from:"Derek"


At 10:10 AM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote:

Good morning everyone,

I am trying to migrate my /usr to a newly installed
SCSI drive. Up until yesterday I had /, /var, /usr on
a 5 Gig drive and my /home was on another 60 Gig
drive, which was fine because it had no GUI and
functioned mostly as a server.

Last night I added a third drive, with a capacity
around 18G; since my other two drives are hard-wired
in /boot/device.hints, there were no problems with
device numbering. I wrote down the device name
(/dev/da2) and proceeded to sysinstall to first create
a FreeBSD partition and then the only slice within
that partition. I named it /user.

I then tarred up /usr
Tar cf  /user/usr.tar /usr

Extracted the tar file and moved everything one
directory up, because otherwise everything were under
/user/usr.

I made the necessary adjustnments in /etc/fstab, that
is I switched /usr and /user around.

After reboot, I wasnt getting the prompt, since the
binaries for displaying the prompt are located under
/usr/bin (or /usr/sbin?) and my guess was that /usr
wasnt mounting properly. I restarted the machine,
this time going into single user mode. Trying to mount
a gave me an error message: Error mounting /usr/home.
I then created home directory under the new /usr, I
tried mount a, this time it worked, but when I
rebooted, I wasnt getting my home directory. When I
login as an unprivileged user  michael, the message
is something like: User has no home directory.

For now I reverted to using the old /usr.

Anyone attempted to migrate /usr and fell for similar
kind of problems? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

P.S. I am not next to that machine right now, so I
cant provide the exact fstab or dmesg output.

Thanks in advance,
Michael


When you un-tarred did you use -p to be sure the perms were all correct?

-Derek

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Re: Trying to move /usr


At 12:37 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote:

I reverted to the old /usr.
What I had done:
Initially I set up the newly installed drive (da2)
to have only one partition (da2s1d) which I chose to
be /user (note the e).
I tarred /usr to a file in /user
tar -cf /user/usr.tar /tar

and extracted the file
tar -xf usr.tar
I had the whole structure of /usr underneath /user/usr

And then
cd usr
mv * ..

to have everything under /user

Then I edited fstab. Whatever was /user became /usr
and /usr became /user.

I will definitely try dump. Never used it before.

Thanks a lot,
Michael


Michael,

To use tar properly for this operation:
cd /usr
tar -cvf /user/usr.tar .
cd /user
tar -xvpf ./usr.tar

Then you can switch the mount points and all should work.

-Derek


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Re: Trying to move /usr


At 06:28 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote:

Here's df -k output:

Filesystem  1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity
Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a50763085046   38197418%/
devfs   110   100%/dev
/dev/da0s1e495726   10   456058 0%/tmp
/dev/da0s1f   3733038  2869704   56469284%
/user
/dev/da0s1d495726   110700   34536824%/var
/dev/da1s1d  68431992 27948332 3500910244%
/usr/home
/dev/da2s1d  17213408  2882922 1295341418%/usr

When I go back to the old /usr by editing fstab:
/dev/da0s1b noneswapsw
 0   0
/dev/da1s1b noneswapsw
 0   0
/dev/da0s1a /   ufs rw
 1   1
/dev/da0s1e /tmpufs rw
 2   2
/dev/da0s1f /usrufs rw
 2   2
/dev/da0s1d /varufs rw
 2   2
/dev/da1s1d /home   ufs rw
 2   2
/dev/da2s1d /user   ufs rw
 2   2
/dev/acd0   /cdrom  cd9660
ro,noauto   0

I get into my home directory with no problem.


You need to adjust not just the /usr and /user but also /usr/home entries 
in fstab.  Before you make any changes, do just a mount command and see 
where things are mounted.


-Derek

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Re: Trying to move /usr


At 06:47 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote:

Right now things are set up the old way and here's
what the mount command says:

/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/da0s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da0s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da1s1d on /usr/home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/da2s1d on /user (ufs, local, soft-updates)


Should I change my entry for /home, and make it
/usr/home ?


From your last note, it looked like home is /usr/home.  That is why I 
suggested you do:

# mount
and check how home is really mounted.  If it is /usr/home that would 
explain the trouble you had using your new /usr.


-Derek




--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 At 06:28 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote:
 Here's df -k output:
 
 Filesystem  1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity
 Mounted on
 /dev/da0s1a50763085046   38197418%/
 devfs   110   100%
 /dev
 /dev/da0s1e495726   10   456058 0%
 /tmp
 /dev/da0s1f   3733038  2869704   56469284%
 /user
 /dev/da0s1d495726   110700   34536824%
 /var
 /dev/da1s1d  68431992 27948332 3500910244%
 /usr/home
 /dev/da2s1d  17213408  2882922 1295341418%
 /usr
 
 When I go back to the old /usr by editing fstab:
 /dev/da0s1b noneswapsw
   0   0
 /dev/da1s1b noneswapsw
   0   0
 /dev/da0s1a /   ufs rw
   1   1
 /dev/da0s1e /tmpufs rw
   2   2
 /dev/da0s1f /usrufs rw
   2   2
 /dev/da0s1d /varufs rw
   2   2
 /dev/da1s1d /home   ufs rw
   2   2
 /dev/da2s1d /user   ufs rw
   2   2
 /dev/acd0   /cdrom  cd9660
 ro,noauto   0
 
 I get into my home directory with no problem.

 You need to adjust not just the /usr and /user but
 also /usr/home entries
 in fstab.  Before you make any changes, do just a
 mount command and see
 where things are mounted.

  -Derek

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Re: Regular expressions

2007-08-18 Thread Derek Ragona


At 12:04 PM 8/18/2007, Christer Hermansson wrote:

Hi.

I'm trying to use regular expressions inside a shell script (/bin/sh) on 
my freebsd box and can't get it to work so I searched the web  and found 
http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx


On this webpage I could test my pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$ and everything 
was fine, did exactly what I wanted to do, check that a string only 
contains some combination of the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, hyphen - and 
underscore _.


I also found some basic example at 
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html#uh-88 :


88888

#!/bin/sh

echo Type in a number
read ans
number=`expr $ans : ([0-9]*)`
if [ $number != $ans ]; then
echo Not a number
elif [ $number -eq 0 ]; then
echo Nothing was typed
else
echo $number is a fine number
fi

88888

The above example doesn't work on my freebsd box. Maybe I need to update 
my system, sitting with 6.0R which never been updated.


Is there anyone who has some advice about how to get regular expressions 
to work in FreeBSD shell script ?


--

Christer Hermansson


You have a syntax error using expr.  Do a man on expr for more details but 
if you change that line from:

number=`expr $ans : ([0-9]*)`
to:
number=`expr $ans : \([0-9]*\)`

You will get the desired results.

Also when debugging scripts remember to add:
set -x
to your script on the second line, and see what the script lines are 
actually doing.


-Derek

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Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona


At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, brad clawsie wrote:

hi

while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk
activity. i found that this process was running:

$ ps -auxwww 1463
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED  TIME COMMAND
root  1463  4.3  0.1  1876  1404  ??  D 3:01AM   0:07.26 find /usr
-xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -perm
-u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0

any idea why this is running? is it part of a sanctioned background
process?


Check your cron jobs.  It is likely part of a rebuild of the locate database.

-Derek

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Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona


At 06:59 AM 8/17/2007, Jonathan McKeown wrote:

On Friday 17 August 2007 13:34, Derek Ragona wrote:
 At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, brad clawsie wrote:
 hi
 
 while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk
 activity. i found that this process was running:
 
 $ ps -auxwww 1463
 USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED  TIME COMMAND
 root  1463  4.3  0.1  1876  1404  ??  D 3:01AM   0:07.26 find /usr
 -xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -perm
 -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0
 
 any idea why this is running? is it part of a sanctioned background
 process?

 Check your cron jobs.  It is likely part of a rebuild of the locate
 database.

I don't want to be rude, and this just happens to be the message I'm
responding to with a more general gripe, but there does seem to be quite a
lot of guessing in answers on this list over the last few days, which isn't
perhaps as helpful as it's intended to be.

This is nothing to do with locate(1) - it's a find command looking in /usr 
for

executable files (the first set of parens) which have the suid or sgid bits
set (the second set of params). It's part of the daily security check carried
out by periodic(8), as unexpected suid/sgid executables can be security
holes.


I hate to be an I told you so but if you look in the script that rebuilds 
the locate database:

/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
You will see a number of find commands.

In reality, you'd need to do:
ps -al
and follow the PID and PPID to determine what is running this find command.

-Derek

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Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Derek Ragona


At 12:58 PM 8/16/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote:

 Hi All,

Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file 
servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on 
the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between 
the two offices. Originally I was thinking about sshfs (mount_sshfs) but I 
cannot compile fuse from the ports. NFS cannot share subdirectories, only 
whole filesystems and it is not secure to use over the internet.


Security inside the LAN is not important. Most of these folders are put 
everything into it type, e.g. anyone can do anything with them. The users 
usually store doc, pdf, xls/gnumeric and txt files in them.


I'm not interested in solutions where the end user needs to use a special 
program to access the files. For example, gftp is not an option. This is 
because these users sometimes does not know what a file is. I need 
nautilus integration, and mounting/mapping so the files can be opened from 
any program using file/open.


What should I use?


You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices.  You can do 
this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have 
static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for 
VPNs at each office.  You can connect the two offices via a VPN connection 
from router to router.



-Derek

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Re: Local domain with Bind

2007-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona


At 06:44 PM 8/14/2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

Hi *, I have a problem setting up Bind9, and I really don't
understand what's wrong with my configuration.

luna# uname -a
FreeBSD luna.subbacultcha.local 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0:
Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ 
obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386




luna# cat /etc/namedb/named.conf
acl subbacultcha {
192.168.0.0/24;
localnets;
};

options {
directory   /etc/namedb;
pid-file/var/run/named/pid;
dump-file   /var/dump/named_dump.db;
statistics-file /var/stats/named.stats;

allow-query {
subbacultcha;
};

forwarders {
208.67.222.222;
208.67.220.220;
};

};

logging {

channel named_log {
syslog named;
severity debug 3;
print-category yes;
print-time yes;
print-severity yes;
};

category default { named_log; };
category xfer-in { named_log; };
category xfer-out { named_log; };
category unmatched { named_log; };

};

zone . {
type hint;
file named.root;
};

zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA {
type master;
file master/localhost.rev;
};

// RFC 3152
zone
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARP A {
type master;
file master/localhost-v6.rev;
};

zone subbacultcha.local {
type master;
file /etc/namedb/subbacultcha.local;
};

zone 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa {
type master;
file /etc/namedb/revp.0.168.192;
};



luna# cat /etc/namedb/subbacultcha.local
subbacultcha.local. IN SOA ns.subbacultcha.local.
root.subbacultcha.local (
200708111   ; serial
3H  ; refresh
1H  ; retry
1W  ; expire
1D ); minimum

subbacultcha.local. IN  NS
ns.subbacultcha.local.
IN  A   192.168.0.2
mail.subbacultcha.local.IN  MX  10
mail.subbacultcha.local.
subbacultcha.local. IN  MX  10
mail.subbacultcha.local.

localhost   IN  A   127.0.0.1

lunaCNAME
subbacultcha.local.
hg  CNAME
subbacultcha.local.



luna# cat /etc/namedb/revp.0.168.192
$TTL 1D

@   IN  SOA subbacultcha.local.
root.subbacultcha.local. (
20070811; serial
3H  ; refresh
1H  ; retry
1W  ; expire
1D  ; minimum
)

IN  NS  ns.subbacultcha.local.
IN  PTR mail.subbacultcha.local.
IN  PTR hg.subbacultcha.local.
IN  PTR subbacultcha.local.



This is the problem from another machine on the lan (192.168.0.3):

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ dig subbacultcha.local

;  DiG 9.3.4  subbacultcha.local
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30754
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;subbacultcha.local.IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
subbacultcha.local. 86400   IN  A   192.168.0.2

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
subbacultcha.local. 86400   IN  NS  ns.subbacultcha.local.

;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.2#53(192.168.0.2)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 15 01:39:26 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 69


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ping subbacultcha.local
ping: cannot resolve subbacultcha.local: Unknown host


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ping 192.168.0.2
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.743 ms


When I ping the domain nothing happens in logs ...

Thanks for every suggestion, I'm *sure* I'm missing something obvious
here ...


