Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable
Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking of upgrading it to 5.4 Stable Please let me know the merits and demerits of the same. Do you feel it is good move to upgrade to the stable version. If it is suggested that I go for the upgrade which mode would suit the servers ? Awaiting all your valuable suggestions ... -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable
That was valuable in deed The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic one. By mode I meant how to go about doing this process. Is it better to go the cvs way or the binary way ? Currently we have not yet thought of freebsd 6.0, we are thinking of making the servers bit more stable with the stable version We came to this conclusion because our servers do have a problem were the server gets rebooted automatically with put any reason ( I couldn't get any from the logs ) This issue is there with all the servers but the one server suffers the most ( having a real bad uptime which is max of 2 days ) I hope to get more data on the same so that the transition is done smoothly On 2/23/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking of upgrading it to 5.4 Stable Please let me know the merits and demerits of the same. Do you feel it is good move to upgrade to the stable version. The question is, will you ever go to 6.X ? I'd think that if they last very long, the answer might well be yes. 5.5 will be the last RELEASE on the RELENG_5 branch. Moving to -STABLE might keep you closer to the targets in your future; consider someone who right now wants to get from 4.11 to 6.0 --- they have to make one rather tricky jump to, what, 5.2.1(?), RTFMG, and then hope that they don't need another intermediate bump to get *smoothly* to wherever RELENG_6 might be ATM. By keeping up a tad, you might be setting yourself up for smoother transitions in the future. YMMV, and all that. Have you considered simply tracking RELENG_5_4 (aka security branch)? Should be very little risk involved, and a smooth transition to 5.5 or 6.X . Since you have a dozen servers, you might do well to set up a testbed machine and try everything out before touching your production boxes. But then, if you run 12 servers, you're probably already thinking about that. If it is suggested that I go for the upgrade which mode would suit the servers ? Mode?? Meaning, how to go about this process? Are they all identical? Are you using a GENERIC or identical kernel config on all? If so, it should be easy on you to do the make buildworld and make buildkernel steps on your testbed, export /usr/obj via NFS to your production machines, and simply have them mount this share and do the make installkernel and make installworld steps. IOW, just like the manual, but you do the hard work only once. Awaiting all your valuable suggestions ... -- Jayesh Jayan Heh. I doubt it was that valuable. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey -- Who to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. -- George Chapman -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable
By mode I meant -- binary upgrade or cvs mode On 2/23/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have 12 servers running freebsd. They are basically web servers having cpanel control panel. All these server are running FreeBSD 5.4 Release as of now. Now are thinking of upgrading it to 5.4 Stable Hmmm. I wouldn't call that an upgrade really. Except for a few possibly meaningful security patches, it is the same thing. You might well be much better served by upgrading to V6.0 or even waiting a couple of weeks and going to V6.1. It is scheduled for March 20 and it looks like things are pretty much keeping to schedule. Please let me know the merits and demerits of the same. Do you feel it is good move to upgrade to the stable version. The stable version is really sort of an interim collection of the development version. It is generally felt to be stable with a general sense that everything will work together, but not necessarily ready to be considered a release which is a formally tested collection that generally also has the more active ports built and tested against it by the port maintainers. The stable version is only a little bit more together than the 'current' version which is really just a daily snapshot of the development tree with no particular assurance that everything works together - though FreeBSD is well enough put together that current tends to be workable. If you are determined to stick with 5.xxx for some reason, then go for 5.5 which is scheduled for April 3 or track RELENG_5 to get its latest security updates. But, I think you should move to 6.1 or at least RELENG_6.Do a complete fresh clean install of 6.1 and then start tracking the RELENG_6. If it is suggested that I go for the upgrade which mode would suit the servers ? I don't know what you mean by mode. jerry Awaiting all your valuable suggestions ... -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed FreeBSD. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable
