cross-link serial console
If I have 2 machines, could I connect the machines to each other via serial cable, in order to be able to reach each others' console in case of out of band issues? I know how to config it, I was just wondering if it would not bite each other. -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Bandwidth Control in FreeBSD 8
On 9/15/2009 2:24 AM, perl info wrote: I have two questions in regards to a FreeBSD Server and avoiding ISP bandwidth charges. Are there changes to the ways bandwidth can be controlled in FreeBSD 8. Is there an accepted or standardized method to control and limit bandwidth usage over an interface. Changes I don't know about. But you can use IPFW to limit and measure the bandwidth you're using. You can also use darkstat (port) to measure the traffic you're generating. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: location of user crontab files?
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:21:08PM -0400, Karl Vogel typed: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:50:54 -0400, Identry iden...@gmail.com said: I Where are user crontab files stored in the file system? I want to make I sure this info is backed up. They're in /var/cron/tabs. If you're using individual crontab files, be sure to rename /etc/crontab or you might have duplicated cronjobs running simultaneously. I don't think this is sound advise. Leaving /etc/crontab (the system crontab) to do the system maintenance jobs it is supposed to do and putting additional scripts and jobs in user tabs is normal practice and won't cause any problems. I've learned not to touch /etc/crontab at all. Saves some time during upgrades/mergemaster. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: location of user crontab files?
Identry wrote: Where are user crontab files stored in the file system? /var/con/tabs -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ftps ?
I'm looking into running ftps for my webhosting server. But the ftpd of BSD seems incapable of doing so. Are there plans to implement this, or am I overlooking something? I'm aware of the fact that I can run a ftp server from ports to do this, but I would like to keep it as simple as possible. -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ftps ?
Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: What is ftps? # grep ftps /etc/services ftps-data 989/tcp# ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL ftps-data 989/udp ftps990/tcp# ftp protocol, control, over TLS/SSL ftps990/udp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ftps ?
Neal Hogan wrote: I was curious about the OP's use of 'ftps too. Perhaps, he could explain what plain-old-ftp doesn't do and what he wants it to do. Encryption! -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk
Hi all, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to detect? Thanks all for the replies. To answer some questions: - I prefer automatic. I already have a key on my kb mapped to 'xlockmore -mode blank', but in some rare cases I still forget to do it, or I'm in an application that overrides the mapping and the key will not work. I'm using a DasKeyboard, that doesn't have any 'unused' keys like media stuff. I guess I'll look into the bluetooth thing. That looks quite doable. Thanks! -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Automatic screen lock when leaving desk
Hi, I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to detect? It could be infrared based (heat signature), video based (webcam w/ motion detection) or even mechanical (switch in seat? meh..). And how would FreeBSD interface with such device? Most likely via USB, since my lt doesn't have any serial ports. Any ideas? Experience? -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: client control of sendmail
On 7/8/2009 8:15 PM, David Banning wrote: I have several users who are requesting new mail user accounts and changes to email accounts all the time. I wonder if there is a package that allows a given virtual domain owner to change their email accounts - add, delete and change passwords etc - I am presently using sendmail. Postfix with postfixadmin works really well, but you'll have to rebuild the setup. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?