This looks like the DNS settings on your other server, chienandalusia 
(192.168.0.3), is not setup correctly.  Check /etc/resolv.conf on this 
server, and be sure the first nameserver is:

nameserver  192.168.0.2

In fact on this server you should have only that entry, as your server at 
192.168.0.2 should forward any other unknown DNS requests upstream to the 
forwarders.


-Derek

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Re: Local domain with Bind

2007-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona


At 05:10 AM 8/15/2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

Il giorno 15/ago/07, alle ore 09:01, Derek Ragona ha scritto:


At 06:44 PM 8/14/2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

This looks like the DNS settings on your other server, chienandalusia 
(192.168.0.3), is not setup correctly.  Check /etc/resolv.conf on this 
server, and be sure the first nameserver is:

nameserver  192.168.0.2

In fact on this server you should have only that entry, as your server at 
192.168.0.2 should forward any other unknown DNS requests upstream to the 
forwarders.


Hi Derek, thanks for your answer.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.0.2

Logs for a request to my local domain done with my Apple notebook:

Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 client: debug 3: 
client 192.168.0.3#49376: send
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 client: debug 3: 
client 192.168.0.3#49376: sendto
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 client: debug 3: 
client 192.168.0.3#49376: senddone
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 client: debug 3: 
client 192.168.0.3#49376: next
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 client: debug 3: 
client 192.168.0.3#49376: endrequest
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 resolver: debug 
3: fctx 
0x8220e00(http://www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'): 
 doshutdown
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 resolver: debug 
3: fctx 
0x8220e00(http://www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'): 
 stopeverything
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 resolver: debug 
3: fctx 
0x8220e00(http://www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'): 
 cancelqueries
Aug 15 12:06:00 luna named[667]: 15-Aug-2007 12:06:00.201 resolver: debug 
3: fctx 
0x8220e00(http://www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'www.apple.com.akadns.net/A'): 
 destroy


Forwarding works like a charme, so actually my client connects to bind and 
in case of an external domain it is served. If the domain is my local one 
no chance.

Even more weird:

luna# ping hg.subbacultcha.local
PING subbacultcha.local (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.041 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.033 ms

Actually I think it's Bind refusing connections from the outside, but 
pretending to always forward.

I can't see the mistake in my configuration though.

TIA,
  ngw


I don't see anything in the bind configuration file either, AND it all 
works on the DNS server and your mac so we know that the BIND configuration 
is fine.


Check on the .3 server /etc/nsswitch.conf

be sure you have a line like:
hosts: files dns

in this file.

If that doesn't fix it, check your gateway setting, netmask, and other 
settings on your ethernet interface.


-Derek

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Re: Backspace

2007-08-13 Thread Derek Ragona


At 01:45 AM 8/13/2007, d.Z. wrote:

Thanks for helping everybody.

But actually I'm using Bourne shell on FreeBSD 6.1 just like the
Solaris in lab, and the FreeBSD is freshly installed, I have checked
.shrc and .profile, but nothing related to key bindings or stty's
there, so what I thought it should be is:

after I login - [press backspace] - ^H appears - [press DEL] - ^? appears
in emacs - [press backspace] - oops, help appears

I think Solaris was just like the above. But in my FreeBSD, things go like:

after I login - [press backspace will erase last char] - [press DEL
does the same thing]
no matter what have I done to stty like stty erase ^H and stty
erase2 ^H, the result is just the same, backspace and DEL still can
be used to erase last char in shell. The only difference is in emacs,
but I searched the net and found that emacs relies on its own
definition of key bindings in ~/.emacs file (it is empty in this
case), rather than the terminal key bindings. Totally confused.

Any idea? Thanks again for you kind people.


Programs like emacs generally use terminfo and termcap databases that 
define keys and other terminal capabilities.  Generally these are different 
between various UNIX's.  You can learn more by just doing a man on these:

man terminfo
man termcap

-Derek



2007/8/13, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:31:36PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:

  At 10:54 PM 8/11/2007, d.Z. wrote:
  Hello,
  
  I'm a new user to FreeBSD and Unix. I used Solaris 10 last week in
  lab, and found there is a difference between them.
  
  When Solaris is installed, press backspace will give you ^H, you'll
  have to stty erase ^H to solve this problem. But with FreeBSD 6.1,
  when first installed, backspace is always bounded to erase last
  character, even I have stty erase ^? and stty erase2 ^?, backspace
  still deletes last character input. Does any body know why is this
  happening?
 
  Solaris by default uses csh for user accounts.  The backspace key
  assignment and for that matter, all key assignments are dependent on the
  both the shell and terminal definition.  Reassigning keys is typical for
  your shell's startup profile file .cshrc for csh and .bashrc for bash.
 
 
  And strange thing is with default setting (before stty erase and
  erase2 to ^?), when I use Emacs, C-h will give me back space, instead
  of help. I know this is desirable for experts, but I'm really new so
  just want to follow the instruction first.
 
  Applications like the shell you use interpret the terminal definition and
  may or may not use the same key assignments.  Most applications like the
  shells in UNIX environments have startup files to customize the key
  assignments and in the case of editors even define macros.

 And those startup files are:

For csh and tcsh  (tcsh is the most common one in FreeBSD)
the startup file is .cshrc  in one's home directory.  You can also
create a system-wide one.

For SH and bash it is .profile  and for them don't forget to export
any variables.

 jerry

 
  Hope this helps.
 
  -Derek
 
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Re: Backspace

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona


At 10:54 PM 8/11/2007, d.Z. wrote:

Hello,

I'm a new user to FreeBSD and Unix. I used Solaris 10 last week in
lab, and found there is a difference between them.

When Solaris is installed, press backspace will give you ^H, you'll
have to stty erase ^H to solve this problem. But with FreeBSD 6.1,
when first installed, backspace is always bounded to erase last
character, even I have stty erase ^? and stty erase2 ^?, backspace
still deletes last character input. Does any body know why is this
happening?


Solaris by default uses csh for user accounts.  The backspace key 
assignment and for that matter, all key assignments are dependent on the 
both the shell and terminal definition.  Reassigning keys is typical for 
your shell's startup profile file .cshrc for csh and .bashrc for bash.




And strange thing is with default setting (before stty erase and
erase2 to ^?), when I use Emacs, C-h will give me back space, instead
of help. I know this is desirable for experts, but I'm really new so
just want to follow the instruction first.


Applications like the shell you use interpret the terminal definition and 
may or may not use the same key assignments.  Most applications like the 
shells in UNIX environments have startup files to customize the key 
assignments and in the case of editors even define macros.


Hope this helps.

-Derek

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Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona


At 10:57 AM 8/12/2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:


Hi,

This isn't really a FreeBSD question. But I figure most people on this 
list would know the answer and so I'm asking. I've tried to get the answer 
out of Google, but I guess I am not asking it the right question and so 
not getting much hits.


I understand that the default value of the IFS variable in bash is space, 
tab, newline. For a script I am playing around with, I want to change IFS 
to be just newline. I tried the obvious like


IFS=\n
-or-
IFS='\n'

but that doesn't seem to do the trick coz then the letter n ends up 
being the separator.


A bit of Google searching got me the solution too. That I must set IFS 
this way:


IFS=$'\n'

I did that, and sure enough things work the way I want!

So my question is this: how come things work when I set IFS to $'\n' 
instead of just plain '\n'? I don't recollect seeing such a way of setting 
variables before, and so I'm curious about it.


This is dependent on the shell you use, and how it interprets character 
sequences looking for escape characters and such.  This will differ between 
shells.


-Derek

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Re: Samba Install on BSD 5.4

2007-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona


At 04:46 PM 8/10/2007, Dixit, Viraj wrote:

Folks,

I have downloaded the latest Samba file from samba site. I have unzipped
the file and have configured it as requested. Anyone out there installed
Samba on Free BSD 5.4. Please indicate any problem that I will encounter
and any issues with Samba. Thanks,
VJ



I have run samba on FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.5 where the samba server worked as a 
slave to Active Directory on Windows.


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Re: relaying mail

2007-08-01 Thread Derek Ragona


At 05:19 PM 7/31/2007, Christopher Cowart wrote:

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:03:50PM +0200, Michael Grant wrote:
 In one of my domains, I have the MX record for it set up to my server.
  But for one of the users within that domain, their mail needs to be
 shuffled off to a different server at google.  But I can't just
 forward it because it's like an MX host I'd need to forward it to.
 And I can't alter the MX to point to google for the entire domain
 because it's only one user within that domain, the other users will be
 screwed in that case.

 For example, mydomain.com, let's say the mx for that comes to my box.
 For [EMAIL PROTECTED], I need to send his mail to ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM as
 if it were the MX for mydomain.com.

 In the old days, one would simply forward email to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  That would cause mydomain.com's
 sendmail to connect to ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM and shove down a message for
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  But that seems long deprecated because it didn't
 seem to work.

 I am using sendmail and procmail.  Can anyone think of some way I can
 cause something like this to happen for just one user, ideally in a
 .procmailrc file?


You can do this with sendmail by user in /etc/mail/virtualusertable.  You 
should see the file /etc/mail/virtualusertable.sample for some explanations 
of this file.  The virtualuser database is read first by sendmail, before 
aliases.  Also the virtualusertable is read serially from top to bottom, so 
you can specific user maps before a general map for the rest of a domain.


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Re: still image grabber

2007-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona


At 09:14 AM 7/29/2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:

Hi,
   is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie files?
like image grabber on windows?? thanks!!

TFC


You might want to try the vlc media player:
/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc

I know the windows version does generate still images.

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Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona


At 08:56 PM 7/25/2007, Josh Tolbert wrote:

Hello,

I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a
huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file
system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like it'd
be smart to use with differently-sized drives. Is gvinum up to snuff and
stable enough to use? Is ccd still supported? What would be your tool of
choice?

Thanks,

Josh


Given that the drives are different capacities you might want to just use 
the different drives for different portions of the filesystem, such as 
using a smaller drive for swap, then using different drives for:

/usr/local
/usr/src
/var
/
/etc

The choices depend on the drive capacities and what the server will be used 
for.


-Derek

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Re: Adaptec AAR-1220SA / AAR-1430SA

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona


At 05:01 AM 7/26/2007, Christopher Key wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to establish whether I can expect the Adaptec AAR-1220SA or 
AAR-1430SA SATA cards to work with 6.2.  They're not on the list of 
supported hardware, which does include a lot of the other Adaptec 
cards.  However, the Adaptec cards that are listed all seem to be hardware 
RAID cards, whereas the 1220SA and 1430SA use something called 'HostRAID', 
which I think just means software raid.  Does this just mean that I'll be 
unable to use the RAID functionality on the cards, not really a concern, 
or are they unlikely to work at all?


Many thanks,

Chris Key


I have tried the 1200 series and they simply don't work for RAID or 
non-RAID use.  They have Sil chips which cause intermittent 
problems.  These problems are also present in other adapters that use some 
of the Sil chips.  Unfortunately the Sil chips are hit and miss as they 
have different versions (masks) of the same chips and some will work while 
most do not.


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video mode problem booting 6.2 CD

2007-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona


Has anyone had any problem with the booting of 6.2 release CD?

I have an older server that is running 5.5 and was going to do a binary 
upgrade to 6.2.  When I try to boot the 6.2 release CD 1, right after the 
loader message, the video gets funny, I see it trying to do what looks like 
drawing on the screen, but just see some flashing.  It looks like some kind 
of video mode switch the builtin VGA adapter is having trouble with.


I was wondering if anyone else had seen this problem and possibly had a 
work around.



-Derek
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Re: OT: what brand of TFT monitor?

2007-07-24 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:57 AM 7/24/2007, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

Hi,

it's a bit off here, but I'm sure you can tell me some tips, what brand of 
TFT monitor to buy? Finally I decided to change this old enormous CRT. Or 
if you tell which brands to avoid, that's fine fo rme, too. I'm thinking 
of a 17 or 19 size, or maybe 21.


TIA,

--
Gabor Kovesdan
FreeBSD Volunteer


Have some idea whether you want analog, dvi or one that does both.  I'd 
look at larger sizes as you will likely have it a while.  Look where the 
prices jump significantly, usually at over the 19, 20 or 21 size.  If 
you can, look at them before you buy for the image quality and viewing angle.


Compare warranties too, but ultimately look at the prices.  I prefer 
samsung as they make all their own components, other makers put together 
units using other manufacturer's components and quality can vary.


