Re: scp
On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, kalin m wrote: hi all... i need to do a script to copy a file from a remote machine via scp with a key and without a password here is what i'm doing: 1. ssh-keygen -t rsa 2. scp new_key.pub to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with password) 3. on remote_host rename new_key.pub to ~user/.ssh/athorized_keys Should be authorized_keys. I usually cheat and grab a copy of ssh-copy-id from the web; I suspect your issue has to do with permissions for the .ssh directory and the authorized_keys file. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Budget cuts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix issue
David Southwell wrote: I pay for my connection to receive.. and pay for my connection to send. Some people just want to not paly their part in absorbing the risks that go with participation. It is up to us to defend our systems. Your server, your rules. You can whitelist or blacklist anyone you choose. The downside is that so can everybody else; your lack of non-generic rDNS means that mail to my server (alcatraz.sequestered.net) will bounce if not smarthosted through somewhere that has a static IP and properly configured DNS. This was deemed an acceptable threshold on my box when I was selecting anti-spam mechanisms. If you're that concerned about privacy, use GPG/PGP and request a key exchange. What's more is that I've applied that same metric at several employers, ranging from mid-sized businesses to universities. My previous (and current!) employers were familiar with all sides of the argument and ultimately decided to reject mail from dynamic address pools to combat spam. Complaining about it doesn't do much good, since (as previously stated) their server, their rules. To classify a whole load of users, the majority of whom are genuine, as invalid users is degrading and discriminatory. The majority of users smarthost their mail. If you want to retain control, drop the $15 a month on a VPS somewhere with a static IP, configure DNS correctly, and be your own smarthost; I did this for a while before I upgraded to a static IP at home. My point of viwew -- you are entitled to yours but IMHO not to enforce it!! Ah, but on my server I can enforce whatever makes the most sense for my userbase; my responsibility is to them, not to you. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: multicasts on broken packets ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PF rules evaluation
Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. Is there some tool to test rules-file for PF with arbitrary packets without need for real traffic? Yes. It's called netcat (nc on most systems). -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Second-system effect ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition
Simeon Nifos wrote: Dear FreeBSD users, We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is provided it takes time to install. I was wondering if anyone of you ever managed to write somehow the isos on a USB hard-disk or USB-flash partition and perform the installation from there. Be careful, I am not saying to install FreeBSD on a USB drive, I am asking if it is possible to transfer somehow the isos on the USB hard-drive or USB-flash drive and then boot from it as if I was booting from the FreeBSD CD iso and perform the installation of FreeBSD on my hard disk. I hope that if this is achieved somehow, the installation will spead up significantly. So is it possible? Best, Archwn. 1. What are you installing off the second CD? 2. A 1 CD install takes all of ten minutes; how much faster were you hoping for it to get? -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: We're out of slots on the server ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portsnap -- update claims up to date but it's not.
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Jay Chandler wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong: prime# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. prime# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon Nov 12 18:16:16 EST 2007 to Tue Dec 25 21:36:54 EST 2007. Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 4 metadata files... [and so on] Am I using this thing wrong? -Dan Yup. 'portsnap fetch update' is the command I use-- the reverse order that you're using 'em in. Shouldn't I just need one of the two? -Dan Nope. fetch fetches the latest snapshot; update unpacks it. extract does the ENTIRE snapshot again, but that's generally not needed after the first time. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Vendor no longer supports the product ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support Services Proposal
Chris Glavin wrote: *snip* Reported as spam to his upstream provider. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Vendor no longer supports the product ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dovecot questions
Peter Schuller wrote: This is up to you. dovecot does not provide and user interfaces for managing accounts (that I am aware of). Typically a reason to have the user database in a relational database would be to enable the construction of such interfaces, or perhaps use of existing tools. But unless I am missing something, user management is beyond the scope of what dovecot itself is providing. You are correct; I use Postfixadmin to do this personally. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Vendor no longer supports the product ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portsnap -- update claims up to date but it's not.
