50-a-month managed DNS service, which we don't want or need. (We're fine maintaining our own master servers and zones; we just need a slave to use as a secondary.) So, we're looking for alternatives. Does anyone on this list know of a good, BSD-based service which offers reasonably priced secondary DNS? Or reasonably priced servers at a server farm, where I and others can set up a secondary DNS server? There was a thread on this just the other day here. Not sure if they are BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser secondary service for practically nothing. I'm %99 sure that dyndns.org is FBSD based. I've been using them for a while now and am quite happy with them too. if you check out their jobs board there are openings for FreeBSD engineers: http://dynamicnetworkservices.com/jobs-hiring -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Netstat command output
Thanks for the response. I will heed your suggestions. -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:08 PM To: Karr,JE,John,JGU8 R Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netstat command output Karrj wrote: Hello - Warning - I am new to FreeBSD. I am not sure this is the correct forum for this post - forgive me if it is not and please direct me to the correct area. I have installed FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server with (2) NICs. I have also installed Dummynet and NetSNMP as my ultimate goal is to use this as a WAN emulator. I was doing some initial testing where the FreeBSD box acts as a router between two subnets where an ftp client is on one subnet and an ftp server is on the other. I kick off an ftp get of a 9 MB file and at the same time initiate a netstat -w1 -Ibge0 command on the FreeBSD. The outputput of the command indicates a relatively small number of input errors (10 per interval). The same command on the bge1 interface is all zeros. This is repeatable every time I perform the ftp get. I performed the same test without the FreeBSD box by having the client and server connected to the same subnet through the same switch ports and no errors according to the trace analysis - no retransmissions, etc shown in the trace. My questions are related to the meaning and interpretation of the output of the netstat command and how to resolve the errors. 1) What is the meaning of input errors? Is it bad CRC at layer 2? What would be meant by output errors in the command? The interface cannot see the packets after they have been transmitted. I would like a technical explanation of the output of this netstat command. 2) How to alleviate the errors? Is this a buffer issue? How to determine the NIC type? Any feedback would be most appreciated. Hmm... well, to determine the NIC type, look at the interface name. In FreeBSD, the i/f device depends on the chipset of the NIC. There are manual pages for all of the available types: bge(4) in your case. If you need more detail, look at the boot-time dmesg output -- ie /var/run/dmesg.boot -- or you can extract PCI ID numbers etc. using 'pciconf -lv'. If you're only seeing errors on the input side on bge0, that sounds like a duplex mismatch to me. What's the output of 'ifconfig bge0'? If it claims the connection is running at 100Mb/s half duplex then you've almost certainly got a mismatch between switch and server -- one is trying to autoneg, and the other is wired to a fixed speed. Either set them both to autoneg, or wire them both down. (100Mb half duplex is the default setting a NIC will use when it fails to negotiate correctly with a switch.) Same sort of effect /can/ be caused by a dodgy patch lead, but I assume that's one of the first things you'ld have swapped out in trying to debug this. To tell exactly what the errors are you're going to need some more sophisticated analysis tools than netstat(1). tcpdump(1) and/or wireshark (from ports) are probably your best bet. If you don't want to put an X environment on your FreeBSD box, then use 'tcpdump -i bge0 -s 0 -w /some/filename' to capture the packet flows, then copy the file to another machine where you have wireshark running. Note that some modern NICs with hardware checksum offloading can give false checksum errors on locally generated traffic -- essentially tcpdump grabs a copy of the outgoing packet before the NIC can calculate the checksum and insert it. This will only affect programs like tcpdump(1). It won't cause the error counters netstat(1) reports to be incremented. If you do see this sort of thing, then you just need another machine you can do packet capture on to prove to yourself that the checksums are correct over the wire. 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Snow in my Server
Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:15:33 -0800 pete wright nomadlo...@gmail.com wrote: [...] There was a thread on this just the other day here. Not sure if they are BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser secondary service for practically nothing. I'm %99 sure that dyndns.org is FBSD based. I've been using them for a while now and am quite happy with them too. if you check out their jobs board there are openings for FreeBSD engineers: DynDNS is FreeBSD based, ZoneEdit is not: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?position=limitedhost=dyndns.com http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dyndns.com http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?position=limitedhost=zoneedit.com http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=zoneedit.com - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAklL72wACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZiqnAP/SFi5UwDec1/EZ1u4BGVAthyF E33tebKZ9nkngU0GWtbWeSFCc21hG+MRySE9sY+h+8yEVjuxganeEnqJZH8QLRfF NTkEJ1bZijK2bbaxU/E6wi/N7M0KtF8FWSzWGyOAvf7SJvY5xFfbahQLc1iLjUNO HRnbtUrRPoIxWYp/izU= =9VkX -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:04:26 -0500 FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is getting used it shows that something is going wrong. This warning already proved usefull once, so I don't think I'm going to change it. I don't want to mess with the kernel actions, but there was no reason to keep this in swap. It's the other way around, if a page is written-out to swap and then read back into ram, there's no point in ditching the on-disk copy as long as it's still valid. If the kernel runs short of memory again, it can reuse such pages instantaneously. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
ask santa for a shovel ?? :) On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1857 - Release Date: 2008-12-19 10:09 Locate roof in ports and build roof! /R ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question