-Derek

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Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-23 Thread Derek Ragona


At 02:06 PM 7/23/2007, John Clement wrote:

So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and
changed a few options:

LBA mode: off
Multi-sector transfers: auto
Fast PIO: auto
32 bit transfer mode: on
Ultra DMA: auto

then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and
then on reboot now it comes up with

Not ufs
no /boot/loader

so a slightly different message now, but still no go

anyone? - jc


I've never used the boot-only version.  So let me ask if you saw any issues 
with sysinstall?  Did you partition the disk and did newfs run without error?


Before you exit sysinstall you can check and see what is on the disks from 
the emergency shell on vtty4.  You can do a mount command and see what and 
where things are mounted and do an ls on those filesystems.


-Derek



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Re: trouble compiling some ports

2007-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona

-typemap typemap  shared.xs  shared.xsc  mv shared.xsc shared.c
cc -c-DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN
-DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O2 -pipe
-mcpu=ultrasparc -mtune=ultrasparc-DVERSION=\0.94\
-DXS_VERSION=\0.94\ -DPIC -fPIC -I../../..   shared.c
Running Mkbootstrap for threads::shared ()
chmod 644 shared.bs
rm -f ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
cc  -shared  -L/usr/local/lib shared.o  -o
../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
chmod 755 ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
cp shared.bs ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs
chmod 644 ../../../lib/auto/threads/shared/shared.bs

Making Errno (nonxs)
Writing Makefile for Errno
../../miniperl -I../../lib -I../../lib Errno_pm.PL Errno.pm
cp Errno.pm ../../lib/Errno.pm
*** Error code 1 (ignored)

Everything is up to date. Type 'make test' to run test suite.



[3] error message from Perl make test
lib/integer...#   Failed test 'left shift'
#   in ../lib/integer.t at line 49.
#  got: '-4294967296'
# expected: '-9223372036854775808'
FAILED at test 10



[4] error message from Perl make test
t/op/pack.# Failed at op/pack.t line 631
# Failed at op/pack.t line 631
FAILED at test 514



[5] error message from Perl make test
t/op/groups...FAILED at test 1



[6] End of Perl's make test
t/x2p/s2p.ok
Failed 3 test scripts out of 938, 99.68% okay.
### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of
### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce.
### See the INSTALL document's section on make test.
### You have a good chance to get more information by running
###   ./perl harness
### in the 't' directory since most (=80%) of the tests succeeded.
### You may have to set your dynamic library search path,
### LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to point to the build directory:
###   setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl
harness
###   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd
t; ./perl harness
###   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl
harness
### for csh-style shells, like tcsh; or for traditional/modern
### Bourne-style shells, like bash, ksh, and zsh, respectively.
u=10.40  s=5.69  cu=768.08  cs=172.31  scripts=938  tests=117578
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.8.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
sunny# t/op/pack.# Failed at op/pack.t
line 631
t/op/pack.#: Command not found.
# Failed at op/pack.t line 631
FAILED at test 514



[7] Cleaning up the ports directory was a really good idea, but it could
have been done a little more completely. Why weren't the language-ports
like 'korean' put into their own subdirectory?


I had similar problems on one server that had an old ports tree then 
updated ports.  I ended up having to completely delete and re-download the 
entire ports tree, and manually remove portupgrade and portmanager and 
reinstall them.


-Derek


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Re: Swap size


At 03:03 AM 7/19/2007, Gabriel Linder wrote:

Hi,

I plan to setup FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM.

The handbook says ideal swap size is 2xRAM, so should I use 2GB of swap ?


Yes unless you know how many applications will ever be run and their run 
size.  The 2xRAM is so you can always have a reasonable performance 
allowing swap.  You can still run out of swap, and this will cause a 
panic.  With disks so cheap, why not use 2XRAM?



 This seems a bit huge to me, I never used more than 400MB on Linux.
If so, is there a limit of swap partition size (or number) on i386 (for 
Linux it's 2GB per partition and 32 partitions max, but I don't know for 
FreeBSD) ?


You can add more swap using a swap file you can check that out doing:
man swapon

I don't believe there is a limit to swap partitions, other than the limit 
on other partitions.


I have no knowledge on efficiency of a swap partition vs a swap file.

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Re: no /boot/loader - after installation


At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote:

I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the
C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a
250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine.  I've tried the FreeBSD boot
manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but
regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots.

I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this
happen before.

Thanks in advance!!


First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release.

Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area.  Many BIOS 
have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area.


-Derek

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Re: sata: setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout


At 11:58 AM 7/19/2007, Steve Franks wrote:

I'm getting this error alot, on shutdown. smartmon reports all my
drives are healthy with 0 errors, I've replaced the controller and
upgraded to a 500W powersupply.  At random one of my 4 sata drives
will give a disconnected error in dmesg and dissappear, usually when
you acess it for the first time on a given boot, but not always the
same drive.  Also, I've now started getting a panic after syncing all
the drives on shutdown.  I'm mystified

Steve


Post a full dmesg so we can better see your configuration.

-Derek

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Re: sata: setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout


At 12:34 PM 7/19/2007, Harry Newton wrote:

Steve

Check your cables: I had similar sporadic failures which were caused
by a SATA cable that didn't seat well into the sockets on the board
and drive. When I replaced the cable with a better one with a spring
clip the failures stopped.

 - Harry


My most recent SATA problems were cables too.  Not sure why the cables went 
bad, but the drives would just detach on the old cables.


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Re: Serial Cable

2007-07-17 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:43 AM 7/17/2007, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:

Hi list,

 Excuse-me for the last message... I hit the wrong key.. eheheheh

 Anymore know some online store that sells console serial cables
(professional made) that work with i386 FreeBSD and that do international
ship (outside USA) ?

Regards,
Alexandre


Try cables to go
http://www.cablestogo.com/

They will even make you custom cables, but a stock null modem cable should 
work fine.


-Derek

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Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Holden


Greetings,

I have a Promise Fasttrak TX4200 running a single mirrored array under 5.5.
Everything's been great for nearly a year until a recent reboot.  It appears
that the two disk mirrored array is coming up as two arrays with a single
disk attached:

Before:

kernel: acd0: CDRW SONY CD-RW CRX140E/1.0n at ata1-slave UDMA33
kernel: ad6: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata3-master SATA150
kernel: ad10: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata5-master SATA150
kernel: ar0: 305175MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: READY
kernel: ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master
kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master

After:

kernel: acd0: CDRW SONY CD-RW CRX140E/1.0n at ata1-slave UDMA33
kernel: ad6: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata3-master SATA150
kernel: ad10: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata5-master SATA150
kernel: ar0: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
kernel: ar1: 305175MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: DEGRADED
kernel: ar1: disk0 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master
kernel: ar1: disk1 DOWN no device found for this subdisk

# atacontrol status ar0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: DOWN ad6 status: DEGRADED

# atacontrol status ar1
ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad10 DOWN status: DEGRADED

Nothing's was changed on the machine.  I'm looking for any ideas on the best
way to re-establish the single mirrored array.  Thanks a lot,
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Re: Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Ragona


At 06:45 AM 7/16/2007, Derek Holden wrote:

Greetings,

I have a Promise Fasttrak TX4200 running a single mirrored array under 5.5.
Everything's been great for nearly a year until a recent reboot.  It appears
that the two disk mirrored array is coming up as two arrays with a single
disk attached:

Before:

kernel: acd0: CDRW SONY CD-RW CRX140E/1.0n at ata1-slave UDMA33
kernel: ad6: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata3-master SATA150
kernel: ad10: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata5-master SATA150
kernel: ar0: 305175MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: READY
kernel: ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master
kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master

After:

kernel: acd0: CDRW SONY CD-RW CRX140E/1.0n at ata1-slave UDMA33
kernel: ad6: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata3-master SATA150
kernel: ad10: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAC at ata5-master SATA150
kernel: ar0: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
kernel: ar1: 305175MB Promise Fasttrak RAID1 status: DEGRADED
kernel: ar1: disk0 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master
kernel: ar1: disk1 DOWN no device found for this subdisk

# atacontrol status ar0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: DOWN ad6 status: DEGRADED

# atacontrol status ar1
ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad10 DOWN status: DEGRADED

Nothing's was changed on the machine.  I'm looking for any ideas on the best
way to re-establish the single mirrored array.  Thanks a lot,


You didn't say how you created the array, in the Promise BIOS or in 
software under FreeBSD.  If you created the array in the promise BIOS, 
check the array in the BIOS first.


-Derek
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Re: Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Holden


The array was created on the Promise card.  If there is a bad disk, any
ideas on why FreeBSD would report two arrays with each disk appearing as
READY on one of either of them?

kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
kernel: ar1: disk0 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master

Thanks for the responses,

On 7/16/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 At 06:45 AM 7/16/2007, Derek Holden wrote:

You didn't say how you created the array, in the Promise BIOS or in
software under FreeBSD.  If you created the array in the promise BIOS, check
the array in the BIOS first.

-Derek


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Re: Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:43 AM 7/16/2007, Derek Holden wrote:

The array was created on the Promise card.  If there is a bad disk, any
ideas on why FreeBSD would report two arrays with each disk appearing as
READY on one of either of them?

kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master
kernel: ar1: disk0 READY (master) using ad10 at ata5-master

Thanks for the responses,


FreeBSD creates dev's on boot.  It is seeing now two arrays as the disks 
are saying they are array disks, and the controller has the array as broken.


Check the Promise BIOS to see if it reports one disk as bad, or it may just 
need to rebuild the array.


-Derek
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Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Ragona


At 04:54 PM 7/16/2007, Roger Olofsson wrote:

Dear mailing list,

I have 2 IBM HDs and one WD HD (ata) in an old pc and for some reason FBSD 
6.2 can't find the IBMs on a warm-boot. Cold-boot is fine and, the WD is fine.


The motherboard is an old Aopen AX34 and all settings are default except 
for ACPI that's off.


The first thought that came to mind was that one of the IBMs are going 
bad, but, I find it very unlikely that both HDs are doing it. One is a 120 
and one is an 80gigger but both 'vanish' on warm-boot.


Some other setting in bios than ACPI?

Grateful for any answer,


IBM had some utilities for those drives which are now supported by 
fujitsu.  You should run the drive fitness utility.  Also there was a 
utility to set the drive firmware to spin down to make it quieter.  You may 
need to change that setting.


-Derek

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Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-15 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:03 PM 7/14/2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

Hello!

I have a script launched from cron every morning, that gets certain data over
the Internet from a remote computer, compares the new data with that from the
previous day, and outputs the difference (if any).

I'm relying on the fact, that cron e-mails me the output of each job.

However, I modified the script recently to produce the output (if any) in
HTML, rather than in plain-text format.

The HTML arrives by e-mail just as well as plain text used to, but no e-mail
program will render it as such, because neither the cron(8), nor the mail(1),
which cron uses to send e-mail, creates MIME messages...

How can I force the ``Content-Type: text/html'' header without hacking cron's
sources? I'd rather avoid poluting my script with e-mail sending code...

Maybe, cron should apply file(1)-like logic to the e-mailed content?

Thanks for any hints. Yours,


You need to change your script to send the email itself.  I have many 
scripts that email reports, legs, and html reports.  To accomplish this I 
have my cron job run a script like this (I have simplified the script you 
should be able to use it as a base):


#!/usr/local/bin/ksh
# set full paths for all commands needed, and files needed

MAIL=/usr/bin/mail
MAILFILE=/tmp/mail_file
#fill in your correct email or alias you wish to use
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RM=/bin/rm
DATE=/bin/date
AWK=/usr/bin/awk
LS=/bin/ls
GREP=/usr/bin/grep
FIND=/usr/bin/find
TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y`
REPORT_LOG_HEADER=/usr/local/etc/report_log_header
REPORT_LOG_FOOTER=/usr/local/etc/report_log_footer

# start the mailfile with the proper header,
# in this case it is an HTML header
cat $REPORT_LOG_HEADER  $MAILFILE

#put more stuff into the report . . .
echo$MAILFILE
echo$MAILFILE
# Add any processing or log files to the middle of the mail file here
# you can even put HTML codes in here
echo BR BR  $MAILFILE
echo$MAILFILE
# add the correct HTML footer
cat $REPORT_LOG_FOOTER  $MAILFILE
# send it to yourself
$MAIL -s the report name $MAILTO  $MAILFILE
$RM $MAILFILE


-Derek

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Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-15 Thread Derek Ragona


At 05:02 PM 7/14/2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

Derek Ragona wrote:
= = I'd rather avoid poluting my script with e-mail sending code...

