Re: How to set source address for outgoing SSH?
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Daniela wrote: I have some problems with an outgoing SSH connection to a machine on my LAN. Connections from the clients to the server work, but not vice versa. The server has two NICs and the connection should normally go through the inside interface, but the connection is initiated with the address of the outside interface instead. As a logical consequence, my firewall (which is running on the server) drops the response, with my outside address being shown in the firewall logs as source for the request, and my inside address being shown as destination for the response. The output of sockstat(1) shows the inside address being used as expected. man ssh, look at the -b (bind) option. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ssh connection
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Pota Kalima wrote: I think I have narrowed the fault down to ssh from mac os x because I could connect from ssh client on windoz. On mac os x I get same message [ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.5 port 22: Permission denied] when the freebsd box is switched on or OFF!! I guess I will have to try mac lists for a solution. pota I use OS X (I'm actually on a OS X ssh connection at the moment), not currently to a FreeBSD machine, but when I did I had no specific SSH interoperability problems. OS X uses OpenSSH in fairly standard configuration, I believe. If you want to post to a Mac list, I suggest taking a look at the X-Unix list at: http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/X-Unix.html I suspect you have host name issues, for what it's worth. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ssh connection
On Sep 19, 2004, at 05:28, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ssh connection
On Sep 19, 2004, at 05:28, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ssh connection
On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote: On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself? KeS Tried to ssh to machine itself and got the following: $ Ssh 192.168.0.5 The authenticity of host '192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5)' can't be established. DSA key fingerprint is 42:98:e3:11: Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Yes Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.5' (DSA) to the list of known hosts. [There was a prolonged pause here, I almost rebooted the machine] Sep 19 18:10:00 localhost sshd[581]: fatal: Timeout before authentification for 192.168.0.5 Connection closed by 192.168.0.5 Well, there you go. Better get it working locally before worrying about connecting from other machines - at least it's easier to troubleshoot that way. You can start adding -v's to your session command to get more details. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd compatible routers
On Aug 18, 2004, at 01:40, Dino Vliet wrote: @home we have a cable internet connection and I want to attach a router to it to be able to share the internet connection of 1 standalone winxp pc and a laptop running freebsd 4.10 The cable connection uses dhcp to assign me a ip-address. I also would like a switch to be able to set up a lan between the pc's at home. Most of the products out there combine a 4/5 port switch with the router. Personally I would favour a netgear solution but some of the don't allow port forwarding and even though I don't know at the moment if I will need this, I do want a product which is capable of doing that:-) I'm not aware of any router/firewall products which don't offer port forwarding, though sometimes it's called something different. Which Netgear product are you referring to? What are the best freebsd compatible routers? Well, Cisco 3660s are nice... The phrase freebsd compatible router is pretty meaningless, FreeBSD uses a standard TCP/IP implementation and so do routers, so they are all interoperable. The only thing you might find is a product that has a Windows-specific setup program, but that is very rare on current equipment - they all use browser-based setups. Buy the cheapest thing on sale (should be $30 new if you shop around) and replace it later if you need some specific different feature. Will te fact that I use freebsd on my laptop be a serious constraint? Depends on what you're trying to do with it. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is promiscuous mode bad?
On Aug 15, 2004, at 15:32, Bill Moran wrote: Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reminder for bill: sniffing via bpf requires the same privileges whether promisc. is set or not, so you always need to be root for sniffing data of the line, that is when the permissions is not tampered with :). Thanks #bsddocs (simon ;)) Really? Then I stand corrected. If that's the case, though, what _is_ the administrative danger of running in PROMISC mode? I think, in general, it's the notion that if the NIC is listening to things it shouldn't, it may hear something it doesn't want to. ;) In other words, there would be concern over exploits targeted at services or daemons that don't screen inbound traffic for the destination address being that of the local host, because they assume that such traffic could never be delivered to them. That type of thing. A lot of network scanners also trigger on NICS in promiscuous mode (there's a way to detect them, I forget the details at the moment) because admins want to know if any hosts are out there sniffing. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting solution
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote: The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while indenting with a quote character. Not true. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a reply with the cursor at the very top of the message body. Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook email client. Not true. See above. There is a little known fix for MS/Outlook express and MS/Office Outlook email clients that change the behavior of these MS/Windows email clients so they adhere to the Unix email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while indenting with a quote character. Fix is a loaded term which presumes that something is broken. To all you Unix hard liners, Please instead of complaining to the top posters, it would be so much nicer if you just informed the It would actually be much nicer if they'd just quit trying to enforce their preferences on others. MS/Windows top poster of the above links so they know about the solution to fix their email clients to adhere to the Unix email format used on this list. Please provide a cite/ref to the Unix email format as something more concrete than your personal definition. And more concrete than RFC 1855, whose second sentence reads: This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Top posting solution
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote: So your a hard core purest on the other side of the coin. You know absolutely nothing about my position on this subject other than what you infer from the formatting of the posts I've made. The fact that I reject specious argument from incorrect facts is irrelevant to how I feel about top posting. You can nit pick about wording all you want. It still does not detract from the fact that there is an 'FIX' to change the behavior of MS/windows top posting. As always, the reader has the chose in how they want to reply to posts on this list, top or bottom posting. Or whether to use a spell/grammar checker, of course. Might as well switch fires. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: implementing spf
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Robert Storey wrote: I never heard of spf until yesterday, when there was a big discussion about it on Slashdot. The discussion was very political (about Microsoft, Richard Stallman, etc). I don't want to get into any of the politics here, as it's not appropriate for this list. But I am interested in the technology aspect. Most of the technology issues aren't appropriate for this list, either, so I suspect you care less about the propriety than your particular interest. Specifically: 1) Is the technology useful? 2) How does one implement spf on the server side? 3) How does one implement spf on the client side? I most interested in No. 3 above - specifically, is there anything that I must do as an end-user to make use of spf? As an end-user, nothing. http://spf.pobox.com/users.html. Same site for a general FAQ which addresses implementation (it's done via DNS records). The Slashdot article had a link to the Microsoft implementation; the complaint about it is that they are releasing a free license to implement, which can be revoked at any time. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports on OS X
On Jul 18, 2004, at 22:51, Joshua Lewis wrote: Down to the questions. Any one know how I can get the ports collection on here? I am thinking download CVSup and then running a ports-all. Any other ideas? Umm. You're trying to install the freebsd ports collection on a Mac running what? FreeBSD/ppc or OS X? If FreeBSD, ok, but I didn't realize that architecture port was complete. If OS X, the FreeBSD ports aren't what you need. Try here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/ or here: http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/. Both use cvsup for updates. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing issue
On Jul 19, 2004, at 02:12, Web Walrus (Robert Wall) wrote: That network card has a config roughly like ifconfig_dc0 inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.248 ifconfig_dc0_alias0 inet 2.3.4.5 netmask 255.255.255.248 defaultrouter=1.2.3.1 Excuse me why I interject that it's a royal PITA when people post obfuscated IP information while asking IP-related questions. It inevitably introduces confusion. Ok, I feel better now... When I have the network set up in this manner (packets coming in via two external lines plugged into the same switch), I can only access the network that is on the same network as the default router. In the example above, I can access the server by 1.2.3.4, but not by 2.3.4.5. If I change the defaultrouter to 2.3.4.1, I can access the server by 2.3.4.5 but not 1.2.3.4. Access the server from where? Let me test my understanding. You have a server with one NIC and two addresses, plugged into a single switched network along with two ethernet connections to external ISPs, and you're trying to connect to the server from a remote network via the different addresses? If both addresses can reach the network you are connecting from, it should work via either address. Note that the RESPONSE may come to you from a different address, and if that confuses your application THAT may break. For example, if you come in on 2.3.4.5, the reply will still return via 1.2.3.4 - your server can only have one default gateway, and if that's how it knows to reach you, that's where it will go. If your two networks can't both reach your source network, then yes, it will break. There are workarounds, most involve either a dynamic routing protocol that can assign priorites to the different paths, or introducing an external device (firewall, router) that basically does the same thing. Essentially you need more elaborate routing that takes availability into account. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS server
On Jul 11, 2004, at 12:46, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:53:22PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote: a domain needs to be added to before it will function correctly. This is known as propagation. the misnomer propagation is used by people who think DNS data needs time to be available, to propagate, over several days or a week, for all of Internet. This is pure BS. There is no such concept in DNS. And FYI, speaking of DNS updating: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/11/ 1741225mode=threadtid=126tid=95 KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
On Jul 10, 2004, at 17:33, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know Greg's reasoning for that statement but it does seem rather wrong to me. Would you judge a waitress on their choice of shoes? Of course not, you'd judge them based on their service. Would you decide on who to hire to build you a fence based on what kind of screwdriver they use? Why would you choose an ISP based on what tool they use to provide you with a service? Well, first it reflects on their judgement. If they run on FreeBSD, I give them credit for better jedgement. Secondly, if you have problems or questions, you are more likely to get an intelligent answer if they run one of the BSDs. If they run MS, they are more likely to just say they don't support anything different when you ask. In an ISP of any size, the CS reps will be almost totally divorced from the infrastructure team. What OS' they support for customers has very little to do with what they run on the backside. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bill Moran wrote: Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a bit of the long way around, but I've done it, so I know it works. We set up a temporary IMAP server, and used Outlook to copy all the mail and folders up to the IMAP server. Then you can just connect to the IMAP server with your new mail client to get at all your stuff. Seconded. This is my preferred method for migrating .pst data. Only problem with it is the requirement that you still have Outlook installed and available. But it's by far the fastest and cleanest way I know. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf confusion]
On Jul 2, 2004, at 20:39, David Fuchs wrote: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis That's typical. Considering that 'hosts' is listed first, I would expect that any entries I add to /etc/hosts will take precedence over entries retrieved from bind. So, I added an entry to this file for a random IP-to-name mapping, and tested it with the 'host(1)' command, and it failed. When I enable debugging, it clearly shows that it's consulting the first nameserver listed in resolv.conf (an external host), no mention of a hosts file anywhere (or attempt to send a request to the local host) Try ping; even if the host isn't available you can see if it resolves. host does it's own thing, which is sometimes non-obvious (to me at least). Look at the sections in man host about the variables it expects to be configured. Additionally, what classifies as 'when the name server is not running' - does this mean that /etc/hosts is used when all the nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf are unavailable? (As I only use the local named(8) daemon to host my personal domain, not for everyday recursive lookups.) Or does it literally refer to when my local copy of named(8) is not in the process list? The latter. For example, many workstations aren't configured to run named at all; they'll still reference their local hosts file. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Cable management
On Jun 30, 2004, at 12:46, Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2004, Skylar Thompson wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:38:55PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: If you're new to cable management, remember to tag both ends of the cables BEFORE running them through any conduit. Once they get bundled together in any way, that's all you have to go by. If you do get into a situation where you don't know which cable is which, you can always tone them. It's a PITA and works best wiht two people, but it works. It's not a bad idea to have a toner on hand, because even labeled cables can run into trouble. The ink might rub off, or you might accidentally cut off some excess slack without relableling. A pair of cheap walkie-talkies can also be invaluable for toning out cables unless you love shouting. Y'all are doing a great job of making my point. ;) KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Beastie makes a cameo appearance on apple.com.