ericr wrote: I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. We use Dell almost exclusively. Although Dell doesn't officially support FreeBSD, Dell hardware is tier-1 for FreeBSD. I think their hardware is quite OK. The machines are built well. Haven't had too much to deal with their onsite service (which is a good sign), but the times that I did I think they handled it quite well, the parts were in house within 4 hours and in a case where a motherboard had to be replaced, a Dell technician was sent in as well and did his job fine. Dell's RAID controllers (Perc/5i and Perc/6i) work fine in BSD, and some tools are available although with Linux emulation which kind of sucks. Here's a sample dmesg of a 1950: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Apr 3 10:28:13 CEST 2009 r...@hostname:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5148 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6fb Stepping = 11 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x4e3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA AMD Features=0x20100800SYSCALL,NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 usable memory = 4276400128 (4078 MB) avail memory = 4114935808 (3924 MB) ACPI APIC Table: DELL PE_SC3 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: DELL PE_SC3 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: High Precision Event Timer iomem 0xfed0-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter HPET frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci4 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci5 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci6 pci7: PCI bus on pcib4 bce0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) mem 0xf400-0xf5ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci7 miibus0: MII bus on bce0 brgphy0: BCM5708C 10/100/1000baseTX PHY PHY 1 on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto bce0: Ethernet address: 00:22:19:82:e8:45 bce0: [ITHREAD] bce0: ASIC (0x57081020); Rev (B2); Bus (PCI-X, 64-bit, 133MHz); F/W (0x04000305); Flags( MFW MSI ) pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci5 pci8: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 pcib6: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.3 on pci4 pci9: PCI bus on pcib6 pcib7: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 3.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib7 mfi0: Dell PERC 6 port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc48-0xfc4b,0xfc44-0xfc47 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 mfi0: 2031 (292323270s/0x0020/info) - Shutdown command received from host mfi0: 2032 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware initialization started (PCI ID 0060/1000/1f0c/1028) mfi0: 2033 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 1.11.82-0473 mfi0: 2034 (boot + 3s/0x0008/info) - Battery Present mfi0: 2035 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Package version 6.0.3-0002 mfi0: 2036 (boot + 21s/0x0004/info) - Enclosure (SES) discovered on PD 20(c None/p0) mfi0: 2037 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: Encl PD 20 mfi0: 2038 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 20(c None/p0) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=d, portMap=09, sasAddr=5001e090e8810900, mfi0: 2039 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 00(e0x20/s0) mfi0: 2040 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 00(e0x20/s0) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=00, sasAddr=5000c5000d253121, mfi0: 2041 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 01(e0x20/s1) mfi0: 2042 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 01(e0x20/s1) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=01, sasAddr=5000c5000d25eb55, mfi0: 2043 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 02(e0x20/s2) mfi0: 2044 (boot + 21s/0x0002/info) - Inserted: PD 02(e0x20/s2) Info: enclPd=20, scsiType=0, portMap=02, sasAddr=5000c5000d2420ed, mfi0: 2045
Re: Getting old versions of FreeBSD
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org: For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28? That code is still in the version control system, all you need to do is configure cvsup to fetch it and rebuild your system. Instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Use the RELENG_4_7, since p28 was the last patch on the 4.7 branch. Indeed they are all still available. Very nice, I'm upgrading to p28 now. Thanks! -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Getting old versions of FreeBSD
Hi, For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28? Thanks, -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HandbooK-Free BSD
Rafael E Garcia wrote: Gentlemen Please How I can copy the Free BSD Handbook in my computer? Any Sugestion will be apreciate. Thank you Rafael E Garcia /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD
Wojciech Puchar wrote: How about it? Only STRICT RULES keep things healthy and long lived. I wonder what makes you think you have the right to decide for all? I'm pretty happy as it is, except for this thread. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pkgdb -F problem
Leslie Jensen wrote: I've just updated my 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything went ok but I've got a problem when I do pkgdb -F /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.4: unsupported file layout I might have goofed before I updated when moving files around to make space, so I need some advice on how to get rid of the error. I cannot find out what port I need to reinstall in order to get libcrypt healty again :-) Probably everything related to portupgrade/portinstall/ruby etc. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Shopping for external harddrive
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking to purchase a = 1TB external harddrive, because I'm running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to check CNet and other online reviews. But I also wanted to see if any of you folks have personal recommendations. 1TB samsung USB drive, use it for backups. The drive is an ECO version, spinning at 5400rpm. That keeps the temperature down. Works nicely. -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed
Hi, Daniel Underwood wrote: Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can Ctrl+Alt+F# to another virtual terminal. Try adding: Option AllowEmptyInput off .. to the ServerLayout section of your xorg.conf, see if that helps. See man xorg.conf too. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 7.2 released?