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Maybe I'm just doing this completely wrong: prime# portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. prime# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon Nov 12 18:16:16 EST 2007 to Tue Dec 25 21:36:54 EST 2007. Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 4 metadata files... [and so on] Am I using this thing wrong? -Dan Yup. 'portsnap fetch update' is the command I use-- the reverse order that you're using 'em in. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: no any key on keyboard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Networking card not install on freebsd
Jefferson wrote: Hi all, I have a question and a problem, i installed freebsd v. 6.1 on my desktop and my networking card doesn't work with freebsd... I have a Onboard Intel Nineveh 82566DM (10/100/1000 Mbit). Somebody please could help me, how can i install this network card and make work well... Tks a lot, Jefferson. Are you certain it's enabled in the BIOS? Intel tends to work rather well with FreeBSD... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS and IP
Brian Finniff wrote: My question is, if you are running a website for 2 different people on the Internet and they both wanted to acquire a domain but you only have one IP address, would it be possible to forward each domain to the same IP address and somehow each one becomes distinct? If so, how is this possible? Can you explain to me how it can be done. Oh and for reference, I am not talking about web redirects. If you're talking port 80, google for Virtual hosts. -- Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postfix-Dovecot-IMAP-Squirrel mail Problem
dhaneshk k wrote: Help please :I configured testing postfix,dovecot-IMAP ,postfixadmin , maia-mailguard ,squirrelmail in a production box(freeBSD-6.2), few issues when I use squirrel mail. by using postfix admin I created virtual domains and mailboxes for the virtual domains , by using this I can log in to squirrel mail , but when I compose a mail sending , its not going to any mailboxes that in any virtual domains that I created? why this ? My LOG FILES showing tail /var/log/maillog Oct 26 15:59:38 sun dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Disconnected: Logged out Oct 26 15:59:39 sun dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=232.195.5.1, lip=232.129.195.5.1, TLS Oct 26 15:59:39 sun dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Disconnected: Logged out another user I tried Oct 26 15:58:52 sun dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=232.195.5.1, lip=232.195.5.1, TLS Oct 26 15:58:52 sun dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Disconnected: Logged out Oct 26 15:58:52 sun dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=232.195.5.1, lip=232.195.5.1, TLS Oct 26 15:58:52 sun dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Disconnected: Logged out Oct 26 15:58:53 sun dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=232.195.5.1, lip=232.195.5.1, TLS Oct 26 15:58:53 sun dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Disconnected: Logged out Q:2 How can I map the real users(normal users in this server box that I created using the useradd command ) with squirrelmail so they can login to squirrelmail and send receive mail Pls help me with your suggestions _ Check out some new online services at Windows Live Ideas—so new they haven’t even been officially released yet. http://www.msnspecials.in/windowslive/___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postfix needs to be built with support for VDA compiled in. Once you're using virtual delivery, local accounts no longer can receive mail, it's all virtualized. I've done this myself with Courier instead of Dovecot; feel free to query off-list if you need configuration file samples. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: network packets travelling uphill (use a carrier pigeon) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0 and 6.3
Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from 6.2 release? Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to one over the other? 7.0 is the recommended choice; 6.3 is only for people who cannot update to the new branch yet. http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fascinating! I have to ask, is there a straightforward upgrad path from 6.2 to 7.0, or is it largely going to be a matter of back up, blow it away, and install cleanly before restoring data? -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Melting hard drives ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg/gnome slow on different network
Bahman M. wrote: On 2007-10-25 kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i noticed that when i take my laptop to work and change the network settings in rc.conf before starting xorg after i do startx the whole xorg/gnome experience gets slowed down. first xorg takes it's time to start and then load gnome, window manager etc. and then all applications in gnome take about 30 - 60 seconds to start. when i get back home and change the rc.conf back to my home settings th xorg starts quickly and all the applications start at normal speed - 4 - 5 sec. Just a wild guess but it could be a (D/DoS) worm active on that network. Not likely, but you could do a tcpdump and see what the relative traffic on both networks is... I think DNS is a likelier fix. A lot of things depend upon it working correctly. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Melting hard drives ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg/gnome slow on different network
kalin mintchev wrote: On 2007-10-25 kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... i noticed that when i take my laptop to work and change the network settings in rc.conf before starting xorg after i do startx the whole xorg/gnome experience gets slowed down. first xorg takes it's time to start and then load gnome, window manager etc. and then all applications in gnome take about 30 - 60 seconds to start. when i get back home and change the rc.conf back to my home settings th xorg starts quickly and all the applications start at normal speed - 4 - 5 sec. Just a wild guess but it could be a (D/DoS) worm active on that network. it's not the network. it's the system itself... talking about start up times of xorg/gnome nothing to do with the network... Yet the only data you've given us is that it changes when the network does-- it's possible that high traffic volumes could slam the system's response, as could misconfigured DNS... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Melting hard drives ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0 and 6.3
Johan Andersson wrote: On 10/25/2007 11:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any good oneliner for rebuild all the ports that you recommend? portupgrade -afO -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Melting hard drives ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0 and 6.3
RW wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:32:35 -0700 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Andersson wrote: On 10/25/2007 11:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any good oneliner for rebuild all the ports that you recommend? portupgrade -afO Personally I prefer portupgrade -f '2007-10-25 11:00' since it's restartable. You don't have to throw the -O flag in there to keep various ports from complaining? -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Melting hard drives ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0 and 6.3
RW wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:59:01 -0700 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:32:35 -0700 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Andersson wrote: On 10/25/2007 11:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Any good oneliner for rebuild all the ports that you recommend? portupgrade -afO Personally I prefer portupgrade -f '2007-10-25 11:00' since it's restartable. You don't have to throw the -O flag in there to keep various ports from complaining? The point of -O is to have portupgrade save a few seconds by omitting sanity-checking if pkgdb has already been run. It's not intended for hiding problems. Okay, I'll buy that. I just tried it, and it worked. I distinctly remember a port (mailscanner-mrtg, but there are others) who choked on the fact that Apache1.3 isn't the same thing as Apache2.2 until I fed it the O flag... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Melting hard drives ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portupgrade ignoring a pacakge
Jonathan Horne wrote: i have had a crazy month with my ports and keeping things updates (more specific to successfully building a kde set, but thats not what i want to ask about right now). a minute ago, i tried to update my ports on my jail-host server. autoconf was one of the recent problem, and now i see that the 2.59 now aligns with the 2.61 as its upgrade path (where, before i think it didnt show up). now, im getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# portupgrade -apP --- Skipping 'devel/autoconf261' (autoconf-2.59_3) because it has already been ignored ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) * devel/autoconf261 (autoconf-2.59_3) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 66 ignored, 1 skipped and 0 failed so, how can i un-ignore something that portupgrade has apparently already ignored? I did a pkg_delete -f for both autoconfs-- from there I installed the correct version, then rebuilt the downstream dependencies, namely automake. And if this is through my jail-host provider, I've had enough issues with them to where I'm moving off of their platform. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Traffic jam on the Information Superhighway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting vim to work correctly.