Apple just announced their next OS X release Tiger, today. While browsing through the features, I noticed a Beastie icon nodding approvingly at the paragraph on the new FreeBSD 5.x -based kernel: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/unix.html KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Cable management
On Jun 26, 2004, at 12:44, dvv wrote: Jorn Argelo writes: Google/e-bay on structure cabling, patch panels - $100 roughly, nice switches - $100-300 or more. The more expensive are managed and are better: For example Surecom Switch 24Port10/100 2Port10/100/1000, EP-726DG-L, Management is a good one. It costs about 300usd in my country. Check other options from lower classes - pure 10/100mbit managed switches and other vendors also. Pick several kinds of colour duck tape to mark the cables so that you can recognize them easily in the panel and a stand from Home Depot to put the boxes on. If you have place for the boxes, spent the rest of your budget on beverages of your taste. You will need them during your network setup. Enjoy! Dimitar If you're new to cable management, remember to tag both ends of the cables BEFORE running them through any conduit. Once they get bundled together in any way, that's all you have to go by. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Cable management
On Jun 26, 2004, at 13:25, Jorn Argelo wrote: Thanks for your advice Dimitar, but I don't have the money, nor am I in need a patch panel or a switch of that budget. I am merely a student who can't afford such equipment. Besides, we just got four PCs in the house here, so I don't really need an entire patch panel for just four PCs ;) Main point is, I want to get rid of VGA cables, power cables, PS2 cables, USB cables etcetera. So I have more use of a big cable gutter then a patch panel. IKEA has some nice cable management stuff for cheap: split conduit, cable bags, small cable reels. All of it cheap, generally well thought out. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Urgent 4.9 networking problems
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Dave Raven wrote: # ifconfig fxp1 fxp1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet x.y.186.3 netmask 0xff00 broadcast x.y.186.255 inet x.y.186.1 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.1 inet x.y.186.15 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.15 inet x.y.186.14 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.14 inet x.y.186.142 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.142 inet x.y.186.33 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.33 inet x.y.186.124 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.124 inet x.y.186.250 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.250 inet x.y.186.122 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.122 inet x.y.186.25 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.25 inet x.y.186.127 netmask 0x broadcast x.y.186.127 I don't disagree with the other posters that mentioned DNS timeouts, but in addition those broadcast addresses aren't right. Since all the addresses are within the same /24 subnet, they should all be .255 (which is the default, so you wouldn't need to specify them. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Urgent 4.9 networking problems
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:31:58PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: Err -- no. The broadcast address is a function of the netmask. Specifically, looking at IPv4 addresses/masks as 32bit integers, the broadcast address has all ones where ever the netmask has zeros. The OP actually has it right. Especially as that is clearly the slightly edited output from ifconfig(8), and ifconfig automatically calculates the broadcast address from the inet address and netmask. Ok, tested, my bad. Sorry for any confusion. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Overly brief answers (was Re: Terminal Server)
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:27:44 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Yes. I wanted to start a brief discussion about these kinds of answers to questions. I've been seeing this quite a bit lately. I don't know if it's just one person, of if multiple folks have picked up on it. opinion This is not an answer to the question. It does not answer the question and does not contribute to the OPs knowledge of FreeBSD, nor does it contribute to the list archives. It's also a violation of the rule against me too answers as laid out in How to Get the Best Results from FreeBSD-Questions. It doesn't even serve to educate the OP on how to ask better questins. With it understood that opinions vary, I disagree with yours in this case. The question was posed as a yes or no question, with no followup. Therefore, yes or no *precisely* answers it. For all we know, the OP was merely asking to get a quick determination of what the solution set was. I ask such questions of colleagues often, and am not interested in the particulars at that point. First off, there are actually two questions hidden in the post: Can FreeBSD act as a WTS?, and can FreeBSD provide the same services as WTS? Is yes your answer to both of them? Because, if it is, I'd like to know which software allows it to function as a WTS, since my searches have not found any such software. The OP didn't say as, s/he said like, and then went on to list the criteria for like. This leads to the implied question of what software provides the capability which (despite not being voice, directly) is pretty obvious. You've totally ignored that question. You could say that technically, he didn't ask but it boils down to just being rude. /opinion I don't generally answer implicit questions, and I don't believe that behavior is rude. Quite the contrary - I believe it is *respectful* to grant the assumption that people mean what they say/ask. To do otherwise scans to me as I don't think you know what you're saying, so I'm going to assume I know better than you and treat you like an idiot.. My favorite example is trying to extract a simple answer on how to enable telnetd on a given system, which is guaranteed to produce a firestorm of don't use telnet responses which have nothing to do with the question, overtly assume the OP is an idiot, and show little or no understanding about security postures in general or the OPs situation in specific. But I digress ;). In this case, I see nothing wrong with the response. If the OP deliberately chose to frame a yes/no question, then s/he has their response. If they then want to frame followup questions, there's nothing in the response to discourage them from doing so. If we have to make an assumption, let's make the assumption that they know how to ask a question, rather than the dual assumption that they DON'T know how to ask a question, and that we can guess what their intent actually was. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: blocking internally
Was there any followup on this, John? -- KeS On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Jun 19, 2004, at 06:11, John Lee wrote: hi, i have 7 ips on one box, however they can't connect internally to each other IP ports. please advise. Counting below, you only reference 6 IP addresses on the box: 63.223.65.192, 63.223.65.193, 63.223.71.2, 63.223.71.3, 63.223.71.4, and 63.223.71.5. What's the seventh one? here's my setup: rc.conf: defaultrouter=63.223.65.1 ifconfig_sis0=inet 63.223.65.192 netmask 255.255.255.0 /etc/ips.added: ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.65.193/32 alias Ok. BTW, these statements indicate that you own an entire class C of public address space. That seems unlikely, and if it's not the case, you shouldn't be using the addresses. ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.2/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.3/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.4/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.5/32 alias Problem here. These addresses are not in the same subnet as the primary address (63.223.65.0/24). Therefore you shouldn't use a /32 for them, you should use the actual netmask. This is definitely true for the FIRST 63.223.71.x address, and I *think* it's true for the others as well. I've never actually seen an example of assigning multiple IPs for a second subnet under FreeBSD. route add 63.223.65.193 63.223.65.1 This is broken. You're saying route any traffic this host is sending, destined for itself, to an external gateway. I really doubt you want to do that. route add 63.223.71.2 63.223.71.1 route add 63.223.71.3 63.223.71.1 route add 63.223.71.4 63.223.71.1 route add 63.223.71.5 63.223.71.1 Again broken, for the same reasons. You don't normally enter routing statements for your OWN IP addresses, you enter routing statements that describe how to reach OTHER addresses/networks. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: blocking internally
On Jun 19, 2004, at 06:11, John Lee wrote: hi, i have 7 ips on one box, however they can't connect internally to each other IP ports. please advise. Counting below, you only reference 6 IP addresses on the box: 63.223.65.192, 63.223.65.193, 63.223.71.2, 63.223.71.3, 63.223.71.4, and 63.223.71.5. What's the seventh one? here's my setup: rc.conf: defaultrouter=63.223.65.1 ifconfig_sis0=inet 63.223.65.192 netmask 255.255.255.0 /etc/ips.added: ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.65.193/32 alias Ok. BTW, these statements indicate that you own an entire class C of public address space. That seems unlikely, and if it's not the case, you shouldn't be using the addresses. ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.2/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.3/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.4/32 alias ifconfig sis0 inet 63.223.71.5/32 alias Problem here. These addresses are not in the same subnet as the primary address (63.223.65.0/24). Therefore you shouldn't use a /32 for them, you should use the actual netmask. This is definitely true for the FIRST 63.223.71.x address, and I *think* it's true for the others as well. I've never actually seen an example of assigning multiple IPs for a second subnet under FreeBSD. route add 63.223.65.193 63.223.65.1 This is broken. You're saying route any traffic this host is sending, destined for itself, to an external gateway. I really doubt you want to do that. route add 63.223.71.2 63.223.71.1 route add 63.223.71.3 63.223.71.1 route add 63.223.71.4 63.223.71.1 route add 63.223.71.5 63.223.71.1 Again broken, for the same reasons. You don't normally enter routing statements for your OWN IP addresses, you enter routing statements that describe how to reach OTHER addresses/networks. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP: keep a lease forever?