Christer Solskogen wrote: How come http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ have the isos for 7.2-RELEASE while the announce have not? typicaly the images are uploaded first before the announcements are made. -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Honey pot email address
Andrew wrote: Hi All, I've created a honey pot email address for SPAM. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get on as many spammers mailing lists as possible? I'd be happy to put your e-mail address in the source code of some sites that I run? -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Poor ZFS performance
nf wrote: 733843456 bytes transferred in 61.124812 secs (12005656 bytes/sec) That is very low. I get about 60MB/sec in this way. Adding bs=1m it'll go up to 240MB/sec even (raidz1 with 4*1TB). CPU: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 14.3% system, 4.5% interrupt, 80.8% idle Mem: 1950M Active, 868M Inact, 537M Wired, 238M Cache, 363M Buf, 87M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 101M Used, 923M Free, 9% Inuse PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 8402 nf 1 500 4604K 788K zio-i 0 0:03 8.59% dd Could you show top -S ? -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: archive search working?
Chris Whitehouse wrote: I'm not getting any replies when searching the freebsd questions archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ That's the page I get to if I google freebsd questions archives (and then a couple of clicks to get to the archives) That is the right page, but it's not working for a while already.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files
Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0200 Peter Schuller peter.schul...@infidyne.com wrote: I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual review diff of file I never touched grows annoying real quick. Unfortunately I recently discovered that it does not seem to do what you might expect. For example it nuked my mailer.conf on one machine, and my /etc/namedb/named.conf (!!!) on another machine. Is this a bug or intended? What is the intended functionality of -U? I noticed this recently too: after using mergemaster -U without problems for a long time it suddenly went and overwrote named.conf on a recently upgrade of 7-STABLE. I've seen this happen as well with named.conf. I've noticed that sometimes the -U flag doesn't work (I use -Ui), I still have to install the never touched files by hand. Can't put a finger on it though. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: mail server/webmail
Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a mail client (Outlook Express). I'd like to be able to sync the mail with outlook express also. Like if I send a mail over webmail, that sent mail will also go into the sent box in outlook express, or conversly, perhaps store all the mail on the server and have outlook express just show the folders and contents stored on the server. But i'd have to somehow upload all of the mail currently in my outlook express. I'll also need some kind of spam functionality as I get a sizable amount of spam. Currently I use K9 for spam and I quite like it. I guess you could start to look in the area of: - /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail (to fetch/store the mail) - /usr/ports/mail/dovecot (for access to the mail via imap) - /usr/ports/mail/squirremail or roundcube (webmail w/ imap) - /usr/ports/www/apache22 for the webmail As you're then using IMAP, any client that connects to dovecot will get the same set of mailfolders (sync). -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
serial console, COM port not working - [FILTER] ?
I'm setting up serial console access to our machines.
One of them isn't giving a login prompt, and I noticed a difference in
dmesg output:
sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio0: [FILTER]
The last line I don't see on boxes where all is fine. My C reading isn't
that good, but I've found in /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_bus.c:
bus_setup_intr(device_t dev, struct resource *r, int flags,
driver_filter_t filter, driver_intr_t handler, void *arg, void **cookiep)
{
int error;
if (dev-parent != NULL) {
error = BUS_SETUP_INTR(dev-parent, dev, r, flags,
filter, handler, arg, cookiep);
if (error == 0) {
if (handler != NULL !(flags INTR_MPSAFE))
device_printf(dev, [GIANT-LOCKED]\n);
if (bootverbose (flags INTR_MPSAFE))
device_printf(dev, [MPSAFE]\n);
if (filter != NULL) {
if (handler == NULL)
device_printf(dev, [FILTER]\n);
else
device_printf(dev,
[FILTER+ITHREAD]\n);
} else
device_printf(dev, [ITHREAD]\n);
}
} else
error = EINVAL;
return (error);
}
But what does it mean?
Thanks,
-- Frederique
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Re: ntp problem
Lisa Casey wrote: Running FreeBSD 5.3 IN /etc/ntp.conf I have: server time.nist.gov prefer server tock.gpsclock.com driftfile /etc/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log If I run ntpdate from a prompt, I get the following error message: # ntpdate 20 Apr 12:02:08 ntpdate[50109]: no servers can be used, exiting But if I type: ntpdate time.nist.gov it will update the time. Is there something wrong with my /etc/ntp.conf file? Give it some time (15-20 minutes or so). It will start to work like magic. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003? what to do?