Eric Schuele wrote: On 09/27/2007 21:01, Jay Chandler wrote: Howdy. Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working correctly in vim? It works in Linux, drives me nuts in FreeBSD... They work perfectly fine here. How is it you expect those keys to behave? Define working correctly. When in insert mode, and pagedown is pressed, the letter the cursor is over is capitalized, and the editor is removed from insert mode, as an example. PageUp capitalizes the letter next to it, and again removes me from insert mode. Home randomly capitalizes letters and shifts the cursor to the next letter. Insert decapitalizes the letter the cursor is over. Weird behavior like this... I was mistaken in that this is in vim-- this is in the natural version of vi that ships with the base OS. This is happening from PuTTY in default setting mode on a Windows box-- my MacBook is relatively better behaved. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting vim to work correctly.
Howdy. Sorry to keep hitting the list with questions today, but does anyone know how to get the home, delete, end, page up, etc. keys working correctly in vim? It works in Linux, drives me nuts in FreeBSD... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Control Multiple Hosts
Howdy. I'm looking for a tool similar to ClusterSSH, albeit without the constant segfaulting. Has anyone used or heard of anything similar that allows me to log into multiple machines at once via SSH and echo keystrokes from one window to all the connected hosts? It'd make life a crapton easier for me... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is your Thunderbird OK?
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: I _really_ want to share opinions about this topic (Thunderbird's start up speed) with you FreeBSD users. What do you think of? I use Thunderbird on my FreeBSD box without issue. FYI, 2.0.0.6 is the latest, and I have no issue with its load times. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downgrading to an earlier version of the same port
Aryeh Friedman wrote: On my machine it appears that jdk-1.5.0.12,1 is broken and I want to downgrade to a previous cvsup of the same port (I don't know the exact tag but it is the one using patch set 4)... how do I go about doing this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ports-mgmt/portdowngrade/ is your friend in these situations... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Bit rot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hardware reality check - server
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... some input about this hardware on fbsd 6.2 would be appreciated. just would like to know if anybody has tried successfully something like this before: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor 2.0GHz 1333MHz(CP1149) INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor 2.0GHz 1333MHz(CP1149) running freebsd 6.2... that's it... thanks I've used the processors, different board though... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Plasma conduit breach ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP Error from my server?
Chris Maness wrote: I have not seen this error before. What does it mean? (I will change the actual e-mail to protect the address from spam bots). To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Administrator Postmaster@PostmasterDomain Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:48:17 -0400 This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: Your message was not delivered because the return address was refused. The return address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please reply to Postmaster@PostmasterDomain if you feel this message to be in error. Chris Maness Sys Admin Looks to me like a failed sender verification callout-- these are generally construed to be abusive. I can't easily tell from your munging whether it's your server or Adelphia that's doing it, though. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: SCSI Chain overterminated ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP Error from my server?
Chuck Swiger wrote: The idea is pretty simple: when someone sends you an email, you delay accepting it until you can confirm that you can send a reply back to the sending address, or more precisely, check whether you can do a MAIL FROM: your domain and RCPT TO: the sender, and have it return OK, without actually going into the DATA phase and delivering a test message. This idea works fine for normal email addresses, but fails miserably with certain types of automated email which is not intended for people to reply to, and it also tends to lose out with TDMA (http://tmda.net/). More importantly, it also fails to work with itself-- other people using sender verification callouts cause a loop of failed deliveries, as neither side trusts the other. The larger problem as well is that it doesn't scale. Someone forging a From header out of a botnet could easily DDoS a smaller server completely off the net if enough people implemented this system. Antispam measures that are in and of themselves abusive aren't generally considered to be good ideas. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: SCSI Chain overterminated ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5
Stevan Tiefert wrote: What is going wrong? Why he is not updating? Really dumb question-- have you tried rebooting to commit the uname -a display change? -- Jay Chandler Systems Exorcist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flash with Firefox 2
I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints. Anyone have a link or an explanation of how to get the Flash plugin working within Firefox? I've gotten Java up already, but Flash continues to elude me... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator Chapman University ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash with Firefox 2
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 3/16/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints. Anyone have a link or an explanation of how to get the Flash plugin working within Firefox? I've gotten Java up already, but Flash continues to elude me... I'm currently running 6.2-STABLE, firefox-2.0.0.2,1, linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 and linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_7 and flash plugin works well on most of the websites I've been. Here's the relevant part of my /etc/libmap.conf [/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2pluginwrapper/flash7.so libz.so.1 libz.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.4 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so Don't forget to add the symbolic links required: # cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt . # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so . Hope this helps, -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator Chapman University Hmm... === Running ldconfig /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux ELF binary type 3 not known. /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: 1: Syntax error: ( unexpected *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/linux-png. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. What did I forget to install/adjust? :-) -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator Chapman University ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unqualified host name
Bill Moran wrote: If you don't have access to DNS to set your hostname properly, you can use a garbage name and add it to /etc/hosts and the delays will go away. You can also ctrl-C the delay away-- it'll kill Sendmail's hangign. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] FTP Repository Script?