All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. On 2/23/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was valuable in deed The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machine which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic one. By mode I meant how to go about doing this process. Is it better to go the cvs way or the binary way ? Currently we have not yet thought of freebsd 6.0, we are thinking of making the servers bit more stable with the stable version See, this is a misunderstanding of the way the word 'stable' is being used in regards to the FreeBSD versions. It is stable only in relation to the 'current' development track which is in almost complete flux as people work on it daily. But in comparrison to the RELEASE verion a STABLE version is not as stable (though it is usually pretty good). It is sort of an interim version with security patches and some of the new things that are being worked on. We came to this conclusion because our servers do have a problem were the server gets rebooted automatically with put any reason ( I couldn't get any from the logs ) This is probably not related to the OS level at all. It is most likely some hardware or power stability issue, but could be some software thing if storage space or memory table space or some such is running out. This issue is there with all the servers but the one server suffers the most ( having a real bad uptime which is max of 2 days ) Any possibility you have something going that has a memory leak? jerry I hope to get more data on the same so that the transition is done smoothly -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: May be a question repeated
Hi Wash, Thank you for your mail. I tried the option and it worked fine. On 12/13/05, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On 13/12/05 04:15 +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, I have a server which runs Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) and exim 4.53-0 on a FreeBSD 5.4. I wanted to upgrade exim to 4.60 so i did the below steps 1 ) cd /usr/ports/mail/exim 2 ) make clean 3 ) make at this step the make stops saying openssl already installed. I have on the server OpenSSL 0.9.7e and exim is trying to upgrade even open ssl to the latest. This may break http and other services running on the server. Error message is as below ** === Installing for openssl-0.9.8a === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/openssl already installed pkg_info: package bsdpan-CPAN-1.80 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Filesys-Statvfs_Statfs_Df-0.78 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-GDGraph-1.43 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-GDTextUtil-0.86 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-IO-Interactive-undef has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.67 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-ShadowHash-0.07 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-TermReadKey-2.30 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Tie-Watch-1.2 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Tree-MultiNode-1.0.10 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.803 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.804 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.805 has no origin recorded === An older version of security/openssl is already installed ( openssl-0.9.7e_2) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/openssl without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. ** Please guide me on how I can upgrade exim without effecting other services running on the server. You did install openssl from the ports, yes? You probably shouldn't have done that, as openssl is supposed to be in the base system for FreeBSD. I am not going to help you fix that though. You have to decide on what steps to take - either deinstall the /usr/ports/security/openssl and rely on the one from the base system or use it as is. For the purposes of your current problem, Exim is assuming you are using TLS, which is what is pulling in the openssl dependency. If you don't really need TLS support on Exim, then do: cd /usr/ports/mail/exim make -DWITHOUT_TLS ..and proceed from there... I'd advise you to rely on utils like /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade or /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager to manage your ports. Lastly, you will be happy to deinstall your openssl from the ports and rebuild all your apps that were relying on it to instead link against the one in the base system. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington[EMAIL PROTECTED] Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law. -- Mark B. Cohen -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May be a question repeated
Hi, I have a server which runs Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) and exim 4.53-0 on a FreeBSD 5.4. I wanted to upgrade exim to 4.60 so i did the below steps 1 ) cd /usr/ports/mail/exim 2 ) make clean 3 ) make at this step the make stops saying openssl already installed. I have on the server OpenSSL 0.9.7e and exim is trying to upgrade even open ssl to the latest. This may break http and other services running on the server. Error message is as below ** === Installing for openssl-0.9.8a === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/openssl already installed pkg_info: package bsdpan-CPAN-1.80 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Filesys-Statvfs_Statfs_Df-0.78 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-GDGraph-1.43 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-GDTextUtil-0.86 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-IO-Interactive-undef has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.67 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-ShadowHash-0.07 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-TermReadKey-2.30 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Tie-Watch-1.2 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-Tree-MultiNode-1.0.10 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.803 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.804 has no origin recorded pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.805 has no origin recorded === An older version of security/openssl is already installed ( openssl-0.9.7e_2) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/openssl without deleting it first, set the variable FORCE_PKG_REGISTER in your environment or the make install command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. ** Please guide me on how I can upgrade exim without effecting other services running on the server. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi Marco, Yes you are correct. It is as you have given :) Thank you. On 11/30/05, Marco Gigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) You should use: bash array.sh On FreeBSD sh != bash $ ls -l `which sh` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 763316 Sep 3 08:37 /bin/sh $ ls -l `which bash` -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 471136 Jun 12 01:13 /usr/local/bin/bash Cheers -- Marco Gigante -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi Wesley, Thank you. I understood it completely. The explanation was great. Thank you once again. On 11/30/05, Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39:15AM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. Bash (installed via ports) is in /usr/local/bin. Change the first line to be #!/usr/local/bin/bash and chmod 750 (at least) the script. This way you can just ./aa.sh and be done. If you prefer to run it as you have shown above don't run sh aa.sh, instead do bash aa.sh, assuming bash is in your path. sh aa.sh will try and run the script through sh (which is not bash). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ls -la foo.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 wxs wxs 97 Nov 29 16:26 foo.sh* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ cat foo.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ bash ./foo.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ./foo.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ sh ./foo.sh ./foo.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- WXS -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi John, I already have bash installed from ports. It is bash 2.05b. On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39 +0530: Below is the output. # sh array.sh Install the bash port (as root: pkg_add -r bas), and then try again using bash... FreeBSD doesn't have bash installed by default (and hence, /bin/sh is not bash like it is usually on Linux), and our sh doesn't have that feature... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi John, Thank you. It seems to work like a charm. On 11/30/05, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:09 pm, Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, Today I was trying to script using arrays in FreeBSD 5.4 but it doesn't work. Below is a sample script which I used. ** #!/bin/bash array=( zero one two three four); echo Elements in array0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** It works fine on RedHat server. Below is the output. # sh array.sh Elements in array0: zero one two three four Below is the out put from the FreeBSD server using the same code. -bash-2.05b# sh aa.sh aa.sh: 3: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) Please guide me on how to use arrays on freebsd too. sh != bash You can either install bash from ports, or you can write your scripts in sh without using bash extensions. For example, with sh you can do things like: array=zero one to three four for x in $array; do echo $x done However, you can't easily get the count of items. You could maybe do something like: set $array echo $# items but that's somewhat hackish. -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ Power Users Use the Power to Serve = http://www.FreeBSD.org -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash scripting -- Usage of arrays
Hi John, yes it works when executed with bash aa.sh. Thank you :) On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:19 +0530: I already have bash installed from ports. It is bash 2.05b. But below you were running sh, and not bash... if you do sh array.sh, it will not reinterpet the #!/bin/bash line, and re-exec it with the program in part because /bin/bash doesn't exist on the system, as bash is installed in /usr/local/bin/bash... Please try with: bash array.sh instead, and see if that works.. On 11/30/05, John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote this message on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:39 +0530: Below is the output. # sh array.sh Install the bash port (as root: pkg_add -r bas), and then try again using bash... FreeBSD doesn't have bash installed by default (and hence, /bin/sh is not bash like it is usually on Linux), and our sh doesn't have that feature... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not. -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot
Hi Alex,
I have set the flags for the file. I hope this helps.
On 11/26/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jayesh Jayan wrote:
Hi,
On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes
a
blank file soon after reboot.
I have kept a copy of the file and when the service fails after reboot I
restore the backup and restart the inetd service.
What I need to check, to solve this issue. How can this be solved
permanently ? Please also let me know the logs which I can check to find
the
exact issue.
I'm afraid that the most likely cause is something *you* did. Nothing
in the system would deliberately remove that file, and if it is
happening because of some misconfiguration then nothing would appear in
a log file.