VeeJay wrote: Hi there I am keep getting this error on the screen. I have tried to solve this problem by myself but still no luck. Could anyone guide what to do to increase the limit and avoid this error? kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25022] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system Apr 14 11:08:08 server2 postfix/pickup[25023] : fatal : kqueue : Too many files open in the system kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 1003, please see tuning(7) When this happens, I am unable to login on the server by consol or ssh. what to do? And I have to restart the server manually by on/off switch... If it's not a very busy machine, something must be wrong with postfix to cause this error. If it is a busy machine, you can increase the kern.maxfiles. sysctl kern.maxfiles=number You can set it in /etc/sysctl.conf to set it at boot time. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: is there a way to upgrade Only ports that need it??
Gary Kline wrote: is there any way t o not upgrade all installed ports, but only those that are not current? portsnap fetch update portupgrade -a or you could portsnap fetch update pkg_version -v .. and update the ports of your choice that are not up-to-date with the ports tree. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?
Yuri wrote: I have FreeBSD-71 running with USB controller: uhci0: VIA 83C572 USB controller port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 21 at device 16.0 on pci0 I connected to it Toshiba USB hard drive HDDR500E03X: umass0: Toshiba External USB HDD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 2 on uhub4 da0: Toshiba External USB HDD 1.03 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device When I try to copy data with 'dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/dev/null count=1' it only achieves has 0.65MB/s transfer speed. I get around the same speeds if I do it that way. But if I add 'bs=1m', speeds go up to 27MB/sec. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
combining network interfaces
Hello, Is there a way in FreeBSD to combine a number of network interfaces to one virtual interface on which I can tcpdump all the traffic of those interfaces at once? Thanks, -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: combining network interfaces
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jacques Manukyan mlfree...@streamingedge.com writes: Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Hello, Is there a way in FreeBSD to combine a number of network interfaces to one virtual interface on which I can tcpdump all the traffic of those interfaces at once? You're talking about bridging. Look at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-bridging.html Section 31.5.7.1 is what you're asking for. I don't think he wants to forward the traffic between those interfaces, though; just dump them all together. I'm not sure, though. You're right. If I'm right, I don't think tcpdump can do that directly. One idea might be to run a firewall to choose the packets and to forward a copy to a dummy interface that can be monitored. It might be an idea. Somehow I think it should be possible in a more simple way. Now reading 'man 4 lagg'... -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Copying files without scp
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB). The data will be transferred server-to-server within a private datacentre. Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc? On the listening end: cd / ; nc -l 12345 | tar xpvf - On the sending end: cd / ; tar cf - /path/file | nc target ip 12345 Replace 'x' by 't' on the listening end to verify that it's going to do what you would want/expect. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
Seur Bors wrote: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. Samba3 performs excellend nowadays. You should have no trouble at all serving 20 workers. In my setup (7.1-release/amd64/dual x2 3800 amd cpu/gigabit) smb generates only 3-5% cpu load when reading at 50MB/sec. I would also recommend running swat (zee /etc/inetd.conf), it can really help creating a nice and tailored smb.conf file for you via a webinterface. I believe that samba3 can even give you Active Directory features and Roaming Profiles, but I haven't looked into that. Samba as fileserver is enough for me. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:05:12 +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Just to follow up on my quest here.. The upgrade went fine. Most ports were broken as expected. I gave up trying to recompile everything after a while, tripping over errors all over the place. Weird ones. The mountain of errors in front of me just never got any smaller. Ended up deleting all ports (pkg_delete -f \* is not something you do alot) and /usr/local/lib. This left me with configuration files of all the apps I had installed, as well as /var/db/ports/*. I simply recompiled the complete of apps that was installed, and after a day or so of compiling all is working again. No further work required. Amazing stuff! I find it amazing that even when things go really wrong in BSD (of course I did that :), it's quite easy to recover from such a aituation. Just all the port compiler options (/var/db/ports/*) and all the conf files of the apps is enough to recover - even from source. At the end of the day, it put a big smile on my face. Just had to say it! -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? Thanks, -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
Btw, yes I know that it might (or will) brake currently existing apps, I have to save the /etc/fstab /etc/master.passwd files etc. I'm just wondering if I end up with a system that can boot the old filesystem and sshd will run so I can recompile all the ports on the machine in the new architecture. OT: I've been trying to search the bsd list archives, but it appears broken. I can view one page of search results, but if I click a page further, I always end up with this error: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch?config=freebsd-amd64;method=and;format=short;sort=score;words=update;page=2 htdig Archives Access Failure Path info. No list -2- If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go via the list users information page. If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information to the mail...@freebsd.org: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch/freebsd-amd64 /mailman/mmsearch?config=freebsd-amd64;method=and;format=short;sort=score;words=update;page=2 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? Thanks, -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? I don't know if a binary upgrade from i386 to amd64 is even possible, but I am fairly certain it is not supported. Source upgrades from i386 to amd64 are possible, but not trivial and not recommended. The recommended procedure for changing from i386 to amd64 is to make a backup of all important data on the machine, and then do a fresh install of amd64 after which any needed data is restored from the backup. The machine has an extra 1TB disks for backups, so that part is already 'done'. Perhaps my only existing worry is that I will not be able to read the existing filesystems after the upgrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Monitoring geom
Mister Olli wrote:
Hi hi...