On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:04 PM, FreeBSD wrote: This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is getting used it shows that something is going wrong. No it doesn't. Get that wrong idea out of your head. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space
sounds like we should come up with a replicable secondary zones system based on bind and setup a few locations for redundency we could create a global redundent BSDDNSSEC.com if we pitched in and created something to replicate data between a few hosts value added BSD services, ill have a minimal system functional by morning, i was looking at a few options for doing this. suggestions ? On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Chris Cowart ccow...@rescomp.berkeley.eduwrote: [dropping -questions as a Cc] Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:55AM +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: i have space on a freebsd system in the states, i could do secondary for anybody, and we could create a new service, with a web based management facility its plainly a dns backup for us and a backup secondary failover web site for extremely low traffic, if you guys want to picth in, we can bring something together Count me in. i'll do whatever i can with my servers. I'm running an authoritative nameserver and a webserver out of a datacenter in Fremont, CA, US for personal use. I'd be interested in getting in on this too. -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
Roger Olofsson wrote: Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Locate roof in ports and build roof! Better yet, do what they do just west of me in Toronto... call in the Army ;) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space
[dropping -questions as a Cc] Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:55AM +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: i have space on a freebsd system in the states, i could do secondary for anybody, and we could create a new service, with a web based management facility its plainly a dns backup for us and a backup secondary failover web site for extremely low traffic, if you guys want to picth in, we can bring something together Count me in. i'll do whatever i can with my servers. I'm running an authoritative nameserver and a webserver out of a datacenter in Fremont, CA, US for personal use. I'd be interested in getting in on this too. -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley pgpAI1cWnkXub.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Snow in my Server
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:15 -0800, Casey Scott wrote: Obviously downgrade to 6.0 on snow affected servers. Or rebuild all of your ports and melt the snow away. ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
On 12/19/08 12:38 PM, Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: I beg to differ. smartctl -H /dev/ad8 says that it passes its self- assessment and doesn't expect the drive to flat-out die any day soon. I'd still like to know if the error count increased, or if it started to detect imminent failure. there are plenty of hdd failure modes that smart can't predict. google's monitoring of over 100,000 hdds over 9 months showed more than a third of failures had no warning from smart. http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/ so if my data matters, i need a robust hdd failure-tolerant system anyway, i.e. raid (even if it's just gmirror, which i use for non-critical servers) plus data snapshots to a remote site. now, with that in place, what do i do with a smart warning? given that smart algorithms are also prone to false positives, is there any benefit in replacing the hdd now rather than waiting for it to fail and replacing it then? not a great deal in my view. but perhaps my raid array can't tolerate more than one hdd failure. i'd be exposed to a second disk failure during the time to repair. if hdd failures are independent (which i guess might not always be true) this isn't a big concern. less of a concern than, for example, the chance of raid controller failure, which i've seen happen. one time when that happened, the controller corrupted all the disks in the array and when it was replaced rebuild was impossible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Suitability question
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:07:23PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? In this case, I would recommend to use PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ PC-BSD is full FreeBSD 7.1, with nice grapical installer, pre-configured for desktop use. Xorg, KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, flash, etc. -- all will work out of the box... After installing PC-BSD, you can think of it as a standard FreeBSD -- Upgrade ports, build kernel, etc. I think PC-BSD is a great recommendation for someone who wants an easy introduction to FreeBSD on his/her own, but if you want to provide a locked down system for someone else and that person isn't expected to learn how to use FreeBSD (i.e., that person doesn't really know how to use MS Windows, and just clicks on the blue E for Internet access), you're better off using FreeBSD itself. PC-BSD installs a whole lot of stuff that it assumes everybody wants, whereas with FreeBSD you can pretty much install nothing but the base system then add exactly the software you want to be present. Thus, you can much more easily get the system to the point where everything you want is installed, and *only* what you want, and configure it all to precise specifications, with a minimum of effort -- using FreeBSD itself. With PC-BSD, on the other hand, you won't even know what all is installed, and will have to spend a lot of time crawling through the system figuring out what to uninstall. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Edmund Burke: Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. pgpjyFrhAF7CB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Snow in my Server
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary Just mv teh snowflakes to /dev/null ^_- -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
failures had no warning from smart. http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/ which means that in 2 cases of 3 you ARE warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:10:51PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary Locate roof in ports and build roof! /R Build a bike shed over the server? :) Josh -- Josh Tolbert h...@puresimplicity.net || http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
Build a bike shed over the server? :) make sure its green... -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerprint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?