Sorry that this is off topic for this group-- I didn't really know where else to ask it. We're trying to close FTP access to user home directories. To do this, we're going to need a system by which external users can upload files via a web form to an internal storage location. From there, the internal user would ideally be emailed a link to retrieve the file. Does something like this exist (maybe in the ports tree?), or am I looking at coding this from scratch? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:28 AM Subject: Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS? On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:34:47PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: FreeBSD runs on most i386 based hardware as long as you have 64 MB ram or more. So you can recycle an old desktop PC to run FreeBSD and then have at it. Or buy a cheap new desktop or refurbished. -Derek The problem with this approach is that it doesn't get you a static IP with proper rDNS and a host of other things... It does if you buy an ISP account that includes a static IP and does DNS for you or you set up your own DNS and register the server. But that might actually cost a whole extra $6 a month and isn't it preferable to spend $100 a month at some colo house? Ted Maybe that's an option for you, but I'm looking at spending a minimum of another $60 every month to my ISP if I want those services. I haven't been sufficiently impressed to feel that they warrant that extra fee. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: positron router malfunction ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?
Jerry McAllister wrote: The problem with this approach is that it doesn't get you a static IP with proper rDNS and a host of other things... It does if you buy an ISP account that includes a static IP and does DNS for you or you set up your own DNS and register the server. jerry I wish that I had that option. I live three blocks away from DisneyLand, and can't get DSL. That leaves Time Warner Cable, and they want highway robbery for a static IP-- at least $120 a month. For that much I'll colocate. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Too many interrupts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?
Derek Ragona wrote: FreeBSD runs on most i386 based hardware as long as you have 64 MB ram or more. So you can recycle an old desktop PC to run FreeBSD and then have at it. Or buy a cheap new desktop or refurbished. -Derek The problem with this approach is that it doesn't get you a static IP with proper rDNS and a host of other things... I'd have interest in the answer to this question as well, as a jailed environment isn't quite what I want either. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Too many interrupts ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
File won't move
Have a file mounted on an NFS share. I attempt to move it, rename it, copy it, or just about ANYTHING to it as root, and get a Permission Denied error. How can I figure out what's going on? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: those damn raccoons! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving to new disk - just new install + moving user data?
Oliver Iberien wrote: In the FAQ, under 9.2, How to I move my system over to my huge new disk?, it says: The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. By user data, does that mean /usr as a whole? It sounds like this would mean (for me, running 6.0/KDE at the moment), putting a (minimal?) install of 6.2 on the new drive, getting the peripherals and drivers sorted out, then using dump to move the contents of the old /usr to the new /usr. That can't really be it -- can it? And how does KDE fit into this -- can I just activate kdm after having transferred /usr over? Thanks, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, if you're going to be migrating things, why not do this in two parts, and make sure your source and target systems are at the same OS revision level? That'll catch out some problems you might not realize are there. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: The file system is full of it ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk Space Requirements
I've got a VPS running FreeBSD 6.1 p5. I'd like to upgrade it to 6.2 if possible, or at least 6.1 p11. I've got four gigs of disk allocated to the box. Is this enough space to rebuild the OS from source within? Regards, -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Just pick up the phone and give modem connect sounds. Well you said we should get more lines so we don't have voice lines. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Page Faulting Box?
One of our servers is restarting at random. Not entirely sure what causes it-- hopefully someone here can help me track it down (I suspect hardware at some point, potentially the Broadcom NIC). This is what's in the messages log-- what else can I provide y'all with? Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: cpuid = 2; apic id = 06 Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: fault virtual address = 0x104 Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: fault code = supervisor read, page not present Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: instruction pointer= 0x20:0xc066c731 Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: stack pointer = 0x28:0xe4f99c90 Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: frame pointer = 0x28:0xe4 Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: f99c9c Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: Jan 22 10:16:55 montreal kernel: processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 Jan 22 10:20:58 montreal syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: excess surge protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync issues
Peter Pluta wrote: Anyone? Peter Pluta wrote: I have a win2k3 server running as my rsync server. I also have a freebsd web server being the rsync client. A shell script runs every night at 5am (it's below). Shell script: #!/bin/sh . `dirname $0`/settings.inc destination=**.***.***.***::backup if [ $TERM ]; then verbose=-v; fi rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/etc/ $destination rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ $destination rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /var/cron/$destination rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /root/$destination rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /etc/ $destination rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after --exclude httpd-*.log $wwwDir/ $destination After it runs for 5 minutes it throws this: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 16385 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (54) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(613) [sender=2.6.9] Dmesg on the box only shows this: em0: promiscuous mode enabled em0: promiscuous mode disabled But that is probably pretty old. What can the problem be? backups are really important to me and they don't currently work as the transfer times out after the first few files. Anyone got an idea? Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks like the 2k3 box is resetting the connection for whatever reason. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: excess surge protection ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP server questions
Darryl Hoar wrote: Thanks Chuck. I do grok that rebooting is only really needed for new kernel installs. Just making network design decisions and want to avoid those Oh, crap moments. -Darryl I haven't found too many mutually exclusive services on Unix. In theory, if we did away with redundancy, and got a honkin' HUGE server to handle the load, we could run our entire University on one FreeBSD box (didn't they used to call that a Mainframe?). -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portupgrade error
How do I remove a group so that FreeBSD's ports tree doesn't see it as already allocated? I was upgrading using portupgrade, when Apache errored. Error output below: --- Build of www/apache22 ended at: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:31:18 -0800 (consumed 00:06:25) --- Updating dependency info --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-gettext-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-mbstring-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-mhash-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-openssl-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-pcre-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-session-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/php5-xml-5.2.0/+CONTENTS --- Modifying /var/db/pkg/squirrelmail-1.4.9a/+CONTENTS --- Uninstallation of apache-2.2.3 started at: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:31:18 -0800 --- Fixing up dependencies before creating a package --- Backing up the old version --- Uninstalling the old version --- Deinstalling 'apache-2.2.3' --- Preserving /usr/local/lib/libapr-1.so.2 as /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libapr-1.so.2 --- Preserving /usr/local/lib/libaprutil-1.so.2 as /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libaprutil-1.so.2 pkg_delete: package 'apache-2.2.3' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): php5-5.2.0 === If you plan to do not reinstall apache22, you can safely remove /usr/local/etc/apache22. [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 43 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done] --- Uninstallation of apache-2.2.3 ended at: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:31:46 -0800 (consumed 00:00:27) --- Installation of www/apache22 started at: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:31:46 -0800 --- Installing the new version via the port === Installing for apache-2.2.4 === apache-2.2.4 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.5 - found === apache-2.2.4 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found === apache-2.2.4 depends on shared library: expat.6 - found === apache-2.2.4 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found pw: gid `80' has already been allocated Adding group www failed... *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache22. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/apache22. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.70165.20 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=apache-2.2.3 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=2.2.3 make reinstall --- Updating dependency info egrep: /var/db/pkg/apache-2.2.3/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory --- Restoring the old version pw: gid `80' has already been allocated Adding group www failed... pkg_add: install script returned error status -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade error