What is the best way to monitor geom software raids (gmirror gvinum
raid5)???
The solution I'm searching for should be a kind of script which checks
the status, and drops me an email if something is wrong.
I found a nagios plugin, but currently I'm unable to invest enough time
to get nagios up and running for the customer...
Thanks a lot...
greetz
Olli
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I monitor some machines with geom mirrors via Nagios/SNMP.
In nagios:
--
define service{
use generic-service
host_name host.name.com
service_description gmirror
check_command check_snmp!1!0!UCD-SNMP-MIB::extOutput.1
}
On the machine in snmpd.conf (net-snmp):
--
exec gmirror /usr/local/sbin/checkgmirror
The script:
--
#!/bin/sh
mirrorstate=`/sbin/gmirror list | /usr/bin/grep ^State |\
/usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'`
if [ $mirrorstate != COMPLETE ]
then
echo 1
else
echo 0
fi
Besides crafthing something of your own, there is also:
/usr/ports/net-mgmt/nagios-geom
This is a small Nagios plugin written in PERL and designed to monitor
the state of FreeBSD GEOM devices (specifically mirrors and striped
volumes) from Nagios.
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/ntb4real/proj/geom.htm
To use in Nagios:
In checkcommands.cfg:
--
define command{
command_namecheck_geom
command_line$USER1$/check_geom $ARG1$ $ARG2$
}
In your host.cfg:
--
define service{
use local-service
host_name host.name.conf
service_description mirror
check_command check_geom!mirror!gm0
}
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Re: Large raid arrays
Matias Surdi wrote: Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Some comments that may help in the decision: - Reliability/resistance to power failures are the most important factor. - It doesn't require high performance or high speed. Either gconcat or ZFS, depending which version of FreeBSD you're running. gconcat label -v data /dev/raid1 /dev/raid2 newfs /dev/concat/data mkdir /mnt/data mount /dev/concat/data /mnt/data df -h /mnt/data or zpool create data /dev/raid1 /dev/raid2 df -h /data -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installing OpenSSL from ports, how to remove base-openssl?
For a certain customer that wants to use a later version of OpenSSL (base is at 'e' while ports is at 'j') I installed /usr/ports/security/openssl. This is all fine, but now I have two sets binaries and libraries of OpenSSL on that system. What is the proper way to remove the base openssl? I looked with sysinstall distributions but it's not listed there as something that you can add or remove. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable
matt donovan schreef: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, brad davison demonichandextensi...@hotmail.com wrote: Since then, we have had severe server instability after a few hours. The server completely locks up requiring a hard boot, then the fsck_ufs runs for a while. This is our production mail server, and we've been down off and on for 2 days. could be due to PAE. since PAE is known not to be very stable. First thing I'd try too. Compile a GENERIC kernel and see if that brings any improvement. If it does, perhaps consider running AMD64 in stead of PAE. Alot more stable. -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Drop-box application in the FreeBSD ports?