= You need to change your script to send the email itself.

Thank you, Derek, but -- as I stated already -- I wanted to see, if this can
be avoided...


Doing so makes it very non-portable.  This would make your cron changes 
needed on any system and version you want to implement this behavior.



Since you posted your script, I'll comment on it. First of all, you don't 
need

ksh for anything you are doing in this script. FreeBSD's /bin/sh is enough
(we aren't Solaris :-) -- but is 9 times smaller here (amd64).


I don't need ksh for the particular sample I gave you, which is pared down 
from any I use.  I posted a simple boilerplate that anyone who reads the 
list can use.  For most things /bin/sh works well, but the overhead of ksh 
on a modern server is negligible.




Now, instead of redirecting each line of output into MAILFILE, then mailing,
and removing it, you should be either outputing everything directly into
mail:

{
cat $REPORT_LOG_HEADER
echo$MAILFILE
echo$MAILFILE
echo BR BR  $MAILFILE


cat $REPORT_LOG_FOOTER
} | $MAIL -s the report name $MAILTO


This was done as an example.  In many cases I have reports generated in 
html, and simple email the URL of the report.




or, if you want to use the temporary file, use exec to redirect into it
_once_, instead of _on every line_:

exec  $MAILFILE
cat $REPORT_LOG_HEADER

printf  \n \nBRBR\n
$MAIL -s the report name $MAILTO  $MAILFILE
$RM $MAILFILE

This may look nicer, but is not, because temporary files are nasty, and you
need to be sure, that you remove them in case you are interrupted (trapping
signals, etc.)


I removed the signal handling from my example as I didn't want to add that 
much complexity.  It is trivial to add proper signal handling.




I was surprised, one can not redirect into a pipe directly. The following did
not work, as I expected, with neither /bin/sh nor /usr/local/bin/ksh93. The
following, I thought, would be the same as my first example, only
nicer-looking:

exec | $MAIL -s the report name $MAILTO
cat .

But it is not. So you have to chose from one of the first two examples.


This is UNIX.  Meaning there are many ways to accomplish tasks.  Just 
choose the tools and methods you want.  I strive to make cron scripts 
simple and portable.  I support a multitude of servers running different 
UNIX versions and flavors.


-Derek
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Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:47 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:

On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:

On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:

 I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows
  XP with no issues.

  However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any
  of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing

  The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of
  different disk arrangements, with no success.

  I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS
  detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it
  detects no hard drive.

  I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL
  1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB
  Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files
  to disk.

  Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my
  friend on this one.

  I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular
  luck, but I could be missing something.
  Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem.  I do know the
 Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these
 chips and FreeBSD!

  Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard?

  -Derek
 Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did -
 that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the
 one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects
 it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine.
 Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive?

 On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the
hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order.  I
know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all possibilities.
I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive installation.  After you
had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to clear it out?

 -Derek


I think I'll go beat my lackey again.

He was supposed to remove the jumper, and didn't do it.

I took it off, and it's installing happily to the IDE drive.

I'm gonna bag the SATA for now.

Thanks for your help,

Kurt


I'm glad I could help.  As an FYI windows ignores a lot of hardware issues 
until it simply can't run anymore, where FreeBSD is much better at error 
checking.  Of course sometimes that can make it frustrating.


If you can get a decent SATA controller you might try adding or switching 
to SATA in the future, but avoid the Sil ones.


-Derek


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Re: mergemaster not found


At 01:15 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:

I've restart in SUM   and when I attempt* to run mergemaster it returns;

Where should I run this from?


You may need to be sure all your mounts are mounted, not just /
try:
mount -a

-Derek

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RE: mergemaster not found


At 01:35 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:


-Original Message-
From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 2:26 PM
To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mergemaster not found

At 01:15 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:


I've restart in SUM   and when I attempt* to run mergemaster it
returns;

Where should I run this from?


You may need to be sure all your mounts are mounted, not just /
try:
mount -a


I tried that - it worked- sort of

I ran the mergemaster -p - then when it completed I tried make installword
and I STILL get  the  audit group is missing- which I was under the
impression that mergemaster -p  was suppose to address that -


No, sounds like you are doing an upgrade and didn't read /usr/src/UPDATING

If you check that file you will see things you need to do like add any 
missing groups.


-Derek


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Re: password failure- after mergmaster


At 03:06 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:

OOOPSS-

I got mergemaster to run- but now that the system restarted the root password
and my password are invalid-

I can ONLY start in single user mode-

I still do have level 0 dump of 5.4  on my network is this my only option



This really sounds like you did an upgrade that went bad.  If you did 
upgrade you can do a restore from your dump, and try again.  Or just check 
or reset the root password in single user.


What error are you getting going into multi-user?

-Derek
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Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release


At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:

I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows
XP with no issues.

However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any
of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing

The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of
different disk arrangements, with no success.

I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS
detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it
detects no hard drive.

I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL
1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB
Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files
to disk.

Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my
friend on this one.

I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular
luck, but I could be missing something.


Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem.  I do know the 
Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these 
chips and FreeBSD!


Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard?

-Derek


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Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release


At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:

On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:

I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows
 XP with no issues.

 However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any
 of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing

 The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2. I've tried a couple of
 different disk arrangements, with no success.

 I've installed an IDE WD 180GB drive, which the motherboard BIOS
 detects just fine. When I boot from disk 1 for the FreeBSD install, it
 detects no hard drive.

 I've put in an Addonics ADSA2 PCI SATA card, which sports the SiL
 1352A chipset, but the install blows up when installing to a 74GB
 Seagate drive - the kernel panics and it reboots while copying files
 to disk.

 Has anyone run into these problems? Google hasn't been particularly my
 friend on this one.

 I've tried reading the install docs on the CD, with no particular
 luck, but I could be missing something.
 Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem.  I do know the
Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these
chips and FreeBSD!

 Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard?

 -Derek


Plugging an IDE drive into the motherboard is the first thing I did -
that's the case above where FreeBSD didn't see *any* HD. That's the
one that really fries my brain, because the motherboard BIOS detects
it correctly, and XP installs to it just fine.


Any possibility the IDE master/slave jumper is not set right on that drive?

On some intel MB's it takes a reboot into setup so that setup see's the 
hard drive, then check that it has that hard drive in the boot order.  I 
know this seems a bit simple, but just trying to check all 
possibilities.  I've never seen a problem with a standard IDE drive 
installation.  After you had XP on the drive did you reformat the drive to 
clear it out?


-Derek

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Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:35 AM 7/7/2007, Lisa Casey wrote:

Hi,

Once I get this new system going I promise I'll quit pestering you folks :-)

Got another question. This should be simple to answer. I've done this 
before but can't seem to replicate it this morning. I have a few scripts 
my employees use to do things such as add a new radius user, restart the 
radius server and tail the radius log file. The most simple one is 
radlog.  The file radlog contains the line:

tail -f  /var/log/radius.log

I need to be able to type radlog from anywhere on the system and have it work.

I put the file radlog in /bin   (/bin and  /sbin are all in my shell's 
path). Ownership is root/wheel  permissions are 555 (I've tried 700 and 
777 - these don't need write access though). But when I type radlog I get 
command not found. I can type ./bin/radlog and it works but I don't want 
that. I thought if the file was in my path and if it was executable just 
typing the name of the file from anywhere would work but evidently I'm 
overlooking something. What?


Thanks,

Lisa Casey


Try testing with a new login session.  It is likely your shell is caching 
the commands in your paths.


You can easily test after logging in and try the which command:
which radlog

On the permissions, you would do well to setup a special group to execute 
the commands making it easier for users to execute them without being 
root.  If your new utilities are working with log files be sure the log 
files are readable by this group as well.


As previously mentioned added user commands are customarily placed in 
/usr/local/bin doing so will aid any new sysadmin looking for them.



-Derek

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Re: Memory mannagment

2007-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona


At 01:15 AM 6/14/2007, cadastrosonline cadastrosonline wrote:

First of all,



Each process has its own private address space. The address space is 
initially divided

into three logical segments: text,
data, and stack. 


You would be wise to read up on Processors and assembly language 
programming.  The concept of segments is part of assembly language 
programming and often is built into CPU's.  In the case of the intel 80x86 
line this is very true.


To answer the questions:

text is usually program code, and should not be modifiable
stack is temporary storage of program values and variables
data is data for the program, this defines variable used in a program





But if the address is just something like 343556 then how does it
really work? The memory is divided into segments is that what it means?


Segments are kept separated by the CPU, and some treatment of segments can 
be enforced with some CPU's.  Text being non-modifiable is possible using 
some CPU's.  Some data segments can be read only as well.


To address memory locations vary by CPU and even by the mode the CPU is 
running in.  Some are linear address, but not necessarily.





The data segment contains the initialized and uninitialized data portions 
of a program


In the case of a modifiable data segment, it will contain initialized data, 
and non initialized data.

initialized data looks like:
int i=5;

versus uninitalized data:
int j;





Is it talking about multithreading? I COULDNT FIND anything talking
about how freebsd deals with multithreading, just found out it does it
by man pthread.


Threading is a separate topic.  Segments and how they work predates 
multi-threading.





Tell me anything else interesting to know about memory mannagment, does
it use any algorithm to substitute a page when out of pages in memory?
such as second chance fifo lru (last recently used) nfu (not
frequently used) and so on? I am studying freebsd but sometimes I am
out of ways to find out, yes I am reading the handbook about memory
mannagment as you can see my quotes but sometimes I don't understand.


Memory management varies by CPU and operating system.  You would need to 
research each implementation to understand how it is handled in each 
case.  Memory management should be transparent to application programers, 
and usually is only required for those programing device drivers and other 
hardware level devices.


-Derek

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Re: Upgrade FreeBSD 6.1 to 6.2 - ports upgrade

2007-06-07 Thread Derek Ragona


At 08:50 AM 6/7/2007, Dominik Zalewski wrote:

Dear All,

I'm planning to upgrade my FreeBSD 6.1 box to 6.2. Should I remove all
installed ports and rebuild them under 6.2 ?

Thanks in advance,


You don't need to remove them.  But you should run portmanager or 
portupgrade to rebuild them all after you upgrade.


-Derek
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Re: Xserver not starting

2007-06-07 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:55 AM 6/7/2007, dhaneshk k wrote:



Hi


this is Dhanesh


I have done a portupgrade of xorg in my freebsd6.1 box

this box was working fine with gnome2.18 for the last 3 months ,but now 
for building OpenOffice in this box ,its needed to do a portupgrade of 
xorg , so I followed as per /usr/ports/UPDATING ,


but doing this a power   failure occurs and system restarted before its 
completion while doing  portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*',



but after restart  I cant get the desktop its showing
gdm_server_spawn:xserver not found
just now it happened , how can I retrive my Desktop environment ?


Please help me with any solution to retrieve the desktop environment..


You can pickup the upgrade process where you left off, just restart
portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*'

-Derek

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Re: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:32 AM 6/6/2007, Gerard Seibert wrote:

FreeBSD-6.2
Xorg-7.2

I had 'xfce4' working perfectly under Xorg-6.9; however, after
updating to version 7.2, I cannot get the windows manager loaded.

I moved the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and build a new one using Xorg
--configure. I was then able to at least begin loading the program
before it crashed. I reinstalled the entire 'xorg' meta port as well
as the 'xfce4' meta port. I used an updated ports tree for this task.
Unfortunately, I still cannot get this to load.

I have posted a copy of the '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file at:

   http://seibercom.net/logs/Xorg-log.txt

I also have a copy of the script I created when typing in 'startx'
available at:

   http://seibercom.net/logs/startx.txt

There is one interesting point however. I noticed this error message:


** (xfce-mcs-manager:82803): WARNING **: display_plugin: Unable to 
configure display resolution
Failed to run gnome-keyring-daemon: Failed to execute child process 
gnome-keyring-daemon (No such file or directory)


** (xfwm4:82807): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite 
extension.


** (xfwm4:82807): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.

(xfwm4:82807): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate 
memory)


Looks like the above is the fatal error.  I suspect you rebuilt xfwm4 for 
shared memory, shmget.  You need to add this to your kernel, or rebuild 
xfwm4 not to use it, if that's possible.


