Re: Power Off with ATX board wont work...
As the Server is back online I checked the configuration and saw that the shutdown script, witch is triggered from a html page did use halt, but changing this to shutdown -p now did not help. apm is enabled. Does anyone have any other ideas how to resolve this, or is it definitely a hardware problem? thanks, Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power Off with ATX board wont work...
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Christian Tischler wrote: As the Server is back online I checked the configuration and saw that the shutdown script, witch is triggered from a html page did use halt, but changing this to shutdown -p now did not help. apm is enabled. apm is enabled where? In your kernel config *and* in /etc/rc.conf? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes it is enabled in both. Christian Tischler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Power Off with ATX board wont work...
Sorry I did not reply to your questions, but the server is in an remote location, and currently down due to hollidays. thx for your help Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Power Off with ATX board wont work...
Hi, my FreeBSD 4.9 box (old, but rock solid, and as there are no security concerns I do not intend to update it) has to be shut down every night to reduce energy costs. But after shutdown is complete I get the hit any button to reboot or so screen, but the atx power supply does not turn off. This is rather anoying. I have compiled in all the relevant stuff into the kernel but somehow I have missed something and google was not very helpfull, too. My question would be what I could have missed, and if this could be a hardeware problem? It is an old 1.xGhz amd box, so nothing fancy here. thanks in advance Christian Tischler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to test if online?
Hi all, I am using a FreeBSD box as an DSL router. Sometimes the inet connection does down and ppp is unable to reconnect. I want to detect via a cron script if I am online and if not reinitilize the connection. The script works ok when run manually, but when executed from cron it sometimes reinitializes the connection even when it is not neccessary. Now my question would be how I could improve the script, or if there is a better way. As you can see from the script I am not really a programmer, but I tried what I could. #!/bin/sh if !(/sbin/ping -c 1 freebsd.org) then /usr/bin/killall ppp /bin/sleep 1 /sbin/ifconfig xl1 down /sbin/ifconfig xl1 up /bin/sleep 1 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat tdsl fi - thanks in advance Christian Tischler ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.x forgetting passwords.
Bill Moran wrote: Christian Tischler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I am running a FreeBSD 5.1 system and some time ago it startet to forget some user passwords. As the system is now running for over 2 years I cannot imagine any reason why this shound be. Any ideas. root# su user user$ passwd newpasswd newpasswd user$ exit Thanks in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And how do I do it from remote via ssh? you$ sudo su user or, if you in group wheel, perhaps possible following you$ su user if you are not sudoer and you have not other way to take a root privilegies, you can't be other user. And this is right. In other case anybody can be anybody. thx Christian PS: that was not quite an answer to my question I think, was it? Sorry for the confusion. But the problem is that the server forgets the password of the user (in wheel) I want to log in with from remote. The question was not how to become root or any other user to change the password. The question was why the box forgets the passwords in the first place, and how to stop this. You may have to give more information. I have never seen a system forget a password unless someone or something intervened and specifically changed them.Or, is it possible that you put an expiration on the passwords?By default, I believe FreeBSD sets that at infinite, but you or someone might have changed that while tinkering around. jerry thx for the answer. I gave you all the info there is. The system is now running since the release of 5.1 (2 years?) and this password forgetting thing startet about one month or so ago. I am quite sure that I did not tinker around with the config. But I will take a look at the expiration time just to check. If you're _sure_ that nobody authorized has changed the password, then there are two very scare things possible: 1) Someone has cracked your system and is trying to keep you out by changing your password. 2) Your disk is failing and has corrupted your password file. Considering how old 5.1 is, and how many security issues have been discovered since 5.1, I would place a high probability on #1. No guarantees, though. But I would definately consider and investigate those two possibilities if I were you. 1) that is what I thought first, too. But the root password and the password for another account never changed. 2) this consideration also came to me. that is the reason why the system is going to be upgraded to raid 5 and a new 5.x. But as my time is very limited I first tried to fix that problem to keep the machine up and running until I have more time. The fact that 5.1 is old does not matter so much in terms of security, as only ssh and some high ports for a crypted vpn are open to the net, and the box is behind a firewall/nat/router thing. thx for your reply christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.x forgetting passwords.
Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I am running a FreeBSD 5.1 system and some time ago it startet to forget some user passwords. As the system is now running for over 2 years I cannot imagine any reason why this shound be. Any ideas. root# su user user$ passwd newpasswd newpasswd user$ exit Thanks in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And how do I do it from remote via ssh? you$ sudo su user or, if you in group wheel, perhaps possible following you$ su user if you are not sudoer and you have not other way to take a root privilegies, you can't be other user. And this is right. In other case anybody can be anybody. thx Christian PS: that was not quite an answer to my question I think, was it? Sorry for the confusion. But the problem is that the server forgets the password of the user (in wheel) I want to log in with from remote. The question was not how to become root or any other user to change the password. The question was why the box forgets the passwords in the first place, and how to stop this. thx Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.x forgetting passwords.
Jerry McAllister wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I am running a FreeBSD 5.1 system and some time ago it startet to forget some user passwords. As the system is now running for over 2 years I cannot imagine any reason why this shound be. Any ideas. root# su user user$ passwd newpasswd newpasswd user$ exit Thanks in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And how do I do it from remote via ssh? you$ sudo su user or, if you in group wheel, perhaps possible following you$ su user if you are not sudoer and you have not other way to take a root privilegies, you can't be other user. And this is right. In other case anybody can be anybody. thx Christian PS: that was not quite an answer to my question I think, was it? Sorry for the confusion. But the problem is that the server forgets the password of the user (in wheel) I want to log in with from remote. The question was not how to become root or any other user to change the password. The question was why the box forgets the passwords in the first place, and how to stop this. You may have to give more information. I have never seen a system forget a password unless someone or something intervened and specifically changed them.Or, is it possible that you put an expiration on the passwords?By default, I believe FreeBSD sets that at infinite, but you or someone might have changed that while tinkering around. jerry thx for the answer. I gave you all the info there is. The system is now running since the release of 5.1 (2 years?) and this password forgetting thing startet about one month or so ago. I am quite sure that I did not tinker around with the config. But I will take a look at the expiration time just to check. Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.x forgetting passwords.
Hi, I am running a FreeBSD 5.1 system and some time ago it startet to forget some user passwords. As the system is now running for over 2 years I cannot imagine any reason why this shound be. Any ideas. Thanks in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
As I follow this discussion an idea/question forms in my head. The server side should be managed by BSD, but the client side is most surely an heterogeneous group. So a solution to somehow emulate/simulate an exchange server on an box (or cluster of sql horde what ever servers), and import this e.g. calendar data into a BSD solution. As I understand the so far mentioned products, these are quite capable of doing so. Then there would be an easy solution to different likes in clients. As I am not at all a skilled programmer I can not appraise the work that would be needed to establish such a thing. Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Christian Tischler writes: The server side should be managed by BSD, but the client side is most surely an heterogeneous group. The server side of what? It all depends on the complete architecture of your IT infrastructure. For some situations, sendmail and qpopper are all you'll ever need. For other situations, you'll end up buying racks of servers running Exchange. However, from what you've said thus far, it doesn't sound like Exchange would be the right choice. So a solution to somehow emulate/simulate an exchange server on an box (or cluster of sql horde what ever servers), and import this e.g. calendar data into a BSD solution. As I understand the so far mentioned products, these are quite capable of doing so. Then there would be an easy solution to different likes in clients. Do they really need a calendar function? Remember, once you start building this sort of stuff, it rapidly gets more and more complicated. You might end up at some point realizing that it would have all been easier with Exchange. If you _must_ have functionality equivalent to Exchange, then run Exchange. But if you don't need that functionality, run something simpler. For what it's worth, even fancy Outlook clients can access standard SMTP/POP servers. You can build a backend using only simple software, and then consider something more complex only if and when users absolutely demand it. If you are forced into implementing a very complex solution, consider going to Exchange rather than trying to cobble something together, or you might spend the next ten years trying to get it all to work. Just to point out what I need, and then you probably will understand why I started this in the first place. I need to synchronize peoples (in the beginning only a few) calenders. As they all use Outlook I wanted to keep things easy on them. As I really fancy FreeBSD, I started to look for a way to combine both worlds... Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at the, more or less, open solutions. I never intended to use the MS exchange as my primary mail server. But its functionality for syncinig calenders, documents and so on, seemed to a nice simple way of dealing with my situation here. I have to admit, that I never used a windows server, and thought it should be fairly easy. Now by looking at your submissions, and the docs, which tend to give me headaches, I realize that an Free BSD solution must be found to get the job done. thx again for all your advice Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Christian Tischler writes: Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at the, more or less, open solutions. I never intended to use the MS exchange as my primary mail server. But its functionality for syncinig calenders, documents and so on, seemed to a nice simple way of dealing with my situation here. I have to admit, that I never used a windows server, and thought it should be fairly easy. Now by looking at your submissions, and the docs, which tend to give me headaches, I realize that an Free BSD solution must be found to get the job done. If you are running a large organization and you need the type of functionality Exchange provides, Exchange is still likely to be the best choice. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for. Conversely, though, if you aren't going to use all the advanced features it provides, you're throwing money out the window if you buy it. The complexity also implies lots and lots of high-performance hardware and a substantial load on sysadmins, too (actually, if you have Exchange, you should have one or more dedicated mail administrators--the workload tends to be too much for sysadmins, once you are using all the product's features). Note that Exchange is strongly contraindicated in networked environments with low-speed connections between nodes (anything less than 1 Mbps these days, I'd say). Even client connections need to be really fast if the clients are using the full feature set. Actually the number of users will be quite small, and bandwidth is not an consideration. The first set up will not occur in an productive environment. Currently we are trying to find a solution that will fit our future demands. I am very grateful for every bit of information I can get my hands on. Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HDD idle shutdown.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:22:29PM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-18 11:24 +0100] On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:21:17AM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote: I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it is needed again? I am using FreeBSD 5.x. /usr/ports/sysutils/ataidle Note that, while this indeed will spin down your hdd, the system will most likely spin it up again after a short period of time, unless you modify some settings. Especially the cron system may cause your hdd to spin up every once in a while. Yes, that's true. Watch out for activity in /var/log etc. I'm using ataidle on diskless workstations with attached hdd (now if that's not an oxymoron!). Most activities happen on the NFS mounted system partitions, and the hdd is only there for backup purposes and for file systems that are not always in use (like /home and so). Running ataidle on such workstations proves to be very effective. Svein Halvor -cpghost. Actually this is for my home server which provides nfs/samba shares. The idle process is only for the data only drives. thx Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HDD idle shutdown.
Hi, I wondered whether there is an option to shut down an idle HDD until it is needed again? I am using FreeBSD 5.x. thx in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would be stable (sopken in terms of windows stability). The next consideration would be the performance of the overal setup. Any hints or suggenstions would be great. thx Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel message = ?
hi, on my freebsd 4.x box I get no matching session as an kernel log. I was wondering what this could mean. thx in advance christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd 4.x remote server instable...
Hi, I take care of an remote 4.x server and everything worked fine for over an year, but now the box gets unreachable every now and then, but I have no clue why this could be. My question is what kind of logging facility I could run, I addition to the standart out of the box ones, that could tell me what leads to these crashes? Sorry for the poor description, but that is all I know, too. Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Banning ips for some time?
Sandy Rutherford wrote: Christian, On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 you wrote: my servers sshd reports 30 to 50 failed root/operator/etc. logins a day. I would like to block the incoming ip for a few days automaticly after e.g failed login requests. Currently I am using ipf, but it would be no problem to use any other FreeBSD firewall. For peace of mind, you can always use the AllowGroups, AllowUsers, PermitRootLogin, options in sshd_config to remove ssh access to root, uucp, operator, and other system accounts. I only permit ssh access to user accounts. The scripts which are making these login attempts are not typically going to try user accounts for obvious reasons. If you need off-site root access you should be using su or sudo bash anyway. I would recommend always turning off root access via ssh. ...Sandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the answer. You described roughly the way I run sshd by now. Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reparing FreeBSD ports tree.