Two things to try:
1) Find references in /etc and /usr/local/etc to inetd.conf. These
are the likely places to find the problem.
find /etc /usr/local/etc -type f -exec egrep -H inetd {} \;
2) Compare /etc and /usr/local/etc on the failing machines with the
ones on good machines.
Changing the flags on /etc/inetd.conf to prevent it being blanked should
work around the symptoms, but not the cause. This should work:
chflags schg /etc./inetd.conf
But if you run in secure mode you'll need to go down to single-user to
get rid of the flag, and you can't edit inetd.conf with the flag in place.
--Alex
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inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot
Hi, On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes a blank file soon after reboot. I have kept a copy of the file and when the service fails after reboot I restore the backup and restart the inetd service. What I need to check, to solve this issue. How can this be solved permanently ? Please also let me know the logs which I can check to find the exact issue. Please guide -- Jayesh Jayan The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to check if a processor in the machine is dead
Hi, I am having problem with my dell 2850 server. It has freebsd 5.4 installed. Today the machine is flashing amber light on the face plate.On checking I found that to be PROC Machine Chk which means cpu has failed. The server has dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz. I searched and found a utility named x86info but couldn't understand the output much and also couldn't get to know if a cpu has really failed. Please help me in this regard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Issue with frontpage
Hi, I am having issue with frontpage on most of my freebsd servers. The apache version is 1.3.33 and having frontpage version 5 I am having freebsd 5.4 as my OS. the issue with frontpage is that it doesn't connect to 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: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. It's true that problems with overheating or a bad MB will generate errors that memtest86 will see, but memtest86 is really good at noticing bad RAM. It will catch errors that the BIOS self-test won't (which isn't too hard :-), and I've never seen memtest86 fail to detect bad RAM -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and also label it. After that I get the below error Cannot Dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort* * Hope to get your advices soon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and also label it. After that I get the below error Cannot Dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort* * Hope to get your advices soon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
I am installing freebsd on this machine for the first time. Anyhow i have installed freebsd on another machine with out any problem which has AMD athlon 2.8 GHz, 256 MB DDR ram, 40 GB SEAGATE HDD. I just wanted to use this machine as my gateway machine which will not have any monitor or so connected to it. On 10/25/05, Nicholas Lozinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B I am using freebsd 5.4 cd's to install. I am able to create partitions and also label it. After that I get the below error Cannot Dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort* Is this a fresh installation of BSD or something that has once worked? Proprietary BIOS and chipsets such as VIA on AMD boards, in my experience, have funny effects on BSD. For example, a Compaq M2000 with an AMD Sempron CPU will not install any FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD version onto it; all versions after 4.8 malfunction. I just want to give you a heads up as to why it might not be working, so you don't pull your hair out. I still haven't figured out my issue with my box here, but I've moved on. Nick L. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the distribution it starts the installation it shows transffering .. in a blue screen with a progress bar. it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. I would like to setup the gateway and i want to use freebsd .. because of it's power which i am learning now . hope to get more guidance on the issue ... On 10/25/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault, it's hard to diagnose the problem. One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP Pavillion PC. The below is the configuration of the pc. AMD K6 2 550 MHz 10 GB Maxtor HDD Sony CD RW 64 MB sd ram It is having phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0 B -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4
Thank you I will try it out and let you know the output :) But it is not a proper thing to do . anyhow will give it a try On 10/25/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the distribution it starts the installation it shows transffering .. in a blue screen with a progress bar. it then transfers 32 of 33 chunks and then it comes up with the error mentioned before. Sometimes this is simply a problem with the CD being dirty or not being read correctly. This might also indicate your hardware is a little flaky. The AMD Athlons are fine processors, but the earlier AMD K6 and Cyrix CPUs are a bit less reliable and some contained interesting hardware flaws (like with the L2 cache). -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am having problem with network