On Jun 16, 2004, at 00:02, Dave wrote: Let's say I wanted to be 192.168.1.170 for argument's sake. I turn everything off (router + computers). Set my 'starting IP' to 170. Fire the FreeBSD machine up first, let it get 170. Then I turn the dumb winboxes on, and who cares what they have they arn't important. Like a couple of days later, I'll type ifconfig and suddely I got 172 on my FreeBSD box (192.168.1.172) instead of 170. I could turn DHCP off, but then my dhclient takes really really really long to find the network (but it does find it, eventually). How can I setup a more static system here without the long wait for dhclient? Anything in dhclient.conf I can put in there? I want to disable dhcp, but I need to figure out how to efficiently get the connection going on, and basically, I havn't owned FreeBSD in the pre-dhcp era, so I wouldn't know how. Another poster replied with how to switch to static addressing. Note that to do that, you need to assign the static address OUTSIDE the range (scope) that your DHCP server (Linksys router) is offering to clients, or it will get stepped on. The other way to accomplish what you want is to set up a DHCP lease reservation. You configure the DHCP server to associate a specific MAC address with a specific IP address in the scope. The server will then only assign that IP address to a DHCP request from the client with that specific MAC. Either approach requires configuration of the DHCP server. My Linksys router supports both settings. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)
On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote: My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and doubled the timeout, and after a long wait (I didnt check the time) I could get a password prompt... at first I thought this was just a SSH problem, but it is the same if I use telnet (or any other network service). I have several devices on my Lan including 2 (eww) Windows XP laptops, and a PS2 and a XP workstation. I have 3 public IPs, (Speakeasy is the ISP) The laptops use a LinkSys 54G Wireless Hub and one public IP (its plugged into a NetGear 4 port hub), I split another IP with the Desktop and PS2, and the FreeBSD box will have its own IP, of course the final port is the uplink. There are absolutly no connectivity problems with the other machines. The FreeBSD box cannot connect to the dns servers (on three different networks) or much of anything else. Here is the really weird part, when I run an NMAP scan from inside the network and one from outside the network, the box is reachable (NMAP can see the ports and determine the OS), but nothing can connect to it (all connections time out). If you can ping devices by ip address, you have basic connectivity. Start with the local interface itself, then devices on the same physical network, then devices on other subnets of the local LAN. Any of these local devices should respond in single-digit milliseconds, with perhaps a drop of the first ping packet. If you get no route to host messages, or other total failure messages, check for correct/consistent subnet masking on all devices involved, or potential firewall blocking (if appropriate to configuration). If you get poor response (high dropped packet percentage, excessive delays), check for port speed/duplex matching problems or bad cabling. Assuming basic connectivity, many application timeout issues in Unix systems result from either forward or reverse name resolution failure. It can be frustrating to resolve, generally hard-coding the host and FQDN entries in the local hosts file and with the hostname utility is a good debugging step. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Devil Mascot
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. Wait'll they get a load of Apple, their OS is named after *Darwin*! ;) KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please
On Jun 12, 2004, at 09:46, Stacey Roberts wrote: The ISP's DSL package includes 8 static ip addresses: - 1 - network addr 1 - broadcast addr 1 router address 5 usable ip addresses The -redirect_address syntax is as follows: -redirect_address localIP publicIP localIP The internal IP address of the LAN client. publicIPThe external IP address corresponding to the LAN client. What I would like to know is if it is possible to do to following: - Given that the 5 usable public IP's are: 1.1.1.4, 1.1.1.5, 1.1.1.6, 1.1.1.7 1.1.1.8 1] G'Way host is assigned its own public IP - 1.1.1.3 2] LAN hosts' (all) traffic is NAT'd using one of the other public IP's - 1.1.1.4 3] Remaining 4 public IP addresses are left to be used other purposes (eg: true address redirection to a DMZ-host, that is not a member of the internal LAN subnet) Not sure I understand (it would help if you used a real public /29 to illustrate, your example doesn't follow legal subnet rules). in 1) above, the gateway host ip has to come out of the usable address pool, which you designate .4 - .8. So in 1) you could have the gateway IP as .4. In 2) You have .5 assigned for many-one NATing (in the Linux world they'd call this ip masquerading). In 3) you'd have THREE public addressed left that could be used for one-one NAT. As you see, the g'way's public ip is not being used for NAT'ing internal hosts' outgoing traffic, but another ip from within the assignied public ip address range. My reading of the NAT chapter does not suggest that there is a way to define the public IP with which traffic is to be translate. Is this functionality not supported, or have I missed something when reading the various sections? It is AFAIK, they just don't use it in the example. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please
On Jun 12, 2004, at 12:11, Kevin Stevens wrote: As you see, the g'way's public ip is not being used for NAT'ing internal hosts' outgoing traffic, but another ip from within the assignied public ip address range. My reading of the NAT chapter does not suggest that there is a way to define the public IP with which traffic is to be translate. Is this functionality not supported, or have I missed something when reading the various sections? It is AFAIK, they just don't use it in the example. Sorry, should have elaborated. This would be done by using the -alias_address option in natd, rather than the -interface option. man natd for more info. KeS -alias_address | -a address Use address as the aliasing address. Either this or the -interface option must be used (but not both), if the -proxy_only option is not specified. The specified address is usually the address assigned to the ``public'' network interface. All data passing out will be rewritten with a source address equal to address. All data coming in will be checked to see if it matches any already-aliased outgoing connection. If it does, the packet is altered accordingly. If not, all -redirect_port, -redirect_proto and -redirect_address assign- ments are checked and actioned. If no other action can be made and if -deny_incoming is not specified, the packet is delivered to the local machine using the rules specified in -target_address option below. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Going further OT] Re: Leaving a server on all day
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Jason Taylor wrote: Ok, I'll chime in here. Here's what everything I ever learned about heat transfer and fluid flow tells me: Everything Bill is saying is correct. The best way to cool is to move as much fluid (air is a fluid for the purpose of this discussion) as fast as possible across whatever is hot. As a point of interest, as fast as possible isn't always correct, though it may be WRT practical case-cooling considerations. One consideration in designing race cars, especially those using stock engines, is to not overdrive the water pump at high rpms. Not because of cavitation, because you can flow water through the engine faster than is optimal for heat dissipation. Non intuitive, but true - has to do with the heat transfer across the water/metal surfaces and is otherwise over my head. ;) KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to attach class C net to an interface?
On Jun 4, 2004, at 00:36, Artem Koutchine wrote: The other question, will assigning 200+ ip addresses degrade tcp/ip perfomance noticeably? It is a common practice, and I haven't heard of problems with it. Remember that the same-subnet mask is /32 regardless of what the primary address mask is. How to i spell noticably or noticaebly? :) Apparently you spell it both ways. ;) Correct is noticeably, as in English has noticeably inconsistent rules for both spelling and pronunciation. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Networking w/ FreeBSD
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two computers systems in my network. The first system is a headless FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. This system stores my mp3's, datafiles and runs mysql and apache. I recently, got rid of windows off my laptop and installed FreeBSD 5.2.1. When I had windows on the laptop, I was able to Map a Network drive to the headless system via Samba runing on the server. My question is this: How would I set something up to perform the same functionality, as when I had windows? I'm just not sure what needs to be installed on either system? Any ideas or comments would be great! You can run the Samba client software on the laptop, or change the file sharing on the server to NFS. Or, of course, you could change both to some third sharing solution. Which depends on your assessment of the pros/cons of each; performance, interoperability (do you potentially have other machines that need to reach those resources?), security , etc. For the short term, running smbclient on the laptop is probably the quickest way to get your connectivity back with the fewest config changes, if that helps. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simulating network latency
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: Is there a way to set up a machine with two network cards, which will simply forward every packet from one card to the other, but will introduce an arbitrary delay period? Ideally, the delay period should be adjustable, and optionally different in the two directions. Yes, man dummynet, and google for examples of people doing this very thing. We've done it in our lab here for that purpose. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need Advice in SSH
On May 5, 2004, at 20:24, Bull TORS wrote: My laptop in the office (laptop1.mydomain.org) has a static internal network address 192.168.1.35 from my company's (companydomain.org) LAN Server. My laptop in my home has 192.168.1.x (I am not that sure if it changes a lot but I think not) as a DHCP client from my ISP (ispdomain.ne.jp). So I think both gets internal network addresses from their respective servers, one as a static client and the other as a dynamic client from different domains. Does this mean I can not use ssh from either both PC's? No, but you need more information. Some device on each end is translating those non-routable private addresses to public ones usable on the Internet. Almost certainly, at least one and probably both are blocking inbound SSH connections by default. It is more likely that you can initiate outbound connections from your company's network, and can configure your home network to permit inbound connections. It is much less likely that you will be able to have your company network configured to permit inbound connections initiated from your home computer. In either case, you need more detailed information on the configurations. Talk to the IT staff at your company and explain what you're trying to do and ask if they permit outbound SSH sessions. At your home, in my experience it's very uncommon for an ISP to provision either DHCP or private addresses directly - it's more common for there to be a local device in your home that is accomplishing that. But talk to your ISP, it could be different in Japan. Properly speaking, this has little or nothing to do with FreeBSD, BTW, it is general firewall, NAT and SSH information. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 25mb vs 300mb ports
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Peter Leftwich wrote: At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a matter of compressed versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy? That's part of it, the other part is that the ports consist of a lot of small files, so you have a significant block/directory size overhead as well. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP server and client recommendations?