George Vanev wrote: Portupgrade is trying to add a group www with gid 80 which already exists. Try cat /etc/goup | grep 80 (without quotes) to see which group is assigned gid 80. Then you can take measures changing the gid of that group. Regards -- George Vanev What's strange is that 80 is allocated for apache. I've removed that line, and still encounter the same error. Any thoughts? Thanks, incidentally-- this one's kinda hairy. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade error
Got it sorted-- thanks for all who helped. --Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)
Murray Taylor wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Albrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 January 2007 11:42 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) On 18/01/07, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is only one issue. Others of great importance are trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of things that people should remove from replies. Greg Exactly! And not only my .sig which I do have control over whether I add it or not, and also the [EMAIL PROTECTED] stupid corporate disclaimer also (over which I have no control) sigh mjt (no .sig) since i seem to be in the mood to muddy the waters today: have you considered using a mail address outside of your corporation? one which doesn't automatically add that disclaimer. i've never been fond of using my work email address for anything outside of work, but that's me. maybe this is an obvious answer but it is one way to please the etiquette overlords. -g -- Greg Albrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I started using the lists from work years ago when I was establishing the FreeBSD servers and it was easier to get QA stuff done... Since then the weenies have come along and changed out a perfectly servicable Postfix / Cyrus mail system with M$ Exchg(barf), and the beanies wanted the disclaimers .. sigh Have any of these disclaimers ever proven to be even the slightest bit legally enforceable? I mean, for God's sake, they're at the bottom of the message, essentially telling you not to read the message you just read. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???
George Vanev wrote: If you really want to copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc every 30 min you don't need a startup script. Just add the following line in /etc/crontab: */30 * * * * rootcp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf I don't know what exactly are you trying to do, but this is not quite a good decision. Agreed-- it's a bad idea. However, if you still want to do it, throw a -f flag after the cp just to make sure it forcibly overwrites the resolv.conf. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Atilla the Hub ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?
lveax wrote: hi list i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? and how much space does it need? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a related note, I already have the freebsd-update port installed. Should I uninstall it and use the one that's part of the OS, or keep going as I've been doing? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Internet exceeded Luser level, please wait until a luser logs off before attempting to log back on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antivirus.
Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I have a mail server running FreeBSD+sendmail, I would like to install an antivirus for the mail traffic. Any suggestions about an antivirus non-commercial to install ? I have checked a couple of packages, but it would be interesting to listen some opinions. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ClamAV / Clammodule work well here. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Resolver Problem
linux quest wrote: I have a problem with the DNS setting in FreeBSD. Every 1 hour, I will not be able to ping google.com (because I need to type in my ISP's DNS into /etc/resolv.conf) May I know what is the best solution for this, so that I do not have to type in my ISP's DNS to the resolver all the time? Perhaps, should I set a static IP configuration? If so, may I know which file should I modify? Thanks. Their DNS changes hourly? What the heck ISP are you using that pulls such things? Or do you mean to say that you're on DHCP, and when it renews the lease it clears out DNS info? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
uname question after update
I have two boxes I've updated so far to 6.2. uname -a returns two different strings: FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat Jan 13 15:40:40 PST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 What does the #0 / #4 mean? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Resolver Problem
linux quest wrote: Dear Jay, Thanks. That is exactly what I mean (sorry not explaining it properly). My network is DHCP enabled. When the lease expired, the resolver is also cleared out. Any ideas how I can configure a static DNS IP? Here is what I think may work (Please correct me if I am wrong)... Perhaps I should configure a static IP on this client using FreeBSD. May I know how can I do that, and at the same time, I would also like to disable DHCP enable settings. Thanks again. Regards, Linux Quest */Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: linux quest wrote: I have a problem with the DNS setting in FreeBSD. Every 1 hour, I will not be able to ping google.com (because I need to type in my ISP's DNS into /etc/resolv.conf) May I know what is the best solution for this, so that I do not have to type in my ISP's DNS to the resolver all the time? Perhaps, should I set a static IP configuration? If so, may I know which file should I modify? Thanks. Their DNS changes hourly? What the heck ISP are you using that pulls such things? Or do you mean to say that you're on DHCP, and when it renews the lease it clears out DNS info? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones Simple enough to do-- first off, is this box running under a router or some such that you control, or is it getting a public IP through your ISP? If the latter, setting a static IP might come back to haunt you. I suspect from the way you describe it, that you control a local router that's giving bogus DNS information out with its DHCP lease, in which case the simplest fix is to adjust said router so it Doesn't Do That (tm). In any case: http://www.freebsddiary.org/resolv.php should help you out. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: uname question after update
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: I have two boxes I've updated so far to 6.2. uname -a returns two different strings: FreeBSD box1.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 20:01:29 PST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 FreeBSD box2.mydomain.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #4: Sat Jan 13 15:40:40 PST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 What does the #0 / #4 mean? The number of times you have recompiled your kernel. Kris Thank you, Kris. *smacks forehead* Monday morning indeed... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Resolver Problem
Please don't top-post. linux quest wrote: Dear Jay, Actually, I am running FreeBSD Unix on a VMWare machine (Host OS: Win2003, Guest OS: FreeBSD). Any ideas how I can disable / ignore the routing from the VMnet8? Below are the only VMWare NAT configuration that I have access to. No DHCP enable / disable option. Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.1 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.52.2 When I install FreeBSD, I remember I did select some option to enable DHCP. Perhaps, I should disable the DHCP service in FreeBSD(Guest OS) - if so, any idea how do I do it? Thanks :) Regards, Linux Quest Simple enough, then. Edit /etc/rc.conf, and remove the line relating to the dhcp client. Then add: defaultrouter=192.168.51.2 hostname=boxname! ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.52.WHATEVERYOUWANT netmask 255.255.255.0 -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install from CVS?
Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install from CVS?
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there. Sure, it's possible. You'd have to build a working system from the sources on a FreeBSD system, and then install them to the target disk somehow (perhaps temporarily install the drive in the working FreeBSD system long enough to do the install). In practice, people normally install from a CD image they've burned, and perform source-based updates after that. ---Chuck Crikey, that'd be a pain in the arse. Gotcha, install from ISO... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?
stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching. montreal# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr montreal# make pretty-print-run-depends-list This port requires package(s) ImageMagick-6.2.9.8 curl-7.16.0_1 expat-2.0.0_1 fontconfig-2.3.2_6,1 freetype2-2.2.1_1 gettext-0.14.5_2 ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15 gnupg-1.4.6_3 gocr-0.43 gsfonts-8.11_2 jasper-1.701.0_1 jbigkit-1.6 jpeg-6b_4 lcms-1.16,1 libdrm-2.0.2 libfpx-1.2.0.12 libiconv-1.9.2_2 libltdl-1.5.22 libungif-4.1.4_2 libxml2-2.6.26 mpeg2codec-1.2_1 netpbm-10.26.37 p5-Archive-Tar-1.30 p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1 p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.003 p5-Compress-Zlib-2.002 p5-Digest-1.15 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.36 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11 p5-GSSAPI-0.23 p5-HTML-Parser-3.55 p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.003 p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.002 p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51_1 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.02 p5-IO-String-1.08 p5-IO-Zlib-1.04_1 p5-MIME-Base64-3.07 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7_3 p5-Mail-Tools-1.74 p5-Math-BigInt-1.77 p5-Net-1.19,1 p5-Net-DNS-0.59 p5-Net-IP-1.25 p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30_1 p5-PathTools-3.24 p5-Scalar-List-Utils-1.19,1 p5-Socket6-0.19 p5-String-Approx-3.26 p5-URI-1.35 p5-libwww-5.805 perl-5.8.8 pkg-config-0.21 png-1.2.14 tcl-8.4.13_1,1 tiff-3.8.2_1 tk-8.4.13,2 xorg-libraries-6.9.0 to run. montreal# pretty-print-build-depends-list pretty-print-build-depends-list: Command not found. montreal# make pretty-print-build-depends-list This port requires package(s) perl-5.8.8 to build. montreal# Kinda crappy looking. You can also 'make readmes to generate HTML readme files, but I don't believe it recurses. Anyone else want to chime in? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem Installing Postfix in 6.1
Are you certain the box can get out to the internet and resolve DNS properly? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs server not working with 6.2-RELEASE
Jonathan Horne wrote: updated my NFS server to 6.2-RELEASE last night. today, i find that freebsd or linux clinets alike, are all getting: athena:/usr/src: RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Timed out i cant think of what to check. the nfs server has this in the /etc/rc.conf: rpcbind_enable=YES nfs_server_enable=YES mountd_flags=-r my uname: FreeBSD athena.dfwlp.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 19:53:23 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA i386 my /etc/exports: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/exports /usr -alldirs -maproot=root -network=192.168.1 -mask=255.255.255.0 /opt -alldirs -maproot=root -network=192.168.1 -mask=255.255.255.0 frustrating as all get out, as im troubleshooting another totally enigmatic problem on both of my linux servers (which i wont bother to post about here). but since my BSD box is my file server, im needing to get into those NFS mounts, so one problem is preventing the other from being solved. if anyone can help me shed light on this, i would really appreciated it. thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check /var/log./messages and /var/log/dmesg for anything irregular. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: dynamic software linking table corrupted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...