Hi Steve, Thank you. I did change the as you had suggested and executed the script /etc/netstart. the server hanged :(( Changed # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20/ netmask 255.255.255.248 http://255.255.255.248/ From: # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20/ netmask 255.255.255.252 http://255.255.255.252/ what can be the issue or what was the wrong step which I took ? On 10/12/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:36 AM To: Jayesh Jayan Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: I am having problem with network On 10/10/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Thank you for your mail. Below are the details which is required by you. First, notice this: inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 0xfc00 broadcast 206.123.103.255 http://206.123.103.255 Check out the broadcast address...it ends before the 206.123.104.1http://206.123.104.1 address begins. The subnet you used for this entire contiguous block of IP's in human readable form is 255.255.252.0 http://255.255.252.0. This will only encompass the 101-103 supernet. There are two possible solutions. The first involves increasing the supernet to include the 104 block. The first ifconfig entry in your /etc/rc.conf file should be changed to this: # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 255.255.255.248 http://255.255.255.248 From: # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 255.255.255.252 http://255.255.255.252 The second option is changing the subnet for the 104 block alias in the rc.conf file. At this point, you have it set to 0x, which is 255.255.255.255 http://255.255.255.255. This is fine, so long as the 104 block was inside of the original subnet, but it is not. This is exactly why you are getting these errors in the messages log. You will need to find out how your IP's have been allocated to you. With this second option, you would change the first 104 entry's subnet to something different in the rc.conf file in order for it to be routed properly, such as 255.255.255.0 http://255.255.255.0. This subnet mask would encompass the 104 block, and only the 104 block. All of the other 104 entries shall keep their original 255.255.255.255 http://255.255.255.255 (or 0x) subnet mask as aliases. Either one of these solutions will work, but it may break other parts of the network if you don't know how the rest of the network looks at this. I'd assume you'd just want to take the first option as I bet that's what you meant. I don't have time to re-read this post, so if it is confusing in any way, my apologies. Feel free to ask questions. Also, any changes in this regard should be done at the console lest you make a mistake. After making changes to rc.conf, simply issue the command: # /etc/netstart To activate the changes. HTH, Steve inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 0xfc00 broadcast 206.123.103.255 http://206.123.103.255 inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fee9:327e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 inet 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fee9:327e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 inet 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 inet 206.123.103.209 http://206.123.103.209 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.209 http://206.123.103.209 inet 206.123.103.210 http://206.123.103.210 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.210 http://206.123.103.210 inet 206.123.103.211 http://206.123.103.211 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.211 http://206.123.103.211 inet 206.123.103.212 http://206.123.103.212 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.212 http://206.123.103.212 inet 206.123.103.213 http://206.123.103.213 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.213 http://206.123.103.213 inet 206.123.103.214 http://206.123.103.214 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.214 http://206.123.103.214 inet 206.123.103.215 http://206.123.103.215 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.215 http://206.123.103.215 inet 206.123.103.216 http://206.123.103.216 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.216 http://206.123.103.216 inet 206.123.103.217 http://206.123.103.217 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.217 http://206.123.103.217 inet 206.123.103.218 http://206.123.103.218 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.218 http://206.123.103.218 inet
Re: I am having problem with network