On Apr 21, 2004, at 21:22, Danny MacMillan wrote: Hello. I have six or seven hundred megabytes of email imprisoned in a few .pst (Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders) files. I've been looking for an alternative email client lately. Of course, the issue is converting these old messages so that they are usable by the new software -- ideally so that multiple clients could access the mail. The thought that immediately occurred to me was that one of the standard Unix formats -- mbox or maildir -- would be appropriate for this task. After scouring the internet for possibilities for converting between the hated .pst format and mbox or Maildir, I found a few people who'd seemingly hit upon an ideal solution: add an IMAP folder to Outlook and copy their mail to that folder, then do the reverse inside a client that stores its mail in mbox or maildir format. Almost right, but not quite. You set up an IMAP server that stores mail in the desired format, add the IMAP support to Outlook, and then drag/drop the mail into the IMAP mailbox. There is no equivalent client-side export needed. And yes, in my experience this is BY FAR the easiest/fastest/best approach to get mail from a .pst file to something else. Caveat is that you have to have an Outlook installation available to do it, not just the .pst file. Then it struck me -- =leaving= the mail in the IMAP server would give me even more flexibility. Blinding flash of the obvious? ;) Is it feasible to use the IMAP server as a mail storage solution like this? Sure, that's what they're designed for. Can anyone recommend a good IMAP server (for FreeBSD of course) and give me some tips on considerations for choosing one? I blush to say it, but I've never even had an IMAP account. The main contenders are Cyrus, Courier, and UW-IMAP. Biggest consideration is probably what format you want to store the mail in. I prefer mbox format, so use UW-IMAP. It is configured to pull mail from the standard spool directory, and store it in a /mail directory of my user account. The big advantage of using IMAP (for me) is that I can access my mail from a web based server (Squirrelmail) while at work, pine when on the road, and OS X's Mail.app when at home on my PowerBook. Even when I'm reading mail on the server box itself the access is actually through the IMAP server. It's an OS X G5 now, but I did the exact same thing when it was a FreeBSD Intel box. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell PowerEdge 600SC
On Apr 14, 2004, at 18:39, tristan mann wrote: Hi, i was wondering how to get freebsd to install on my server machine. Every time i attempt to boot it does the driver thing and gets hung on ata2: restarting devices... What version are you trying to install? I had 4.8 running with no problem on the 600SC last year before donating it. There were some notes about the chipset, but it wasn't associated with the third IDE bus that I recall... KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Panna wrote: I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3. It's soon to arrive and so I'm thinking about a good way of interacting the emac - which will be my main desktop - with my 5.2.1 server. Until now I used a windows laptop with xp and the files where shared with samba. You can do Samba out of the box with OS X. So I thought that using an unixoid os would bring some advantages :-) I think that I'll use hfs+ on the emac. HFS is not an option on the OS X box. UFS is, but the performance is absolutely terrible. For example, loading 10,000 message files from Leafnode takes about three seconds when the store is on HFS+, and about nine minutes when the store is on UFS. (2xG5, 1.5GB ram, 250GB SATA) It's supposed to be getting better next version. I've read about the hfs and hfs+ port but I doesn't want to take a risk. Not needed, see below. The freebsd server should act as mail and news-server and also as file server. Worked fine for me until I replaced the FreeBSD server with an OS X G5. I used sendmail, UW-IMAP server, and Leafnode for news. Do I have to put the data on a fat32-slice? No. If I setup a nfs-mount on the freebsd server and copy data from OSX to it, is the data readable from Freebsd without the hfs port? Yes. Run everything on the server as native UFS (or whatever FreeBSD calls it). Export as NFS or CIFS as you please. You see I'm in a state of confusion.. Pretend the OS X box is just another Unix client. There's no need to provide any special accommodation for it from the server side. For the OS X box itself, use HFS+. You can set up multiple partitions if you like, I use one for the system, one for apps, and one for user home and data storage. See fink and darwinports for open source port/packaging systems. Neither as good as FreeBSD ports, but what is? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting
On Mar 22, 2004, at 00:13, Tony Crockford wrote: At 07:54 on Monday, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pressey wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:50:14 -0500 Denny Jodeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It boils down to a 'When in Rome, do as Romans do' situation. The charter states no top posting. I made sure to re-read the list charter when this thread started. I couldn't find a single mention of top posting. The closest thing I could find is that gross breaches of Netiquette are frowned upon but not specifically enforced. Perhaps the original poster meant point 9 on how to answer a question here: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html#answer seems pretty clear to me. That's not the charter, though. So far, in this interminable debate, we have a guy quoting an RFC as a standard, which explicitly states that it isn't a standard. We have people quoting a document as the list charter, which isn't the charter. And we have people blaming top posting on evil M$ software, which isn't true either - pine, for example, defaults to top posting when replying to messages. If you want it in the charter, put it in the charter. If you want it as an RFC, then get a RFC approved as a standard. Until then, this is just a bunch of people whining that they want THEIR particular preferences honored. Hell, I'd like my preferences honored too - don't start posting flames! I don't expect anyone to honor that request, either. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting
On Mar 21, 2004, at 23:31, Rob M wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:50 pm, Denny Jodeit wrote: It boils down to a 'When in Rome, do as Romans do' situation. The charter states no top posting. I don't think it could be stated or explained any simpler. Reference, please? The FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ eresources.html) has a general set of charter rules for the freebsd lists, which say nothing about top posting. The freebsd-questions specific charter there says only: User questions -- This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send ``how to'' questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Top posting
On Mar 20, 2004, at 07:24, Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me. It comes down to opinion I think My standard response to top-posting: A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ opinion. Best regards, -T Second sentence of RFC1855 - This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. So much for that. People who abhor top posting feel very strongly about it. People who don't, usually don't. This falls firmly into my general life philosophy: I generally agree with the opinions of people minding their own business. I generally disagree with the opinions of people minding my business. My strongest opinion on top-posting is that I don't want to see endless threads about it in the lists I'm reading - like this one. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can FreeBSD be a PDC for microsoft machines?
On Jan 31, 2004, at 20:30, Chris wrote: I want to know if FreeBSD can operate as a Primary Domain Controller in a Network, because where I live everybody has microsoft computers so I want to use FreeBSD as server instead Windows NT o 2000. Hmm - I don't know if Samba can do what I *think* he means. Allow me to expand. I'm thinking he means as in Active Directory. A Domain. It's no use guessing at what he means. What he *says* is a PDC in place of a NT server. Samba can do that. Active Directory is just that, a directory service, not a domain controller. A Samba PDC can't host Active Directory, but neither can NT. I first did a fast search of the ports - See below: racerx# make search key=active dir | more Port: adtool-1.2 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/adtool Info: Active Directory administration tool Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: sysutils B-deps: expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1 gmake-3.80_1 libiconv-1.9.1_3 openldap-cli ent-2.1.26 R-deps: openldap-client-2.1.26 I believe hat's a tool to permit access (via LDAP) to an Active Directory registry existing on a W2K/XP machine. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple aliases(IPs) same netmask...error...why?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] manish gautam wrote: I am facing some problems :: 1. If i try to make aliases having same netmask like 255.255.255.0, it gives error ( SCIOADDR file exists..something like that)..Why is it so ? Because that's not the correct netmask for a FreeBSD alias on the same network as the primary interface. 2. But if I try the same using netmask 255.255.255.255 it does'nt give any error...why ? Becasue that is the correct netmask for a FreeBSD alias on the same network as the primary interface. 3. And what is the limit of aliases if netmask is 255.255.255.255 ? Some large number, I don't recall at the moment, and I believe it varies between the 4. and 5. branches. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: snoop (Sun styly) for bsd ?
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Julian Holley wrote: Hi all - does anyone know about the program 'snoop' (Sun microsystems fame) available for BSD - basically all I want is a click or beep on network activity out of my machine - I'm not after a bulky analaysis program - just somat simple to run in the back ground ? - any ideas much appreciated, Julian. Tcpdump is similar, see if it does what you need. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switch recommendations for first IDS
On Jan 21, 2004, at 20:39, Troy wrote: Starting to work on first attempt at ids. I guess I currently would like recommendations on managed switches so that I can mirror/span port and that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to run the taps to. Any help of course will be appreciated. Depending on bandwidth, can't you just use a hub, at least for modeling? If not, used Cabletron switches are widely available, cheap, and reliable. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IPv6 and multiple interfaces
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm using an IPv6 tunnel to Hurricane Electric on my FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE firewall. That firewall has multiple Ethernet interfaces. Should each of those interfaces be assigned a routable IPv6 address? And what *is* If you want them to carry IPv6 traffic. To phrase it differently, you shouldn't use the same IPv6 address on multiple interfaces, but you don't have to run IPv6 on all interfaces. link-local? Is there a decent (English language) FAQ that's readable by technical users who aren't networking experts? http://www.ipv6.org/ http://www.v6.wide.ad.jp/ KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I have sendmail forward emails from root...