-Derek

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Re[2]: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona


At 02:40 PM 6/6/2007, Gerard wrote:

On Wednesday June 06, 2007 at 01:03:21 (PM) Derek Ragona wrote:

[snip]

 Looks like the above is the fatal error.  I suspect you rebuilt xfwm4 for
 shared memory, shmget.  You need to add this to your kernel, or rebuild
 xfwm4 not to use it, if that's possible.

OK, how do I get 'shmget' activated in the kernel. I cannot find any
reference to it in the 'GENERIC' kernel file. Where else could I look
for information on it? I tried Googling, but got nowhere.


Add to your kernel config file:
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores

-Derek
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Re[3]: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:03 PM 6/6/2007, Gerard wrote:

On Wednesday June 06, 2007 at 03:57:00 (PM) Derek Ragona wrote:

[snip]

 Add to your kernel config file:
 options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
 options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
 options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores

That is what I thought. They are present in the file. I am on version
P5 right now. I will try rebuilding the kernel again later tonight.
Perhaps the update to Xorg-7.2 caused something to break, although I
have no idea how.


I had to do the update, per /usr/ports/UPDATING then reinstalled all of the 
xorg meta port.  I had library problems where some of the X bits were built 
with the wrong libaries.


-Derek

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Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:01 AM 6/3/2007, Tim Judd wrote:

I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply
please...

Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE.

I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it.
 I know it talks with it, because it has in the past.  The problem I'm
getting is that NUT is just filling the screen with errors, tty
overflows, and various problems related to communication on that port
with the UPS.

Looking at NUT's website, they say the UPS communicates at 2400 baud
8N1 and I'd like to believe that.  I tested without specifying a speed:
# tip com1
and didn't get anything..  waited 30 seconds or so.  After reading
NUT's website, I tried:
# tip -2400 com1
and got binary data (not readable information, but data none-the-less).

The kernel reports the port as sio0, but sio0 doesn't exist in /dev
the only serial port I see is cuad0{,.init,.lock} and that seems to be
hard-coded by some init script (but I don't know where).  cuad* also is
said to be a dialout line, not a generic com device.  /etc/remote does
indicate it is a generic device in the sense it will just pass
input/output...

How can I configure /dev/cuad0 to be 2400 baud fixed?

thanks for any tips and pointersit's been a while since I've dealt
with serial ports.


I have a similar setup with no issues.  You do need to be sure you have the 
correct nut driver for your UPS, and the cable tight.


-Derek

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Re: Help with Bind config syntax for reverse DNS on subnet

2007-05-31 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:44 PM 5/31/2007, Rob wrote:
Hi, was hoping someone could help me with the correct syntax in my 
named.conf for reverse DNS on a small subnet.


Say I have 10.0.0.0/27, such that actual addresses are 10.0.0.0 through 
10.0.0.31  -- If I add a zone like:

zone 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa {
   type master;
   file master/0.0.10.in-addr.arpa;  };

...I can define addresses for my little block, but reverse lookups on the 
rest of 10.0.0.x seem to fail.  What's the correct way to configure Bind 
for this?


You are missing any way to allow slaves to read the maps, so you might do 
something like:

zone 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa {
   type master;
   file master/0.0.10.in-addr.arpa;
   allow-transfer ( 10.0.0.2; and any other nameserver IP's; );
};

Then in your file:
0.0.10.in-addr.arpa list your addresses even if some are DHCP.
1 IN PTR router.domain.name.
2 IN PTR ns.domain.name.
3 IN PTR DHCP-10-0-0-3.domain.name.

etc . . .

-Derek

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Re: Nvidia 8800 GTS

2007-05-26 Thread Derek Ragona


At 01:16 PM 5/25/2007, Alexandre Vieira wrote:

Hello folks,

I've bought a Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB DDR and i'm trying to get it working with
freebsd.

I've installed Xorg 7.2 and the nvidia driver. The driver detects the card
correctly and displays the card info correctly.

When I launch Xorg with the nvidia driver I get a striped green screen and
the machine freezes completely. I can't see any X logs because it crashes
immediately.


Sounds like you don't the right refresh settings for your monitor.  Double 
check the refresh rates you choose in configuring X and the resolutions too.


-Derek

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Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona


At 05:30 AM 5/24/2007, kalin mintchev wrote:


so nobody on this list knows anything about raid?
wrong list?

 hi all..

 i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has
 two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of
 slices.
 under devices there is another name - ad6 - but it's not mounted anywhere.
 the one i see both in df and the fstab is ad4 with one big slice and
 different partitions

 they insist there are 2 raided discs in tha machine. the os is 5.4 and i
 think at that point the raid drivers were still considered 'experimental'.

 it makes sense to me that if i don't see a second drive in the fstab there
 isn;t any mounting which means that there is no raid going on...

 is there any other way i can make sure if raid is actually on?
 would there will be any logs somewhere?
 the machine has been up for about 2 years and the dmesg is long gone...

 thanks.




It is likely a hardware raid setup in the hardware BEFORE FreeBSD was 
installed.  In this type of setup the RAID array just looks like a regular 
hard disk to the OS.


-Derek

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Re: nvidia-driver segmentation fault

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:26 AM 5/24/2007, Ernest Sales wrote:

To celebrate te Xorg upgrade I got rid of all ports installed in my system,
then did a fresh install. No problems building; well, I installed first
gnome-lite expecting it would pull the complete xorg meta-port and finally
had to install this to get all the stuff, but suppose this is harmless.

Now, the sad history: I can run X apps with the nv driver, but the
nvidia-driver fails. Typescript [...comments...]:

[...using the nv driver...]

# X -config xorg.conf.new
X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386
Current Operating System: FreeBSD asinusaureus 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
#0: Thu May 24 11:20:28 CEST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZORN i386
Build Date: 21 May 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu May 24 11:56:19 2007
(++) Using config file: /root/xorg.conf.new
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not
found)

[...works fine; same if I launch the desktop...]

[...now as configured with nvidia-xconfig...]

# X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf
X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386
Current Operating System: FreeBSD asinusaureus 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
#0: Thu May 24 11:20:28 CEST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZORN i386
Build Date: 21 May 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu May 24 11:57:34 2007
(++) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[...shows the nvidia splash screen and then aborts...]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

Abort (core dumped)
# tail /var/log/messages
[...]
May 24 11:57:37 asinusaureus kernel: pid 1840 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on
signal 6 (core dumped)

No relevant info in xorg logs.

After much looking, I am still clueless. Any hint?


Make sure you are using the correct driver for your specific graphics 
chip.  Older chips need a legacy driver you have to install yourself.


There is information on the nvidia website.

-Derek

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Re: Missing MBR ?

2007-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:09 PM 5/13/2007, Joseph Marah wrote:

All of a sudden my MBR prompt has disapeared and replaced by the following:

  Intel(R) Boot Agent FEv4.1.17
  Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation
  Intel(R) BootAgent PXE Base Code (PXE-2.1 buildbuild 085)
  Copyright (C) 1997-2004, Intel Corporation
  Client MAC addr .)  GUID...
  PXE-E53:No boot filename received
  PXE-M)F:Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

  It then hangs indefinitely.


Your boot order is changed, and perhaps not even trying to boot from the 
hard drive.  The above message is trying to boot from the network.


Check your BIOS settings.

-Derek

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Re: Sendmail mail.local Failure

2007-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:48 AM 5/12/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

For some reason, my local mailer is failing. I can send and receive to
remote servers just fine, but I can't transfer mail locally.

/var/log/maillog says:

sm-mta[31955]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00
sm-mta[31955]: started as: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m
sm-msp-queue[31959]: starting daemon (8.14.1): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00
sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: smtpquit: mailer local exited with exit value 1
sm-mta[31957]: l4CFZl3v031717: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],
delay=00:50:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=241792,
relay=local, dsn=4.4.2, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by local

In my mc file, I have (Among other settings):

FEATURE(local_lmtp)
MAILER(local)
MAILER(smtp)

Why's the mail getting deferred?


It is deferred becuase sendmail isn't running.  Check your sendmail 
settings in /etc/rc.conf.


-Derek

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Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions

2007-04-27 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:49 PM 4/27/2007, L Goodwin wrote:

I've been working feverishly to set up a Samba share
on FreeBSD 6.2 server to provide file storage for
clients running Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Home
Premium.

I just had a long talk with the ISP's tech support,
and was told a number of things that I would like to
confirm or deny:

1) Windows Home editions (including XP and Vista)
have support for SMB protocol disabled in Active
Directory Domain Connections functionality!
Is this true?


Not exactly.  Home edition CANNOT log into a domain or active 
directory.  If you need that functionality, upgrade to XP Pro.




2) The only way to make Samba work for Windows Home
editions is to change the Samba server's domain
configuration to peer-to-peer.
Is this true? If YES, how do I do that?
Could not find reference it in the Official Samba-3
HOW TO and Reference Guide.


I've never done that so am no help.



3) Other options discussed:

1) Replace Vista Home with Windows XP Pro (or Vista
Pro) or exchange computer for one with a Pro
edition.


Vista licenses can be downgraded to XP.  You need to check on which 
versions can be downgraded to XP Pro.




2) Repartition the RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex as NTFS (or
DOS) partitions (and don't use Samba)? Feedback and
reference on a good how to appreciated.


I assume you mean just setup a windows box.  You can do that, but your 
hardware is so slow it won't perform well under windows.




3) Change FreeBSD server to a Windows server (ugh).

Can anyone address these assertions and/or provide
assistance in other ways to use FreeBSD as a
fileserver for Windows Home (and Pro) clients?

He also cited a recent InfoWorld survey in which 30%
of companies responding plan to never implement Vista,
that they consider it an interim version that will
be used as an excuse for dropping legacy support.


No one I know is jumping to vista until service pack one ships.

-Derek

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Re: can't add any new users


At 02:31 PM 4/25/2007, Charlie McElfresh wrote:

Hi,

I recently upgraded all my machines to 6.2 RELEASE.  All my machines except
one work fine.

On one of my machines, I can log in from the console to the super user
account, but I could not su to my user account.

So, I backed up all my data, and I deleted my user account.  Then, I added
it back with adduser.

When I look in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I'm in there.

When I try to su to my newly created account, I get this message:

Bad system call (core dumped)

I tried removing my account with rmuser, then adding it back again -- same
problem.

Any ideas?

Charlie


You didn't say how you upgraded this server to 6.2, nor from what 
version.  I suspect you have an old or missing library.  You might do well 
on this server to cvsup, buildworld, and install world.


-Derek

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Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue


At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i
Smart Controller installed.  The installation was flawless.

When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader screen is
displayed.  I press F1 and the system beeps and comes back to the boot
loader prompt.

What should I be looking at?  I am at a loss since I usually end up with
leftover hardware and this time I acutally got to purchase new hardware
just for this project.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help.


Check your BIOS that you are ALLOWING the boot sector to be written.

If that is OK, try disabling hyperthreading if that is turned on in your BIOS.

-Derek

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Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue


At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Both of those checked OK.  Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S
incorrectly during setup?

Thanks,


What is your type and model hard drive?  Did you specify the geometry when 
you ran sysinstall?


How did you partition and slice the hard drive?


-Derek



Jay

 At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i
Smart Controller installed.  The installation was flawless.

When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader screen
 is
displayed.  I press F1 and the system beeps and comes back to the boot
loader prompt.

What should I be looking at?  I am at a loss since I usually end up with
leftover hardware and this time I acutally got to purchase new hardware
just for this project.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

 Check your BIOS that you are ALLOWING the boot sector to be written.

 If that is OK, try disabling hyperthreading if that is turned on in your
 BIOS.

  -Derek

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Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue


At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Both of those checked OK.  Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S
incorrectly during setup?

Thanks,

 What is your type and model hard drive?  Did you specify the geometry when
 you ran sysinstall?

 How did you partition and slice the hard drive?


  -Derek



Derek,

In the server I currently have three 376595-001 drives (146 GB serial
SCSI) and three 432146-001 drives (300 GB serial SCSI).  These drives are
configured as a single drive in a RAID 5 configuration.

I did not specify any geometry during the installation.

I have the hard drive configured as a single partition with the
appropriate lables (/, /var, /usr, /tmp and a swap area).

Thanks for your help.