Hi Steve, I meant I changed the rc.conf to what you had exepected me to do. I changed the enteries without # ( # means a comment in rc.conf I suppose ) The server came up fine when the old netmask was restored. So basically the server didn't come up online after the reboot because of the wrong netmask. On 10/13/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did change the as you had suggested and executed the script /etc/netstart. the server hanged :(( Also, remove any reference to the http entries if they are appearing in your email. The '20' should be directly next to the word netmask, and the 248 should be smack dab beside the last double quote. I don't know if your email app is displaying the http references, but if they are, that is not part of the command. Steve Changed # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20/ netmask 255.255.255.248 http://255.255.255.248 http://255.255.255.248/ From: # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20/ netmask 255.255.255.252 http://255.255.255.252 http://255.255.255.252/ what can be the issue or what was the wrong step which I took ? On 10/12/05, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:36 AM To: Jayesh Jayan Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: I am having problem with network On 10/10/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Thank you for your mail. Below are the details which is required by you. First, notice this: inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 0xfc00 broadcast 206.123.103.255 http://206.123.103.255 Check out the broadcast address...it ends before the 206.123.104.1 http://206.123.104.1 address begins. The subnet you used for this entire contiguous block of IP's in human readable form is 255.255.252.0 http://255.255.252.0. This will only encompass the 101-103 supernet. There are two possible solutions. The first involves increasing the supernet to include the 104 block. The first ifconfig entry in your /etc/rc.conf file should be changed to this: # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 255.255.255.248 http://255.255.255.248 From: # ifconfig_em0=inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 255.255.255.252 http://255.255.255.252 The second option is changing the subnet for the 104 block alias in the rc.conf file. At this point, you have it set to 0x, which is 255.255.255.255 http://255.255.255.255 http://255.255.255.255 . This is fine, so long as the 104 block was inside of the original subnet, but it is not. This is exactly why you are getting these errors in the messages log. You will need to find out how your IP's have been allocated to you. With this second option, you would change the first 104 entry's subnet to something different in the rc.conf file in order for it to be routed properly, such as 255.255.255.0 http://255.255.255.0. This subnet mask would encompass the 104 block, and only the 104 block. All of the other 104 entries shall keep their original 255.255.255.255 http://255.255.255.255 (or 0x) subnet mask as aliases. Either one of these solutions will work, but it may break other parts of the network if you don't know how the rest of the network looks at this. I'd assume you'd just want to take the first option as I bet that's what you meant. I don't have time to re-read this post, so if it is confusing in any way, my apologies. Feel free to ask questions. Also, any changes in this regard should be done at the console lest you make a mistake. After making changes to rc.conf, simply issue the command: # /etc/netstart To activate the changes. HTH, Steve inet 206.123.101.20 http://206.123.101.20 netmask 0xfc00 broadcast 206.123.103.255 http://206.123.103.255 inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fee9:327e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 inet 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fee9:327e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.207 http://206.123.103.207 inet 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.208 http://206.123.103.208 inet 206.123.103.209 http://206.123.103.209 netmask 0x broadcast 206.123.103.209 http://206.123.103.209 inet 206.123.103.210 http://206.123.103.210 netmask
I am having problem with network
Hi, Most of the freebsd servers which have is showing the below in /var/log/messages. It filing the message log Please guide me on what the issue is. Oct 9 16:31:50 server005 kernel: arplookup 206.123.104.1http://206.123.104.1failed: host is not on local network Oct 9 16:32:21 server005 last message repeated 11 times Oct 9 16:34:22 server005 last message repeated 19 times Could you please guide me on how to solve this issue Thank you in advance. -- Jayesh Jayan To Change A System You Have To Be In The System ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software to monitor RAID 5 Hardware on Dell Server.
Hi, I had disturbed you all with some doubts regarding freebsd before. Now i have servers up and running. I am using the monitoring tool named nagios for checking the services run on the server. Now i am in need of a software or so to monitor the RAID hardware .. Below is the URL to the specification of Dell server which I use. http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2850?c=uscs=04l=ens=bsd#tabtop Please guide me on this. -- Jayesh Jayan To Change A System You Have To Be In The System ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to go about the installation
Hi, I am bit new to freebsd. I would like to install FreeBSD with below specifications. How do I go about it. My Hardware -- a dell server with below configuration. CPU: Dual Xeon 3.0GHz/2MB Cache RAM: 2GB (with room to grow to 12GB) Drive: 3 x 73GB SCSI with RAID 5 config Power: Dual power supply Rack: 2U and the server can take 6 drives. So can please let me know on how to go about installing freebsd 5.3 on the above configuration with RAID 5 hardware. Thank you. -- Jayesh Jayan Get a life or die trying! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