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michael E. Mercer wrote: I've tried quite a few things and just can't seem to get sendmail to forward emails generated by root processes to go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I am running 4.9-Stable. How am I supposed to configure this? I have added a line to /etc/mail/aliases root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you run 'make aliases' to update the database afterwards? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting new entries in /etc/rc.conf
On Nov 26, 2003, at 06:55, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Wed, 26 Nov 2003 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: With something as important as starting up a mailer, I recommend a quick reboot just to be sure that it will start back up Thanks for the reply, This FreeBSD box is a headless one which is also has a DB9 to a headless Ultra-10 at my house and when I reboot it does something wonky to the Ultra-10 so I'd hate to do that remotely right now for I'm at work and couldn't kick-it manually if I had to. If you're running the U10 headless, dropping DTR on the connection will, by default, drop the U10 into OpenBoot, stopping execution of the OS (this is true on most if all Sun boxes, not just the U10). There's a simple setting change to make on the U10 if you don't want this to happen. I no longer recall what it is offhand, but a quick Google should fix you up. Even if you still don't want to reboot the fbsd box, I'd think you'd want to fix this for reliability reasons. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple CPU Performance
On Nov 26, 2003, at 13:58, Gerard Samuel wrote: I was fortunate to acquire a dual Slot one motherboard. I currently only have one PIII 450 in there, and its working without any problems so far. This box is primarily for www/samba/cvs. I was wondering if my PHP apps would benefit (run faster) if I introduced a 2nd CPU. No single program thread will run faster than it would on an unladen single-processor machine. You would gain more in terms of how many threads could run concurrently. In other words: more, not faster. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting new entries in /etc/rc.conf
On Nov 26, 2003, at 07:11, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: At Wed, 26 Nov 2003 it looks like Kevin Stevens composed: Both these machines are on the network via cat5 and I can't remember if I had to unplug the serial to reboot the FreeBSD box before and not affect the Ultra-10 or what I did. I know now that the serial cable is hooked up so I'll wait till I get home. I do recall that when Solaris would halt I would have to serial in and I think type go if I'm not mistaken -- then it would resume running. It was in a protective sleep mode if I recall and did not need to be rebooted. Yes, that's what I described; go is the command to exit OpenBoot and resume program (OS) execution. It isn't a sleep mode, btw, everything is still spinning and humming. My worst instance of this was working (desperately) on a new Sun blade server trying to get some network modelling software running. My connection was via PC laptop COM1, and as I was typing someone periodically would hook up to the IR link on the laptop to transfer some more files to me to copy over. Every time they did so, the Sun would apparently crash. The IR link set itself up as COM3 on a shared interrupt with COM1, every time it saw activity on the port it invisibly interrupted the terminal session and the Sun was dropping into OpenBoot. Oops. KeS -- |--Word-Wrap-At-72-Please-- | Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ UNIX, A Way Of Life._\_v ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fastest way to change IP addresses
On Nov 15, 2003, at 11:35, Jamie wrote: I want to change the IP address from 200.80.11.7 to 200.80.11.8 on a FreeBSD machine as quickly as possible. Despite my efforts, I can only get the change to work by editing rc.conf and rebooting the machine. Isn't there a more elegant way?? That *is* the elegant way. You want a more expedient way. In order to switch to 200.80.11.8 I've tried: 1) ifconfig de0 200.80.11.8 255.255.255.0 ifconfig -a then gives me: fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 200.80.11.8 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 200.88.11.255 ether 00:03:47:b1:d6:1c media: 10BaseT/UTP status: active That is not the correct broadcast address for that network... But then I cannot ping the gateway, ping 200.80.11.1 5 Packets transmitted, 0 packets received 100% packet loss It should work. Two thoughts: If you've been bouncing around between addresses while testing, you may have confused the arp cache on the gateway device, which would need to be flushed or time out before speaking to you again. When you make the IP change directly, it's then incumbent on you to also make any appropriate routing updates - this is handled automatically during boot by the rc.conf procedure. Since you're changing addresses within the same subnet it shouldn't be a major deal (you shouldn't be attempting to route), but it should be checked anyway. netstat -nr. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Toomas Aas wrote: I understand what the message is saying, but I don't understan what causes it to say such a thing. It's hard to believe that there is something wrong with my root zone file, because 99.9% of the time the problem does not happen and DNS lookups work just fine (including commands like 'host e.root-servers.net'). The named.root file is standard one installed by FreeBSD and I haven't touched it: ; $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/named.root,v 1.9.2.1 2002/11/06 09:24:12 dougb Exp $ -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ Didn't I see a blurb a few months ago that the root server cache file was going to be updated? Google on that and see what you get. You can update by ftp-ing the new file from ICANN or somewhere. Sorry for lack of specifics. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email consolidation
On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 00:45 US/Pacific, Adrian Fisher wrote: Please note that I have 3 PC's (soon to be 4) which each have an email account on them. I now wish to integrate all the accounts to the same computer as there are messages on each I do not wish to lose. They are all networked to each other and share a single net connection so transfer is possible. 2 of the machines are Linux and this one is WinXP but the new one will be FreeBSD and that is the one I want to use most of all. Any help would be appreciated. Install an IMAP server, and configure the various clients to access it as a single consolidated mail account. I use UW-IMAP, because of flexibility in mailbox configuration, but there are several popular ones. Keep your mail in one place, accessable and updatable by each client. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: terminal emulation
On Sunday, Oct 5, 2003, at 14:35 US/Pacific, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: I would like to use FreeBSD machine as a serial console to another FreeBSD machine. Server part is described in the Handbook, but I have found nothing about client part. Which program should I use for terminal emulation? How can I make, for instance, xterm to communicate to the serial port? tip com1 man tip for more info. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual kernel
On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 21:06 US/Pacific, Zahirul Haque wrote: Hi Is it possible to have two kernels and at the boot time I want to select which kernel I want? I have two kernel code, one with IPRC (Modified kernel) and other standard kernel of 5.1. Every time I want to switch kernel I need to recompile the kernel. Can I select kernel during boot time? Yes, man boot. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Brian McCann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a real, current version of FreeBSD that will run on a G3 Mac? I've looked at both Net OpenBSD, but I'd rather stick with one OS for all my PCs. I know, that Darwin is basically the same thing as FreeBSD and that very little has changed...but one of the main reason I love FreeBSD is because of the ports collection. Has anyone tried downloading the ports collection on a Darwin system and tried building anything? Thanks, - --Brian I believe 10.3 is going to introduce a blessed ports system, which I'd imagine would immediately be adopted by Darwin. Just FYI. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?
On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 14:21 US/Pacific, Stephen Hilton wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:09:39 -0700 Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe 10.3 is going to introduce a blessed ports system, which I'd imagine would immediately be adopted by Darwin. Just FYI. I have been following the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for quite a while, and if this is so, then it is a pretty tightly held secret. Any reason to believe otherwise? Don't really know how to answer your question. Yes, I believe a standard port system will be introduced with Panther, because I saw it as an annouced feature on one of Apple's pages. Yes, I believe that any such system blessed by Apple would carry a massive amount of impetus if it's reasonably effective. So, yes, I have reason to believe otherwise. I guess we'll find out in two weeks. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail-list PGP Keys SOLVED!!!!!!
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Mark Woodson wrote: The idea with trust is that you do so as minimally as possible. The only person you should trust unconditionally is yourself. There's a great deal of literature on the subject out there I'd suggest doing a bit of reading. - -Mark Don't listen to him! ;) KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring imap-uw difficulties
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ryan Sandridge wrote: You should try the following: cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw make clean make deinstall make patch [ ...change the env_unix.c file under the work subdir... ] make make install Thanks for the lightening fast response. This compiled as expected, although my source change did not appear to take effect. After changing the mailsubdir from NIL to mail, I'm still dumped in my home directory, not mail subdirectory. This is probably an issue I should take up with the imap-uw mailing list. You need to do the same cleaning on the cclient port as well (it's a dependency and gets pulled in when you do uw-imapd). Then make your env_unix.c change. BTDT just last month making the exact change you are contemplating and got it to work. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAIL FOLDER - DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE
--On Friday, September 12, 2003 02:48 -0400 David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following message in my mailbox from time to time. Is it really necessary to keep it there? Where does it come from, and why is it produced? It comes from the UW-IMAP server you're connecting to. http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#6.14 KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?