Sounds like your system is not booting, but you're not getting any error 
message.  Check the boot order in your BIOS, and turn on diagnostic boot 
messages if they are not turned on.


Does they system boot from a CD ok?

-Derek





Jay

Jay

  At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i
 Smart Controller installed.  The installation was flawless.
 
 When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader
 screen
  is
 displayed.  I press F1 and the system beeps and comes back to the boot
 loader prompt.
 
 What should I be looking at?  I am at a loss since I usually end up
 with
 leftover hardware and this time I acutally got to purchase new
 hardware
 just for this project.
 
 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
 Thanks for your help.
 
  Check your BIOS that you are ALLOWING the boot sector to be written.
 
  If that is OK, try disabling hyperthreading if that is turned on in
 your
  BIOS.
 
   -Derek
 
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Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue


At 01:31 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Both of those checked OK.  Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S
 incorrectly during setup?
 
 Thanks,
 
  What is your type and model hard drive?  Did you specify the geometry
 when
  you ran sysinstall?
 
  How did you partition and slice the hard drive?
 
 
   -Derek
 

 

Derek,

In the server I currently have three 376595-001 drives (146 GB serial
SCSI) and three 432146-001 drives (300 GB serial SCSI).  These drives are
configured as a single drive in a RAID 5 configuration.

I did not specify any geometry during the installation.

I have the hard drive configured as a single partition with the
appropriate lables (/, /var, /usr, /tmp and a swap area).

Thanks for your help.

 Sounds like your system is not booting, but you're not getting any error
 message.  Check the boot order in your BIOS, and turn on diagnostic boot
 messages if they are not turned on.

 Does they system boot from a CD ok?

  -Derek

Yes, the system boots from CD just fine.  And, it is able to run newfs
during the install without any problems.

The total size of the drive is 683.5 GB.

The boot order in the BIOS is CD and then E200i controller.

Thanks,


Jay


Can you boot the CD, mount the root filesystem and check that everything is 
there (/boot /kernel, etc.)


-Derek







Jay

 Jay
 
   At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an
 E200i
  Smart Controller installed.  The installation was flawless.
  
  When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader
  screen
   is
  displayed.  I press F1 and the system beeps and comes back to the
 boot
  loader prompt.
  
  What should I be looking at?  I am at a loss since I usually end up
  with
  leftover hardware and this time I acutally got to purchase new
  hardware
  just for this project.
  
  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
  
  Thanks for your help.
  
   Check your BIOS that you are ALLOWING the boot sector to be
 written.
  
   If that is OK, try disabling hyperthreading if that is turned on in
  your
   BIOS.
  
-Derek
  
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Re: first of misc questions....

2007-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona


At 02:29 AM 4/25/2007, Gary Kline wrote:

Guys,

This is an awk-type question.  Hopefully a one-liner.  If I
need to use #!/usr/bin/awk and a BEGIN/END (or whatever it is),
that's okay...

I want to do an ls -l in a  /home/kline/directory and find and
edit files that are dated (let's say) Apr 19 or Mar 26.  This
works to print $9 the filenames.

ls -l| awk '{if ($6 == Apr  $7 == 19  || $6 == Mar  $7
== 26 ) print $9}'

What's the final part to get awk to vi $9?  Or another pipe and
xargs and what vi?  Nothing simple works, so thanks for any
clues!


I would use a simple approach incase you need to re-edit the list since 
editing will change file times:
ls -l| awk '{if ($6 == Apr  $7 == 19  || $6 == Mar  $7 == 26 ) 
print $9}'  /tmp/myfilelist

then you can:
for i in `cat /tmp/myfilelist`;do vi $i;done

if you don't want to use a file, you can do in one shell loop too, but 
again this will change your file modification times:
for i in `ls -l| awk '{if ($6 == Apr  $7 == 19  || $6 == Mar  $7 == 
26 ) print $9}'`;do vi $i;done


-Derek

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Re: Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:38 PM 4/24/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
I installed the samba-3.0.23c_2,1 package on a server destined for a small 
office network running Windows clients. Have not yet configured the 
network settings.
Am trying to test the Samba configuration offline before connecting it 
to the network (router connected to cable modem, clients connected to 
router via Cat-5e Ethernet).


Issues/Questions (see Samba configuration details at end of email):


This is a bit off-topic here.  There are samba lists that will better serve 
you.




1) smbclient -L hostname fails with Connection to SERVER failed.
Get same error for smbclient //SERVER/sambavol. What does this mean?

2) What value to assign netbios name in smb.conf?


The netbios name is the server's name your client pc's will see for those 
shares.  It will be case insensitive and needs to be a unique name for the LAN.



3) What degree of network configuration is necessary for smbclient -L 
hostname to work?


You need a proper IP stack running that will hit the gateway for your LAN.


4) How to verify that Samba3 package was installed successfully (other 
than lack of warnings/errors during install)?


Use a client computer and test the connection.  There are utilities to 
help, but they don't always completely test a windows client connecting.




SAMBA CONFIGURATION DETAILS:

1) Create smb.conf file in /usr/local/etc:

[global]
workgroup = office
netbios name = tbd (is this required, and how/where to get/set it?)


It is the server name you will use on your LAN.  Make it up.


security = share

[sambavol]
path = /sambavol
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
printable = no

2) Add entry to start samba in /etc/rc.conf:
samba_enable=YES

3) Start Samba:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start
(to stop samba: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh stop)


Or it will start on boot-up.


Note: Need to keep the file server synced with Internet standard time (see 
NTPD(8) man page).


Tests:
--
1) Verify that smb.conf file is in the right directory (gets read):
which smbd# Get location of smbd
(output: usr/local/sbin/smbd)
cd /usr/local/sbin# cd to the directory containing smbd!
smbd -b | grep smb.conf# Get location of smb.conf (verify path is 
correct)

(output: CONFIGFILE: /usr/local/sbin/smb.conf)
RESULT: OK

2) Test Samba configuration file:
cd /usr/local/etc
testparm smb.conf
RESULT: OK

3) List shares available on server:
smbclient -L hostname
RESULT: FAIL (Connection to SERVER failed)

Additional Samba Configuration Steps:
1) Uncommented the following lines in /etc/inetd.conf and rebooted:
#netbios-ssnstreamtcpnowaitroot 
/usr/local/sbin/smbdsmbd
#netbios-nsdgramudpwaitroot/usr/local/sbin/nmbd 
  nmbd

On reboot, get these boot messages:
...
Removing stale Samba tdb files: .. done
Starting nmbd.
Starting smbd.
Starting usbd.
...
RESULT: Still getting Connection to SERVER failed.


Depends on how you are trying to do your authentication.  Check your 
smb.conf.  If you are going to authenticat against an existing windows 
domain or active directory you need to compile windbind in your samba.


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Re: raid controller intel 82801GR/GH

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona


At 03:23 PM 4/24/2007, J.C. França wrote:

greetings,

does anyone know about freebsd 6.2 compatibility with intel controller
82801GR/GH, running RAID 10?


Have you tried creating your RAID 10 array first and installing FreeBSD?

-Derek

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Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona


At 02:19 PM 4/23/2007, Andrew Fremantle wrote:

Hello,

I've got a machine on the local network, with a local DNS name (which is 
not a valid name in the global DNS).


My problem is that I cannot kludge sendmail into behaving nicely and allow 
the periodic(8) mailings to get through.


The machine is named psyche.local
domain1.com is a domain that we own, but this machine has nothing to do 
with it. I want the emails delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not an 
email server in any way - All I care about it getting my periodic output.


Here are the settings I'm trying :

/etc/mail/psyche.local.mc
define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.telus.net')
define(`MAIL_HUB',`mail.telus.net')

define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`domain1.com')

MASQUERADE_AS(domain1.com)
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(psyche.local psyche)
FEATURE(`allmasquerade')
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')

/etc/mail/genericsdomain
psyche.local

/etc/mail/genericstable
root[EMAIL PROTECTED]
andrew  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/mail/aliases
root : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/hosts
192.168.2.10   psyche psyche.local

With all the configurations I've tried, emails are rejected by my 
smarthost with an error like sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid; 
domain does not exist.


What I'd like to do is find a way to alter sendmail's perception of my 
hostname. Ideally, this would only affect sendmail and nothing else.


I can't possibly be the only person running such a configuration. How have 
other people in the list worked past this?


You don't need to go to such efforts.  The stock sendmail mc file should do 
fine with just a couple modifications.  The details are here:

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.22

Check your name resolution order in /etc/nsswitch.conf that you check files 
first.


modify /etc/hosts
192.168.2.10   psyche psyche.local.

so it is a fully qualified domain name.

You can forward all mail in /etc/mail/virtualusertable
with a line such as:
@psyche.local   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Be sure to recompile your virtualusertable.db

-Derek

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Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:01 PM 4/23/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file 
server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 
Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista 
Home Premium users as a Samba share.  I also plan to create system 
recovery disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client.


This leaves backing up user data on some schedule. I've read Backup 
Basics, but have some questions:


Which is best backup media for a FreeBSD file server, based on known 
issues (or lack of) with each format? I need to decide between the 
following formats:

 a) CD-R (or CD-RW?)
 b) DVD-R (or CD-RW?)
 c) Streaming tape (which format/standard?)

Which is the best method for backing up data files on a Samba sharer FreeBSD?
Handbook says dump is the only way to go.

Is it possible to have a Windows client perform the backup files on the 
Samba share to a local Re-Writable CD or DVD drive? If the answer is YES, 
what are the pros and cons of a UNIX-based (data-file only) backup vs. a 
Windows-based one?

Please add to my list of pros and cons:

Windows Backup:
PRO: Backup can be restored to a Windows drive while server is being fixed?
CON: Users might forget to replace backup disk after using optical drive.

FreeBSD Backup:
PRO: Out of sight from users (server is in a storeroom).
CON: Cannot restore backup to a Windows disk while server is being fixed?

These are some of my other considerations:

 1) Cost is a primary concern. Budget does not allow for a multi-drive 
solution. Best if client does not handle backups (change discs/tapes), so 
a solution that permits storing several backups to same disc/tape preferred.


2) I only want to back up user data (not the OS). Current user data 
occupies less than 1GB of drive space, and is expected to grow at a modest 
rate.


3) I do NOT have a writable CD or DVD drive (but can buy one if not too 
spendy).


4) I have an external SCSI connection, but very little shelf space.

5) The server does not have room for another internal device (except if 
swapping out the existing ATAPI CD-ROM drive).


6) I have an Ecrix Corporation Model VXI-1A SCSI internal tape drive that 
I assume is obsolete (comments appreciated). Anyway, I don't have room for it.


7) Have not yet settled on a backup schedule. May be weekly or monthly or 
ad-hoc, but daily is probably out of the question. The RAID 1 array is 
expected to provide some degree of protection in leieu of daily backups. 
Plan to back up all documents each time, rather than implement a 
two-tiered backup process.


Thanks!




You already have RAID 1 so you need more of an offline, removable media 
solution.  You need to choose between CD, DVD, or tape.  That is a cost and 
capacity issue, you need to do some price comparisons and choose what fits 
your budget.


You can backup and restore all files UNIX and Samba/windows from the 
FreeBSD but not vice-versa.


You would do well to setup some automated task, as in a cron job to do the 
backups.  You will need a human to change whatever media you choose, and 
move it off-site occasionally too.


For FreeBSD, be sure to backup /etc /usr/local/etc.

You can use dump/restore, tar, pax, cpio, or one of the ports such as bacula.

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Re: Monitor and X

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:19 AM 4/22/2007, Richard Knebel wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to set up m y computer to use X in 6.2
I edited the xorg.conf file with my monitors Horiz and Vert freq, but
whenever I try and do startX
I get this message

Out of Range Hfreq 81 khz
 VFreq 65 hz

Thanks
Rick

Rick Knebel
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You need to post back with at least the monitor settings you have in your 
xorg.conf file.


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Re: Monitor and X

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Ragona

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The only resolution you have defines is 1280x1024.  You need to verify your 
monitor will handle the max refresh rates at that resolution.  Usually at 
higher resolution, you need to drop the refresh rates.  Look for a table in 
your monitor manual that has the refresh rate AND resolutions too.


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A slicing question

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Tattersall

I have a machine with a large hard drive which is not completely
partioned (in the MSDOS sense).  I would like to take some of this
unallocated space and make it a slice, label it and newfs it, but I am
not sure if I can do this without screwing up the existing slice scheme.
Are there any suggestions for the _RIGHT_ way to do this so I don't kill
the existing scheme?