VeeJay wrote: I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more secure? Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for bbs-83-179.189.218.on-nets.com [218.189.179.83] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: Invalid user sysadmin from 218.189.179.83 VeeJay, you've asked several questions now to this list that are very simple to solve with even a minimal amount of reading through Google. Some people more generous than I have given you the answers, which are are immediately met with further questions, most of which are answered in the first part of the man page for the relevant program. I, and I suspect other posters on this list, have little interest in reading Unix for Dummies to you. Technical questions about specific failures are one thing, but you're asking things that are covered in any decent Unix / FreeBSD book. Heck, you can even get the FreeBSD Handbook for free online. Please, please, PLEASE RTFM. If that's too much to ask, try taking a class, hiring a consultant, or using a more user-friendly OS. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Semi OT]
Installed /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror/ I've got a couple dozen servers here, and waiting for cvsupdates is always onerous-- wish I'd thought of this ages ago. In any case, I wait for the update script to kick itself off, and get this in my logs: CVSup update begins at 2007-01-12 20:53:42 Updating from cvsup-master.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup-master.freebsd.org No record for server freefall.freebsd.org in /home/cvsupin/.cvsup/auth CVSup update ends at 2007-01-12 20:53:42 Did I forget something basic? My apologies if this is too severely off topic... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram
Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3414659072 (3256 MB) Soo I'm at a bit of a loss. Jeff. Same platform, same error. Anyone else have a clue for me? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?
Howard Jones wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed this, I'd like to hear about it. This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've just had the nice experience of taking delivery of a dozen Dell servers and had them all up and running with my own customisations and package selection in one afternoon with one keypress. They are installed as quick as I can press F12. 2. it's way past what's currently considered user friendly Please don't get any graphics bloatware in the way. :-) Amen. Really, if you are put off by the installer, then once that has completed., the rest of the management tools (i.e. vi) are not going give you the warm fuzzies either. If you need the graphical management, and nice installer, isn't that what PCBSD is for? Having a graphical installer would be like having a super luxury limo with bar and pool, but which stops in the desert and leaves you by a phone box. I've been trying to script an install for FreeBSD since I just had a bunch of servers dropped on me-- may I ask how you did yours? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram
Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: if you calculate the 32bit addressing capability 2^32 -1 = 4294967296 - 1 = 4GB -1 you could counter I/O space, IRQ space for all the devices attached. I have heard something like parity interleave(I may be misspelling that word, but sounds close), you can knock off some more memory for this, and something like memory hole, you should knock off some more memory for this., sometimes video card also steal memory for acceleration, how much of it all depends. regards Dak On 1/10/07, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:42:59PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) avail memory = 3414659072 (3256 MB) Soo I'm at a bit of a loss. Jeff. Same platform, same error. Anyone else have a clue for me? Part of the 32-bit address space is reserved for various I/O-devices. This means that a 32-bit OS will not be able to use all 4 GB of RAM but only a smaller amount (usually around 3.5 GB.) If you were to use a 64-bit OS it would probably be able to access all of the RAM if some of it is remapped to above the 4 GB line. (There is usually an option in the BIOS to do this remapping.) (This information is provided by most motherboard manufacturers and many computer manufacturers (including Dell) in some FAQ. ) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten past the randomly decides not to reboot when told to issue? Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely non-responsive. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-01-10 13:24, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Depending on local setup, this could range from 'not at all' to 'extremely'. Do you have a *specific* setup in mind? Standard user with the root password, a bag of explosives, a .45 magnum, and a chip on his shoulder, say? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions Question
Malcolm Kay wrote: I am confused (or someone is). On all the FreeBSD systems I have immediate access to the file /etc/mail/aliases has the default permissions -rw-r--r--, in other words is readable by anyone. On the other hand /etc/mail/aliases.db is sometimes -rw-r- and sometimes -rw-r--r-- but since it is only an encoded version of aliases and additional restrictions would seem useless. I can imagine some might object to reason setting either of these o+r, but this does seem to be the norm. Perhaps someone else has other views. Or perhaps this is some variation when using profix, qmail etc. in place of sendmail. Malcolm Postfix is the MTA, but the file itself is NFS shared between all the mailservers, and furthermore is used as part of a script that expects things to be just so. I inherited this setup, and don't dare start changing the permissions on key files until I understand what every part of the equation expects to see-- an example would be the user mailboxes, wherein the permissions were set incorrectly causing Sendmail to choke (dontblamesendmail has more on this for the curious). -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: user to computer ratio too high. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions advice needed.
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Why does he need access to aliases though? For mail program purposes? -Garrett I think you may have mixed up two threads with very similar subject lines. I see no reference to aliases in this thread. (Confusing isn't it) Malcolm Yeah, I pick interesting times to start threads it would seem. :-) We're doing some group membership stuff through the aliases file, and this guy helps administer some of them in a tertiary sense. The correct way to do this is of course through our LDAP directory, but that would of course make entirely too much sense... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: user to computer ratio too high. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release
stefanos sofroniou wrote: Dear Sirs, I just wanted to ask you since FreeBSD 6.2 is going to be released, sooner or later I will be forced to upgrade my system from 6.1 to 6.2. Well my question goes like this: what is the best way for me to do it? By downloading the ISO images or by doing it with cvsup stable-supfile? On a semi-related note, are there installation instructions for upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2? On that vein, are there instructions for the same upgrade if you don't have console access-- namely, no single-user mode? Regards, -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: user to computer ratio too high. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck report after crash...