--On Saturday, August 30, 2003 19:13 +0700 Denis Troshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora, Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to FreeBSD? Your conclusion that people mailing from Windows systems don't run FreeBSD is not valid, for one thing. Check your logic. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MAC address change?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, My colo location has recently done some software upgrades on thier routers and switches. Would this cause the following messages in my /var/log/messages file? Aug 27 05:48:17 enterprise /kernel: arp: 65.39.193.154 moved from 00:0a:41:07:94:80 to 00:06:5b:ee:40:32 on fxp0 Yes, it could, if that IP address is your next upstream hop. That's moving from a Cisco device to a Dell, BTW, not sure it's really an upgrade... KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb to ethernet converter
On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 18:47 US/Pacific, Joseph I. Davida wrote: I would like to use a usb-2-ethernet converter (Aopen has one - found it at a web site for $12). What I want to use it for is to convert a usb device like a printer to an ethernet connected printer. It's not going to work. You need a print server of some kind (lpr, Novell, AppleTalk) to handle connectivity protocol and spooling. That functionality is provided via Ethernet print servers or cards - just converting the raw signaling isn't enough. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb to ethernet converter
On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 20:26 US/Pacific, Joseph I. Davida wrote: If that is the case, how is it that the protocol can work over direct connection to USB port and not over ethernet? This area needs a little clarification. All we are changing is the physical interface, but keeping the rest of the filters, which do the printer specific conversion to bitmaps (or whatever that format is) the same. So the only change would be in the physical connection. Exquisite reasoning. By the same token, an airplane shouldn't need wings, since it's just like a car except for the physical transport medium. I just need to know more details why it cannot work. Yes, that's clear. Seems you have some studying to do. Good luck! KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb to ethernet converter
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joseph I. Davida wrote: I think you should get out of the loop since you obviously are incompetent to answer the question. Um, I *was* out of the loop, see below. You do not own this distribution list, nor are you a representative thereof, nor are you the FreeBSD developer community's elected spokesperson. You didn't send the message you quote below to the list. You sent it as a private email to me. Now you've posted my private response to the list. Oops. As you are ill-equipped to answer answer technical questions sent to an email address created for just such a purpose, the least you could do is shut up, and let technically knowledgeable individuals reply. (laughing) Ok, buckaroo, if you'll stop posting private email to the list, it's a deal. Run along now. KeS Joe Kevin Stevens wrote: I thought I told you to run along and do your own homework, kiddie. I answered your question politely the first time, and you wanted to argue about it. I don't. Toddle along, now. KeS On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 22:43 US/Pacific, Joseph I. Davida wrote: I have sen a few print servers. Some can handle multiple printers of different brands and models. SOme print server I have seen connect to printers via a set of parallel ports, others via USB ports, and others via a combination. Would you say that the print server has built-in protocols for every printer on the market? Or does it merely act as a store-and forward device, sort of like a buffer? Cheers, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Terminal program on fbsd
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Jonas wrote: I have connected the console port on a Cisco router to COM1 on my fbsd box. Which program on the fbsd can I use to access the router? Does the COM port need to be mounted and how do I set the speed? tip com1 works fine for console access. man tip will tell you how to get out of the session, so I recommend you run it first. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make options for ports
I'm struggling with an issue in trying to compile ports. The specific one is the imap-uw port, but it's a more general question. I need to be able to download and expand the distribution file, then to perform some source code modifications, and then compile and install the port. It seems that whichever sequence of make targets I try, I end up either wiping out the existing source code and re-expanding the distribution (which wipes out my edits); or simply reinstalling the already-compiled binaries without recompiling (which ignores my edits). I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I can't figure it out. Help? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make options for ports
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: I'm struggling with an issue in trying to compile ports. The specific one is the imap-uw port, but it's a more general question. I need to be able to download and expand the distribution file, then to perform some source code modifications, and then compile and install the port. First do a 'make patch', which will extract the distfile and apply the patches that are part of the port. The do a 'cd' into the workdir and modify the sources as you wish, and then 'cd' back into the port-directory, and do a 'make install' which will configure, compile and install that port using the source code that you have modified. Works just fine for me, and there is no reason it shouldn't work for you too. Thanks! The 'make patch' target is what I was missing, I was blowing past that with an initial 'make', and then getting stuck in various 'deinstall; reinstall' loops. I'll post back if I have further problems, but I suspect this is the answer I needed. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another FreeBSD/sendmail permissions question
Not sure where this goes; I'm also posting it to the sendmail Usenet group. I've been having what is apparently a fairly common problem with my sendmail configuration; every time a message is delivered I get a warning of the type Aug 5 00:25:53 babelfish sendmail[39666]: h757PrRD039666: forward /data/mail/.forward+: Group writable directory. After doing some research, I've been able to turn off the warning messages using the DontBlameSendmail option in my .cf file. However, I'd really like to understand why the warning is being generated in the first place. /data/mail is the user directory to which mail is delivered by my IMAP server after it is moved from /var/mail/imap. a) There is no .forward file in /data/mail b) The permissions on the /data/mail directory are: drwx-- 4 imap wheel 512 Aug 5 10:00 . c) The permissions on the *parent* (/data) directory are: drwxrwxr-x 18 root staff 512 Aug 2 13:52 .. d) Permissions on /var/mail/USERNAME are: -rw--- 1 imap imap 0 Aug 5 10:03 imap e) Permissions on /var/mail are: drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Aug 5 10:02 . f) And on /var are: drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 512 May 10 23:23 . Now, what's confusing to me is that if I remove the group writable attribute of /data, the messages go away. WTF? Why does sendmail care about the permissions of the *parent* directory? Is this because someone in the parent could alter or blow away the /data/mail directory? I'd think that, if anything, the problem would be the permissions on the /var/mail directory; but not only is that not where the warning references; tightening permissions in that area doesn't affect the warnings. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Its still not a reason for allowing relay from dynamic addresses. All ISP's, or atleast all serious ISP's, provide their customer with a relaying mailserver. Its a simple task to configure your mailserver to use your ISP's smtp as smarthost and relay all outgoing email trough them. I know, I use this setup myself, since just like you I cant afford real connections everywhere but have to rely on cheap DSL or cable. Bullshit. My ISP's lack of ability to deliver mail reliably is what made me start my own mail service in the first place. Nor do I particularly want to hand them my mail so they can riffle through it at their leisure rather than having to scan for it on the wire in realtime. Today its far to easy to get your email out on the 'net. Even the high school dropouts as you call the spammers can buy a cheap DSL connection, setup a mailserver and spam like crazy untill the ISP gets enough complaints to cut them off. When that happens, they get a new connection and start all over. As long as we rely on the old and very outdated SMTP protocoll that powers the net today, precautions will have to be taken very soon, or email will be useless in a few years. Fine. Then replace it, or require authentication at receiving points, or some other solution that directly addresses the problem. Wholesale blocking of types of transport is a crappy solution. It's unfair, liable to huge amounts of false positives, and leads directly to the kind of centralized, locked down Internet that will spell its demise. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 00:43 US/Pacific, Mike Dem wrote: Hey I Decided To Get your Unix Based OS Because I need More of a Challeng I Do Have Two Questions, First Can I install FreeBSD without using Partition magic Second My Floppy A 3 and 1/2 Does Not work can I right the Floppy Image On to an CD rom I'm very sure that you're already sufficiently challenged, Mike. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Bullshit. My ISP's lack of ability to deliver mail reliably is what made me start my own mail service in the first place. Nor do I particularly want to hand them my mail so they can riffle through it at their leisure rather than having to scan for it on the wire in realtime. If youre ISP is unable to deliver mail reliably then you should switch to another ISP immediatly, imho. The problem is that your MHO is being set up as a mandatory decree by blocking legitimate mail. There are way to many ISP's out there that doesnt have a clue what they are doing, and the only reason they still exist is that people keep using them. Im not saying you should go with one of the big ones, I hate AOL and MSN just as much as any other guy, but there are plenty of ISP's out there that Im sure know what they are doing and really care about customer service. My ISP (pacbell/SBC) has sterling circuit uptime and bandwidth. Their services side totally sucks. Why should I have to use their services to get Internet access? And your statement that there are plenty of ISP's out there is simply wrong. There are typically three or four (large) DSL providers - if they can wrest service order fulfillment from the RBOC, and two or three cable offerings in the major markets, fewer in the smaller ones. And if you dont want people to read your mail, you should use PGP or something similar, even if you run your own mailserver. That's totally correct and totally unresponsive to my statement. Fine. Then replace it, or require authentication at receiving points, or some other solution that directly addresses the problem. Wholesale blocking of types of transport is a crappy solution. It's unfair, liable to huge amounts of false positives, and leads directly to the kind of centralized, locked down Internet that will spell its demise. Thats easier said then done. You do realize what a monumental task it would be to replace SMTP, dont you? Yes. Almost as monumental as authenticating routing updates, which the tier 1 providers better get off their asses and start performing, too. But hey, if you have a plug n' play solution that will just drop in and replace SMTP without breaking anything, Im all for it! Another bogus argument. I pointed out that you are breaking major parts of Internet connectivity, and what the correct engineering approach would be. That doesn't commit me to having to come up with a drop-in implementation before you stop breaking things. I do not agree on your opinion that taking some needed actions will lock down the internet and kill it. I think its completely the other way around. If we dont do something about spam now, noone will want to be on the internet in a few years time. Email will be impossible to use due to the signal to noise ratio, www will be cluttered with popups, banners and ad's for porn site, and every single file will contian a trojan or worm. Conversely, if people can't count on legitimate email to get where it's going, they will stop using it. And that will happen MUCH quicker than stopping using it because of spam. I cant believe I sound like some domesday prophet, Im actually known among those who know me as a fanatic advocate of a free internet, but as I see it the internet is slowly selfdestructing. Its no longer a creation of research and educational needs, its being used for pure profit and the dream of making fast and easy money. And I dont like that. And facilitating the centralization of control into a few corporate conglomerates impedes that how? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS w/ gimp-print prints garbage on Epson Stylus C82
On Sunday, Aug 10, 2003, at 16:26 US/Pacific, Matthew Graybosch wrote: I installed cups and gimp-print from /usr/ports/print, followed the instructions at freebsddiary.org/cups.php, removed the lp* binaries from /usr/bin, and modified /etc/make.conf to include a NO_LPR=yes line. Only related feedback I can provide is that using CUPS/gimp-print worked fine for my C82 under OS X when I installed it a couple of weeks ago. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I check for swap space? (4.8-Release)
At 07:16 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, John Mills wrote: Freebies - I just installed 4.8-Release from CDs and let the installer divide my disk automatically. Things are acting as though I have little or no active swap space. 2. How can I check what I got? (No joy yet from 'fdisk' on that.) cat /etc/fstab will show you what gets mounted at boot time. mount pstat -T and disklabel There's also swapinfo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/KeS swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/rad2s1b 524160 124 524036 0%Interleaved /dev/ad0s1b 1048448 128 1048320 0%Interleaved Total 1572608 252 1572356 0% ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bandwidth needed for DNS server?