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Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-20 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:43 AM 4/20/2007, Grant Peel wrote:

Hi all,

I am posting this question here because I know there are alot of ISPs 
using FreeBSD (including me) and am hoping to get feedback, either 
directly to me or to the list.


We are wrestling (as I am sure many are), with spam. Up until now we have 
been employing Spamassassin locally and using some 3rd party Anti-Spam 
servervices that are getting less and less reliable as the weeks go by.


We are considering two hardware solutions, Easyantispam and Barracuda. 
Barracuda is very expensive, so the most likely candidate is Easyantispam. 
Does anyone out there have thought on either or both of these? Usability? 
Reliability? Total Cost of ownership? Integration issues?


Any thoughts will be appreciated,


If your volume of mail is 5 per day don't use the baracuda.  It won't 
keep up.


-Derek

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Re: FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI


At 11:32 PM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote:


In our initial posts, we stated that we seemed to be having issues
getting the machine to boot with the 4 processors, so to bypass this we
disabled ACPI on boot. This allowed us to get past the CPU error and
continue to boot. However down the track we noticed things like the
ethernet adapater not getting picked up, and the big problem - none of
the disks getting recognised.

We have since tried a few things, one of which was removing all but one
of the CPU's. If we do this, and boot with ACPI enabled, all is totally
fine. All disks are found, and I receive no CPU panic error.

So it appears to me that by disabling ACPI in an attempt to bypass the
QUAD CPU problem, we are causing another issue behind the scenes.

The root of the problem now appears to be, that if we have anything over
1 CPU, directly after the kernel is loaded (when booting from the CD),
we receive the error message panic: madt_probe_cpus_handler: CPU ID 38
Too High. The moment a second CPU to the machineit bombs out.


Have you tried booting a custom kernel with SMP enabled from the hard 
drives?  You might try that and install another CPU and see how the system 
reacts.


Are these CPU's hyperthreaded too?  Or just single core CPU's?  I have had 
problems installing with some systems if hyperthreading was enabled.  Post 
installation with a custom SMP enabled kernel built I could turn 
hyperthreading on or off and the system booted and ran fine.


-Derek

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Re: random hangs/reboots with Dell servers


At 05:54 AM 4/19/2007, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:


Dear all,

I am trying to understand some long standing issues we have with freebsd 
and Dell servers.


Over the last 3 year we have installed freebsd 5.x and 6.x, with currently 
deployed version being 6.1, to a variety of of Dell rack mounted systems.


The Dell systems used so far are Poweredge 1750, 2950 (both scsi), and 
sc1425 (sata). All of them are dual CPU Xeon systems.


All these systems serve as mail/web servers, with 2 to 15 jails.

Installation has always proceeded normally without problems. However, 
after a few months of operation, all of these systems, purchased at 
different moments during the last 3 years, will begin rebooting randomly 
or freezing completely.


These reboots/freezes will at first occur once per 6 months, then 
gradually will move to to once per month, to normally stabilize around 
once per week, but in the case of the 1750 system once it even happened 
twice a day.


Load does not seem to matter, since even after shutting down all services 
in the servers, still random reboots occured.


So far we tried various tricks digged from the archives, like disabling 
ACPI, HT, but nothing changed.


We have migrated some systems that had these issues to RHEL compatible OS, 
and they run rock solid under heavy load.


Right now I have enabled kernel crash dumps and I am waiting for the next 
crash. But I understad a lot of people use FreeBSD with Dell servers, and 
I would like to listen on how to tackle this situation we are facing.


First make sure you are up-to-date on the FreeBSD version you are running, 
also make sure it is still a supported release.  If not, update your src 
and rebuild everything.


For the hardware I'd run complete diagnostics from dell on one of these 
servers, and any stress tests available as well.  If the hardware all 
checks out OK, I would look for either an environmental cause such as 
heat.  Heat can cause hardware problems that wouldn't show up 
otherwise.  If neither of these looks like the cause, then you may need to 
swap-out a system board, or RAM as it must be a hardware issue.


-Derek

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Re: Xorg crashing without overt error messages


At 10:31 AM 4/19/2007, Rob wrote:

Hi All,

I am having a problem with a new laptop where Xorg crashes but doesn't
give any explicite info as to why.   I have added at the end some of the
output.  Thanks!

Rob


Rob,

I have seen this on some systems running nvidia drivers.  I found if I 
cvsup'd and reinstalled the nvidia driver it would fire up just fine.


-Derek


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Re: Missing all video drivers


At 02:07 PM 4/19/2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
If a fresh install is missing *all* the video drivers except vga, what 
went wrong?


My box has a boatload of drivers; s3-virge, radeon, ati, etc.  This new 
install (6.2 RELEASE) has *no* video drivers at all.


Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/



You specify what X drivers/X servers in a separate part of sysinstall.  In 
all likelihood you choose only the generic vga option.


-Derek

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Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote:

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM)
CPU X 4: 40K2522
HDD X 6: 40K1051
IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729

We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and
are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the
RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to
installing the O/S.

We have attempted various modifications to the boot process, including
the loading of an aac module, which according to the BSD website,
should provide support for this type of controller.

When we attempt to boot to OS to install after making these above
modifications, the boot loader advises that this module already appears
to be loaded, which contradicts what I believe. In any respect, it
doesn't work either way (with or without the module manually loaded).

One side note (which i don't think is contributing) is that when I
attempt to start the boot loader with ACPI enabled, it freezes with the
message cpu id 38 too high. However if I boot the boot loader with
ACPI disabled, this message dissapears. It _may_ be a possibility that a
bi-product of disabling the ACPI is causing the RAID controller to have
issues. This appears to be an issue because of the X4 CPU count ??

That's a quick summary of the problem we have, and the path(s) we have
been down to date to attempt to fix it. Any help you can provide would
be very much appreciated. We are at the position now where we are
prepared to pay for consulting services to get it going.

Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor

Bytecraft Systems


Are you creating an Array before you try the installation?

What does the console show for the recognized hardware, and not recognized 
hardware?  You can boot from CD and run dmesg to get this information.


-Derek

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Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona


At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote:

Hello,

I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives.  I'd like
to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of
errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations.

Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to
stress-test disk drives?  I've searched ports and done some googling
but nothing stands out.

Thanks for your help.


Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives.  Each manufacturer has 
bootable test and stress utilities.


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Re: Cant boot fresh install of freebsd 6.2 or dell poweredge 6650

2007-04-12 Thread Derek Ragona


At 09:21 AM 4/12/2007, Craig Russell wrote:

I am a newbie using freebsd and have run into a
problem on a new install on a dell poweredge 6650.  I
am installing to a hardeware raid 1 on an LSI Logic
raid controller.  The installation appears to go well
but after a reboot the freebsd boot manager comes up
with F1 to boot Freebsd (or default) and then it
complains of no boot loader followed by a no
/boot/kernel/kernel error.

The default boot parameter is
0:ad(0,d)/boot/kernel/kernel

I've tried different slices with the same results.  I
have tried using the MBR instead of the freebsd boot
manager.  I have tried different bios settings on the
raid card (LSI logic in the poweredge 6650).  I'm not
really sure what to try next.  I've even tried to
install it on a different machine on a single sata
drive with the same result.  I am obviously doing
something wrong but I can't for the life of me figure
out what it is.

Thank you for any help or direction you can provide.


If you have tried on two systems, one with a standard IDE/SATA drive and 
that failed to boot as well, I would suspect the install media is bad.  I 
would download a new ISO and burn a new cd.  You might try an ISO from a 
different mirror.  It is possible your CD is foobar.  Be sure you get the 
correct disk 1 ISO from whatever mirror you use.


-Derek

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Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file


At 07:54 PM 4/10/2007, RW wrote:

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500
Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote:
 What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a
 period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6.
 
 apollo# cat /etc/hosts
 #::1localhost.mydomain.com localhost
 127.0.0.1   localhost.mydomain.com localhost
 10.20.30.199apollo.mydomain.com apollo
 10.20.30.199apollo.mydomain.com.
 
 Is this something that's required for other IP addresses that will
 be added to the hosts file in the future?

 Names ending in a dot represent the fully qualified domain name.  You
 do it all on one line but it gets too long to easily see and edit.

But that doesn't explain why apollo.mydomain.com. appears as both a
FQDN and a PQDN


Actually it does.  The partial names are shortcut aliases for that 
name.  On this system you can do things like:

ping apollo
ping apollo.mydomain.com
ping apollo.mydomain.com.

So can any of the network services.  Just makes it easier for us 
humans.  As names are just used so us humans don't need to memorize IP 
addresses.


-Derek 
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Re: awk question


At 07:43 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote:

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:35:33PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:
 At 06:17 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:54:07PM -0700, Rick Olson wrote:
  I'm assuming you've already taken care of this, but to answer your
  original question in AWK form, you could have done the following:
 
  ls -l | awk '$8 == 2006 {system(rm  $9)}'
 
 
 i'Ll save your snippet to my growing %%% awk file in my ~/HowTo,
 thankee much.  I'm in the first stages on a months-long trial on
 system tuning.  This, before I'd risk publishing anything.  So
 far tho, by upping and lower the NICE prio of various binaries, I
 have been able to get more than 70% efficient use out of my older
 servers.  ---This *ought* to carry over to my faster machines
 
 Is tthere a way of using ps -alx | ask to look at nice and if it
 is non-zero (the default), to reset it to zero?

 You can easily do some of this using top, such as:
 top -bS 200 | tail -n +9 | awk '{ print $5 }'

 If you want to tweak the nice value you'd need to examine the value and
 then renice it as long as you are root.  You'd need the PID for that, so
 here's another example:
 top -bS 200 | tail -n +9 | awk '{ printf(Pid: %d has Nice: %d\n, 
$1,$5) }'



Well, I knew there had to be a static way to read top.  -bS is
it.  If NICE is 9, then renice-n -9 pid ought to reset it to 0;
so in C, the check for nice or n would be trivial:

if (n != 0)
n = -n;

In you example, would this be if ($1 != 0) $1 = -$1;
then a '{system(renice -n $)};
or is this disallowed in awk?

gary


It is easier to redirect the output to a file then just execute that 
file.  You'd usually have this in a shell script run by cron.


top -bS 200 | tail -n +9 | awk '{ if ($1 != 0) printf(/usr/bin/renice %d 
%d\n, $1,-$5) }'  /tmp/renice.scr

sh -c /tmp/renice.scr

But look at the file generated, you need to do more than just the check for 
0 and then negate it.


-Derek

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Re: No CD/DVD devices found after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1


At 08:07 AM 4/11/2007, Isaac Grover wrote:

Good morning,

I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Dimension
C521n (no Windows pre-installed) with a Sony model DDU1615S CD/DVD
drive as the chosen boot media.  Booting from the CD shows that the CD
drive shows up as cd, and after doing the fdisk/disklabel stuff,
trying to choose the CD drive as the chosen boot media gives me an
error window with the message No CD/DVD devices found.  I would
include a dmesg output if I knew how to get to it during an install.
Why can't FreeBSD see the CD drive after sysinstall starts when it can
clearly see it before sysinstall starts?

Thanks in advance,
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What interface is the CD drive on?  what interface is the hard drive 
using?  Which version of FreeBSD are you installing i386 or amd64?


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Re: Chroot/jail mechanism in ssh and sftp connections

At 11:20 AM 4/11/2007, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. I intend to study about this possible solution
but to save time I'd

like to ask you some questions.

With this software, can I control which accounts from the unix passwd
file will be able to log in?

Yes just set the shell to a non-login shell for users you don't want to
give shell access. Typically I set those user's shell to:

/usr/bin/false

If there is a symbolic link in the home directory(jail/chroot) that point
to anywhere out of it,
will the users be able to use this symlink? Will they go out from their
jail/chroot directory this

way?

You can actually specify what ftp commands are allowed in the vsftpd.conf file
in one server I manage I have set:
cmds_allowed=PASV,RETR,QUIT,USER,PASS,STOR,CDDN,CWD,LIST,GET,PUT,DIR,PWD,SYST,LS,TYPE,DELE,FEAT,PBSZ,PROT

But you'd probably want to remove any symlinks that shouldn't be there.