On 12/19/08 2:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: which means that in 2 cases of 3 you ARE warned. yes. but what do i do with a smart warning? the google paper indicates that even they haven't figured it out yet, although they express some hope. Despite those strong correlations, we Þnd that failure prediction models based on SMART parameters alone are likely to be severely limited in their prediction accuracy, given that a large fraction of our failed drives have shown no SMART error signals whatsoever. This result suggests that SMART models are more useful in predicting trends for large aggregate populations than for individual components. in managing my servers, it's the failure of individual components that count. considering also 1) false positives and 2) replacement comes with a finite chance of causing service outage, it's not clear to me that replacing a disk on the basis of a smart warning is prudent. i'm not proposing any firm conclusions should be drawn. i started this by saying i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:55:28PM +0900, kosuke.okis...@toshiba.co.jp wrote: Is Free BSD 6.3-release subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulation ? If the FreeBSD 6.3-release includes encryption software, it may be subject to the EAR. Following is extract part of the EAR. Part 734.3 : Items subject to the EAR (b) The following items are not subject to the EAR: ?$B! ?$B! (3) Publicly available technology and software, except software controlled for EI reasons under ECCN 5D002 on the Commerce Control List and mass market encryption software with symmetric key length exceeding 64-bits controlled under ECCN 5D992, that: I am not a lawyer, but I'd strongly advise that you check with one if you have any doubts. Maybe the FreeBSD Foundation can help providing contact to a lawyer which is familiar with FreeBSD and US export regulations? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ Best regards, K.Okisaka Exprt Control Department, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation Kind regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot
Hi, My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The kernel has the following USB modules: # USB core support device usb2_core # # USB controller support device usb2_controller device usb2_controller_ehci device usb2_controller_ohci device usb2_controller_uhci # # USB mass storage support device usb2_storage device usb2_storage_mass # # USB input device support device usb2_input device usb2_input_hid device usb2_input_kbd device usb2_input_ms but it also has: # URL:#USB support some SCSI/USB support needed for system-on-schtick # nodevice uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface nodevice ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface nodevice ehci# EHCI PCI-USB interface (USB 2.0) nodevice usb # USB Bus (required) # # URL:#SCSI peripherals some SCSI/USB support needed for system-on-schtick nodevice udbp # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices nodevice ugen # Generic nodevice umass# usb-disks, readers nodevice uhid # Human Interface Devices nodevice ukbd # Keyboard nodevice ulpt # Printer nodevice ums # Mouse nodevice ural # Ralink Technology RT2500USB wireless NICs nodevice rum # Ralink Technology RT2501USB wireless NICs nodevice zyd # ZyDAS zb1211/zb1211b wireless NICs nodevice urio # Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player nodevice uscanner # Scanners When booting, the bootcode wants me to manually type in the root device to mount from and suggests the default in etc/fstab, but when I type ufs:/dev/da0s1a, it won't sing. When I type ?, the USB-stick is _not_ among the devices managed by GEOM. Re. GEOM, I only have: nooptions GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization in the kernel config. I want it to boot, what should I do? -c ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:59:56 -0500, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. Didn't you install the NOSNOW.SYS driver properly? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On December 19, 2008 01:59:56 pm Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, I am fron Northwestern Ontario, and we received approximately 50 cm of snow, my best advice would be to store your servers away from all elements of nature, preferably in a climate controlled room :) - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabtho...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklMEvAACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qBk5gCeMtBkkVO3UdLdHT8bitdCrhDI P9MAn3tCWddDXdTz3vNSLvjkhf/qA2fp =oDjD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Copying system/ports configuration?
Bernard Dugas wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271828 at yahoo.com wrote: I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier to do this from scratch I just found last week ports-mngnt/portmaster that can help you to do that, and i have suggested portmaster author to add an -export option readable to built new ports on another computer. May be an -export-packages option would be nice also ? The process described in the portmaster man page is not quite as simple as you seem to be asking for, but it is designed to be thorough, and to work with a wide variety of configurations. It has also been tested extensively. hope this helps, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. You probably can't use a standard 7-release. You have to build a custom kernel with LATITUDE set. It causes igloo to get built and installed for environments above 46, should work in both hemispheres. We don't use igloo but do turn on the snow-fence option for ipfw. Keeps most of that kind of unwanted traffic out. BTW, make sure any remote reboots / changes are well tested if you're running igloo. Sometimes the whole thing gets buried and it's days before you can get physical access to do any updates / maintenance. Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Why no dvd isos?