On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 22:06 US/Pacific, Dragoncrest wrote: Hi again all. Looking to go into the next stage of our move to Linux by implementing an internal authoritative DNS server. I only expect to hold zones for 4 different domains on it for now, so I'm not expecting much from it, but I'm curious how much bandwidth usage to plan for. Right now our ISP does all our DNS, but I'd like to take it in house if possible so we have direct control over it. If all our TTL's are set to 24 hours, what could I expect to see as far as an increase in bandwidth usage by doing this? I'd like to be able to plan how and where I'm going to implement this so as to have the least impact on our network. a) Why are you posting this to a freebsd list instead of a Linux or BIND list? b) When you say internal authoritative, do you mean that it is authoritative for your public domain, answering queries from the Internet about your publicly available hosts, or for your internal private domain, resolving queries from the intranet about all the hosts in your organization? c) Your bandwidth will depend on how popular your exposed hosts are. It's rarely significant in the grand scheme of things, but that's a pretty broad statement. d) Why set your TTLs to 24 hours, do you have resolvable hosts that move around that much? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Terminal emulation with DOS
On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 19:23 US/Pacific, James Dietrich wrote: Sorry if this post is a litte off-topic. I am trying to set up an old DOS laptop as a terminal to my FreeBSD firewall/nat box. Has anyone come across good (read: free) terminal emulation software for DOS? If so could you point me in the right direction? You mean for serial connection? Kermit, Qmodem, Procomm, Crosstalk... start with those and you can Google up a bunch more, I'm sure. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting old mail from ro
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: anyone know how to send the mail in root's Maildir to another user i have forwarded the the root address already but need the mail that is already sitting in that account. If you install procmail there's an appropriate incantation to accomplish this. If no one else posts it by this evening I can find it. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting old mail from ro
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: anyone know how to send the mail in root's Maildir to another user i have forwarded the the root address already but need the mail that is already sitting in that account. If you install procmail there's an appropriate incantation to accomplish this. If no one else posts it by this evening I can find it. KeS Here, I found the message. formail is part of the procmail port. This worked for me when I had the same question a few months ago: The question is: is there a way to take the messages he has accumulated in the local account mbox, and resubmit them to sendmail so that my server, recognizing that it is no longer authorized to receive mail for that domain, will go out and deliver them to his server? formail -Y -s /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/mail/user. Leif Hope it helps. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP stealing mail??
On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 21:04 US/Pacific, David Loszewski wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 07:19, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:23:50PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 15:04, lewiz wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:33:40PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: squirrelmail on my webserver. Once I grab my mail using one of these webmail clients it's as if it's actually popping the mail from the mailserver instead of just imapping it so when i go to my desktop mail client it says I have no mail yet unless I have not used the webmail At a guess I suspect there's confusion between the IMAP and non-IMAP clients as to where the mail spool is and who owns it. The UW-IMAP server will, by default, take the mail from the spool and put it in the user directory as an mbox file - but it can be doing a lot of different things. Just a thought. FYI - I use UW-IMAP, and successfully access my mail from Squirrelmail, pine, OS X's Mail program, and Outlook Express, depending on what computer I'm on. All works as one would hope WRT new messages showing as new, deleted messages ending up in the right folder, etc. So it *can* work. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I max a 6Mbps link
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Max Clark wrote: Hi all, What configuration changes do I need to make to two freebsd-stable boxes to fully max out a 6Mbps/220ms network link? This is for bulk 500+MB file transfers. You need to increase the maximum TCP window size setting (not sure what sysctl it is) to around 256KB to accommodate the bandwidth/latency product. In brief, 6Mb/1500B frames = 500 frames/sec. Using 250ms for simplicity, you need a large enough TCP window to handle 1/4 of that (125 frames x 1500 bytes/frame = 183KB, round up to 256KB) to permit continuous streaming. Note that TCP windows actually only go to 64KB, you need to use TCP window scaling as a multiplier to go beyond that. Both stations must support it. You can find more info on this on the web, look for high-latency/high-bandwidth. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP aliases not working...Any ideas welcome!
On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 21:00 US/Pacific, Keith Spencer wrote: Hi all, I seek to add 30 or so aliases to an extrenal NIC But a ping and and ifconfig -a only shows the first 2 IPs bound to the NIC the rest of the 210.15.203.xxx ips are ignored... I am sure it is something obvious but what? Thanks Keith The correct netmask for a second alias within a subnet is 255.255.255.255. I don't make the news, I just report it. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Sunday, Jun 22, 2003, at 22:11 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't find program putty.exe What does this mean and how do i fix it? Run putty on a Windows machine it was designed for. E-mail me back. No. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Totally newbie - install problems
But I need other packages like wxPython, PyCrypto and others for my work. I know I can download the source code and compile them. I could also find binaries but the dependency tree is endless (and I had version problems too). I read the comparison where someone said FreeBSD is even better than Debian in this matter. This was one reason why I decided to use FreeBSD. I know the solution is out there but I don't know where it is. You want the ports collection; located by default in /usr/ports. If you didn't install it initially, you can do so with sysinstall. Ports are source code bundles along with FreeBSD tweaks and installation defaults. You want to use cvsup to update the port information database regularly, and it's recommended that you use the portupgrade utility to handle port interdependencies. See the FreeBSD handbook for details on the above. Having done so, my routine for updating all 100+ applications on my machine is reduced to: cvsup-ports ; Make sure my ports database is up-to-date pkgdb -F ; Make sure my installed packages database is consistent portupgrade -ra ; Download, compile, and install all updated applications BTW, both the apps you specified are indeed in the ports collection presently. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT question releated to networking ...
On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 20:52 US/Pacific, faisal gillani wrote: Please don't remove the list from the Reply-To: header... Well i am currently running a 75 clients PC network .. so my net will be merging a 120 Computer network the total computer network will be 240+ all of em will be on a single subnet .. is that a good idea ? Probably not, depending on the infrastructure and traffic you could have performance issues, and even if not that's a large and ugly broadcast domain, as well as not very secure. the networks usage is internet , some multimedia content hosted on local web servers , streaming , email server .. You'd probably be better served by separating the server functions onto one subnet and breaking the client population up into two or three groups. Obviously this is generic information as you didn't provide specifics. As you noted, this is off-topic for the freebsd list; I suggest you look at Cisco's site for some whitepapers on network topology and implementation. *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ Whatever. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: finding out version of sendmail I have
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 22:23 US/Pacific, David Banning wrote: How do I find out my sendmail version? I seems silly to ask the question, but I have looked at the files in /etc/mail, I have looked for a version option in the sendmail 'man page'. I have used 'locate' to find sendmail files on the system, and then viewed them for any clues. I have done a quick search on google. There must be a simple answer.. telnet localhost 25 KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I change the envelope from address in sendmail
On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 17:33 US/Pacific, Bill Moran wrote: I'm having a hell of a time with send-pr. See thread below from the comp.mail.sendmail Usenet group; this is what worked for me after I had the same problem: Begin forwarded message: Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Organization: Sporadic User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.2 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2002 04:56:52.0260 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8612E40:01C23DCE] I know the regulars here must be incredibly tired of responding to the same questions over and over. I apologize in advance, but I *have* read through all the masquerading posts I could find in this group, the sendmail FAQ, and the FreeBSD handbook. I'm at a loss. Please don't hurt me. Typical goal: I want my messages, including envelopes, to appear as though they are from my domain name rather than the specific host. Sendmail is version 8.12.3, running on FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. Here's an example of a local test message with headers: From: Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Aug 06, 2002 09:37:55 US/Pacific To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from babelfish.pursued-with.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by babelfish.pursued-with.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g774bteb056372 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by babelfish.pursued-with.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g774btRg056371 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, I want babelfish. excised in its entirety. I began with the typical MASQUERADE_AS( ) and FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') settings, and have progressed in confusion to FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain') and more esoteric things. Here's the salient portion of my current .mc file: FEATURE(access_db, `hash -TTMPF /etc/mail/access') FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) FEATURE(local_lmtp) FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX) FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`pursued-with.net')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/masqueraded-hosts')dnl MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(`pursued-with.net')dnl Nothing I do seems to make any difference, which is what's really strange. I've tested, and the sendmail.cf file does get updated and the daemon restarted when using the make all install restart format, for what that's worth. I can post any other needed info, just ask. Thanks for any assistance. KeS From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Hedeland) Subject: Re: Another stupid masquerading question... Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:32:22 + (UTC) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a) I don't particularly want to display my internal host names all over the world (although apparently I don't mind doing it on Usenet - eek!). Why do you care, especially if the name can't be found in DNS - are you ashamed of it or something?:-) b) With this configuration, other SMTP hosts can't authenticate my mail server, since that hostname isn't published/resolvable in the outside world. As below: As Neil points out, this site violates the RFCs, and it's unusual. However the RFCs also say that you should give the official name of the host in the HELO argument (or a dotted quad if the host doesn't have an official name), and an official name must be in DNS, so it's reasonable to fix this. The simplest way to do it is to define confDOMAIN_NAME in the .mc file, see cf/README. What to set it to in a case like yours is perhaps not obvious, to be as correct as possible it should be a name that resolves to the IP address that remote servers are seeing when you connect, as well as the name that that IP address reverse-resolves to. If you can't meet both of those requirements for some reason (you should be able to), it's probably best to go for the former. And be sure to never set the same confDOMAIN_NAME on two different servers (whereas using the same MASQUERADE_AS on multiple servers can be perfectly OK). --Per Hedeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?