Derek Ragona wrote:
At 10:28 AM 4/10/2007, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote:
Hello,
I want to use the chroot/jail mechanism in user's ssh and sftp
connections. I've read some
tutorials and possible solutions to jail/chroot the users into their
own home directories. One

is
to install the openssh-portable(with chroot option turned on) from the
ports collection. I've
installed the openssh-portable, but the jail/chroot mechanism didn't work.
I think it requires
some configuration in its sshd_config file, but I'm not sure because I
have found nothing about

jail/chroot in the openssh(sshd_config) man pages.

I have implemented a similar setup using vsftpd from the ports. It
works well for secure ftp
when used with the filezilla client. You can limit the ftp command in the
vsftpd configuration
file so users cannot get out of their home directories, which chroots them
there. You do need to
add one thing to the accounts, which is to change their home directory in
/etc/passwd adding an

additional dot. For instance if a users home directory is:
/home/user

You'd need to change it to:
/home/./user

vsftpd is well documented and relatively easy to get setup and running.

-Derek

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Re: fetchmail checksum mismatch error


At 11:50 AM 4/11/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

Dear all,

I tried updating fetchmail today from 6.3.6 to 6.3.8. I used portupgrade
to do it. However, I got an error message about checksum mismatch.

I suspect it may have something to do with me stopping the upgrade process
because while downloading the files, the connection froze and there was no
progress for about 15 minutes or so. So I pressect CTRL-C on the command
line and tried again. Since then I have been getting checksum mismatch
warnings and I am not able to upgrade.

What should I do now? Your advice is very much appreciated!

Thank you!


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delete the downloaded bad file from /usr/ports/distfiles and then download 
a good file.


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Re: default shell behavior with aterm


At 05:42 PM 4/11/2007, Chad Perrin wrote:

I've had to solve a problem with unexpected shell behavior when using
aterm (my favorite terminal emulator) a couple of times now.  This seems
to be limited to aterm -- the same problems do not arise at the TTY
console or in xterm.

Back when I first set up the workstation I'm currently using, with
FreeBSD 6.1, one of the unexpected differences from what's familiar to
me (having come from Debian GNU/Linux) was the fact that in aterm the
open parenthesis character, (, would behave as a backspace.  I solved
the problem at the time, with a bit of searching around.  Part of what I
did to solve the problem involved entering the following command into
the .bashrc file for my user account:

  stty erase2 '^?'

Since then, something happened (I just wasn't careful enough with my
edits that file, I guess) to that line.  Last night, I found myself
trying to remember how to solve the problem of REPLs like OCaml's
toplevel and the interactive UCBLogo shell treating the open parenthesis
character as a backspace.

Another part of the solution the first time around -- and one that has
not gone away and needed to be refixed -- is to comment out these lines
in the file /usr/ports/x11/aterm/Makefile:

  .if !defined(WITH_BSDEL)
  CONFIGURE_ARGS+=   --disable-backspace-key --disable-delete-key
  .endif

My question is this:

Is there some (good) reason that aterm's Makefile contains these lines?
Is there some logically justified reason for causing aterm to break the
principle of least surprise in this fashion -- since it obviously works
differently (surprise!) from the behavior of other means of using the
shell?

Is this a bug I should submit?



Actually you might want to have an entry added for this terminal to 
terminfo and termcap databases.  I don't see an entry for it, and suspect 
it is using one of the generic definitions.


-Derek


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Re: Unable to load a kernel !


At 06:34 PM 4/11/2007, Oscar Chavarria wrote:

Error Message: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Unable to load a kernel !
'
can't load 'kernel'

System: AMD Athlon 64 +3000 1.8GHz - 1.0GB RAM - Windows Server 2003
originally installed.

Background: Booting from CD FreeBSD seems to install without problems.
Create user, add sysadmin password, some utilities. Then system cannot
reboot when finished. When done manually, I choose F2 for FreeBSD and the
referenced error message appears. Windows boots normally when chosen.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Before you exit sysinstall you can check that the kernel has been copied in 
the emergency shell on alt+f4.  You may need to manually copy copy the kernel.


-Derek

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Re: Boot failure after installation


At 08:14 PM 4/9/2007, L Goodwin wrote:

Derek Ragona said:

 Go into the SCSI BIOS and reset the SCSI to default values.
 If it still gives the same error on bootup, I would go into the SCSI 
BIOS and

 low-level format that first drive, and reinstall FreeBSD.
 On the reinstall, I would just do the partioning for that drive, and 
then install everything.
 That way it will run mostly by itself, you can just check on it for the 
last few prompts of the

 install finishing up.

Derek, I just did the following, expecting that this would fix the glitch:

1) Reset the SCSI BIOS to Host Adapter Defaults: Matches prior 
configuration exactly.

2) Run a low-level format on SCSI device #0: No errors.
3) Install FreeBSD 6.2 from scratch. Note: I answered Yes to the prompt
ACPI was disabled during boot. Would you like to disable it 
permanently?.

I don't think it will boot if I enable ACPI.
RESULT: FAIL - Still getting DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND 
PRESS ENTER


4) Ran Verify Disk Media on SCSI ID #0: Disk Verification Complete

What else could it possibly be? Are there any other diagnostics I can run?
What do you think of the fact that this machine was booting Windows 2000 
from the same

SCSI drive prior to installing FreeBSD 6.2?

In case it matters, all SCSI drives are IBM DNES-309170W ULTRA2-LVD.

Thanks!


One other thing that might be happening is if the geometry of the drive 
isn't allowing an extended translation because of the age of your hardware, 
you may need to keep the boot partition, that is the entire boot partition 
(not talking slices here) within the first 1024 cylinders.  In the 
partition tool in sysinstall you can change the display to show different 
units, and one of those will be cylinders.  The 1024 cylinder limit is from 
older BIOS translations and if the boot partition extended beyond 1024 the 
system will give that same error you are getting.


With older hardware you may need to use multiple partitions instead of 
slices.  You can have 4 partitons on a drive (4 is hardcoded in the 
partition table size and a location) so you can add additional partitions 
for swap and /usr if you want.  Any partitions you use for filesystems like 
/usr the boot manager will see and offer to boot them.  They won't boot of 
course.  Swap partitions are ignored by the boot manager.


Otherwise, I'd suspect it is a problem with the 6.2 you are using then.  If 
you try with a boot within the 1024 (I wouldn't push that to the limit I'd 
say try like 950 cylinders) then I would try an earlier version such as 6.1 
or 6.0.


-Derek

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Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...


At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ...

Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a 
server
*after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard 
recognized?


Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I need a
tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down for some
reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal until 
they

actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to do any
diagnosis :(

Thx ...



This is a limitation of the hardware in the keyboards and the 
motherboards.  The only solution I have found is to use a KVM switch which 
keeps the keyboard and mouse ports active during bootups.


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Re: Chroot/jail mechanism in ssh and sftp connections


At 10:28 AM 4/10/2007, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote:

Hello,

I want to use the chroot/jail mechanism in user's ssh and sftp 
connections. I've read some
tutorials and possible solutions to jail/chroot the users into their own 
home directories. One is
to install the openssh-portable(with chroot option turned on) from the 
ports collection.


I've installed the openssh-portable, but the jail/chroot mechanism didn't 
work.
I think it requires some configuration in its sshd_config file, but I'm 
not sure because I have

found nothing about jail/chroot in the openssh(sshd_config) man pages.


I have implemented a similar setup using vsftpd from the ports.  It works 
well for secure ftp when used with the filezilla client.  You can limit the 
ftp command in the vsftpd configuration file so users cannot get out of 
their home directories, which chroots them there.  You do need to add one 
thing to the accounts, which is to change their home directory in 
/etc/passwd adding an additional dot.  For instance if a users home 
directory is:

/home/user

You'd need to change it to:
/home/./user

vsftpd is well documented and relatively easy to get setup and running.

-Derek

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Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...


At 02:11 PM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one?  Our newer servers, we've been
using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers
that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without headaches ... I only
need to be able to access one at a time ...

I've tried the 'serial console' route, but if the server crashes, logging 
in to

the serial console doesn't show you anything, whereas, with the HP 'remote
console' feature, its the same as a KVM, where running it does a screen
refresh, so that I can see what is on the screen at the time of the crash ...


The simplest thing you can do is to make sure you are logging the console 
messages.  I set all remote servers to log the actual console output to a 
separate log file in /etc/syslog.conf adding the line:

console.info/var/log/console.log

and adding a line to /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate the logs:
/var/log/console.log600  5 100  * J

-Derek

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Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file


At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote:

What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a
period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6.

apollo# cat /etc/hosts
#::1localhost.mydomain.com localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost.mydomain.com localhost
10.20.30.199apollo.mydomain.com apollo
10.20.30.199apollo.mydomain.com.

Is this something that's required for other IP addresses that will be added
to the hosts file in the future?


Names ending in a dot represent the fully qualified domain name.  You do it 
all on one line but it gets too long to easily see and edit.


-Derek

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Re: flp floppies


At 04:03 PM 4/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

My first post. Apologies if I am directing the question to the wrong area.

I am determined to load a copy of FreeBSD, for development purposes, on to 
my machine.


I will then have windows XP Professional and FreeBSD on the same machine, 
sharing the harddrive.


I have loaded FreeBSD on before successfully, but have taken it down to 
reload it in what I understand is a better method. eg setting up CVS 
before loading any ports. Now I am stuck.



Here are some of the reasons why.


First problem. I have booted from 3.5 in floppies ( yes I like to do 
things the hard way) I also do not know how to load from a cd.


Since I first downloaded and copied the flp files I have load a copy of 
Flash on my machine. Now the FLP files are Flash Project Files. How do I 
change that? and what type of program should it open with? ( Via right 
click of mouse).


Thanks in advance



You need to use rawwrite to write the floppy images to the 
diskettes.  You'd run this in a command window in XP.  rawwrite is in the 
tools folder on FreeBSD disk 1


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Re: disklabel error in 4.11 release


At 03:21 PM 4/10/2007, fbsd bsd wrote:

Hey *, having a bit of a problem with disklabel.  A bit of background.

I'm building a lab with Olive boxes in it 
(http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive), which are basically i386 
machines running JunOS.  Please note that this whole procedure is entirely 
unsupported by Juniper and I would never *ever* recommend anyone run 
production traffic on an Olive box.  At any rate, it requires a base 
install of FBSD 4.11, which you then do a pkg_add of their software over.


The problem I'm having is that the package add fails every time.  I 
personally have no experience with disklabel so it took me a bit to track 
down, but it seems like the raw device is not allowing anything to edit 
the first sectors.  Keep in mind that an Olive install effectively turns 
your BSD box into a Juniper box, so the boot procedure will be different, 
which is why I'm leaning toward this.  Also, this is the output of 
disklabel querying the kernel, then the device.



olive1# disklabel ad4
# /dev/ad4:
type: unknown
disk: amnesiac
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 9726
sectors/unit: 15625
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0   # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#size   offsetfstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c: 156250unused0 0# (Cyl.0 - 9726*)
olive1#
olive1#
olive1#
olive1#
olive1#
olive1#
olive1# disklabel -r ad4
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
olive1#


Attempts to use disklabel -e to edit the device label end in:
:q
disklabel: Operation not supported by device
re-edit the label? [y]: n
olive1#

Finally, here is the failure of the pkg_add:
olive1# pkg_add jinstall-7.2R4.2-domestic-signed.tgz
Verified SHA1 checksum of jinstall-7.2R4.2-domestic.tgz
Adding jinstall...
sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.re.model'
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)

WARNING: This package will load JUNOS 7.2R4.2 software.
WARNING: It will save JUNOS configuration files, and SSH keys
WARNING: (if configured), but erase all other files and information
WARNING: stored on this machine.  It will attempt to preserve dumps
WARNING: and log files, but this can not be guaranteed.  This is the
WARNING: pre-installation stage and all the software is loaded when
WARNING: you reboot the system.

Saving the config files ...
Installing the bootstrap installer ...
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)

WARNING: Failed while trying to install bootstrap loaders

Deleting bootstrap installer ...
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)

WARNING: This installation attempt will be aborted.
WARNING: If you wish to force the installation despite these warnings
WARNING: you may use the 'force' option on the command line.
pkg_add: install script returned error status
pkg_add: install script returned error status
olive1#


If anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it.




sysinstall will label the disks as part of the install.  Is the hardware 
preventing the boot area from being written to?  It would appear that this 
is the case.


-Derek

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Re: awk question