Hi everyone. My primary question is how to repair a broken ports tree. I did a portupgrade to CVS FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, and now my ports tree ist all screwed up. There are tons of wrong/failed/whatever dependencies and some ports wont work. How can I repair this problem without an complete reinstall of the system? I have a lot of services running for my local net and a huge amount of configurations. For exsample when I do /usr/ports/make index I get: -- # make index Generating INDEX - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.5_5: /usr/ports/print/acroread5 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete === print/apsfilter failed *** Error code 1 1 error The second question is who to reinstall e.g. apache without uninstalling all the stuff that depends on it? e.g. When I did the portupgrade I obviously did something wrong, and now the xml module is missing, which is needed by some of my web aps. I would be very glad if someone could point me out the nessesary steps to clear this mess. I really thought about an complete reinstallation of the system, but everytime I install a new system I rn into dependency problems with the ports collection, as one app requires a version of an tool, but another dependence stops me from reinstalling the newer version. Is there an general guideline to prevent this? thx a lot in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Banning ips for some time?
Hi, as I have an DSL line witch is 24/7 online (coming from an big and popular provider) my servers sshd reports 30 to 50 failed root/operator/etc. logins a day. I would like to block the incoming ip for a few days automaticly after e.g failed login requests. Currently I am using ipf, but it would be no problem to use any other FreeBSD firewall. This is not only for security reasons, but also to shorten the daily security run output :-) Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Banning ips for some time?
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Christian Tischler writes: CT Hi, CT as I have an DSL line witch is 24/7 online (coming from an big and CT popular provider) my servers sshd reports 30 to 50 failed CT root/operator/etc. logins a day. I would like to block the incoming ip CT for a few days automaticly after e.g failed login requests. CT Currently I am using ipf, but it would be no problem to use any other CT FreeBSD firewall. CT This is not only for security reasons, but also to shorten the daily CT security run output :-) Do you have a need to access your server from the outside Net? If not, you can just block the SSH port entirely at the firewall (which is what I do). Almost doesn't count in securityland, so as long as the logins are failing, they're not a security risk, just a nuisance. I do need the ssh access. Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portupgrade dialogs...
Hi, when I run portupgrade to get my server up to date (CVS of 4.9-Release), everything works fine and smooth, until any of the ports pops up an dialog and asks me what I want to compile in (e.g. cups asking me about what drivers I want to install and so on). Now my question: Is there a way to work arround this? As my server does not have a very decent CPU updating takes quite some time, and I do not sit in front of my terminal all the time :-) and due to the dialogs waiting for my input the update is running for three days by now... So any suggestions? thx in advance Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting firewire/USB storate devices
Kevin Smith wrote: I'm a little new at this, but can some suggest what is the best way to mount firewire and usb storage devices ? I am using both my ipod and compact flash devices with freeBSD but I find that I do not have a simple setup that allows me to mount them easily without manually looking at the /dev directory to figure out which device number belongs to which device. (or using camcontrol devlist) and then editing the /dev/fstab file each time. I first used a /etc/fstab setup that looks like: /dev/da0s1 /sandiskmsdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/da1s2 /ipod msdos rw,noauto 0 0 That does work, however, the scsi device numbers change, depending on what is plugged in and what order you plugged them in and you end up having to fish around with camcontrol to figure out what number is assigned to what...Questions. (1) Is there an easier way to manage these devices. For example, if there is a way to auto mount them when they are plugged in that would be nice. Gnome 2.8 is supposed to support this, but I have not found any clear way on how to set it up. Take a look at devfs. (2) More general but related question...Currently with the setup I have above, if I want to use the command mount /ipod, I have to be superuser. What permissions do I need to set so that a normal user can do the mount ? -or- what group would the user have to be in. By default users on my system are in operator and wheel groups. I would suggest sudo as an easy way to do the job. Probably there is a better solution. christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade dialogs...
Thanks for the quick answers. christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