On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 11:17 US/Pacific, John Wilson wrote: Hello all. I was wondering if there would be a backport of the ServerWorks GC chipset (CSB6 South bridge) to 4-Stable. I am only able to obtain BIOSDMA support on my HD's and basic PIO support of my CD-RW. I thought that was the optimum configuration. (I have ServerWorks in my Dell 600SC.) My understanding of the problem with the ServerWorks chipset was the inability to recognize slave drives; I still have this problem but have just put the server together so have not worked on it much yet. I played around with 5.0-Current on this machine and by utilizing 'atacontrol', I was able to get DMA mode transfers on all of the installed media. There were also no stability issues running in this mode either under 5-Current What were your atacontrol settings, and how did you differentiate the results (dmesg, sysctl)? FWIW, my drive recognition problem exists in 5.0 and 4.7-Stable. I'll forward separately to you a message I received a couple of weeks ago on this or a related issue. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk migration question.
Hey there - I'm moving a disk drive from a 4.7 system to a 5.0 system in a different computer. There are two slices on the disk, a swap partition and a large data slice. When I mount the disk into the filesystem, I receive the following error: /var/backups: correcting fs_sblockloc from 65536 to 8192 I presume this is because the BIOS is presenting the disk translation differently. Running fdisk on the device gives the following info now: *** Working on device /dev/ad2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=159560 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=159560 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) whereas before it was: *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=10011 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=10011 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Apart from the error message, the slice seems to mount fine and the data is intact. My question is, how significant is that message, and is this something that needs to be fixed? If so, is there a non-destructive process like reinitializing the disk label, or do I need to wipe the drive and reformat? TIA. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File owner name not updated.
On Wednesday, Mar 26, 2003, at 00:13 US/Pacific, Matthew Seaman wrote: Interesting. I can reproduce exactly what you're seeing: ... However, running pwd_mkdb(8) seems to cure the problem very effectively: ... Looks like a bug to me... Cheers, Matthew Thanks very much Matthew and Dan for verifying my problem. I'll file a PR tomorrow. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
File owner name not updated.
I had this problem several months ago, submitted a bug report on it, and promptly forgot about it. I'm now seeing the same issue in 5.0, and want to delve a little deeper to see if this is expected behavior or not. I created a user, let's call him fred, which was assigned uid 503. The user directory was created and assigned to owner fred and group wheel. All ok. Later that evening, root changed the uid for fred to 502 (for compatibility with other systems). The problem isn't that the directory owner didn't automatically change to uid 502 - I expected to have to change it manually. What I wasn't prepared for is that a ls -al still showed the owner as fred, which was now assigned to uid 502. ls -lan properly showed the owner as still being 503. So, I'm open to correction, but it seems to me that something's broken. If user fred used to be 503, but is now 502 (there is no user 503 now), I don't see how it can be correct for ls to still report fred as the owner of files/directories. I expected the reporting to change to just show the numeric uid, but I'm not picky about that. I have no idea whether this is a problem with the ls command, with the filesystem, with some index of ownership/permissions, or something else entirely. Suggestions? KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File owner name not updated.
On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 23:29 US/Pacific, Matthew Seaman wrote: Two things occur to me: i) Did root use vipw(8) to edit the passwd database, or otherwise run: # cap_mkdb /etc/master.passwd when the UID was changed? It's the value in the hashed database cap_mkdb(1) builds that is used by the system. Updating that should have instantaneous effect. Just used the pw command. However, note that this symptom persisted for over 24 hours. Last time it happened (on a 4.7 system) it persisted for several days if I recall, before I noticed/corrected it. ii) You haven't said anything about what the source of your password data is, which probably means you're just using the flat file password database and not anything like NIS or LDAP. Correct. If you are using a distributed database, then a degree of latency while changes get propagated around the servers is to be expected. However, that shouldn't take any more than a few minutes in a well configured system. Right, and this is a standalone system (which is why I'm manually syncing up the uids in the first place). The problem is not with the ls(1) command per se. It's the underlying system library functions such as getpwuid(3) which do the translation between numeric UIDs and usernames that are the seat of the problem. You can see that by running some other command that uses getpwuid(3), eg: % perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(503), \n;' Got it. I think what I'll do is create a dummy user with the same conditions and let it persist for awhile so we can experiment with it. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File owner name not updated.
On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 23:29 US/Pacific, Matthew Seaman wrote: Two things occur to me: i) Did root use vipw(8) to edit the passwd database, or otherwise run: # cap_mkdb /etc/master.passwd when the UID was changed? It's the value in the hashed database cap_mkdb(1) builds that is used by the system. Updating that should have instantaneous effect. Just tried running that after creating a dummy user and changing his uid from 1005 to 1010. No change. The problem is not with the ls(1) command per se. It's the underlying system library functions such as getpwuid(3) which do the translation between numeric UIDs and usernames that are the seat of the problem. You can see that by running some other command that uses getpwuid(3), eg: % perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(503), \n;' bash-2.05b# perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(1010), \n;' fred bash-2.05b# perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid(1005), \n;' fred bash-2.05b# grep fred /etc/master.passwd fred:*:1010:1005:User :/home/fred:/bin/sh KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:22:44PM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Now i got the SMC 2602W (the package says it is version 2 :/ ) which has a Admtek ADM8211 chip on it. BLOODY! I plugged in the card, and hey, of course it does NOT work. pciconf -v -l: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x260210b8 chip=0x82011317 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Admtek Inc' class= network Andrea's tip does not help here, as there is no information in pci_vendors what to add exactly in wi_if_pci.c. Well, who can help now? Where to go next? Unfortunatly I got this version of the SMC2602W card too :/ Andrea's tip will not help us here because the wi driver does not understand the Admtek ADM8211 chip :( What did you guys end up with, did you buy a new card or what? For what it's worth the vendor is 0x1317 and the device is 0x8201 (if you put those two numbers together you get the chip from pciconf :) -- Morten Rodal Another FWIW - This is the same chipset as is used in the 32-bit D-Link DWL-650 (NOT +): cardbus1: unknown card (vendor=0x1317, dev=0x8201) KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Pushing commands to the background
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: hostname uptime ping -c 100 ftp.furrie.net traceroute ftp.furrie.net I'd like to push all the commands into the background be able to log off and let it do its business unattended. Unfortunately, with my lacking knowledge, so far I have managed this, (sad isn't it)... (ping -c 10 ftp.furrie.net /tmp/results cat /tmp/results | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Even with an at the end of this command, I do not get my prompt back :-( The screen utility, among other functions, gives you the ability to disconnect/reconnect to a running session. It's in ports. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Ifconfig - no aliases?
Here are the entries in rc.conf for the card (the first two digits are xx'd for this email): hostname=not-sharing-that-rightnow defaultrouter xx.100.110.1 ifconfig_rl0=inet xx.100.110.160 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast xx.100.110.255 # virtual IP ports ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet xx.100.110.161 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast xx.100 .110.255 snipmore entries/ Netmask for aliases on the same network should be 255.255.255.255. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Package set removal
I would like to remove the X11 implementation from my 4.7-STABLE installation, and was wondering if there's a better way to do it than package-by-package. I originally installed it over a base system by using /stand/sysinstall and specifying the additional distribution set. Is there a way to remove everything that was installed then in one fell swoop? I'm trepidant about just going in and specifying a base install again, I don't want to destroy/affect my existing base install, just remove the GUI stuff. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: tip and USB-RS232 cable
On hostA I recompiled the kernel incuding the following 2 lines: # USB com devices device ucom device uplcom Unplugging and plugging back in on hostA the USB end, this is what I get on the messages file: ... hostA /kernel: uplcom0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected ... hostA /kernel: uplcom0: detached ... hostA /kernel: uhub0: port error, restarting port 2 ... hostA /kernel: uplcom0: Prolific Technology PL2303 Serial adapter (ATEN/IOGEAR UC232A), rev 1.10/2.02, addr 2 On hostA:/etc/remote I created the following line: usb0:dv=/dev/usb0:br#9600:pa=none: However, I can't have tip working. It tries to connect and immediately disconnect! hostA:~ # tip usb0 connected Um. Is it an incredibly stupid question to ask why you're trying to access usb0: instead of uplcom0:? I don't know anything about serial USB support under FreeBSD, but that kind of jumps out... KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: Here's the situation: Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x Your best bet is to put more memory in and see how that goes first. next, try to get -current boot floppies and see if the same error is there. 5.0 is stil not production material, so re-read the early adopters guide and be prepared to go to work if you really want 5.0 on this machine. You may be better off upgrading to 4.7rel or 4.8 when it comes out. FWIW, I've just been fooling with 5.0 on a similar machine; 150P, 32MB ram, 2.0GB. My dmesg looks similar to yours, and the machine boots and runs fine. I don't have a way to reduce memory to 16MB or I'd check for you. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Cvsup Handbook Example
On Friday 21 February 2003 22:11, Henrik W Lund wrote: Just because something is red, has horns and carries a glowy tridant, is it neciserally evil? :P I don't think so, you've just described a Maserati! KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