Agus wrote: Ok..done it.now, can u explain me or point me a link to the why i have to doit in single mode and what this does?? You can't fsck a filesystem effectively when it's mounted. In order to access it unmounted, you have to be in single-user mode. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: You did wha... oh _dear_ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Permissions Question
Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet worked its wondrous magic upon my person. I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this? I've considered allowing him to run a local copy of the praliases command, but that chokes on the /etc/mail/aliases permissions... To complicate things, the file /etc/mail/aliases is actually an NFS mounted file shared between all our mx boxes, and he only needs to access it from a designated machine. Thoughts? My apologies if this is unclear... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: I'm sorry a pentium won't do, you need an SGI to connect with us. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions Question
Matthew Seaman wrote: Jay Chandler wrote: I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this? Hand him some sheets of printout? Sadly, the data change too often for this to be effective. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: I'm sorry a pentium won't do, you need an SGI to connect with us. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions Question
Robert Huff wrote: Jay Chandler writes: I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this? Hand him some sheets of printout? Sadly, the data change too often for this to be effective. Copy the file evey N minutes, then change ownership and permissions? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably the simplest way to do it-- just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something silly. Thanks! -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openssh security issues
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 17/12/06 Eric said: why not install the portable version? its much newer than the one you have. I don't know what you mean by the portable version. Can I assume that the answer to my original question then, is no? Mike It lives in /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable/ Much newer, more secure, and fun for the whole family. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 2950 1950
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Peter Grigor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just gotten some quotes on a few dell machines and I was wondering now if freebsd 6.x is able to run on them properly. Perc/5i cards and 64-bit Intel chips are my worries :) Anyone have any experiences they'd like to share? Anyone successfully running mysql on an IA64 architecture with Freebsd? We're in the early stages of deployment with these. None of them are actually in production yet, but we're in the final stages of putting them there. 6.1 doesn't work with the onboard NICS -- you have to get a 6.2-RC or wait for 6.2. Otherwise, everything 64-bit works as far as we can tell. We're a little grumpy that we don't have any way to monitor the RAID (our Dell x850 systems use megarc to automatically signal us if a drive fails) We've also had occasional problems with the reboot and shutdown commands not completing, but it's been so intermittent that we can't seem to isolate the cause. Symptom is that it gets to the final stage of reboot/shutdown and then waits indefinitely without issuing the final ACPI command. Do some searches on my name and/or those topics on the stable@ list archives for more details. Running the same 1950 platform here with the i386 base-- I've seen the same problems you mention. The onboard NIC worked intermittently, but kept crashing, so was replaced with an Intel NIC. I just placed an order for 7 more, and made sure to get the Intel onboard NIC option. Restarting is buggy as well, with the same symptoms. My (inelegant) solution is to install a pair of ethernet managed power strips, so I can kill power remotely to bring it all the way down if need be. What advantages/disadvantages do you see with running the 64 bit architecture? I must confess, it never occured to me to try that... I'm running the Dual Core Xeon processors, if that helps anything. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: astropneumatic oscillations in the water-cooling ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 2950 1950
Bill Moran wrote: We get all our units with Dell's remote access card installed. It gives us the same kind of remote admin -- equivalent to being able to hit the power button from the other side of the planet. Some of our servers have it, some of them don't-- I've been here four months, and wasn't involved in prior purchases. If I had my druthers, we'd be on HP servers instead (I'd also probably be able to get a good price on Ebay for druthers, but I digress), or IBM, or one of several other more expensive options, but for now I'm playing the hand I was dealt, serverwise. On the plus side, they're all starting out with a comfortable 4 gigs of RAM. What advantages/disadvantages do you see with running the 64 bit architecture? I must confess, it never occured to me to try that... I'm running the Dual Core Xeon processors, if that helps anything. In our case, we're primarily concerned about RAM. These units are starting out with 4G, and we're monitoring them so we can add RAM when the usage goes up. amd64 is obviously going to be better supported going forward than PAE. Right, PAE is sort of a blast from the past, and I'd much sooner go to a new server than screw around with the 4gb limit personally. Is there any more work to maintaining an amd64 install than grab a different ISO when it's time to install the box? Also, will it work on the Xeon dual core? I've always been comfortably removed from the hardware level, and my new responsibilities aren't quite familiar to me yet... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Processes running slowly due to weak power supply ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup and amd64
Z. Wade Hampton wrote: Greetings to all, I'm running a dell 1501 laptop with amd64x2 processor. I got a disk from a guru specifically for this architecture, booted it, and installed 6.1 via FTP. Yesterday I ran cvsup successfully. Today I did make buildworld successfully. Now, I have a little paranoia about buildkernel. Please tell me, did I need to specify anything specifically about the amd64 architecture when running cvsup? Did I possibly get a GENERIC kernel file through cvsup that is not compatible with amd? Anxious in Montana, Z. Wade Hampton Twin Bridges, MT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm told that KERNCONF=SMP is the command to pass-- you're also going to want to throw in a -j4 or so. So the command will be: make -j4 buildkernel KERNCONF=SMP; make -j4 installkernel KERNCONF=SMP -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Processes running slowly due to weak power supply ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Machine won't reboot
Howdy. Have a box that won't restart after I cvsup it and rebuild the OS. When the 'reboot' command is given, the machine hangs after the uptime announcement. Nothing built on the box other than OpenSSH and cvs-without-gui. The machine in question is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with dual 3.0 ghz dual-core procs. I've turned on options SMB in the kernel before recompiling, will test to determine if this is relevant. Anyone have any thoughts on this? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714-628-7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bother, said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here. -- Peter Da Silva in a.s.r. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Machine won't reboot
On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You forgot to mention what version you're running, but if it's up-to-date 6.2 there's a sysctl for using an alternate reboot method which is necessary on certain machines. Kris Sorry, this is 6.1 PL10. I wasn't aware that 6.2 was out of beta yet. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714-628-7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bother, said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here. -- Peter Da Silva in a.s.r. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