Hello, I've been looking for drop-box functionality for a while, but I can't find any in the ports. Perhaps it's there but I'm not looking for the right keywords. Preferably something that's completely web-based (PHP) (no FTP or SCP) and maintenance-free. For example: a user uploads a (set of) file(s), and the application returns a hashed URL that can be passed on to the person that can then download the file(s). After downloading (or after a certain period of time) the file will be removed automaticaly. Is there any such thing in the ports for FreeBSD, or perhaps something not in the ports? Thanks, -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to do ping really quiet?
KES wrote: Hello, Questions. When I use ping -q ya.ru I get ping: sendto: No route to host How to make ping really quiet? Try: sh -c 'ping -q ya.ru /dev/null 21' -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?
Charles Richards wrote: If his data (photo / video storage) is that important, then perhaps he wants to do soemthing else ... but for a cheap way to get tons of storage, ZFS can't be beat. Of course I'm backing up the very important data on a daily basis (de photo's mainly), but the videos (which will take up the biggest part of course) are not critical. I just want a huge volume to store it on. If some sort of redundancy can be built into that, that's very nice. I've been using GEOM (gconcat) so far, but I'd like to move to ZFS due to it's ease of use (apart from tuning your system to it) and also because GEOM is not able to provide any raid5-like setups. Just raid3 or mirror. ZFS has got it's caveats and gotchas - you *must* tune your FreeBSD installation to get stability. See here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide I was aware of that, I'll look in to it. I'm running a fileserver-in-a-closet (patent pending) on FreeBSD 7.0-amd64, with 10x250GB drives in a single RAIDZ2 for my home storage needs. I'm using old Maxtor SATA150 drives, which are desktop class. Several of them have had to remap sectors while being a part of the array, and I've never had ZFS complain, nor had the drive be dropped by the OS. Ok that's good information. I also read/noticed that ZFS seems to run best on AMD64 platforms. That's OK then. I'm running i386 now, but I'm happy to switch. I'd suggest that the OP and yourself do some in-depth reading about ZFS and how it works. The best documentation I've found as yet is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf Will do, thanks again. -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?
After some reading, I come back from my original idea. Main reason is I'd like to be able to grow the fs as the need develops in time. One could create a raidz zpool with a couple of disks, but when adding a disk later on, it will not become part of the raidz (I tested this). It seems vdevs can not be nested (create raidz sets and join them as a whole), so I came up with the following: Start out with 4*1TB, and use geom_raid5 to create an independent redundant pool of storage: 'graid5 label -v graid5a da0 da1 da2 da3' (this is all tested in vmware, one of these 'da' drives is 8GB) Then I 'zpool create bigvol /dev/raid5/graid5a', and I have a /bigvol of 24G - sounds about right to me for a raid5 volume. Now lets say later in time I need more storage, I buy another 4 of these drives, and 'graid5 label -v graid5b da4 da5 da6 da7' and 'zpool add bigvol /dev/raid5/graid5b' Now my bigvol is 48G. Very cool! Now I have redundant storage that can grow and it's pretty easy too. Is this OK (besides from the fact that graid5 is not in production yet, nor is ZFS ;) or are there easier (or better) ways to do this? - So I want redundancy (I don't want one failing drive to cause me to loose all my data) - I want to be able to grow the filesystem if I need to, by adding a (set of) drive(s) later on. -- FR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?
Hi freebsd-questions, For personal use (photo/video storage), I'm looking into creating a huge single ZFS (raidz) volume that will replace my current collection of drives used as storage. I'm thinking 4*1TB drives in RAID5(z). My question is regarding the flavour of drivers that one can choose from: Desktop class drives, or the so called RAID/Enterprise class drives. The difference between the two being the way such a drive handles the bad-sector/block handling and remapping. I understand that Desktop class drives do all this internally, and this is a process that can take up to 60s (even minutes on some), and during this process the drive is unavailable to the controller. The RAID edition drives all appoach this differently and alot faster, typically before 8 seconds. How does ZFS handle this? Should I be looking for the RAID class drives or can Desktop class drives be used here? My worry is of course that such a drive (destkop class) will be marked defective and thrown out of the raid volume if a remapping of bad sectors occurs and the drive will be unresponsive to the controller/ZFS for 8 seconds. Some drives can be configured in this area, but not all, and there's quite a price difference in the two, the desktop class being up to 50% cheaper in some cases.. Anybody that can shed some light on this? Thanks, -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