Why is freebsd still only available on cdrom images? Particularly with the way the packages make wear your arm out swapping them back and forth, it would be really nice to have the entire distribution in one image. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Vetting motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:15:33AM -0800, ThinkDifferently wrote: I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard that supports the AM2+ socket, Phenom Quad-Core processor, 4 DDR2 RAM slots (800 MHz is fine), 6 SATA ports with RAID, and Gigabit LAN. Onboard VGA would be nice. It needs to work well with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, using a 2-disk SATA RAID1. I'm currently looking at the Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H. Has anyone successfully operated 7.0 on this board? Any booting issues? Did you need to modify the ISO to get it to boot (if so how)? Did RAID work? Did it require a special driver to be loaded (if so how)? Do any other motherboards fit the bill, given the specifications I give above? I recently got a black eye -( with the MSI K9N2G Neo-FD, using the GeForce 8200 (MCP78) chipset. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and CentOS 5.2 wouldn't even boot on it, no matter what the BIOS config was. Also, Vista wouldn't even recognize the SATA disks, even if the SATA ports were in IDE, RAID or AHCI modes (it requires a driver, even if you aren't doing RAID). -- I haven't used that MB but I am using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (core2) so I'll offer some general advice since no one else seems to want to! ;) I've had good luck with anything by Asus and Gigabyte. I tend to avoid boards with bleeding edge hardware/features as these will not have received so much testing (and may not even be supported) on FreeBSD. This in practice means get a board that's been on sale for a bit. None of my machines are configured for RAID but as a general point, most on this list use software RAID in the form of geom/geli/gmirror etc. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom.html The consensus seems to be that it's just as good as hardware raid performance-wise. There was a thread on this list about it a few months ago. I'd use FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 if I was building a FreeBSD machine today for production purposes as it will be more uptodate with respect drivers for newer hardware and most bugs will have been shaken out this close to release. My compatibilty check for hardware usually consists of going to Google and punching in FreeBSD and the name of the hardware. This usually brings up hits which indicate the level of support. HTH. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
Gary Hartl пишет: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Please, send some snow to Russia as we have none :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Snow in my Server
Michael Lednev wrote: Gary Hartl пишет: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Please, send some snow to Russia as we have none :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I used to live in Southern Ontario. I saw the folly of my ways about 25 years ago and 3 FreeBSD servers live in Hawaii along with me. Happy Holidays... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why no dvd isos?
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:22:54 -0800, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Why is freebsd still only available on cdrom images? There are DVD versions available eg ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz ---Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
nessus report
hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich uh, maybe because it responded? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich uh, maybe because it responded? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Best Regards Richard Yang richardy...@richardyang.net kusanagiy...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so after discovering any open ports, TCP RST responses from closed ports or ICMP responses from your host. I believe it's similar with the nessuss. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
general question about setting up gateway
hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich uh, maybe because it responded? Check your firewall settings and run tcpdump to be sure your host not sending any replies after scan attempt. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
i just used tcpdump.it doesn't capture anything package On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich uh, maybe because it responded? Check your firewall settings and run tcpdump to be sure your host not sending any replies after scan attempt. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\ -- Best Regards Richard Yang richardy...@richardyang.net kusanagiy...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no port is open? On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so after discovering any open ports, TCP RST responses from closed ports or ICMP responses from your host. I believe it's similar with the nessuss. -- Best regards, Jeff () X-mas ribbon campaign /\ -- Best Regards Richard Yang richardy...@richardyang.net kusanagiy...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why no dvd isos?
m...@sentex.net wrote: There are DVD versions available ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz That's the only version that seems to, but thanks! It looks like they're coming... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: nessus report
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:57:09PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no port is open? ICMP doesn't require any open ports. -- Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz -- Opportunities are seldom labeled ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nessus report
i ran a tcpdump.bsd box is responding to arp. i guess this is fundamental, and should not be disabled thanx guys rich On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Richard Yang kusanagiy...@gmail.comwrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect the remote host is up. i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich -- Best Regards Richard Yang richardy...@richardyang.net kusanagiy...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: general question about setting up gateway
Richard Yang wrote: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The Freebsd Install guide www.a1poweruser.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
